IdiocyInAction

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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
The inequalities may be there, but even rather poor people (in the US) are quite rich in an absolute sense, at the moment. Radical green policies would cause real, tangible changes to people's lives; if you actually wanted to reach rea
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
They are not a big problem per se, but the message that sends is pretty bad. I think many people are worried about "green" policies exacerbating inequality, with the rich flying and doing what they want while the poor aren't
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Not purposely, but the dominance of American tech does make it almost impossible for European competitors to arise. That's why the Chinese are hesitant about US tech.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
The average salary is like 50k (with many positions going lower) and you are basically viewed as a manual worker.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
How? Importing the H1B means that the skills and IP and other related stuff stays in the country.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Yeah, software is quite low status here and the salaries are often a joke.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
They've also been doing it. There's tons of outsourcing companies in Europe and Asia. Many bigger companies have offices in those countries as well.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
To people complaining about H1Bs, one thing to consider is that if importing workers is no longer an option, employers may think about remote work or offshoring, transferring jobs out of the country entirely.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
* Swiss CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita): 4.17 * US CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita): 15.5 Switzerland is already among the lowest polluters in the EU and much lower than Australia/Canada/US. Just for context.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> "AI" can't even perform as well as humans (despite plenty of promises) in a field like radiology. The idea of an AI family doc system or ER doc system actually making diagnoses (instead of being a glorified productivity
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I wrote a path tracer in a compute shader. It was quite fun and much faster than the CPU version. Not trivial though; even such simple things as generating noise take at least some thought.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Nice. I took a CUDA course at uni where I built a neural network and a physics simulation. Optimizing them was very involved, but ultimately very cool; I learned a ton of stuff. I'd love to work with CUDA in practice, but there's
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I never had any bad experiences with Amazon.de, actually. Though I do watch out to only buy genuine stuff and try to avoid off-brand. I buy stuff quite regularly too.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> Talk to kids about cryptocurrency mining and suddenly you have teenagers who understand Merkle trees and zero knowledge proofs. Yeah, an extremely small subset of nerdy kids. When people speak of "digital natives", they mean
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
As always, it's supply and demand. DS is often not needed as much as SWE and there is a lot of supply for DS, due to hype and ease of transition from people in other fields.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I doubt the police will give a shit.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
You do know that GPS-based trackers (which are more than good enough for cars) have been available on Aliexpress for years?
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
How precise does a stalking device need to be, really? Finding your keys requires precision, but humans are pretty easy to spot in comparison.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I am sure you can buy a superior stalking device of aliexpress already anyway, so why bother?
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
US households are slightly bigger than European households (2.6 vs 2.2-2.3), but yeah, the US is on average much richer than most wealthier European states. A good comparison is states to countries - Germany is about the level of Alabama an
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Well, it's not necessarily easy to leave. Getting into the US is hard and Canada seems to only be marginally worth it, at least the last time I researched that.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Depends on where and what you're looking for. I'd say 60k-80k€ would be normal rates in wealthier federal states for a decent "mid-tier" developer from what I've seen, which wouldn't be too dissimilar to 50k GB
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Exploitation that ultimately helped lift a billion people out of poverty in China. A socialist US would probably, like most prior countries that called themselves socialist, be a poor, oppressive hellhole.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I think it's a bit more complicated than that looking at the wiki article. It seems to have been very successful to begin with, but then the mosquitos became resistant to DDT and western countries have a climate advantage. Notably, the
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
The US is far richer than Europe, with an average GDP per capita of over 10000$ higher than most western European countries. Alabama is about as rich as Germany, for instance. So if Europe can do it, then the US could easily do it.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> The job market is much less efficient. I find that it's much harder to find about about good candidates and to get our name out there as a company. The only reliable source of engineering candidates for us in Munich has actually b
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Maybe I'll consider Canada then. I have a bunch of relatives there and immigration would be relatively easy (especially compared to the US).
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Where and how did you move? Visas aren't all that easy to get.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
US companies don't pay 100k+ in Europe. Amazon pays like 60k base for SDE1 where I live and I think Google pays 70k+ base.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
It shouldn't be hard at all to get a visa for the UK - the main requirement is a job that pays more than 25k GBP I think. Aside from FAANG and Fintechs, I don't think that London is that much better than Munich or Berlin, especial

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