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by rifung 9y ago
> I wish they would spend more time finishing the halfway done projects they've started (and fully documenting them), rather than continue to launch new ones. Perhaps I am reading too much into your comment but you make it seem as t
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While I also would like to learn how to trade stocks and believe in value investing, I think this comment severely understates the difficulty of beating the market. Let's not forget that the vast majority of professionals who do this d
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No but they put an upper bound on it which is likely what people would care about anyway
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Sorry I should have been more precise. The manager has to approve the transfer so presumably they would talk to you first to make sure you're a good fit and give you more context into the role. So I suppose although it's not calle
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by rifung 9y ago
Employee movement between companies in Alphabet is not really different than movement within Google. I would consider movement within Amazon to be more difficult than movement within Alphabet as you have to interview again for your new team
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by rifung 9y ago
Is it patronizing even if we also call men boys? And can you explain why?
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> People who aren't motivated by money are much harder to organize/control and in a corporate structure that seems like a weakness not a strength. The issue I've seen at Google with people who are money, or more likely pro
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This is merely a made up scenario and not a prediction but.. The bitcoin bubble could burst as all the people who only bought it thinking it would just keep going up panic and sell. Nobody wants cryptocurrencies anymore after this event and
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by rifung 9y ago
> Yeah I've been at Google a decade and I strongly don't agree with the notion that it's hyper evangelized as the best place to work This is my experience too. I've only been here for a year but what surprised me was
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Indeed Mike Tyson is probably a very poor example of this because even though he is no doubt immensely talented, he also was not only trained by but adopted by Cus D'amato, a very famous boxing coach who dedicated those final years of
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I also wonder though how much of a difference it makes that the Williams sisters presumably only train with or to play against other women. Let me say that I don't disagree in the advantages of genes and sex, but from my own experience
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I apologize if I made it seem like I was blaming the victim; I was genuinely interested in learning how one would know the reason they were rejected. I've often been rejected and wondered why. I don't at all find it hard to believ
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> No we shouldn’t look at that. I only care how you can produce in the role you occupy. Aren't you agreeing then? After all, you are looking at output given the role they occupy right?
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> I am unemployable because I'm a white male whose in his 40s, has a family, and because somehow, in this industry experience is a bad thing. What indications do you have that those are the reasons you are unemployable? I have many
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by rifung 9y ago
Is it weird that I really don't like wearing headphones while working out? I get sweaty and find it gross to put something I can't easily wash in or on my ears.
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> After tax loss of 3.3 million while having a revenue of 23.5 million Australian Dollars According to my friend who works there, they haven't really been trying to monetize yet so perhaps the investors think that when they try to m
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The article seems to have it correct to me? From the memo: "I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we do
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I believe lecturer is used even if they don't have PhDs. At least this was the case at UCSD where we had several.
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> my property tax burden is like 10x the developer Care to elaborate? Why would that be the case?
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> Why not? We do this everyday as individuals. A company a coherent group of people acting collectively. Because companies are concerned with profits. Even individuals should not be skirting laws for the sake of profit as that would be i
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> This ideal of a higher density residential society with lots of landlords that is popular on HN right now is a terrible future. Landlords want one thing — maximum return on assets. That means high cost, minimum possible opex. How is th
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by rifung 9y ago
> Yes and no. Was it operating in a gray area, yes. Why is it a grey area? I don't think those laws are good but they exist. I don't believe a company's willingness to ignore laws should give them a competitive advantage b
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> He deserves every cent of his billions of dollars. He deserves the money he made by making a company that was competitive by knowingly skirting laws? That seems like a bad precedent to set.
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We have an incubator project for Kubernetes as well as software to access the backend. I don't think our team is releasing software to let others start their own cloud service if I understand you correctly. Are you thinking of somethin
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> They most likely wasted it with 0 accountability. This isn't true in the US; if the people are unhappy with the government they vote the leaders out of office. > What would the government do with your money? Fund things like ed
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While I understand what you were getting at, we actually do open source some of our software as well as contribute to an early open source project so I wouldn't say it's the FARTHEST away..
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I prefer software that is open source. I like to contribute my time, effort, and money to open source software as well, at least that which I find useful and interesting. I guess I'm not an open source proponent but just whatever you w
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> Sometimes I am wondering what Google employees think when they read headlines like this one. Hello Google employee here! I suspect we don't all have the same opinion but I can share my own since you asked. Note that I work in Clou
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> Context-neutral speed, strength, power metrics But if you choose these traits then naturally it's going to benefit those athletes who compete in sports where it's more beneficial to get.. big.. That's like saying tennis&
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> The most impressive athletes in any sport in the world are in the NFL If you're going make such outrageous claims at least give some explanation? How do you measure how impressive an athlete is?

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