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Digital ocean doesn't charge traffic costs. I'm not sure if that was used in the article, but DO can provide significant savings for high-bandwidth services.

People, even those at other big tech companies, unironically refer to working at Google as "retiring." Not sure 'big tech' is a great example to use when talking about productivity.

Is there hard data on how deadly they are vs. other auto manufacturers? There is definitely a narrative that the cars are dangerous, but I'd like to see that quantified.

You can also use green hydrogen in place of blue hydrogen, e.g. when making ammonia.

I think LoC has been determined to be a bad productivity metric because it’s gameable and incentivizes bad behavior. However, that doesn’t apply here as the engineers didn’t know they were going to be evaluated by LoC a priori. I struggle to think of cases were lines-changed wouldn’t be correlated with the productivity of engineers working in a consistent environment if they weren’t trying to game the system.

A world where your cash is held in British pounds? Why do you accept forex fluctuations but not security fluctuations?

I’ve worked in big companies and I’ve worked in small companies. The one constant has been that writing code is required to make product changes. No code likely means no changes. Maybe LOC != productivity makes sense when algorithms are of great importance, like in situations where a genius algorithm can unlock tons of value. Machine learning would be one example. However, most work is feature work, which typically has a straightforward path from start to finish. In product feature work, it’s unclear to me what activity would use time productively that didn’t result in lines of code.

Judging the sizes of the stacked pages from the last 60 days of code would probably be a pretty good indication of productivity. Perfect? No. Good enough? Maybe.

Equity in Meta is liquid net worth, unless you're a materially important share holder. The stocks you hold right now can be converted into cash easy at any point in time. In what world is that nearly equivalent to cash?

Large public companies aren't innovators. Innovations requires risk. Meta is a huge part of retirement portfolios and pensions, which are extremely risk averse. There is an expectation that the company is going to do an efficient job at extracting profits. If Meta isn't meeting that expectation, the market reaction is to be expected .

Companies are valued based on future cash flows. A stable company typically has a P/E ratio of 20. Meta’s is around 10, which is an indication the market believes profits will cut in half and then stabilize.

That seems really inconvenient to be honest.

I don’t think it’s valid to use “only” with “e.g”. “e.g” means it’s an example, which implies the existence of other cases that satisfy the criteria. “Only” implies some uniqueness of the subject.

Why not try to service it yourself? It could be fun to take it apart and reassemble it.

I think the backups end up stored in a GCS bucket in your account and can be removed manually or with an object lifecycle.