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841.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Checkout Apache Iceberg which makes it fairly trivial to get high throughput from S3 without much fine-tuning. Bursts from 0 to 50Gbps should be possible from S3 without much effort, just have object sizes that are in the NN+ MiB range. Per
842.
by bushbaba 4y ago
They have a Bay Area office. I’ve been pinged a few times by their recruiters.
843.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Amazon is a big company. Need to preface that with what department. E.g. Alexa might be getting headcount trimmed. But other areas might see influx of investment. some Amazon teams had reduced PIP over the last year as well.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Google has been trying to diversify for over a decade. They are still mostly an ads company.
845.
by bushbaba 4y ago
The electoral college can vote not in alignment to their district's popular vote (in many states) > There is no Constitutional provision or Federal law that requires electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in t
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by bushbaba 4y ago
National security wise better to avoid the risk of nation wide vote hacking by having many separate systems. Yes it increases the likelihood of a successful hacking event, but it decreases expected damage.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
The excess tax revenues was also caused by overly inflated IPOs and more than normal capital gains. At least in CA, if the surplus is large enough the government is legally required to give the money back if not spent. Gavin Newsom in this
848.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Let's be real. We are currently IN a recession.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
To be fair, California's government required companies to have n95s to deal with wildfire smoke. Those masks were readily available and deployed during covid. It's not always doom and gloom. https://www.cnbc.com/20
850.
by bushbaba 4y ago
When 99% of the workers in the space have a degree, it’s a fair statement.
851.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Game developers lacked trust in Google, and didn't want to invest on the platform. So lack of trust also prevented Google from getting that huge game library.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
The west lost it's ability to build new cities. Canada could be more like china and use multiple billions to build/encourage growth outside their core city centers. It has the land. Arguably GDP would benefit from having more popu
853.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Maybe if google spent this much time on their products they wouldn’t need to cancel nearly everything they launched over the last decade.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
To go from Sr. Manager to Director requires having experiencing managing managers who report to you. How do you get more middle managers? You hire more people. How do you go from Sr. Manager to Manager, you manage a large team, and create a
855.
by bushbaba 4y ago
How can one sell their SRECs though? News to me. Have panels but never got credits for the SRECs. I do have net metering enabled.
856.
by bushbaba 4y ago
See bluesky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)
857.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Schmidt ran the company relatively well. Googles issue is the lack of focus and rewarding technically complex 10x ideas. Meaning long term recurring compound gains is not rewarded.
858.
by bushbaba 4y ago
They are faster for when there’s only a few participants which both deeply engaged.
859.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Wonder if he could be sued.
860.
by bushbaba 4y ago
I’m not sure I’d call that quick. Quick would be a single deep cut and return to normal operations.
861.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Going to be an interesting next 2 decades as these funds insolvency becomes an issue.
862.
by bushbaba 4y ago
The sales cost and R&D costs seem high. I could see sales cost being high to get faster adoption with tail-end profit. BUT 450M R&D... it's a document signing application. Seems like there's room to cut costs without impac
863.
by bushbaba 4y ago
2,000 per year is still low. Just look at Florida on how bad it can get. Not even sure 350k would cover your rebuild costs given the market. Heard some crazy costs in Sonoma from high demand and not enough construction workers. Hopefully th
864.
by bushbaba 4y ago
They can make the mp3 players in enough quantity in a single place. You can air freight mp3 players to do JIT delivery. With cars that’s not possible.
865.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Wouldn’t people have said the same with mp3 players back in the day. Honestly the biggest challenge will be manufacturing. Apple likes to surprise folks, how do you surprise them when you’ve got to build massive new factories
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Used to be near 6$ in CA. $5/gallon is roughly where it was pre covid
867.
by bushbaba 4y ago
They could also buy oil futures now to refill over time without hugely impacting the current market price
868.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Google is not well run. People need to get that through their heads. They were so profit and cash flush that many bad behaviors were left unchecked. Well run is Amazon or Apple. Not perfect but the best run large companies out their today
869.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Sadly citing that would do nothing for the budget. 10$/employee in ones org is many multiples of that outing
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Memegen lead to a much toxic culture at google.

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