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by safog 6mo ago
I hope I'm wrong but I don't think a privacy friendly alternative is going to exist. It's going to go the way of show me your drivers license to use my site.
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by safog 2y ago
What happens if / when you eventually find a job? Can you file another change of status to a H1B? Does the status of the original change of status app matter? (e.g., can you apply for a COS to H1 while the COS to H4 is still pending?)
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by safog 2y ago
This is great! Thank you. I'm trying to figure out where I can stash the link so I don't forget about it.
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by safog 2y ago
Old man yells at cloud vibes. If these services were so devoid of value, competitors will spring up and eat their lunch. Capitalism still works. Silicon valley startups have made their money disrupting broken customer experiences in basical
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by safog 2y ago
Hi - could you tell me a little bit more about the interview process at HRT? Is it your standard FAANG-style leetcode / system design interviews? Or is it more math focused?
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by safog 2y ago
faux pas from a time traveler
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by safog 3y ago
We're barreling towards an internet that requires an id before you can use it. It's a bit upsetting but I don't harbor the early 2000s naiveté about the free internet where regulation doesn't exist, the data exchange hap
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by safog 3y ago
FAO: People who're claiming GenAi will replace artist jobs. It might happen but it's extremely difficult even using state of the art models like stable diffusion v6 to get consistent results. There's usually some part or the
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by safog 3y ago
I think HN should come up with its own Internet Artifact Museum :) I'm happy to collab if folks want to.
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by safog 3y ago
r/cscareerquestions is pretty good even if most people there are the leetcode griding new college grads.
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by safog 3y ago
It also seems like you have to be wary of the tax consequences here. Who do you pay on the payroll? If it's a US Citizen in America it's one thing, but if it's anything else, then you may tax issues.
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by safog 3y ago
I assume they can manipulate their currency w/o making it obvious. Is there any thing else that might be a problem?
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by safog 3y ago
And yet somehow it's better to say transformer models and not AI?
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by safog 3y ago
It reads like your standard west coast liberal eat the rich piece. You need more unbiased economic analysis than that.
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by safog 3y ago
Big tech would much rather commoditize the telcos and treat them as dumb pipes. You don't have to eat everyone upstream of you, as long as you capture most of the value and leave some bits to the commodity suppliers it's fine. On
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by safog 3y ago
> They are sitting on too much deposits as is, but even without that fact it is purely greed - or, to use another phrasing, it’s the right business decision for maximizing profits. They literally have no reason to improve returns on depo
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by safog 3y ago
Why don't larger banks (who presumably have hedged properly) not pay a real interest on deposits at this point? I don't think it's just greed. The current bank of america / chase interest rate on savings accounts is 0.01
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by safog 3y ago
I'm not sure of the mechanics, I know for a fact that most people are moving $ to brokerages and parking it in something like VMFXX (or equivalents in Fidelity etc.) Do you know what the mechanics are when you put some money in to VMFX
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by safog 3y ago
I don't think it's that simple. Banks bought up a bunch of US treasuries at close to nothing interest rates during the last two years. This is where a bank typically parks their cash reserves because the audit requirements require
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by safog 3y ago
It's not worth discussing this because the reasons are well documented. You need to adjust for cost of living, universities, hospitals, non profits don't pay as much etc. There is a prevailing wage determination check for granting
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by safog 3y ago
I mean.. sure. There are still more job openings for SWEs than there are SWEs. The inflated comps from the last few years are an outlier, as long as you don't expect that you should find a job pretty quickly.
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by safog 3y ago
Seems like a home building problem then. Even if you're right (big if given out of country investment from rich Chinese ancestors was the cause of the Canadian housing bubble in the first place), you're ignoring the tax receipts a
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by safog 3y ago
You're not going to have doctor salaries for engineers by cutting immigration. Jobs will just move elsewhere.
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by safog 3y ago
There was also a lot of propping up of currencies that happened due to dollar strength. A lot of central banks sold UST they held for their local currency to stop currency free fall as rates rose. This is a symptom of rates rising really qu
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by safog 3y ago
Engineers are getting paid 200k p/y out of school and you think there's some magical downward pressure on wages? Even now companies are giving up on the legal immigration system and hiring outside the US. Canada has a much saner s
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by safog 3y ago
And yet.. unemployment at 3.4%. Do you know any unemployed engineers?
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by safog 3y ago
And so it's a meaningless correlation. Telsa has a 30% margin too. Do you want to lump them along with Apple and MSFT?
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by safog 3y ago
Organic growth towards computing and digital does that. Time spent online is increasing, services are getting better, people are moving to the cloud from on-prem etc. etc. It's not a zero sum game right now. The moment FAANGs are in a
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by safog 3y ago
The cat's out of the bag now, it doesn't take a genius PM to work it out. Maybe a genius PM could've worked out how revolutionary generative AI is going to be pre- chat GPT release but I really doubt that a random MBA who kno
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by safog 3y ago
It was never the happiest place on earth for a lot of the non-creative types. No idea how the creatives at Disney felt. For instance, they used to have unpaid interns do full days at theme parks in-character and people would fly all the way

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