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by mgfist 4y ago
A 70% attrition rate is awful. How many of those kids could become fine engineers if they had more runway to fail and learn without being weeded out? All this tells me is that if CS concepts don't click for you instantly you were out -
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by mgfist 4y ago
The magic must be in the orchestration then, I'd suppose. Otherwise China wouldn't be struggling so much.
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by mgfist 4y ago
If SpaceX ( https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/ ) can have public pricing so can everyone else.
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by mgfist 4y ago
The US has retired planes decades ago that are superior to the best Russia has today, so no I doubt we really care about Russia's thoughts. China maybe.
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by mgfist 4y ago
We're not all bound to the same rules and laws. For example, the president of the US can decide to kill with near immunity.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Pretty sure all the SC justices clerked in their early careers. I'm not in law but I think it's the expected path
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by mgfist 4y ago
One day we will be able to download knowledge to our computer-assisted brains, and math will become a young man's game again.
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by mgfist 4y ago
China has literal GDP targets. Yes it's very dumb
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by mgfist 4y ago
This is purely anecdotal, but it feels much easier to stay safe in a car than it does on a bike. Crashing on a bike is inherently super dangerous regardless of speeds, whereas crashing in a car is only really dangerous at high speeds (and
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by mgfist 4y ago
I think there's a third reason, which is insecurity. "Why is it that you find coding so fun". "Why can you spend all your free time coding when I can't muster 20 minutes without getting bored". etc.. I have thi
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by mgfist 4y ago
It's not racial, it's cultural, socio-economic, and historical. Things like redlining, jim crow, GI Bill (lack-there-of for black people after WW2) all directly lead to the huge educational/economic inequality we see today. T
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by mgfist 4y ago
Well for one they've filled storage reserves past the annual target: https://graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS/EUROPE-GAS/zdvxo... , and will fill it up to the max. The reserve can be used for about 3 months
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by mgfist 4y ago
Europe had already figured out their energy supply for the winter. They weren't counting on Russia.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Europe live's on the US's teat. Ukraine and Nato do not exist with the US. Without US LNG Europe would be begging Putin for gas, leaving Ukraine to rot. Without US defense spending Russia would have rolled through Ukraine and be o
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by mgfist 4y ago
It is pretty interesting. In reality this makes no sense for anyone. It doesn't really make sense for Russia for the reasons you mentioned (tho they often make stupid decisions), but it also doesn't make sense for the West for rep
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by mgfist 4y ago
A kind of operation like this would be known by very very few. Same with all conspiracy theories, people like to point to vague statements made by officials who would have absolutely zero idea about this kind of operation.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Obviously could be, but would be a huge reputational price for little reward. Same with Ukraine (even worse for them)
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by mgfist 4y ago
I've only had 1 employer (a DB company) so I can't speak to industry norms, but I've never had restrictions on things I could do or download on my computer. Hard for me to imagine working at a place where I need permission to
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by mgfist 4y ago
Glad it works for you but sounds like a personal haha
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by mgfist 4y ago
Yeah mostly I meant that Marc isn't some Wall Street banker bro, he's was foundational to the internet, silicon valley and modern life.
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by mgfist 4y ago
For all their "American Dynamism" talk, Marc is just another classic rich NIMBY. source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
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by mgfist 4y ago
> While the top VC players may have earned the respect by themselves being visionary entrepreneurs (once, decades ago in many cases), the rest of the VC market is filled with also-ran investors who have never been practicing entrepreneur
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by mgfist 4y ago
Fair, but that's even worse :-)
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by mgfist 4y ago
It's not the hiding/transparency aspect, it's the scrutiny. I wouldn't like having people just sit there judging my every move.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Sure but the big faang stocks literally print more money than every other company (idk maybe aramco or berkshire can compete, but nothing else). So something's working there.
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by mgfist 4y ago
> for all the heinous crap they have done, antiticpated this demand spike was temporary better than any politican has. It's not that they necessarily anticipated the spike and subsequent fall; it's more to do with investor dyna
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by mgfist 4y ago
When people said inflation was transitory, they didn't realize that the transitory period could mean a few years. For "money printing" to have an effect on inflation, the money has to actually be circulating in the system. Mo
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by mgfist 4y ago
All of this has already happened. Just look at the stocks of all the pandemic companies. Peleton, Teledoc, Zoom, Docusign and on and on. Pretty much all down 80%+ from their highs.
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by mgfist 4y ago
> It’s astounding how long companies can ignore this about their people. Is that really a problem? Companies churn people exceptionally fast these days. That inherently involves dealing with the bus problem.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Because you have to look at reality. You may be willing to do that (though I doubt it), but people at large do not.

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