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by mrwh 5y ago
Are you in the eng side or non-eng? My experience of FAANG life has been 40 hour weeks, with weekends worked on the rarest of rare occasions (none so far this year). But I'm aware that non-eng units have a more brutal time of it.
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by mrwh 5y ago
...which has gone through Google translate at least once.
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Indeed. You don't need to know that you're a hero in order to be a hero...
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by mrwh 5y ago
Where I am, Friday is a no meetings day. I.e. the day on which productive work can actually be done.
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by mrwh 5y ago
I was going to write: and that's sort of come true, if you care about having a similar standard of living to an average person in Keynes' time. But then there's housing, and that idea falls apart.
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There's a good New Yorker piece on this: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-cal... TL/DR: on balance the author concludes that it's easier to believe that she was gen
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by mrwh 5y ago
Agreed. And the low hanging fruit has already been plucked: improving infant mortality, basic hygiene. My grandparents all lived well into their 80s/are still alive. Realistically speaking, I doubt I'll do much better.
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by mrwh 5y ago
I hadn't really thought about that, but yes of course. E.g. French "il fait beau", "elle a quarate ans" etc. Making and having, rather than being.
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by mrwh 5y ago
What would be illuminating here is a graph of the age distribution of eng managers, because that's most of the answer, right? All bar one of the managers I've had has been older than me; and now that I'm in my 40s, it feels p
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by mrwh 5y ago
I think that depends where you are. There's a lot of lip-service being paid, but from what I've seen, it's mostly translated to talking about _landings_ rather than _launchings_, which isn't much of a change. (Also a Goo
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by mrwh 5y ago
I wonder if this is mainly the enabling effect of the internet (a lot of people who, in real life, would never dream of abusing another person, feel able to do so on the internet); or its multiplying effect (a few people -- and there are al
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by mrwh 5y ago
Yeah, it's _both_. More likely to hit someone and more likely to kill them when hit.
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by mrwh 5y ago
Not disagreeing, but there's something to be said for a collective belief that has lasted for, at the very least, 5000 years, and likely significantly longer than that.
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by mrwh 5y ago
My Bay Area anecdote: a lot of my colleagues left over the past year, some are staying away, most are returning/have already returned. Not nothing, not an exodus though.
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by mrwh 5y ago
I like that he isn't particularly charismatic. Neither are Larry or Sergey of course.
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by mrwh 5y ago
The "well they had comorbidities" argument does rather miss that after middle age that's true of pretty much everyone. Or to take me as an example: I have asthma. That probably counts as a comorbidity, so if I die of covid, s
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by mrwh 5y ago
Yes, and in fact, why restrict this to _artistic_ success. Surely it's true of any type of success? Everything ultimately involves tapping into something greater than yourself, to go beyond yourself.
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by mrwh 5y ago
Reminds me of realising years and years ago that one can make a macro lens by reversing a normal prime. (Which I know! Everyone knows that, you can even get proper adapters for it, but it was a genuine discovery for me at the time.) Doing t
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by mrwh 5y ago
I mean... yes. That does seem to be it basically. Or not just guns (the Swiss have A LOT of guns) but guns + an attitude to them. The closest equivalent where I'm from in the UK (and I do live in the US now) is boy racers. Young men dr
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by mrwh 5y ago
Yes -- but. Take the UK for example. The UK is the most unequal major country in Europe. It's a rich country which also contains some of the poorest regions in the continent. And yet, that doesn't translate to killings. EDIT: to b
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by mrwh 5y ago
Checkout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... The USA is an outlier, by quite a margin, amongst rich countries. Of course there are differences in methodologies etc etc but nonetheless: USA i
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by mrwh 5y ago
That's interesting. The etiquette where I work has sprung up to keep yourself muted unless you're the one talking, and if you're talking you're not typing, so it's less of an issue.
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by mrwh 5y ago
I must admit, during work from home I have enjoyed using a keyboard far louder and more satisfying than anything I'd consider using in an open plan office. It'll stay here, and be another reason to spend at least a couple of days
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by mrwh 5y ago
Hmm. > When hitchhiking, look like the person you want to pick you up. Who has gone hitchhiking in the past 20 years, honestly? > almost all breakthroughs are made by those who lack money, because they are forced to rely on their pass
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by mrwh 5y ago
Has much information come out from the Fujitsu side yet? I guess the inside story of what it was like developing Horizon is too much to hope for, but (as a software engineer) important to understand.
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by mrwh 5y ago
I wonder if one mechanism is that the pandemic has affected everyone - some people worse than others of course, but we're all affected, there is this THING that we have in common with everyone else.
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by mrwh 6y ago
This is a good point. Where the Economist is aligned with, say, the Tories, it's because they both support the same ideas, not because my-party-is-right. (Nowadays the Tories have shifted pretty damn far from those ideas, so it's
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by mrwh 6y ago
The UK has outrageously partisan newspapers and always has, the Economist is one of the few publications that looks vaguely non-partisan (and as pointed out by others, it's more about being up-front in its classical liberal position).
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I recall lice breakouts at my UK school. (Though now I have to remind myself that I'm galloping towards middle age and that was at least thirty years ago.)
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It does read like a sort of breakdown. In fact, it reads like a reaction to her guilt at her own success. (Of course of course I can't see inside any of the hearts involved, this is just an internet comment.) Such resources poured into

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