They said, Apple. Software developers, sales, legal, and so on absolutely can work from home and any company who wants us to believe their environmental claims would promote it.
Shopify is a bit weird in that the CEO Tobi has controlling shares in the company. Short of embezzlement or intentionally destructive behavior he's effectively unaccountable to anyone but his own stock portfolio.
The CEOs / Executives are literally appointed by the board who in turn are voted in by shareholders. It is their job to increase the share price.
The world is better of with efficient capital deployment.
So, I don't understand how the smartest people in this world don't understand the fundamental working of capital markets.
Note: it's the same shareholders that have allowed to get $200-$300k TCs when smart people around the world toil the same as you for $60k. So, you can't have it both ways
Yes, the first thing I tell someone laid off is that the world is better off with efficient capital deployment. They should know better and not have any emotional reaction. It’s purely logical after all. The CEO should have put that in the letter.
You can't have it both ways. Start misinformation about how capital markets work and not expect to be corrected.
HN is a discussion forum. If an incorrect fact or misguided opinion is shared, it will be debated.
I'm sympathetic to OP, but I also understand the dangers of misinformation and the resulting brainwashing of anti-capitalistic movement it causes and I will protect capitalism.
One period marked poverty, child mortality, While the other marked good standard of living and reduced child mortality.
I'll let you guess and pick the confounding variable from the equation. That's the advantage of independent thinking vs brainwashed-by-liberal-universities (and thank god I didn't study in some brainwashed liberal university)
> The CEOs / Executives are literally appointed by the board who in turn are voted in by shareholders. It is their job to increase the share price.
This is a meme that needs to die.
> The world is better of with efficient capital deployment.
Even if this were true, rising share prices don't necessarily indicate efficient deployment. Chasing short-term share price increases often incentivises behaviour detrimental to company in the long-term.
> Just because you laid of people doesn't mean they aren't thinking long term.
That's not what I said at all. My point was that a rising share price and actions taken to influence that do not necessarily indicate that capital has been efficiently deployed.
> Really how can reddit/HN and social media be so blind about this when they have data screaming at them?
Maybe don't start with the assumption that everyone else is an idiot.
Smart people, as you put it, know that empathy plays a role in the world. It's possible to understand how capitalism works, while not being a sociopath.
Meta should take FTC all the way to supreme court for their regulatory overreach and kneecap them, so that unelected, incompetent people don't bring their biased agenda to governing businesses
If OP had negotiated the contract in good faith, I don't think this would have been an issue, but if there were lot of assholery in getting that contract, the network is happy to stick it back
Facebook and Nextdoor at least has voice of the people, however wrong it is. It truly has both sides opinions. It captures the zeitgeist. I'll take that over any elite-class, university-brainwashed, liberal arts people writing about stuff through their biased lenses
I have some bad news for you. “Elite-class, university-brainwashed, liberal arts people” write about stuff through their biased lenses everywhere, including Nextdoor.
I think you're missing the point, both of you. It's not people's opinions I'd be interested in 50 years from now; it's just what they were talking about. Everyone might have an opinion about some event, but it's the event itself I'd want to know.
How many historical nextdoors are you aware of? For me, none. But is that because they don’t exist or just that no record survived? Social media is secret society.
The point isn't that those people aren't contributing, it's that you get multiple perspectives, even if all of them are skew. You can get extremely accurate positions with many highly unreliable datapoints. because even if they're individually highly inaccurate, where they overlap (and/or where their centroid is) is more accurate than any individual measurement.
Except that 100 people are Nextdoor are not doing the "oversight of courts, local councils and school boards" except in exception circumstances.
They probably aren't even reporting the final numbers in the local council election.
Assuming NextDoor's dataset is around in 100 years (probably not) there will be some topics well represented. But you are going to have huge gaps in others.
Newspapers will make and publish stories and reports a lot of times without an agenda because their profession is publishing news, and there are stories where they just don't have any personal interest and therefore no agenda to tout. If you were tasked with writing a story about something you really have no interest in, then you'd write it without an agenda.
Contrast that with the common public, who will of course not waste their time writing about or discussing matters that they do not have any interest in.
Latest phone cameras have gone too far processing the images and there's no off switch (check the photo forums). Also new formats like HEIC and HEVC confuse things. Also, personally I don't like face unlock.
No Thanks. Can you tell me how GDPR has made EU life better than US? It's a hot mess. Criminals of EU can now easily hide from the internet, while the innocent click through hundreds of cookie popups
