Would rather not. Just to be in the compliant zone legally and also to stay somewhat anonymous. Sincerely sorry to disappoint. But let me assure you it was nothing exotic.
Fair. Not sure what it’s like getting tech talks approved through comms these days, but this would be fascinating to hear about at a SF or SouthBay Systems meetup.
I guess it depends. I have a friend who has dairy cows, grass-fed, very well cared for. He names each one and hates to slaughter them, but when they are done producing, he does take them to the slaughter house. I bought a quarter of a cow from him a few years back, and it was excellent. It did have a hint of gaminess redolent of venison or lamb, but it was delicious.
You are misinformed. I regularly eat our retired dairy cows. They taste absolutely excellent, but they were raised on pasture and ate top quality feed.
Dairy cows from commercial confinement dairies are a different matter. They eat almost exclusively grain and develop horrible health problems.
Yet the same can be said of any meat produced in a CAFO, when compared to that produced on most small farms. Garbage in, garbage out.
[on a salary of 70k] “I am not building up a nest egg from my salary”
You are robbing from your future to live in the present.
This might be ok for you specifically as you are making a gamble on your ownership of the startup paying off. Perhaps you have a family safety net. Or Perhaps you are ok with taking the risk that you don’t have enough money in your older years.
It’s not really ok for standard employees to live that way. The USA social contract is that each person must self-fund their own retirement. Deferring that savings to “later” has truly staggering costs in compound-interest-years lost.
This is called “revenge bedtime procrastination” in the literature.
The reply above’s point is that you’ve don’t have data to say that your phone usage is not affecting your sleep. In fact you have anecdotally the opposite data, an implication that it does affect your sleep.
Well I’m usually asleep in about 30 seconds of putting the podcast on so I don’t think there is some circadian rhythm disaster going on. It’s more like a “revenge bedtime procrastination” antidote.
I know a lot of people who use phones before bed. Not all sleep deprived insomniacs.
$200k is quite achievable both remote, IF you have experience. If you are brand new to the industry things have shifted and new grads are having a very tough time.
Double or triple that was easily achievable remote from 2020 to 2023, but now likely requires going in-office in NYC, SF, or Seattle.
The work life balance is not significantly different at different pay levels once you get to true tech companies (leaving aside companies where the tech doesn’t bring in the money)
The regulations referenced are prohibitive zoning regulations. These dictate that you are only allowed to build single family homes on the property you own, and that the homes must be very low density, have huge setbacks from the property lines, etc.
The regulation changes are not related to the quality or safety of a dwelling.
This illegal collusion and wage suppression in our industry still occurs, it’s just kept better under wraps now as the executives have learned how to not write things down and use signal disappearing messages.
If it is, does that mean that they are legally obligated to try and steal Apples employees? What does that even look like from a practical point of view? How is that enforced?
I am aware of all of the other cases of collusion and wage suppression, but I’m interested in this specific email only, since you wrote “This illegal collusion” is it really?
I’m not being deliberately provocative I am genuinely curious - the reason I’m kind of pushing on definitions is because slimy corporate lawyers will weasel as much as they can, so I’m just playing devils advocate if anything - on a personal level I agree 100% with you!
Autoscaling? Data center cooling and power use?