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by thethethethe 4y ago
> So what happens when you promote someone for maintaining the same system for years? When do you stop promoting them? There's a person on my team who is happy to maintain what he works on. He has worked on fundamentally the same pr
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Is there any non-exploitative way to interpret this? The only thing worse than wasting my time on features for promo rather than users is working overtime to make more money for those with significant equity/ownership in ways that
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> What the process _does_ reward is whitepapers, tech talks, daily updates, and delegation. It sometimes felt like the goal was to make every little change as noisy as possible: if you just fix something yourself, you get no points. If y
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Us median _household_ income is 60k
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by thethethethe 5y ago
> There is no debate about these "woke" issues. Uhhh isn't this thread a debate?
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by thethethethe 5y ago
Did you take testosterone for a short period or do you need to take it consistently?
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by thethethethe 5y ago
Not so sure that making it legal alone will stop trafficking (not saying it shouldn't be legal though). People are trafficked to do legal work all the time, like in nail salons, laundromats, construction, canvasing, etc.
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by thethethethe 5y ago
The majority of western accounts of great Chinese famine come from the book "Hungry Ghosts" which provides almost zero actual evidence of the event other than sensationalized accounts. If you actually look for the sources of data
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by thethethethe 5y ago
I went to a few of these places. I tried to run away from one of them and then they made me exercise until I couldn't move any more. They called it "energy release." I couldn't bend my knees at all for at least 2 weeks.
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by thethethethe 5y ago
Yeah they are going to raise taxes to pay for it because that's all they can do. Which is the opposite of what OP said
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by thethethethe 5y ago
> It would significantly expand taxes How exactly? Do you have any examples? Also, have you ever seen the price of car infrastructure? I would be willing to bet that denser walkable urban infrastructure projects are waaaaay cheaper than
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by thethethethe 5y ago
Understood, thank you for clarifying. It seems as though we are in general agreement here. I appreciate your candor!
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by thethethethe 5y ago
> But to assume that all societal issues involving industries can be blamed solely on the companies and people working in those industries is naïve. I never suggested this at all. I am just saying that there are externalities that our wo
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by thethethethe 5y ago
> It’s not unethical to work in the auto industry because people can die in car accidents. Why not? Cars are pretty fucked in a lot of ways. I wouldn't consider someone working in the auto industry to be morally bankrupt but that do
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by thethethethe 5y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30621190
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by thethethethe 5y ago
> What’s up with all of the multi-platform outages lately? Seems abnormal looking at historical data. Source?
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by thethethethe 5y ago
Disc: Googler opinions are my own. I've been an SRE on a tier 1 GCP product for over three years this is not the case. In my experience, our systems have only gotten more reliable and easier to understand since I joined. It's not
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by thethethethe 5y ago
> Light rail in the US in the past 50 years has objectively been an over priced under utilized boondoggle. It's entirely believable buses may well have been the far better option for crossing the golden gate, even if a guy who works
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by thethethethe 5y ago
For some reason I can't reply to the other comment so I am replying to my own comment. Just because they said it's over doesn't mean it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_of_US_military_presen...
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by thethethethe 5y ago
I never said that the US was "occupying" all countries it has bases in. For the countries mentioned, they are definitely occupied. The governments are okay with it because they are subordinate to the US. Also, two of the three cou
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by thethethethe 5y ago
It doesn't matter whether the West is going to attack or not. No country wants an adversary at on their boarder, let alone at the single weakest point of entry to the country
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by thethethethe 5y ago
Strategy and narrative are not the same thing. I talked about my options regarding narrative vs reality in my other comments. But yeah, I agree that pissing off your neighbors seems like a bad strategy. Though, if you look at recent history
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by thethethethe 5y ago
I'm an American actually. It's pretty ironic that you're saying that Russia is obsessed with imperial domination when you're comparing it to the United States which has over 800 military bases spread across dozens of cou
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by thethethethe 5y ago
> No need to imagine, there already were enemy rockets on Cuba and it was not solved in such a moronic way as Putin does What is the bay of pigs? United States tried to invade Cuban overthrow their government in the '60s as well. Ho
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by thethethethe 5y ago
Wellbutrin. Similar to Adderall but a lot easier to get legitimately and isn't fleeting with time.
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by thethethethe 5y ago
At Google an oncaller typically gets paged, triages the incident and, if it's bad, they page other oncallers and or team members for help. For more serious incidents, people take on different roles like communications lead, incident co
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by thethethethe 5y ago
I had a purple 2 king and it was very comfortable but the motion transfer was bad. I suggest getting something else of you have a partner and a couple of grand to spend
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by thethethethe 5y ago
I'm guessing they are referring to how Google uses Blaze (internal version of Bazel) to build Go binaries, not the 'go' command and it's modules. The first time I went to work on a personal project using Go after I joine
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by thethethethe 5y ago
> think of a situation involving a caregiver and a baby. The caregiver is found to be feeding the baby poison. When questioned, they respond that they continued to feed this to the baby because initially, the infant seemed to respond fav
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by thethethethe 5y ago
Added an edit to the comment based on your info, thanks

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