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by NeverFade 4y ago
Fair, but there's still a big difference between the base model currently costing $6,000 and a base model that will cost over $10,000. That's a 70% price hike.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
So many of the grounds for elimination are just plain wrong. "Balls to the wall" is banned for "attributing personality traits to anatomy", because some woke activist never bothered to learn that it refers to ball-shaped
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> Employees said they were offered more stock to stay on based on their position and seniority, from around $5,000 in value for entry-level workers to upward of $50,000 for more senior employees. Even $50k for a senior employee for ye
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by NeverFade 4y ago
That's what I thought. If consumer products tend to use the bleeding edge, which will be the state-of-the-art chips produced in Taiwan, then I still don't get: 1. What's so exciting about a prev-gen fab possibly being complet
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Does "one generation before current" count as "long tail", though? The chip shortage in products like cars has been for much simpler chips, AFAIK. The article says Apple, AMD, and Nvidia are looking to source from the ne
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by NeverFade 4y ago
TSMC expects to begin mass production of 3nm chips in its Taiwan fabs by 2023 Q4: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4546779-tsmc-no-3nm-soon This isn't my field, but I'm not sure what's the excitement abo
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by NeverFade 4y ago
There's a handful of big tech companies that are laying off ~10k each, a few more laying off in the low thousands or hundreds. All told, they might hit the 100k range. If you're in tech, you know there's a huge number of unfi
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by NeverFade 4y ago
The numbers are too small. You're not going to drive unemployment up meaningfully by laying off 10k high-end workers. You do it by raising costs throughout the entire market, so hundreds of thousands of low-end workers are laid off.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> * “look, this thing runs fine on 20% of the staff* Tech companies are growth-oriented companies. It doesn't matter if their current set of features "runs"; it's not the end of the story, it's only the beginning
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Are you really not aware that members of the American radical left, in particular those who identify as Marxist, are sympathetic to other Marxist nations, such as Soviet Russia, Cuba, and Maoist China? > Angela Yvonne Davis (born January
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by NeverFade 4y ago
The founder of the BLM movement - certainly one of the most influential American movements of the recent past - described herself and her fellow co-founders as "trained Marxists": https://nypost.com/2020/06&#x
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by NeverFade 4y ago
The whole point of the OP article is that a radical leftist view is taking over major social, cultural, and academic institutions. The author provides plenty of examples for this in the article, some of which are well-known, and none of whi
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Have you read the article? These aren't just "kids". OP is describing how major institutions, including research universities and other research organizations, publications, and even government institutions such as the Nation
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> What has the American far left or center-left actually done that's as bad as, for example, the recent attempted insurrection or the stripping of rights from women and LGBT people perpetrated by the right? This line of reasoning
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior &#x
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by NeverFade 4y ago
We have a lazy tendency to judge complex phenomena by superficial external features. It's a mental shortcut. The word "tyranny" evokes images of mid 20th century fascist soldiers marching through streets, in shiny black leath
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by NeverFade 4y ago
I agree completely. Everyone who worked in the big tech hubs knows you typically get the best raises by job-hopping. Still, 5-10% raises are at least trying to prevent that. I cannot fathom a company doing zero, as implied by the "no-r
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> your value to the company has increased from experience and institutional knowledge It's my understanding that regular raises used to be the standard practice in the private sector of the US employment market for this exact reas
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> In clearer words: I think you made this situation up > At no point did I say that wasn't happening. So it is happening, yet "I made it up"? It is both real and made up, at the same time?
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by NeverFade 4y ago
So we know there is racial discrimination against Asians based on their race, and in favor of blacks and hispanics. Yet when I cited an example of an Asian kid getting rejected in favor of a black kid, you claimed I invented it. When you no
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by NeverFade 4y ago
It's racism with better excuses.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> I think you made this situation up without considering other factors because you have an ideological agenda. > Arcidiacono shows that, after narrowing down applicants to those with the strongest objective academic qualifications,
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by NeverFade 4y ago
I'm sure that will be a great comfort to the Asian kid who was born in poverty, got bullied in school, struggled all his life to achieve the grades and stats to qualify for a top school, then got rejected in favor of a rich black Ameri
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by NeverFade 4y ago
If Russia will "collapse" economically (so far it hasn't, not really) it won't be just because their relations with Europe broke down, but because a united front that includes Europe, but also the US, Canada, Australia,
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Not sure what it has to do with "age discrimination". If you're implying that big corporations lay off older people disproportionally, then that's illegal and should be handled through the courts. I agree that many talen
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Layoffs at big corps are not 100% based on performance. Clearly there are exceptions, some of which you mentioned, and many talented people will be caught in the net. However, the typical way layoffs happen is that managers are ordered to s
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Realistic outcome: management tells the team they still need to achieve the same work with half the people through heroism. The remaining members notice they're expected to do twice the work under a lot more stress, in a workplace that
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by NeverFade 4y ago
I'm also involved in recruiting, and the biggest change I see is that folks who were laid off or pushed out of prestigious tech companies are now in the market. These are not your "top talent", these folks are still happily e
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Fresh-out-of-college engineers weren't making $300k, let alone $500k. I'm not sure where you got these numbers. Even at the highest paying BigN, fresh grads don't typically get over $200k. > It was very hard to recruit wh
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> The Russians blew up their own brand-new pipeline, which they spend billions creating (jointly with the Germans) and is one of the few major "hopes" to salvage that relationship, especially as winter dawns. There is no &quo

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