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Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

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Post by gfodor »

elsonrodriguez wrote: post #221
gfodor wrote: post #51

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It’s not like they just decided - they did, they actually just decided. The change in cloth mask guidance proves it: no new data, we always knew they were ineffective.

There are a few cloth masks in this data set showing around 50% filtration of test particles smaller than Sars-Cov-2: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M0mdNLpTWEGcluK6hh5L... N95s and similar are obviously better but cloth masks do ok. Also remember they changed guidance to recommend cloth+surgical masks, which everyone laughed at. Lo and behold that combination tests in the 80% filtration range. So cloth mask…

I didn't laugh at the double masking guidance, I just laugh at the false equivalencies made across the CDC's guidance that refers to "masks" as though there's not a universe of difference between a re-used, sporadically worn, bacteria filled cloth mask and a clean, properly fit, N95. Total fail.

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Post by Jenk »

renewiltord wrote: post #367
thund wrote: post #358

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we need small companies to publish their compensation data on sites like levels.fyi, so people stop dreaming about big corps expecting huge salaries and rewards. There are many companies out there, with freedom to experiment fast, learn new tech, have a great work-life balance, without the huge tech debt of these corps, and they deserve a chance to have "rockstars" "ninjas" and so forth in their ranks

At least for the subset of small that are startups, small companies vs big companies isn’t a comp discussion. You will win on comp going to the smaller guys. It’s whether you want to burn for the moon or you want to live a comfortable upper middle class life. FAANG is 70% retirees, 30% dipole candle burners. And the 30% provide the value, while the 70% are along for the ride.

> FAANG is 70% retirees, 30% dipole candle burners. And the 30% provide the value, while the 70% are along for the ride.

See in 2005 when Google was gaining traction and notoriety, it was because they had the reputation of not suffering driftwood.

I was working for a giant transnational (full-on archaic org like that in "Office Space") at the time and found it really hard to fathom a company without apathy and drifters. I (foolishly) thought it ironic and dangerous that a company so determined not to suffers fools had free food, coffee, video games, table tennis, etc in the office. My office had an old crappy second-hand foosball table that was removed because it was "too much of a distraction" despite most people not using it from fear of a reprimand.

Fast foward nearly 20 years and I guess "corporate entropy" gets everyone, eventually.

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Post by astrange »

abledon wrote: post #94
dnathi493 wrote: post #5

I left Apple after years of lack of any flexibility on the remote work process. They wouldn't allow transferring to any alternative office for most teams. From what I understood, VPs could protect a small minority of some of their employees if a senior leader made a case to them. Unfortunately, this just seemed to lead to the most politically connected folks going remote and directors friends and favorite hires getti…

also, isn't their new campus built atop a toxic waste site?

It's built on the old HP campus, so at worst it's haunted by the souls of dead graphing calculators.

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Post by mdoms »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #252
mdoms wrote: post #249

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I have looked into it, and what I said is absolutely true. From your linked article, > "The clinical criteria will continue to be guided by WHO definition which is basically to report any death where the person had an acute Covid-19 infection regardless of what the cause of death might be," Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told RNZ. The death was reported as a "death with covid" in accordance with WHO…

As I said - read further - they confirmed later by a coroner.

You're missing the point. The case was still counted in covid stats, because that is the accepted method from the WHO.

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Post by lupire »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #252
mdoms wrote: post #249

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I have looked into it, and what I said is absolutely true. From your linked article, > "The clinical criteria will continue to be guided by WHO definition which is basically to report any death where the person had an acute Covid-19 infection regardless of what the cause of death might be," Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told RNZ. The death was reported as a "death with covid" in accordance with WHO…

As I said - read further - they confirmed later by a coroner.

You two are disagreeing because the article is terribly ambiguous on the key question about "acute COVID" and "cause of death".

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Post by arcticbull »

Cookingboy wrote: post #359
paxys wrote: post #291

I suspect we are going to see some turmoil in the tech hiring space with stock prices taking a beating in recent months. Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price for talent because employees have seen massive gains from stock appreciation over the last decade. If total comp starts going down year over year, suddenly the more traditional, no-frills system at places like Apple, Microsoft and Amaz…

>I suspect we are going to see some turmoil in the tech hiring space I agree, but I don't think the disruption will go the way you or I hope it would. Many of the companies that is "one tier" below were able to offer higher comp only because of sky high valuation from the recent bubble. Most of them aren't in the kind of cashflow positions that can sustain such high cost if the stock value correct. If we enter an eco…

> ... what do you think would happen to the stock price of high flying growth companies that don't even make a profit?

They're already down as much as 80%. If I were looking around today, I'd kill to join one of those high growth tech startups with a solid balance sheet that just got the crap kicked out of its stock.

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Post by pempem »

birken wrote: post #171
tharne wrote: post #147

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> Elections coming up as well This is the big one. Ever since the upset in the Virginia governor's race, the Democrats have been very eager to end COVID restrictions no matter what. The Republicans have never cared about COVID so, at the moment there's a rare bipartisan unity on this issue.

So for example, you consider the 3 Democratic Governors of California, Oregon and Washington ending their state's various mask mandates 4+ months after the VA election to be "eager to end COVID restrictions no matter what". Do you think the Omicron wave might have had more to do with the COVID restrictions than the VA governor's race?

Can it be both? I do feel like this is at a nexus of action in fact.

Also sure its 4+months after the VA governors race but here in LA the mayoral election is up and its hot. So is the DA race...which honestly...how many voters can tell me what the DA even does outside of their exposure to law and order?

Sheer numbers of cases and deaths don't reflect the need to drop vigilance, esp to a level where no one wears masks regardless of vaccination status. Our president just announced months ago (over the holidays) that people who were unvaxxed were likely to die with a press release the equivalent of a :shrug: emoji.

This is definitely due to the wind down of the omicron cases but chance and luck is what will keep us from another wave, not droppings masks and having no vaccination mandates or having them sector by sector driven by industry.

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Post by yodsanklai »

paxys wrote: post #291

I suspect we are going to see some turmoil in the tech hiring space with stock prices taking a beating in recent months. Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price for talent because employees have seen massive gains from stock appreciation over the last decade. If total comp starts going down year over year, suddenly the more traditional, no-frills system at places like Apple, Microsoft and Amaz…

> Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price for talent because employees have seen massive gains from stock appreciation over the last decade.

Are you sure these places pay "below market price"? Just curious, what companies would pay significantly more than FAANG?

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Post by astrange »

greggman3 wrote: post #331
birken wrote: post #222

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So you contend that "the Democrats" (who obviously are a fully united entity who never disagree) should have kept all the restrictions even though the Omicron wave is ending? What should they have done?

I don't care who's in charge. I care if suggestions/mandates fit the data. As of today, daily new cases in California are 2x-4x and deaths around 2x what they were in November. If in a week they are 1x then ok, open. But before then? Further, I guess it remains to be seen but I'd suspect lifting the restrictions will just rebound the numbers. Happy if I'm wrong though. I certainly would like to go to meetups, bars, e…

California is a big place, and that's not what the numbers look like in the Bay Area.

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboards

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater

I actually don't think the numbers will rebound; once everyone is protected from delta+omicron that does _not_ mean a new variant can keep appearing forever. It has to be different from both of them for immune escape, and that gets harder each time.

Also, we have antivirals now (paxlovid) which we didn't have even a month ago and are very effective.

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Post by astrange »

xanaxagoras wrote: post #219
birken wrote: post #91

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You don't think the fact that this country just had the largest ever COVID wave (in terms of cases), which is in the process of ending, is at all related to the decisions? Also of the scant 40 million people remaining in California, who haven't yet moved to Texas or Florida, public support for at least some "COVID protocols" are very high [1]. I'm not sure you are giving an impartial assessment of the facts. 1: https…

I don't see that where I am. Most people have stopped wearing masks in public. 2 months ago everyone was wearing one.

SFBA, having a lot of Asians, was already ready to wear masks without anyone asking and is probably just going to keep on doing it forever.
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