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> Lastly, and perhaps most egregiously, Google quietly stopped respecting budget caps by a factor of 2x. For example campaigns we’ve been running for years with $1000 daily budget …

Noteworthy: - Negative free cash flow for the quarter - $98B in unrealized gains on equity securities - Cloud revenue are up 82% to $24.8B

What’s crazy is how Oracle’s free cash flows have gone from “money-printing machine” to deep in the red due to their data center investments. My guess is that some of those cuts ar…

At the risk of sounding overly negative, these things are pretty much always vanity projects. Someone wanted a really cool boat and managed to get some investors onboard. It’s more…

Echoing the article, anyone who has experienced both will agree: it’s far easier to work with an under engineered code base than an over engineered one.

The second point is only true if you don't do any RL, right?

This is cool, but wasn't this a "Verily" project about 10 years ago? What is new here and what has happened since then?

It's a luxury tax that only affects people wealthy enough to have a second home in NYC. These people, by virtue of not living there, aren't paying income tax and thus don't contrib…

> The rates sound a bit steep. Agreed, but you also have to keep in mind that those people don't pay NYC income tax.

This specifically targets people who don't live in New York though (and thus don't pay income tax).

I really liked Google Domains, but alas…

I think some of it is due to the lay off, some of it due to the supply situation not being as bad as SF (though construction has slowed recently), and a lot of it due to interest r…

> but it always was that way. I don't think that's true. I remember the very early days of Stack Overflow and it felt much more fun and friendly than it did 6-7 years later. I have…

> You don't have to worry about rent increases I'd also argue there are financial advantages (on top of the psychological ones) to the price stability as you don't have to hedge ag…

HOAs can be a big variable cost, yes, especially in the case of underfunded condos associations with a lot of delayed maintenance. Insurance can vary a lot, but is usually a much s…

Unlike a startup that pays with illiquid RSUs, Meta paid its people extremely well for its bets though. I dont think Zuck is a great leader at all, but he’s definitely willing to p…

To add to this, I would assume that advertisers are more diverse and numerous than donors are, therefore reducing the influence any single one of them can have.

Calling it "just a speculative research project" is severely underestimating how big of an effort Fuschia was. At its peak it had a couple hundred eng IIRC.

Not that I disagree with you, but I’ve heard of such tactic being used in some orgs at both Google and Microsoft as well. It seems like a common conclusion from a management that w…

Having worked in big tech, I can almost guarantee you you’re overthinking this.

I’ll never forget how when I was at Google, every email with subject line “An update on X” meant X was getting axed. Like, just say so in the subject line…