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by temp20160423 4y ago
G attracted workers by offering this baby bonding leave and increased it recently from 12 weeks to 18 weeks. Even amazon is letting people on leave finish it before their severance starts according to the article. This whole layoff round at
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by temp20160423 4y ago
If everyone is gunning for L6 after 8 years or L6 -> director in 8 more years, then the culture will be much worse. Assuming the long-tenured senior SWE is actually a solid engineer but doesn't want to play politics or manage up as
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by temp20160423 4y ago
I wouldn't call Amazon Prime same day. Amazon had prime now for awhile in response to Google's Express program; these were both same-day services that delivered in 2-4 hours from order placement. Both programs were cancelled when
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by temp20160423 4y ago
Breakfast stopped 9:30 or 10am, depending on cafe in mountain view. Dinner mostly started 6:30pm. There were some cafes that provided food continuously, so some folks grabbed dinner at 5pm and left.
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by temp20160423 5y ago
This makes no sense. Google makes more money when users click on some crappy landing page filled with display ads?
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by temp20160423 5y ago
The chapters on Watson are super interesting. If Isaacson had written the book primarily about Watson, it likely would've been at the same level of Steve Jobs.
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by temp20160423 5y ago
The last sentence is only true if you believe the Fed will actually sell back the assets. When I look at this chart, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL , I have very little confidence that the Fed will sell a mean
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by temp20160423 6y ago
That's correct. If you're a software developer and interested in maximizing pay while minimizing stress, you obviously avoid the gaming industry. The only news here is that the company seems to have reneged on the promise it made,
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by temp20160423 6y ago
I disagree. This would prove why big government is dangerous. This is the perfect example of how powerful individuals can leverage governmental power to enrich themselves. He's like Trump, pointing out all these problems while exploiti
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by temp20160423 6y ago
It's not worse than US: http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ (third plot on page)
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by temp20160423 6y ago
Is eating live seafood animal abuse? I also don't see how this channel is directed towards children. This type of food looks expensive and I don't think kids normally eat this stuff.
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by temp20160423 6y ago
It also depends on if you include retirement accounts. It seems nuts to have 3-5 years of savings as cash in taxable accounts. But this is easily doable if you include retirement accounts, which you would start withdrawing from if things we
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by temp20160423 6y ago
I don't follow this logic. Bird/lime own their inventory. Airbnb is better off than the hotel chains IMO. The hotel chains have to keep paying their staff and rent while revenue drops, but airbnb just sees the revenue drop. It exp
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by temp20160423 6y ago
There is some evidence that humidity and temperature do influence the transmission rate: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767
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by temp20160423 6y ago
You can get the original promo price if you threaten to cancel. There's a song and dance with CSR but once they transfer you to the retentions dept, they are authorized to give you the original price again for a year. Actually, Comcast
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by temp20160423 7y ago
The key factor that doomed the big 3 car makers in US is the unions. They forced a high cost structure and no one was able or willing to fix this (automation that reduced labor costs meant less jobs). The big 3 were forced to make giant SUV
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by temp20160423 7y ago
You work on ads at Google and feel that ad tech is a house of cards? I actually disagree, primarily because of the auction. It's an incredibly clever way to ensure Google's incentives are aligned with the advertisers'. Assumi
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by temp20160423 7y ago
a) How do we know these clicks are bad? A sample size of 3 is pretty early to make any conclusions. b) If clicks are not delivering value, advertisers should lower their bids. As Google encourages advertisers to switch to bids set on hittin
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by temp20160423 7y ago
This project doesn't seem that expensive to run and it resulted in a Nature paper. Seems like a favorable ROI already even for a for-profit company (given Google's size and possible benefits in PR and recruiting).
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by temp20160423 7y ago
You're overstating the issue here. Deepmind wasn't forced to control units using the standard control groups. My understanding is they could directly issue commands to arbitrary group of units. If you watch the replays, the APM&#x
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by temp20160423 7y ago
You have it backwards. If you directly replicate an ETF by buying stocks directly, you can capture the loss as soon as one stock goes down (and buying a share of something equivalent to stay approximately indexed). In the ETF, you only get
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by temp20160423 7y ago
I think the key reason to present min wage vs ridesharing wage is to ask how much pressure is there to raise wages for drivers. The article presents some data that wages for drivers in these countries is high relative to other jobs (or no p
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by temp20160423 8y ago
This is a big reason why people buy SUV's. That, and the belief it's safer since momentum is mass*velocity, so the winner in a crash favors the heavier car. I think we need some more taxes to punish the externalities of driving ta
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by temp20160423 8y ago
I think your previous answer using the word "fun" was spot-on. I have a non-CS PhD that's not really related to what I do today. I would describe what I did previously as "fun"; despite the intensity and worse WLB t
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by temp20160423 8y ago
Yes, total comp of 250k is highly doable. At the famous mega-corps, total comp would be 300-400k now, including stock appreciation.
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by temp20160423 8y ago
I wonder at which point he gave up on paying back the loan. I think they were reasonably frugal for the first four years (the $400/mo MB being an exception). It seems like when they started the orthodontics school they considered enter
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by temp20160423 9y ago
Real wages in silicon valley for the hot industry at the moment have definitely gone up the past 40 years.
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by temp20160423 9y ago
I work at one of the companies mentioned in the article although not doing ML. From what I can tell, these stories do a disservice since all these people come into the company wanting to do ML when most work is not nearly so glamorous.
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by temp20160423 9y ago
It's pretty naive to make statements like this. Uber came into being when interest rates were near-zero for 5+ years (in comparison, interest rates were 5%+ in the first dot-com bubble). Money was basically free in 2009-2015. Uber like
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by temp20160423 9y ago
New Enterprise associates. It's in the New New Thing by Michael Lewis. I'm not entirely sure now. But it's covered in the book mentioned here and by the other poster.

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