A statement like "all encryption can be broken" is about as useful as "all systems can be hacked" in which case, not putting data in the cloud isn't really a useful argument.
I think the point is someone who has 500k after a lifetime of putting money in a 401k along with 600k in home equity is not the same as someone who lives in a mansion and has a few exotic cars.
Tai posed as the latter, so suddenly caring about $35 an hour is very suspicious.
Precisely. It’s quite funny how any time this comes up - a person of dubious wealth who claims to be rich being a penny-pincher - people are quick to chime in with something implying they got rich by doing that. It’s like the inverse of the whole “maybe if you didn’t eat avocado toast you’d afford that $500k house…” thing
Gary Marcus has never built anything, has never contributed meaningful to any research that actually produces value, nor has he been right about any of his criticisms.
What he has done is continually move a goalpost to stay somewhat relevant in the blogsphere and presumably the academic world.
And I never took biology past sophomore year and yet I knew the first time I listened to Aubrey De Grey he was wrong to propose millennians (living to be 1,000+) had already been born (as of 2005).
It makes a ton of sense in theory. In a fair market, you would want to prevent the insurer from charging super high premiums that let them make a large profit relative to the cost of care provided.
The problem is that it doesn't stop there. There is a second order effect.
Directors of Engineering in Eastern Canada make (or made, until recently) < 200k, CAD. That's 145k USD. So no, didn't have much of a golden parachute like the US do.
Are expenses so high there? That’s still more than twice what you’d make here in Western Europe, and you’d have an easy time saving way more than a year of expense here.
From my experience being in tech over 20 years (from my high school days until now) Large companies that aren't growing do this all the time.
IBM, Verizon, AT&T, HP, etc all would hire in new areas and at the same time 'dissolve' old divisions. Sometimes the 'laid off' folks could scramble to find new teams.
The growing FAANG companies would rarely do this on as large of a scale, but it did happen, teams would be dissolved and sometimes every employee would have to find a new position internally or get laid off. For growing companies there are usually so many open spots on other teams, that it's less of a risk.
For companies that aren't growing rapidly, this often means lots of people get laid off.
>That is, should we frown upon people who leave after a few weeks of joinig a company because they got a much better offer
Business is often not solely a 'morally correct' thing or not. Sure it's not morally wrong to be a mercenary, but it may rub people the wrong way. If some manager fights to get you on their team, spends time onboarding you, then you leave for a slightly better offer, they will remember that.
Conversely, Iv'e worked for people who were very happy for me when I 'graduated' to larger and more impressive companies, and no hard feelings were had.
