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by freyr 5y ago
If you carry a cell phone, your location is already logged by by the wireless carriers, whom I trust much less with my data, both in terms of keeping it secure and not reselling it to third parties [1]. Certainly, some people will want to m
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by freyr 5y ago
because others from around the world are snatching up the affordable homes in California.
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by freyr 5y ago
My experience with my teammates is the same. I’m the sole member of my team that moved out of the Bay Area during the pandemic. I can’t imagine moving back, but my teammates (all 10-15 years younger) can’t wait to get back in the office.
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by freyr 5y ago
Upvoted. Enjoy.
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by freyr 5y ago
> most people are fairly authentic That tends to fade quickly as a platform gains popularity. Already we’ve seen how TikTok and record companies manipulate which songs go viral [1]. Popular creators have banded together to join “hype hou
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by freyr 5y ago
I think TikTok’s videos are just long enough to provide a quick dopamine hit over and over again, but too short to deliver any real substance. You become like the lab rat hitting the lever over and over again to get a pleasure spike from th
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by freyr 5y ago
Thinking that they’re paying you some intrinsically fair rate for a quantifiable unit of work is nice, but not true. They pay the minimum they feel is required to retain you and prevent you from going to a competitor. And if that amount exc
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by freyr 5y ago
Or they did the math and it was worth it. Maybe they don’t already own a home in the Bay Area? The article mentions a 10% cut at a company where the average senior engineer makes $450k a year according to levels.fyi. In most of the country,
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by freyr 5y ago
Only 18 exhibited unusual behavior that exceeded the capabilities of known technology. For the rest, I imagine they can conceive of explanations, but they lack sufficient data to explain with certainty.
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by freyr 5y ago
For those of us who live and work in the Bay Area, “hours in a car” can be a reality.
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by freyr 5y ago
Yes, you got my meaning.
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by freyr 5y ago
I was referring to the ability of developers at big tech companies to command half-a-million a year comp, competitive with some doctors, lawyers, and consultants. Those days could be over if Congress gets it’s way (though I hope not). Of co
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by freyr 5y ago
Google and Facebook set the bar for other companies to match or even exceed to attract talent. Without this pressure, I’d expect salaries to drop significantly across the board.
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by freyr 5y ago
The party is over for the computer nerds. Back to the bottom of the social pecking order.
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by freyr 5y ago
Sorry, I didn’t read all of of the original comment earlier. Now I see where you’re coming from with the suggestion to go straight to a qualified source instead of asking a bunch of random people.
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by freyr 5y ago
The alternative I was referring to is wherever Enrico Weigelt got his information, which certainly was not a vaccinologist. Of course, if you have access to a vaccinologist (is this a recognized profession? I checked two dictionaries and ne
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by freyr 5y ago
I’m mid-career, work at FANG, and that is close to my salary. Perhaps my situation isn’t the norm because I moved into FANG from a very specialized job and got downleveled. But the point is that even within FANG, not everyone is pulling in
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by freyr 5y ago
The alternative here is ignoring the software engineer, and instead asking the crazy person on the corner who’s shouting at the sky and wearing his underwear on his head. Getting the perspective of the software engineer is a reasonable step
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by freyr 5y ago
It would be interesting to have domain-free personal email addresses. The domain is useful to signify membership in an organization. But for individuals, why should our addresses have hotmail or gmail or yahoo or anything else appended to i
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by freyr 5y ago
I randomly started listening to the All-In podcast a few weeks ago, without any context on Chamath or the other hosts (I thought it was a poker podcast). I find him entertaining. Everything I’ve learned about him since has been pretty off-p
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by freyr 5y ago
One could argue that spending 2 hours a day in traffic or $1.75M+ for a modest house is more absurd.
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by freyr 5y ago
Fine, fine. Everyone on the board gets a raise! Happy now?
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by freyr 5y ago
Can you get a nice house in a good neighborhood near the office on $300k/year in the Bay Area these days? A lot of people in the Bay Area make a lot less. There are just so many markets in the US where you’ll find a much nicer house in
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by freyr 6y ago
That seems more like a symptom of your government’s poor choices. Is it Facebook’s fault your government decided to communicate via Instagram instead of Word or PDF or HTML or dozens of other options?
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by freyr 6y ago
Do most people really assume this? I think it’s more that scientists have tried testing animals for self-awareness for many years, and most animals fail any test they’ve devised. Maybe this is just a failure of testing, but I don’t think it
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by freyr 6y ago
The comments here are repeatedly suggesting a compromise between fully remote and fully on-site: "Just have employees come into the office X days a week instead of every day." This is my preferred outcome, but the main benefit o
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by freyr 6y ago
I've used Google search daily for many, many years now without ever feeling the need to use Chrome. I use Safari on my laptop and mobile Safari on my phone. I can't recall the last time I saw anything pushing me towards Chrome. I&
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by freyr 6y ago
Actually, they do mention it: "Many of his views were penetrating, a few—like his insistence that fears about rising CO2 levels were overblown—more than a little eccentric."
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by freyr 6y ago
Yes, simulating real people for entertainment value seems to be the primary use case at this point. I'm just unsure that the value tradeoff between "simulating real people for entertainment" and "simulating real people f
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by freyr 6y ago
Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows and made it impossible for users to remove it. That's not at all "pretty much the same thing."

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