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by throwaway84742 8y ago
And yet he still has 4 billion dollars and is a president of the US. Must be pretty good at negotiating.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Trade negotiations are underway. This is a part of that, as was the initial ban. Trump does this again and again: he creates leverage in the form of negative consequences should he walk away from the table. Then he gives some of it back muc
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
We pay this much to strong PhDs with a good publication record. So do Google and FB. Must be able to code really well, though.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Competent big data folks still pull down $300-400k fairly easily. I’m talking about people who _really_ understand the field and have a track record, not “graduates with a degree”.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Au contraire, my friend, it’s only in the beginning of an upward hockey stick.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Not for top AI talent. That starts at $400k/yr
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
It could use spikes and/or go on all fours in “fast” mode. It’s whatever you design. My main point though is not mechanics, but the significantly lower reaction time. Given enough compute, the world that seems “real time” to us could a
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
As Elon Musk quipped, in a few years this thing will move so fast you’ll need a strobe to see it. It’s not subject to the human reaction time or mechanical constraints.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Are you sure? This means the whole grant vests in 2.5 years. Their vesting period used to be much longer than that.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
A slightly larger version of Sand Flea seems like a better fit. Disposable, can be deployed relatively cheaply in large quantities, with good camo nearly invisible on the ground, can scale obstacles by jumping. Could be made to carry a frag
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
All of this is _very_ recent.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Not playing the money game is dangerous as well. Like it or not, money is a potent signaling mechanism. The more you’re able to charge, the better you’re treated, the easier it is to get access to “cool” jobs and projects, and the easier it
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Didn’t know. Then, Microsoft, take notice. :-)
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
They are also not meant to do R&D. For one thing they don’t pay market rate, so their access to top talent is non-existent. For another, there’s no accountability and no “fear of death”, since the government essentially can’t run out of
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
This sounds like an excellent way to burn a trillion dollars with no tangible result. Government == money black hole, with very few exceptions.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
I heard FB starts vesting monthly right away these days, which imo is absolutely the way it should be. Google, take notice.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
And Charlie Gard would have disagreed with Stephen had the court not decided that he should die. There is another high profile ALS sufferer in the US: Jason Becker, a super virtuoso guitarist popular in the 80s, tragically afflicted at the
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Nothing wrong with chasing money and status, especially in the initial stages of one’s career. If that’s what _really_ makes him/her tick, great. Money especially tends to have multiplicative effect over time, most jobs you take will n
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Not in my case. I’ve asked them numerous times to remove my email, it subsides for a while and then comes back at the same rate.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
I heard FB is good as well, though I still don’t get why they need so many people to do what they do. Heck, even MS is probably better than Amazon. I delete all Amazon recruiter emails (of which I receive about 2 per week) as soon as they a
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Seems like you wouldn’t like universal healthcare then, where such things happen to _everybody_.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
>> and neither would Lenin I grew up in the USSR, and this is news to me. Do you have evidence in favor of this claim?
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Pretty sure there will be a lawsuit. What kind of Gattaca/1984 bullshit is this, the state where everything causes cancer? How did CA techies not rebel about this?
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Even if Google cured cancer, Gruber would still find a way to complain. According to him, tech is only flawless when it comes from Apple.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Époisses is my favorite “smelly” cheese. Smells like bum’s dirty socks. Put it on a slice of baguette, and you will forgive the smell. Favorite cheese of Napoleon Bonaparte, IIRC.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
How is Trump a “despot”? Please explain.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Millennials. They think it’ll work this time. Just as soon as we shoot everyone who disagrees, the eternal utopia will arrive.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Except of course there’s no “rehabilitation of Nazi Germany in alt right circles”. They despise that shit as much as the liberals do. Don’t believe everything CNN tells you.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
That’s what scares me. As the generations who experienced the “utopia” first hand die off, new generations are born who think “it’ll work this time”. Nothing that goes so fundamentally against human nature will ever work.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
They aren’t exactly A-list actors either.

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