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by throwaway_45 8mo ago
China is playing the long game. They can go spend a trillion bucks and hire/steal the tech and they could destroy Taiwan's competitive advantage, and they could just economically crush them.
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Ask HNs: Junior Engineers Using ChatGPT?
5 points by throwaway_45 2y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway_45 3y ago
On aggregate people go were the money is. There are exceptions, but greed motivates a lot of smart ambitious people.
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by throwaway_45 3y ago
People go where the money is. It is capitalism. SV is where the money is so people are going to go there. Same as wall street before it. You want the best talent you pay the most money. With Europe paying so little compared to the US I don&
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by throwaway_45 3y ago
NN/ai concepts have been around for a while. It is just computers had not been fast enough to make it practical. It was also harder to get capital back then. Those guys put the silicon in silicon valley.
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by throwaway_45 5y ago
It really should be FG. Facebook and google pay way better than any of those other companies.
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by throwaway_45 5y ago
If robots are doing all the work how will people make money to buy the stuff the robots make? Is Jeff Bezos going to own the whole world or are we going to have another French revolution?
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by throwaway_45 5y ago
In general its a dirty process. There are a lot of toxic chemicals involved. People might get sick. Margins aren't as good as software and its very capital intensive so investors would rather invest in software. Lots of booms and bust
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Ask HN: How to Ask for a Raise?
4 points by throwaway_45 5y ago|3 comments
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by throwaway_45 6y ago
I guess you are right, but to me even streaming videos are downloaded to your computer. I also have seen the 30% number of other sites so I thought it looked reasonable.
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by throwaway_45 6y ago
35% of internet traffic is porn https://www.webroot.com/us/en/resources/tips-articles/intern...
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by throwaway_45 6y ago
This is terrible advice. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-way-fewer-actively-man... A vast majority of advisors (90%) aren't going to beat an index fund. You are just giving money away money by hiring an advi
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by throwaway_45 6y ago
They should just make the requirement 2x of US salary. If a company really needs a foreign talent then that should be no issue.
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by throwaway_45 6y ago
Are you white? I think Race has a big part of if you make it or not especially if you have committed a felony.
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by throwaway_45 7y ago
A bootcamp person can learn most of these things. It just seems with some of our recent hires they don't seem to want to learn this stuff or maybe it doesn't really matter for react devs. And these things do make a difference. L1
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Ask HN: Do you feel the quality of SWE has gone down?
58 points by throwaway_45 7y ago|89 comments
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by throwaway_45 7y ago
Just tax the employer 1x on H1b workers salary. If employee gets 100k then government gets a 100k. That will probably solve the h1b problem quickly. If employer truly believes this person is that valuable they will have no problem paying th
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by throwaway_45 7y ago
According to your calc An intermediate level engineer in sf makes more than a director level in Europe.
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by throwaway_45 7y ago
This guy stabbed his brother to death while sleeping. I mean that is a pretty bad crime. If he wasn't white would he have a job? Also checkr basically helps put people out of jobs by background checking them.
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by throwaway_45 7y ago
For a lot of kids its the only way out of the hood. Especially these kids in super 30. If they don't make it its back to poverty. If they get in they have the ability change their entire families socioeconomic status including parents
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by throwaway_45 7y ago
How hard can it be to make a wifi food scale? Why do you need data scientist. Inventory management is very well studied science. There are plenty of formulas to calculate optimal reordering points. You probably can use seasonal ARIMA to for
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by throwaway_45 8y ago
The US is not in the top 10. Despite being the country the most people want to come to. It has by far the most unicorns. More than the next three combined. They ding the US for education. Does it really matter when people want to come here?
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by throwaway_45 8y ago
This seems something apple like. I think Google is pretty evil now. The company needs to be replaced.
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by throwaway_45 8y ago
FB is monopoly at this point. Very few people there are irreplaceable. If this was was a startup you might have more leverage. Mr. Amerige probably doesn't have much here. Mr. Amerige is probably making good money. If he gets fired goo
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by throwaway_45 8y ago
PhDs need to be banned. It is basically bunch of professors who exploit a bunch of graduate students from foreign countries. The professors controls the visa which effectively controls the student. The worst offenders are usually the Foreig
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by throwaway_45 8y ago
India is a country with a huge split. There is a lot of rich people and and a lot of poor people. This is the only chance a lot of these kids have to get out of their situation. We complain about america's social safety net well India&
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by throwaway_45 9y ago
The median household income in DC is 75k. So you are making 130-160k you are way above the median. Everyone doesn't make 300k. Its like HN exists in its own universe.
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by throwaway_45 9y ago
I understand this might be a security issue, and I guess Checkmarx gets their name out. You can tell if someone swipped left or right on someone. However how is this information useful for someone?
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by throwaway_45 9y ago
Cali has a 67% higher gdp than canada. Texas has the same gdp as Canada despite having 2/3rd the number of people. I just think the importance of the H1B is a little overblown, but I am not opposed to to it either. I think if you can m
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by throwaway_45 9y ago
This is not going to be a popular opinion. My opinion has kind of changed on H1B people. I have talked to a bunch of these folks and they were hating on other immigrants. Some of the people from South American countries are basically are co

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