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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I work at Google and am strongly in favor of this vs pretty much any alternative. I'd be in favor even if I were one of the people on a dissolved team. Hard for me to see how this is bad for employees.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Yeah sure but it's definitely different from being laid off. You can just look at the numbers. The vast majority of people end up on a new team and do not leave the company.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Not really newspeak. The difference is that you're still getting paid in between and still have a job, pretty different from getting laid off where you often don't get paid and don't have a job.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I think it's not as crazy as it sounds. You should visit SF and ride BART. You'll likely find the experience horrifying as a direct result of the behavior of these highly paid employees. The badness of the BART experience is a maj
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. You could try asking a random person in a bar what they think "4k" means, I'd bet a decent portion of people would say something along the lines of "high quality", and very few would
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I do something similar with vim, no gui. I use vim over ssh with tmux. Others I know use vs code with an ssh backend. These two make up the workflow of roughly 60000 Googlers. None of them need X forwarding. Some people may benefit from X f
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It's over double area median income. It's simply not the case that it's just enough to survive or anything like that. Those people could afford to live almost anywhere in the bay area easily. The part that makes it corruption
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Sure, but my guess is that <1% of Linux users currently use X forwarding, and probably <0.01% of desktop OS users would ever want something like this. It's a cool feature that should exist, but rare enough that it doesn't ne
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
What percent of Linux users do you think would ever use software this way? What percent of all "desktop" OS users would ever use software this way? It seems like an extremely niche and rare use case and probably not the right thin
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
To make 150k, they only need to work ~250 days. What I mean by "corruption" is that the compensation in the story you shared is from 2018, and it's still going on in 2021 (the compensation data I shared)
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
That's their base pay, but they make huge amounts of overtime depending on seniority. https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=san-fra... Many of them make over 150k, some over 220k BART claims sa
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Bart station attendants make over 3x the median rider. They do nothing but sit in the booth. They don't sell tickets or monitor fare evasion, and they are infamously unhelpful at answering questions.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
My POV is that it's mostly corruption. They have plenty of money but are set up in service of the employee unions and bosses, not the riders or cities they service. Bart employees make obscene salaries and the system is very protective
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
BART is pretty unreliable in part due to maintenance problems, but also due to system design. For example two days ago there was a horrific final-destination-esque crash in which a motorcyclist happened to be in front of the train. https:&
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
You should absolutely quit and work somewhere else. You're not going to learn many useful things, at best you'll have a horrible time, not improve the company's bottom line, so they won't care ane you won't be rewar
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
No, it should read grammatically as English. int x = 0 "There is an integer x with value 0" x: int = 0 "x is an integer with value 0" x: int 0 = "x is an integer that is zero valued" The last one is awkward, th
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Google is basically stuck in the C++17 world, so I wouldn't expect Carbon to move forward if they end up investing heavily in it. In particular Google hasn't even started to adopt C++ coroutines, threading, ranges, or modules (the
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
You have to use it for lambdas, so using it everywhere makes some code more consistent and readable
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Most new languages use postfix types. I grew up using C and C++, but now that I've learned and use Python with types and Typescript, I'm used to and prefer postfix syntax
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This is cruft. Without auto it wouldn't be parsed as a function declaration
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The largeness of the model does add complexity, you can't really package it as part of the binary for example. It's not the case that useful software was ever self contained. If you recall trying to do anything online in the early
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Thanks, I hadn't seen this distribution.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Just to make this clear, the MEV problem and centralization pressure is still there, it's just been temporarily disrupted. Like you said, this can be fixed more easily now but hasn't yet.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
What? No that's not what I said at all. People are using Ethereum, they are paying transaction fees to use it. Those fees mostly do not go to stakers, they are mostly burned. Even if that weren't the case, it's not even close
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Because if Coinbase did that, nobody would use them, but people do use Ethereum. Btw, Binance has done this with BNB and their USD stable coin, and they are top ranked coins by market cap, so in fact sometimes it is the case that having a h
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I am, because it's true. For example I own a lot of Ethereum and didn't pay any transaction fees to obtain it. Most ETH transactions work this way because they happen on centralized exchanges.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It's interesting that people keep coming up with things that are meant to distinguish AI systems from human intelligence, but then when somebody builds a system that crushes the benchmark the next generation comes up with a new goalpos
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Pretty cool! Some of these are very fun to think about, where to look to find the most likely connection and trying to come up with intermediate concepts that would likely link two thinks. Like linking "Analytics" to "Surrey&
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The people paying a fee are not investors. This is like saying the grocery store is a ponzi because customers pay the shop owner, who was an early investor. The people paying a fee do not expect to make a profit off of holding ethereum. (So
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
But no, that's not the same. If the owners of a stock received a fee when somebody used the company's product, that wouldn't be a "ponzi". It lacks the key element that earlier investors are paid via the investments

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