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by arcanus 10y ago
In principle. Best way to keep astronauts alive is not having to use the launch abort system.
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AMD Preparing for a Breakout Year in 2017(forbes.com)
3 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
573.
by arcanus 10y ago
I think you could more directly make your point. > Just visit Harvard, ride the Amtrak to DC (looking out the windows), then fly to Shanghai. Cost, about $2K. This should give you a good gut feeling for whose econ professors are on the m
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Elon Musk: Robots will take your jobs, government will have to pay your wage(cnbc.com)
1 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
575.
by arcanus 10y ago
> The modern world has such a ridiculous disconnect. Agreed. This, to me, is the essence of cyberpunk. To Gibson, 'The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed' > Just another place for the wealthy
576.
by arcanus 10y ago
Absolutely. I was surprised to find how big the semi industry is in ATX, we have (off the top of my head): 1) Intel 2) AMD 3) Nvidia 4) NXP 5) Samsung (they even have a fab here!) 6) ARM 7) Qualcom And several hardware start ups, etc. It is
577.
by arcanus 10y ago
Don't forget silicon hills! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas The city also adopted "Silicon Hills" as a nickname in the 1990s due to a rapid influx of technology and development companies.
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by arcanus 10y ago
A VC complaining about overpaying someone does admittedly speak to their core-competency.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> Which significantly raises the bar on entering the baseball team market. I disagree. Baseball is a legally enforced monopoly in the united states. ( http://www.swcollege.com/bef/policy_debates/baseball.html ) I
580.
by arcanus 10y ago
"Google, Facebook and Amazon alone probably hire around 30% of all American computer-science undergraduates, reckons Roelof Botha of Sequoia, a venture-capital firm." This is far more pervasive than the cream, they are getting at
581.
by arcanus 10y ago
> this feels like somebody got butthurt that they couldn't find cheap labor who will work 80 hours a week Precisely. The article acts as if employees receiving excellent compensation is bad, yet cannot put its finger on why. Meanwh
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by arcanus 10y ago
Interesting that the SDE2 at twitter is shown as lower than SDE1
583.
by arcanus 10y ago
Could this be directly tied to millenials aging? The article does not really address that. > The net population flows skewed away from the most expensive markets, though the trend became less pronounced for those higher up the income sca
584.
by arcanus 10y ago
Does HN have a strong opinion on RSUs vs. stock options? The article makes a peripheral mention of this but otherwise does not address it.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> Your employer's also the one looking for a talented employee. This, 1000 times. How can it be 2016 and we are still having this discussion? Particularly with the group on HN, who are generally speaking extremely valuable and highl
586.
by arcanus 10y ago
> In fact, a doctorate is almost always a negative signal. I have never hired someone straight out of a doctorate. In my case they have always spectacularly fail the coding part of the interview. A doctorate is a research degree. Hiring
587.
by arcanus 10y ago
Origin, steam, battle net, uplay... And now gameroom. Is steam so profitable this makes sense? What possible motive does FB, one of the largest companies in the world, have to compete? The revenues should be paltry.
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by arcanus 10y ago
I don't disagree,but I'll also caution that you don't know me, and I think it is fair to say I've had some objectively horrible things happen to myself and those I love. But years later, I do believe that negative experi
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by arcanus 10y ago
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you n
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by arcanus 10y ago
> failure proof chips(via redundancy, etc). But my guess is that isn't that terribly hard skill to ackuire I would not assume that. Fault tolerance is non-trivial. Furthermore don't underestimate the value of IP in this space.
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by arcanus 10y ago
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/opinion/as-austins-blac... I don't see how one can argue Austin is not pushing out minorities.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Several of the booming tech cities are. Austin is terrible in terms of diversity. Portland too.
593.
by arcanus 10y ago
> the pay is not bad for the east coast Do they still insist on a mediocre base salary with completely not guaranteed annual bonus lump sum? If you are a trader this makes perfect sense, but I've never quite understood it for progra
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by arcanus 10y ago
Good article. I've also found that the lens of cyberpunk is a useful perspective to view many of the themes in modern day society. Increasingly the social implications are out weighing the questions of technological feasibility! I thi
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The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals(the-american-interest.com)
1 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element AI, a Deep-Learning Incubator(wired.com)
5 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
I generally agree with your skepticism of \% as a meaningful metric for AI accuracy or technological prowess. However, do we have any reason to believe that a collection of random, qualified judges would be able to predict the outcome of a
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by arcanus 10y ago
> if MSFT had 100B USD in cash and spent it all in stock repurchase, then, in theory, its stock price wouldn't move but its market cap would go down by 100B ? In the process of buying shares back, the market capitalization would in
599.
by arcanus 10y ago
> Microsoft entered into a long-term sponsorship partnership with the league in 2013. At the time, the N.F.L. had a list of demands for the equipment, including ruggedness, ease of use, size, effectiveness in extreme temperature and glar
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Half of All American Adults Are in a Police Face Recognition Database(law.georgetown.edu)
1 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments

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