One of the problems I have with Crome on android is that it gives itself root level access to your phone but you as a user aren’t naturally given that level of access it’s because of that I’m not allowed to backup my bookmarks directly on my phone in an organized way without them being a jumbled mess.

I know I can back them up to google and download a zip file of by bookmarks in an organized structure but then there goes my browsing privacy if I didn’t want my privacy tracked.

I know I could’ve used another browser but Crome being the default browser on android means that you’ll no doubt end up having a lot of bookmarks saved because of convenience before you realize your mistake and having to sign into google to backup again

The alternative is to let the rich continue to accumulate more wealth that does nothing while the rest of humanity starves. Corporations shouldn’t have the right or ability to hoard wealth overseas to avoid paying their fair share.

If it doesn’t bother you that you personally paid more in taxes than many millionaires and billionaires I don’t think anything is a convincing argument because the status quo and it’s inevitable future is acceptable. It’s not acceptable to me.

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I didn’t negotiate salary at all or know what it was until I was working (internal transfer) and yes, I’m lioking for other jobs. Not that easy right now. I worked my way up from a temp worker taking calls for customer service to a corp worker.

Most of my pay isn’t in RSUs. I’m just pointing out that this isn’t just effecting the top peeps.

the RSU refresh does not hit for a couple years. so this year, no, you don't get additional compensation, you are stuck with 40-50% less compensation.

I agree with you in general, and it’s difficult to feel like it’s worth complaining about making somewhat less than the insane amounts many folks in tech do.

The real issue here is that Amazon already assumes a 15% year-over-year appreciation of the stock when it calculates pay. This means that the threshold for employees doing better or worse than target is 15%, not 0%. If the stock goes up by 10% YOY, employees get paid less than the target. It effectively offloads an enormous amount of risk from the company to the employees.

I don’t see this as “you should feel bad for Amazon employees” but rather “Amazon is in a very bad position for attracting and retaining talent”. Competent Amazon employees can and will go elsewhere and be just fine.

Then you should have negotiated a different salary or not taken the job.

Taking an RSU heavy compensation package is a high risk/high reward situation. If you chose to accept that - that's 100% on you.

There wouldn't be anyone writing an article if Amazon stock doubled and your pay was 2x what you had projected. This is just how RSU's work.

Should have bid $65,536 ($2^16).

> Unused RAM is wasted RAM. I want the machine to use 90% of the available RAM. Kinda why I bought extra.

Not how I would phrase it but I do agree with you there. I have 16 gigs and almost got 32. If I have 5 chrome tabs open and 3 of them are youtube videos, going back to one I left half-way and needing to refind where I started stopped is a PITA. I have the RAM to do this, don't just not use it because I switched to watching an hour long video an hour ago.

Or I could just keep using Firefox

Chrome was always the one I used throughout the years and I just got used to it always being kinda slow. When I got a MacBook I wanted to keep it as is so tried out Safari or whatever. Like I know it’s Apples own browser so it’s gonna work well on their stuff but like damn.. yeah I don’t use Chrome ever. It just boys down after like five tabs. Safari I have some tabs that were streaming video from two months ago and it still won’t go slow.

Oh no! Won’t someone please think of the people making 250+

I’d you lie down with dogs you get fleas

Hardware tech, sure… but that was primarily for economic reasons (cheap labor). That’s not the same as forced technology transfer though.

If the past is any indicator, they will just make you compete for an ever dwindling number of positions that used to be three separate roles, so despite the technology making your actual job easier, you will still work harder and feel grateful to be doing so as the ranks of the skilled unemployed swell.

Unless you get that water from the sky.

Then they can, at least in some jurisdictions.

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America's tech companies are largely responsible for the shift to China and asset stripping of American industries, especially hardware manufacturing. The sooner the government cuts them off by cutting off their access to external suppliers, the better we'll all be even if it means more expensive iphones. Imagine a world where people pay to repair their phones instead of trashing them every 18 months.

They actually are that dumb and they'll continue being dumb until the CCP nationalizes their property, makes an alternative competing product, and begins selling it at Walmart. Only then will western companies respond and it'll be way too late. Americans will either be upset at the decreased amount of cheap offbrand TVs or be upset when certain products, like pre-DTV TVs, are discontinued. Especially for automobiles and smartphones, US firms cannot meaningfully leave without seriously harming themselves. GM cannot survive without China and China leverages this. GM would sooner attempt to sell badge engineered Chinese market vehicles to Americans then stop China from stealing their trade secrets, and Americans will be told to accept it as the price of living in a globalized world.

> You talk about other systems that end in autocracy, and/or misery but capitalism does too.

No it doesn't, that's crazy. The United States is the longest continuous democracy in the entire world.

> The answer ultimately lies in regulations, and making economic equality the top priority.

No, the richest and most powerful countries with the highest median quality of life are the ones that prioritize growth, not equality. Prioritizing equality gets you the Soviet Union. Prioritizing growth gets you the United States.

> Greed is just another addiction, no different than heroin

The difference is that greed, when channeled through capitalism, creates value for everyone. Jeff Bezos wasn't an altruist when he founded Amazon, but the result is that everyone in the United States can have just about anything they want delivered to their door in a couple of days for free. Steve Jobs was a greedy, rapacious capitalist, but he gave us the iPhone. Etc.

Best part about chickens? They just shit out eggs, and you can just take them and sell them for money, how mad is that?

And it's a complete bullshit complaint.

Browsers don't just 'browse the web' anymore. They're almost OSs in themselves with tons of background processes.

The only time you'll see performance degradation is if you're on a low-end windows machine. Or those with 55 tabs open.

Unused RAM is wasted RAM. I want the machine to use 90% of the available RAM. Kinda why I bought extra.

That’s exactly what happened here. It’s been a gold rush for getting good recruits so recruiters bent the rules a bit to finish the deal. Now Amazonians are upset that recruiters told them something that the company may have not agreed to. It’s also possible Amazon did plan to honor this and are going back on their word too.

That is totally crazy, but not totally surprising.

I am a compensation consultant in "big tech". I am often asked to build out YoY Comp models (typically at the Director level) for recruiters to use during their offer.

These models make tons of assumptions about future performance and future stock price. They're not meant to guarantees and they're not meant to be shared with the candidate. I've had recruiters share these models with candidates multiple times, which then puts us in a tough spot and creates a negative experience for the candidate when we go back and say this wasn't actually your comp.

It's not a balancing act. Employees get compensated via their salaries and bonuses. Shareholders get compensated via their ownership of the business, the value of their shares and dividends.