That’s enough internet for today, grandad. let’s get you back to bed

Couple reasons. First, is safety. Checking accounts are usually only FDIC insured for the first $250k. ATM / bank cards aren’t super secure and card skimming is still a problem making high bank balances less appealing. Second, someone with that kind of liquidity should probably have that money doing something…

Some specifics I’ve yet to see shared by either party are the criteria by which Nintendo failed VGBC’s licensing application. We know it was “expectations around health & safety guidelines” and “[adhereing] to internal partner guidelines” around brand usage, IP and professional conduct. Surely someone knows more about…

Why does it matter what a voice actor looks like? That feels like the lamest excuse. If voice acting teaches us anything, it’s that people rarely look like how you might expect them to look from their voice alone. I’d wager it’s something else. Like money. Or they’re changing the character design and don’t like how…

Supply/Demand. For the discerning player who might seek out a piece of power or duals for a Cube or a casual EDH deck, they have a third option besides A) buying an eyewateringly expensive original printing or B) using a proxy. Now they have something like an officially licensed proxy; one that’s still collectible,…

Sequoia also invested in the Series B funding round when FTX was already valued at like $17B. And while Sequoia led that round, it was a $200M investment out of $1B total funding raised. It’s a bet, but there was plenty of existing support, confidence and due diligence performed to justify the investment.

His salary is like 25M. He could take $0 pay and probably save only 130 employees with that money. I think a lot of folks are misunderstanding the scale of the problem, especially because of how much Meta generally pays. They’ve been at the top end of the tech pay scale for years and then grew way too much over the…

He makes 25M annually. It’s a symbolic salary. That’d cover 1% of the cost to pay those people for a year. It sucks, but that’s not how businesses work

go google “devil’s advocate”

Technically neither. Apart from maybe some C-Suite execs, it’s not a part of their employment contracts and there’s no state/federal mandate for severance pay. If it’s not in the employment agreement, it’s at the discretion of the employer.

You’re right about who’s paying for it. 100% it’s Meta and not Zuck. Lotta…

That happens with normal CEO’s where they’re dismissed by a board of directors following a loss of confidence/big layoffs/etc. Zuck, on the other hand, controls Meta. His class B shares give him veto power over other share holders with like 60% of the votes. He also can’t trade or sell those shares. It’s his boat…

Dude gets paid 25M a year. He could get paid $0 and it’d cover 1% of the cost of keeping those people employed for a year. He could sell stock and raise money to keep them employed for a year instead of 6 months. That just kicks the can down the road. Can’t do that forever.

How do you make it right AFTER you fire…

Except that Reality Labs teams didn’t get hit especially hard? That’s what Zuckerbergs betting the company on. They allegedly started with recruiting and business teams + looking at low performers. Horizon Worlds looking wonky doesn’t get you to losing 11k headcount. 

Take no salary? He’s worth 35b. A$25m salary itself is just symbolic. It’s probably no more than 1% of what it cost annually to pay those 11k employees. imo the actual contrition is the apology letter and the rather generous severance. He could take no salary, but it’d only be symbolic

I feel like you didn’t actually read the letter. I don’t want to be the one to defend Meta, but at least the severance they’re offering is actually pretty generous. Short of stepping down from the company, what exactly does ‘taking responsibility’ in an acceptable way look like for you?

Depends. One of the biggest hurdles to modern LAN parties is that most contemporary competitive multiplayer games are both Always Online and don’t feature local, offline multiplayer at all. More than just playing games in the same room, half the point of a LAN party was to be able to play with zero latency. Now, since…

From personal experience, it’s not 1 to 1. SBMM should be the standard in competitive multiplayer games. Playing against folks of ones skill level should always be sweaty, for players of every ability. Someone wants to pub stomp? Play against bots. Players who smurf in SBMM are cowardly, flawed individuals.

But not…

If skill based matchmaking actually works correctly, TimtheTatman shouldn’t have any issue. He doesn’t want to play the ‘meta’ with only top-tier guns? If he loses enough games, the system should start matching him versus players where his unorthodox, experimental strategies will still work 1/2 the time.

But that’s…

The reason that RX570 was so cheap was they were rebranding tuned-up RX470's with added RAM so miners wouldn’t run into vram bottlenecks. If you’re coming off essentially 6 year old hardware, most newer cards are gonna be a huge step up, even at the same price. With inflation, your $200 card became a $250 purchase…

The second state? I thought Washington state passed the “Move Ahead Washington” bill earlier this year banning the sale of new gas cars by 2030. Maybe the source is mistaken?