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by mehrdada 4y ago
> There's also the other possibility that Twitter, as a product, is limited to a more niche audience than something like Facebook. You state that as if what twitter is as a product is set in stone and delivered as a commandment. I
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Sensationalist title, not what he said at all.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I wouldn't call health insurance "extremely expensive" in the context of Google SWE salaries. On average it probably costs on the order of $5-$10k/head/year at most. My very loose upper bound estimate is $50k&#x2F
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I'd be willing to bet something like Fuchsia is on average L5-6 (or more) given retirement projects at Google attract some very senior engineers that would offset the L3/4s if you amortize them.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
It’s just PT: Pacific Time .
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> Now adding an extra 7% is not about inflation but about retaining (good) employees. Sure, and that distinction is the entire point, i.e. retention for [Silicon Valley and similar] tech employee is likely not dominated by the value of
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Let's say you earn 500k and your cost of living is 200k leaving you with 300k additional disposable income. Assuming a 7% increase in your cost of living, you still have $300-$200*.07 additional disposable income. The question now is
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by mehrdada 5y ago
For instance, if my employees are earning 500k+ and driving Teslas, I don't think the price of oil, lettuce and tomato, and even general rental market would be materially impactful like, say, the increase in Los Altos home prices. What
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Precisely as arbitrary as how you choose to measure it, or more.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> I can’t imagine what gave you that idea. I can't imagine it being that hard to imagine :) considering this is the second paragraph of wikipedia[1]: Prices will not all increase at the same rates. Attaching a representative va
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Not to be dismissive, but why would a company specifically care about some arbitrary number called "inflation" vs overall pressure from the labor market, which presumably must have some encoding of that, considering they seem to c
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Did not mean to be dismissive of your point. It is just that the overhang of blockchain as a solution to everything is so prevalent that sometimes need intervention. It is true that the cryptographic primitives that blockchain is built o
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by mehrdada 5y ago
If you require knowing "an address belongs to whitehouse", why not just serve some content on that "address" (let's say "whitehouse.gov"). Or just sign a message and serve the signed message. Oh no... that
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Until Apple mass produces a foldable phone I will put my chips on "it is crap".
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Objective-C was not originally designed by Apple (or NeXT)
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Is that right? My understanding is the physical AppleCard has a fixed number that is simply not printed and relies on rotating CVV via the standard chip reading like most standard chip cards. The device-based ApplePay can rotate its number
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by mehrdada 5y ago
By "I/O" I am including memory bus, not merely devices.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Sure you have a choice--most obvious is Android and in fact that is what most people use. I really don't understand how you can call Apple a monopoly unless you call all vertical integration such. You don't have a choice of your
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I don't think your description of "free market" with some arbitrary constraint on singular party, i.e. Apple, is quite self-consistent, but I digress; the argument is not hinged on holding "freeness of the market" a
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> You as an end user are not party to the agreement that Apple has with the developers. You are of course free to choose not to do business with... Under the same logic, you, as the developer is also free to not do business with Apple an
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> It could very well be that moving Intel's design to TSMC's fab would lead to it running circles around M1 Or not. There is no reason to believe Apple design has not been a major contribution to the performance. Sure TSMC proc
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by mehrdada 5y ago
M1 , M1 Pro , and M1 Max are all distinct dies, with M1 Max being quite a bit larger, with a larger cache, and more I/O compared to its M1 Pro sibling. The 24-core M1 Max , however, is a binned die of the 32-core M1 Max . T
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by mehrdada 5y ago
If* a technology were to be dependent on lack of "feud" between two individuals, I wonder if it has any intrinsic merit. That is especially ironic for something that bangs on the decentralization drum. [*] Not claiming all interpr
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by mehrdada 5y ago
try bootloop
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Considering there are dozens of other chat apps with huge market shares on both platforms, is it inconceivable that they had a better product than most chat apps? (Until quite recently iMessage was the only widely dis
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I wouldn't say so... It pays well and has relatively little accountability (proof: look at how many chat apps failed while PMs congratulated themselves launching them). You might not be able to have any meaningful impact but you won&#
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Text is much less disruptive to the people around you and also private. I probably would not be comfortable reading out most of my texts aloud without thinking twice even if recognition were perfect. (But it is not really just text. People
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> If you spent the same amount of money that you spend on an iPhone 13/11 on an android, it wouldn't brick. In my experience that has not been quite true. Do you consider it fair to consider top of the line Pixels with mainstr
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Is it though? You have a reasonably consistent and good experience from iPhone SE to 13 Pro Max. Why would it be unreasonable to expect the same from Androids? (Personally I have found the real differentiator is not the price, but the amou
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by mehrdada 5y ago
RCS is an inferior anti-user unencrypted "standard" to iMessage; too little, too late, and driven by Google who effectively bribes carriers to get behind it by providing backend servers to them and sell out the user. No user want

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