The employee didn't call him a jerk. That was a straw-man from Atlassian. Now we're arguing over whether he's a jerk or not.
A opposed to what actually happened: Mike (CEO) fired 19,000 people. Then Mike held a video AMA regarding the firings. Mike took the meeting from the headquarters of the NBA team he owns.
The employee, Unterwurzacher, parodied the CEO on Slack, writing, “What’s up Outragers, just dialing in from my NBA team’s headquarters to yell at the people whose careers I’ve just pummeled.”
> The employee didn't call him a jerk. That was a straw-man from Atlassian.
We don't really have enough information to adjudicate either way, the article doesn't include a transcript of what she actually said or a transcript of what was being said in the courtroom with context (tribunalroom? boardroom? wherever the lawyer was talking).
It seems a bit pointless to hypothesise what might have happened then decide whether the imaginary actions were reasonable in the hypothetical scenario. If we're going to debate correctness there needs to be actual source material instead of this third-hand summary behind a paywall.
Reading this comment really shifted my perspective on this whole thing. I’m less upset about the firing and more upset that anyone ever has the ability to control the livelihoods of 19,000 people.
does this particularly qualify him as a jerk? or just that the employee takes all the risk in employment, and capitalism does wrong by rewarding owners and management vs workers?
that he's showing off how rich he is as the result of throwing these people on the street is just part of the system weve built
He was a passionate climate activist, possibly still is.
He has since purchased a private jet under controversy.
His company now sponsors an F1 team.
He now seems to be a typical billionaire. You don’t get to be a billionaire without being ruthless.
He probably is now a rich jerk. When I worked at Atlassian and on boarded, one of the managers said if you are in a lift with Mike or Scott, and they asked what you do here, you better tell them what value you are bringing…
Mike was also very public he was proud Atlassian was not a high payer, he wouldn’t compete with Google etc on pay, at the time, yet people still wanted to work at Atlassian. Also didn’t hide the fact they absolutely utilised lack of local market knowledge for visa holders when nearly have the office was a temporary visa holder at the time.
Do they need EUV to make RAM? Doing a small amount of searching leads me to 2025 press releases from companies saying they're first to a new process node, and mentioning EUV like it's an innovation.
I assume they could scale faster with more machines of the older, more understood, lithography technology.
In the coming years, EUV mastery will almost certainly be necessary to impact the global RAM market. For context, Samsung started using EUV for DDR4 in 2020. However, DDR4 is generally fine without EUV, it's just as you move into producing the latest DDR5 and HBM3 RAM, the "multi-patterning" techniques that CXMT uses in lieu of EUV result in very low yields (economically uncompetitive). It might be possible to use ultra-low PPP to simply outproduce the rest of the world at competitive prices and maintain reasonable margins. For example, it can cost 10x more in CapEx to build a chemical plant in the USA vs. China. With respect to marginal profits, if China's solar ambitions result in extremely low cost of electricity, their cost for synthetic fused silica could end up being very cheap, and potentially use electrical plasma chemical vapor deposition to create super high quality truly anhydrous silica (if electrical plasma chemical vapor deposition is used). A low price for synthetic silica would also allow CXMT to be competitive at lower yields than EUV achieves.
But over the next 5 years as technology marches on, and high tech RAM production moves from EUV to High-NA EUV to Hyper-NA EUV processes...multi-patterning will likely cease to be feasible. So while China is very much on track to achieve truly astonishing RAM market impact from 2025 to 2030...it then hits a pretty hard wall and China really will need to finish developing and deploy EUV at scale over the next 5 years to achieve market impact past 2030.
I personally wouldn't bet against China achieving a well-scaled EUV deployment by 2030. It's not guaranteed by any means, and reasonable minds might be skeptical because EUV is fucking hard. But they're doing all the necessary things to achieve it: poaching the right engineers from ASML and TSMC, stealing technical documents, funding it generously, and removing red tape. China reported that they got EUV working in pilot plants by the end of 2025, and those reports are considered credible. Another 5 years to polish their EUV tech and scale out EUV deployment seems very reasonable to me.
I have noticed similar phenomena with Claude, where its vocabulary subtly shifts how I think/frame/write about things or points me to subtle gaps in my own understanding. And I also usually come around to understand that it's often not arbitrary. But I do think some confirmation bias is at play: when it tries to shift me into the wrong directions repeatedly, I learn how to make it stop doing that.
It definitely adds a layer of cognitive load, in wrangling/shepherding/accomodating/accepting the unpredictable personalities and stochastic behaviors of the agents. It has strong default behaviors for certain small tasks, and where humans would eventually habituate prescribed procedures/requirements, the LLM's never really internalize my preferences. In that way, they are more like contractors than employees.
It's dumb because there are two types of hyper/hypo-gonadism. "Primary" hypergonadism is where you have way more of the hormone in your blood stream. You're advocating testing for only "primary hypergonadism" in women.
Secondary hypergonadism is where someone has a normal concentration of the hormone in their blood, but they have an unusual abundance of hormone receptors.
The effects are the same, but currently we can only measure secondary hypergonadism during an autopsy/dissection.
A opposed to what actually happened: Mike (CEO) fired 19,000 people. Then Mike held a video AMA regarding the firings. Mike took the meeting from the headquarters of the NBA team he owns.
The employee, Unterwurzacher, parodied the CEO on Slack, writing, “What’s up Outragers, just dialing in from my NBA team’s headquarters to yell at the people whose careers I’ve just pummeled.”
Then that employee was fired.
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