Some really big/rich markets on the list (Brazil, India, ME..).
I don't think LEGO is big in most of those countries (at least not in India), so they might be trying to slow down the secondary market in order to grow sales for new products.
Well, not that great for current workers either. Microsoft RSUs are usually 20% (compared to 40-80% in other big tech) or less for most employees, and on average msft has 30-50% less total compensation than other big tech.
All this stock upside might put some people's compensation to their true market value, but even that is based on tenure and historical stock vests.
Remember, today we are talking about "stock price is up", but tomorrow the price may be down. What the parent said does not change regardless -- Microsoft employees are not as well compensated compared to other companies, plus the layoff is real.
It's enshittification because most people don't need the 2 year upgrade cycle. For most individuals and small businesses, it was more like buy once and use forever.
A majority or at least large minority of Adobe users were/are on Macs.
The Mac version has lived through 68K MacOS pre and post System 7, PPC Mac pre and post OS X, x86 Macs pre and post Carbon support and now ARM Macs. After each transition , there was a limited amount of time that you could use the same version and even a smaller amount of time that you would have wanted to.
But the same argument applies that applies to Figma. It’s a professional tool that should help you generate income far greater than the cost
Isn't it exactly the opposite? It used to be low salary + gambling, but now that most people know how easy it is to screw early employees, folks ask for high(er) salary + gambling
I went digging for this, and their SEC filing for 2024 mention they have a stay from the Irish High Court.
> The IDPC issued an administrative fine of EUR €1.2 billion as well as corrective orders requiring Meta Platforms Ireland to suspend the relevant transfers and to bring its processing operations into compliance with Chapter V GDPR by ceasing the unlawful processing, including storage, of such data in the United States. We are appealing this Final Decision and it is currently subject to an interim stay from the Irish High Court.
> Financial literacy itself is quite simple: spend less than you make.
I'd disagree with this. Financial literacy includes understanding how /how much to save as well. Too many people spend less than what they earn, but would be screwed if an emergency hit, because they have basically 0 savings/emergency fund.
And the consequences of this are dire, I've seen people in their 70s working because they basically cannot afford to not work due to a lack of savings.
Interesting read, the fix seems to be straightforward, but I'd have a few more questions if I was trying to do something similar.
Is software deployed regularly on this cluster? Does that deployment happen faster than the rate at which they were losing CPUs? Why not just periodically force a deployment, given it's a repeated process that probably already happens frequently.
What happens to the clients trying to connect to the stuck instances? Did they just get stuck/timeout? Would it have been better to have more targeted terminations/full terminations instead?
An answer to basically all your questions is: doesn’t matter, they did their best to stabilize in a short amount of time, and it worked - that’s what mattered.
I don't think LEGO is big in most of those countries (at least not in India), so they might be trying to slow down the secondary market in order to grow sales for new products.