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by mgraczyk 4y ago
"outdated equipment and software" "still possible to find bins of old VHS tapes" "the soccer pitch, which is also off-limits" "employees apologizing profusely if they left even 15 minutes early." &quo
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I'm just saying the article talks a lot about benefits these people don't have, but almost nobody has such benefits. If the article only talked about conditions like what you're describing, it would be 1/8th as long and
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I never understand articles like this. Am I supposed to feel bad for playtesters because they don't have access to a soccer field and D-pad shaped couches? Most people have jobs without those perks. Does the fact that you do work for a
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
That's only true in the long term. It's not true as applied to this particular sale. https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_network_hash_rate
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This is wrong though. During the sale, the fees were much higher, but the CO2 emissions remained constant. It's just not the case that you can "talk about gas fees in terms of tons of CO2". You should talk about the CO2 emiss
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
Mortgage default rate in the US is extremely low, so empirically speaking I wouldn't worry about that. If anything the issue is that banks aren't able to lend to diverse borrowers, so you have to have income to get a loan, as is t
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
I believe most of the caution comes from the fact that the government is the largest buyer of the loan. The bank or your originator is not keeping the loan on it's balance sheet, and they will not be able to sell it unless it conforms
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
I have migraines fairly often and had a similar experience during a job interview. It was bizarre and troubling because at first I thought it was a floater, then I realized it was in the same place in both eyes! It grew over the course of a
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
This is a pretty shallow dismissal. The ideas argued against here haven't been popular in the crypto world since ~2018. Nobody thinks you need a blockchain to sign into a website. When people talk about web3 based decentralized identit
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
Yep that's what I meant by "hasn't mattered for a long time".
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
It's strange if you have a particular conception of money. If you think of money as a social technology used to improve aggregate well being, then it's just a property that empirically makes sense. Private banking, with effective
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
This used to be true, but hasn't mattered for a long time. The reserve requirement is zero for most (all?) US banks. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
That's not true, there are a few internal-only lists that have different contents (lots of overlap but not 100%). Different PAs have adopted different lists. This is the public one: https://developers.google.com/style&#
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
That one is in the public list. https://developers.google.com/style/word-list You're supposed to use "plug" and "socket" instead.
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
That is not allowed (for good reason) and I don't want to get fired, if you work at Google you can ping me and I can send it to you.
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
It's a code of conduct violation and the other employee can ask you not to use the word. If you continue using it that's an even worse violation.
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
It's in the banned words list, I can share a link internally if you want.
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
You're welcome to ping me internally. It's in the banned words list (happy to share a link internally) and I double checked policy before posting this comment to make sure I was accurately representing the rules that are applied t
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
In the article they use the example of "Motherboard" and "Landlord" and seem to suggest that these are areas where the Google AI is making mistakes or being overly strict. As a Google employee expressing my own opinion a
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
Unfortunately it wouldn't even look anything like that. "The algorithm" is probably a bunch of ML with some shitty product driven hacks on top, and those hacks will be trivial to game. Things like "if follower_count >
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
I ask a lot of system design interviews based on Facebook's products. What I look for is the ability to propose something simple, proposing the right metrics and data collection to understand scaling needs, then making reasonable guess
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Stripe, Pinterest, Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Netflix, Coinbase, Snapchat, Roblox, Instacart, LinkedIn, ....
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
One easy and pragmatic answer is that there are thousands of jobs paying over $500k USD per year to people who write python. I don't have firsthand knowledge but I would guess there are ~0 high paying jobs for APL programmers.
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
Well I didn't say they should always do nothing. They are just better at getting out of the way than solving problems in most cases. Sometimes the issue is that nobody else has the incentives or means to solve a problem (climate change
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
Waymo and cruise vehicles are much safer for bikes than other drivers in my experience. I've been commuting by bike in SF for years, have a near miss every few days but never even close with a waymo vehicle. Every single time I've
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
Hopefully governments do what they do best; get out of the way. There will still be plenty of jobs for drivers for the next 10-20 years. We'll see a mix of people retiring early, retraining, and switching into support and operational r
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
I'm not a member of Congress
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
They are though https://www.thestreet.com/markets/regulation/doj-sec-probe-d...
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
All the specific allegations that I looked into were absolutely not insider trading. The heavily scrutinized Pelosi trades, for example, were pre-planned rolling of options that did not generate profits directly and would have been executed
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by mgraczyk 5y ago
Surprised by the negative sentiment here. This is exciting for the obvious reasons of helping make meat production more sustainable and making meat more affordable. It's also incredible that we have this technology and we're putti

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