Shopify is massive. It has grown to a small collection of specialized services but the monolith is still the main backend and the traffic is database heavy and transactional, it’s not just dumb cache reads.
Tens of millions RPMs is the baseline and there’s massive, massive spikes for Black Friday or high profile events
It’s not Facebook/Google/Netflix traffic but it’s up there. Language is very rarely the bottleneck that people think it is
You’re welcome to do whatever you want at your own expense.
If you can’t function to a degree where society needs to clothe you, feed you and house you; it should come with strings attached. Resources are finite and “the vulnerable population” isn’t entitled to everyone’s else labor.
My point is simply that policy should be based on what is effective and humane. Keeping people housed only based on the contingency of their sobriety is neither. Under no circumstances is it better for someone to be unhoused than housed. Housing should be a human right, full stop.
The thing is: How do we encourage or enforce good behavior? At what point do we insist that an individual try not to be a burden, and to try to be a decent participant in society? That could be as little as "don't be a public nuisance and help around the housing complex once or twice a week".
If there is no standard for behavior or "giving back" to earn one's keep, bad actors will bring everyone down.
Unless you can cite the source that they actually received that $17B it sure seems like you're looking to punish people for being poor rather than to fix the system which creates the environment and situations that lead to these outcomes. That's not going to work. It never has worked and it never will.
Maybe they would have been even more successful if they went to college?
The fact that someone succeeded without going to college says something good about them but it doesn’t necessarily follow that colleges are bad or that they’ve succeeded because they didn’t go to college.
My point is you don't need to go to college. I consider myself to be successful and this guy is definitely making much more than I am.
If college is worth it for everyone, why is there such a need for student loan forgiveness. If anything the market is self correcting since more and more people are skipping college entirely.
Why is that a problem? If you can’t find black people to hire, it means black people are not having problems finding employment.
Why do we expect the population to perfectly segment itself in such a way that every workplace has the correct percentage relative to some interpretation of the population?
This idea that black people are needed to provide some sort of black perspective on every team is so weird to me. You’re not your race and the type of black people who are qualified to work in top tier tech companies have more in common with the upper classes and college elites than they have with the stereotypical inner-city poor kid raised by a single mom.
> If you can’t find black people to hire, it means black people are not having problems finding employment.
Yeah, no, that's not how that works dude. That's so incredibly far from reality I don't even know where to begin.
> This idea that black people are needed to provide some sort of black perspective on every team is so weird to me.
Of course you can't fathom why an outside perspective is necessary... You don't suffer discrimination. You've never needed to care about how black people are treated, or what opportunities they have, or how their lack of representation in all walks of life hurts them. It's hurting them, not you.
The reason we care and want black representation on our teams, is we care about black people. That's pretty much it. There are other reasons ("diverse experience provides a wider perspective", "better serving customers who aren't white", etc) but the main one is just.... Wanting to be less shitty to black people. Expending slightly more effort to find and hire them is the very least thing we can do to move toward a more equitable world.
> the type of black people who are qualified to work in top tier tech companies have more in common with the upper classes and college elites than they have with the stereotypical inner-city poor kid raised by a single mom.
Um. No... So much wrong with that paragraph... Please don't repeat that at work... You would probably get repremanded, possibly fired. Holy crap dude.
Besides all the weird racial and class assumptions there... Just for your edification, from my own anecdotal experience, the black people I work with have very little in common with me, culturally, class-y, etc. We get along fine, but we do not have anywhere near the same background or experience, and I have a million times more privilege.
And besides all that, a lot of people in tech, who aren't black, don't come from an upper class or elite colleges. Maybe they do at FAANG? (If they do, I really don't wanna work there)
I don’t think this is accurate (and it is not in my experience)
levels.fyi puts the median salary for _juniors_ at 180k and the 90th percentile at 230k. The data is obviously imperfect but on average it’s fairly accurate. My personal experience also aligns with this.
Senior is around 300-500k and Staff/Manager can get extremely silly.
Rewards aside, credit card also offers things like extended warranty, travel insurance, chargeback protection. These things makes them invaluable to customers. I use my credit cards for everything because it’s strictly better than debit and it works everywhere.
Accepting credit cards is a net benefit for merchants, even accounting for fees due to increases in volume. This is just greed. They want access to the network without actually paying for the privilege.
It’s not entirely one-sided, customers do pay for the rewards: My 3 credit cards are costing me 1500$ per year in membership fees.
Tens of millions RPMs is the baseline and there’s massive, massive spikes for Black Friday or high profile events
It’s not Facebook/Google/Netflix traffic but it’s up there. Language is very rarely the bottleneck that people think it is