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is there any actual truth that real sugar is not as bad as HFCS? If I drink an american coke every day am I really worse off than if I have the cane sugar coke?

Google will put one job posting per PA per level regardless of one team hiring or twenty. I have to assume they aren't the only employer to do this, so I think job openings are mea…

Right, but deepmind won't do well if they can't get TPUs, if the TPU network doesn't work, if their borg jobs aren't coming up fast enough, etc.

Not true, they get paid at least a whole level (or two) above what we make. When I was discussing offers a few years ago, the GDM candidates regularly had six figure differentials …

> because even Gemini doesn't understand Google-internal tooling. this is false, it's very good at internal tooling.

He means the chief scientist part. Before Demis had no influence on cloud, tpu development, day to day dev tools, etc.

What? His influence is going to be larger.

The reason the 'middle class' is smaller is because more families have become "upper middle class". All the data shows this. You can argue that housing is too much or that inflatio…

Lol what? You think most people on HN who live in america are not millionaires?

Microsoft pays significantly less than most other big tech companies. I'm not sure why they go this route, or if they think having a few super highly paid engineers to manage/lead …

How did they make a killing with post IPO stock if they weren't getting big grants? Their stock went up 50% over a 15 year period. Not great.

yes but sometimes a VP gets fired, new VP comes in, and says "we'll outsource this" or "we'll use this home grown team doing something else" and unfortunately tons of people are ca…

how are these long term commitments structured? Can the big companies default on them? pay a small penalty? I think that probably makes a large difference.

Amazon and MS were never really in the same league as Google and Apple. I don't really believe NVIDIA pays near as well as the latter two companies either (per level, not accountin…

Early Microsoft (well, and current micorsoft) did not/does not shower their employees with massive stock grants. Google was one of the first tech companies to pay so well that peop…

How sad. :(

My brain chemistry tells me i'm better than most people and deserve more. Is that...selfish?

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Is that effective surveillance? I know SMS is plain text, but anything interesting is probably on iMessage, or RCS, or SSL web, no?

100% amazon. real world experience is worth 10x more than degrees.

I have jetski/antigravity in one tmux pane and nvim in the other at all times.

Culture. XAI employs were bragging about spending all weekend at the office. Many tweet that they have been fired after 8 months. Some get fired right before their first big stock …

>rouble is, they have zero engineering or leetcode experience. Sounds like they want the perks of working at FAANG, and not that they want the job, right?

This happened to my wife at a small PR firm. She told them she doesn't have a laptop (she didn't really have a functional one) and they just bought her a personal one as a 'signing…