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If Netflix is like most companies, they’ll start reining in spending. In fact, that’s exactly what was reported a couple weeks ago: https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/netflix-executives-hiring...
I think most people would agree that measures can be taken on both the supply and demand sides. It’s a rather extraordinary claim to suggest that root causes don’t exist on the demand side, and that the issue can only be addressed from supply side. That’s an opinion on a debatable topic stated as fact, and it may be a popular opinion among the HN crowd, but that doesn’t make it more of a fact.
If foreign buyers are using Canadian housing as an investment vehicle and to park assets, that additional demand decreases supply for Canadian citizens who require housing for shelter.
Of course, they can (and should) directly address the supply side as well. But there’s the possibility that foreign buyers’ demand will continue to outpace supply, leading to ghost cities like there are China, with 65M+ empty homes. Canada is under no obligation to perpetuate that.
Not to say MacOS is objectively better or that it gets everything right. But any time you’re thrust into an unfamiliar workflow, it’s frustrating. You want things to work the way you’re used to. Eventually you learn to appreciate what works, and work around what doesn’t.
In a place like Hong Kong, where relatively few people were vaccinated or previously infected, Omicron was much deadlier.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/04/09/asias-ou...
“Pak was an overseas executive director of the China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA), an organization overseen by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO) of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.”
“At various times she spoke out in favor of the Chinese government's views, e.g. in 2012 calling all "overseas Chinese" to "defend the homeland” in the conflict about the Diaoyu Islands, and in 2008 opposing a resolution of the SF Board of Supervisors that criticized China for the Tiananmen Square massacre and other repression measures, passed on occasion of the Beijing Summer Olympics torch relay reaching San Francisco.”
“As revealed in a 2018 Politico report after Pak's death, among U.S. intelligence officials "there were widespread concerns that Pak had been co-opted by Chinese intelligence". These also extended to her work in organizing many "junket" trips to China for leading Bay Area politicians.”
Regardless of that, or the source of her kidneys, Pak is a textbook case of political cronyism, and how one person who never held elected office can use financial connections, backroom dealmaking, and sheer force of will to shape elections and policy for decades and steer the direction of a major city.
So nothing changes between last month and this month, except that managers get peace-of-mind knowing I’m calling in from somewhere on the premises, and I’m back living in a place where I can’t afford a house.
(I did have previous jobs where we worked on hard technical problems, and spending face-to-face time with a couple colleagues hashing out solutions at a whiteboard was invaluable. But that is not my FAANG job, where the whiteboards are rarely used for anything other than interview questions.)
Except that a portion of the spectrum graphic is labeled “perceptible sound.” That’s what the OP is referencing.
Perhaps the illustrator is pointing out that the frequency range of these EM waves coincides with frequency range of audible sounds? Or perhaps they’re confused. Either way, there’s no mistaking that the graphic is labeled with the words “perceptible sound.”
At least one actor from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group must be cast in a significant role.
The story must center on women, L.G.T.B.Q. people, a racial or ethnic group or the disabled.
At least 30 percent of the cast must be actors from at least two of those four underrepresented categories.
But the days of telecom research making rapid and monumental advances peaked decades ago. Nokia or AT&T or Huawei or Ericsson could quadruple their R&D spending and it wouldn’t reestablish the impact of Bell Labs of last century, because it’s simply a much more mature field.
Whether it was a vanity division or not, it did serve one practical purpose for AT&T: it presented the company as a benevolent monopoly, spending its profits on developing technologies that benefitted the nation. This helped stave off anti-trust action for a long time.
For certain complex tasks (e.g. image/video/audio editing), desktop has advantages. But for the bulk of what most people do on their computers, web apps are good enough and much more convenient. Convenience wins.
Less effective, but not ineffective, especially after a booster.
There is no shortage of places to find porn or sex workers online, for those who seek it out, including on some popular social media sites. It can be difficult to even search Twitter without getting a close-up photo of someone’s genitalia in the results. I don’t think it’s necessary that every social media site becomes a platform for porn and sex work.
It’s not for AmEx either: https://www.levels.fyi/company/American-Express/salaries/Sof...
Alternatively, they’re planning to more reactively bring us into the office when we’re in a lull and have us WFH when we’re in a wave.
Of course it works better if your closer to Tim’s age than in your 20s or 30s.
If you own and can afford your fixed-rate mortgage, you are much less likely to be in this situation, or worse, homeless.
From levels.fyi, FAANG and the unicorns are almost all in the $300k-$400k range. Have offers gone up $200k in the last few months? Or are you assuming people are moving up a level?
$400k+ cash and no junior engineers can’t hurt.
We’d interview a candidate over the phone or Skype and he’d be extremely knowledgeable, answering all our questions flawlessly. Then when he arrives to the office, he can barely speak English, has trouble turning the computer on, and can’t answer any of the questions he answered over the phone.
We learned to detect this very promptly and escort them out of the office immediately. They often demanded to be paid for their time and traveling expenses, despite attempting fraud.
I worked at an R&D lab on the East Coast early in my career, and there was such a great mix of young and old engineers. Many of the older engineers were legends and they knew so much. The pay wasn’t great by Silicon Valley standards, but nobody seemed to mind, perhaps because the work was fulfilling and they knew they weren’t viewed as disposable. Of course, costs of living were much lower too.
Fast forward fifteen years and I work at a Silicon Valley software company staffed by a constantly churning roster of 20-somethings. I’m the old man in my late thirties. It really is bizarre.
Many of the high-paying tech jobs in Los Angeles are consolidated in the Venice Beach area, so-called “Silicon Beach.” If you think you can get an affordable house in the desirable neighborhoods around there (Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Venice, Brentwood), you’re in for a shock.
You might try heading inland to Inglewood or Culver City to save money, but you’ll be looking at $1.5M houses with bars on the windows. Prices have just gone insane over the last couple years.
Plus, if you’re hoping to escape the crime and addicts of the Tenderloin and Market Street, Venice won’t offer much relief.
But you’ve been complaining about your job for months and you’re still there. And you talk about all other jobs like they’re beneath you.