And here I am in the UK, where the brackets have been frozen until 2028 (if they don't invent some reason to freeze further).

Freezing tax brackets is a somewhat stealthy way to shift the tax burden to lower income households as it’s less obviously a tax increase.

I don't have a horse in this race nor a particular interest in US elections but I don't think your definition of popular vote is the commonly used one (i.e. candidate doesn't have to have more than 50% to win it).

Correct. Trump won the popular vote with a plurality, they didn’t win the majority of voters.

Still the case. It’s a good system IMO. My team is low toil and low page it’s basically free money/time off

I agree, it incentivises SREs to reduce pager toil.

Can't say for other companies but they came for engineers as well at Google.

My dad used to be in the refill business selling parts, inks and all needed to get it done. Im not sure about this particular model but the DRM can be worked around in a couple of ways: swapping for a 3rd party drm chip, using a reset device or some older models just click “print anyway”.

Edit: typo

I’d imagine things could be worse nowadays.

He used to buy products from an American company so it should be available in the US too.

Feel bad for those employees, being on the line of fire myself at Google and waiting to find out if I have a job next month.

That being said, how on Earth has Disney managed to screw up 10 years of Marvel success? They spread themselves too thin trying to create too many shows without proper planning. And that's only focusing on Marvel. They also managed to piss people off with their half-assed Star Wars trilogy, to the point that you can clearly perceive directors going into different and incompatible paths for films that should build on the predecessor.

Edit: They should be two franchises that print money, but instead we get the current headlines.

Do you think those 7000 people are working on Marvel or Star Wars? Or that Disney is a charity?

I have to say, I really enjoy using Google monorepo and all tools available to me.

Having said that, it's not free of course. There are many engineering teams and computer power being invested to provide this environment to all googlers.

The lack of good content from Hollywood lately has been pushing me towards cancelling streaming services and buying used old favorites from a local store (going as low as £0.50 a pop) and buying blu-rays of the new ones I'm interested in.

I know they will always available for a rewatch and I don't have to finance the whole bunch of canned crap they have been putting out.

While i can find all manner of esoteric, oddball things to watch on the streaming services - which admittedly are not major studio movies - my partner feels the same as you. They lament that many of the services lack "big budget films" (as they put it)! :-)

Being hard to understand is kind of the point. If everyone understood how modern banking really works they wouldn't be so happy about it.

Google is hiring in Munich too. I couldn't find public salary information on salaries there though. I'd say it's competitive enough that I'd be willing to relocate from London there.

Disclaimer: I work for Google. Words my own.

Thanks. According levels.fyi L5 might have this base salary. Funny thing is that none of these salaries are for the roles working with hardware. As electrical engineer I am sad about this situation.