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by mrep 6y ago
Why are you so angry about Facebook, Apple, Google, and Spotify having a tiny outage? They are not life saving services and only cause a mild inconvenience when they fail which practically never happens for most people especially compared
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by mrep 6y ago
FAANG companies have thousands of engineers working on their main products. At that scale, you cannot manage everything with that many people in one binary nor one database. Thus, business logic and data gets siloed into separate services
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by mrep 6y ago
I think I read it here on HN that google has/had an entire team dedicated to making sure you never ever got porn unless you were very specifically searching for it.
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by mrep 6y ago
Don't know how accurate this website [0] is but it shows a 68.17% employment cost versus 31.42% for sweden [1]. Wow that is a lot if it's true. [0]: https://papayaglobal.com/countrypedia/country/brazil&#
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by mrep 6y ago
That sounds like a massive waste of money to me. Those first 2 regions are full of cities with massive sprawl and little public transit meaning you will almost certainly want a car at the end of your trip and at that point, just drive, the
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by mrep 6y ago
Internships definitely help (GAFAM uses them like extended interviews for full time offers). I also think it helps that my gpa was ok (3.05) and the school i went to (purdue) was highly ranked enough and big enough that we had entire recru
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by mrep 6y ago
I went to purdue so we had absolutely massive career fairs and I got my first CS internship at GAFAM through one. After that, it hasn't been hard getting interviews at the other ones.
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by mrep 6y ago
Interesting. Did you go to an Ivy league, cause I went to a state school and I haven't used networking for anything ever. Granted, I've only worked at GAFAM and they hire tons of people so that could be part of it.
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by mrep 6y ago
I recently had to get a copy of my car loan from chase in order to get new state license plates after moving. The 2 options for delivery were by mail or fax...
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by mrep 6y ago
That's not the case at all for me and my millennial friends who have spread out to over a dozen different cities. Even my CS friends didn't move out of the midwest and are still in Chicago, Fort Wayne, and Indianapolis.
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by mrep 6y ago
Land and property taxes are absolutely passed on to tenants. If the tax is higher than the rent that can be extracted, that just means you have improperly priced the land/property. You can prove it by trying to sell the property at w
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by mrep 6y ago
The FED has only bought around 3 trillion dollars worth of assets and basically all of that is being used to buy our own governments debt (the same debt used to fund the CARES act) and US mortgage backed securities, not the stock market as
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by mrep 6y ago
They have not bought anywhere close to trillion dollars worth of corporate debt. As you can see in the breakdown [0], most of what they are buying is our own governments debt (the same debt used to fund the CARES act) and US mortgage backe
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by mrep 6y ago
That's for small businesses, not corporations.
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by mrep 6y ago
If it's your bank, it should be easy. When I asked for my account and routing number for my checking number from a chase branch, the teller incorrectly assumed the routing number was for the current state when in fact i opened it in a
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by mrep 6y ago
I get like a $1000 a year in cash back using credit cards and they all charge no annual fees and I pay everything off in full automatically so I never pay any interest. Add in the consumer protection and the fact that it builds your credit
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by mrep 6y ago
What? Wiki says "Pop music has been dominated by the American and (from the mid-1960s) British music industries, whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture" [0]. I mean, Zara Larsson has got som
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by mrep 6y ago
From my experience, Pixels are great mainly because they are just as fluid as iphones and aren't bloated with crap that basically every android hardware vendor puts on. I tried out a htc one and a samsung galaxy s4 and went straight b
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by mrep 6y ago
I'm assuming it's regulation, cause I'm super happy the utility poles around me don't look like this [0]. There's even comments about how people die because nothing is grounded there. [0]: https://old.re
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by mrep 6y ago
Have you seen the mist, cause I would not classify the ending of that movie that way.
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by mrep 6y ago
Apple took a 9 Billion dollar payment from Google in 2018 for Google to be the default search engine [0]. [0]: https://dazeinfo.com/2018/10/01/apple-google-fee-iphone-sear...
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by mrep 6y ago
> Look at the Netherlands. Tiny country (slightly bigger than MA), basically underwater, and the second largest exporter of agriculture in the world. Got a source, cause the world bank says they are 6th [0]? [0]: https://wits.
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Believe It or Not, Real Estate Affordability Hasn’t Changed in 40 Years(supermoney.com)
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by mrep 6y ago
Most of the US is does not have high land prices because they are not space constrained; it's basically just the west coast [0]. [0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
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by mrep 6y ago
Yeah, I love google maps. It has saved me a ton of hours routing me around what I assume were multi-lane car crashes. Also, I really like exploring cities with their 3d maps and I've heard google earth VR is amazing which I want to t
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by mrep 6y ago
A lot of those 50% off used bikes are probably stolen which is why they are so cheap. Bike theft is rampant in a lot of cities and it is trivial to export them to other places to sell them.
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by mrep 6y ago
Bike theft is rampant here in the US too. My brother got his bike stolen after leaving it chained up in a city park for 15 minutes, and another one stolen after leaving it overnight in a bike garage. One of my old coworkers who bikes a lo
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by mrep 6y ago
Not everything is cpu bound. All the storage services like s3 and ebs are likely network bound and could probably use lower spec CPUs.
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by mrep 6y ago
Or they could sit on the cash which many people do in a recession. And again, they've barely touched junk bonds. They are mostly just buying our own governments debt through US treasury securities, the same kind that the US governmen
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by mrep 6y ago
How do you get that? The FED is mostly just buying our own governments debt through treasury securities and citizens home debt through mortgage back securities [0]. They haven't touched equities and have barely purchased any corporat

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