scarface74
It’s the type of thing that I have thought about. But wouldn’t have done before AI.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisite...
No the author is not some homicidal maniac. In interviews he emphasizes that no policy should be made based on his findings. But if policy were made, he would focus on universal healthcare, pre-school, government funded maternal leave, etc to support women.
I’m not saying that makes Nvidia worth 1T with it’s expected profit.
They had a complete backup site with redundant servers, modems (for point of sales systems) and a redundant staff because the cost of being down was so high.
We never had to use the backup site the entire three years I was there.
It’s much less maintenance than my days of maintaining servers myself.
And not to mention half the reason I went to cloud was not that I didn’t want to deal with administering servers, I didn’t want to deal with server administrators.
When I was at the 60 person company where I got my start in “cloud”, I could experiment with different types of databases, scaling, and other technologies just by throwing something together and deleting the entire stack.
I worked for a company that aggregated publicly available health care provider data (ie no PII) for major health care providers. They used our APIs for their own websites and mobile apps.
When we got a new customer (ie large health care provider), our systems automatically scaled.
When a little worldwide pandemic happened in 2020 and our traffic spiked by 100%+, guess how long it took us to provision new servers.
Hint: we didn’t, everything just scaled by itself.
I compare that to the old days when it took us weeks to provision an MySQL server.
Managing infrastructure is doesn’t provide a competitive advantage unless you’re something like Backblaze, DropBox or another company where your entire reason for existing is your infrastructure expertise.
And honestly, ChatGPT is so well trained on AWS CLIs, Terraform, CloudFormation, the SDKs for Python and Node, I can throw most of my problems at it and it does well.
So exactly how is an EU citizen suppose to use a service like Shopify - that has to store PII - and that’s not based in the EU?
> That is the opposite of true. I've seen it help internally at a data storage level, and seen people make use of it to protect themselves. You do not know what you are talking about.
And it also killed a small business who wanted to use Shopify to sell completely legal things.
Not to mention that the same EU that is being applauded for “protecting your privacy” is trying to get a law passed so they can have a backdoor to any W2s encrypted methods.
It’s not that they want to protect your privacy. They just want to be the only ones who can surveil you.
Or do you mean that when the drug epidemic hit “rural America” politicians started treating it “as a disease” instead of a moral failure when it was all about the “inner city” drug problem?
But either way, are you comparing going to a web page that stores data in the US that you can choose not to go to going to a crack house?
The EU is constantly taking away your right to choose which companies you want to use and it’s being celebrated
- iCloud Drive
- OneDrive
- Google Photos - I still haven’t gone over the 15GB free space since Google instituted the limit. But I’ll pay for extra storage when needed.
- Amazon Drive - free with Prime
My videos get synced to everything but Amazon Drive.
I think no such thing. I was excited when an intern I mentored got a return offer at 22 making as much as I made when I was 44 before getting into BigTech.
I didn’t exactly struggle making what I was making over the years. During that time I had two big houses built in the burbs and I had a comfortable life. My lifestyle didn’t change any after going from corp dev -> BigTech. The extra money just went toward increasing my financial stability.
When new computer grads ask me for advice, I tell them to “grind leetcode and work for a FAANG” (tm r/cscareerquestions) - even though I never did that to get my $BigTech job - and make all the money they can.
I tell them how to play the promotion game and focus on politics, work toward “scope” and “impact” to get ahead - again even though that’s not a game I’m playing.
> No. We're adults with a lot of battle scars who are jaded by the fact that CEOs are 100% immune to any consequences from firing people.
I’m also jaded. But to the point where any job is merely transactional and I don’t take it personally when the transaction of “trading labor for money” is not seen as mutually beneficial to both parties.
> They should be liable, criminally liable even
Who was “inconvenienced” by making $250K+ for a few years and getting laid off with a severance?
You are a contractor, I consider every job a short term contract that could disappear. I wasn’t inconvenienced at all by making a lot more money at BigTech than I did at the 60 person startup I left even if I had gotten laid off.
If you are contractor making “half as much as I am” - which by the way I’m on the lowish end of BigTech compensation - would you not take a contract for two years that paid you a total of $100K+ more than your average compensation?
> Hope this clears it up a bit for you, though reading your deep replies makes me think you came here with an agenda
As someone whose career has a longer arc than most people on HN and have been on both sides of the “average software engineer compensation” and “BigTech compensation” divide, and has had 6 jobs since 2012 (the other two I kept for 3 and 9 years respectively before 2012), I can’t really muster any outrage at a CEO. I don’t expect any better.
It’s more like the tale of the snake and the old lady.
A returning intern I mentored at $BigTech got an offer coming straight out of college that was twice the median wage in America and it’s a remote job.
They save a crap ton of money every month in case things go wrong.
It’s business. It’s purely transactional. Why would you expect a company to “have a heart”?