GVIrish

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by GVIrish 11y ago
Wouldn't Google still filter people based on their education and experience? This programming test could get someone a call but doesn't Google still only hire college graduates with a STEM or CS background (for technical roles)?
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I'm sure startup money is a large part of it, but bottom line is that corporate culture at-large still hasn't adjusted to the reality that great technical people can make or break your company and that maybe they actually are wort
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Another option is to retire early in a country with a much lower cost of living. You don't need to cut your costs to the bone for 20 years if you go to a place with a cost of living that costs one-third (or more) of what it costs wher
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But if you were getting compensated fairly before, why are you no longer getting compensated fairly because other people got a raise? The most rational action would be simply to match your work output to your peers. I mean if the market ra
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by GVIrish 11y ago
If the Golden Goose is indeed slain, it will also be due to the sharing companies willfully ignoring legal issues to keep pushing growth, Uber being the prime example. Asking for forgiveness, not permission works sometimes but eventually yo
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WMATA is improving in some spots but there are still A LOT of problems with the metro as it stands. There are regularly major delays, they still haven't fixed the automated control since the fatal accident in 2009, there have been m
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Just goes to show it doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to be useful to enough people.
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True, but I believe the Israelis have gunned an enemy aircraft as recently as the 80's using F-16's.
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Many people have said that over the course of military aviation history and all of them have been wrong. In the ideal situation you can kill your enemy at beyond visual range. But in reality there are multiple situations where you won&#x2
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Unfortunately the shared parts ratio is far lower than what was planned. It was supposed to be 80% commonality between variants but it's more like 25%. Furthermore, because they tried to make the aircraft meet contradictory requiremen
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> I really doubt the credibility of the author; as if engineers would overlook such a basic factor if it was that crucial. The problem is that the F-35 had requirements that fundamentally conflict with each other. It had to have a STOVL
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I think it's just a case of the loudest voices tend to be the most extreme voices. There are a lot of sensible gun owners out there, as there are a lot of people who only wish for better enforcement of gun control laws or better backg
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Faulting one sort of nonsensical campaign doesn't mean I support the opposing nonsensical campaign. There are pro-gun that spout silly things like, "We need to arm every teacher!" and there are anti-gun people that say things
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Yeah I think cases where the shooter is apprehended alive is the exception rather than the rule in these shootings. And as you rightly point out, in many of these cases there were big warning signs before the shooting actually happened. I
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The drop in drug violence could be a couple of different things but if it is correlated with a drop in prices that would suggest that decriminalizing or legalizing would further drop violence. Just like it did with the end of prohibition.
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"I don't fault the antigun crowd for using any tactics that work. The progun crowd is certainly guilty of he same thing." I absolutely fault any movement that refuses to use correct terminology in order to scare people and mi
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Russia's murder rate is twice that of the United States yet their gun laws are far more restrictive. Mexico's murder rate is also about 4 times higher than the United States even though there's literally only 1 legal gun sho
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I think in the case of Mexico there are plenty of mass shootings but they're due to cartel violence so they're not classified the same way. As to why the US has so many mass shootings, I have to think there is cultural component t
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by GVIrish 11y ago
Sure you could find a city in Mexico that would look like Disneyland next to Chicago. But compare Chicago to Ciudad Juarez and the murder rates are about the same (457 in 2014 in Chicago, 424 in 2014 in Juarez). And a few years ago (2010
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"In America, 25% of all black males are in prison." There are over 40 million black people in the United States. There are 2 million people in jail in the United states. Even if every single person in jail was a black male, the
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Maybe I'm wrong but I think HR's pushiness might be a result of their process yielding so few offers, then even fewer people accepting offer letters. It could be resulting in HR having to work A LOT harder than the industry avera
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Eh I don't know that they're getting 100 out of the top 200 either. At some point Google's reputation for an insane hiring process causes the best computer scientists to not even bother applying because it's a waste of
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He wants to make his job easier, consequences be damned. It should be easy for the "good guys" to monitor and catch the "bad guys", give us back doors and unsecured communications with which to do our jobs. He's to
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Eh I think this analysis is pretty shallow and misses some key points. A. Is the product/service something approximating a commodity? If the answer is yes, then certainly premium pricing is not sustainable. In the case of cloud servic
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There's bloatware out there but for the flagship Android phones typically it's not so bad that it makes the phone unusable for the average user. iOS does not enjoy as big of an advantage in UI/UX as it used to, which is phon
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by GVIrish 12y ago
> My wife has an N4 running 5.0.1 with no issues re calling, so if there is an issue for these users it's an isolated one and not a systemic problem with all N4s. That's a bit of a leap to declare that the issue is an isolated
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> As far as when the Harrier has made the difference, well, we haven't fought many pitched battles lately, so it's hard to say. But you can't design a military with the idea you'll never have to fight a pitched battle
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Honestly I think the drone approach is where the smart money is. You could build many, many jet-engined drones that can provide air support over a wide area and would be fairly difficult for anyone to shoot down. The cost per unit would b
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Thanks for the informative post! > The targeting helmet has been operational for a couple of years now and has gone through 3 revisions. The 3rd revision eliminated issues of jutter, etc and is now more or less ready for combat. With the
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True, but I don't know how stealthy it will be in practice while loaded up with external weapons and fuel tanks, not to mention the large profile fuselage that is has to accomodate the V/STOL capability. If it's radar evadin

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