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acchow
4y ago
> This is the kind of stuff that makes robot/computer customer service bad. If you fall into the normal use case, it's fine, but if you need anything unusual or you make a mistake, the escape hatch is always to get a real human
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acchow
4y ago
This is why I’ll only book an AA flight on newer metal. It’s overall a smoother experience.
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acchow
4y ago
As more nuclear power plants are built, we will be building up expertise to make them safer. This AP1000 design already is much more inherently safe than Gen 1 or 2 reactors
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acchow
4y ago
Quicker than building a condo in SF
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acchow
4y ago
For the desktop, they mostly have more P cores than E cores. For mobile chips, it's reversed.
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acchow
4y ago
I feel the opposite. It’s easy to find quality food made with quality ingredients in San Francisco
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acchow
4y ago
In software? Isn’t there infinite work?
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acchow
4y ago
> It is. But you do get unlimited health-care for you and your dependents. A salaried tech job in the US would also include private health insurance for you and your dependents
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acchow
4y ago
> US companies pay around 10% of the employee's salary in taxes I'm in the US and glancing at my pay slip, it looks like these taxes come out of my gross salary. It really looks like I'm paying them and not my employer
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acchow
4y ago
Intel’s newest chips have efficiency cores alongside performance cores. They are actually somewhat competitive to M1 now
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acchow
4y ago
> I can claim that McDonald's hamburgers are made of cat meat to lower prices Without evidence? Wouldn't this just be slander?
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acchow
4y ago
Intel also doubled down on x86. Apple, in contrast, is creating the ARM future by designing their own chips, x86-to-Arm emulation layer, and compiler toolchains
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acchow
4y ago
Have you considered that it’s because they’re trying to hide what little it does?
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acchow
4y ago
Hasn’t Europe already experienced its lost decade?
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acchow
4y ago
Superlatives have no place in technology because they become obsolete quite quickly.
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acchow
4y ago
Uhhh, why would you do this? You can learn so much during a trip to solve some of the fundamental issues/trauma behind your depression.
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acchow
4y ago
Any chance you have a business blog?
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acchow
4y ago
> Mathematics alone is sort of "sterile" when is not used within physics knowledge. Surely you can’t believe this anymore with the discovery of computer science, AI, type theory , etc?
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acchow
4y ago
In my experience, Samsung TV's are atrocious garbage. LG has been great for me tho
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acchow
4y ago
I bet there's some market analysis of SaaS companies showing how differently they can be run. I wonder if it's bimodal - SaaS with <10% sales headcount, and SaaS with >50% sales headcount.
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acchow
4y ago
I'm not talking about predicting stock prices. I'm talking about looking backwards. You said staying at a job for longer than 3 years is committing yourself to wage depression. That's not always true. If you have been at a co
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acchow
4y ago
You can make a shit-ton more on YouTube just cracking jokes or being a confident liar
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acchow
4y ago
I mean depends on the trajectory of the stock price of the company you are leaving. If you joined with a 4-year vesting package when the stock price was $10 and now it has risen to $30, you will probably be taking a big pay cut by leaving a
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acchow
4y ago
Depends on the trajectory of stock price.
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acchow
4y ago
Plenty of high performers also discover organizational structure or politics isn’t serving their upward trajectory well so change companies before waiting for their ever-approaching promo
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acchow
4y ago
I have no idea where to even begin if the digest does not leak something about the data
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acchow
4y ago
> what next? What do you want to do, make fun of them? I think artificial genetic selection comes next.
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acchow
4y ago
> If the median googler makes 300k The median googler does not make 300k. The median Google engineer/manager in the US might make 300k but Google hires plenty of people in other roles and in other countries.
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acchow
4y ago
If FB revenue stops growing, markets are going to keep punishing it. A PER of 11 won’t feel cheap with 0% growth
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acchow
4y ago
> XX% of engineers in a given department should* be given "Meets Most" Hmmm this doesn’t sound like the Facebook I worked at
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