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by ggg9990 9y ago
“Wife was home all the time” is the key here and a luxury not available to all.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
This may be accurate math but it’s also the thought process of a non-indigent person sitting at a computer, not the thinking of someone who works all day for $8.25 and hour and is taking care of a newborn and trying to make ends meet.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Speaking from experience, when Facebook didn’t do anything message scanning with messenger (allowed any person to send any message to anyone else) it was a tool for massive amounts of extreme personal abuse, blackmail, etc.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The first-name thing and the casual workplace attire and the fun offices in Silicon Valley are all part of a trend to offset accelerating inequality with the illusion of egalitarianism.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Yes, but half the apps just need to maintain state without logging in.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Well if you don’t think it’s a big deal, you may collect it just to have the data (data was as appealing to bureaucrats 200 years ago as it is to big-data engineers today). For example the DMV asks for your height and weight today, but if a
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The managing multiple kinds of machines issues is a real one, speaking from the other end. For uniquely talented software engineers I might let them use what they want but from managing an IT department you definitely want anyone who has no
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It differs by company, but is not that easily gameable. (I’ve tried many times and succeeded only once in filing an application that was completely trash). The company’s patent lawyers ultimately decide what they will and won’t file, and th
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Intel’s R&D budget is $13 billion and Apple’s operating income is $61 billion, so Apple has more than enough money to play this game. I do wonder why it makes sense for them, other than a possible unification from top to bottom of the d
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The male/female sentencing gap isn’t an “overcorrection” because it has always existed. In the UK for at least 500 years.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Drive the car. It is tremendous.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Linux kernel is the outlier, not the norm. You can’t take a regular runner and ask him why he isn’t running as fast as Usain Bolt.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Tesla is the epitome of Silicon Valley thinking applied to manufacturing. Tremendous achievements that no one thought possible, but tremendous ugliness under the hood.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Ah yes, lack of employee enthusiasm has killed ExxonMobil, United Fruit, Nestle, and the other evil mega corporations of history.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Just like a more powerful car is more likely to catch fire.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Unless you have a nearly unique skill set, refusing to build something does not even slightly impede it from getting built.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That person is likely Elon Musk who is well-known for his obstinate and even idiotic defense of Tesla against legitimate and thoughtful criticism. He has the defensiveness of Donald Trump, while even Zuckerberg admitted fault.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The economic benefit to the government from the giraffes is higher than to the poachers from the hunting. That’s why governments will start protecting these animals with more extreme violence towards poachers as numbers diminish.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Very poor analysis with both bad assumptions and weak imagination.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Wow, he Googled it from a company computer. Proof that you don't need to be very smart to become CIO at a public company.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
You’re definitely targeting the wrong companies if you are applying to Goldman Sachs. Apply to work remotely for a Bay Area startup like a YC company. They don’t run background checks as frequently or as well and they often don’t care about
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by ggg9990 9y ago
MLK was a massively flawed individual with the philandering and plagiarism and everything... he is an example of how leaders DON’T need to be perfect.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Facebook has long been losing its monopoly... to Instagram. They have enough money to keep buying the Next Big Thing.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Yikes, just based on the tone of that Twitter thread I wouldn’t come within 10 feet of this code for fear of interacting with OP.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
20% of their market gone in a puff of smoke is no threat to Lyft?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Uber is not going to give up just because they killed one “loser” (probably how they think of her, given that they let an unsafe product on the road to kill her). The thought of cutting all the “losers” on their payroll and replacing them w
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by ggg9990 9y ago
You are conflating two concepts. One is the ability to complete 100% of any ride and react to a kid running into the street, etc. The second is to satisfy 100% of current taxi service like rural areas or dirt roads. 100% safety on 90% of po
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The thing is that the US could have taken actions starting 25 years ago so that all of the advantage captured by China today would have been captured by us and added even more to our privileges.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Maybe you did, but I’d much rather have things like the Nest camera or text-to-speech as my own software. However, it’s impossible to get the same quality for the same amount spent this way, since vendors prefer the service business model.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What prevents other vendors from making CUDA compliant hardware? I thought the result of Oracle v. Google is that APIs can’t be copyrighted?

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