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if all the traffic is abusiveness why keep running the service

Is your claim that this is a good thing for Amazon to do because Henry Ford also did it?

you may not be aware but your comment came off as somewhat condescending, given that you don't really have any idea where parent poster is coming from or what their background is

yeah i don't agree with this. i live alone and spend about the same or a bit more as my friends who live with roommates. they have nicer apartments generally but it's a choice thing in our city (NYC). this is people in early-mid 20s working at faang/banking/consulting.

> It is absurd to suggest that anyone "knows" what a system as complex as the Earth will be like in the future. Many people believe that this is the most likely future, and I'm sure some of them don't care.

it's absurd to suggest radiative transfer and heat retention aren't well understood scientific phenomena.

> This is a tricky subject

nope

> "We're trying to save these neanderthals and they're stupid/tricked by evil so they're going to end up killing us all."

this but unironically

> but do you really believe that all of them were fed that mantra by bad actors, and none of them are just lashing out at bullies?

ah yes, the guys with total political power are being bullied

> You want me to support your political campaign to regulate the gas that I exhale, because otherwise there will be a doomsday, and if I don't agree I'm either stupid or evil

yep

I think household name internet companies that aren't FAANG per se will still offer competitive compensation and work life balance. I mean here places like Twitter, LinkedIn, Square etc. judging from my last job search and conversations with people in my network. Working at a large bank or non-tech f500 will probably be a different experience for an individual contributor.

I know there are some aggregators like comp.fyi if you want to take a closer look at some self-reported data.

I like Ben's writing a lot but I think he's not very familiar with just how much better FAANG is in expectation value for your typical engineer - i.e. at current compensation levels it would be possible to achieve financial independence by 35 or 40 for somebody joining out of college. I don't think Ben has a particularly steep utility curve for money so working at a mission-driven startup is probably great for him, but the landscape out there has changed since he was last looking for work.

sure, but there were plenty of well-to-do jews whose wealth was expropriated and were murdered.

with the technical exception of a new breed of `index funds' that happen to follow their own proprietary indices!

> all of the fees and carry associated with the fund will be donated to non-profit organizations that enable African Americans to enter the technology industry.

if i were a founder, why wouldn't i be bothered by this? if i'm going to be working monomaniacally to make the a16z LPs rich, i want to be making the GPs rich too. if they're funding me out of the CLF, they won't be getting rich so they won't want to help out as much.

last few flights i've taken:

- leftover pizza - a sushi box from the grocery store - sandwich i made at home - chicken fingers

ah yes if there's anyone who can't find a new job it's....programmers at jane street

replying to sibling - i recall reading that ICBMs use celestial navigation.

there is a fundamental difference between securities which have a claim on real assets and produce cashflows and those that don't

her?

ultimately real work that produces actual goods and services has to get done. how does computing hashes "do all your work for you, leaving you to do whatever you want in life"

many universities offer private offices for technical staff, both for working on in-house administrative software or working in research groups. be warned that you might have to accept a lot less compensation than at a big tech company.

is Berkshire in the health insurance business at all? Property/casualty and auto is presumably pretty different.

Unlike Anchorage you can actually fly to those places straight from Seattle as a commercial passenger.

Pretty clearly payment for order flow. Notice the dominoes suggestion.

His daughter also passed away earlier this year, it could be that he is retiring in relation to that.

Why can't another service provider provide best-effort execution? Suppose you had a reserve of btc and trading accounts on the various exchanges. Couldn't a customer come to you, ask for some btc, and you could quote them the best price + fees?

Could you tell us what financial products you think bear a closer similarity to bitcoin?

that would be great, but many areas in the united states are not very friendly to bicycle (even electric bicycle) commuting. better urban design has important implications for all kinds of things about how we live our lives, sustainability especially.

I think the other poster implied they were a student at the school.

https://status.fastly.com/ indicates an outage

I'm not sure of the specifics and it may not be very easy to get there, but I know Hawaii has a single payer system and a similar climate. It might be something to look into.