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Legitimately wondering why anybody looks at working for FANGs as something to be proud of these days. All of these companies went from kinda being on the right track w/ customers to becoming completely enshittified.

Why even make a distinction of category spend.

They did want to join the EU in the 90’s. They’ve always been rebuffed.

It provides purpose. Many people who retire early after doing all the random stuff they thought would be cool would likely find themselves isolated and decaying without purpose.

I took a sabbatical last year. Ran out of cool and exciting stuff real quick.

I personally realized that I got bored of solo sized projects. It’s a lot more fun working with other really smart, motivated people.


Very likely. Billionaires can afford to cultivate a persona for the masses. It’s so odd when the majority actually buy it.

Not everyone can afford to waste energy on angry and envy directed toward private citizens who have literally nothing to do with them

Let them leave and let their fans leave. Fewer people means lower prices. CA is beyond capacity

CA is not beyond capacity in any way other than the fact that capacity has been artificially limited.

I mean even at extremely high wages, cracking a billion is more than a lifetime

So all the studies citing fmri data are now wrong probably? yikes


Not a great look for Israel


That’s generally how CS is taught at many top schools. If someone needs handholding just to figure out python then that’s bad news for the someone


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