I empathize with most of what he writes, but an irritatingly common pattern I notice when people criticize SV is pointing at destitute people next to wealthy people - as if proximity is the same as causality. California has more than its share of destitution, but fifty years of NIMBYs and catastrophically bad housing policy are a better candidate for blame. If you make housing expensive you shouldn't be surprised when people go unhoused and when everything becomes expensive because labor (which has to be housed) is expensive.
To be fair it does seem pretty random when stuff gets taken up and when it doesn't. AFAICT sometimes content that ends up very popular is ignored the first few submissions.
For people who point out that this incentivizes companies to leave San Francisco, that's probably not a coincidence. Many SF politicians see tech as the enemy and would be happy to see companies go elsewhere.
I briefly tested it with 'That doesn't make sense.' which worked, but switched back to yo because I'm looking at the probability of the first word and 'That' is too common to assume that the rest of the completion is 'doesn't make sense.'
Author here. I'm afraid this did actually happen to me personally.
A few people have mentioned a slashdot story, I've never seen it but would love to if anyone who read it could link to it. It shouldn't be too hard to believe that there could be more than one elaborate case of resume fraud.
Author here. Your guess is as good as mine, but probably for the reasons other people have mentioned here. It would be making the lie in public, attached to his own name. The fake profiles aren't attached to anyone real.
Startup Series B Funding from Cleveland Avenue LLC ($12M)
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We can transfer an H1B visa but are not set-up to issue a new one.
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Startup Series B Funding from Cleveland Avenue LLC ($12M)
ZeroCater, a provider of office catering and snacks, is looking to hire an ambitious Director of Engineering to grow and scale our engineering team as we move deeper into corporate food programs.
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We can transfer an H1B visa but are not set-up to issue a new one.
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The roles we're hiring for:
- Full stack engineers
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- VP of Engineering
- Head of Product
We’ve built the #1 way for companies to feed their people. ZeroCater is a marketplace that connects companies with great local restaurants and caterers. We’re feeding hundreds of companies, ranging from newborn startups, to the Fortune 100.
We’re here to build something people love. We’re a scrappy company that’s scaled to tens of millions in yearly sales on little funding.
We’re based in San Francisco and backed by investors like Y Combinator and the creator of Gmail. We’re looking for people with an ownership mentality who want to work with like-minded folks to build something great.
The roles we're hiring for:
- Full stack engineers
- VP of Engineering
- Head of Product
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ZeroCater is a catering marketplace that makes it easy for companies to feed their people. We bring family style meals from top local restaurants to teams across the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Austin.
We are hiring Full Stack Engineers, Head of Product and a VP of Engineering!
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The worst interpretation here is as a justification for lazy leadership. What it really means is that for leaders there is a higher expectation of emotional intelligence, or as Ben Horowitz puts it, your ability to manage your own psychology.