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by frongpik 6y ago
I doubt you can get a visa just because you want to work here. You need to be invited by a firm like google and even then, your chances are like 20%. Or you can be an exceptional scientist of some sort. Or you can be just rich and invest a
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by frongpik 6y ago
I'd try to guess that the next move will be facebookification of whatsapp, i.e. whatsapp will slowly morph into a FB client, will all the buzz and whistles.
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Pretty much. I'd say that corporations are a lot like those bitcoin mixers that mix up many money streams to diffuse liability. Corporate managers are driven by greed and fear: greed is the active force that makes the company profitabl
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First you need to find them. It's not like those in charge leave paper trail that could pin responsibility to them.
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Moral Mazes describes in detail how this happens. The book explains how managers of all kinds "milked" chemical plants, i.e. deferred maintenance to meet schedules and pocket promos, and then jumped the ship right before the plant
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by frongpik 6y ago
What are the card checks?
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by frongpik 6y ago
Looks like a continuation of the Gebru show: the SJW leaders are threatening to unionize. If they really cared about the workers, they'd talk about non compete agreements.
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by frongpik 6y ago
More like 20%.
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Psychiatry exercises what we'd call strategic incompetence: it doesn't really want to know, for the knowledge would be a liability. The bridge to the scientific foundation of psychiatry is hypnotic induction. Find out what it real
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I'll take the liberty to share some notes from unscientific sources, because I find the official sources plain boring. A civilization is generally started by great people that put grand ideals into its foundation. A sign of such founde
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That's a good theory why things turned so hostile from the start.
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At least when I was there, google seemed like an island with melancholic, but smart and kind pandas who never had to compete for food, for the food was brought to them by a ferry, and never had to do any work, unless they had a spark of cur
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by frongpik 6y ago
I do all that because I'm relatively wealthy and have plenty of time and freedom. And that does show. Aging still manifests as a slowly increasing suspectability to various damages like a minor allergy that puzzles doctors, minor hair
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IMHO, that's because to answer these questions, we need to research fields that are labeled as pseudoscience for no good reason. For example, no serious scientist who cares about career and reputation can study things like "animal
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by frongpik 6y ago
I'd assign scientists a "pension" every time they make a worthy discovery. That pension would be a monthly payment of a fixed dollar amount, it would be inalienable and paid for the rest of the scientist's life regardles
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by frongpik 6y ago
I think it's a real thing and has the same nature as the force that keeps a water droplet together: it's the surface tension that prevents others from sticking out and supports them to be like others.
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The main villain - the sr. director with bad breath - predicted this and got his subordinate - a manager - schedule the meeting. Later he stopped by and replaced that manager. In other words, he can claim he has never been to that meeting.
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by frongpik 6y ago
That meeting in the abandoned part of the building was scheduled because the sr. director wanted sexual favors. The meeting was scheduled by her manager, but later the director shows up out of blue and the manager leaves and says that &quot
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by frongpik 6y ago
It's a quote from wikipedia: an electron, moving in a magnetic field, experiences a force perpendicular to its trajectory, so the work - the dot product of the force and trajectory vectors - is zero. I should probably add one unscienti
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by frongpik 6y ago
This deserves its own post on HN. Do you know what's the going theory about how magnetism induces the current loop? Something must tell electrons that it's time to move in the clockwise direction and that something moves at the sp
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by frongpik 6y ago
The analogy goes deeper. Most of us are familiar with the spirit-soul-body concept. Descriptions of the three are very similar to concepts in CS: spirit is the algorithm or an idea - in this sense the spirit is immutable and the same for al
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by frongpik 6y ago
"Life doesn't violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics" sounds similar to "magnetism does no work". Yet we know that magnetism creates macroscopic effects: a magnet can lift an iron nail, despite it does no work. The w
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by frongpik 6y ago
My idea is a lot simpler and doesn't need any ML. Think of it as the linkedin feed: if you upvote a post, it'll be shown to your contacts, but if you upvote too much junk posts, your contacts will unsubscribe. This idea is relativ
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by frongpik 6y ago
This works for sharks because they are a pre-existing condition. However if the bay with a shark bio lab was an origin of shark mutants, I'd assume the lab engineered them.
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Secretary? Some high level execs have such a secretary for scheduling stuff. In this case the team is that exec.
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That's a big reason what makes HN successful: a blanket ban on emotional content. Edit. I've been thinking of an idea that for us knowledge sharing resembles neuron connections, based on my limited knowledge of that topic. Each of
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They gotta feed those clams with something valuable in return to their service to really restore the balance.
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IIRC, one big problem of the strings theory was the shape of those strings: the theory allows many, but our universe uses one and we don't know which one. I think there's a good candidate for this shape. Many books, rather old, bu
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The big canary in the official timeline is the sudden cutoff date at that time. However the unofficial chronicles are very detailed about what exactly happened and when. From those chronicles, it was a black people civilization, it was mass
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IMHO, tesla and others do the autopilot thing wrong and the right way to do it is to predict the trajectory for the next 5 sec and display it on the HUD-like screen projected to the windshield. This way the driver would see where the car is

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