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Back on topic…

“Apple loses director of machine learning over its office return policy”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/an-apple-machine-learning-director-resigned-over-its-office-return-policy-115040691.html

The funny part of this is the remote work policy is going to promote inequality in the work force.

Those important enough, specifically in the leadership band, will be able to do whatever the heck they want since companies will end up losing them to competitors….. Workerbees at the bottom that can’t easily move around job to job will be stuck with whatever policy is at the company since they might be more replaceable.

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[quote=sdduuuude]Built my own big house
Holy shit it’s worth how much?
Heart won’t let me sell

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Edited to get 7 in the 2nd line. Holy is 2, right ?[/quote]

Yes, beautiful!

[Coronita]

Larry comes here now…
When the stock market is down…
But leaves when it’s up…

(I like this piggington poem haiku thing…)
More here : https://www.piggington.com/ot_poem

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Thanks for checking in on us, Larry, but we are doing fine :).

Since we own our own houses and are free and clear, so our housing costs are more or less fixed even during inflationary periods.

Also, since some of us work in tech , we don’t double double and gamble a lot on one hit one wonder stock trades as a primary financial strategy. In fact, yesterday was a great day for biweekly DRIP auto invest into index funds.

One of my tenants lease is coming up again too. I’ve already mentioned I’d be raising his monthly to $1650, from $1550 to cover the increased cost from inflation. He wasn’t thrilled but given that a comparable not rents $1850, he isn’t moving.

Business at company is doing fine too. We’re doing like 3x transactions from same time last year… now that people are itching to go in staycations…so our numbers came in way better than expected. Ceo is happy, and we get additional RSU stock grants while the markets are down… Woohoo…

[Coronita]

Big Oil stocks fall.
Gold is also down big too.
You are not immune.

[Coronita]

Work from home no more…
Back to office you will go…
Or maybe not yet…

[Coronita]

Utah is da bomb
Government jobs plentiful
Saint George I must go.

[Coronita]

Sky Ranch in Santee…
It is La Jolla Adjunct…
Fifteen minutes there…

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[quote=sdrealtor]FLU has many cars
Fixes them in his driveway
Neighbors not happy[/quote]

FLU is 3 syllables. FAIL.

[Coronita]

Mira Mesa house.
In far flung San Diego.
Lizards and walls here.

[Coronita]

Haiku for Houses.
Come to piggington dot com.
Bring data or else.

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I prefer Haikus…
5-7-5

San Diego house.
Opportunity of a…
Lifetime. Do not miss.

[Coronita]

Btw Zillow probably will survive.

Just in a different way.

They have a strong brand, and some of the services they offer is pretty good imho that they can monetize.

Even cheapekake me use their paid rental management services that use to be free. Because it makes things a lot easier.

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One observation being here in Orlando for work.

Things seem different now here too.
Orlando sfh is now around the $800k range, considerably higher than I remember.

Also, the job market here seems a lot more competitive now for people locally here. We lost more people on the Orlando region to other employers than an any other region. It seems actually we have not lost nearly as much headcount for our west coast or Midwest remote workers. One reason could be we pay for remote workers a lot more competitively than our local FL workers because we (erroneously) think because they are local,we only need to compete with other local employers with presumably a lower payer…

Btw..the disney resort and universal studios resort was packed with people. Onsite resort hotels are booked fully and it’s not even summer yet. Seems like inflation is not curtailing this sort of “staycation” spending. In fact, it seems to suggest there’s more of it…because people aren’t willing/able to spend on those bigger more expensive vacation trips , so more of them are doing the staycations…

I mean check out this Harry Potter themed area @Universal. It’s not even a weekend and not even past noon time, and the place was crowded

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Larry, Zillow is neither a tech company or a real estate company. It’s more like wtf holding company that wants to try to “revolutionize” an old school industry led by wall Street bankers….

it’s like carorder.com, carvana, carwoo.

SDR, an, and I talked about this a long time ago, along with Compass. failed business model and this failure is expected. No different than chewy.com, as proven before by pets.com. none of these companies are “tech” companies. They are simply bad ideas lol.

But what Zillow does prove is you are wrong about something you said 16 years ago. That real estate agents will be replaced by tech and low cost companies that can do it for cheaper.

Clearly, you are wrong about this again….because tech can’t replace some sort of human interaction that people expect. Just like zoom and Microsoft teams can’t replace human connection that is often needed for work.

Also some feedback….just because a much of wall street bankers find VC money to invest in putting together a website or mobile app to “revolutionize” an old school industry doesn’t by itself make it a tech company.

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