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by analyst74 4y ago
Same, earlier in my career I was excited by the impact I make, but then it dawned on me, that impact has almost zero impact to my own bottom line. And I failed to come up with reasons why I should kill myself over making other people rich.
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by analyst74 4y ago
I have a very similar observation. My belief is that when you have a group of extremely smart and hard working people competing for promotions, the ones focusing on managing perception and relationships will do better than those focusing on
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by analyst74 4y ago
I thought OpenAI was a non-profit? How does that affect the acquisition? Does that bound the acquirer to its missions?
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by analyst74 4y ago
This is basically describing a smart person. Many smart people don't act like this because they correctly realize doing so is harmful to their career until they are higher in the org chart.
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by analyst74 4y ago
When I dated a musician, she would randomly point out all the pieces in various kinds of music that are "borrowed" or blatantly copied from other music. It is understood among musicians that almost all music are derivatives of pri
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by analyst74 4y ago
I work on a database team at Google, tricky algorithms are definitely used. Now did I write any of those? No, they were already implemented in places where it makes sense before I joined the team. I'm sure the dynamo team, the spanner
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by analyst74 4y ago
I learned about the protest on TikTok from scrolling, probably because I have shown interest in content about China.
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by analyst74 4y ago
Thanks for sharing some examples! Funnily I'm trying to develop some of the traits and encourage my more humble friends to do the same. For example, I find that not believing I deserve anything actually led to people treating me badly
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by analyst74 4y ago
Obviously Azure failed its customer here, but everyone with data centers in Europe is tightening their belts and preparing for the worst. I suspect AWS and GCP just have more headroom in EU.
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by analyst74 4y ago
The number is a little higher than a couple thousand.
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by analyst74 4y ago
There is a reason why Facebook had to pay more than peers and why Amazon struggle to hire.
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by analyst74 4y ago
People are not arguing SAT is 100% fair, but that it's most fair compared to alternatives.
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by analyst74 4y ago
Maybe I'm just naive, but I found this principle overly cynical. For example, the "sociopathic" intern can also be described as someone with healthy amount of disrespect to existing organizational structures and tries to brin
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by analyst74 4y ago
If you feel like a family working for a company, but does not have significant ownership stake, you're being conned.
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by analyst74 4y ago
Prevalence of dating apps also generated unprecedented amount of data that revealed people's dating habits and preferences.
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by analyst74 4y ago
I also had the experience where I placed an order on ford website, routed it to a dealer who agreed to honor the online price. 5 months later, when the car was delivered onto the dealer lot, they wanted 10k more.
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by analyst74 4y ago
It's still comes down to a matter of urgency or value perception. You don't want your doctor to overlook any problems just because they are rare because your health is really valuable.
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by analyst74 4y ago
Isn't second order effects quite common and observable in software systems, in history, in economics and everything?
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by analyst74 4y ago
It's kinda funny when the website talking about high availability becomes ... not available.
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by analyst74 4y ago
Great advice. We can see the opposite in Amazon where they successfully built a reputation as a terrible place to work with low pay relative to its peers, and now struggle to attract talents.
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by analyst74 4y ago
There is only $2 trillion "real money", all the other money in circulation is debt. You can search for the definition of M0/M1/M2 money for more detailed explanation.
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by analyst74 4y ago
Engineers with good track record and interviewing skills will have no problem getting US salary in Canada. In fact Google pays Canadian similar to their non-premiun US locations like Raleigh.
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by analyst74 4y ago
"One who passes the sentence should swing the sword" If it's good enough for a lord, must be good for the CEO.
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by analyst74 4y ago
> Film crews are incredibly overworked, underpaid and work in absolutely terrible conditions. People get into the arts by choice, nobody chooses to work in films because they're starving. It's weird to feel sorry for people who
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by analyst74 4y ago
Makeup solves that problem for most people.
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by analyst74 4y ago
So the wedding ringer was a true story!
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by analyst74 4y ago
Supply chain disruption is only a problem because central banks from around the world tried to print out of the pandemic. If they just let market run its course, we'd have a severe recession caused by shutdowns and job losses in early
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by analyst74 4y ago
Toronto builds ~3x new units per capita every year compared to NY, let's hope they don't slow down.
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by analyst74 4y ago
> A friend contacted Maree that evening, sharing the uploaded video. At the time, Maree “didn’t think much of it”. > But after seeing the TikTok video featured in media reports describing her as an “elderly woman” with a “heartbreakin
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by analyst74 4y ago
Full surveillance state sounds scary, but reliable, private, non-traceable financial transaction scares me more. I wished all the articles promoting those schemes talk about potential risk, i.e. increased crime, and how they can be mitigate

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