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throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: More than half of 18 to 29-year-olds in the US are living with parents

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.

throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace

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.

throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations

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.

throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations

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.

throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19

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.

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