Infinitesimus

The U.S. cannot claim to be "pushed" into any war. The US chose to participate in this war and chooses to stay involved every single day since it started.

The cost of a full time knowledge worker in these companies is much, much, higher than the cost of a free lunch so there's more incentive here

I have one and love it. In the early foldable days (7 or so years ago), manufacturers tried that form factor and eventually abandoned it because of other compromises.

Even MS tried with the surface duo but the device sucked in other ways. Now is a good time to revisit with advances in battery, thinness and heat management. I'd bet that's why Apple is finally doing it too to remain relevant in the massive Asian markets. Nailing the software makes it a fantastic device

> I can't claim that value without rendering myself homeless.

HELOCs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_equity_line_of_credit ) exist to solve the problem of cash being locked up in your house. You can take a line of credit using the property as collateral or other purchases.

I can't speak to the business itself but they recently published a refreshing take on improving the product engineering interview experience in the age of AI https://sierra.ai/blog/the-ai-native-interview

Well worth a read even if you are generally anti-AI.

That isn't surprising for most people. It is also hard to say without knowing which year and model Porsche she was driving. Someone with a Cayenne Turbo GT will have a different experience from someone with a 1st gen base Macan.

A juniper Model Y is very fast, no engine noise, can drive itself better than a lot of cars on the highway for a similar price, doesn't need gas - convenient if you have a fast charger at home/work, fewer moving parts to think about in your day to day and control.

I like knobs and AA and will never make that trade... but it makes perfect sense for many people who don't mind the interface.

I'm glad Genesis still has knobs and Lexus is getting back to that now. The German luxury cars can't rely on fantastic engines alone forever.

I mean this turn of speech makes it easier to identify hunan (carbon) or machine (silicon) content.

Took me a bit to figure it out too

Damn, what a turn of opportunities from just saying yes and showing up (and obviously a ton of hardwork and sacrifices). Thanks for sharing!

I can't resist ...

> There were other dramatic events that evening in Cambridge that I think sharpened all our minds and made us appreciate there’s no time like the present, but I’ll leave that story for another day.

> ... appreciate there’s no time like the present ...

The present is now! Some of us are dying to hear the story.

It doesn't have to be an argument. You know what each system is good at and prioritize inputs accordingly.

1. Life isn't fair. The earlier you accept that, the better off you'll be. This unfairness is why you're here posting on hackernews and someone through no fault of theirs is starving trying to cross the Sahara into greener pastures. It cuts both ways.

2. Hard work rarely ever implies financial success.

3. "...second tier job from the perspective of software professionals". Tiers are a made up concept. An Nvidia programmer working on critical HPC work is in a difference league than someone who is very good at making infinite scroll smooth.

Software is a broad field with different specializations. I don't know what you do but you made a bet and it's probably turned out quite well for you. Other people's bets did worse, others did better.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Remember to be grateful for where you are and how far you've come.

It mostly masquerades as performance curves.

You're not being told to pick someone, you're being told that your org cannot really have 80% of people meeting/exceeding expectations and that because reasons (budget), you should review the cusp cases and adjust them down.

Ridiculed by whom? We've seen many competitors try to make a streaming service and beyond Apple, they all provide a laggy experience even in the menus.

If you're going to emulate someone, it's not a bad idea to emulate who has the best results

I think we all saw how that went when the non-profit board assumed they had any credible power.

No they don't. They _say_ they do (really mainly Amazon) and the rumor develops legs and gets repeated.

To actually do this, you need an objective measure that is repeatable over many different kinds of products, domains and people and they is a very hard problem no one has cracked. Career ladders and some calibrations help to do this but it'd never perfect and people slip through the cracks.

If you're at a big company, you've seen people get a rating that seemed misaligned to their work because an arbitrary curve is enforced or a project has high visibility by sheet luck because an exec was adamant that the project be on the roadmap.

How so?

Google is the big tech company with that reputation though. MS has pockets but pays considerably worse

Not really until tesla - Mercedes has been excitedly shipping creaky piano black plastic for years and I'm sure there are many other brands cutting corners to reduce price. (Porsche doesn't seem to care which is good)

This has existed for a while, it's called Whispersync for Voice. Not available for all titles but it's there

Cavities can be the result of many things, including genetics

Part of it is how many of these companies handle performance. If you're more likely to get a good rating by building a complex system, you might as well do it and take the money.

Why did you get rid of the ioniq 5 then?

These depend heavily on car. What kind of car is this?

The decision to have an annoying beep instead of a soft ding or pop up is stupid but many cars do this. Mine handles seatbelts well and never has a false positive there so it's not a general modern car problem (2021 sonata).

(You already know this but for the general audience)

The train doesn't make you immune to malaria but it does increase resistance after infection.

Apple has taught us time and time again that you rarely have to be first to the market. Executing well and keeping people locked in are pretty important

That link validates the board's claim, does it not? "Not being candid" is a form of communication breakdown.

> A non profit board absolutely calls the shots at a non profit, in so far as the CEO and their employment goes. Non profit boards are not beholden, structurally, to investors and there are no shareholders.

There is theory and there is reality. If someone is paying your bills by an outsized amount and they say jump, you will say how high.

The influence is rarely that explicit though. The board knowing that X investor provides 60% of their funding, for instance, means the board is incentivized to do things that keep X investor happy without X having to ask for it.

9 times out of 10, money drives decisions in a captilist environment

Got some examples in mind?

> $700k is clearly a salary someone got during the bubble.

Research a bit about Netflix's comp philosophy and this will make more sense.

It's not bubble compensation. They aim to beat what someone else will pay for your skills, as long as they want you working there.

Until recently, they also only hired at a single IC level so the range was probably narrower.

Not anymore, they introduced levels last year

FYI there's a total price toggle on the home page. Mine is permanently on nowadays