corporateslave2

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by corporateslave2 9y ago
What is this immigration propaganda on here? There is no place for this on hn
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
This is so true. The difference between an ml expert and a novice is often less than a few percent on accuracy.
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Money solves almost all of them. It's Marxist propaganda trying to convince you otherwise.
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
This is non sense, the life for the rich is far better than for the poor. If you don't believe that is true, then you haven't been exposed to it enough. Having high status in any society can have massive advantages. More leisure t
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
This misses the whole point of the article, and injects a political agenda into a conversation about how wealth in the west isn't helping happiness.
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
How do you know? Have you ever worked in online advertising? Most companies easily spend 100k a month. Are you aware you are being manipulated by the media on this story?
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Do you really believe this? You really think 100k stands up to 1Billion?
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
This is great
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
The point is, when you have everyone take that test, you end up hiring only Kenyans. And then everyone cries about discrimination
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
I don't mean to start a flame war here, but when you say: People don’t complain when you say: “A lot of the fastest marathon runners are from Kenia”. People will complain if you use that fact to justify an imbalance in your workforce:
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
But you aren't aloud to talk about that openly.
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
What does this say about racism? Segregation?
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
The cost is the impermanence of knowledge capital
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Two cans of tuna a day is dangerous, did you google it?
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Best way to know current market is to ask a recruiter who will be honest with you
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Yeah if you think about all the unstructured phone conversations tagged with people who are terrorists, and then jammed into a neural net, things get powerful. But taking that a step further, you can identify political dissent, etc
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Glassdoor isn't really that accurate. It doesn't reflect current market rates, it shows rates for the duration of the time the website has been around. Also, there is massive selection bias about who puts their salary up there
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Why is this propaganda on HN?
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
But those experiences are just self induced near death experiences. It's an illusion of meaning
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Any big tech company
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Companies do. They're called quant hedge funds and Facebook/google. If you're really 10x, someone will pay
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Right but this is zero upfront cost. Kudos to you guys if it works out
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Services like this will flood the job market. I wish I could get out of engineering
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Programming is a bimodal distribution. A good chunk of people make 250k+ and the rest mostly make 120k or less
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Technology is the defining change of our life times.
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
I don't have the energy to argue this
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
True. But the body shops are a huge percentage of all H1Bs
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
Over 60% easily
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
This isn't true. It's a race to the bottom for cheap talent. There is definitely a race for top talent, but that comprises a small portion of all immigrants. It's all about cheap labor.
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by corporateslave2 9y ago
It was a google in house recruiter. The firm I had an offer from was known to hire highly vetted people

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