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Why are people on here so militantly pro- or anti- On-Prem/Cloud? (Rhetorical question) It's so god damn annoying. Either works depending on your usecase.

Is it just me or has Stratechery gone downhill in it's analysis (or at least put too much mindshare on mid-market B2B SaaS startups, AdTech, and B2C). A number of the Stratechery articles I'…

Federal Regulators wanted to push greater oversight into State Charters during the GFC as well, but due to Federalism they couldn't push it as much. That was a big reason why they pushed regional…

SVB was exempt from a lot of the post-2008 stress tests because they were not a National Bank (aka they got their license/charter and everything from CA's Banking Regulators). It's an o…

Also, I just realized I forgot to add until recently SF based Charles Schwab to that list, but they always specialized in HNW Personal Banking and ETF/Index Funds. Wells Fargo also used to be a S…

The two major regional banks in Northern California are San Francisco based First Republic and San Jose based SVB. First Republic specializes in HNW Personal Banking, while SVB historically specialize…

True! But cleaners and mazdoori labourers make that much for better hours. Also the 1.8lpa figure is for their "Graduate Engineering Trainee" - for assembly Foxconn began leveraging Engineer…

Not particularly. You're earning around $2.5k a year (1.8 lpa) which isn't the most competitive even in most of India tbh, especially when factoring CoL in Karnataka. If this was Andhra Prad…

The OIG, ATF, DEA, Marshal Service, and the FBI all agencies within the DoJ, though the FBI has always had signfiicant levels of autonomy within the DoJ compared to the others

Ironically, Libertarian-Republican Alaska has been practicing UBI since the 70s after reaping in the Oil Boom - https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wha... …

According to HT they got it from the Associated Press [0]. [0] https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/bird-flu-kills-11-... …

I mean, arguably Ethiopia comes to mind with the expansion into ethnic Somali territories in the 19th century, but does invading adjacent countries and ethnic groups count as imperialism?

Hehe, I said something like this happened when the indictment was filed and I was downvoted on here by Crypto bros.

Yep! Pretty much this! Even I've leveraged old world clan networks professionally (helps to get introduced to VCs, Execs, and Politicians in US, Canada, Australia, and the UK). For some reason, W…

I am a guy but I was in middle school when FB first became popular (around the time of the recession). I was definetly quite lucky that my dad worked in the tech industry as well and was a bit of a lu…

It's a PR piece. Most articles that revolve around a single persona are those. They aren't that expensive to produce and pay for either.

I don't work in the space anymore, but I work in an adjacent sector so I still interact with EMs and Partners. BCG Gamma is similar to QuantumBlack, but BCG's Lighthouse is much more compara…

Makes sense. McK's back office practice has really grown over the past decade with (imo) little to show for it. Their whole QuantumBlack offering is utter bullshit, and they had a couple other ba…

That makes sense! It's basically a small town that has retained some form of soverignity since the Roman era. Are you from San Marino by chance? It seems like such a cool and wonky political sys…

In countries like Russia, China, India, etc you need to hire these kinds of Oligarchs and Lobbyists to operate. Otherwise bad things happen. Look at Amazon India for example - Prime Video India basica…

An existing clan structure and the collapse of the Albanian state in the 90s leading to intergenerational trauma among the diaspora. Also, a lot of ethnic Albanians in the diaspora are from Kosovo, Ma…

Can Uber corporate put a bullet in your head for refusal of payment, or literally kneecap you for competing? That is the differentiator between grey market and black market.

Albania is in the bottom of the pack by ease of business rankings - the only European (not EU) countries worse than it are Bosnia and San Marino. Every other EU country ranks better than Albania, even…

The biggest would be bad wages - why earn €6,000/yr when you can earn 3-4x in Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, UK, etc. Institutionally, the mix of corruption, bad demographics, weak infrastructure d…

(based on my conversations with friends, family, and peers who started during and after the remote work boom, and my own experience switching from Eng to Product during the pandemic) It depends on ho…

Depending on your education and role you could end up earning more in the private sector, but at least public sector gigs used to have strong protections until 2008. After 2008, an entire generation o…

Most public sector unions are quite strong (and I support that btw). My mom's union for special education teachers was able to negotiate an additional $15k out of the school district she works at…

From the article you linked: "The gross pay numbers cloak some details, because they combine regular and overtime pay; SPD uses overtime to staff emphasis patrols, sports events and other special…

Every single one of those "high salary" jabs includes Insurance and Pension contributions and force overtime. That's the equivalent of saying an employee earning $90,000 is actually ear…