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by etruong42 29d ago
You might be presuming a culture that protects free expression. Free expression is hard to protect. Sure, you could express your experience, but it could threaten or offend someone "with power" and they use their "power"
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by etruong42 1mo ago
Define "republican". I am sympathetic to many sides. I would equate this comment to a comment that asks "how can you liberals/wokists/etc defend this" if the post were about California's "Stop Nick Sh
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by etruong42 1mo ago
It also goes to explain why comp is so high for executives. Executives leaving may also leave a terrible impression to the market. To be clear, even if this is an accurate observation, I am not arguing in favor of high executive pay.
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by etruong42 3mo ago
> The market rewards being right in a way that no argument ever will. Identifying the market is also important. There's the free market of capitalism. Then there are the other powers even in that market that can still say you'r
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by etruong42 3mo ago
> nobody other than Justin is owed a clearly articulated reason Justin has made this a public issue through their public declarations. If Justin is owed a clearly articulated reason (as you have stated), then Justin has essentially share
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by etruong42 3mo ago
Create a product that people loved? This could have been redirected to make leadership look good. This event demonstrates that impactful products can be extremely polarizing - you could become the hero or the villain or a bit of both. You c
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by etruong42 3mo ago
I currently work at Google. If the Eye of Sauron ever casts its gaze on me, I'm sure my history of critical posts will be silently used against me. The public face that Googlers put on is extremely sycophantic to Google, imho. At best,
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Lego Education SPIKE portfolio retiring(education.lego.com)
2 points by etruong42 3mo ago|0 comments
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by etruong42 4mo ago
This is also my experience at Google, and I have not really figured out the incentives. Plenty of people seem _perfectly comfortable_ with the idea that they are being paid tens of millions of dollars when nothing that they do matters. And
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by etruong42 4mo ago
> I've heard tales of 300k/yr engineers that just sit there and wait for a manager to ask if they're blocked, or just sit there until they're told what to do. This is widely presumed to reflect reality within a 1-2 de
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by etruong42 4mo ago
Your story (and the other posts commenting on lack of intellectual curiosity) fits into a larger model of the world that I prescribe to. Being labeled "well-known" or "smart" doesn't seem to require intellectual ope
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by etruong42 5mo ago
> It has never been cheaper or easier to influence millions of people, either deniably-subtly (though omission, selective results, "hallucinations" etc) or via sock puppetting. I would argue it is already happening. My experien
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by etruong42 5mo ago
While I work for Google, I don't speak for Google. I might have some observations that might help explain poor documentation. If I had one word, I would say "politics". The less political the technology, the easier it is for
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by etruong42 5mo ago
The first one to reach AGI is the winner-takes-all. AGI or something similar will result in exponential progress to super-intelligence since AGI can just improve itself.
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China Trader Who Made $3B on Gold Bets Big Against Silver(bloomberg.com)
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by etruong42 7mo ago
The transformer architecture itself was published 8 years ago
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by etruong42 7mo ago
This is amazing ingenuity and collaboration. I wonder if Rainbolt (or other GeoGuessrs) gets regular requests for consultation, or maybe he should if he is not already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rainbolt
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by etruong42 7mo ago
I also suspect there is a vortex of temptation as you become an increasingly interesting person. Rich, famous, powerful, well-connected, beautiful etc are all interesting characteristics to nefarious people since those characteristics can a
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by etruong42 8mo ago
Is it particularly wild? There are many possible interpretations of your statement. Do you expect the people on this site to be particularly different from the voters who almost put Trump into office 2016 and actually voted him into office
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by etruong42 8mo ago
(As a US citizen self-identified moderate) I think I understand some of the intentions of de-dollarization. Being the reserve currency is an exorbitant privilege of forcing the world to allow the US to essentially print money that the world
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by etruong42 8mo ago
It's nice to see someone else (unsurprisingly) reached identical conclusions as me! I would like to try adding a 3rd reason: dumb subordinates don't upset the apple cart because they don't really have the capacity to do so, a
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by etruong42 8mo ago
Money has limited impact and has all sorts of drawbacks. A more impactful change from firms might be to celebrate and reward community contributions of their own employees. This can establish a more productive culture than just money. If an
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by etruong42 8mo ago
The Google of 2026 is a very different Google of 2006. In 2006, everyone who left Google had only praises to sing about the employer they were leaving! It is very telling when the Google of 2026 has had years of highly reputable engineers v
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by etruong42 8mo ago
As a Google engineer, I believe it is largely accurate to say that we "don't care", or at least "not caring" is the emergent behavior at Google. There are many things we don't care about at Google that I think
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by etruong42 9mo ago
I got one of these: https://chompshop.com/collections/chompsaws/products/chompsa... So long as you have a steady stream of cardboard (whether from packages shipped to your home or it ends up in your friendly
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by etruong42 9mo ago
Brookline was rated Best Places to Live for Quality of Life in the U.S. in 2025-2026 by US News which "measures how satisfied residents are with their daily lives, and takes into account factors like crime, quality and availability of
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by etruong42 9mo ago
I say it as a matter of having eaten other sausages as well and discussing the various sausages with my peers (if I may extend the analogy).
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by etruong42 9mo ago
I'm a Google engineer. I often don't even recommend our products.
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by etruong42 9mo ago
The internet was about freedom (to most of its initial creators). It is now a cornerstone of the surveillance state. And yet, independent journalism is now possible only mostly through the existence of the internet. AI & crypto may end
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by etruong42 10mo ago
Those in power (such as those in the corporate managerial class) are trying to consolidate power by replacing humans with AI. There is the nice story of trying to improve overhead and increase efficiencies. There is also the ugly story of t

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