mrdodge

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by mrdodge 7y ago
You didn't address this idea that nuclear power does not require Iran to enrich uranium. The deal seems faulty if they can still enrich uranium, regardless if they were following it or not.
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by mrdodge 7y ago
My experience is the EDI and debugger depedent programmers have a very hard time when those things are taken away or unavailable. The reverse is not true.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
A lot of the good German engineers are in the US.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
Those were produced pre-FAANG, Boeing probably paid comparatively better then. Do the smartest software engineers flock to Boeing in 2019? I think the relatively low pay and status of software engineers outside of the Bay Area is a huge ris
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by mrdodge 8y ago
How good are Boeing's software engineers? They don't seem to pay very well.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
So in Romania it's basically the same percentage of income as in the US.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
I pay $70 a month for gigabit AT&T fiber in a southern city, 10 miles from the city center.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
I think a lot of the problem is education. Without education a lot of these ideas wouldn't occur.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
It probably has less to do with markets than the university training city planner types get.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
This is pure chauvinism, like claiming NASA is 50% Indian. Silicon Valley was the dominant tech center of the world well before the H1B.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
What was the salary of mechanical engineer vs an average American worker a hundred years ago? I saw this a while ago and I don't remember the exact numbers, but the multiple was far higher than it is today (something like 10x). Softwar
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by mrdodge 8y ago
We've become a nation of employees.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
What was different about America that small towns thrived? The economic system is short sighted, and doesn't always have to drive politics - this may be a recent phenomena.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
That's a different Cromwell.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
> have a ton of redundant jobs because of their inability to make needed structural changes because of the work councils and labor laws. How will they able to adapt to truly focus on electric cars then? Especially when that means many of
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by mrdodge 8y ago
It's going to get even more extreme in the near future. Tesla is embarrassing all of the German auto manufacturers mightily. I think they'll need one or two to go down before they break out of their complacency.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
Sure, but they are smart at the industries of the past. Will bureaucratic Germany be able to adapt? I don't think so. Take electric cars for instance. Much simpler than traditional cars. Will devastate the Mittelstand.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
It's an interesting thought. Does German really have a prayer in this space? Making breakthroughs in this space isn't something just any trained student can do. The best all work for American tech companies... German co's don
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by mrdodge 8y ago
They'd probably get more return by 'encouraging' Google and American tech companies to open bigger offices.
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by mrdodge 8y ago
> This moves economic resources in the US to less competitive industries. Is this really true? Does having industries like furniture-making really make it so we don't have Google?
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by mrdodge 9y ago
It's only declining in the places where people give a shit about the Planet in these terms.
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by mrdodge 9y ago
He was mistaken. It's almost a million in profit.
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by mrdodge 9y ago
It's going to get a lot worse, now that these people have been forced out of power in goverment, they will turn their eye to other things.
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by mrdodge 9y ago
A lot of the H1Bs are more skilled at resume stuffing than any actual technical skills.
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by mrdodge 9y ago
I think people from family oriented cultures will be less likely to come here if they can't bring everyone over.
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by mrdodge 9y ago
I bet we'll see more women get into IT and software engineering once the industry becomes more diverse. 90% H1-Bs, most from truly misogynistic countries has more impact on the lack of women in IT than some bros.
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by mrdodge 9y ago
This country survived before H1B immigration. One could say we actually had relatively more rapid technological progress during the time in which we had the least immigration.
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by mrdodge 9y ago
The privacy and security concerns?
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by mrdodge 9y ago
I haven't used anything Microsoft in 5 years.
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by mrdodge 9y ago
More like nearly $80 billion in yearly ad revenue. $20 billion is their profit.

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