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One of the huge fights about ACA from the left was so-called "Cadillac Plans": Unions negotiated excellent medical insurance coverage in lieu of wages for their members. If you suddenly axed employer-provided coverage, nearly ev
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I can't speak to smaller employers who actually use the insurance capability, but larger employers (e.g. 500+ employees) are almost certainly self-insured. They bring the money for the loss pool and use the insurance company for claim
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Pre-pandemic, I had multiple employers that were incentivized via the state and county government to push remote working, ride sharing, and transit utilization as a means of reducing overall government spending on roads and road maintenance
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Fixing problems intelligently requires addressing root causes.
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This comment appears to misunderstand the control plane/data plane distinction of AWS. AWS does have limited access to your control plane, primarily for things like enabling your TAMs to analyze your costs or getting assistance from e
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You can attach an action to that budget overage that applies a "Deny" to an IAM and limits costly actions (that's for small accounts not in an Org. Accounts with an Org attached also have the option of applying an SCP which
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Yes and no. 100% accurate billing is not available in realtime, so it's entirely possible that you have reached and exceeded your cap by the time it has been detected. Having said that, within AWS there are the concepts of "budge
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Until circa 2022 (IIRC), the absolute maximum cash comp even for someone like Jassy was $180K. They lifted that and then the next year made the RSU comp even worse (e.g. limiting your upside on annual grants by focusing on out year 1)
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Is Apple really going to shovel a bunch of money to a direct competitor (Android) in a way that is likely to result in less differentiation for Apple mobile devices?
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It's bullshit because it assumes 15% IRR. So if they tell you you're getting $100K in outyear 3, it's not actually $100K, it's $65K of present value equities. If it fails to reach the target value, well, "Ownershi
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All AWS documentation is awful.
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I can make a case: Building their own models like Nova and Titan allow them to build up expertise in how to solve hyperscaler problems. Think of it like Aurora, where they have a generally solved problem (RDBMS) but it needs to be modifie
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This is not rent-seeking: Rent-seeking is leveraging your position to garner economic rents, like putting a toll gate across a highway in which the only value received for the toll is the opening of the gate. Rent-seeking would be Broadcom
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Came in here to say the same thing. Have bought 3 Nvidia dev boards and never again as you quickly get left behind. You're then stuck compiling everything from scratch.
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You need to think outside the box. Once you've determined that a particular technological avenue is a dead end, gin up a bunch of job postings that would suggest that you're doubling down on it and watch your competitors set mone
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"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."
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Degree C/K or F/R?
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It was always there but it required much more activity to get it done (document your use case & traffic levels and then work with your TAM to get the limit changed).
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It's less about Bezos and more about the principal/agent problem. There are entire groups within Amazon that exist to justify promotion scope for the manager. Then there are entire groups that are supporting revenue-generating o
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Amazon has a commercial Speech-to-Text model (Nova Sonic) that is passable. I used it to create a post-sales call assistant and was surprised that the underlying model was able to do a bunch of stuff I thought I was going to have to use Cl
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The cloud providers all have their own Nvidia alternatives. Having worked with more than one, I would rate them not much better than AMD when it comes to software.
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> I think Amazon can just publish their own models, buy someone else's, or integrate with multiple leading AI model publishers. This is exactly what they've done: They offer SageMaker (and similar capabilities) for hosting sm
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The recommendation to use IMDSv2 is evergreen.
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Having seen this play out at another hyperscaler, the practical distinction is that as long as the non-GH product name comes first, that's enough to avoid confusion.
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Having seen the AWS version of this type of data store, it's typically got information like billing account numbers, internal email addresses of stakeholders, customer notes about NDA'd strategy, and lists of bugs/feature req
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> Then of course, this Google AI gives me YouTube Premium for some reason (no idea how that's related to anything). One of the common tests I've seen for the Google models specifically is understanding of YT videos: Summarizat
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I'm surprised Google could get away with only a single SFDC instance. AWS has multiple SFDC installations and is forever having to deal with "Oh, yeah, that data is in this other SFDC installation"
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It's less that the clouds are compliant and more that risk management is paranoid. I used to do AWS consulting, and it wouldn't matter if you could show that some AWS service had attestations out the wazoo or that you could even
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It's better now, but during the era of the on-screen keyboard it was atrocious.
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That they're being bought by Google so that they can focus on the Platonic ideal of discontinuing popular products.

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