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New Lawyers Are Swimming in Debt(wsj.com)
1 points by arcanus 7y ago|0 comments
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The Real Class War(americanaffairsjournal.org)
773 points by arcanus 7y ago|608 comments
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Texan Spending Fortune, Hours a Day Trying to Live to at Least 120 Years Old(dfw.cbslocal.com)
1 points by arcanus 7y ago|0 comments
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United States should make an investment in AI, top Senate Democrat says(sciencemag.org)
1 points by arcanus 7y ago|0 comments
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Cyberpunk Is Dead(thebaffler.com)
6 points by arcanus 7y ago|2 comments
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by arcanus 7y ago
A few reasons I've encountered: They require founders to relocate They take a non-trivial equity stake as the price of admission It's a huge time commitment Not stating that YC isn't an incredible program and a great value pr
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by arcanus 7y ago
I'm surprised education is even mentioned. Every MBA I know has always stated the real value of the degree was for the network is provided[1]. A general management degree would naturally be useless in a world that increasingly values s
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Ask HN: Recommended Project Management Introduction
3 points by arcanus 7y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 7y ago
I know many, many people who do not finish their doctorate and they are all doing very well. Do not work on a PhD if you aren't enjoying it. A PhD is not just a few classes. It is a deep apprenticeship to a noted expert in a field. Unl
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by arcanus 7y ago
"For now, AMD’s resurgence is good news for consumers, IT departments, cloud-computing firms and anybody who uses software. Like any good monopolist, Intel charges a steep price for its products—unless AMD is doing well. Sure enough, I
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by arcanus 7y ago
The tail does not wag the dog. Consumers must take responsibility for their collective actions. Blaming evil megacorps for all of societies ills is neither productive nor ultimately correct.
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by arcanus 7y ago
Dell has historically been a completely Intel shop, so the fact they are even tepidly considering AMD here is likely because of a large number of customer request for pricing and performance quotes.
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by arcanus 7y ago
Not to quibble, but this is household income, not necessarily a single individual's income. In coastal cities, a two income household making 250k each is not absurd, and can certainly happen with two doctors, lawyers, or even software
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Stem Is Overrated(theatlantic.com)
3 points by arcanus 7y ago|1 comments
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by arcanus 7y ago
Pay the professor more money. Top Universities are sitting on tens of billions of dollars of endowments, and are willing to pay football and basketball coaches millions of dollars. They are not insulated from market pricing. In many cases,
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USA Government Approved AMD’s China Exports(wsj.com)
2 points by arcanus 7y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 7y ago
Anger is insufficient. Without consumer choice, there is no mechanism for individuals to impose pressure on Healthcare providers and insurers. They can continue to 'milk the cow'.
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by arcanus 7y ago
> and Hessians This is an important point and I wanted to give more context. Hessians were German (admittedly pre-german unification) mercenaries employed by Britain to control the territories. They were famously involved in numerous hum
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by arcanus 7y ago
> The fact that companies who are competitors can compete fiercely doesn't prove anything. The linked Wikipedia shows that Intel was convicted and fined for illegal anticompetitive measures against AMD. They were fined 1.25 billion
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Average Tech Salaries by City(hired.com)
1 points by arcanus 7y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Targets China’s Supercomputing Push with New Export Restrictions(wsj.com)
1 points by arcanus 7y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Targets Efforts by China, Others to Recruit Government Scientists(wsj.com)
1 points by arcanus 7y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 7y ago
100x this. I've met Stephen and was like this in person. Even the essay (ostensibly an obituary for a physics luminary!) is full of humblebrags as he notes his personal contributions and wunderkind status growing up. Strange, because i
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by arcanus 7y ago
> And besides, you don't actually need an MBA if you work in the tech industry until you're in a senior position--VP or C-suite You certainty do not need an MBA to reach executive level in American technology companies. Just a
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by arcanus 7y ago
That is an unscientific statement. If 15 countries have tried and failed, the burden of proof is on providing evidence that another attempt would not similarly fail. Empirically speaking, the evidence speaks against the efficacy of wealth t
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HPE to Buy Cray for $1.3B(thestreet.com)
2 points by arcanus 7y ago|2 comments
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by arcanus 7y ago
Good question. Technically speaking just running HPL on a cluster is sufficient to get it ranked on top-500. In reality, most HPC sites use high performance interconnects, such as infiniband or a proprietary high performance ethernet. They
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by arcanus 7y ago
"greater than 1.5 exaflops" of performance will likely correspond to greater than 1 Exaflop of sustained performance on HPL (used for the top-500 ranking), making this a likely candidate for the first 'true' exascale com
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Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier(hpcwire.com)
87 points by arcanus 7y ago|62 comments
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by arcanus 8y ago
Does this mean AMD is inherently more secure?

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