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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by refurb »

sudosysgen wrote: post #443
refurb wrote: post #423

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? Even non-profit, publicly funded hospitals are feeling the squeeze. Most are paid on a fee-for-service basis. If you cancel all your elective surgeries, there goes a huge chunk of funding. Yet you still need to pay salaries and other overhead. It's not like non-profit hospitals are suddenly immune to the realities of economics.

Publicly funded healthcare does not work the way you think it does. There is a budget allocated to healthcare every year, if one year the hospitals don't have enough money to cover expenses but that there is still money left in the coffers (for example, due to less electives), then they will end up getting the money they need to operate. Were it not for for-profit healthcare, the US would almost certainly operate thi…

There are probably 170 different versions of public systems. I think you're making the mistake of assuming they all operate the same way.

In both public systems I've been a part of, yes there is a hospital budget, but it's paid out through procedures. Don't have anyone in the hospital? No payment.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by nunez »

gjmacd wrote: post #388

Not naming the company, but I know of a startup that's got a round of $10M (not much but enough) who just applied for relief because their burn rate is $200K+ a month. They have no customers, have been in the red for 2 years and have been slowly building their product out -- like most early funded startups -- they are building potential without revenue (yet). Their theory is, get some free money and treat it like 6 m…

The exec isn't wrong. You don't turn down free money if it's available, especially if you can use it to help build the business. There are plenty of businesses in /r/smallbusiness or /r/startups talking about doing exactly this.

Now, if they used it to buy a new McLaren or something like that, then, yeah, they're a piece of shit.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by cbzoiav »

ballenf wrote: post #365
onychomys wrote: post #136

Hospitals are having a surprisingly tough time of things. I work for a very famous hospital in a small town in the American midwest, and we've (our IT department, that is) laid off all our contractors and the rest of us have mandatory furloughs coming up too. They're doing everything they can to not let us go, but some of us will probably end up getting sacked. And this is maybe the richest and most well-connected ho…

Will be very interesting to watch financial reports from health insurers. Premiums are the same, despite (almost) everyone consuming less health services. Can Covid costs (at current patient levels) make up for the loss of other claims? I'm doubtful, especially since some Covid costs are evidently borne by the federal government. The suffering of hospitals is circumstantial evidence that insurers are paying out less…

Although surely a lot of those procedures will just get pushed back until after the pandemic?

Meanwhile there may be costs stemming from complications where the treatment was delayed.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by e40 »

nunez wrote: post #452
gjmacd wrote: post #388

Not naming the company, but I know of a startup that's got a round of $10M (not much but enough) who just applied for relief because their burn rate is $200K+ a month. They have no customers, have been in the red for 2 years and have been slowly building their product out -- like most early funded startups -- they are building potential without revenue (yet). Their theory is, get some free money and treat it like 6 m…

The exec isn't wrong. You don't turn down free money if it's available, especially if you can use it to help build the business. There are plenty of businesses in /r/smallbusiness or /r/startups talking about doing exactly this. Now, if they used it to buy a new McLaren or something like that, then, yeah, they're a piece of shit.

If they are audited and can't show impact by COVID19, then there might be fines. Big ones. I just signed the loan app for my 36 yr old software company which has been hit by a drop-off in sales.

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Post by thebigspacefuck »

danesparza wrote: post #119

God this brings back memories of fuckedcompany.com Right after September 11th, that site got very popular among engineers like me -- seeing (on a daily basis) which company bloodbath was next. It was kind of fun, until it was our company.

I sometimes check https://www.thelayoff.com/ to see which companies are having layoffs, though much of it is rumors of things which never happen.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by pkaye »

Vinnl wrote: post #135
mardifoufs wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would it be? Europe is getting hit a lot harder and its economy is quickly collapsing. European banks were also weaker and less stress resistant than their US's counterparts so their ability to lend isn't a strong. Same thing for the EU corporations themselves, who are usually more in debt and have less access to non-bank financing (ie public bonds markets). So I'd be really surprised if we saw more lay offs in t…

One reason that it's could be less bad is due to government measures - e.g. in the Netherlands, employers can apply for the government to pay 90% of your salary for a while while they pay the other 10%, so that they can keep employing you until (hopefully) after things start up again. No idea how that compares to other companies, but if it differs, that's one possible explanation for different results.

In there an income cap on the 90% of salary?

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by ebcode »

nikisweeting wrote: post #412
protonmail wrote: post #280

ProtonMail is hiring. A lot: https://careers.protonmail.com/

Please tell me you're hiring bloom filter / client-side JS search experts. We're on the verge of moving our whole company off ProtonMail because search is unusable.

Search is unusable on ProtonMail because they can't decrypt your emails to search through them. I've raised this issue with them and they responded that the (current) solution is to use a local mail client to download all your emails and search them using your client.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by danpalmer »

anonymousci wrote: post #7

CircleCI. Last week during covid crisis, all while announcing a $100m Series E round of financing, they let some employees go and did not offer any severance. Disorganized management, and with some teams, passive-aggressive management style. Would not recommend joining...

I must admit, I get this feeling from using the product over the last 2 years. I moved us over from Jenkins to CircleCI and while on the whole it was positive, we’ve had a lot of issues and the product has failed to live up to some of the promises made in our trial period.

We basically just hit hard edges and missing features very quickly, and what’s there is good, but not great.

Each bit of the product feels good, but it feels like there’s a lack of direction, product thinking, understanding users, or something at a fundamental level that is causing friction.

I have a friend who worked there a few years ago and from her experience it sounds like there are some good engineers, but some careless decisions being made.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by irl_zebra »

0x8BADF00D wrote: post #442
irl_zebra wrote: post #438

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I get that you think you're being clever or something, but being a bad member of this community by using words you know cause harm to people really degrades everyone's experience.

Words can cause harm? That's the first time I've ever heard of that. Do they jump out of the screen and slap you across the face?

Of course, look up PTSD. This has been recognized for at least a century.

Your other shock comment approximating the use of the N-word was harmful too. Why actively work to harm members of this community?

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by RandomBacon »

danharaj wrote: post #425
0x8BADF00D wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.120831/page/n6... As you can see on that page, here is a definition of the word rape: 1. trans. to take (a thing) by force. In my usage, I was using it as the state government of CA, taking (part of) my severance by force. I don't see any issue with the usage.

> I don't see any issue with the usage. You refuse to see any issue with the usage.

0x8BADF00D, one of your comments was flagged, probably because you used an obscure English word that people usually assume is racist, but is in fact not.

Though your tone isn't helping you.

Everyone else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_n...

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