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Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by gemerald »

latexr wrote: post #407
tim333 wrote: post #389

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No not really - it's quite a good interview. Here's the masculine energy bit if you want to judge for yourself. You only have to watch a couple of minutes to get an idea https://youtu.be/7k1ehaE0bdU?t=5329 To me "ranting" is not true. He calmly says he was brought up with girls and it's quite nice go get out and do martial arts for a change. To me that's normal and getting upset about 'men' not getting free tampons i…

> Here's the masculine energy bit if you want to judge for yourself. You only have to watch a couple of minutes to get an idea Thank you for the link, I did watch it. > To me "ranting" is not true. Agreed. That didn’t feel at all like a rant. Though from the little I watched I do disagree with him and think he doesn’t have a good understanding of the zeitgeist. He claims that culture has swung in the direction that “…

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Post by gemerald »

linuxftw wrote: post #392
rsynnott wrote: post #367

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> Ranting about the lack of "masculine energy" at the company. This one in particular feels very midlife crisis coded; weird insecure masculinity stuff. But, y'know, most men who have issues with that get by with an ill-advised car or something.

Are you implying there are no differences between masculine and feminine? If there are differences and you value diversity, you should want masculine to be represented. Unless you mean masculine == bad, which would be a very bigoted take.

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Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by gemerald »

downrightmike wrote: post #270
yodsanklai wrote: post #246

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I know Zuck wasn't super popular on HN, but until these recent events, I saw him as someone generally reasonable and pragmatic. I can understand that he had to compromise with Trump in order to protect his wealth and company. But it's clearly more than that. I wonder, does he even have values on his owns? will he reinstate the tampons if democrats win in 4 years? My guess is that he's slowing been adhering to the Tru…

He's a weak man that detached from reality and has no anchors to the real world anymore. He's just saying whatever shit he thinks will make him money

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Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by gemerald »

matwood wrote: post #342
paxys wrote: post #217

So in the first two weeks of the year Zuck has announced: - Replacing their global policy chief with the company's highest ranking Republican. - Appointing Dana White to the company's board. - Changing content policies to be aligned with the incoming administration. - Elimination of DEI programs in hiring. - Removing tampons from men's restrooms. - Defending all this in a 3 hour Joe Rogan interview. Ranting about the…

> Is this history's most bizarre midlife crisis? What is going on with this man? He's the definition of a perpetual beta trying to be alpha. I would love to spar with him in BJJ sometime. After you train for awhile you can lock up with someone and immediately feel who they are. An alpha stays calm and relaxed, never panicking even as they are being put to sleep [1]. He went into BJJ hoping to become alpha and it just…

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Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by weatherlite »

paxys wrote: post #217

So in the first two weeks of the year Zuck has announced: - Replacing their global policy chief with the company's highest ranking Republican. - Appointing Dana White to the company's board. - Changing content policies to be aligned with the incoming administration. - Elimination of DEI programs in hiring. - Removing tampons from men's restrooms. - Defending all this in a 3 hour Joe Rogan interview. Ranting about the…

I don't like Zuckerberg at all but the counter point to this is that the Woke movement went too damn far to the point of creating a thought police and you can count this as part of the recent backlash we're seeing everywhere.

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Post by weatherlite »

ghostpepper wrote: post #418
anthonypasq wrote: post #398

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??? He met his now wife when he was a sophomore in college and has an extremely normal family life as far as I can tell.

Facebook started as a project to grab photos of girls from his school and create a public ranking system on how hot they were. https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a19746346/mark-zuck...

Which we all wish we started before him ... I mean god damn it all it took was knowing a bit of php and throwing a few html pages.

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Post by weatherlite »

redlock wrote: post #320
Perceval wrote: post #277

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I think once he started working out and getting strong, he looked less like an android and more like a human male. His politics may have shifted as a result of building muscle: * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918... * https://hbr.org/2013/07/mens-arm-strength-affects-thei * https://www.psypost.org/strong-men-come-across-as-more-conse...

He was always athletic. I believe he was captain of the fencing team in high school.

He's also a pretty decent amateur runner, broke 20 minutes for 5k which is nothing to sneeze at, I'm still not able to do it after 1.5 years of training 4-6 days a week.

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Post by weatherlite »

kingbiz wrote: post #280
lacker wrote: post #73

When I was an engineering manager there, engineering leadership described performance reviews as, in a large well run engineering organization, you'll probably be firing 5-10% of your employees every year for low performance. (Well, "non regrettable attrition", which includes people who quit when they get pipped.) Lower than 5% at scale would be a red flag, not necessarily wrong, you don't want to "stack rank" with a…

So as a manager you get to fire 5% without you being affected then in turn the other 95% work harder to make you look better. Sounds like a win win. I can see why you are in favor of this insane policy.

Well, I'm betting some managers will be let go as well if it makes you feel better...

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Post by ghostpepper »

weatherlite wrote: post #426
ghostpepper wrote: post #418

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Facebook started as a project to grab photos of girls from his school and create a public ranking system on how hot they were. https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a19746346/mark-zuck...

Which we all wish we started before him ... I mean god damn it all it took was knowing a bit of php and throwing a few html pages.

I think it's slightly creepy and displays a major lack of socialization and self-awareness and do not at all wish I had made.

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by matrix87 »

TypingOutBugs wrote: post #18

Part of Zucks plan to stop hiring mid-level engineers this year (as he said on JRE)? I am very very skeptical of this idea - what do you all think?

he didn't say he was going to stop hiring them, he said that AI would perform at a similar ability
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