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by arebop 5mo ago
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-e...
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by arebop 5mo ago
They did it again in 2024 and then switched to continuous drip of small "layoffs" and encouraging attrition. They have tried various layoff flavors: random, strategic, political, voluntary, and now in their continuous microlayoff
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by arebop 1y ago
Who remembers Dr. Sbaitso, the tts eliza derivative and forerunner of chatgpt?
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by arebop 1y ago
YouTube Kids is also full of garbage. The bar to get content into YouTube Kids is substantially higher than YouTube but still the average video's educational quality is abysmal. There are people at YouTube/Google/Alphabet who
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by arebop 1y ago
The Assistant can't reliably set timers either, though I guess 80% is considerably better than 0. Still, I think it used to be better back before Google caught a glimpse of a different squirrel to chase.
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by arebop 1y ago
For comparison, about 13% of water in US is allocated to "human consumption" with the rest for ag and mfg [ https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci... ].
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by arebop 2y ago
Your numbers are way off [ https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Stanford-Health-Care/salaries/Reg... ]
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by arebop 2y ago
Yes, but it requires landlord cooperation.
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by arebop 2y ago
A lot of people lately are complaining about a lack of price stability, it seems like a good angle. Also as an SF resident with no realistic alternative to Comcast cable, I'd appreciate a provider who didn't try to sneak price inc
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by arebop 2y ago
IDK this is my experience over the past few years with 10+ appointments with two specialists and three PCPs in the SFBA; my understanding is that it is typical in this area and becoming typical in other regions of the U.S. as well.
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by arebop 2y ago
The waiting is similar in the U.S., only the cost is wildly different. Actually, it sounds like you can see a family doctor the same day in Germany? That would make it better in Germany. In the U.S. I can see a midlevel the same day by payi
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by arebop 2y ago
The DOJ has renounced the consumer welfare standard [ https://prospect.org/justice/2024-08-09-will-googles-monopol... ].
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by arebop 2y ago
If you think careless/bold Harvard students are road hazards, wait until you meet the psychotic addicts of the Tenderloin.
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by arebop 2y ago
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/02/17/more-than-money-anti... addresses the consumer welfare standard that guided the FTC for 40 years and the recent (~2 years) shift away from that standard.
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by arebop 2y ago
I was on dev teams inside industrial-age companies before I went to FANG, and I saw it go both ways. In one company, the hourly customer service folks who sat adjacent to our patch of the cube farm (that's right, no noise isolation bet
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by arebop 2y ago
Now that AI means LLM specifically I guess you are right, but if you'd told me 20 years ago that we'd have cars driving themselves around major cities by now, I'd have been pretty impressed. I heard about the self-flying heli
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by arebop 2y ago
Interesting that investors don't care at all about the Waymo progress, judging by the q&a. Though, Tesla is definitely an AI market leader!
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by arebop 2y ago
The complaint is not that Google is too efficient. It is that Google is achieving apparent improvements in efficiency by taking steps that improve the short-term metrics and have net negative long-term impact. So, OP is disputing the senior
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by arebop 2y ago
We have abundant fog and seasonal rain in SF, but not much hail or snow. That's why they've done winter testing in Tahoe (since 2017) and Buffalo NY (last winter).
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by arebop 2y ago
It is a reduction in per-kwh rates coupled to the introduction of a universal flat fee. You can see in the graph in the article, for PGE and SoCal Edison it shifts the burden from users of more than 515kwh to users of less electricity and f
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by arebop 2y ago
Advertisers don't always insist on seeing evidence of genuine ROI but online advertising is more measurable than most other forms of ads and when the ROI slips a lot of ads customers notice and act accordingly.
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by arebop 3y ago
It's the same in San Francisco, where we support returns to investors in residential real estate by banning new development since the 1960s and therefore doctor salaries don't afford a luxury lifestyle [ https://www.nyti
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by arebop 3y ago
It is common in economics
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by arebop 3y ago
This doesn't sound like a Big Tech problem. This is a problem of mismatch between your current role and your interests. If your big tech company has an easy transfers policy + culture, you may be able to narrowly address the mismatch w
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by arebop 3y ago
I sometimes query this to help me recall details from years ago, so I'm sad that the encroachment of very broad government surveillance and the rise to power of extremist politicians makes it unacceptably dangerous to continue to provi
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by arebop 3y ago
Nah they gave the shows like 2 months, and the studio lingered more than a year [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Original_Channel_Initi... ]
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by arebop 3y ago
Cloud also can't generate Googly margins but they're willing to invest in that.
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by arebop 3y ago
The problem is that ~all companies let themselves be controlled by such forces. Given there are so few counter examples it looks like it is a systemic issue and not a choice each board makes independently. Google's unusual share class
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by arebop 3y ago
I suspect this is why the road trucking divisions have been deprioritized at companies such as Waymo. The truck-drivers are better organized than the cabbies+ridesharing drivers, so even if highway driving is technically easier it is politi
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by arebop 3y ago
The median Penn grad ends up making a bit more money than the median Stanford grad and less than the median MIT grad. They all make considerably more than a Berkeley grad, who makes considerably more than someone from Iowa State University.

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