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wealth needs to be kept somewhere. you can either keep it in cash where it inflates away. or in bonds that also inflates away but slower or stocks that is a hedge against inflation.

so the point is protecting your wealth against inflation and continuing the compounding over long stretches of time.

you can liquidate as required or even borrow against it like the very rich do.

Yes they still use it but it’s meta’s version of it similar to presto and everything else.

6M at 60k spend means you have won the game a few times over. Go live your life and stop living in fear. You won’t get another one.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right

Without knowing specifics like your current skillset, experience, location, income requirements it’s hard to provide advice.

I want to build hyper realistic vr experiences with characters that feel real and not scripted.

But there isn’t a finite amount of work. If we can do something with less then we should be able to do significantly more with more by applying the same optimizations.

It might be able to identify a unique user but not the user personally. I think there’s also a fairly broad margin of error in how accurate it can identify a unique user.

I have a non technical bachelor’s degree and work at faang as a senior engineer and have been offered to move into staff.

I think being curious, always learning, being likable and good at interviewing (leetcode and sys design) don’t need a college degree after a few years of technical experience.

Everyone assumes I have a cs masters because that’s common at faang.

If I could get a do over though I’d just get the cs degree. I think there’s some value there.

Curious what the windfall would be for early employees

I’ve been working 4 days a week informally for a decade. Everyone checks out on Fridays with the exception of the rare fire.

I suspect it’s the same for other information workers.

The post isn’t asking our opinions of TA but rather for those that use TA to provide feedback. There’s obviously a market and this provides a product for that market similar to creating an app for astrologers.

I already work 4 days a week. Friday essentially is such a slow day with no meetings that is virtually optional. Been this way in several companies in the US including at big tech companies that are not known for wlb. 25% cut sounds like a bad deal for me and good deal for employer as they’d get the same amount of work done as before.

> To me, it's difficult to imagine anyone getting canned and thinking 'meh, no biggie'.

I think there’s a subjective component where it does feel like a big deal no matter what savings you have. But objectively if you can cover expenses for a year then it really is ‘meh, no biggie’ .