Hanging out in the streets on a Saturday is America's conception of a protest, you think people with this sort of consciousness understand unionizing?

You made me curious, but there are like 5 different films with that title - which one are you referring to?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Down. It was the #1 movie in the U.S. for a couple weeks after release, made for $25M and grossed $96M.

Pretty sure he was asking about "Passengers".

The Michael Douglas one I’m assuming where Duvall was the cop

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/

Voyager spoils the TNG experience by rehashing so many stories - definitely watch TNG first.

When there's time, you review, when there isn't you trust...

That's the issue here.

Even if I trust you, I still need to review your work before merging it.

Good people still make mistakes.

What is the definition of trust if you still have to verify? How does "trust" differ from "untrust" in that scenario?

trust resudes the verification I suppose. Getting a PR from a trusted contributor would probably have me do a quick scan for obvious mistakes. And they'd know to keep the PR's small and on the right branch to help facilitate a scan.

a new person with a big idea on the slightly wrong (but reasonable) channel would have more work in verification.

What's the rush? Building good things takes time.

deadlines, money, attention. The usual things in industry.

They will never experience xenophobia in any meaningful way, unlike the millions surveilled by the technology they're developing.

That's the problem with the "it just works" philosophy. When it doesn't... you have no idea what's wrong and no way to fix it. A bolted hood over the engine.

Also have 2 8020D's but I skimped on the subwoofer. Probably a bad idea, since they deemphasize the lows so much, but surprisingly I can crank up them up on my mixer's EQ to make up for it without losing clarity.

Yeah, they are really impressive for 4" drivers.

While Brin comes back to Google to advocate for 60h workweeks as it lays off thousands of employees.

I'd be happy to do 60-hour weeks of good work, in a good environment.

I wouldn't want 60-hour weeks of dealing with a lot of promotion-seekers, though.

I wonder how different Google would be if they'd just paid people enough money they didn't have to think about money, but it was the same amount of money to everyone. You do the work, not for promotions, but because you like doing the work. You can train up for and transfer to different kinds of roles, but they pay the same.

Why would I want to be paid the same amount as any moron that gets in? What motivation is there for me to work hard?

* You like the mission.

* You like the craft.

* You want to be there for your team.

* You like that your financial needs are taken care of, so that you don't have to think about that.

* You like that everyone else's financial needs are taken care of, because you want everyone to be happy.

* You like that there's alignment by everyone on this. (Even though there will be disagreements on, say, how best to accomplish the mission.)

If someone gets in and doesn't actually have or find motivations like that, or doesn't rise to the occasion despite help, I guess they'd be managed out. That cultural mismatch wouldn't be good for anyone involved.

> Why would I want to be paid the same amount as any moron that gets in?

You answered your question by yourself: the company has to prevent these morons from getting in.

That's what's beautiful about this scheme: people with attitude you presented would self-select out of it.

That solves half of the problem of typical work dynamics already; the second half, preventing unqualified morons from getting in and setting themselves up for life by being paid good money for doing nothing, would need to be solved in some other way.

Honestly, though, screw even that.

There are so many things worth doing in so many areas that pinning your whole weekly life on a single one is just an immense waste.

Cap the time that a company gets to have from you, and achieve so much more.

I fully agree about the labor rights concerns.

(In my head at 2am, I was (wrongly) taking that as a given, understood by everyone, and then remarking on a tangent from there. About the implications of 60hr/wk at Google specifically. And then going from there, about how maybe it didn't have to be like that. Moot for Google in reality, but it makes a good example for what-if thinking or daydreaming about how we'd like the next good tech employer to be.)

Can you clarify the no relocation requirement? I would consider moving to Stockholm for this role, and have the right to work there as I'm a EU citizen.