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Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more

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Re: Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more

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Post by RandomBacon »

bretpiatt wrote: post #518
Gibbon1 wrote: post #474

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Anecdote: Friend manages a call center in California. Couple of years ago Texas using a bunch of sleazy tax incentives tried to get the center moved from California to Texas. Friend said none of the gay boys wanted to move. And parents were horrified by the idea sending their kids to public school in Texas. Move never happened as a result.

Data [1] vs. anecdote: Austin is one of top same sex metros in the United States and San Antonio is one of the top places for same sex couples to raise children (in Texas public schools). [1] https://www.sanantoniomag.com/a-family-town-for-all/

And before Austin, it used to be Montrose (in Houston, TX).

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Post by dantheman »

pbourke wrote: post #535
pb7 wrote: post #531

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Yes. Stop absolving adults of responsibilities they’re well capable of owning. You don’t get to hide being big dollar signs and claim ignorance.

So they should comb through auditor's reports, and recognize when the funding entity has been improperly seconding pension contributions over to the general fund such that it will run dry in 23 years instead of the mandated 42? If we're lucky, we find out about these things when a government changes hands and an audit is conducted - typically years after the fact. Also, one can start one's career under a sound system…

It's in the news all the time - it takes a minute to do a google search. Also, you have a union - if it screws you, well that's on you for being in the union.

Re: Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more

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Post by james-mcelwain »

Acrobatic_Road wrote: post #494
james-mcelwain wrote: post #462

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Their "list" is basically just a list of states with debt, that completely ignores their ability to issue new debt and generate revenue (i.e. that people actually want to live in California and not Kansas), while ignoring the fact that many of these states with "balanced budgets" provide basically no services and are liable to getting wrecked in times of crisis. I mean, the fact that Kansas is so high on this list sh…

>Their "list" is basically just a list of states with debt, that completely ignores their ability to issue new debt and generate revenue (i.e. that people actually want to live in California and not Kansas) Do they? I'll grant you that nobody wants to live in Kansas. It had a net migration of −4.32% between 2017-2018. But California doesn't fair much better at −3.95%. People are also fleeing Illinois, Connecticut and…

People are leaving California because of the housing crisis, which is undoubtedly a huge issue, but is an indicator of massive demand to live in California, not that people are fleeing the state due to fiscal mismanagement

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Post by koheripbal »

Pmop wrote: post #549
koheripbal wrote: post #439

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Great time to start a company

Meanwhile I'm trying to get my "first" job as SE or backend/fullstack web developer. It's been so hard to meet the requirements (3-5+ years of previous professional experience) that now I'm thinking it might be just as hard to start a company (copying proven business model employed elsewhere, with necessary modifications), only you get a chance to at least try.

You should ignore those requirements and just apply anyway. The requirements are written by HR, but if you pass the tech call, no one will care.

It's all about the numbers. The first time I went looking for work, I literally sent out 500 resumes. ...had 10 call screens, 4 in-person interviews, and 1 job offer. And that was 1 month after 9-11.

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Post by grappler »

chao- wrote: post #556
grappler wrote: post #511

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The train of thought I'm on now is: why was keeping the Union together back in the civil war such a great thing? Now we have this bloc of red states in the South who are backward, racist, intolerant science deniers, and they've managed to get just enough on the winning side of the electoral map to make the advanced, multicultural, cosmopolitan science-respecting blue states' lives miserable. That chunk of states shou…

The resolution you choose has some stark effects on the narrative that you will allow yourself to be convinced of. The idea of "red state, blue state" is a peculiar consequence of a winner-take-all presidential election system, and does not adequately represent reality. An underlying truth, viewed at another resolution, is that there are red and blue densities moreso than states [0]. The current (and changing) distri…

You are right, and I made this simplification with full awareness that I was doing so.

On the other hand, I really like the idea of splitting apart the country in a way that frees most of us from a large enough number of the people who are holding us back. I don't think that's possible to do in a fine-grained way. It only makes sense if done for some large contiguous regions. And the states in the southeast who actually did try to break away a few generations ago seems like an obvious way forward with that.

Here is another look at some of the natural regions within the country: [1]

I'm also aware that changing the voting systems we use holds a lot of promise for some of the same underlying problems we're talking about, and am completely open to that as an alternative to, or in addition to, my suggestion to break up the country. But that too seems very difficult politically.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/a-new-map-...

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Post by mikepurvis »

dnautics wrote: post #541
mikepurvis wrote: post #520

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A major thing the DOE does is keep track of where the world's plutonium is— it's energy-related, but also a national security matter. Michael Lewis's excellent book The Fifth Risk examines some of these agency functions in the context of what was lost when there Trump administration stepped into power with essentially no transition plan or concept of how to run them.

You're making my point.

Them having critically important functions that are different from what their names might imply is not at all the same thing as "we'd be better off without them".

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Post by coleifer »

dbsmith83 wrote: post #542
coleifer wrote: post #499

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Save your sarcasm for your followers. Imagine being memed into believing forcing people to stay home is better than letting people choose.

Like choose to kill old people?

No, like choose to follow Sweden's example.

Time will show.

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Post by dbsmith83 »

coleifer wrote: post #567
dbsmith83 wrote: post #542

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Like choose to kill old people?

No, like choose to follow Sweden's example. Time will show.

Wake up, the data is already there.

Here is one example: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/europe/sweden-coronavirus-loc...

"The death rate in Sweden has now risen significantly higher than many other countries in Europe, reaching more than 22 per 100,000 people, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, controlled for population. By contrast, Denmark has recorded just over seven deaths per 100,000 people, and both Norway and Finland less than four."

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Post by artificial »

dillonmckay wrote: post #416
artificial wrote: post #410

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It would be immensely helpful to see uniforms with all of the campaign contributions each has like a race car driver so you know who butters their bread.

I would vote for that constitutional amendment.

I'm down, we need a catchy name to start a movement. I'm totally ready to throw this up on a website, there's got to be a place that shows donors and maybe cross reference which bills they support with some sentiment analysis "68% Favorable to Hollywood" and make it like rotten tomatoes.

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Post by dnautics »

mikepurvis wrote: post #566
dnautics wrote: post #541

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You're making my point.

Them having critically important functions that are different from what their names might imply is not at all the same thing as "we'd be better off without them".

I was definitely in the "we don't need this reorg" camp when the DHS was created. Which camp were you in?
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