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kevmo commented on Intel CEO Letter to Employees   morethanmoore.substack.co... · Posted by u/fancy_pantser
johngalt · a month ago
The strangest part to me about the current trends: why do all these business leaders all do the same things at the same time? E.g. Layoffs + micromanagement + cost focus etc... Is this truly about macroeconomic forces that every business is responding to? Or is it just following the latest fad?

There seems to be significant opportunity to zig as others zag. Imagine the Intel letter saying "we are going to take advantage of the current hiring environment to scoop up talent, and push forward on initiatives."

kevmo · a month ago
It's not about fads. It's just collusion.

American markets have largely consolidated into oligopolies, where just a handful of very large companies operate. It's extremely easy for them to wink at each other and then raise prices/layoff workers, etc.

This is also being accelerated by the unregulated software market that lets the corporations hide behind algorithms, as we recently saw with realty. https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/nx-s1-5087586/realpage-rent-l...

The end of ZIRP was the bat signal to corporate America to begin layoffs.

kevmo commented on Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids   tincan.kids/... · Posted by u/derwiki
kevmo · a month ago
You'd be better off just activating a real landline and not using an app.

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kevmo commented on The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide   apnews.com/article/us-air... · Posted by u/geox
rqtwteye · 6 months ago
This is just nuts. Stuff like this is what made the US a leader. I bet next is to turn off GPS outside the US because no money. That's how you lose world leadership.
kevmo · 6 months ago
Does Peter Thiel still get a piece of all the YC startups?
kevmo commented on Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?    · Posted by u/logotype
alberth · 7 months ago
Just curious, why do you say that - given that many job board cost money to post on.
kevmo · 7 months ago
The cost to post is trivial, especially if you don't fill the position. It's about looking prestigious and maintaining the impression that you're hiring.

Also seems necessary for all the H-1B fraud.

kevmo commented on Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)   poets.org/poem/stopping-w... · Posted by u/keepamovin
kevmo · 8 months ago

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation is at hand;
    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
    Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
    Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
    The darkness drops again; but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

kevmo commented on Large language models in national security applications   arxiv.org/abs/2407.03453... · Posted by u/bindidwodtj
htrp · 9 months ago
This is how you get CIAGPT
kevmo · 9 months ago
PRISMGPT
kevmo commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
FireBeyond · 10 months ago
He has literally said, and not paraphrasing, to his crowds... "You need to get out and vote, and if everything goes well, maybe you won't need to vote again."
kevmo · 10 months ago
Another Trump quote taken totally out of context. He was encouraging people who don't normally vote to get out and vote this time.

People who oppose Trump don't do themselves any favors by misrepresenting this stuff. The guy is a ghoul and says plenty of terrible things that don't need misrepresentation to make him look bad.

u/kevmo

KarmaCake day1492October 11, 2013View Original