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> How did pissing off your customers ever become a business model?

Airlines, banks, health insurance…


So very low margin businesses with hogh amounts of regulations.


Banks and health insurance are much more consumer friendly outside of the US, usually because of regulation. Turns out you can just tell banks “make transfers cheap and essentially instant” and they’ll do it, rather the bullshit they have in the US.


you'd be surprised. I've yet to live in a place where either is consumer-friendly...


makes you wonder why openai/chatgpt/xai are in bed with government so much...


Tobacco has never been more lucrative. Between Zyn and vapes, they’re swimming in cash


> Zyn and vapes

Those don't contain tobacco, nor nicotine derived from tobacco. I'd be surprised if tobacco farming was still lucrative, except maybe the fine stuff for cigars, but that was always a relatively small market compared to cheap cig tobacco.


TIL, I thought Tobacco was used as the source for nicotine. Is it all synthetic these days?


I'd be surprised if any one selling tobacco products were swimming in cash. Single use vapes are expensive compared to cost but there are tons of sellers. If you buy vape juice you can get something like the equivalent of 100 packs of cigarettes for $15. Vape shops jack up all the prices but there are 5 shops on every street and they always seem empty and I'm convinced they are mostly just laundering money.


> In December 2018, e-cigarette maker Juul gave its workers an average bonus of $1.3 million each

https://mashable.com/article/juul-employees-get--million-dol...


That was 8 years ago, and the result of altria massively overpaying to acquire juul, a deal which went spectacularly bad.


Agreed. Synthetic nicotine has been around for awhile as well, which is much cheaper than sourcing the old fashioned way.


united by a Performance Cycle


I interviewed at Linkedin in 2020 or so - interview went great, team fit was great, all the interviews were great, the recruiter told me he was going to prepare an offer... then I never heard from them again.

4 years later, a recruiter messaged me saying that they found my name as a potential candidate and knew that I declined the offer, back in 2020, so they wanted to know if I wanted to re-interview. I told the recruiter I never rejected anything. She looked into it and apparently it was your exact same situation: recruiter left that day, a bunch of candidates got marked as "declined" shortly after.


Any promising techniques so far? I’m working on a rather large monorepo and very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it. Looking for ideas to improve comprehension.



Forgive me if this is naive, I haven’t been in DevOps my whole career:

doesn’t

> very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it

mean a monorepo is a mistake worth unwinding immediately?


At the moment I'd check the sibling comment, which has a few links!


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