The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes. This is a game changer for American workers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/23/ftc-noncompete-agreements...Read more
Anyone else hate the fact these people are making it all worse for us in terms of WLB? I hope we can come together as citizens to stop this before it gets much worse
I finally got budget to add another team member to my team who were struggling with workloads. Among other criteria, starting date was very crucial in my decision because of new project that will add even more workload to the team. Most qualified candidate was available after a month, and the first ...Read more
Is this the future? Looks like the oldest and the largest party of the country is proposing a financial survey. They will survey how much each family has, and then distribute all that wealth to everyone in the country. Are we idiots? We studied so much. Worked so hard. Paid taxes (just 3% of Indi...Read more
I finally logged into my brokerage accounts after a few years. And it has been an abysmal investment strategy. We have 11% growth, with many many stocks in the red (fucking DocuSign, Tesla, for instance). 2055 retirement plan has done decently in the 401k, fortunately. How has others' experience b...Read more
Hey all, Few months ago I made a post about being laid off from Block when only two years before that I had 11 offers. Finished my interviews and landed 5 offers! The things that changed from last time I interviewed: - Interviews are most definitely harder to pass. This isn’t because the intervi...Read more
So the new Llama 3 model has 80B parameter and performs similar to latest Gemini 1.5 with 2.4T parameters. That is 30 times smaller with similar capabilities. At this point, everyone can use open source Meta AI and get the state of the art LLM. https://llama.meta.com/llama3/ After all, nobody ha...Read more
I just went under contract in a house in Seattle area. I got super lucky and assumed a loan with 2.375% . The payment will be around $2.3k/month. The location is great. I am just worried about the housing market crashing 50% and then I am under water. On the flip side I can’t get an apartment for ...Read more
Got insulted for my company on this platform. My opinions were considered low quality because of shit company name. Did I get smart and capable overnight that going forward my comments will get more attention? To all those here who judge someone on their company name, please consider the quality of...Read more
They always have his very nice smell about them. Worried about coming of as a creep and getting reported. Is there a subtle way way to ask? I am male, married, don't have particular attraction to them just like the smell and want to buy it for my household.
I just don’t understand them. Why do married guys not care enough about their wife and kids and seek extramarital affairs? Men here are complaining that they want to marry someone with 0 or low body count, and then after marrying someone with that (who likely doesn’t have a high drive) these same m...Read more
Google is an Israel 🇮🇱 ally and you need to deal with it apparently https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1782571917310071068
I recently left Amazon and now i miss it. My new company has so much more wlb and no toxicity. My teammates are super nice. There is no pressure, easy on calls. I have even stopped crying in the mornings. TC is same as Amazon too. It has been only 2 months and i have realised that this kind life is...Read more
Recently relocated to the Bay Area and was surprised to see how skinny and weak most of my colleagues are. I am not insulting but genuinely curious about the mindset behind not working out. There is a nice (Amazon Sunnyvale) gym that is free and very few people use it. Those who do, dont seem to kn...Read more
Apparently Dave Ramsey advises against overfunding 529 because college bubble will burst and they'll have to "come home to roost". He advises no more than $20k in 529. But he's been saying a lot of silly things lately - cognitive decline due to age, perhaps? Personally, I'd rather overfund than un...Read more
I’m constantly stressed about work. Even when I’m on vacation, it takes me a couple of days to stop thinking about how many Slack messages, DMs, emails, meetings, etc will be waiting for me when I get back. I’m interviewing to find a better workplace but I’m worried this is all me and I’ll have the ...Read more
After seeing many different types I have created a short list. Same ideas applicable to other religions. Sanatani/Dharmic Hindu - Belief in Hindu theology and Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva ideas of divinity. Hindutvadi Hindu - Proud to belong to worlds oldest culture. Veer Savarkar’s definition of Nationali...Read more
*Indian Elections 2024 - the headlines from abroad....* A compilation: “Will the outcome of India’s election increase intolerance” - Deutsche Welle “Modification of India is almost complete” - TIME Magazine. “India’s election: fixing a win by outlawing dissent damages democracy” - UK Guardian “...Read more