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jasd | 3 years ago | on: Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

Yes, people make mistakes and then learn from them. Sometimes not every scenario can be anticipated. In this instance a bunch of startups got caught in this mess and 250k won't be enough for them to survive/meet their employees' payroll. I appreciate the govt stepping in and hopefully rewriting the rules based on the learnings.

jasd | 3 years ago | on: EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

I assume apple can tell it's users that they cannot guarantee security of apps they download from another app store similar to how they do with the recent privacy changes? When someone like tik tok or fb realizes that their downloads are reducing significantly they'll still offer it from the apple app store.

jasd | 3 years ago | on: Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone

> Until recently people simply were not aware that personally identifiable location data was gathered on

Is this right? For a long time now, every time I visit a restaurant I get a notification from Google suggesting that I should write a review. That should be sufficient to raise the alarm bells for even non-tech folks no?

jasd | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What does your mother tell people about your work or employment?

My parents visited USA for the first time when I started working at Amazon a decade ago. They saw an Amazon fresh truck outside my condo building one of the days. That night my Mom told my sister that I work for some company that delivers groceries.

I'm from India and what she really said was "iski company sabzi delivery karti hai". There's a lot of cultural baggage in that statement but they sounded worried about my future :)

jasd | 3 years ago | on: Update on Hiring Plans

Based on a couple of LinkedIn posts I saw, that's exactly what happened. I wish they hadn't reneged offers for start dates that were inside of 2-3 weeks.

jasd | 3 years ago | on: Update on Hiring Plans

I'm not sure what visa you are on, but for H1B you don't need to quit/give up your visa with current company to start processing with new employer. Even after your h1b with new company is approved it isn't necessary to quit your current job or give up that visa. Also, if you're in software, a lot of people here can help. Good luck! Hopefully you'll find something soon.

jasd | 3 years ago | on: Elon Musk Tesla email: Remote work is no longer acceptable

Having been in many managerial discussions where we try to figure out how to sugarcoat the real message, I'd much rather prefer the Elon version. I do agree that some level of empathy in the email would be nice but still hate th corp version. Atleast this way, there is no ambiguity about the seriousness of his ask.

jasd | 3 years ago | on: Inside the longest Atlassian outage

Even if they don't, I imagine they will have conversations internally to see what's feasible. It's just really difficult for an organization to move away from a product that everyone has learnt how to use. The company I work for is struggling to move away from something as simple as a collaborative editor, when I feel like I find no difference between the two products.

jasd | 3 years ago | on: Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”

I don't understand why we expect Amazon to do the right thing vs we should expect in this case all retailers to do the right thing? Unfortunately as consumers we are always looking for the best deal or the lowest price on everything. Which means retailers need to cut costs every way possible which in turn leads to sucking every ounce out of workers.

Let's assume that Amazon did end up making things way better for their workers. That means higher costs and hence higher prices. This will allow other retailers to win markets by setting the best prices.

I think we need regulation that applies to all retailers in this case or all industries that hire manual labor vs constantly targeting Amazon for being the bad guy.

jasd | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?

Quite the opposite actually. At one of the big techs that I was part, they ran some analysis and found that anything more than 4 interviews didn't add any value in assessing the chances of an individual succeeding at the company. I never read the details of the tests they ran but I'm glad they came to that conclusion.

jasd | 4 years ago | on: How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M

In the last 2 years condo prices in the Seattle area have stayed flat while everyone is desperate to buy townhomes and single families that are becoming out of reach for most. That makes me wonder if building up will actually fix the issue.

jasd | 4 years ago | on: Amazon moves employees out of downtown Seattle office due to crime

I used to work at Amazon and I know some employees who were relocated to this building. They've always expressed some discomfort having to work from there. This was pre-covid. From what I understand, the situation has worsened. While I agree that Amazon and the city-council are in a bit of a tussle, I feel that this move is justified from an employee safety perspective.

jasd | 4 years ago | on: China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul

As others have mentioned, after school coaching is a big thing in India. We had a teacher who would hardly show up for class and when he would, he would move ridiculously slow. By the end of the semester/year he wouldn't have completed even half of the syllabus. He had a coaching class that was popular among students from our school and he would have them pitch the class to other students. It was also pretty common for students of his coaching class to know what to focus on and what questions to expect in the exam.

Back in the day while I still knew some folks who would not pay for these after school coaching classes, it looks like now it's uncommon for middle class kids to not have atleast a few of these to go to after school.

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