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Honda and Toyota seem to provide all three just fine.

(Well, maybe not price right now because the entire car market is insane.)

I'm trying to get a sense of how exaggerated it is.

In the US, someone with a 1300 SAT has a good chance to graduate from T20 school, but someone with a 50% GPA is unlikely to be admitted to any medical school, and if they are admitted, they have roughly 0% chance of getting accepted to / completing a cardiac surgery residency, which is incredibly demanding.

>If you are a Dalit with 50% mark you will get admission to a medical seat and you will be a cardiac surgeon, but if a brahmin girl gets 99% she will not get admission and will be a clerk.

Is it possible for someone with a 50% GPA to finish a cardiac surgery training program in India? Or is that a gross exaggeration?

The numbers are trending in the right direction. From 2021Q1 to 2022Q1, revenue grew 43% (vs 34% at AWS and 46% at Azure), loss went down by 4%, and the loss to revenue ratio went from 24% to 16%.

>Once again, this isn't a pack of oreos you're buying from the supermarket and asking to swap a vanilla in the pack.

That's actually the perfect analogy.

>Negotiating details is perfectly reasonable at this price point.

There is no negotiation possible. It's take it or leave it. Toll Brothers don't care if you walk away; they'll turn around and sell it to someone else.

>Swap out the oven or I don't buy the house.

Right, exactly. Except if you insist on this then the result is you don't buy the house 100% of the time. There's no negotiation.

It's likely they bought the house from the home builder e.g. something like Toll Brothers. So the alternative is to take their hundreds of thousands of dollars and buy another house.

>What about the overhead of syncing your code to the server every time you make a change, and getting the binaries back to test? What if the network connection is bad?

A bad network connection is severely disruptive to almost all dev workflows so it's not a unique reason against remote development. The other factors you raise are not really relevant. The "overhead" of syncing code should be invisible with modern dev tools, and binaries should be built remotely anyway. I.e. the laptop should basically used as a thin client + web browser.

>What if you want to work from outside the office?

This is an argument in favor of remote development. When everything is on the cloud, it doesn't matter whether you are in the office, at home, or travelling.

>It's not a PR move. If my arm is being injured, I move to protect it. I'm sure you would, too.

Stop doing business with Russians who have no power over Putin is not really "mov[ing] to protect" an injured arm. It's more like an angry wail. Which, fair enough. It's a perfectly understandable desire. I'd probably feel the same way if I were a Namecheap employee in Ukraine. But it doesn't really do anything to protect Ukraine's interests.

Federal law in the US considers backup cameras critical enough to mandate them in all new vehicles since 2018, with penalty for non-compliance.

I think that take precedence over your idiosyncratic definition of what is critical.

Leetcode questions are not really selecting for anything. It's mostly selecting against false positives.

>being sued for breaching the NDA isn't going to make finding a new job easier

NDAs are unenforceable against whistleblowers who report illegal activity.