ElonMuskrat

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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Our two positions are not mutually exclusive. The price of even a top-line gaming rig could drop significantly over the next 10-20 years.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
I'm on the fence on Stadia - compute hardware prices keep dropping like a rock. What if we see viable $200 gaming rigs in 10 years? But I digress Google can utilize dark GPU hardware for numerous tasks. For example, YouTube video trans
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Google is always building new data centers to handle traffic growth for their own services. GCP infrastructure wouldn't be turned off, but re-purposed for internal growth.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
You can ask the new company to match your unvested equity at current market value.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Pretty hard to take climate change reporting seriously. The media is an amplifier that only publishes the most alarmist scientific findings, always blanketed in paragraphs of the editors own apocalyptic interpretation. Climate science is co
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
> 8. Sprinkling printf statements is an efficient debugging technique. Ouch. This is my bread and butter.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Entertaining your supposition, how would one even filter out such candidates?
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
I thought fairly standard industry practice prohibits prod access ACLs to engineers inside China or Russia.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
You are putting words into my mouth. Plenty of individuals pursue high-paying jobs because the financial security it provides their family [including children, spouse, and possibly infirm parents]; and to pay back the student loan burden th
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Our best and brightest don't go into government because the government does not offer competitive compensation.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
> In fact outside of an IPO you are not investing into a company, but just trading a piece of a pie that already existed. This assertion is false. The purchase of shares creates upwards pressure on the stock price, which reduces cost of
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
You are confusing speculation with growth investment. They are not the same.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
> Non-finance people seem to think the stock market only exists for investing, which isn’t true at all. In fact outside of an IPO you are not investing into a company, but just trading a piece of a pie that already existed. The stock mar
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Credit Suisse's website should display a counter with the heading: "Days since last Credit Suisse scandal".
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
In other words: Malaysia being Malaysia.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Grand-parent made the absurd assertion that startups do not create wealth. Presumably they would prefer to live in a dark world without airplanes [Wright brothers], and the light bulbs [Edison], as these inventions and subsequent industries
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
> Startups don't create wealth, they concentrate it. What a strange and incorrect assertion. Please walk us through your mental though process so we can re-educate you.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Your job application page. Do you seriously expect senior candidates will have/take the time to write multiple essays on deep topics just to submit an application?
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
But that's median not average...
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
> The thing that I don't like is if you allow reselling then developers get less long-term revenue but (hopefully) more short-term revenue. This will cause them to focus more on getting a big opening weekend than making a solid game
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Destroy the economy is a gross exaggeration. Game sales over time generally resemble a power distribution. Most sales happen within the first week or so, then sales follow a steep drop-off. There are of course exceptions in the indie game c
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
You have no idea. I've been to poor parts of China. People heat themselves with the coals of wood-fired stove which they used to cook meals. I once saw a family that owned a government subsidized washing machine. They couldn't aff
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
I just replaced the battery on my iPhone 6s [purchased in 2017]. Performance is snappy, and the new battery lasts an entire day of use without charging.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
I would not use Google voice. I'm not sure, but I doubt Google controls the major component in the international mechanism responsible for routing telephone calls. I would expect that they outsource some of the mechanisms to 3rd partie
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
IMO the idea behind 2-factor is that an attacker requires physical access to a physical object. Which reduces the number potential attackers to the small number that are able and willing to finance a targeted theft.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Excellent guide. It would be fantastic for Google to adopt these practices.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
No chance to survive The explanation is here For Slack has no moat
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
Dog allergies generally don't kill people.
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by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
That works great when the semantics of the code match the written intent. This is fine for battle tested libraries and pieces of infrastructure. However for code reviews and debugging an engineer must actually read and understand the '

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