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New comment by throwaway_1512 in "More than half of 18 to 29-year-olds in the US are living with parents"

throwaway_1512 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 04:58:58 +0000

You make it sound like they had to fill out a form. There was such practice in ancient history where the monarchs would have “swayamvar” and eligible groom candidates would have to go through tests.

In the contemporary world, it’s no different than Tinder/OkC, just the CSS(HTML) is different but the dynamics are the same.

New comment by throwaway_1512 in "Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work"

throwaway_1512 — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 05:41:52 +0000

I worked on this feature at Uber, it’s not as easy you think. Airports are notoriously hard and diverse across the world.

New comment by throwaway_1512 in "Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace"

throwaway_1512 — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 01:16:26 +0000

I have personally come to a conclusion that people like Elon will always have disgruntled employees around him, and the bar for expressing dissent with Elon should be high and responsibility should be on them to express the dissent and not for us to read between the lines.

Unless every employee who has quit documents convincing literature they don’t get any of my attention.

New comment by throwaway_1512 in "MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations"

throwaway_1512 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 02:57:54 +0000

They are geo located with other institutions where the unions are prominent, and Trump is hitting them where it hurts the most, the local economy.

In all this process, International students, who can’t vote are treated badly but this has always been the case, with Obama as well. Immigrants who can’t vote are the easiest barter trade.

New comment by throwaway_1512 in "MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations"

throwaway_1512 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 02:55:14 +0000

Fauci disagrees and said it’s safe to be school.

Also, just like your wife is thinking for herself, ICE is thinking for itself and wants to do a good job protecting people. No evil intention, just reasonable humans trying to do their best in hard situation.

P.S : I am a former international student, and professors couldn’t care any less about international students. These ICE rules have been in place for years, and no one fought to change them until it’s actually start hit their funding.

New comment by throwaway_1512 in "MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations"

throwaway_1512 — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:43:39 +0000

Yes but this is less about economy and more about Trump forcing Harvard to open in fall, which they don’t want to. It’s not about principle, it’s about the unions who don’t want to open.

New comment by throwaway_1512 in "Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing"

throwaway_1512 — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:11:39 +0000

These are not journalists, mostly blogger and quite likely just twitter addicts.

New comment by throwaway_1512 in "Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups"

throwaway_1512 — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:43:19 +0000

It’s not about viability anymore, if business takes a VC funding but if you honestly (and brutally honestly) think you can bootstrap then you have won the battle. VC funding is not a reversible step.

New comment by throwaway_1512 in "Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?"

throwaway_1512 — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 04:16:07 +0000

how did you accumulate 220k cash?!

New comment by throwaway_1512 in "Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19"

throwaway_1512 — Wed, 06 May 2020 18:21:27 +0000

I think this is pretty amazing offense move played by the Uber CEO.

As we enter the recession, with oil prices at all record low, driver earnings are automatically higher and riders are little more patient with sobering environment. In this mode, the support expectations are less than what they used to be before. There isn’t a desire for a super prompt response, and since support costs are linear (more reps -> faster ticket resolution), it’s quite wise to reduce the cost of both synchronous (for drivers) and asynchronous support agents (for riders).

For the recruiting, since most of hiring is either frozen or happens through referrals, outbound hiring is going to be quite minimal and you only need recruiting co-ordinators for interview scheduling and admin. It doesn’t make much sense to have so many recruiters in such environment.

For the GH hubs, if psychiatrists are moving online to telehealth, Uber green light hubs are way more simpler to be executed remotely via Zoom.

I am classifying this as a offense move, because the defense would have been to raise more money through debts and so many companies are doing it, Uber could have played the same move.

It’s pretty scary though, if this does set the precedent for other companies, unemployment recovery in HR/Support is going to very very slow.