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901.
by chillacy 7y ago
It's even worse because many of these companies have offices in Europe and pay European market rates. Same company, same level, big differences in compensation. And it's not just Europe too, same in Canada, Singapore, Israel, etc.
902.
by chillacy 7y ago
At some point Oracle Cloud (OCI) started poaching engineers from Amazon by paying ungodly money, so much so that there was a running meme on Blind about this.
903.
by chillacy 7y ago
I think that's underselling things. These companies have very low admit rates, and leetcode is pretty tedious. That said though, divide the compensation difference by 200 hours of studying and it probably works out to a worthy investme
904.
by chillacy 7y ago
Levels.fyi has this on their main site. But RSU vesting at public companies is a lot more humane these days (unless you work for Amazon).
905.
by chillacy 7y ago
It's not all the cards but companies (recruiters) usually have information asymmetry on their candidates. Sites like levels.fyi are a good remedy, with the right info and counteroffers you can negotiate salaries/sign-on bonuses up
906.
by chillacy 7y ago
At one point I fancied the idea of working abroad for fun, I could learn a language and try something new. The income disparity was far too great compared to the US, so I never did it. The one exception: Google pays pretty well in Switzerla
907.
by chillacy 7y ago
The visa situation is just terrible, I knew so many smart coworkers who were afraid to move because of H1B uncertainties. Ultimately this hurts everyone in the industry because labor markets require a liquidity to function properly.
908.
by chillacy 7y ago
Levels.fyi seems to be pretty accurate in my experience, though there may be selection bias as there are more offers at the top of band than bottom submitted.
909.
by chillacy 7y ago
While L4 is terminal at Google, it's still not particularly high achieving for 6 years of career. Google also doesn't make it easy to jump from L4 to L5 either, so OP may feel like they're stuck in a rut because of that as we
910.
by chillacy 7y ago
Ignoring the author’s pretty simplistic argument (government bad), Bill Gates doesn’t suffer a whole lot from a larger income tax, vs a wealth tax or higher capital gains taxes. So it’s hard to say he has skin in the game with this recommen
911.
by chillacy 7y ago
I'm pretty sure they see what happens next as justice. Not that I agree with it but I imagine they feel pretty okay with the outcome given their moral beliefs.
912.
by chillacy 7y ago
I think that's certainly a factor but your initial claim was: > the only countries that are successful are democratic And you're supporting it by excluding all counter-examples. Maybe a more accurate statement would be "mo
913.
by chillacy 7y ago
Singapore is fairly authoritarian and they've had outsized success going from third world to first. I think the root cause is pretty simple: having no checks and balances lets you move faster, no matter what direction (either up or dow
914.
by chillacy 7y ago
I suspect there's some relevant work in the financial sector, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleb_distribution
915.
by chillacy 7y ago
By the numbers nuclear is very safe but it does have asymmetric risk and most importantly a bad reputation. Next gen nuclear should be a marketing rebrand in addition to new tech. So Yang is right to focus on thorium.
916.
by chillacy 7y ago
> their personal moral compass "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" Personal morals are just that: personal. Two people can have 100% conviction in their mor
917.
by chillacy 7y ago
If you read the linked article you'd see that it's a more specific phenomenon to news articles. Maybe you'd consider it a type of trojan horse because it's misleading.
918.
by chillacy 7y ago
This is basically what happened when Ok Cupid tried this as an experiment for one day. Long conversations were instantly abandoned.
919.
by chillacy 7y ago
You could pipe a piece of your paycheck to the EFF, a lot of companies have donation matching.
920.
by chillacy 7y ago
Absolutely, we've already been geo-engineering for the past 150 years by burning fossil fuels. The tricky part will be how to deal with different governments... what if a project to increase rainfall in the Gobi desert decreases rainfa
921.
by chillacy 7y ago
Actually I'm sort of excited about the reverse: there are many interesting topics I've heard about on HN that are going "mainstream" through Yang: Universal Basic Income, ranked choice voting, next-gen nuclear, a lot of
922.
by chillacy 7y ago
The pivot to Thorium is to some extent a marketing issue. The "amazing safe economical" modern reactors have a tarnished reputation, possibly irreversibly so, given the political unpopularity today.
923.
by chillacy 7y ago
I acknowledge your doubt but the existing plethora of research seems to contradict that with hard data.
924.
by chillacy 7y ago
I'm not the parent but while you are correct that it is the same, I would not overlook the order of magnitude of difference in effort required either. If you were learning Mandarin instead of Spanish for instance, the process would be
925.
by chillacy 7y ago
This is a huge hypothetical scenario, I'd caution any experiment with an N=1 but this is an N=0 example. Anecdotally I don't think my French is worse off because I learned Esperanto first, (nor any of the other languages I learned
926.
by chillacy 7y ago
Being a startup employee is statistically just a bad deal, in terms of hours invested to equity out. Being a cofounder or advisor isn’t too bad.
927.
by chillacy 7y ago
Again it depends what you're looking for, if you just want to talk to as many speakers as possible and don't care how long it takes, then yes, spend 5 years intensely learning Mandarin, everything else is a waste of time. But if y
928.
by chillacy 7y ago
I guess it's more like 150 according to the studies in the second link. Anecdotally vocab acquisition is much faster in Esperanto due to the regularity and afix system, where learning a single new word root tends to give another dozen
929.
by chillacy 7y ago
Anecdotally I found it helpful because it trains some sort of "meta-learning" for languages. Once you learn a new language once, the next gets a little bit easier, things are less discouraging.
930.
by chillacy 7y ago
I think you’re getting at the usefulness of the language but I’d offer a counterpoint which is the time you’d need to invest. The FSI estimates 500 hours until Spanish proficiency and 2000 hours for mandarin. Esperanto is more like 50, and

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