I try not to worry about things that are not up to me. I will die at some point anyway.

I wonder if the hidden bear will remain on the logo

He could be trolling?

I use this model a lot in life. I like to remember about this when in arguments with someone - once you say something that you later regret, it's very difficult to take it back.

Yes, several phishing emails got through to my gmail in the last couple of weeks, which never happened before

Or disable javascript in the browser

Write down a list of words that you do not pronounce as you want. Record yourself reading them out loud, listen back to it and try to say it better next time. You can also create some sentences from those words and read them.

He could start taking finasteride/propecia. If he was getting a hair transplant, he would have to take it anyway so his hairline doesn't recede further behind the transplanted hair.

Cure already exists - finasteride

Commented as controversial nearby, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32278252

What I don't get about these lay-offs, is that these companies usually start hiring again soon after

Often these 10% layoffs are an excuse to get rid of people that are overpaid, aren't performing or dont fit very well in the organization. Some companies do it every year.

Indeed. For some companies it’s par for the course.

When you decide that hiring good people is actually a hard problem the most obvious solution is to stop trying, and just accept some bad hires in the org temporarily that you'll let go in the next round of cuts if they don't work out.

This actually works out fairly well for everyone - some people get hired and stay because they're good, some get hired and then dropped but they earn well and get a big name on their resume for their time, and the company eventually builds a stronger team.

I guess another strategy is to not hire a large amount of people. Companies like 37signals comes to mind. Obviously, this will not work for all companies.

It certainly solves missing good people due to false-negatives during hiring.

Yep. People complain about social strata discrimination, leetcode interviews, blatant racism and sexism on hiring... Well, any real solution to those requires accepting a few bad hires and dealing with them later.

Otherwise people will always go into voodoo practices trying to avoid the inevitable failures.

What don’t you understand about that? People leave all the time, before and after layoff events. You need to replace those key roles.

Layoffs are not always about reducing the size of the workforce, but can also be to remove the low performers.

The layoffs I experienced were explicitly about reducing size and cost of the workforce. Individual performance was a limited factor at best. This was the case at two different Fortune 500 companies.

The only thing saving many high performers was better understanding of the company direction. Meaning a lot of the good folks figured out the “safe” teams/organizations and transitioned shortly before the lay off occurred.

They are almost certainly still hiring. It's correcting in some areas where they have enough fokls already.