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by koube 4y ago
I've had that feeling as well, absolutely agree that people can feel that way at Google. Personally the feeling of ennui was much more at my previous jobs, and I expect will exist anywhere I go. I do see however people incredibly engag
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by koube 4y ago
I'm a Googler who has only worked in startups before, and my life has markedly improved in every single way since I started working at Google. There is nothing I miss from life before FAANGs, and I consider the vast majority of Faangin
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by koube 5y ago
Want to add to the testimonials of people that this absolutely didn't work for. For me this was just an excuse to open another pack of Juul pods, "oh this time I'll wait longer between puffs, I'll be puffing less and les
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by koube 5y ago
The Nintendo Switch can be bricked if you use the wrong cable, although my understanding is that it's not built to the USB-C spec: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_... Eit
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by koube 5y ago
What did she do here that constitutes speculation? All she did was push for the highest stimulus she could get.
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by koube 5y ago
Ok yes she did count the votes, determine that this was the highest number that could be negotiated, and then she worked to push the bill forward as she should have. And then the president tweeted out of nowhere which changed things. Trump&
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by koube 5y ago
Dec 22 democrats had reached an agreement to provide $600 in stimulus, this was an agreement that had buy in and should have been pushed forward. Dec 23 Trump announced support for a $2000 stimulus, changing the political calculus, in favor
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by koube 6y ago
Hoping to avoid wading into the specifics of this issue, but have you considered that unions are unpopular among software engineers? I am the most pro-union person I know personally, and I am not pro-union.
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by koube 6y ago
Interesting to see this comparison being made on hacker news, it was also made on my economics RSS feed where Tyler Cowen[0] linked to a tweet[1] with this exact same comparison. [0]: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalr
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by koube 6y ago
I think a better analogy in the US would be universities with an academic focus vs universities with a practical focus. It's not a codified difference and the degrees you get are the same, but it exists somewhat informally. As an examp
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by koube 6y ago
There are many alternatives that are not "total anarchy" or "puddles of blood" or "fort knox". Obviously America tends to prefer the fort knox strategy[0], but there are other choices like staging police nearby
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by koube 6y ago
In your analogy this is more like Facebook deleting posts that call for sexual harassment, or praise/support Harvey Weinstein. I think people would be ok with that.
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by koube 6y ago
My OS is in dark mode, resulting in a black background. I see eight radio buttons but no text, just a sea of black, a rubix cube, four buttons, and then the eight radio buttons but no text next to them. I tried using my mouse to highlight t
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by koube 6y ago
In addition to understanding what data is being sent back, also the amount of data an application has access to is wildly different between browser and desktop apps. There's basically no asking permission to your files with a deskt
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by koube 6y ago
I think this is part of the answer to the question of why hiring sucks. I was speaking to a coworker at one point and discussing mistakes that led to a rejection, and the conversation turned to the fact that these mistakes don't make s
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by koube 6y ago
This is actually directly advocated in The Lean Startup book, with the example of a shopping app where the employees would go themselves to pick up food before building the actually shopping app. This sounds great for when the products work
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by koube 7y ago
That's how I thought of it when I was studying leetcode, and that's the advice I give to other people when they ask how I got my job. Each leetcode solution was another tool in my toolbox. The more tools you have, the easier it wi
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by koube 7y ago
Economists have been debating the skills vs signaling value of education, especially since Bryan Caplan released his book The Case Against Education. If you want to get a smattering of opinion on the issue the book's reviews and dicuss
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by koube 7y ago
I have not been led to the same conclusion (we can balance out workforce racial population) by my unconscious bias training, I have been led to conclusions that I find quite reasonable (watch for these thought patterns that indicate racial
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by koube 7y ago
Or, we can have a discussion about the reasonable balance of security vs usability, rather than immediately reaching for a false dichotomy.
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by koube 7y ago
Arguing against that being the most import good thing is the most ridiculous straw man.
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by koube 7y ago
> "America’s low-income households benefit the most from free trade and having access to cheap imports." This is a description of a property or behavior of a system. > But defining good as having access to cheaper goods is
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by koube 7y ago
The scientific side of economics is the description of the properties and behavior of economics systems. The political side is what we should do with this information. I think I and the sources I've cited have kept largely to the forme
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by koube 7y ago
There are winners and losers in every decision, and I've already acknowledged there are concentrated losses among certain populations. It hurt certain sectors of manufacturing, yes, but as you can see pulling back from trade hurts a di
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by koube 7y ago
The article focuses on human rights abuses which I think is a cogent criticism of China-US trade. On the economics issue though, readers should know he disagrees with economists, who nearly universally agree that trade with China benefits A
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by koube 7y ago
Also, there's only I think around 56 state-level attorneys general (if you include territories and DC) so this is roughly 80% of state-level AGs, and 90% of state AGs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_attorney_g
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by koube 7y ago
Midway through the article it finally mentions that this was with the "radar invisibility cloak" turned off by installing Luneburg lenses to make it radar visible. I don't doubt that there are current advances in radar techno
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by koube 7y ago
I think the person you're replying to is implying that one company cannot just pay their workers a super high wage without losing to its competitors. Competition will keep the wages as low as possible so this change must be done at the
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by koube 7y ago
With how close the election was, it's a very short jump to conclude that hacking the emails of both the party and campaign of one side successfully directed the narrative enough to flip the election. You can easily see here that Russia
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by koube 7y ago
Since the question has been asked, I found this to be relatively convincing to the casual observer: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wo...

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