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by analyst74 4y ago
For successful YouTubers, the money coming from YT is actually not their primary income, one YouTuber publically said YT payout is ~1/4 of their total revenue. Their other main sources of revenue includes brand deals, affiliates, produ
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Databases designed to query large amounts of data tend to rely on partition key to allow parallel workloads (i.e. map reduce). And this partition data is stored like hash index. Big query would be one example.
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In my humble opinion, the key is to focus on solving problems for your key customers. Most breakthrough progress I observe come from doing things that are conventionally considered impossible, low impact or just bad decisions. But the perso
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The more I work with high performance teams and individuals, the more I realize the value of creativity. It can be creativity in technical solutions; it can be creativity in managing complex constraints; it can be creativity in connecting t
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Database is basically just ab abstraction to help you ingest and query flat files on disk. If you skip that and do your own ingestion and querying...you just have a built-in database? This might have some performance shortcomings, but given
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by analyst74 4y ago
This is wild, I remember even a bunch of very motivated and persistent YouTube employees couldn't remove a racist song calling for violence against Asians. Does Instagram have much less red tape on content moderations than YouTube?
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by analyst74 4y ago
As a very logical person who developed social intelligence much later in life. One very surprising thing I noticed, unthinkable to my younger self, is that many people only engage with people they are interested in. If upon initial judgemen
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My guess of why companies don't pay current employees more, is that they believe, correctly or incorrectly, that good talents will naturally rise through the ranks and would be compensated reasonably, while the rest are simply replace-
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Then once you build a track record, bring your team back to Canada, completely avoiding greencard queue.
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And they massacred the people who lived here before them and started a new country. You must be proud.
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I worked at companies where managers are little tsars of their turf, and Google. The difference with Google is that: 1) you can give feedback to your manager, both anonymously and explicitly, and they'll affect their perf; and 2) your
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The author did a really good job of pointing out problem of promo culture, but the solutions suggested are more inspirational than actionable. All founders/execs/early employees are easily aligned on compabt success. But how do yo
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Is it really that hard to get an entry level job these days? I graduated community college a few years after the dot com bubble burst, and was able to land a 30k job easily, it was less pay than my waiter job. Did those really low paying jo
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It's a difficult topic, I don't think any country has found a humane way to deal with terrorist organizations. US chose to bomb Afghanistan into the ground, China chose to establish very strict social controls. Both are terribly i
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Because you're seeing it through the lense of western media. If you start with the assumption that Chinese government is trying to do good for its citizens, those are straight forward decisions. CCTV protects people from street crime;
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An FBI director makes less than 200k, and will be very politically connected and influential; an engineer making that much probably has as much political influence as people living in the projects. Money can buy political influence, but tha
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by analyst74 5y ago
Doordash already does this in some neighborhoods where dashers get robbed consistently.
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by analyst74 5y ago
Amazon follows the hire fast PIP fast strategy. Look what that did to their reputation and company culture. Netflix is a little more successful at this, but they have a much smaller eng footprint and much higher compensation in order to att
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by analyst74 5y ago
At staff, or even senior levels, you only have a limited time after joining a company to identify opportunities and initiate projects. Once your projects go live, you're responsible for them. If your initiatives keep failing and gettin
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> Speed also incentivizes corner cutting, nepotism, and all sorts of corrupt behavior. Compare that with SF bay area politics, I don't think speed has any effect on corruption.
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Fractional reserve. Also, recession causes people to spend less and save more. Further reducing demand.
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Current rate, which is nearly 0, is also an important consideration. What this means is if you borrow at 0.25% interest rate yesterday, and it becomes 0.5% tomorrow, your cost of borrowing just doubled.
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Poor boomers are affected more by inflation than market crash.
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I think when China defeated the theocratic rules, it was an improvement for Tibetan people. But a government's legitimacy is constantly re-evaluated by the governed, and it's the ruling party's job to earn the support necessa
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Totally agree, being attacked for your viewpoint used to be just a problem for minority viewpoints/identities. But now even those who were previously safe are seeing increasing risk in backlashes. We have gone from silencing the minori
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by analyst74 5y ago
Isn't it also possible that someone who drives a low key car can drink and drive under the radar? I was told once that if I want to look fast, drive red, if I actually want to go fast without being caught, drive black.
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Anyone remember cuban crisis during the cold war? In fact, even today US is still sanctioning Cuba despite it no longer have USSR backing or any ability to threaten US. You underestimate how much threat a hostile neighbor poses.
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That is not true, cities in Alberta have observed very stable housing prices since 2014, and there is plenty infrastructure and space to build.
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This sounds ridiculous at first, but there some truth to it. Even for first time home buyers, the debate between buying and renting typically is about how good an investment buying is. If housing prices remain stable or even drop slightly e
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I was skeptical about removing dislikes at first. But the more I think about it, the more I admire the decision. It's slightly inconveniencing the majority in order to protect the minority from harassment. If anything, it shows YouTube

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