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by vanniv 7y ago
Also, we know that the people being tracked complained that they felt unsafe.
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by vanniv 7y ago
I can't wait until we have government-mandated search algorithms that make it illegal to surface content critical of left-wing government.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Apparently, some folks now think that participating in a protest against your employer gives you permission to break that employer's rules of conduct, and even to continue breaking the rules after being told not to. Unless someone has
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by vanniv 7y ago
At the stores that use paper pricetags still, before you buy anything expensive, just rifle through the other pieces of paper behind the pricetags. Sure, today it says "30% off". Behind, though, are pages for 50% off, 40% off, an
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by vanniv 7y ago
Clothing and furniture are the most egregious in this regard. So many stores with "everything 30% off!" signs out front that have been in the sun so long they're cracked and fading.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Most engineers have always been terrible. Been true for decades. But perhaps with the demand for engineers really high, and the economy at full employment, and the big tech companies growing and also explicitly optimizing hiring practices
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by vanniv 7y ago
It isn't beneficial to the poor suckers whose livelihoods are taken so that the giver has "unconditional" "gifts" to give I'm sure with "no strings attached"
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by vanniv 7y ago
If you thought of your people as cogs while you were a manager, you clearly weren't very good at it.
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by vanniv 7y ago
That's why you cut them down and build stuff out of them! But, yes, in time we can probably build something more efficient.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Your dad is right. If the wild alarmists are correct that the only way to prevent destructive climate change is to immediately dismantle all human economies and return to a life more like that of the middle ages, maybe we should just forget
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by vanniv 7y ago
One of Google's core problems right now is that they've hired an entire class of employees that spend all day every day on protests and activism instead of actually doing any work. It took awhile for management to realize what a b
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by vanniv 7y ago
If the impact of your work can be losslessly reduced to something that can be directly and cheaply measured, you're probably solving an easy problem or a theoretical one.
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by vanniv 7y ago
The core problem being, of course, that only one of your two examples would actually get removed.
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by vanniv 7y ago
I would estimate that between 10% and 15% of FAANG software engineers are senior or higher. It does take a few years of being at senior for pay to ratchet up to the $350k range that is typical of long-tenured senior engineers at FAANG compa
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by vanniv 7y ago
I have a friend who works for a FAANG company. He moved from California to London, staying with the company. He took a 35% pay cut, and he tells me that cost of living in London is much higher than what he left behind in California. It mad
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by vanniv 7y ago
If the stock price collapses, many employees lose their homes. Nobody knows what will happen when the inevitable finally happens. Maybe the companies will step in and make employees mostly whole. Maybe they will have to in order to keep th
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by vanniv 7y ago
$400k is pretty high for senior. Most senior FAANG engineers will be in the $300s somewhere, rather than north of $400k.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Typical FAANG total comp for senior engineers in the bay area will be somewhere in the $300,000s, with moderate tenure (say 4+ years) Of that, maybe 60% is salary, and the rest is bonus/stock/etc. The breakdown varies by company,
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by vanniv 7y ago
That, though, is mostly about risk management -- and even if they close your account, you get the money back. (I also would never do business with Bank of America, because they're awful and they hate their customers even more than Well
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by vanniv 7y ago
Honestly, I wouldn't trust Google (or any other tech giant) to be my bank. My bank doesn't have a history of locking people's accounts when they post "the wrong" political opinions online. My bank doesn't have
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by vanniv 7y ago
That is an interesting conclusion to jump to. It is, however, incorrect.
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by vanniv 7y ago
The answer so far seems to be "nobody"
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by vanniv 7y ago
Including this one, which was already at zero by the time I could refresh the page from submitting.
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by vanniv 7y ago
I have found that downvotes and flags tend to appear on them within a second or two of submitting, which does suggest automated suppression, whether by HN or just by bots.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Oh, individuals who enjoy using credit cards absolutely have convenience as the primary goal. Regimes working on creating cash-free societies, where there are no legal anonymous payment schemes, on the other hand, simply want to use the thr
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by vanniv 7y ago
Google very much courted political activists in it's employee base, and encouraged its employees to participate in 'woke' culture. All seemed great for a while, and then suddenly one day, management found itself the target of
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by vanniv 7y ago
I would be terrified to put money in a California-government-run banking institution. What if they decided that I had too much money? What if they decided they didn't like who I voted for? They'd just close the account and seize
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by vanniv 7y ago
I think you've just stumbled on the reason that folks are so determined to move us to a "cashless society" In a cashless society, once the folks in charge deplatform you, you cease to be able to engage in any transactions of
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by vanniv 7y ago
My team has built garbage software at times. It isn't because we don't know how to build good software, and it isn't because we don't care, and it isn't because we don't want to build good software. It is usua
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by vanniv 7y ago
Europe has already been almost entirely unfree for a good little while now.

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