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811.
by rcme 4y ago
I think these study from a serious case of correlation vs. causation. The article states that weak connections are "essential to thriving, feeling connected to other people." But having a lot of weak connections is also likely cor
812.
by rcme 4y ago
> Did you not read my previous comments? The second a union is created is the same second it’s cheaper to move elsewhere for knowledge workers. You’ve even validated this argument with your “engineers from other places are good enough” l
813.
by rcme 4y ago
The U.S. bombed Singapore during WWII.
814.
by rcme 4y ago
This just seems like conjecture. There is already a mapping layer between the specific nerve activation and spatial information. A random mapping wouldn't be any more or less efficient in that regard. I could see something like going f
815.
by rcme 4y ago
The difference between littering and air pollution is pretty easy to understand. What’s the alternative to littering? Holding on to your trash for a few minute until you find a garbage can. What’s the alternative to air pollution? Giving up
816.
by rcme 4y ago
Or… there is a minimum amount of space required to park an SUV. Those who have enough space opt for SUVs, those who don’t buy compact cars. Like try driving a huge SUV on narrow German village roads or parking in the tiny parking spaces the
817.
by rcme 4y ago
I mean… it’s possible, but this explanation feels incomplete. Why does the brain need to create a contiguous imagine in this way?
818.
by rcme 4y ago
1 million on 1.36T (Google’s market cap) is 0.00007%. Let’s say Google has 25,000 engineers and they each own 1 million. That’s less than 2% of the company. And obviously 1 million is unlikely to be the average engineer ownership stake. You
819.
by rcme 4y ago
It’s very difficult to just up and move a company. When the employees are unionized, the company is not able to leverage the knowledge of some workers to facilitate the transition. If the reason not to unionize is that the company will just
820.
by rcme 4y ago
The thesis of my argument is hiring that caliber of engineer provides little marginal value over a lesser engineer. The evidence is that Google has struggled to release successful products despite their supposed advantage in engineering qua
821.
by rcme 4y ago
Investment bankers job is to deploy capital. How would unionizing help them? Will unionizing increase the amount of capital? No, so no sane person would suggest that. Software engineers are primarily manufacturers. They make products. The b
822.
by rcme 4y ago
I understand this argument, and there are definitely many Google engineers who believe this, but I believe this belief to be mistaken. Unfortunately, most engineers really are replaceable cogs. Google’s origins can be traced back to really
823.
by rcme 4y ago
Of course the stock goes up. But the employees are an extreme minority shareholder, so they're totally beholden to the larger shareholders. If the company wants to layoff workers, they're powerless to stop it. Workers are also pow
824.
by rcme 4y ago
That's really irrelevant. Even if compensation was entirely in cash, they'd likely still be shareholders through index fund investing, e.g. most 401k options would invest in the company. Does that mean employees working at an S&am
825.
by rcme 4y ago
Fool me once...
826.
by rcme 4y ago
What difference does it make what form the compensation is in? Is your argument that because employees receive stock that they somehow have enough voting power to influence company policy? That’s laughable.
827.
by rcme 4y ago
I disagree. The entire tech sector had one of the strongest labor positions in the country for the last decade. It was short sighted not to unionize. Now, layoffs are widespread, compensation is way down, while all the profits go to shareho
828.
by rcme 4y ago
> there was a high-level decision to offer refunds / small compensation payments by default. Doesn’t that make the support way better?
829.
by rcme 4y ago
Architects are licensed. Anyone can become one provided they meet the requirements.
830.
by rcme 4y ago
The project interviews are in-person. They take between 4 and 5 hours, so the time commitment is roughly the same as any other on-site interview process. No preparation is required. In fact, I could tell you the question ahead of time and I
831.
by rcme 4y ago
I'm saying that the compensation a driver is willing to accept is a function of all the time it takes for them to complete a trip. That doesn't mean Uber compensates them directly for that time.
832.
by rcme 4y ago
Literally the first line of the Wikipedia article: > Mongols in China or Mongolian Chinese
833.
by rcme 4y ago
Because the margins suck. Yes, Uber facilitates a lot of rides. But those rides cost a lot of money. In addition to the trip itself, the driver needs to drive to you, wait for you to get in the car, and then wait after the trip for the next
834.
by rcme 4y ago
Did it notify you automatically if you had plagiarized something, or did it flag you internally for manual review?
835.
by rcme 4y ago
We moved from leetcode + system design question to project-based interview + system design question to just project based. Our project-based interviews were the main hiring criteria, and we originally planned on using system design intervie
836.
by rcme 4y ago
I detest leetcode-style questions, but system design questions are even worse. At least leetcode-style questions have some type of objective evaluation criteria. System design questions are entirely subjective and whether or not you're
837.
by rcme 4y ago
NGOs generally need to register. The complaint here is that these people did not register as foreign agents.
838.
by rcme 4y ago
In Russia, for instance, NGOs need to be registered as a foreign agent.
839.
by rcme 4y ago
I agree that if you measure outcomes by life expectancy or activity level, being obese is objectively bad. But we give people agency to make their own decisions, and obesity is a choice. It's both a personal choice, i.e. people choose
840.
by rcme 4y ago
It's not a "labeling." These people are being charged with a crime and will have their day in court to defend themselves.

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