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by ghein 8y ago
No controls for any other industry - if you want an H1b, bid. So anyone who desperately needs someone on a visa can get them. Low-end body shops go away and a bunch of industries that are being cheap don't get their visas. This is call
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by ghein 8y ago
I'm appalled at the lack of ethics in civil and mechanical engineering! Automotive engineers willfully destroyed opportunity for stablehands, whip manufacturers, and train conductors out of hundreds of other occupations annihilated. Ci
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by ghein 8y ago
Sometimes you catch a spy, fire them, and have them arrested. Sometimes you identify, feed them false information, and watch who they talk to... Sometimes you screw up. There can be good reasons for GE/FBI/CIA to let a spy keep th
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by ghein 8y ago
The reward function was horrible! You need good sightlines for the kids, room for desks, and need to ensure kids aren't isolated in a corner. Plus light (not just to a small courtyard), ability to escape in case of fire or other emerge
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by ghein 8y ago
It all comes down to how explicitly preferences are originally understood and then if the reward function can incorporate implicit analysis. There have been recent studies about AI powered shirt design - the original input uses existing des
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by ghein 8y ago
The proposal was fine and jail for repeat offences, now it's been kicked to "review". Like Seattle's job tax once you get serious attention on something, not to mention the teeming hordes of trial lawyers drooling at the
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by ghein 8y ago
Many pensions have ambitious assumptions of 7 or 8% annual returns. S&P went from 1565 Oct 07 2007 to 735.09 Feb 27 2009. We're now up to 2818 but if we had delivered 8% since october 07 we'd be at 3649 by this Oct 5. So we&#x
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by ghein 8y ago
Well said! Too many critics focus on pure dollar optimizing rather than value optimizing. We all have different value maximization functions - if you understand that dollars are just one type of value so called irrational behaviour is coldl
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by ghein 8y ago
The second part of your analogy is off. It's not billiard physics to general relativity, it's billiard physics to fluid dynamics and predicting the exact route of a stick through a set of rapids. In economics our biggest complaint
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by ghein 8y ago
This is exactly why people have been screaming about this problem for a couple of decades. It is going to be HUGE and do incredible damage. Retirees will be hurt catastrophically, costs of government borrowing will skyrocket, programs will
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by ghein 8y ago
A major problem is that this is a case of I'll be gone, you'll be gone. The union leaders and the politicians - typically in their 50 to 70s - who made the promises will be dead by the time the 25 year old new hires try to collec
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by ghein 8y ago
The guarantees - constitutional in some states - are what will cause the problem to be bigger. When you can't resolve unsustainable debt without bankruptcy, then you will go bankrupt and credit rating be damned. Detroit, Chicago, Illin
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by ghein 8y ago
There are political choices behind the decline in infrastructure. It costs NYC $2.1B per mile to build the Second Ave subway while in Europe it costs $200-500M per mile. There's California High Speed Rail, and then there's just th
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by ghein 8y ago
In 2005 (pre bankruptcy) each GM car had $1525 worth of health care costs and $675 worth of pension cost built into the price. So $2200 was being spent on benefits for a population that had 1 worker for every 2.5 retirees. In California, Sc
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by ghein 8y ago
When you're designing or building some things you are just GOING to kill people. The right decision in designing a car (centre of gravity, stopping distance, thickness of gas tank) WILL kill many people. Incompetence killing people is
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by ghein 8y ago
It comes down to this question: are they Viaweb or are they Amazon? If they're Viaweb then they should only do "taxi-like" stuff and should throw away all the automation and other businesses. If they're Amazon then they
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by ghein 8y ago
We praise "peer review" without understanding/acknowledging that there are few peers and little review. The aphorism "science advances one funeral at a time" is saddeningly true. The more rigorous areas are those wi
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by ghein 8y ago
Salt to hypertension thesis has been hit with a number of problems recently. As have many other "known" results in dietary and epidemiological studies. Current research suggests that while salt is bad for people WITH hypertension
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by ghein 8y ago
It's because the language and approach with respect to Asians (and specifically Chinese, Korean, Japanese backgrounds) echoes the explicitly racist efforts of top universities, especially Harvard, in the early 20th Century against Jews
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by ghein 8y ago
This is a very good and detailed list, includes some of the things that I did in my sales process. One thing to add is that for each company you should reach out to MANY people. CEO is a key target and the prototypical person to be involved
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by ghein 8y ago
The Romans were claiming a link to the Trojan war in their origin myths! Prominent Romans would "discover" an ancestral link to a named hero... While the Japanese Royal Family claimed descent from a God.
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by ghein 8y ago
I've sold a company in your space. Reach me on gmail gramerhein at...
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by ghein 8y ago
There's a reason why most contests state that you have to be 18 to participate. It's generally overlooked for free fries but for real prizes you need an adult to claim them. Like teenagers that sneak in to a casino - they can win
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by ghein 8y ago
The people doing the rigging were looking to hit targets and get bigger bonuses. There was pressure up and down, depending on personal and corporate positions. There were also issues in terms of perceived stability of the reporting bank - d
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by ghein 8y ago
Do you believe in free speech? Do you believe in free choice? Do you think that individuals in a city/state/country should be able to talk to others in a different city/state/country? Is the Great Firewall of China a goo
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by ghein 8y ago
What people? Google is a Delaware Corporation with substantial operations in California. Who runs it in your ideal world? The people of Delaware? US federal government? If you want a different Google for each jurisdiction, how small down do
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by ghein 8y ago
There's just no way Android's acquisition would or could have been stopped. Google bought it in July 05, one year after IPO. The smartest phones available were the Blackberry 7750, Motorola Q, and Palm Treo. Google had $3B in reve
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by ghein 8y ago
People here really misunderstand and misapply the concept of economically viable to extract. As cheaper sources are exhausted, the more expensive ones become viable. So we won't run out on the projected time horizon. The main reason wh
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by ghein 8y ago
Most benefits are taxable at least in part. Health is the most tax advantaged, and then retirement. Comes from WWII era rules aimed to prevent wage increases.
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by ghein 8y ago
The challenge in building Enterprise SaaS is that you don't know what the right price ceiling is or how to differentiate your customers & products. You need to charge enough to have a business and not too much to scare people away.

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