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by jnwatson 4y ago
That line of argument swiftly devolves into the case for solipsism. Generally, you may preface any Internet discussion with: first, assume there an independent reality that the author and the readers share. Also causation and the forward a
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by jnwatson 4y ago
No it isn't. In the history of the FDIC, no depositor has ever lost money, regardless of balance. The whole point of the FDIC is to avoid contagion, and they nipped this in the bud, again. Moral hazard is if they made the investors w
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by jnwatson 4y ago
In defense of Bitcoin, it would have taken a decade to process the $40 billion of withdrawals from SVB on the blockchain, so a bank run couldn't have happened.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Exactly. Having to split your money among multiple banks should be a mature/medium-sized company problem, not a mom-and-pop or 30 person startup.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
They didn't offer interest on their deposits.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Large banks have different rules and are scrutinized more carefully.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
A quarter century ago, as an intern, I had my own room as office. The next job I shared a room with one person. The next job I have a cubicle. After that I had an open space with a dedicated desk. Now it is hotdesking in an open plan. We s
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Google does not outsource their consumer hardware design and software. Yet.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Embedded took a huge hit recently. Google and Amazon uninvested significantly in IoT.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I just did. There was exactly one other company that paid like a FAANG for staff engineer in my non-SV location and it was another FAANG.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Any system that requires new clients to pay for existing clients’ outflows is by definition a pyramid scheme.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Money market accounts are not money market funds. If you invest in the fund from your regular brokerage account, it is not FDIC insured (but it is SIPC insured like your cash balance).
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Most brokerage accounts are insured for several million dollars and most have checking privileges now.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Money market funds aren’t technically insured.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Short term treasuries have very very low risk. Even if you have to liquidate, you might lose a percent or two.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
“Utterly reasonable” Nice.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
If someone had deposited $20 billion last Monday, they would have been fine. In a way, it did depend on money flowing in exceeding money going out.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
No responsible bank says that. They absolutely have the right to limit withdrawals, and they explicitly say that if you read the fine print.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The banks’ balance sheet reflects this. At no point are they lying about their reserve.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Promotions aren't related to management at Google, unless you're on the management track. If you get promoted as a engineer, you're still an engineer. You might be a tech lead but you're not a people manager.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You are correct. L5 is senior, L6 is staff, L7 is senior staff. Source: am L6.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It isn't easy to get senior FAANG compensation at other companies.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Nope, I can’t understand the dialog even in Imax. I think Nolan has whatever the opposite of audio processing disorder is.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I did study philosophy, in particular philosophy of the mind, and all this talk excluding chatgpt from sentience is completely off the mark. They are making the same categorical mistake that Dr. Seattle makes in The Chinese Room experiment
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Shire’s Scissors are hypothetical statements optimized for maximum controversy, so effective as to be a potential cyberweapon. https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Nightmare fuel.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Megabases can get quite processor intensive. Small bases with high ups are a proxy for megabases with reasonable ups.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That and the mumblerap popularized by Drake means a lot of hip hop sounds the same.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
If you think the value of GitHub is in the git server, you’re not using it right.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The hardest lesson I’ve learned in turning a programming hobby into a programming career is the following: The vast majority of truly impactful code is really boring at a technical level. So, yes, that’s sometimes why people write framework

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