rmacqueen

> This is why the marginal difference between your median engineer and your P99 engineer is comp is substantial, while the marginal comp difference between your median pick and packer vs your P99 pick and packer isn’t.

That's an interesting analogy.

6k a month mortgage for a family of four seems low. It's at least double that in any major metro area.

How do you ensure the same user always gets the same treatment, even on subsequent visits to the site? You need the bucket sizes to be consistent for consistent hashing.

> Marxists, after having removed all of the bullshit from Marxism, discovered that there was nothing left but liberalism.

This is not true. Marxism deals with much more metaphysical questions than liberalism does. The issue is not just that some people are poor and others are rich and that that's unfair. That has been true since time immemorial, but Marx's object of inquiry was specifically the economic system brought into being by the industrial revolution and other material changes. That system by its nature produces specific classes of people (proletariats and bourgeoisie), and Marxism is really about an analysis of those classes and the ethical questions brought about by their interaction.

So for example a big issue Marx is concerned with that is totally absent from liberalism is this concept of 'alienation'[1], whereby a worker becomes wholly estranged, in an artificial way, from the product that he creates; and whereby labour, normally a self-realizing and delightful undertaking, becomes instead commoditized as merely a means to existence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

"Just be yourself and the right person will come along!"

Yea this is a good point. Same with "lean forward" during skiing. It's only really helpful for someone who already knows why you need to lean forward (and is able to do so) but just had a momentary lapse.

Something I've come to realize is when someone gives advice, especially career related, it's usually directed at a young version of themselves rather than to anyone else. The motivation, even in subconscious, is usually therapeutic from the standpoint of the advice-giver rather than helpful to the advice-receiver. It doesn't mean that it can't still be helpful, but it should be understood in that light.

Yea this was more accurate for me too, at least for the one route I checked (NYC-LON)

I'm not sure if you would call it 'agency' but the host is following it's own specific door-picking policy - a policy which will never result in a car being revealed. It is precisely this policy and no other which makes the contestant switch the correct move. But the original wording doesn't say that - it just says the host opens a door and it happens to have a goat behind it.

I swear this problem only ever causes confusion because the original wording is ambiguous about what the host's motivations are. Once you realize the host is trying to get you to lose and knows what's behind each door and must open a door, then it's clearer that you should switch.

The issue isn't how Google achieved its search engine dominance - it's what it is doing with that dominance. No one denies Google became the search platform of choice because it is genuinely better. That doesn't change the fact that Google is now using that position of near total dominance to stifle competition in other areas, such as e-commerce. That's the (sound) basis for the anti-trust charge.

And people 'chose' to have a Microsoft operating system in the late 90s. What's your point?

> Case in point, DuckDuckGo etc

You're missing the point. The anti-competitive behaviour isn't harmful against other search engines - it's against companies in the other domains where Google can leverage its nigh total search engine dominance to push its other products, e.g. Google Flights and Google Shopping. How is a flight booking service supposed to fairly compete with Google Flights when Google owns the top of the funnel where users go to search for these services? It's exactly the same thing that Microsoft did with Internet Explorer in the 90s: leverage their control of the platform (in that case, an OS) to exclude competitors for their other products (web browsers).