KorematsuFredt

Having spent some time with Google as SWE, I think Google was by far the best engineering company I have worked with. Even Amazon, Microsoft were terrible when it comes to software engineering.

I am one of those engineers who do not care about culture as long as I am getting paid for the efforts I put in. Google in that sense beat others by HUGE margin.

The engineering work was however very different. We focused on right engineering solutions instead of just business aspect. While that kind of attitude hurts us in short term, it pays big in long term.

BS. Most cars drive on freeways and interstates most of the time, especially the large trucks etc. traffic in residential areas is generally pretty low and it more only during mornings and evenings.

This is just war on cars.

Meh. Why should we reduce our quality of life ? We can always use AC in cars and and at home.

P2P is a loss making feature for nearly everyone involved. If you have some other way to obtaining users and maintaining growth, you are better off not supporting P2P payments.

P2P payments are also extremely tiny portion of revenue.

Are you saying USPS is not going to screw things up ?

> I wish the post office was a bank and they hosted their own pay apps.

Lol.

You have clearly not read the article. $500 is the cost of fine tuning.

Simple policies are easy to understand, easy to comply with and have more predictable externalities and second order effects.

The PG&E poppycock is hard to understand. Even I do not fully understand their BS like net metering.

Just make solar panels cheaper so that a lot of people see benefit in buying them to meet their energy needs and lower the energy costs in a way it benefits PG&E too.

If I understand correctly, installing a better + solar panels might solve a lot of these problems for some homes.

California's politicians are corrupt and incompetent. PG&E is a great example of this. PUC of California is supposed to protect consumers but consumers right now are paying record high energy prices in California for a third rate service.

No one is forced to use G or M but they make better products. It is not monopoly. There are excellent alternatives available very easily.

Comcast, ATT are different. You simply dont have much of a choice even in cities meant for internet. San Jose has like 1Gbps ATT and 100Mbps Comcast as the only options.

Lina Khan is the enabler of these things.

This is not a forum of geopolitics experts but I think this wars is the biggest threat we currently have for tech progress. If Russia takes over Ukraine next step would be proxy wars in Europe, breaking down EU/NATO coupled with US domestic politics turning nativist which will burn our future. This war must end one way or another sooner.

Other than garbage airlines like Frontier, I have never had reasons to complain about any American airlines that much. Competition is so fierce that they all are pretty bad in my opinion.

> where it hurts their mental health.

Why are they working there then ?

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