CydeWeys

Admittedly The Brothers Karamazov has a lot of characters, but, it does run linearly! And it's not so hard to refer to the Wikipedia article for a character list as necessary.

I think the problem is some people expect to not have to do any work when reading literary novels.

This is a bizarrely anti-English take. There's appreciation for the beauty of the language for literature/poetry in every language, as far as im aware. Look at Japanese poetry for one obvious example that takes appreciation of beauty in language to its absolute extremes.

Fwiw the show I saw was in a closed arena. I actually wish the roof had been open as the closed roof acoustics were awful, but you can imagine why they want to eliminate weather as a factor.

Can confirm that everyone there is taking shitloads of photos and videos with their phones and I've never seen the stadium IR emitter appear in any of them.

That's just one of many components of what you pay them in total, though.

A reasonable scenario to me seems to be: An automatic "upgrade to the enterprise plan" requirement was triggered, and then in the process of the sales calls to make that happen, Cloudflare got serious eyes on the customer for the first time (whereas at a paltry $250/month previously they wouldn't have), and realized exactly what line of business the customer was involved in, and decided to fire them.

Eh, your traffic is a total cost you pay per month. That's how I would look at it. The one figure I know best of all is annual revenue, and how our annual revenue this year is on track to do compared to last year's.

As far as exact volume of QPS or TB/month or whatever, I really couldn't say.

$250/month sounds like nothing at all for a site with a claimed 4M MAU. The enterprise rate of $10k/month sounds a lot more reasonable. If everything presented here is accurate, I'm not understanding the sharp discrepancy in pricing tiers. If anything they should've already been paying more than $10k/month for massive traffic on the basic plan and then be able to save money by paying for massive scale when negotiating rates for the enterprise plan.

Also this sounds like an online gambling site of questionable legality, knowingly serving customers in jurisdictions where it's illegal, so I can't say I have too much sympathy, and I feel like Cloudflare effectively fired them as a customer when they realized what they were up to.

> Cloudflare was the company that went viral for the firing of an account rep not hitting her goals.

How is that something worth going viral over? Salespeople get fired all the time for not meeting their sales goals. Engineers similarly get fired all the time for not meeting their productivity goals. If you don't do your job well, don't expect to keep it.

And if I recall correctly, in this particular case, she was a green employee who hadn't even made a single sale yet! What more obvious of a layoff target is there than that? Would you keep a green unproven salesperson over a proven veteran salesperson who's landed 9 figures in sales?

AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Waymo FSD are all released in the sense that you can see them actually working in the real world. Those all took much longer to put together than whatever rushed features were released to catch up with OpenAI, however.

It's annoying because we have dedicated 240V circuits for all major installed appliances in US households (drying machine, electric stove, HVAC), as well as, increasingly, 240V circuits in the garage for EV charging.

But no one is putting in 240V circuits for countertop plug-in appliances afaik, even though there's absolutely no reason you can't do so.

And by the way, electric kettle are quite common in the US amongst the tea or fancy coffee drinking set.

Yeah, good point on the constant power draw too. I forgot to mention the last bit of kit I use to make my simple at-home coffees: an electric kettle. (And speaking of which, if I ever build my own home, I'm putting 240V counter-top outlets in the kitchen.)

I'm not sure I'd even want a Jura in a home environment. There's so much cleaning and maintenance required! My style is more like good hand grinder (simple, very low maintenance, doesn't take up counter-top space) and an Aeropress and V60 (both simple pieces of plastic, super easy to clean).

It's kind of unavoidable that it's going to be expensive and higher-maintenance to be able to make espresso at home, so I simply don't. Not worth it for me when I already have access to high-end espresso machines at work 5 days a week.

In my experience people don't care about those markings at all. They'll park anywhere the car can physically fit into that won't unreasonably block other car traffic (and sometimes even then ...).

Not everywhere! Horses were banned in Rome (and many other places) for exactly this reason.

And they're excellent barriers for preventing people in wheelchairs or using walkers to get through at all.

It would encourage buildings to lower asking rents as vacancy periods grow longer, rather than having incentives to leave a commercial unit vacant, as with my proposal they'd already be taking a hit to valuation anyway as soon as the unit went vacant, and a new tenant paying 80% of the last tenant's rent is still much better than leaving it vacant longer while it decays through 70%, then 60%, etc.

So overall the market would be more efficient, rents would go downwards more quickly in terms of CRE downturns, and you'd have fewer vacancies with more units reaching a market-clearing rate.

> Instead a building, or anything at all, is worth exactly how much other people are willing to pay for it. No more, no less.

The point you're missing is that buildings need valuations much more frequently than they are sold. CRE is generally mortgaged to the maximum extent possible (to use maximum leverage), and those mortgages need frequent re-upping as the commercial real estate market does not work like residential where you can get a 30-year fixed. So the property needs to be constantly valuated so that the banks know how much equity the owners have in the building (and if the loans are underwater), and this is being done constantly, way more frequently than the individual building is actually sold. The most common way to do this is to look at the price the building was last sold for, see how rents have changed since then, and use that as a modifier on the last sold price. (Or just a flat multiplier on top of total rents.)

You have to look at the actual income statements to see how much they're actually being paid in a year, and look at the signed leases to see how much the building will actually make in future years. It's all part of due diligence for buying a high value commercial property.

> I just assumed it was more valuable as a loss for a write off since 8600 * >$30/sqft seems like a lot of money to not be made.

That's not how it works. You don't get to write off foregone rent as a loss, only the actual cost of running/maintaining the building.

The guy you replied to had it right; accepting a cheaper rent would cause the building's value to plummet (buildings are valued as a multiple of rents), which would plunge the owners into bankruptcy as they would now owe more than the building is worth. But you can survive a temporary market downturn by never accepting a lower rent so long as it comes back up in time.

The whole thing is silly, and the market is rife for a saner way to valuate properties. Personally I would use a decay factor on top of the last paid rent for vacant properties. E.g. the imputed rent for a vacant lease would decrease by 2% every month (this figure is open to fine-tuning), so that the property is worth less and less with every month that it cannot find a new tenant at its previous rent. Then, when a new actual rent is established and is being paid, you use that figure.

They eat the fees because operating physical branches is much more costly still.

And if you're truly abusing it and costing them massively with fees, they can always close your account.

Nope, see other comments. My interpretation is correct.

I think the ATM isn't actually dispensing cash. You're doing an ATM transaction for a certain amount of money, but what you're actually getting is weed.

It's not just "You can buy with cash, and we conveniently have an ATM available to get cash if you didn't go to your bank."

That's the thing, it's not clear that the Python core engineers are more talented than other Google SWEs on average. You have all sorts of talented engineers working on all sorts of random projects within Google.

If that's not their intent, they're certainly doing a good job of it. The people running them are cosplaying running a union, without fundamentally understanding what a union really is.

None of those depend on the project you're working on, which is my point.

Then I don't understand the point you were making in your first post.

I would support the AWU if they were actually monomaniacally focused on worker issues like they're supposed to be (specifically I'd love to see a main focus on preventing offshoring). But instead it seems like they spend most of their time fighting the same kind of culture wars you see on college campuses, most recently Palestine. I don't agree with their views on that issue, and thus they've turned me off completely. They just overall strike me as young, immature, overly idealistic, and not actually suited to run a broad union that should be able to appeal to most of the employees (which is what is required for the union to actually be useful).

All SWEs at the same level at Google are making the same compensation (with some exceptions for high-flying AI researchers). They Python SWEs certainly weren't making more than anyone else.

> As I recall, SF, NYC, and Seattle get full wages, and other geos get discounted by a certain percentage. If you live in the US but not in one of those metros, your pay could be ~15% lower.

Seattle is actually in the tier below SF and NYC, which makes its pay around 10% less. However, it's mostly a wash when you consider that Seattle doesn't have state income tax, so your net is roughly the same in both places.