uerobert

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by uerobert 4y ago
20pt font sizes goes brrr!
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by uerobert 4y ago
Every single PS2 I ever saw growing up was bought in the US (I grew up in a third world country). Consoles in big box stores here were outrageously expensive, like 3 to 4 times the price in the US. It was cheaper to fly to the US to buy one
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by uerobert 5y ago
Who gets to keep the nukes?
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by uerobert 5y ago
What do you mean? All the APIs (Xcode SDK, Metal, ML, etc) required to build on their devices are very well documented.
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by uerobert 6y ago
That “independently verified” part was that they talked with the same source and were told the same thing.
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by uerobert 7y ago
How? In my country for example there is a surge of US companies setting shop here just to hire local devs, and a lot more hiring remote, when their products have presence only in the US. Each year the number keep increasing.
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by uerobert 7y ago
Why the hell would companies sell their stock to raise money to buy their own stock again? That doesn't make sense. If they want to do stock buybacks they just borrow money to do it, but only if interest rates are low enough. In most c
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by uerobert 7y ago
> Union endorsements are valuable, union money, union member donations. This is why a lot of people oppose unions. You could be contributing for causes you actively oppose, and on top of that against your will.
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by uerobert 7y ago
They are already doing that, hence SV salaries.
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by uerobert 7y ago
Facebook is competing with other FAANG [et al] companies for talent, and not all of them are in the same sector. Their market position is only relevant in that it allows them to compete for the kind of talent that $300k a year can buy, and
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by uerobert 7y ago
Any of the Rockstar Games studios, Naughty Dog, SCE Santa Monica, Bungie, Epic Games, any of the main Activision-Blizzard (Ininity Ward, Treyarcht) or EA studios (Respawn), etc... basically any major studio rarely hire straight out of colle
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by uerobert 7y ago
Most do not get multi-million-dollar pay , hell a lot of people there barely make a living. The reason there is an union there is because a lot of those same people would work for free to get a chance at making it in the industry (interns
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by uerobert 7y ago
Game dev is not a low barrier to entry industry. It is WAY easier to get a SDE job at a FAANG straight out of college than it is to get a job as a programmer at a big name studio, even with experience.
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by uerobert 7y ago
This is what is known as Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_cash_advance , nearly every business with at least $20k credit/debit card sales a year has access to through their payment
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by uerobert 7y ago
Correction: Facebook has struggled to hire talent [from top universities] since the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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by uerobert 8y ago
Why do you think that is?
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by uerobert 8y ago
She's dumb because she thinks NYC now has 3 billions stacked somewhere that can now be used for other things like, the subway system, schools, teacher salaries, firefighters, farting cows, the unwilling to work, etc.
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by uerobert 8y ago
Health insurance or insurance in general is a low margin business, and whatever margin they have is mostly through investing the premiums they collected before paying it out in claims. Most insurers pay more in claims than they get in premi
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by uerobert 8y ago
Anne Wojcicki
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by uerobert 9y ago
Alipay and Tenpay.