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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
European salaries are laughably low even compared to low ball offers from US startups. Essentially options for good (but not great) sr engineers are 1. Get 120k salary in Europe (on higher end) 2. 500k at FAANG in US (salary + RSU) 3. ~200k
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
Redwood City has terrible schools (relatively) and many people consider excellent schools for their kids as hard requirement.
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
Germans were pretty good at exploiting ethnic grievances in multiple countries - Czhech vs Slovak, Croats vs Serbs, Bulgars vs Greek and Hungarian vs everyone that have nothing to do oppression and fight for homeland. People underestimate w
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
Would you support blocking BLM and black supremacist propaganda too? Essentially you are just proposing traditional government censorship. The good thing about Soviet TV is that it had only wholesome content - not that western capitalist st
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
What they do not do (and Aaron did) is using corporate paid subscription, agreeing to ToS and then sucking data for training or distribution. Scraping web while obeying robots.txt is much more in grey zone.
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
Alternatively 10 to 14 new colonies without voting right with people getting less than citizen rights (something similar to status that Baltic states have for ethnically Russians). You have to deserve right to vote.
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
I assume that if it’s done at scale it will change trade balance and middlemen country will see their import taxes rise. It actually creates self interest for countries to prevent this behavior and block such activity as it will hurt genuin
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
We do not have to be net exporters of coffee - Indonesia can buy US cars, corn and wheat for example to balance trade.
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Even serious discussion of Chinese soldiers in Canada or Mexico is clear casus belli and surefire way for those countries to be occupied. Chinese soldiers on the border is existential to US and when dealing with existential risks countries
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Unlikely. Ukraine does not have scale, manufacturing base and talent for that - right now it's mostly assembling drones from Chinese parts with very little innovation on top of that. People talked about AI swarms but very little of tha
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Real time content recommendation algorithm can be rebuilt from scratch relatively quickly (weeks). At the beginning it won't be as effective as current TikTok algorithm so iterations will be required but frankly treating algo like some
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Most geopolitical rivals already blocked US social media - Russia, Iran, China. Brazil blocked and forced X to censor opposition Brazilian politicians. It's already happening. EU/NATO members can't outright block US social me
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
> It also helped that Hungarian candidate when tiktok was used by Russia to push him... That's actually misinformation and narrative invented to support coup by Romanian security services/supreme court to cancel elections. No R
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Good point. With that, with Starlink and soon Starlink direct to cell, this capability is becoming much less important in an emergency. Starlink already provides Internet and soon everyone will have satellite capable phone (I assume texting
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
It could be false flag operation to create pretext for NATO/EU to block shipping to Russian ports in Baltic Sea. Similar to Nordstream destruction in 2022 it could have been either Ukrainians or CIA/NSA. This could be last attempt
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Quality of your life depends not only on your house but also on houses around you. When I go out, I want to see nice, well maintained houses with no garbage outside. What happens without HOA in low middle class and poor areas are broken car
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
US should respond symmetrically and freeze accounts of some random(with Durov arrest), EU (threatening letter to Musk) and UK (prison sentences for mildly offensive tweets) are fighting to limit free speech under very similar pretenses that
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Well, Dubai, Kuwait, Singapore and a bunch of other places clearly demonstrate that you can have high inequality and close to zero street crime.
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
We have nationals/citizens of every major US adversary working in those companies with looser security practice than security at local warehouse. Security check before hiring is a joke (mostly checks that resume checks out), laptops ca
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
I think Google does it now. One problem is see is that people may optimize for price tickets and not business goals to get bigger credit. Business need is 2 day trip but people may extend it by 2 days to get cheaper air tickets but on balan
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
I almost always book tickets for business travel 1-3 day before the trip. I am completely price insensitive (I do not care if my employer pays $100 or $400 for the ticket), my schedule is hard to predict ahead of time (if there are no impor
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Guidelines are written by product, legal, privacy, comms, policy and other folks in HQ - raters (psychopath or not) do not really influence them. Guidelines in my experience suffer from "design by committee" syndrome but everyone
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
I worked on tooling and organization of those queues for several companies so I am very familiar with the topic. This article is a bit misleading and contains mostly half-truths - Queues with gore and violations pay more than regular queu
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Trans people and trans right are such a US/EU and a few Asian countries issue and some say fad - they literally do not exist anywhere else as a matter of public policy or visibility.
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Biggest manifestations of unaffordable housing are people commuting 2h one way and/or living 2-6 people per room dorm style. Homeless problem (exotic poor) is completely different and mostly unconnected to housing affordability proble
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Those activities are mostly against policy already but current political environment makes it impossible to enforce nuisance laws. Ticket price is a reasonable alternative even if it hurts a few deserving poor people.
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
Considering budgets that homeless-industrial complex spends on homeless in NYC/SF/other big cities with homeless, 10k will have absolutely zero impact on anything.
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
What many people do not realize is that one function of tickets is to prevent access to public transportation to people below a certain income threshold. If you do not, you have people using public transport as homeless shelter, urinate, sm
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
You can’t outsource liability to a random Chinese supplier with no significant presence in US. Small Chinese company will sign whatever agreement you want and promise to do whatever checks you need - and then do absolutely nothing. What are
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by dfadsadsf 2y ago
That's what I did last summer and sometimes it worked and sometimes it did not. If you are on 5G, in 20% of cases it works really well, in 60% of cases other people on the call can tell that your connection is not fiber but overall it&

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