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I think this just validates their points. Netflix has more engineers and 8 years of them building and fixing things, so they have fewer issues.

If you told McDonald's to double their number of McRibs produced next year that would be an incredible challenge to meet. They already sell enough that it affects the global pork market, it'd be insane for them to double their demand for pork. What about other supplies, would this result in a reduced burger demand? How can they ensure they can respond appropriately either way? They probably run near fridge/storage capacity, does increasing this mean they need to also increase storage at restaurants?

That's a 2X increase. Now do it again and a half for a 5x. Crazy to say there's a "scaling wall" that once you "pierce" it's easy to scale up. It's the opposite, McDonald's already knows how to supply and sell X McRibs a year, there's no company that's ever sold 5X those McRibs so they have to figure it out themselves.

I think a lot of people feel "clever" and like what they're doing is, while not expressly allowed, not forbidden either.

See a bunch of people in this thread finding out they're probably committing tax fraud by underpaying themselves from their own s-corp to dodge taxes.

Historically, and happy to be proven wrong here, we've never seen a lab-leak of a novel virus cause a widespread outbreak. We have seen zoonotic transmission cause an epidemic/pandemic. So at least for me, I was working off of, "Is it likely that we're seeing something for the first time? Or is it likely this happened the way it's happened before?"

1. There's a giant difference between 80% and 30%.

2. That's not reflective of the rental market in Houston (I'm from there and going back for a graduation tomorrow), that's reflective of your landlord charging you for the convenience of not moving.

https://www.rentcafe.com/apartments-for-rent/us/tx/houston/#...

>My rent is up 80% since two years ago.

There's no major* rental market in the US where this is the case.

* - There could be some oil boom in a 300 person town I don't know about I guess.

There's no details about this, however I believe it wasn't a "buyout incentive" it was a "don't talk shit about us" payment given that all the ex employees have only said things like: "After X years I've decided to leave basecamp."

In which case, not sure not offering the package would have gone well.

You remind me of the database guy who, when I told him we'd lost a replica in prod and asked when it would be back online, said, "It's not a high priority for us, there's still another replica."

A lot of the original libertarians were...socialists. The term today has been rebranded to mean strictly anarcho-capitalists but it originally included anarcho-communists and libertarian socialists.

>I think it also means I’m less likely to get hit on, which is a horrible thing that has happened to a lot of young women in fields where there aren’t enough women

Do you think my framing is inaccurate given what she said? How would you describe the negative association with being hit on in the quote above?

>Translating "hit on" as "prey on" might be a sign that you have an unhealthy view of human relationships.

Seeing someone cute at a wedding and making a pass is a far cry from what's been happening in academia for decades where power dynamics are often obvious. There's a reason why very few people would have a problem being (tastefully) hit on in a social situation and why people complain about it happening in a professional situation.

The smartest person I know, idolized him since I was a kid, had that same misconception last year when we were discussing top end tax brackets.

I feel like every April news orgs should just run segments with accountants doing this example.

>You are a fucking idiot.

>If you disagree - then, please explain to me. EDUCATE me. on how I am wrong.

Boy howdy if that's how you go about seeking education I can guess a) what you political opinions are and b) how you arrived at them.

>especially my income is at the boundary between two tax brackets

Wait, can you explain how tax brackets work because I think there may be a fundamental misunderstanding here.

If we have two brackets, 10% for <=$100 and 90% for >$100, what do you think the tax bill would be for someone who earned $101?

I'm not sure of your point. You're scared of being seen as a predator while women are scared of being preyed upon? So wouldn't you want to try and make spaces as safe as possible so that women wouldn't have to be afraid?

>what action would you have people take

People can obviously do whatever they want as long as they're aware past performance...blah...blah...don't invest more than you can lose...blah.

I've pulled out from everything with a rich P/E ratio and am only keeping money in companies that I feel are a) stable and b) have a reasonable-to-low P/E ratio.

My thought is that new investors tend to go for well-known companies or meme stocks, but either way driving up the P/E ratio. I don't want to be caught in the downswing when these investors leave.

"I re-watched Schindler's List..."

According to the movie the shells were all non-functional, so I'm not really sure why you brought that up.

"the way I delivered my — and my colleagues delivered their— preferences was not through laying down ultimatums but by having conversations..."

As a laborer, the greatest value you bring to the company is your labor. That's the only real thing that gives you leverage to negotiate the terms of your employment. At least, that's what I do when I'm looking for a new job, I'm not sure if you're just morally opposed to negotiating or something. It sounds like what happened here is this person spent a lot of time having these DEI discussions in which they did not feel heard, and that combined with an (allegedly) unprecedented change in the publication review process led to them concluding that these discussions weren't actually doing anything, so they tried to use their full leverage: the withdrawal of their labor.

It's neat that your discussions were always fruitful and you felt heard, but that isn't always the case.