Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more

Post by Groxx » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 9:56 PM UTC

peter_mcrae wrote: post #198

subsubzero wrote: post #111

- The tech companies having issues during covid-19 are all heavily invested in travel/transportation(Uber/Lyft/Airbnb etc). - They also are in industries that entirely use gig workers with personal contact in 90% of their services(airbnb the least of these). - I don't see other tech companies getting hit this hard(the sky is not falling!). - I really, really hope these laid off engineers find other jobs quickly and l…

The tech companies you identified are getting hit 1st. I expect to eventually see fallout in Fintech, Realestate, Advertising, anyone selling B2B SaaS (particularly to marketing/HR/ sales departments, SMB), etc. It will take time to feel the 2nd and 3rd order impacts. Hopefully, we bounce back quickly, but it's hard to not be a little concerned.

Post by mbrameld » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 10:03 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #370

mbrameld wrote: post #353

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I'm happy to explain. Let's start with the fundamentals: Do you understand that the meaning of a word is dependent on its context?

I think you're deliberately trolling me so I'm not going to keep responding.

Post by bsder » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 10:04 PM UTC

cactus2093 wrote: post #374

bsder wrote: post #350

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You are choosing really bad examples, because Republicans are even more extreme than the Democrats on them. Homelessness is an infinite money sink coupled with very problematic civil rights issues. It takes a unified effort at the federal level when states are willing to just ship their problems to other states. It also requires a unified effort at healthcare--both physical and mental. Nobody has come up with a good…

The homeless coming in from out of state turns out not to actually be that prevalent in practice. In LA, for instance, only 18% of currently homeless residents became homeless while living out of state [0]. So if you could magically get everyone from out of state off the streets, you'd still be left with 82% of the homeless population, i.e. there'd still be a big homeless problem. To a first order approximation, the…

Post by sokoloff » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 10:10 PM UTC

notyourday wrote: post #263

seibelj wrote: post #211

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I would prefer that states have more power and we further decentralize authority away from the federal government. This will limit the see-saw that occurs whenever the president switches parties.

> I would prefer that states have more power and we further decentralize authority away from the federal government. No EPA. No DOE. No equality under the law. No EOC. No NLRB. No Amtrak. No federal enforcement of consent decrees. No voting right act. No gay marriage, etc? Edit: Thanks for downvotes. Every single one of these is enforced by federal and not state courts. It is federal court that gave us Roe v. Wade, f…

Post by mbrameld » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 10:13 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #386

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Your initial confusion was understandable. You said you didn't see how pensions and unions were related. Someone explained to you that most people with pensions in the US are union members. You then said most professionals have a pension but not many are in a union. At that point you revealed the source of your confusion: you don't understand the meaning of the word pension in this context. So somebody else helpfully…

> Chris Seaton, Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify... Not sure why you keep repeating my name and job like you're trying to dox me for asking a question about pensions... and it's in my HN Profile and my name is my username, you're not a genius for finding it out.