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Why would pharma not want legalization? At worst, it doesn't affect them. At best, it's another revenue stream.

I worked in undergrad as a research assistant in an astrophysics simulation project and was involved in some of the numerical programming. I found the work very interesting and intellectually rewarding.

Unfortunately, IME, the effort vs financial reward ratio is completely blown out of the water by general software. I make >3x what the postdocs were making with less experience, less education, and (speaking generally) less intelligence.

Obviously there are industry positions that pay better, but the general trend is you will be compensated far less than you could doing general software development.

This debate has been had millions of times.

These questions test for some mixture of (1) IQ, (2) communication abilities, (3) willingness to put in the time, and (4) ability to learn.

Traditional interviews which discuss candidate experience test for only (2) and knowledge questions test for only (3) and (4).

To be frank, if you don't have the time or ability to review 1-2 classes worth of college material, then that raises some serious red flags.

Google has a bank of vetted questions that can be asked during interviews. It's obviously against company policy to share this information, just like it is against internal policy to share any other private, internal information.

Don't trash talk your current employer while looking for a new job. It's a bad look.

If everything that CodeWithHarry says is true, then I don't see how it's his fault.

Also, this doesn't seem like a big deal. Just ignore the spammy emails for a while and close the pull requests.

Because your work is owned by Spotify and they can do what they want with it. Yes, it's well within your rights to form one of these internal activist groups that attempts to sway company policy by loud-mouthing your employer, but it's also well within the company's right to fire you. I simply wish tech companies had the courage to do so.

The article makes it clear that this is a group that does not have leadership backing. I very much doubt this internal group of staffers is attempting to push back against leadership due to business concerns. This is definitely political.

Also, the article explicitly mentions that this is a breach of contract, so there's very little chance this actually happens. Just more political noise from the same type of people that always generate political noise.

Joe Rogan is not new, and is only "edgy" to the type of people that can be cut by a pillow.

Why do so many tech employees feel that they're entitled to be arbiters of morality? Tech companies should have the backbone to fire every annoying internal activist group that tries to sabotage their efforts.

The level of police corruption is much, much higher in many other countries. Why are you singling the US out?

Surely the tech-minded folks of HN understand that this doesn't actually occur under any reasonable definition of "active." This article is a clear example of how the media twists reality due to their lack of understanding and/or maliciousness.

We've gotten to the point in US culture where many view it as sexist or racist to rally against affirmative action policies that are blatantly sexist and racist.

It's not 100% about money for the employer, either. Human emotions are real and managers aren't just blindly following game theory.

I regularly see promotion and defense of rioting, anti-white racism, and threats of violence from Twitter. Hell, I'll never forget all of the blue check marks saying they wanted to punch that high school Covington kid for literally standing in place with an awkward smirk.

Twitter absolutely safe-harbors the extreme left. I think it's the only tech company I would refuse to work for due to their moral failings.

Considering they're likely to defund police budget by 50%, I'd say that's very wrong.

They did mention his death, they just didn't mention it was CHOP security that murdered him, or the video evidence of the execution ("Oh you're still alive?" followed by a gunshot), or the fact that he was black (ironically making CHOP the greatest per-capita rate of police killings of unarmed black people). They did however mention the very incredulous rumor that the murdered teen and his friend were shooting, which there is no evidence for and a lot of evidence against.

Honestly, it's weird that an article criticizing the CHOP security debacle would decide to leave out pertinent details that help bolster the critique.

As a side note, there is both/r/seattle and /r/seattlewa. Both of them are seeing heavy traffic from out-of-towners right now, but the general divide is /r/seattle is the left-leaning one and /r/seattlewa is the right-leaning one (at least within the context of Seattle).

Before COVID, I was in the office about 35 hours a week and had about 10 productive WFH hours in the evenings.

Since perma-WFH, I "work" for maybe 65 hours and get at most 15 hours of actual work done.

I'm intrigued by the idea but I have some reservations:

1.) How likely is this to actually happen? Are there any talks with nations for purchasing land? How many members would actually uproot their entire lives to go live in this experimental nation?

2.) I'm absolutely a libertarian, but even if I have to admit that some of those that care so deeply as to self-select for something like this are likely to have some... oddities.

3.) Libertarian principles have never been very popular with women, so I imagine most of the interested parties are men. If this were to last for a long period of time, I would imagine that most of the unmarried men would compensate for that by finding wives from the neighboring developing nations. I don't have anything against that, but I feel like this new nation would quickly get the reputation of being Thailand 2.0.

I don't think the claim is that social media is inherently leftist, but rather than leftists have mounted attacks on all social media companies that don't actively censor right-wing opinions (see current ad boycott targeted at Facebook). I think the success of these campaigns are extremely concerning and a reminder that peace and prosperity are not a given.

Have you used reddit at all within the past 10 years? Yeah, there's some smaller subreddits that have right-wing views, but every frontpage sub leans heavily left.

For example, the most common political debate right now isn't Biden vs. Trump, it's whether or not Biden is left-wing enough to deserve a vote.

The bar for the tech work activists to not consider a company "evil" is impossible high. It seems like any attempt to actually operate like a business (and actually.. you know.. make money?) is met with open hostility. I really don't condone furthering the insistence that these mega-corps pretend to be something that they're not.

That being said, the people with the megaphones that constantly send emails about politics that somehow jump through five hoops to ensure every issue is directly tied to race should put their actions where their mouth is. If 1000 people give an ultimatum that they'll quit if something isn't done, maybe something will actually be done. If not, then the biggest propagators of political distractions are gone. And then those of us that are confused how politics (of a certain slant) became actively encouraged in the workplace can stop aggressively adding email filters for the latest cause of the week.

You're attempting to shame and villainize people that disagree with the movement, and trying to justify that using meaningless buzzwords like "solidarity".

Why should the strikers not show solidarity with the non-strikers by stopping the strike? Or show solidarity with the health care workers by enduring difficult times for the common good?

Why do strikes always seem to be surrounded by such emotional rhetoric? To me, that's a warning sign that there's no underlying logic.

Do you really need to call strike breakers "scabs"? It seems excessive to demonize workers that need job security / don't believe in unions / etc.

It's obviously bad PR to deny their claims right now, but I can't imagine this working. Sets a precedent that Amazon will go to great lengths to not set.

I imagine something like "number of items" or "number of bags" or "total weight/volume of order" is an input into the default tip formula.

Which makes sense, as the quantity is what actually matters to the delivery person.

Quite frankly, I think Epic Systems realizes it can't compete with Facebook. But the value is much better in comparison to many non-FAANG Bay Area companies.

I was actually in a similar situation, where Capital One offered 90K for Richmond, VA and it seemed better than ~120k offer in the Bay Area. But then I got a Google offer and stopped considering both of the others.

The high-CoL companies really only make sense financially if you're in the upper tiers of pay (and/or on the path to reaching that level of pay).

It seems like a low value proposition if their most enticing feature is the ability to view Google results. Moreover, if Google added a "!d" command to show DuckDuckGo results, I can't imagine anyone would use it.

A negligible number of people are willing to sacrifice tangible functionality for intangible feelings of privacy that almost certainly will never impact them in any meaningful way. DuckDuckGo needs to make large improvements to their search results if they want to capture anyone outside of this niche market.

That's a perfectly valid response from them. You also don't send food back after you've finished your plate.

Do people actually believe GCP is at risk of shutting down? What nonsense.