questime

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by questime 4y ago
It's politically toxic to discuss but a ton of money goes to keeping people not dead (not really alive either). You could give a lot more people medicare/medicaid if we let a 90 yr old with dementia/diatebetes/etc. pass
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by questime 4y ago
It went to the Democratic National Committee and AI ethics organizations.
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by questime 4y ago
CZ - "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
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by questime 4y ago
You are smoking some good stuff if you think Meta is in "western media's" good books over the past few years. How often have Tik Tok execs been dragged in front of Congress?
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by questime 4y ago
It's more because Google is much more in the consumer business.
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by questime 4y ago
Eh, I don't buy this - more people are learning to code than ever. There are infinite resources online, it has penetrated society's conscious that this is an easy way to get a really well paying job. And there have never existed a
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by questime 4y ago
The biggest blessing of remote work is being able to tune out and do something else during useless meetings.
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by questime 4y ago
Wouldn't that make them software engineers as well?
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by questime 4y ago
The other android devices are even worse, Apple is eating their lunch
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by questime 4y ago
Hudson River Trading, HFT has a lot more status games around intelligence. An interviewer from HRT was playing those kind of games w/ me which really turned me off.
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by questime 4y ago
This is why I encourage all my south asian friends/relatives to not identify as asian when applying to jobs/universities. Even mixed race is better, hispanic and african american makes things easy mode - I get interviews guarantee
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by questime 4y ago
Salaries yes, TC no. I've started ignoring all these articles about tech compensation since it's become so predictable that they are simply using salary which may be reasonable for the median dev but in HN world a lot of comp is e
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by questime 4y ago
Just based on age alone I guarantee that immigrants raise supply of healthcare FAR MORE than raise demand.
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by questime 4y ago
They have by far the most awful customer service of any big tech company. One or two experiences of dealing with issues (in my case Google Fi) turns you into a life long hater.
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by questime 4y ago
Security clearances seem like the biggest issue here. Back when I was in college they needed them even for internships which was a deal breaker since you effectively had to apply for the internship a year earlier than other ones so that you
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by questime 4y ago
That's good to know - It's strange to me that they don't see how this language could be seen the wrong way on a layoff email. It's not a leap to read this in a discriminatory way.
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by questime 4y ago
What does Anti-Racist layoff mean?
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by questime 6y ago
At a 100,000+ company it would be impossible to generalize
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by questime 6y ago
Excellent answer but I will add that phenotyping eye color also adds noise - 23andMe relies on questionnaires and the users have some discretion in identifying their own eye color for example. And since the trait seems so polygenic you do n
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by questime 6y ago
It's really tough but you could take online classes and read textbooks. Also side projects. But it being difficult to teach yourself is the whole point, I rarely see bootcampers working in certain disciplines because of the amount of C
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by questime 6y ago
Or you could work towards having a higher moat skillset. It's hard to work in distributed systems or embedded systems without a lot of training.