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Typing is a big bottleneck. Speak for yourself


They did this at MIT like 12 years ago.


Doxxers getting doxxed is peak irony.


Probably because people view this grifting as something negative.


That’s the irony. Doing it now is just hampering competition and making it better for the incumbents.


Mercor


This is exactly my take. Are you me? :-)

Well said!


Little known secret is they paid $2.7B, not $2B. And Zuck and the FB head of M&A were talking shit about John Carmack’s crazy wife, who was doing his negotiation for him. On WhatsApp no less.


That sounds about right. Thanks for the insight.


Puzzling indeed. Just watch an interview with him. Nothing insightful, just trendy buzzword wordvomit.


> Nothing insightful, just trendy buzzword wordvomit.

That is my impression of his Twitter feed from what I remember.


Microsoft back in the day and today still doesn’t pay top dollar. So you can’t get top talent with 65th percentile pay.


Microsoft used to have a location advantage, the Seattle area was a lot cheaper than the bay area.

They've long since lost that advantage.


California has a weather advantage over rainy Seattle though.


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