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by m0zg 5y ago
Stock ranges (as well as refresh grants) are also tied to levels you're hired at. "Largely false" my ass. All of this BS applies _only_ to people with weak skill stacks. Committee doesn't even know your "previous&qu
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by m0zg 5y ago
Looking at Rockley stuff in particular makes me hopeful this could be solved, if it's solvable with spectrophotometry at all. I'd even be OK with something larger, perhaps ankle-worn, as long as I don't have to puncture my sk
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by m0zg 5y ago
They could miniaturize a specialized spectrometer of some sort I suppose. I don't know. If I knew, I'd be doing it now - that's quite literally tens of billions of dollars that people would throw at you faster than you'd
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by m0zg 5y ago
There's no way Apple would design any device which would, I quote, "insert a thin, sterile filament into the skin" to draw interstitial fluid. The Abbott sensor is designed to be worn for weeks on end.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Here's what'll really cook everyone's noodle: the same exact official who was responsible for Oxycontin (Janet Woodcock) was also responsible for approving the Pfizer vaccine the other day. Not drawing an equivalence here, ju
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by m0zg 5y ago
So according to your own post above, 93331 opioid deaths in 2020 in the US alone qualifies as "doing OK" then? To me it sounds like something ought to be done about the situation. Such as, perhaps, imposing crippling trade sanctio
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by m0zg 5y ago
It's not rare at all in my experience. You just have to have a combination of skills that pays more than average on the open market (big data runtimes or distributed systems, say, or AI, in addition to other domain expertise perhaps),
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by m0zg 5y ago
> Humanity seems to be faring reasonably OK. Have you heard of the Opium Wars? Including perhaps the one China is waging against the US right now? Tens of thousands of deaths every year - nobody is even aware.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Appropriate? Maybe, in some cases. But certainly not "safe". There's no non-cynical explanation for banning marijuana at the federal level (an effective and non-addictive pain mangement tool), while allowing addictive opioids
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by m0zg 5y ago
On what planet are opioids "safe" outside a hospital in any way? Incredibly easy to OD, highly addictive, and severely exacerbated by alcohol consumption. They _knew_ ahead of time people would die, and approved this garbage anywa
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by m0zg 5y ago
But Big Pharma and the FDA (which approved these opioids) are totally trustworthy, folks. Don't you dare ask any questions, or you'll be banned from Facebook.
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by m0zg 5y ago
That must have been how people felt when railroads and highways were built for the first time.
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by m0zg 5y ago
In the age of lies telling the truth is a revolutionary act. We're most certainly being had, and a crisis is being put to a good use by the interested parties: politicians, businesses, banks/hedge funds, and plain ol' faceboo
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by m0zg 5y ago
> I'm the only person I know that had an adverse reaction to my 2nd dose (Moderna) I don't _personally_ know anyone who died from COVID. Yet people are clearly dying from it. They are also sometimes getting adverse reactions to
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by m0zg 5y ago
Whether we want to or not, that's where we'll inevitably end up, if not now than a year from now. The only way out is through. Except now you have a choice of wearing body armor (vaccine) or not.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Not "most". "All". Think of it like this: we all have common cold. Most people have it 3-5 times a year, 20% of it is caused by coronaviruses. COVID is just a _novel_ coronavirus. Once you're vaccinated (or had COVI
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by m0zg 5y ago
> You're very focused on the 1% of the kick-ass people Quite frankly, most of the rest don't matter one way or the other. And it's usually more like 10%, not 1%. Perhaps your job is so hard because you're expending ef
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by m0zg 5y ago
Mass evictions would lead to everything opening back up overnight. It's utterly pointless to have _any_ anti-COVID measures at all when a vaccine is available to anyone who wants it. Moreover, it's strongly counterproductive. Let
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by m0zg 5y ago
I've been doing contracting/consulting for the past few years, and not in a single case did any of my contracts last less than 10 months. I start my engagements with a 3 month worth of budget (so that we could amicably part ways i
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by m0zg 5y ago
> If managers provide detailed feedback about what went right and what went wrong I'll let you in on a management secret: most of the time managers can't articulate this even to themselves unless they are talking about the few
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by m0zg 5y ago
As a (former) high level manager: your manager knows _exactly_ who her best people are, and she prays to dear god every day that they don't leave, because then she'd be SOL. This tends to lead to unequal distribution of rewards (a
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by m0zg 5y ago
How do you make _effort_ transparent though? If pay is conditioned on effort and productivity (which it arguably should be), how do you surface that explanation, rather than just the extremely inflammatory "this person makes $700K a ye
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by m0zg 5y ago
1080p in 2021, targeting a "tech" audience? Good luck with that.
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by m0zg 5y ago
I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand, talking about pay is often counterproductive, as you never see the blood sweat and tears that went into someone's pay, you only see the end result and it seems "unfair". On the
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by m0zg 5y ago
Why make a tradeoff that dooms any chance of a person actually productively contributing?
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by m0zg 5y ago
3-6 months is barely enough time to figure out a reasonably complex codebase. That's ridiculously little time to "serve". Whoever came up with that duration has never run a complex software project.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Here's how it's gonna be: "they pretend to pay us, we pretend to work". Imagine old, crusty, US government systems, subject to all regulations imaginable, and multiple levels of approval to change anything at all, system
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by m0zg 5y ago
They never said that before, this was a _highly_ unusual, stunning rebuke. You don't say stuff like that if you lack the confidence.
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by m0zg 5y ago
We're doing about as well as any comparably sized country and have developed two of the world's leading vaccines (China's vaccine, apparently, doesn't work). I'm not sure what else you can do to "deal" wit
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by m0zg 5y ago
It's all but certain that they will surpass the United States in at most 20 years, by quite a margin. They have the industrial base, the population (growth of which they could stimulate, alleviating the "aging population" pro

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