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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
If this was the case we wouldn't see a dearth of EV options from the competition. If regulatory capture was so profitable a big incumbent would've moved in by now.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Programming ability is not a "birth lottery". I'd bet if you looked at the average IQ at a no name company paying $70-80k to junior developers it would be surprisingly close to average. It definitely requires motivation and d
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
You forgot to mention they put the former Chief People Officer in charge of Datacenter & AI... where are the engineers?
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I don't see Europe getting "fucked over" by the US military and they're definitely experiencing massive brain drain, been going on for over 20 years now.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Reminder that math still exists, and even if you taxed all of Jeff Bezos's $100B wealth you still wouldn't be able to pay for even a quarter of a single year of Social Security. The US government operates at a _staggering_ scale.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
This is liberal idealism divorced from reality. Reality says that we (the U.S.) already spend a third of our budget on social security and that's before the Baby Boomers start drawing from SS. SS is obviously not even enough to afford
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
It could be 10% of the volume of an almond is water exported per almond and you'd still get the same effects. This is what happens when you grow crops on thousands of square miles of land and export all of them. It adds up.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Just a guess: probably a combination of weather/soil and cheap labor. California is always sunny, the central valley is very fertile, and the state is very friendly to illegal immigration.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
California's drought isn't caused by climate change, it's caused by industrial scale exports of highly water intensive crops. Photosynthesis effectively locks water into plants that then get transported across the globe, de f
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
If Sapphire Rapids and Meteor Lake fail they might be in danger. Increasingly the threat is not AMD but Arm, since cloud hyperscalers can bring CPU design in house and undercut x86 and Arm's fixed length instruction encoding is fundame
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Certain most students would benefit. That much is obvious. But would the institution and the country benefit? Would the other students going there benefit? All of the smartest people I know went to prestigious institutions. The learning tak
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Better Safari with buggy content blockers than Google blocking adblockers on mobile. Also, Safari has had much better JavaScript performance on iOS devices since at least the days of the A7-A8, looking at JS benchmark results relative to SP
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Indeed, the M1/A14 on mobile has larger pages which lets them have more effective TLB coverage with a smaller cache. In some applications this can boost performance by double digit % (which you can simulate by enabling large pages on x
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
You aren't getting what you want if nobody in those demographics is choosing to get a degree in CS in college. I choose to believe this is a cultural problem (which is why Nigerians are even more overrepresented relative to U.S. popula
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
I am not, but I went to a public high school with a similar atmosphere as what I hear TJ is like. At least at my school, if you decided to do a lottery for students from across the city and set 3.5 as a threshold for lottery entrance, the c
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Saying the offer isn't negotiable but oh hey, I got your email about offer from XYZ and we'd like to bump our (lowball) offer. Saying they'd like to "chat" instead of just telling you you passed the interview and go
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"Under the new rules, Fairfax will first identify all eighth-graders who meet certain academic criteria: those who achieve an unweighted GPA of at least 3.5 while taking Algebra I or a higher-level math class, in addition to math and s
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
I don't work at any of those companies :)
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The company I work for now pays substantially more than Google/Facebook/et. al and most people on my team are from random state schools, many with no experience at FAANG. You can certainly make millions from a pre-IPO startup (and
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
I wouldn't characterize Facebook as being all that different from Amazon. I'm sorry you view it that way. And Amazon is hardly "coach class". You make more money than my parents did combined as a SWE and with far less ed
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
I am an Asian who went to a state school and I don't think it's irrelevant. Regardless of Harvard's prestige giving a whole class of people lower "personal" ratings because of their race is racism, pure and simple.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Ah but they do. See this person that was Indian (but raised in Nigeria!) but pretended to be black to get into med school [1]. "I was always in a state of terror that I would be found out. During one interview at Case Western Reserve U
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
If you read the article I linked, you'd know that they aren't just a slightly lower percentage but are systematically rated lower on the "personal" axis by Harvard admissions officers simply because they are Asian. It&#x
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> recirculating resources among the most exclusive and wealthy while chanting social-justice keywords Indeed, Harvard aggressively defends its admissions program as "holistic" while rating Asians as having lower personal rating
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Zero value, negative value, for the purposes of determining whether we should be subsidizing college these are the same. I think it's very unlikely most humanities majors are going on to produce culture defining works. Perhaps in the I
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
In nominal terms, they are zero-sum. If you consider inflation then debtors have the advantage since we live in an inflationary economy, so wages will keep pace with general inflation but the debt amount remains constant. Debt is an essenti
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Except housing prices aren't what matter, monthly payments are. If interest rates are lower but payments are the same, the only people that benefit are existing homeowners, but new home buyers aren't harmed since monthly payments
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And the only public shares are the weak voting ones, so in order for the lawsuit winner (or the state for taxes) to reap their returns they lose the voting power of the shares. I see a lot of the newer IPO'd companies using this type o
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Just running native models on OpenCL has existed for a while now, through PlaidML and other companies. Unfortunately you need CUDA support for custom kernels for a lot of modern architectures like Transformers, and AMD's CUDA transpile
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Unfortunately having tried Superset, Domo, Tableau, and others everyone is still far behind Tableau despite the performance of Tableau being utter garbage when you have more than 10k rows. The flexibility in the types of ways you can arrang

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