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LangkawiBoy t1_j9j1vp6 wrote

Reply to comment by brooklynlad in Amazon Corporate Workers Face Pay Reduction After Shares Slip by brooklynlad

The twist is every new hire will be getting paid significantly more than every person wtih 2 years at the company, if doing the same job. That's because of how Amazon pay works. The first two years you're paid mostly cash, based on your on target earnings (OTE) number. The following two years you're paid some cash, lots of stock, designed to add up to the same OTE. That means the person who joined when the stock was high has a really rough years 3 and 4 because they're getting not just 50% below what they hoped but 50% below the market rate and 50% below what a new hire would get. The RSUs at Amazon aren't so much a bonus as a core part of OTE.

What it means is skilled Amazon workers can jump ship and collect vastly more money in the open market because they're going to be paid well below the OTE for someone in their role. Including some new hire. If they leave and get hired back, instant huge raise.

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zosolm t1_j9j1ugh wrote

Reply to comment by dpm59 in MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air by MotorDrive

As atmospheric carbon concentrations rise, carbon dioxide begins to dissolve into seawater. The ocean currently soaks up some 30-40% of all humanity's annual carbon emissions, and maintains a constant free exchange with the air. Suck the carbon out of the seawater, and it'll suck more out of the air to re-balance the concentrations.

K30 is a CO2 sensor which has 3% error bars, NDIR is another which is accurate to 0.005%. What is it we don’t understand about the carbon cycle? I learned it in high school. What does it mean that 95% of CO2 is done naturally with the CO2 cycle?

Edit: i understand what you meant now about 95% of CO2 is done naturally; it’s that thing of 95% of atmospheric CO2 comes from natural sources. So while that’s true in a way, it misunderstands the nature of the carbon cycle; decomposing and composting organisms, fires and all kinds of other natural processes do release carbon, but it’s carbon that was captured from the atmosphere by the growth of those organisms in the first place so there’s no net increase of carbon in the system. They do cycle through a lot of carbon, but they also take a lot up too when stuff grows. As for volcanoes, human activity releases 60-100 times more carbon than volcanoes. One of the problems with coal and oil is that it’s not part of the carbon cycle until we burn it so it’s disrupting that system by adding more carbon into it. In order to mitigate that, we need technologies that can capture what we’ve put out otherwise we’ll have to deal with the impact of there being more carbon in the system now than before we got all the oil out

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Tainen t1_j9iwgv7 wrote

Reply to comment by Prestigious_Push_947 in Amazon Corporate Workers Face Pay Reduction After Shares Slip by brooklynlad

yeah, I’m talking about Amazon, given the title of the post. I turned down an offer at Goog and came from Msft for 13 years. Unfortunately Amazon has the worst stock grant program of the 3. There is essentially no addressing down year stock performance, you hold on tight and hope it does better in future years, or you quit and go get paid somewhere else.

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SpecialNose9325 t1_j9iut0e wrote

Reply to In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It by nastratin

The physical controls on cars from 2010s were already quite minimal and worked well. Most of em used 5 buttons and a knob for the temperature, and another 5 buttons and a knob for the audio. These new touch based systems should aim to replicate that rather than put in a menu system like its a tablet. Reserve 1/3 of the screen for these 10 buttons, put in 2 physical knobs, and use the rest of the screen to do whatever fancy shit you want. Just make the 10 buttons static toggles. Hitting the heater button should turn on the heater, not pop up a menu to select the level of heating. Use it like the toggle it has always been.

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jesophat t1_j9ismz0 wrote

Reply to comment by Kurotan in In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It by nastratin

people complain -- but the real cause of this shitfest of control is this: engineering as a discipline continues to slide to new lows. a long time ago, engineering was about efficiency, doing more for less. efficiency in communication, efficiency in time. but now Apple with Iphones has fudged the whole philosophy -- its all about fuck the consumer make it hard for them and charge them more anyway. fuck efficiency. and this philosophy has spread everywhere. into car design and manufacturing, into hairstyles, into teslas etc etc. humanity is doomed.

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Prestigious_Push_947 t1_j9im0sc wrote

Reply to comment by Tainen in Amazon Corporate Workers Face Pay Reduction After Shares Slip by brooklynlad

This really depends on the company. Most don't require a couple years before refreshes start vesting. Also, comp doesn't go up til after the stock goes up, so it's never guaranteed when your comp will get better again. Like I said, this is the game of RSU based comp. If you treat RSU's like regular income, you're an idiot.

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