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by rafiki6 5y ago
Depends on how "early", but know when you're getting a bad deal. As a general rule of thumb, if you're between employees 1-10, you should be treated like almost like a founder. You should likely only be pursuing that rol
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by rafiki6 5y ago
Canada. Severely underpaid compared to American counterparts, and cost of living is on par. Many less opportunities as well, primarily focused on financial sector if in Toronto, or contracting/working remote for American company, or be
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by rafiki6 5y ago
Lots of new religions, just less focused on supernatural deities. Crypto maximalists are basically fundamentalists in a particular belief system. Even those who are loyally devout to a particular sports team are basically practicing a relig
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by rafiki6 6y ago
> If you have never been poor, you may not realize how awesome Small houses and Toyota Corollas are. Love this. These are luxury products for upper middle class folks in a lot of developing countries. I don't think people really gra
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by rafiki6 6y ago
You would need an electrical engineering degree, usually an advanced degree (master's is enough but PhD helps). It's a tight space. You could also try getting into an analog design company and work on their software stack, but gen
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Interesting lesson here I would say. It seems that relying too heavily on users with limited uptime computing power is not a good idea, until you reach a certain network size where it makes sense. The question now is, does this change with
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by rafiki6 6y ago
And yet shorting exists and is hard, yet quite profitable. Sometimes the market gets it wrong because humans are fallible to herd mentality. The question to ask is, do the fundamentals you mentioned justify the valuation?
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by rafiki6 6y ago
As per usual, the major issue with fiat currency is how poorly the government is managing the country.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
I hope IPFS supersedes all other web content protocols.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Again, unfortunately for mass adoption to occur centralized solutions had to be developed to allow for wide market adoption, but yes I absolutely agree that Email IS the decentralized application. Too bad a lot of ISPs block outbound traffi
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Agreed with the idea that the internet is inherently decentralized. Too bad that we ultimately needed to succumb to some form of centralization in the form of ISPs in order for it to be a truly global technology. There are now some blockcha
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Yes I recall this. Too bad what MSFT did with it. I also noticed severe performance reductions when this eventually happened, but I wasn't entirely sure if it was due to a botched transition by MSFT or not. Needless to say, Skype has l
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by rafiki6 6y ago
It's a very interesting positive feedback cycle. Application identified. Some manufacturing process gets developed to automate. Scale up production. Challenges in scaling process are discovered and improvements are made with new tools
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Ask HN: Truly successful applications based on decentralized networks?
33 points by rafiki6 6y ago|24 comments
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Thanks for your thoughts but this isn't a helpful post. You're welcome to stay in Canada if you feel there are non monetary benefits you would prefer over a higher salary or more career growth. I think that paying 50% of household
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Yes I've researched all this. My partner is TN eligible as well. And yes, dollar figure costs are same, that's exactly my point. CoL from a magnitude is the same when exchange is excluded, but salaries are higher and more opportun
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by rafiki6 6y ago
I do when I can. It's not easy to find the hiring manager for every role posted unless the hiring manager promotes the role themselves.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Yes, I think the DS market in general got hit since it's a nice to have for most companies, or most companies have no idea what their DS groups do anyway and were just jumping in on the hype. Also there is a glut of talent from bootcam
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Thank you this is the exact kind of information I'm looking for. Can I PM you?
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by rafiki6 6y ago
You get 2-3x the pay without converting. The median salary for a senior in Toronto and Van right now is around 150-170 TC, and that is generally the type of salary you're getting from the FAANGS here. Some might push above 200k, but yo
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Any particular strategies for making them aware of this? I find that if I submit a job application online, I will say I require a VISA (a TN in my case) and that produces less positive outcomes usually. So I've started to say I don&#x2
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by rafiki6 6y ago
You're never going to do that by taking down the current order of the day violently. Violent revolutions lead (whether social or financial) lead to violent societies. That's my main point. Don't assume that a violent revoluti
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by rafiki6 6y ago
I never said capitalism is required. You're arguing the wrong point. The point is about idealism based revolutions. They never workout the way they followers want them to. Never.
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Ask HN: How Does a Canadian SWE/Data Scientist Make a Move to the US?
17 points by rafiki6 6y ago|37 comments
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by rafiki6 6y ago
The lesson should be work as hard as you need to (which usually isn't that hard). Never work harder.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Yes they are two quite different companies. I just found it hilariously ironic.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Two arguments can be made. On the one hand, there are definitely more private places to be rented out then there are hotel rooms in those 5 chains. On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure that Airbnb can ever be profitable enough with
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Yes this is correct. The primary difference in at will employment is that I also am not required to give my employer notice, whereas in the countries you mentioned I am.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
I think that's a balanced view. The fact is, Google might have constructively dismissed her because of her history and attitude and they knew if they outright fired her, it would be a PR nightmare. Letting her resign like this makes it
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by rafiki6 6y ago
I absolutely hate my workplace. But I've hated most of the other workplaces I've been at. My ideal situation would be to work at NASA, but I've heard some questionable things about that workplace too. Point is, unless you run

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