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It was /a/, the anime board, of all places https://mathsci.fandom.com/wiki/The_Haruhi_Problem
/sci/, actually - cf https://web.archive.org/web/20181024190314/https://warosu.or...
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In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…
Racism, gore, pedos, endless endless pornography... Yet when people mention that they visit 4chan, they talk about the 'very clever people posting there'. It's like mentioning that you regularly go paddling in your local river in order to collect tiny nuggets of gold, without mentioning that your local river is a flow of excrement, nuclear waste, and malignant psychopaths.
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Pardon my ignorance but what is the "4 year cliff" exactly?
When you initially start at Google, say, you get an RSU grant that vests over 4 years. So for 4 years you are getting your salary and on some schedule also getting stock. The stock can be a quite large portion of your total compensation (as in, comparable to the base salary). After 4 years, unless you got refresher grants, your compensation is just your salary, so you effectively make less money than during the first…
Ok got it! So I guess the only way for Google to keep the best performers is to eliminate this cliff by giving RSU and/or offering a significant pay increase.
Thank you for the explanation ;)
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1- who the hell is "Moot"? 2- Back in the moot-run days of 4chan, it really was a completely different world. All the weird meme-culture we have now started there. /b/ was both the greatest and worst thing simultaneously. You had literal nazis and neckbeards working together to dox pedos. It was just a completely different place from what it's become all these years later.
I think the internet is just different. Content creation has become something people do in pursuit of profit rather than something they do out of interest or just the lulz. People don’t spend 9 days creating the perfect YTMND thing because they can spend that time on Instagram, YouTube or whatever in pursuit of enough fame to create a career out of it. The only reason we still have so many memes and so many (less tha…
It feels as though “internet culture” of the old days have been limited excessively, and the entire internet been left beholden to the standards of U.S.A. professionalism, indeed because of profits, because the advertiser so demands it.
Boards have increasingly enacted rules to cater to advertisers as they found out that simple word filters to stop “bad words” from being mentioned improve their advertisement revenue.
I remember Reddit when the purpose of the voting system was encouraging a laid-back approach by moderators on the logic that objectionable content would be downvoted, and hidden, so that those who did not wish to see it could ignore it, but that's long gone now, and moderators are highly zealous and on top of that one has the hivemind voting system to deal with.
Internet indeed became a pursuit of profit, rather than memes for fun.
And indeed 4chan never bowed to advertisers and consequently actually is not that profitable despite being one of the largest websites.
The culture on, say, IRC channels which do not rely on advertisement is very different from on websites that do and typically enforce various language filters.
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> Not surprised he lasted so long at Google. Is it hard to 'last' at google? I have never gotten that impression.
The median tenure of a Google employee is 1.1 years.
At least in engineering that doesn't comport with my experience at all. I knew maybe a couple of people who left the company over 4 years. If anything people seem to stay much longer at Google.
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> Not surprised he lasted so long at Google. Is it hard to 'last' at google? I have never gotten that impression.
The median tenure of a Google employee is 1.1 years.
That’s tilted based on how much hiring they’re doing. A company that nobody leaves that hires 100% new employees has a median tenure of 1 year. Even if the growth is 50% per year, your median tenure will be less than a year and a half no matter how much your turnover will be.
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In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…
Racism, gore, pedos, endless endless pornography... Yet when people mention that they visit 4chan, they talk about the 'very clever people posting there'. It's like mentioning that you regularly go paddling in your local river in order to collect tiny nuggets of gold, without mentioning that your local river is a flow of excrement, nuclear waste, and malignant psychopaths.
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the autopsy report said he had a heart failure "complicating" restraint. When asked to clarify coroner said he meant in medical sense, as in "heart failure complicating leg surgery", i.e. his death was not expected from restraint itself
In the U.S., it's still murder and/or manslaughter (depends on jurisdiction) if you physically assault somebody and they die as a result, even if your physical assault was not the sole reason they died. I'm not even making a moral argument here. That's the letter of the law. (Again, laws vary by state)
there was no assault though, but reasonable use of force according to MPD police training materials presented in court.
In fact they could have escalated it at least two levels to more restricted prone position and use of taser, but they didn't, and called an ambulance several times to expedite it.
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I spent four months at Google collecting double pay and stocks and had no responsibilities. They literally paid me to vacation (e.g. I went to visit Google Japan while chilling), rest and to enjoy life without work. I didn't like any of the other teams at Google which I was eligible for so I left for Apple.
Could you clarify what you mean by "double pay"? Do you mean you 2x the hours you would normally have worked or something else I'm missing?
It was salary, and it was a multiplier given on that base salary while we looked for other opportunities at Google. This is how they deal with folks who are left over after reorganizations or divestments.
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There is an argument being made by many on the right that the overdose was his actual cause of death because he spoke of not being able to breath etc before he was restrained & had a large amount of fentanyl in his system. That being said, the initial autopsy said this was only one factor and most people with this view are misreading that autopsy, which still stated the primary cause of death was compression of the n…
Why couldn't he breathe in the back of the car?
'speedballs' and exertion from resisting arrest, he swallowed his entire stash of drugs to avoid going to jail
to make matters worse he had severe hypertension and was hospitalized in 2019 during similar arrest with BP of 210 on 130, his heart just couldn't handle it this time