AstridWipenaugh
@AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 days ago:
Hubert Cumberdale wants to touch your sssspoonssss
- Comment on This is real 1 week ago:
*fracking drill
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure sarcasm is the right word. I’d say it’s more “self awareness”. Cake is a good example. They’re not serious and their music is almost a parody of pop-alt-rock at the time. Radiohead is borderline self-aware; they’re sad and they know it, but not so sad as to be “serious” about it like Dashboard Confessional.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
The company must have more than 500 equity holders and have more than $10 million in assets. If the company maintains a limited number of owners, they will never be required to go public regardless of their valuation.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
There is no requirement to ever go public, in the US anyway. I work for a multi-billion dollar company that’s entirely privately held. It just tends to happen because it’s the best way for the equity holders to convert their ownership into cash. It can be hard to sell a whole company because that requires someone to go all in to buy it and they must accept all the risk of maintaining its value. But you can go public and get tons of investment money without having to sell.
- Comment on TikTok goes dark in US as Trump seeks reprieve from ban 3 months ago:
tiktok.com still works though?
- Comment on xkcd #3033: Origami Black Hole 3 months ago:
The maximum number of times a piece of paper has ever been folded in half is 11, thanks to my boys Adam and Jamie. partsolutions.com/the-law-of-seven-is-it-impossib…
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 months ago:
And yet my android phone is able to detect what song is playing 24x7 without being a noticeable drain on the battery or using extra data. Doesn’t seem far fetched to be able to do keyword spotting under the same constraints.
Here’s one example of a company getting caught: m.economictimes.com/news/…/113071827.cms
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
Because believers will listen to Christianity’s divinely inspired interpretation of the Bible that says that. Non-christians won’t listen to that. Therefore anyone who believes the earth is older has rejected Christianity. He did it to help identify the non-believers because he’s a petty bitch.
- Comment on 👣👣👣 6 months ago:
It’s because of anti-discrimination laws. In some US states it can be illegal to hire someone for a position without posting it publicly. The concern is that if you’re not posting the job publicly, it can be because you want to prevent certain people from applying.
When you do post it publicly, the company can demonstrate that they allowed anyone to apply, show records that they considered multiple people for the job, and then decided on the internal candidate the best fit. No room for a discrimination lawsuit.
Source: I’m a hiring manager at a multi-billion dollar company and have actually learned a thing or two from annual compliance training over the years.