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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Good ideas are hard ... sometimes simple and overcrowded markets yield the best results. Facebook is basically usenet with a better UI/UX ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet ). Amazon was a book store. What you
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Pursue what you are passionate about, but be realistic about how you are going to work and handle the real issues that come with being an adult and having a family (if this is your goal). My daughter is pursuing a degree in Art at a good un
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
ARM isn't going to displace Intel, or more correctly, x86, any time soon. My rationale is simple, in that there are many different ARM vendors, with many different (yes) ABIs and toolchains, no real industry/market push behind an
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Yeah, I heard the "loser" bit. Somewhat comforted by the end of my third year in industry, in that my compensation was 2.5x what new profs was making. The postdocs I looked at included a number for which the salary for 60+ hour
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
When I entered grad school it was. Then the Soviet Union died, and the market, already awash in a large number of Ph.D.s in physics suddenly transformed into something that I could not effectively compete in. To some degree, you are measur
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Put more succinctly, whomever wins this, loses. Small business will wind up paying for Amazon's share of the taxes. We all lose when this happens.
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I stand ... er ... sit ... corrected ...
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I did a similar analysis with more relevant (for me) numbers for BA recruiters that wanted me to move. Their responses were ... well ... sad. I don't blame them. Or the companies. I was amused by the offered salaries, after I explain
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
What are the parameters of that $1M home? For example, I looked at comparables for my current home in a recent job hunt. My reasonable sized (1700 sq ft) house in a good area of Michigan (western Wayne county, bordering Washtenaw and Ann A
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
This. Though I'd probably add a 4th category, those being none of the preceding 3 groups. That 4th group would include me, and quite a number of others. In my previous job hunt, I had numerous recruiters try to explain to me that the
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Great job Heinz and team!
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
You assume they would. As soon as the UBI hits, the 300$ huts become $1300 huts. And we have the same pattern all over again. Enable them to mobile, independent of UBI. Enable them to get food, health care (real stuff, not the obamacare
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I am going to assume I am more cynical than you on this. Rent seeking behavior is usually aimed hardest at those least likely to protest, or without resources to protest. Someone can rent seek another if the other person has no other effe
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Exactly. Rent seeking behavior, to extract more from tenants would be expected. This would spread. Causing other prices to rise.
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Hmm ... not 3 years ago, the milk I currently pay $4/gallon for was selling for ~$3/gallon. Maybe outside of Michigan it is different.
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Coal was viable as a fuel until a few years ago. Then the environmental regulations hit full force, and forced many of these companies under. I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but worth repeating. Decisions have consequences. Decidi
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
And ... how well is that working out in markets like, say, high speed internet (from someone who is struggling to find competitive offerings in a large market near major cities). The point is that sellers may attempt to partition markets to
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Its not awful over a short term. Over a longer term, it will price commodities out of reach. I've watched milk prices rise dramatically over the last 5 years or so. This is in part due to the costs of production rising, not necessar
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Assume, as the story implies, that they haven't the money to move. Moving costs money. Exactly what should they do? Channeling Marie Antoinette is obviously not the right answer (e.g. moving to the jobs) as they are functionally immob
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
The concern I have with this will be inflation. People now have money, sellers can now raise prices. Which eventually gets us right back to where we were. You can give them more money, but then you are accelerating the cycle.
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
This is replicated all over the rust belt. One of the saddest portrayals of this is the photo essay, The Ruins of Detroit[1]. These once mighty economic engines have been silenced: manufacturing, coal, etc. What happens next is that the
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
While it is always "fun" (for some definition of the word fun) to pile on, and sometimes watch the otherwise clueless elected officials to get soundbites at the expense of a hapless CEO of a company that did bad things, or allowed
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I wrote my thesis in LaTeX, there was at least minimal support at our PhD office (minimal in the sense of they would accept postscript at the time). My choices were MS Word (in early 90s, so ... yuck) which I didn't have on any machin
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
A financial *aaS provider whose infrastructure we built used them. The cards are very good, I am looking at them for current (platform) projects. Generally they are one of two choices for very high performance networking on multiple OSes.
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Cool result! I've done similar things in the past with previous company's units[1] using Mellanox cards. We worked quite a bit with Chelsio as well, and have shown nice results there. I am surprised on the spinning disk front t
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
In my previous search, I had two interviews scheduled, one day after another, with different organizations which were diametrically opposite in outcome, though asked similar questions. It was the way they asked the questions, the body lang
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Happily not all teachers teach to the tests. STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) is all about trying to stoke interest in these paths. She's holding her first event today. FWIW: I've seen districts where parents don&
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Showed this to my wife (a math/physics high school teacher). She loved it! Not sure if she will use this in her STEAM club, but it is possible. Thanks for the link!
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
This +10. AL has not been worth any of the time I'd put into it, attempting to locate potential investors. Wasn't in a "hot" space. High performance unified (file, block, object) scale out storage and compute hardware.
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
This +100 One day I'll write my story. A few acquisition offers, some investment offers. Foolishly we rejected them. Company when bust with the help of a bank last year. Same rules as in baseball. Don't swing for the fences. M

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