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At my apartment building, I only get the email for my unit's mail, not everyone's. Sounds like a bug like other people said.

The macbook and it's 3+ year butterfly keyboard debacle or windows 10 laptops with all of their spyware even when high end being his only 2 practical choices is what he is probably referring to.

I think this is a relatively recent development. 8-10 years ago, working at a startup or working at FANG paid about the same, but the startup came with this lottery ticket, you learned more at a startup and it wasn't a big co with big co politics and process. Back then it definitely made a lot more sense to maybe give up %10-%20 less income in exchange.

Startups & VCs started getting a lot of money in the global search for yield as interest rates dropped to 0 and QE started printing money and giving it to banks who would invest it. The google/apple/etc wage collusion lawsuit increased the amount of competition for engineers. FANG was losing engineers who would rather do their own thing for a little bit less. The H1B lottery system limited the supply. Housing started getting even more expensive in the SFBA. And as you said, FANG prints money so they can afford to keep on going up in the bidding wars.

Compensation started going up in this competitive system as a result until we are at the point we are today, where startups are definitely not competitive comp wise to being at FANG.

In a way, it's easier to support parents in a poor country because everything is cheaper there. Give them $1000/month and they will probably live better than you.

Which is why as a startup you have to offer something that FANG can't offer, like full remote working or similar.

That or taking the people who fail to get FANG offers / naive jrs.

Not quite, because the equivalent pure pcie connection is faster than thunderbolt due to the overhead in thunderbolt.

We need another doubling in thunderbolt's speed for it to not have a penalty when using eGPUs

Well you can already get cheap usb-c cables that only have usb 2 speeds and power delivery capacity, if that is what your hinting at.

Maybe off of your state taxes I think makes more sense.

I've worked at 2 companies that decided to do their 'own cloud' vs just use stuff like AWS, and they were not devops tool companies.

It slowed down both them.

Remember that staff cost money too!

Graphs are OK in reference counting languages like swift / objective-c, it doesn't have to be done with a GC.

I think you could use Rc<Thing> in rust too if you want to solve it using rust, but then you have "swift with more boilerplate" as one friend said.