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Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min

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Post by 999900000999 »

anticorporate wrote: post #487
999900000999 wrote: post #402

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> but I could probably sell my belongings and live a very good life on a beach somewhere in Latin America I actually think it’s easier to cut back vs chasing some magic high networth before retirement. The average salary in Costa Rica is only 1200$ a month. Meaning if you live an average life there you might be able to retire with 240k. Assuming 6% yields per year.

Agreed. I'm quite content living a rather simple lifestyle, owning very few new things, doing almost of the maintenance on my belongings myself. The "magic number" was really more about giving myself permission than anything else. The one thing you do have to factor for, though, is what happens if you don't keep your health. The thing that kept me in tech a little longer than I hoped to be there was a parent with lon…

Sorry about your family’s experience with the Healthcare Industrial Complex.

It’s really designed to drain every last dime.

As bleak as it sounds I made sure to take a long vacation last year at the spur of the moment. Tomorrow isn’t promised and you might save for a retirement that you never see.

I hope to do this every time I’m laid off or otherwise with an abundance of free time

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Post by micromacrofoot »

losvedir wrote: post #508
micromacrofoot wrote: post #447

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or you know, naming your company PALANTIR

Well they weren't necessarily bad. I think the Numenor (?) Kings of Westernesse (?), I dunno whatever the old Gondor kings were called, used them effectively. It was just Sauron that took over and made them dangerous. So, effective but dangerous in the wrong hand. Yeah, I guess, even that is pretty prophetic, heh.

It's another example of how the intentions of the good can be easily lead astray by the corruption power brings.

Using it as the name of a military contractor misses the point so hard I almost expect it to be intentional, but I suspect it's just teenage-boy level foolishness.

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Post by imp0cat »

ipsento606 wrote: post #323
ryandrake wrote: post #292

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I've always, throughout a 25+ year career, kept personal business on personal devices and work business on work devices, and never cross the streams. Oddly, this is really controversial on HN, though! I've gotten so many weirdly angry responses when suggesting people try it, like it's a huge inconvenience to just bring a personal phone to work in order to do your banking and fuck around posting on HN. It's so much ea…

> like it's a huge inconvenience to just bring a personal phone to work It's not inconvenient to bring a phone, but it is very inconvenient to have to conduct personal business on a phone rather than on a laptop. Nonetheless, I agree that it's a bad idea to conduct personal business on an employer-owned machine. But I don't want to pretend that it's super convenient to have to carry a second laptop, either.

Now with the Macbook Neo, the new XPS 13" or the Chuwi Minibook X (discussed at length at HN yesterday), it is more convenient than ever.

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Post by rootusrootus »

kelseydh wrote: post #452
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #365

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I’m with you but my partner doesn’t really agree so here I am paying the $40k/yr.

Feels so insane reading those kind of numbers as a Canadian.

Those are pretty high, I'd want to know more about circumstances and I would be skeptical without knowing more. It can certainly be expensive, but the overall average for unsubsidized ACA plans is about 6000/year.

My wife has a small business and she does not pay anywhere even approaching 40K for a pretty much bog standard policy for a ~50 year old woman. She does not go through the ACA marketplace, she gets a group policy through the company she uses for payroll.

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Post by materielle »

ryandrake wrote: post #434
shimman wrote: post #396

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You realize as a worker you're allowed to demand better working conditions right?

Sure, I'll get right on that.

You’re being sarcastic, but I think you’d be surprised at how often you can say no to managers or even VPs and the c-suite and … have nothing happen to you.

I didn’t realize this until I was 32.

Obviously some companies will actually punish you. You might get fired from your Amazon or Microsoft job, for instance.

But typically what happens is the work just gets offloaded to another yes-man.

And the funny thing with promotions is most orgs don’t reward work volume. Nobody will remember that you took 11pm meetings or did that one unpleasant migration nobody wanted to do anyways.

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Post by jjulius »

doublerabbit wrote: post #518
jjulius wrote: post #513

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Of which Meta is but one source of, among a sea of countless other places to obtain it.

When was the last time you applied for a job and got an interview? I was on a salary of $550 a day with a bank. I left because how grim banks are. I have yet to find another job that pays that much outside of a banking circuit. If meta is paying you high-end why would you give it up for something that pays you less?

>If meta is paying you high-end why would you give it up for something that pays you less?

Sure, because I don't value high-end living. A modest living is enough to keep me happy. If I can provide a happy, comfortable life for my family, we're good.

It would irk me deeply to set aside my values for the sake of a boatload of cash that I don't actually need.

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Post by OJFord »

semiquaver wrote: post #445
staplung wrote: post #412

Reminds me of one of the more brilliant passages in Snow Crash , describing work in "Fed Land"... ''' Y.T's mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this m…

Always thought it was weird for the omniscient narrator to refer to her as “YT’s mom”

I haven't read it, but if it's written in the first person with the narrator referring to themself as 'YT', then it's at least consistent? If yours truly suddenly referred to my mother, or indeed if I referred to yours truly's mother, that would be more jarring I think?

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Post by roncesvalles »

LucidLynx wrote: post #22

I have a serious question to anyone working at Meta and reading this: HOW can you still work at this company!? Why don't you quit this very toxic company, and start working at another place or even on your own? I genuinely don't understand... Let just Meta die!

Imposter syndrome is extremely common and a lot of people in high-paying tech jobs don't believe they can get something just like this elsewhere.

Also, Meta interviews are generally not regarded as too difficult, which further fuels the imposter syndrome (everyone has a sense that they're overpaid considering how easy it is to get in). I almost suspect this is a deliberate strategy.

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