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I never understood the stuff of calling you on weekends or during vacation. Just don't pick up? If confronted, you can claim you didn't see it because unknown numbers are automatically silenced.

I've never seen a business that would actually fire you for this. And if they do, good riddance.

How else can an employer decide who to give a raise to or not? What prevents everyone from asking for a raise?

I think the employer-employee relationship, especially when it comes to salary, is inherently antagonistic because our interests are basically 100% oppositely aligned. An employee always wants to be paid more; an employer always wants to pay less.

I think the first thing I struggle with in this worldview is that companies don't think about roles as "how much value" they bring to the business. If they did, most ICs would be paid far more highly. But since employees negotiate as individuals, and companies negotiate as huge orgs (or cartels of orgs a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...), an employer is able to pay you just enough so that you won't leave.

Without a competing offer, how can they be sure that you'll actually leave? Showing them that you can forces their hand. But you're still extremely unlikely to be receiving anywhere close to your supposed "value" to the business, and unfortunately mere managers can't really change such a fundamental misalignment.

"fantastic" is always going to depend on context -- you could also say $250k/yr is 80x the median global income. In this case, I'm sure the owner could easily make a FAANG income if he so desired, which is why I used it as a comparison point.

i wouldn't really call $400k/year in total "heavily subsidized", that's around the all in cost of a single developer at one of these sponsoring companies

you could say the same thing about ad based businesses. how else is the company supposed to cover its costs if it has a free service?

is it really a fantastic income? tarsnap is well-known and we're seeing the value after 14 years of work. $250k/y is much less than what you would be making at a FAANG.

The thing is, for a junior engineer, this is not that bad of an idea. I don't think that it should be part of a formal performance process, but if you're green and aren't putting out enough PRs, it suggests you're either struggling to contribute, or putting out PRs that are far too large and need to be broken up to be easier to review & safer to deploy.

Think of it as a threshold. A high number doesn't suggest you're great. But a low number can often be a symptom of a greater problem.

Life expectancy of those in the bottom has gotten quite close to those at the top. Horowitz may have 100000x the amount of money, but he won't live even 2x as long as your average American (or global citizen). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy

Thankfully educational attainment is also way up

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/literate-and-illiterate-w...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-having-attaine...

get around pesky laws with this one weird wording trick!

...versus the tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands by your latter definition) of such combinations for Android. I mean c'mon it's not even close.

so lack of awareness makes support of that behavior more acceptable?

We've had the ability to use a single language across both FE and BE for quite a while now. That's not the problem.

*Apple killing Flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

They're way ahead of you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

yeah zoom based hangouts are usually pretty cringe and I don't enjoy most myself. have felt similarly to you that on sites are really the only consistent way this kind of stuff happens, but it's been hard in my company to motivate management to pay for those

Do you know anyone from these states? I know a bunch of folks and your characterization is inaccurate -- the talent that you have accessible from non-"premium" US markets is generally also not as good as what you'd find in NYC or the Bay Area. The set of people you're describing are those from these states that are both competent enough to work at a FAANG but also unwilling to move to an existing city that FAANG hires in. What I've found is that population in general is not that big -- people that have the ambition and grind to get into a top software shop in general are also willing to relocate for it.

Offshoring is nothing new, it's been happening for at least a decade in earnest, of course far more for manufacturing. Even if you just count since the start of the pandemic, companies have now had 3.5 years to figure this out. Where is the mass-outsourcing?

Take a peek at CUDA

Couldn't you see this just the same when screen-sharing over Zoom?

Not really accurate to say that other countries have "fixed" these with laws, many never had them in the first place. Car dependence in particular was never really a problem in Europe since the cities were already there way before cars. Not quite so for the US.

I found going to Hiroshima a fascinating example of this. Tokyo and Kyoto are all very walkable and contain few cars. Since Hiroshima was re-built after cars were already a thing (and when Japan was under US occupation), it feels very un-Japanese and more like a big US city.

Who even uses Pirate Bay anymore?

Turns out, that's exactly what YT Premium and Twitch Turbo do.

That is crazy

It's not really a relative few, most estimates place ad blocking usage among web users between 25-45%. Since YT is somewhere around 10% of overall Google revenue, you're looking at up to a 5% increase in total revenue just based off of this, with basically ~all of that flowing into profit since there's not much cost. Pretty huge.

https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users

https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/ad-blocking/

The party that is being inflicted damage are the creators who don't make any money from producing content for you.

not giving google money is quite an odd "principle"

Profit numbers for YT have never been broken out in financial reports.

> All of Google is AI. But you don’t see them bandying it around like a kid with new light up shoes.

From a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-ein58laA

What's gotten worse in your experience?