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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
At many companies rolling out a new kernel in a month would be an outright miracle.
Comment · 7 years ago
Any equity that is offered with secret terms should be valued at zero. In my experience nobody will tell you, so always go for market rate salaries.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is why you should get a proper salary even if you are working at a "hot startup". Were you expecting a $1m gross payout from owning 1% of a $100m company? That's the kind of gross income you'd get every 2 years of working at Googbookagramazon. Consider opportunity costs carefully.
Comment · 7 years ago
But that's not what the graphs show. There is a diagonal that clearly tracks a birth year cohort, not an age.
Comment · 7 years ago
Interesting that there seems to be a consistent age cohort born before (I guess from the heat maps) 1950 that just aren't into this stuff.
Comment · 7 years ago
In the way of not having a payroll tax.
Comment · 7 years ago
Google and Facebook have both contracted ferries (water taxis, technically) in the past.
Comment · 7 years ago
These watches don't have anywhere near 12 day life with the GPS enabled. Depending on the watch and the temperature it is anywhere from 2 to 30 hours.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
I used to work with Google's account abuse team. The company will never comment on suspensions, so you are right that you only get 1 side. Every consumer account suspension I ever looked into was due to severe abuse on the part of the account holder: folders full of child porn, account being used to spam or distribute viruses, etc. Every advertiser account that some jerk whined about being "wrongly suspended for no reason omg google is satan" was actually due to either click fraud or advertisers' sites distributing malware. Whenever you see one of these complaints you should reach for a massive, galaxy-scale grain of salt.

In this case however the account holder is being totally up front about their activities: they were using a proxy network to rip off YouTube. This is a bit like Trump committing treason on live TV and then later whining about impeachment on Twitter. What's in question is not the facts but the policy.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Not sure there is enough evidence in support of those claims about Tesla. Tesla doesn't collect anywhere near enough data from its customer fleet to support the kind of massive training being claimed. In contrast Waymo and Cruise vehicles are regularly in the depot where each car offloads terabytes of data. Who has the bigger training set?

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