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by doktrin 9y ago
Waiting tables in Hollywood is never the reason people take up acting, and yet so it goes. Anecdotally, I know several full time top 10 grads who aren't exactly on the fast track to the c-suite, and I assume this is even more true for
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> Executives (VP and above) Aren't you being overly restrictive in scope here? Many executives are MBAs, but most MBAs are not executives.
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> MBA jobs are all about personal brand and networking No disagreement there. Just in my experience those jobs are either the first or second to go when things get tough - often because there's an MBA somewhere near the top who reco
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> Get out of your cube and go and meet CEO's and CIO and talk to them about their problems and what their goals are. Implied in this statement is that the parent has a myopic perspective on the business world. Based on my read of hi
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> As soon as they can find someone cheaper, they will. This applies to everyone everywhere, and particularly positions that anyone with basic language and reasoning skills can fill (PMs, MBA types, etc)
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As an overworking tryhard chronic cover-upper, this hits dishearteningly close to home.
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> A more assertive Britain would be a strategic move, to exchange short-term disruption for long-term gain. What long term gain, exactly? I still fail to see how this isn't a slower and more painful way to arrive at (most likely) th
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> US is ranked something like 37th in the world for health care. That low ranking is probably well deserved, but it applies at the macro level. The US medical system is fundamentally asymmetrical, but it's great for the "haves&
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> Since no one is willing to escalate beyond diplomatic and economic punishment, they will get their way. I don't follow. Isn't the objective to avoid economic punishment? What happens when the EU just says "ok, tough be
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The UK may be one of the only European countries to take military spending seriously, but attempting to leverage that advantage in any kind of "direct" manner would probably backfire. Aside from lacking the political will to actua
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I don't agree about cost of living aside from outliers like the SFBA, and US healthcare is by and large better if you have access to insurance. At the end of the day, in the US you get more pay, more respect and more recognition for th
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> The drama was IOTA lied about microsoft partnership and deemed hosting on azure == partnership with microsoft I wonder if this is a recurring theme in "crypto". At one point I followed NEO, and they pulled the exact same stun
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> It's already possible if you have technical skills. By and large, an American engineer moving to Europe is trading down in a big way - including but definitely not limited to financial compensation.
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I didn't downvote, but it looks like hand wavy bullshit to me. If you're gonna dismiss fundamental blockchain tradeoffs as being minor temporary obstacles, I think the onus is on you to back it up - not the other way around.
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> That shouldn't be surprising. You will find this much with little research. Elementary. Quite, Quite elementary. I yawn in unison with you old chap.
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> I had no idea that you believed your lack of opinion and offence somehow invalidated mine. Not at all. Your opinion is hilarious, but everyone's entitled to an opinion.
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> Q# is more esoteric than Q is. That in no way negates my point. It's not a question of which is more obscure, but that the 'original' item is obscure in the first place. One unknown language reusing part of another&#x2
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I'm an ignorant pleb, is this the Q you're thinking of? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_K... If so, honestly seems kind of esoteric and I'm not really offended by Microsoft usi
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One of my biggest surprises when moving to Europe was that engineers earn less (and are IMO less respected) than all types of managers, including but not limited to PMs.
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> Clearly there’s no price that bitcoin holders will sell at so they’re clearly exiting the USD ecosystem This may be true for some idealists, but most people view Bitcoin as an investment and haven't "exited" the USD ecos
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I don't get it. What's wrong with that statement?
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This sounds like one of those "be careful what you ask for" things. I do tend to think the world would be a better place if engineers were held (at least slightly) morally accountable for their employer's actions, but I suspe
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There's not much to gain from spinning pedantic hypotheticals around the word "never" "But what if you were hanging from a cliff and only a job offer from Pol Pot could save you.. " Because that's not missing t
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I often see links on HN renamed to reflect the original title.
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divide by 3, or google it
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You're also speculating. Your original post is quite literally a list of 'what if' scenarios.
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All of the big 5 have loads of potential enemies (or entities who would benefit from their loss), including but not limited to actual nation states. It's IMO unlikely that the uptick in anti-tech-hegemon publicity we're seeing lat
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Every company, all else equal, wants the best talent available. There are two separate and not necessarily related issues here : 1. all else is not always equal, and the most technically proficient developer is not always the one that adds
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> pretty good piece rebutting AI alarmism I only read the text, but I was under the impression it was mainly meant to be a funny Wat-style talk and not a meaningful rebuttal. If, in fact, this piece is intended as a serious rebuttal then
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> Java as a little tank, C# as a plane, Python as an helicopter... just brilliant. I almost rolled in the floor laughing by looking at that part of the strip. Is there a special significance to the Java / Python / Ruby / C

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