HubSpit (yes, I did lol) seems similar to SalesForce. I don't love SalesForce, but it offers the same things as HubSpot lists in that company purpose statement. Maybe HubSpot is less expensive? TBQH, SharePoint might be similar to both of them, except it is a MSFT product. Maybe that is a competitive weakness in favor of the other two, for enterprise users who don't like Windows?

Not sure how HubSpot has so many employees that it can layoff 660 of them. Oh woah, just re-read! 660 people is 7% of HubSpot's workforce... so the company has 9,400 employees?! That's huge.

the goal is to "build a flatter organization with fewer layers" by cutting back on management.

That quote from the CEO seems to suggest that mostly management will be dismissed. Wild if true.

Hey, I enjoyed that, including the website design / esthetics. Most of these Bad PHP links still work, even the Live Journal site!

Disliking the CEO or not being thrilled with the direction he's taking the company would have to be really extreme to result in 9 percent of the workforce choosing to leave. toxonix's comment isn't egregious. And like someone else said, it is more uncommon to like the CEO of a company where you work than to dislike them. That's what I've observed (me and most other employees).
This is a sad situation. MM did much good work for many years.

I predict this will result in a huge amount of low-quality, self-promotional content unless it is heavily moderated. I'm thinking of Wikipedia and how user-created content as reference sources aren't acceptable (e.g. in an article that is partially or entirely about someone, can't use their own blog or a Quora answer or something of similar quality/lack of quality/promo).
I haven't edited IMDb for awhile, but I recall that most entries were very good, without spam or fan cruft. Hope it stays that way.

OMG thank you so much!!! That part of the article, about who was technical director of the Navy missile program, was clearly wrong. I used to work for IBM in the early 1990s, modeling DASD performance using APL that ran on z/360 systems. I think that mainframe was called Sierra.

Werner von Braun sought out U.S. Army soldiers of his own accord, in order to surrender to them toward the end of WW2. He became a U.S. citizen and chose to be buried here. He did a lot for our country. I am Jewish, and I get tired of weird conspiracy theories. If we were on reddit, someone would probably allege that he was a crypto-Jew. It is all so tiresome.

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Adaptation and use of important and highly secret defense project tech isn't controlled by mere NDAs or non-compete clauses! If the audio control system were released to Disney (via the U.S. Navy not Von Braun and the U.S. Army, as Geoffrey.landis explained twice already; the article is probably wrong) then all necessary review and authorization would have been done first. Remember, the U.S. government develops tech for we, the people, and US-domiciled companies, as well as for our national security.

So please, stop blaming Wernher von Braun!

I was saying that Von Braun is dead now! He was obviously alive when the Tiki Room was built. Yes, Von Braun was on television, presenting Disney TV shows about space travel AND the article says he was a technical director for the U.S. Army at the same time. Specifically, it says he was director of the program that developed the first submarine-launched ballistic missile and its novel launch control, i.e. Polaris. I would think the Navy would do that, not the Army.

Regardless, I seriously doubt that Von Braun or anyone else stole the audio control system (including the concept of pre-recorded magnetic tape for launching Polaris missiles) and just gave it to Walt Disney to use for his Tiki Room without authorization or in secret!

The U.S. government has encouraged and sponsored diffusion of its technological inventions to the private sector for the past 80+ years. This is ideal, as it is a bending-swords-into-ploughshares example. Not sure what Oppenheimer has to do with any of it, but I've had enough of this for today.

This is a really important point and clarification! There are still two NASA astronauts stranded in space and no one knows how to get them back to earth.

I don't know why you got downvoted and called 'flamebait'.

OMG that is an excellent typo!
Thank you for noticing and sharing :)

Better research design might have been the following: Don't begin by selecting 1000 low-income people. Instead, select a sample of everyone likely to be eligible for UBI. (Is that everyone? Does it exclude people who are in the top 5% or maybe top 15% of income? After all, it is supposed to be UNIVERSAL Basic Income. NBER can figure it out.)

Next, stratify the respondents into three groups. One group would be 333 low-income people. It shouldn't be a problem, as the sample was collected across two states. Divide the others into 333 middle and 333 higher-middle groups. That isn't the same as what you suggested (sadly, there is no way what you suggested would ever be allowed) but it might be helpful for determining whether UBI helps lower-income people. As with this study, the control group will be very important.

I'm worried about every city becoming like San Francisco. LA, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, maybe NYC are next. It would take a lot more than UBI to make a difference. Lack of affordable housing is a big problem, but there are many more.