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   by influx 9y ago

   They hired too many, too fast. When I was there, the whole thing was chaos. Instead of using a cloud provider, they are building basic infrastructure because engineers have to do something. Beyond the obvious HR issues that Susan Fowler exp
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   by influx 9y ago

   There is a year lockout of Uber employees after an IPO. Source: ex Uber employee.
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   by influx 9y ago

   Git is over complicated for most people’s use cases, but I wouldn’t give up the fast branching and the rebasing features.
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   by influx 9y ago

   The median home value in Alameda County is $796,600. Median income is $97,000, total comp for software engineers at your company ranges between 100 and 255K/year, so you are already above the median income in that county. According to
5. 605.▲
   by influx 9y ago

   So people making over 200K a year will pay more taxes, cry me a river.
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   by influx 9y ago

   I had this issue, but there's a hack called Reachability: https://9to5mac.com/2014/09/09/a-look-at-apples-reachability...
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   by influx 9y ago

   What do you see as the barriers for women to participate in bitcoin?
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   by influx 9y ago

   This is true in theory, in practice most people will eventually want to convert to a fiat currency, which means going through an exchange, which can be regulated. It is possible to use something like local bitcoins to exchange coins for cas
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   by influx 9y ago

   No, the economy is NOT NOT NOT NOT a zero-sum game. http://www.asktheharvardmba.com/2008/05/03/is-global-economi...
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    by influx 9y ago

    Could make the case it is used for black market purchases or funding terrorists, or rogue governments.
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    by influx 9y ago

    Another area they have screwed their customers is the WiFi routers. I just got rid of 2 Airport Express for ubiquiti gear. Never going back.
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    by influx 9y ago

    Where are all the people who are always disclaiming to work for Google in every thread about Google? Weird you’re silent on this.
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    by influx 9y ago

    Isn't this self contradictory? Instead of taking personal responsibility for a failed set of values, instead the author blames an "elite culture searching for victims".
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    by influx 9y ago

    And yet those Cuban doctors would give up their entire way of life, access to family members and the country they grew up in to move to the evil capitalist United States. Weird.
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    by influx 9y ago

    I never said they should be tax free, only that as a small time investor they should be modestly taxed.
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    by influx 9y ago

    I don't disagree with you, but I'd like to see a high threshold for this tax to take effect. I'm a small time investor who is trying to take the money I've put in the market and put it towards starting up a business. I&
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    by influx 9y ago

    That's literally the design of a Claymore mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M18_Claymore_mine
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    by influx 9y ago

    At what point does the government controlling your income start to impede personal freedom? Wouldn't any politician campaigning to increase the basic income be almost automatically elected?
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    by influx 9y ago

    Interesting, I do recall that show, but can't find any corroborating info, sounds like a great urban legend though!
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    by influx 9y ago

    They have a vested interest literally (RSUs). I'll let you decide whether they should disclose that before making comments defending them.
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    by influx 9y ago

    Just for the record, the parent comment comes from a Google employee.
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    by influx 9y ago

    Reminds of of the .Net naming debacle several years back from Microsoft. Wonder if any of the same folks are now at Google?
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    by influx 9y ago

    Also the fact that they leaked an internal document to the world doesn't give me great confidence they won't do that again. There have already been instance of Google employees snooping in gmail: http://www.businessins
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    by influx 9y ago

    I can get why Chinese would manufacture items and then slap on a logo and resell it for much higher price, but what kind of person ships something that could blind a user for s couple bucks? Insane.
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    by influx 9y ago

    Curious if you feel Colin Kaepernick should have been fired and blacklisted for supporting Black Lives Matter? After all, it was only a consequence of free speech from his employers.
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    by influx 9y ago

    Nod, I've been more prepared going car camping for a weekend in the summer in a campground within walking distance of a resort than Chris Mccandless was going into Alaska for the winter. He should not be the benchmark for this thing.
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    by influx 9y ago

    Your sample size is one. Let me double it for you, I highly recommend Dick Proenneke's story, Alone in the Wilderness. https://youtu.be/iYJKd0rkKss
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    by influx 9y ago

    You could also frame this as greed causes people to get conned and religious folks are raised to shun greed more than the general population.
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    by influx 9y ago

    I moved to https://feedbin.com/ after Google killed Reader and stopped supporting me as a customer. Feedbin supported the use case I had which was nicely aggregating my RSS feeds. YMMV.
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    by influx 9y ago

    She was the public face of this work: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/search-now-faster-th... I wouldn't have expected a VP to be involved in infrastructure, and machine planning.