tidepod12

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by tidepod12 3y ago
> By getting that shiny Chase sign up bonus, your are directly contributing to the firing of front line customer service workers. That's not what "directly" means.
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by tidepod12 3y ago
Lots of false equivalence here. > What cash back do you get on your credit card? 2.625%? High yield savings account? Money market fund? 4.6%? None of these actions by me directly result in the loss of livelihood or uprooting of lives of
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by tidepod12 5y ago
Wow. After reading about the FB tracking I was wary about Backblaze but teetering on the edge of willing to give it a pass if they fixed it. But after reading brianwski's comments in that thread, the arrogance and unprofessionalism (es
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by tidepod12 6y ago
First year analysts at a bank like GS make more like $100-150k, including bonuses. That's a lot for a fresh grad, but is a far cry from $300k.
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by tidepod12 6y ago
A link to the 11-slide deck: https://imgur.com/a/v0ckTUm Some very serious survey results in there. It's apparently a very small sample size (13 first years), but life sounds like absolute hell for those 13.
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Goldman’s First-Year Bankers Beg to Work Only 80-Hour Weeks in Stinging Deck(bloomberg.com)
16 points by tidepod12 6y ago|13 comments
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by tidepod12 6y ago
Being a public utility or not has nothing to do with commoditization. You keep saying you're against commoditization but then make arguments in favor of it. In fact, commoditization of healthcare is probably one of the best steps towar
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by tidepod12 6y ago
There are definitely parts of healthcare that are unreasonable to expect to be commoditized. A heart transplant or brain surgery are probably things where centers specialized in those areas will be higher quality. But for more common things
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by tidepod12 6y ago
Exactly, which is why you want it to be a commodity, so that there isn't even the need to do something like shop around. If healthcare was a commodity, you just go to the nearest hospital and can rest assured that you're getting t
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by tidepod12 6y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the word "commodity". If healthcare were commoditized, then "what's the closest ER" would be the only thing that matters. You are actually advocating for commoditization. Water,
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by tidepod12 6y ago
>I’m sure they know though and this is a deliberate obfuscation technique, a dark pattern by marketing people. I don't think so. AWS is still very much in "we want to get as many people onto our platform as possible" mode,
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by tidepod12 6y ago
This title is incorrect. ERCOT is not the same thing as the PUC, and the PUC Chairman is the person who is the focus of the article.
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by tidepod12 6y ago
If at any point I see any evidence or warning that the products I purchase from Amazon cause any material amount of risk to my person or property, I'll reevaluate. In fact, there definitely are some things that I prefer to buy outside
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by tidepod12 6y ago
This is probably true, but such a laughably small number of people use Workmail that I doubt it has any material difference to AWS's reported numbers, so while they might not reflect the true AWS marketshare sans-Workmail, it's pr
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by tidepod12 6y ago
Like I said, if any of the chargers or cords I have received from Amazon are counterfeit, they're good enough counterfeits that I don't care. My iPhone, iPad, and MBP all charge just fine, still have perfectly fine working batte
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by tidepod12 6y ago
I see the commingling thing brought up in every thread like this, but I've never personally, nor has anyone I know IRL, received anything from Amazon that are even suspect of being counterfeit. If they are counterfeit, then they are su
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by tidepod12 6y ago
There are legitimate use cases for technology like facial recognition, and I see nothing wrong with using it in that way. Of course society should be cautious about unwarranted uses of such technology. But decrying all uses of it, even legi
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by tidepod12 6y ago
I don't really see how selling facial recognition tech is "rather creepy". Facial recognition has legitimate uses, and the CIA/FBI using it to track criminals seems to be a legitimate use case to me. The article you link
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by tidepod12 6y ago
I have no idea who you're addressing. If it's me, that's quite a nice strawman you've built. Next time perhaps try to actually address the words written in my comment rather than inventing some boogeyman that nobody brou
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by tidepod12 6y ago
It would only take blowing up one satellite to let the world know they're serious about it, at which point SpaceX would almost certainly be forced to comply with China's demands, if only because SpaceX would have to acknowledge th
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by tidepod12 6y ago
A couple points: 1) 1200 is a small percentage of the tens of thousands of satellites that the full system, plus the other similar systems will eventually consist of. 2) Being able to go outside and point out a satellite has absolutely no
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by tidepod12 6y ago
Yea, but I also think it's more complicated than that. I would think that if you already work for a FAANG or other well-respected tech company, that would de facto serve as your "professional certification" and help avoid the
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by tidepod12 6y ago
A significant portion of developers (and especially developers on this website) have experience with, or desire experience with, these FAANGs and SV companies, and these posts are relevant to them. If you feel like you aren't the targe
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by tidepod12 6y ago
My experience with consulting jobs is that while the interviews themselves are still difficult, they do not require nearly as much of this "devote your life to studying and taking practice tests" that the tech industry is enamored
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by tidepod12 6y ago
He promotes conspiracy theories, is transphobic, put all of his workers at risk by ignoring (and actively advocating against) COVID safety protocols at his factories, is notorious for promoting a hostile work environment and overworking emp
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by tidepod12 6y ago
You can avoid having to deal with a fiat bank going insolvent by personally managing your money as cash stored under your mattress, too. But there are plenty of reasons you wouldn't want to do that.
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by tidepod12 6y ago
Yea, because no Bitcoin exchange or online wallet service has ever gone bankrupt, been hacked, and/or had employees disappear with everyone's money, leaving all of their customers high and dry. Nope, that's never happened...
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by tidepod12 6y ago
>The latter feels like a coherent setup with projects and IAM. AWS always has a surprisingly amount of work around org accounts and IAM setups. AWS Organizations is atrocious compared to GCP projects. I truly do not understand how/w
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by tidepod12 6y ago
Yea, if you search for a term that is related to people having poor experiences at Amazon, on a website that is primarily only used by people who are unhappy with their jobs, of course you're going to find posts from people having poor
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by tidepod12 6y ago
I can't figure out why you're putting so much stock into that site. It's a random Google Sites page that looks like it took about an hour to set up. In the past 1.5 months, it's gotten a total of 5 submissions. 5 submiss

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