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Post by danielmarkbruce »

hesk wrote: post #871
danielmarkbruce wrote: post #845

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quote: "John and I are fully responsible". Analyzing the semantics of a phrase and then stating it implies "person A is saying/doing X", when right there person A is explicitly saying/doing Not X, is nonsensical. My favorite color is blue. I like coffee => "his favorite color is brown!".

You're quoting from a section of the text where they are explicit in their responsibility to disprove that they use distancing language in a different section of the text.

They don't need to repeat it every paragraph just to satisfy the cynics. It's a single piece of writing. They owned it.

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Post by dmix »

jcadam wrote: post #862

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New Zealand gets the unfortunate legacy of having to share the "zero COVID" mantra with a small group of fellow partners like China (which the NZ PM promoted harder than any other leader via speaker circuits). But otherwise I don't know much about NZ to critique.

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Post by csomar »

runeblaze wrote: post #873
csomar wrote: post #856

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Calm down. Demand is super strong, even right now. It's almost impossible to get a decent software engineer who has a strong command of the English language and can articulate himself. Most developers hitting the market with CVs are bootcamp generated and they don't have the slightest idea (and neither the interest) of what they are doing. They'll disappear as soon as the money does. Unless you have a family and live…

Note that for some people being laid off and not quickly finding a job can mean being kicked back to whatever possibly authoritarian country they came from.

Neither the companies, nor the economy is to blame for this. It's the politicians and the people who voted them who wants it this way...

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Post by qwertywert_ »

lmm wrote: post #802
thunkle wrote: post #417

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Ya'll are hyper focusing on the nights and weekends. That was my personal decision, not part of the culture.

So you chose to undermine your colleagues and a somewhat decent culture, to gain a lead in a race to the bottom? That's even worse than enabling a company that's already shitty.

Stripe is a competitive company with not great WLB from reviews, maybe he enjoys a fast-paced busy environment. He gets paid for it. If people at Stripe don't like that culture they can very easily leave and get a more relaxed job.

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Post by unity1001 »

hnews_account_1 wrote: post #863
unity1001 wrote: post #800

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> Young people have to work hard If people have to work hard to make a good living in the 21st century that we are now in, then it means that whatever society they are in has failed.

Unless you are born disabled, you’d better be born in a society that values hard work. At least until we reach self sustaining societies where no one needs to work, the dynamics of which are not worth speculation from our current standpoint in history.

> At least until we reach self sustaining societies

We are beyond 'self sustaining society'. We are throwing away food to protect market prices, we have planned obsolescence that makes perfectly fine devices to be thrown away to force people to buy new devices, we have more empty houses than the number of homeless.

The existing scarcity is artificial. Not something real.

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Post by striper123 »

throway20221103 wrote: post #635

Throwaway because of obvious reasons, This process as Stripe reads as exceptionally cold and distanced to me. There's an ongoing downsizing at my workplace as well right now, and it's going a little like this: * Change in strategy and its consequences announced together in all-hands * Company strategy changed to focus less on rapid growth (something we'd been structured for) due to major changes in capital markets *…

I just went through it and I think they did it properly. Effectively the process went like this:

At 9am PST we received the email, a minute or 2 later we received another email, "If your role is being impacted you will receive an email in the next 15 minutes." Then, 15 minutes later, we received another email "If you haven't received an email, you haven't been impacted."

There was only 15 minutes of uncertainty for everybody. It felt well considered. Cold, maybe, but quick.

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Post by unity1001 »

refurb wrote: post #861
unity1001 wrote: post #800

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> Young people have to work hard If people have to work hard to make a good living in the 21st century that we are now in, then it means that whatever society they are in has failed.

No it's not. Clearly our standard of living keeps improving, so costs keep going up. I could work 10 hours a week and easily afford a 1920's lifestyle. But I prefer 21st century healthcare.

> But I prefer 21st century healthcare

Perfectly viable anywhere without privatized healthcare.

Today, we are able to have only ~10% of the population work, and keep all the living standards of the 90% majority.

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