alephnerd

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The US Is Losing Top Tech Talent to India in the Wake of Trump's H-1B Chaos(bloomberg.com)
23 points by alephnerd 9mo ago|3 comments
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by alephnerd 9mo ago
> companies paying 80th to 90th percentile or higher. The attitude is that they’re paying employees enough that they need to shut up and put up with anything that comes their way. If you don’t like it, we have a list of qualified applica
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by alephnerd 9mo ago
A lot of this is already known. If I find out that management is being adversarial to ICs (eg. not offering to pay 75th percentile salaries, giving crap equity offers) I've put pressure to let heads roll. Similarly, if I've seen I
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by alephnerd 9mo ago
This was back around 2017-19 (can't remember the exact year), but it was definetly pre-Covid and left a bad taste in my mouth, just like Jane Street and FTX at the time - especially given that your then competitor Deepscale didn't
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by alephnerd 9mo ago
This is why we need gambling regulation in the US.
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Gen Z Gamblers Are Putting the Fun Back into Online Gaming(gamblinginsider.com)
1 points by alephnerd 9mo ago|2 comments
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by alephnerd 9mo ago
Are they still being extra and only asking about Putnam scores during interviews?
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
I meant in an Akira sort of way in the West (in Japan, I'd say Gintama has a much more lasting impact than any other anime in the last 20 years).
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
U right! Great show nonetheless!
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
> I said one thing I can do is pivot. And they literally responded with "we don't invest in founders who think about pivoting" I'd say it depends on a VC's investment thesis as well as the stage your startup is a
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
YC has always been founder first. Back when they started in the 2000s, most traditional VCs didn't recognize that high impact individuals can easily pivot or define product categories, and only concentrated on financial engineering (
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
> Gen Z buying iPods and people buying N64 games again is not evidence of the monoculture breaking apart - it's a retreat into the past for the enlightened few because their needs are not being met by modern goods and services It&#x
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
Also, this essay by Mickens at USENIX over a decade ago - https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf Tl;dr - "Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is n
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
As in the ranking/mental model increasingly being used by management in upper market organizations. A Coding copilot subscription paired with a competent developer dramatically speeds up product and feature delivery, and also significa
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
Most of us in the financial side of this space think so as well. This is why AI Ludditism doesn't make sense - CAT Hydraulic Excavators didn't end manual shovelers, it forced them to upskill. Similarly, Human-in-the-loop utilizati
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
> Isn't that why people fight to get into Ivy League universities or Ecole Normale Superieure Going to Harvard or Yale doesn't mean I have the ability to call a couple people who can pressure someone at the SEC to speed up the
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
I'd expect a degradation to start in Civil Liberties scores with ANO's plan to abolition of the license fee; merge CT and CRo; and then move to a fully state funded operating model for the NewCo. I also expect the political cultur
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
> I'm open to correction on this. Maybe I'm just not understanding the situation It's much more gray simply because there are multiple agencies per department that can interpret and conduct intelligence operations. The cur
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
> democratic character of the country The core crux of "democratic character" is providing an even playing field as much as possible institutionally, organizationally, and politically. If functioning is subpar or requires &quot
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
Functional doesn't mean "more democratic". What matters is institutions, jurisprudence, and norms. And after having dealt with the experience of opening a large foreign office in Czechia, there absolutely is a democratic defi
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
> CIA is fanatical about following the State Department's foreign policy From past personal experience, inter-service autonomy over policymaking is tightly guarded, and arguments always end up with the NSA (advisor, not the agency)
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
Hungary isn't the only illiberal democracy within the EU - France, Italy, Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia, Latvia, Belgium, Lithuania, Croatia, and Bulgaria are all either Illiberal/Flawed Democracies or Hybrid
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
The article's argument follows your track of logic but is much more pessimistic: "Is liberal democracy, then, in terminal decline? The rise of Carney himself offers a glimmer of hope, fuelled as it was by a reaction against Trump.
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
This article overreads into the meaning of mast and matta . Mast just means overstimulated/excited, and in the context of an elephant would be the equivalent of using the word "spooked" but with a humorous ting to it. In
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Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?(ft.com)
63 points by alephnerd 10mo ago|173 comments
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
As I used to ask field teams and PMs back when I was a SWE - provide the steps to reproduce the bug as I can't seem to recreate it.
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
I can't seem to reproduce the mail search bug.
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
OP doesn't care - notice how they didn't even try to somehow sanewash using immigration status. They also decided to use a throwaway because deep down they know that too.
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
> Foriegners (sic) cannot simply come to America and enroll their children for free schooling in the US. Not only is it economically unsustainable but it is theft of resources from everyone who has built and contributed to the system pre
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by alephnerd 10mo ago
You and I both know in what context they used that statement. Enjoy getting offshored.

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