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by pm90 4y ago
Globalization is here to stay. The economics are just too sweet to “go back”.
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by pm90 4y ago
WaPo article, which has more details about the bill and less details about what different “personalities” are saying: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/27/senate-ch... . Overall, it looks gr
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by pm90 4y ago
Regrettably, This is what does tend to happen. But its also a failure of society because immigrants are easy targets for scoring political points, despite it being repeatedly shown how beneficial immigration has been to Western econonomies.
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by pm90 4y ago
First, the question is about labor supply. Second, people crossing the southern border will never be large enough to affect the US labor market. Only increasing legal immigration can have meaningful effect on the labor supply.
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by pm90 4y ago
No. Easiest by far is to relax immigration restrictions.
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by pm90 4y ago
Heh, this made me smile. The world has changed and keeps changing. When I was a kid, smartphones just weren’t a thing. And yet today I simply cannot imagine life without them. As the world changes so do the metaphors useful in describing it
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by pm90 4y ago
While it isn’t a design I like, open sourcing is at least a good step in getting feedback and engaging with the community.
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by pm90 4y ago
Maybe he made himself invisible to modern humans, or camped off to another planet (an idea covered in the obscure but lovely book series, Everworld.
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by pm90 4y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted, it’s technically correct. First World: US + NATO + Friends (loosely termed “The West) Second World: Soviet Union + Warsaw Pact + Friends Third World: Rest of the world.
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by pm90 4y ago
Coal is a lot more plentiful than oil, and much less concentrated.
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by pm90 4y ago
Unlikely. Fossil fuel extraction is expensive. It makes sense economically only because theres a lot of demand for it globally and companies can net huge profits. Without that kind of global demand, fossil fuel extraction will be limited to
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by pm90 4y ago
The trick to fixing OnCall is to have strong Government regulations around availability of employees to be available off work hours. If that happens, employers will either drop or relax OnCall requirements, or build processes to manage it (
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by pm90 4y ago
I would humbly suggest that if this person didn’t do anything, either they needed to be better informed of expectations or that your culture needs to change so that they don’t feel the need to ack without actually doing anything.
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by pm90 4y ago
+1. I am a deep sleeper and Ive missed pages at times that got escalated to the secondary. Nothing major, just something that autoresolved. But the guilt I felt was… incredibly stressful. Because I felt I was letting down people I was famil
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by pm90 4y ago
Their population never boomed like it did in the US post WW2, possibly because of the massive loss of lives in the war. I feel like all that development would be pretty useless if there were no people to actually do anything.
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by pm90 4y ago
Netflix had a 10 year head start in the streaming space. They tried to take on entrenched Hollywood studios. They had some success (some Netflix originals are some of the best TV shows) but it looks like they couldn’t really match the conte
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by pm90 4y ago
> This article made me _really_ curious what manner of awesomeness is going on at Two Sigma This is probably a major reason he’s being hired. I haven’t experienced too much of this phenomenon but “famous” OSS folks get coddled and shower
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by pm90 4y ago
They’re all nefarious. Your data should not be in the hands of any data broker or Government without explicit consent. But if you wanna beat the drum of Jingoism, here is a counter argument: the Chinese Government has little interest in the
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by pm90 4y ago
What kind of engineering culture do they have? Can people continue down the technical route without needing to jump into management?
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by pm90 4y ago
To be clear, nobody is claiming that he didn’t write viper, or that he isn’t a brand name in OSS. The claim is that he was responsible for “taking go language from niche technologies to widespread adoption”, which seems like a pretty bi
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by pm90 4y ago
Thanks for taking the time to leave this comment. While it may be read as some sort of Jealous screed, I have observed similar behaviors from people who fall under this collection of traits. People that might at first be seen as having acco
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by pm90 4y ago
> Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement. This is true about any successful institution in general. I noticed it first with Universities but it applies to jobs as well.
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by pm90 4y ago
The pandemic made it clear that elites are ok with mass death and debilitation. It may not be a conspiracy, but people in power simply don’t care. So the logical conclusion is that a lot of the most vulnerable people are going to perish, th
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by pm90 4y ago
For the general case, the CLRS book is recommended, but I personally found Algorithm Design by Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos to be the best introduction in undergrad: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Jon-Kleinberg&#x2F
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by pm90 4y ago
I think I had a similar experience. I suspect its because its a very unorthodox approach; the style seems more targeted towards someone with a bunch of time reading through it slowly rather than gulping it down quickly like for most undergr
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by pm90 4y ago
If you haven't reached out to Jeff, I would highly recommend sending him an email explaining how its impacted you. He is just an amazing person overall and loves to teach.
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by pm90 4y ago
+ Foreign Graduates can make use of OPT that lets you work in the US for 3 (more now?) years while trying for H1B lottery.
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by pm90 4y ago
Stipend paid from Teaching and Research Assistant jobs were enough to cover living expenses in the town in which the University was located in.
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by pm90 4y ago
On the Contrary: A Masters Degree is often easier than an undergrad degree. You get a lot more freedom to do whatever the fuck you want. In most Universities, Masters students can teach/do research and get tuition forgiveness. If you
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by pm90 4y ago
autopilot != FSD I agree that autopilot by itself, currently is still pretty valuable. What I worry about (and seems to be confirmed) is that Musk misunderstands what’s possible with the current technology and will make outrageous demands f

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