Theres nothing about recessive genes that make them inherently less likely or less desirable to pass on, and they're still there even if they aren't expressed.

If you imagine the genes as red and blue cards, red cards always go on top of blue cards. If you lay those out in every possible variation (RR, RB, BR, BB) the blue card is only ever visible in 1/4 of those combinations, the one with two blue cards. But there is an equal number of red and blue cards, if you shuffle them together and pick a card at random you have an equal chance (1/2) of drawing either color. So they don't die out, you just only actually see it 1/4 times

That's true, but they are still worth noticing. Without them you'd have to clean up after yourself. Lol.

A sticky note on the trash can saying 'thanks for keeping my area clean' works too.

Wow. I'm sure he would be extremely grateful to know he is still in your memories.

This will be unpopular but I'd say that having 2,000 employees that are easily disposed of is also a result of upper management of a startup not understanding how to staff a company.

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For your example hardware can generally be outsourced, once an organization reaches the point that owning hardware is cheaper outsourcing services like HR/Payroll is still more effective. However startups are often run by inexperienced management that can't min/max. When times get tough they pull in a consulting firm that make some recommendations that end up with a few thousand layed off.

I'll add consulting firms are a waste of time, a google search and 60 minutes will give you the same advice as a consulting firm. And the consulting firm will charge $1 mill plus easily.

That does not help op find his answer at all. You clearly know the right answer but gotta try doing a better job at explaining it to them, like they are 5

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I had a car that was so badly out of alignment that it shook just driving a straight line. Not saying this guys was that bad, but at a certain point it’s definitely noticeable even if you’re not looking for it.

Yeah these are the people who come to my website building business and expect us to develop a app and integrate it into the website for them.

People have no idea what the difference between web design and asset creation is and whether they overlap or not.

Actually, it does. That's the point of going to the cloud. You maintain your software, but you don't maintain the hardware. You just pay for it.

I know. It's what I do for a living. People downvoting my first comment have no clue how it works, clearly.

To be fair most companies don't employ their own custodians. They would contract a facility management organization which would handle all the custodians, groundskeepers, HVAC maintenance etc.

Mainly because there's not only just development team in a "website".

• If a company wants to have this application be connected to a server, a server cost money to buy/host and run, so now we need account department.

• Hosting a service 24/7 would means we would need people to maintain the server so it can stay up for 99% of the times.

• Now we need our source of income for paying our staff, We would need someone to deal with advertisement and such.

• Alright, we want to make sure our "website" to not get sued by someone for stupid reason, we would have to hire a legal team to deal with that.

• What if someone encounter some issue while using our services, our development team are way too busy for that, customer support it is.

• Hire new employees, too busy to be dealt by anyone, HR department it is.

• Our "website" will store our user's sensitive data, better to hire a dedicated security department for that.

and there's more, all of these can't just simply be dealt by just 3 to 10 people.

Middle managers. Lots and lots of middle managers, lol

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That's true if there is 100 fish - but not if there is 1 000 000 fish.

If there's a huge number of fish, the chance that a given gene is removed randomly is very low. Unless it provides a disadvantage, it's entirely random. There have been experiments, both in digital environments and in sealed live environments, tracking genetic drift (the change in gene representation in a population over time); and pretty consistently there are cases of genetic variations that end up spreading by chance that don't do anything.

The classic example of real-life variations are two different genes that code for the same amino acid chain using different base pairs - there's no advantage one way or another. In such a case, the most common result over time is that both versions of the gene persist; even if you start with one variation is less common than the other.

The exception is if you simulate bottlenecks - like the "100 fish" scenario you posted. With such small numbers getting through, it becomes a lot more likely for some genes to be lost forever by random chance - including useful genes that happen to get unlucky.

OP probably thought that you can come up with a "website and an android app and IOS app" with 3-10 ppl because it's "just programming". Sure, get 3-10 really smart programmers and you can get a website, an android app and an IOS app. But that app won't be near the quality / polish of Indeed.

Sadly not possible in my office. Janitors are not allowed to touch anything unless it has to be cleaned or thrown away. One of them told me they couldn't accept stuff from the engineers just in case someone thought they stole it.

Looks are deceiving.

It is possible to create a website or app with one person, but there is a limit to the complexity.

For example, just glancing at the Indeed website:

• They need engineers to maintain their codebase. For a site like this, it might easily be over a million lines of code. (There is a lot of functionality you can't see, like internal auditing and management systems, in order to prevent legal problems -- see below.)
• They need engineers to maintain their servers.
• They need people to write content in the Career Guide.
• They need database administrators to tune, backup and monitor their databases -- often geo-replicated around the world.
• They need security engineers to prevent hackers from taking all this valuable personal data they have collected.
• They need employees to "answer the phone" when their customers have problems.
• They need employees to work with companies and the schools to find out their needs.
• They need lots of people to keep spam out of their various databases (schools, jobs, training, resumes, etc)
• They may need employees to verify companies aren't scamming personal data.
• They need HR, Finance, Legal, etc. Legal is probably especially big, since they need to know the hiring laws in every country and every state. (Did you know it's perfectly legal to age discriminate in most states, as long as it's not against someone over 40?)

To add some more details job board companies like Indeed will also have client facing teams with data analysts and client success managers who provide support to the companies who use their platform. Part of their product is being able to explain to their clients trends, provide guidance on job posting verbiage, show data on how well their postings are doing etc.

I haven’t seen anyone say this but they have a massive legal department (remote positions all over the country). Labor/Employment and litigation are the two legal departments Ive seen postings for, but I know there are many others

What you need to remember is that it’s not a website it’s a company that uses the website to sell ads, and that company’s needs a lot of manpower for sales, accounting, software development, maintenance, as well as the infrastructure that supports the website like data centres

Sadly, it doesn't magically maintain itself.

Far too many business owners seem to think they're going to make huge staff savings ifnthey move to the cloud, and are surprised when that doesn't happen.

I work for one of their direct competitors and we have 500 or so employees so quite a few less than them. We run fairly efficient but there are dedicated teams to match, sales, marketing, content, and then the various sections of our site and our apps. Our leadership is very adamant that we will not face layoffs as we mainly didn’t over hire like most companies did 2 years ago. Could we cut some fat? Of course everyone can.

My first thought also. And no one in this thread mentioned product and engineering yet. OP might be right that you could launch an initial app with 10 people. But when your site gets big it takes a lot of work to maintain, let alone improve it. A lot of work goes into building the features of the application over time

If I'm going slow through a suburban area I'll often let go for a second here or there, or just hold on with a couple fingers with my hand on my lap. It's not a good habit, but if your car drives straight you'll feel far more confident