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lambo4bkfast | 3 years ago | on: Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts

Providing my anecdata. I've been at amazon for a few years and I have been in a few teams. In each team I would see about 10-20% of the team were not a net benefit to the team. Especially in 2022 I saw this figure grow even larger. This isn't a charity, if you're not contributing to the benefit of the company you should be let go.

lambo4bkfast | 3 years ago | on: Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout

Taxpayers do have an obligation to ensure that I do not view my checking account as a risky loan to the bank... It is not a positive outcome for taxpayers if they no longer view their deposits as safe. $250k is also a ridiculously low insurance amount for any company with a non-trivial number of employees.

lambo4bkfast | 3 years ago | on: Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout

They are blameless is my point. The depositor has zero responsibility to evaluate the bank's balance sheet. Not ensuring the depositors are made whole will risk a run on all regional banks throughout the country starting tomorrow morning. We will then see a consolidation of deposits into the top 4, too big to fail banks; hardly a progressive outcome.

lambo4bkfast | 3 years ago | on: Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout

The government's responsibility is to ensure the integrity of our financial banks. It isn't the responsibility of the depositor, nor are they capable, to evaluate a regional bank's (the 18th largest bank in the USA) balance sheet. The FDIC is not without blame; there should be regulation that the bank's bonds should have been marked to the market.

This is akin to blaming a patient for medical malpractice — "why didn't the patient choose a better doctor".

lambo4bkfast | 3 years ago | on: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

Mick West is a layman; a former software engineer. Not sure why you would trust his "expertise" over one of America's top pilots. Also I strongly question West's biases. His whole schtick is saying everything is a hoax and heres why; this leads to confirmation bias when your conclusion is that it is an optical illusion from the onset of the investigation.

lambo4bkfast | 3 years ago | on: Negative-weight single-source shortest paths in near-linear time

Ah yes you're correct. Fibonacci heap's aren't usually used in most applications of dijkstra's algorithm (such as road networks) though because trading an O(logn) heap.decrease_key operation for an O(1) heap.decrease_key operation, but getting a slower heap.delete_min operation (by a constant factor) isn't worth it.

This is because there are much fewer heap.decrease_key operations on average than Dijkstra's worst case analysis suggests. The expected number of heap.decrease_key operations is not large enough to offset the loss in average runtime for the heap.delete_min operation.

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