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by pm90 3y ago
I think thats a very simplistic view. Yes labor is cheaper in Asia. But the other factor is the availability of a certain kind of labor force. You need a lot of people that are highly skilled to operate these facilities. There isn’t that ki
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by pm90 3y ago
How much economic slowdown was the result of Brexit? With talks of Irish unification I wonder how long the UK can survive as a major economy. Will the scots abandon the sinking ship too?
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by pm90 3y ago
I can’t help but wonder about all the people who can’t express themselves as well as this Author. No shade on them, Im glad to have read about their journey. But the cynical part of me wonders about all the other affected folks, and what th
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by pm90 3y ago
I made it through to the final round of interviews for an infra position, but my interviewer (bless him) was pretty candid about a lot of the infra being developed in China and written in Chinese.
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by pm90 3y ago
This is surprising as I thought the whole premise of SaaS was you just bring your credit card and bam youve got access.
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by pm90 3y ago
Well it’s possible to support enterprise features as part of your product roadmap without it being “hijacked” but this requires building an understanding with the client that they can’t get everything that they’re asking for right away, tha
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by pm90 3y ago
The essay comes off as somewhat naive. A lot of survival in corporate America is understanding what is left unsaid. The example of the boss asking for what the message should be when the person left is a pretty clear sign of where this pers
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by pm90 3y ago
Agreed. SF politics is profoundly broken, and many of the Supervisors are sclerotic and out of touch. But wishing death on them publicly is very very serious.
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How Boeing Put Profits over Planes(vox.com)
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by pm90 3y ago
tbh that applies to all fortune 500 at this point
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by pm90 3y ago
I tend to agree. Remote work done right encourages a data driven culture centered on documentation ( Notion, Slack as the communication hub of the company) vs meetings.
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by pm90 3y ago
Its cliche because its true. In a certain sense its not all that surprising: execs hang oit with other execs. They go to the same sports games, vacation at the same spots, attend conferences etc.
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by pm90 3y ago
Google isn’t an engine to create wealth out of nothing. Its a place that is/was structured to extract maximum value from its engineers specifically. It isn’t all that surprising that engineers got most of the perks.
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by pm90 3y ago
What are you talking about? All of the basic research around transformers originated at Google.
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by pm90 3y ago
Their control of the Houthis is not believed to be strong. Their support may just have been to counter the Saudis, but the Houthis are using their capabilities for other purposes.
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by pm90 3y ago
We’re seeing exactly that happening with the rise of unions and anti-corporate sentiments. The FTC has been pursuing antitrust actions aggressively too.
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by pm90 3y ago
Good. We will see a lot less dumb patent filings from them. Getting patents was a requirement for career advancement when I worked there, so a lot of people end up “collaborating” on patents that they didn’t really contribute much to.
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by pm90 3y ago
“Performance art” is my favorite term now. I see so much of it. Serious problems that need creative solutions instead being hit with antics to show everyone is “working hard” or doing their best. Gratitude channels that were created with th
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by pm90 3y ago
We should be clear that this isn’t a uniformly held attitude. Before the recent layoff wave started in late 2022, losing your job, even for layoffs raised eyebrows and questions. This has definitely changed the past year but im not sure the
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by pm90 3y ago
I don’t think there are any left. The cycle repeats itself though. The leas desirable Google becomes, the more talent is freed up into startups, some of which eventually will offer something similar.
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by pm90 3y ago
There is a logic to the hyper growth style in software. Software products’ success are driven by network effects: the more users you have, the more features/integrations you support etc. And if you don’t dominate the market, a more hun
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by pm90 3y ago
Taking the most generous interpretation of this desire: It might just be because management is just not used to fully remote. Most workplaces aren’t healthy and satisfying, they’re somewhat toxic and in many cases incredibly so. The adaptab
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by pm90 3y ago
The threat of War is often good enough. Also we may not have another hot war, but it seems increasingly likely that we will see another cold war in the near future.
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by pm90 3y ago
I couldn’t help but smile. To be clear, its not just Amazon who does this but they are guilty of not investing seriously in developing new tech, only monetizing it. Out of all the BigTech, they are the only one that doesn’t even pretend to
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by pm90 3y ago
NYT article with a lot more context https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-t...
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by pm90 3y ago
Invasion isn’t required. The current regime has managed to survive and make strategic gains via proxies to emerge as a regional power despite crippling sanctions for decades. They are supplying drones to Russians. If they formalize a milita
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by pm90 3y ago
> Innovate sure, but don't fill up your tank when gas is cheap just to do doughnuts in the parking lot. Thats a nice ideal, but its not something that the companies are made to consider seriously. To them, cheap capital signals an o
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by pm90 3y ago
I remember these ideas being taught in my elementary economics classes in high school. It seemed mainstream and less fringy then.
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From what people that work at Tesla have told me, Elon is more of a chaos agent than someone actually solving problems.
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100%. Obs tools are still needed for debugging, incident recovery and just being able to make better products, but there is a lot of optimization going on. The market still does seem big. Datadog is needlessly very expensive and the experie

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