you should know that "doomsday rhetoric" is backed by very solid climate science. Just check out the latest IPCC report if you dont believe me - we aren't going to make it below 2 degrees C warming and the implications of that alone are catastrophic. Just as an example, we're looking at hundreds of millions of climate refugees as things like drought and lower crop yields destabilize large regions. Even if you live in a country which avoids these types of trends, the refugees created can and will offer a massively destabilizing force to your home country. For reference, the Syrian refugee crisis was triggered by a record drought (which are becoming the new trend) and that created 1 million refugees. Just 1 million dramatically altered the course of domestic & international politics in the EU, imagine what HUNDREDS of millions will do.
Climate change is THE existential threat of our generation. The only ones which will benefit long term from avoiding the problem are those with a vested interest in fossil fuel companies.
Man you really shouldn't be so hard on yourself. These coding interviews aren't IQ tests. If it's any help, a good recommendation from someone in a company would probably be a stronger signal than a leetcode type question.
It is not endemic. I think you've met a few people you didn't like, read some tweets, and extrapolated poorly.
And I don't think people working on GCP are really treated that much better than their counterparts at AWS. The fact that you think the difference in product depreciation policy between them is caused by people getting "everything they could dream of" is funny though
If anything this 'experiment' just shows that bored teenagers are easily convinced to bandwagon on an innocuous group. They just had to hold their hand a certain way and address him as "Mr. Jones"? Come on, they probably were treating it as a meme.
Thanks for the link - pretty good review.
Totally agree with what he says about calling it SOTA. It's definitely a very interesting approach but I wouldn't put that much weight on whether it's achieved SOTA, because of the amount of compute they threw into it.
The artificial nature of the USPS's debt comes from the fact that congress passed an (unusual) requirement to make it prepay health & retirement benefits.
"The debt it carried jumped from $7 billion in 2008 to $10 billion in 2009. At the end of 2019, the GAO calculated that the Postal Service had $160.9 billion in debt, $119.3 billion of which came from retiree benefits"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/15/postal-se...