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by 0xbear 9y ago
In borderline hire/promote situations committees are more likely to hire (and promote) women than men. If you don't know that, you haven't been on a committee. It's not that much help, but it's help nevertheless.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
As a former Googler: bullshit. If anything, Google gives women all the help they can possibly get, including preferential treatment during recruitment, hiring, and promotions. If this is not enough, I'm not sure what else they could do
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I don't see why you can't. Most of their articles do that. Truth is often mundane, people wouldn't click through.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's a low information market with zero competition. Allow import of drugs. Allow insurance to operate across state lines. That's what Trump was suggesting during his campaign. I'd go further, though, and stimulate the flow o
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Coming up next: Russian government bans US software on government machines. Microsoft delivers large bags of money to McCain (unless he kicks the bucket by then) and Rubio. Senators recant.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It boggles the mind that some people think that utter and complete feathering and tarring of Trump in the runup to the election can even be interpreted as any kind of "enablement". My point was, the dude is not as clueless as the
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by 0xbear 9y ago
If you feel like you can do a better job of winning an election against a Clinton and the entirety of mainstream media, you should run in 2020. Against Trump, naturally, so we confirm the hypothesis.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
In other words, Putin was right all along about this.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And that is why, whenever you hear that "science is settled" on something, you know for sure you're talking to a politician or/and a charlatan.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Well, sounds like you got things moving in pretty exciting directions. Congratulations on becoming a dad!
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Google actually had to dial down the bonuses circa 2011. For one thing, to keep the comp looking competitive, it makes sense to have a larger component, because until this rebalancing bases were unimpressive there. For another too large a b
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what career path did you end up pursuing?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Fine print: software will be ready in 2050.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That's not safe to say either. I've read that EVs take more energy to manufacture as well.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
No, you'd likely not see anywhere near the 14% reduction. Electricity has to come from somewhere. In a lot of US states that "somewhere" contains a significant fraction of coal and gas.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Fairness is super subjective, so in reality people just want preferential treatment.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I like PyTorch better as well. Note however, that one of its dependencies, gloo, comes with the infamous PATENT addendum. You won't be using it unless you do distributed training tho.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Google does have an office in Paris, though.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
What's a "batchelor" degree? If you meant "bachelor", I was quite pleased to see that the surgeon who was about to operate on me also had a pre-med engineering degree from MIT.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Do you apply this line of reasoning to your doctors and lawyers as well?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Certainly more relevance than a Music degree. Having been a security researcher in the past would have helped too, but that's not on the menu either. I would like to understand the thought process that resulted in hiring a Music major
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It basically says she very likely doesn't know a damn thing about how computers work, let alone how to make large, critical systems secure.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Manages about 20 people.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Not The Onion: Equifax's "chief security officer" majored in Music Composition: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-m-93069a/ . How did she even get this job?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Rented. He used to pay mortgage but felt too "tied down" and sold the house.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Lots of travel to exotic destinations, huge house in an expensive neighborhood, fancy car upgrade every couple of years, huge tax bill. All gone.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I know a dude who makes $800k/yr and still lives paycheck to paycheck. Lack of savings is not necessarily caused by lower income. People tend to shovel money out the door as quickly as it comes in.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
There was an article in WSJ yesterday highlighting the hypocrisy of Big Tech when it comes to Net Neutrality. Everyone keeps railing against telecoms that they might start censoring things or making them unprofitable, while there isn't
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Motorola #2, here we come. In and out in 2 years or less.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Hopefully a renaissance in vocational training will follow. We have plenty of English major burger flippers as it is.

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