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by 40acres 8y ago
I'm concerned that a company like Intel, makers of some of the most valuable IP in the world, decided to invest in a foreign country instead of it's own when a company like Amazon -- which has great IP but don't get me wrong
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by 40acres 8y ago
Great response dude. I'm so concerned because China is moving up the economic ladder when it comes to production. China is no longer a place where the British own the land and the people make T-shirts. These guys are stepping it up, Ch
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by 40acres 8y ago
The waters are muddy because there is no standard to identify what exactly a nano-meter process entails. My personal belief is that feature size will not contribute to the absolute performance of a chip as it has in the past. Packaging tech
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by 40acres 8y ago
Yes absolutely, and look -- this is not to say that Intel does not have strict guidelines and processes that protect information. Certain things are definitely need to know around here. However, Intel is a business and if they've calcu
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by 40acres 8y ago
Full disclosure, I work for Intel. We have a fabrication plant in Chengdu, it's public knowledge that this fab is helping to manufacture products built on the latest process technology. As I've come to learn more about China'
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by 40acres 8y ago
I'm a city boy so mind the ignorance, but who is buying up all the trucks? I get the allure of a nice SUV/crossover, my next car will probably be one since I think the space is useful for when thinking about starting a family, but
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by 40acres 8y ago
Not surprising but definitely adds to the icky feeling surrounding Sandberg and Zuckerberg. Interestingly enough I think Scott Galloway makes some great points, Sandberg is probably the most powerful woman in tech right now, it's proba
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by 40acres 8y ago
The scariest thing about China's authoritarian tendencies is that they are more powerful than the USSR or Nazi Germany ever imagined; not to say that this is where I think China will end up... but we're dealing with a completely d
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by 40acres 8y ago
When I was in Boston and her in NYC we would drive up every other weekend to visit. I moved to the west coast and tried to make one trip every other month while we did the long distance thing.. she eventually got a job at my company and for
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by 40acres 8y ago
Everyone around us is fighting their own little war. I've felt similarly to the writer -- I moved out of my childhood home the day after graduating college and started work that Monday. I only moved 215 miles (NYC to Boston), but it fe
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by 40acres 8y ago
If you're serious about this a "white male" ERG is probably not politically correct (sorry). I'd probably just go with a "special interest group" not tied to race or gender. A gaming club, pickup sports club,
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by 40acres 8y ago
I think of these groups as a shallow proxy for common interests, as mentioned I've seen ERG type groups at my company that don't have to deal with sexual, racial, gender, etc identity. These groups are similar to an ice breaker in
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by 40acres 8y ago
I've found that even if an ERG was created around a particular identity that does not mean that you have to have that identity to be welcome, for instance -- everyone looks forward to when the Indian ERG throws a party because the food
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by 40acres 8y ago
These relationships can extend far beyond work. I've had dinner at the home of department heads where work related topics barely came up, I've played soccer and became work out buddies with folks. I know others who babysit each ot
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by 40acres 8y ago
The average American spends too much time at work to not have some sort of social, not 100% related to work, activities and groups that they can be apart of. As a black employee I'm very plugged in the employee resource group for black
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Facebook has a problem with black people, former employee charges(usatoday.com)
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by 40acres 8y ago
The price of Bitcoin has been shown to be influenced by a small number of holders, I don't understand why any government would allow for services to be paid with such a volatile "currency"
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by 40acres 8y ago
Reading through these comments is actually kind of hilarious, HN is definitely embracing The Grinch just in time for the holidays.
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by 40acres 8y ago
If you occasionally come by the lastest findings in research, as one is want to do on HackerNews, and have also sat center court at a tennis match, you'll realize that both experiences are pretty much the same. I don't know if thi
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by 40acres 8y ago
You could argue that stealing IP is necessary fuel for any striving world power. As bad as China is with respect to IP abuse we need to realize that they are ready to turn the corner and start developing IP of their own. China is too self-r
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by 40acres 8y ago
You're correct, it might be too soon to say mastered. But they are striking a balance that has not been seen in the modern world, the fact that their economy is so strong and so central to the global economy is a very big advantage. It
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by 40acres 8y ago
China has mastered the balancing act between authoritarian and free market policies. In a way, the West's persistence that eventually prosperity would lead to Democratic policies always seemed a bit condescending and short sighted to m
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by 40acres 8y ago
In reading the WW1 series of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast (highly recommended by the way) it seems part of what led to the scale of destruction caused by WW1 was the relative peace between the end of the Napoleanoic Wars and 1
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by 40acres 8y ago
I had a long chat with a senior engineer at Amazon a few days ago and this migration came up, apparently the first whispers that lead to this migration occurred back in 2010. Just goes to show how long it takes to complete these projects at
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by 40acres 8y ago
I was also just in San Francisco (also from Brooklyn!) and noticed this as well. Downtown SF has all the look and feel of a global city, think Manhattan or Tokyo. Once you get into the western half of the city it seems like a nice quaint Eu
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by 40acres 8y ago
There's something really awesome about reading an in-depth report like this, especially when you can feel the enthusiasm of the author. Dope work as always.
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by 40acres 8y ago
The Macbook and iPhone lines are really mature. They've both been around for a decade now, Apple is doing a good job of continuing to squeeze the juice out of these fruits and these sort of strategies are textbook when it comes to exec
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by 40acres 8y ago
I smoke a lot of weed (it's been legal in Oregon since 2014) and support Nationwide legalization, but I am fully aware of the risks and think we need to be absolutely clear and honest about them. My brother began smoking weed in high s
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by 40acres 8y ago
I'm not particularly interested in starting a start up so I've never looked this up, but are conventional small buisness loans impossible to get for an internet based buisness? From a lay persons view it seems like handing out sma
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by 40acres 8y ago
Postmortems are always really interesting, if you're preparing for an interview where system design will be discussed you could do worse than incorporate reading a couple to help in preparation.

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