bowenjin

Are the rumors of $100M packages real? I find it hard to believe Meta would pay ICs more than most SVPs.

Like many controversial issues regarding government policy, it's an arbitrary line. Different people's brains are susceptible to addiction to different things. I don't enjoy drinking but I still understand some people struggle with alcohol addiction and that it could potentially be a net positive if alcohol were outright banned. It's pretty condescending to simplify people struggling with addiction as simply lacking self control.

Have you considered working at FAANG? Plenty of chill teams where you don't have to work too hard but can get intellectual stimulation.

Great guide. I've seen this career path played out many times on Linkedin.

The work performed by doctors is not much more difficult than that of a mechanic or some trade skill. The difference in pay, at least in the US, is due to the artificial barriers of entry such as requiring 12 years of education, 4 years of which (undergrad) is almost entirely irrelevant to the actual skill of practicing medicine.

In addition to this constraint on supply, the demand is inflated by medical insurance which makes consumers price insensitive and produces a "use it or lose it" mentality where people are compelled get certain services they don't really need to not let the unused budget expire.

The solution is to increase supply by making medical education a 4 year program that has no undergrad prerequisite and no residency postrequisite like it is in many parts of the world and also reducing the unnecessary demand by removing any government requirement that employers provide medical insurance or any subsidy towards getting medical insurance.

The problem with raises and promotions is that it's slow, requires a lot more work from the manager, and doesn't increase the manager's number of reports. Thus hiring externally is a lot easier and more beneficial to the manager. Especially for those managers who are serial job hoppers themselves.

Another factor is the recruiting teams are assessed on conversion, how many passed phone screens, on sites, and offer accepts etc, but not on the performance of those employees after they join. So recruiters just spam anyone they think will have a remote chance of passing some stage of the interview process.

There have to be consequences to hiring a bad hire for the recruiting team and they have to be severe enough to make recruiting risk averse.

But this will never be the case if the organization is in growth mode where everything manager is trying to get as much headcount and hiring as fast as possible.

Eh Unibomber manifesto said it better.

How do VCs gain so much influence? Can't founders just ignore them because they have a minority stake?

How do VCs gain some much influence? Can't founders just ignore them since they have a minority stake?

Users have become so entitled expecting everything to be free and without ads.

Come on guys just pay a few dollars for a service you spend 30+ hours on per month. It's like 2-3 starbucks coffees.

In my experience short term and long term memory recall speed and accuracy are strongly correlated. It's unlikely someone will be able to swiftly traverse a large long term memory graph, in a manner that would allow you to derive deep insights not just recalling a single piece of information, but have a poor short term memory.

However I do believe long term memory is more robust so if you're in a mentally compromised state, such as having a headache, it will be less affected. So if you have to work through a hard problem on a deadline but have a headache, you can rely on heuristics stored in long term memory rather than deriving everything in short term memory.

Why not just allow 3rd party app usage only for those who have reddit gold active?

The difference is that the non.io model rewards more for upvotes from people who have a high bar for upvoting and upvote rarely.

I feel had this comment been on reddit, it would have been interpreted as sarcasm and received upvotes.

Have all the compatibility issues for the M1 chip been solved? I've been holding out on buying one of these machines because I'm afraid I will have to waste tons of time hacking together work arounds to get my development setup working.