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Amazon leading on price-performance, but competition from Google is very stiff.

Does anyone know the data source for this curve?

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I'm keen to hear what the community thinks of this. Is it credible? Is this The End Times?

I already have a diversified stock portfolio, so I'm happy keeping my RSUs as a leveraged bet on my employer. I got one piece of advice recently, which was to sell enough of the vest to cover the tax that it will incur - since RSU tax is incurred at the point of vest in my tax jurisdiction. YMMV on that depending on where in the world you are.

So you hire people who skip over the depth of the locking model and just copy and paste the addition code, but you fail the people who spend time to deeply understand the locking model but can't produce a solution in three hours?

Interesting approach, I bet your codebase is a thing of beauty...

For the longest time I was someone who relied on external validation of whether my work was meaningful or not. Outside of saving lives or delivering children, most of the jobs that most people do are probably not that 'meaningful'.

I spent the last three years working for a narcissist, which meant that I got minimal external validation, even when I knew the work I was doing was valuable. I learned to reframe and appreciate the intrinsic value of my effort, especially when I knew that my effort was of high quality. It's an approach that works for me and I recommend it to other people.

HN 15 Years ago 5 years ago

Wow, HN started the day before my kids were born. This morning we celebrated their 15th birthdays.

For the last two years Singapore has had a hard closure of all eating establishments at 1030 - they will literally come and take your drink off of the table. For the last several months any and all background music has been banned in restaurants in case 'music causes people to speak more loudly and encourage the spread of covid "droplets"'.

What you said may have been true in the past, but it hasn't been true for a long time, and at this rate may never be true again.

This is extremely good content, thanks for the link.

Just the first few pages are enough to convince me that Robinhood is a very poorly run organisation. As a financial technologist with a couple of decades' experience, basic things such as only having a 'physical inaccessibility' BCP plan is appalling.

I wouldn't touch this company with a penny of my money, whether as a customer or an investor.

I worked as an outside consultant with a team at Everis. It was indeed a meat-grinder of a firm. The final week I was there we did a minimum of 15 hours a day, and I think the longest was 19 or something insane.

Interesting, thanks for the link. Does it plug in to any of the music streaming services - Spotify (obviously) but how about Qobuz?

EDIT: I can see Spotify on the list, but Qobuz is only via UPnp, which is what I remember being unstable on Volumio.