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Re:Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs? by foofie on Friday January 12, 2024 @04:36AM (#38965983)
The set of people who pass the hiring bar at companies like Google are not modelled as the normal distribution of the average person you come across in the grocery store.

Companies like Google are not known for hiring morons.

It is a self-aggrandizing dumb comparison, and should be dismissed as such. It reads as a desperate attempt to rationalize away these layoffs as something that only applies to others.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs? by Shatnerz on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:13PM (#38976701)
The quote from George Carlin, a comedian, is about the general population. The quote itself is from "Doin' It Again / Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" a special in 1990 and predates Google.
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