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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
> I can hardly imagine a better investment in the future of the country, the future of science, and the future of humankind, than to explore the Solar System and develop the necessary technologies to enable humans to move off-planet in l
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
A $2.7bn RC car.
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
A few years ago a recruiter called me up enthusiastically and earnestly said, <name of my co-founder af a company I sold> personally asked me to reach out to you immediately for an urgent lead devops position we have open?” I said, “o
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Good point, I have a friend who was downsized at Yahoo in 2013 by being told he would have to start coming into Sunnyvale (Santa Clara?) from Santa Cruz. He dealt with it for about 6 weeks.
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Ask HN: Will tech companies reverse course on remote work in a post-Covid world?
6 points by KDJohnBrown 6y ago|6 comments
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Perhaps it is local familiary. Living in Oakland and working in San Francisco I made $175k and was able to save $4,500 per month after all of my living and familial expenses. When I’ve spoken to companies in London they seemed to max out a
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
European salaries are absurdly low. As an expat who doesn’t benefit from government services the same way an EU/UK citizen would, it’s a non starter. London is easily as expensive, if not moreso than San Francisco. I don’t understand h
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
I’ve been getting paid a San Francisco salary for 7 years while living abroad working as a Sr DevOps Engineer (I have 25 years experience). After the pandemic hit, my company slowly fired half the staff and replaced us with Russians & B
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Sure, and that’s what the SEC is for. I’ve been unemployed for a year and couldn’t care less about wall street. Congress has exactly two issues they should be focusing on: stimulus and vaccination. This is just another piece of theatre desi
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Nice to know that the US legislature has deemed this a more important use of their time than the pandemic and the economy.
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
It’s good to be king.
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Why is protectionism bad? Why is it better to allow trade imbalances which sucks your nation’s financial and intellectual wealth to others with nothing in return?
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
If you want to see the outcome of a lack of protectionism, look no further than the devastation of the steel, automobile and other manufacturing industries in the ‘70s and ‘80s which effectively wiped out the middle class.
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Is this really any different than the USA banning Huawei to prevent 5G carrier equipment competition under the guise of “national security”? (Edited to clarify 5G carrier equipment competition)
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
I am all for import tariffs, especially when those taxes prevent wasteful international shipping. However, to respond to your snarky tone, does Germany have a monopoly on the world auto industry and use that to abuse the rights of citizens
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
What the EU should really do is fine / tax monopolists like Google and Facebook into submission then invest that money into the EU-based startup ecosystem.
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Finding a way to make an income outside of tech, now that life circumstances + covid have ended my career. Long-term Depression + a complete inability to focus on anything for more than about 3 minutes at a time have made this difficult. Be
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Not on a phone, too much typing for my fat fingers and my laptop dinally gave up the ghost i’m afraid.
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
LinkedIn is a ghetto with no redeeming value. It has close to 0 value for job seekers. In the past year I’ve received 5 real contacts from hiring managers (sadly all of whom wanted SRE, not DevOps. I find sre dull and I would rather be on t
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
When the blockchain / dapp hype got huge for a minute in 2017, I asked a “crypto enthusiast” friend to pitch me on why I should use his dapp (some sort of gambling game). He went on and on about double spending and consensus. i asked h
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Ask HN: What annoys you the most about the content of job postings?
1 points by KDJohnBrown 6y ago|0 comments
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
How will this make the world better? I ask in earnest, as for the most part I see ML only as a tool to increase profits. Is this making the world a better place or just increasing shareholder value?
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
“The best minds of my generation are busy thinking about how to make people click on banner ads.” — Jeff Hammerbacher
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Cash rules everything around me.
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
So you are making the world a better place by providing high end analysis of data to large corporations?
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Ask HN: How does the software you build make the world a better place?
14 points by KDJohnBrown 6y ago|17 comments
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Apple has become increasingly anti-consumer since Steve Jobs died. It turns out that once you’re the 800lb-gorilla, you no longer have to care about your customers.
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
So, did you read my second example and research Harry Ansliger? Cannabis laws were specifically marketed to stoke the fears of white americans.
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
I support this statement. No citizen should be held as a criminal for ingesting, smoking or injecting something into their own person. If we are not allowed to treat our own bodies in any manner which we see fit, then these bodies are not o
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by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Racism is so inherent in US legislation that it was enshrined by our founding fathers in Article 1, Section 2 of the constitution where African American slaves were reduced to 3/5th citizenship rights[1]. No need for conspiracy theorie

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