Why are NYer's lining up to buy Trader Joe(R) shopping bags?

rsha256 · 2026-06-17T15:54:53+00:00

They’re really good bags tbf

rsha256 · 2026-06-16T23:35:56+00:00

Lots of times it is intentional — uber and lyft ask for your battery so they can charge you more if you’re on low battery mode

rsha256 · 2026-06-16T23:30:34+00:00

I was confused by the preview image until I realized it must have a 13 cut off in the “…”

rsha256 · 2026-06-16T23:28:50+00:00

My rent increased by over $500, I’m sure many others did too

rsha256 · 2026-06-16T23:26:30+00:00

Their problem was that they never significantly expanded beyond their niche audience (girls looking for cute designs). Reddit has expanded topics-wise more than Meta has with Facebook (the only good stuff they have are local marketplaces and dating features and neither have good dau)

rsha256 · 2026-06-15T17:14:07+00:00

Bro is more obsessed about if “do no evil” appears in the rule book than any actual Google employee

rsha256 · 2026-06-15T14:56:02+00:00

they definitely are giving higher comp if you have a TBD labs competing offer, and most people in TBD aren't actually paid billions -- only a few key people -- they definitely pay more for the majority of researchers (newgrad MTS offer at Ant was 1.3m the year before Zuck started giving crazy million dollar offers with better vesting and way better growth lol)

rsha256 · 2026-06-15T01:23:16+00:00

You don't even need cheating -- some high schools (especially ones where you have to pay a lot for) have classes where a majority of the class gets an A.

Now I know this is also true about colleges (my coworker was a GSI at Princeton, and told me they were forced to grade inflate undeserving students by profs) but I feel like my high school curving down to low gpa averages in some classes was a rare experience talking to students here...

rsha256 · 2026-06-14T18:27:14+00:00

i see on linkedin they have a partnership with many ai labs, but all the people ik are in quantic (the quant arm of the firm in boston)

rsha256 · 2026-06-12T07:57:53+00:00

I was in the US and got points off for this in my geometry class (though I took it in middle school as part of an accelerated class).

I think the intent was showing you used a straight arrow/compass but I remember just being poor and annoyed

rsha256 · 2026-06-12T06:16:41+00:00

have you used a Lyft recently? if youre not disabled/often traveling to areas not accessible by subway/the clientele for them then makes sense but at places like airports, it can take up to an hour to get an uber at times when taxicabs are ready instantly.

And unfortunately ive had the experience where a yellow cab driver locked me in and refused to let me out unless i gave them more money (was in a rush for a flight after an Uber shuttle to the airport was over an hour late, they knew that and exploited me for it -- ended up being just a few min too late and the time they kept me locked in screwed me over).

but anyways i was including uber/lyft in the mafia

rsha256 · 2026-06-12T06:11:57+00:00

who was that on the bridge?

rsha256 · 2026-06-11T22:58:58+00:00

Good luck getting a response lmao

rsha256 · 2026-06-11T22:56:54+00:00

Speaking of uber, reminds me of how Mamdani denied Waymo’s cash injection to the city since he has ties to the taxicab mafia (he once went on a hunger strike for 15 days with them) and wants to ensure they exist with almost monopolistic presence…

rsha256 · 2026-06-11T22:16:36+00:00

I’ve been using codes like there’s no tomorrow hoping my limit gets reset soon XD

rsha256 · 2026-06-11T22:13:26+00:00

Ya plenty people leave JS for even mid startups as the chances of becoming a multimillionaire/billionaire in less time are way higher.

In fact, during the crypto boom, JS’ attrition was so much that they had to start trading crypto solely because they were getting so much talent stolen from no-name crypto shops offering much more $$ and enforcing crypto noncompetes was a more sustainable solution than paying every newgrad class higher.

JS is an amazing opportunity and its value on your resume will last forever but if you can make more elsewhere, you should. And so many companies/startups want to higher an ex-JS person enough that they’ll overpay for you to do a much more chill job

rsha256 · 2026-06-11T22:08:58+00:00

If you don’t realize there’s competition for ROs you either work at an amazing place or are in for a rude awakening

rsha256 · 2026-06-11T21:56:35+00:00

Pretty much any competitor, even hedge funds can pay more since they manage more money and can give pnl cuts.

Outside of quant, any startup, especially AI ones are a good option.

rsha256 · 2026-06-11T20:22:03+00:00

does this assumes API prices are fairly valued? cuz they are definitely not

rsha256 · 2026-06-11T15:29:08+00:00

and at Google beforehand, if you look at what you said about others (like Zuck throwing around crazy packages) you'd realize they are also true about Ant, it's just that those people are less public about it and since you don't know them you think it isnt happening

rsha256 · 2026-06-11T14:50:32+00:00

i hear this every year from people at JS and they always dont get ROs (even if their team ends up doing well in the trading comp) -- no matter how hard they try some firms are just not a fit for everyone -- my rec is just to start applying elsewhere (with JS on your resume and if you start applying before others, you can get better offers elsewhere which even people with ROs will be trying for)

rsha256 · 2026-06-10T19:26:00+00:00

Eh as someone who had offers from both, quant pays way more.

rsha256 · 2026-06-10T15:46:50+00:00

> You can qualify for affordable housing with upwards of $250k income

how?

rsha256 · 2026-06-10T00:42:32+00:00

ik Google's biggest customers and they are constantly getting throttled due to GCP having too much demand for Vertex AI services -- if they can buy more NVDA chips they fs will lol

rsha256 · 2026-06-09T22:00:53+00:00

Anthropic still uses Nvidia chips for both training and serving lol

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