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by raincom 5y ago
Even if it is a fixed contract, they can shell out $10k for this. However, account managers and their bosses are bean counters.
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by raincom 5y ago
Well, Kuhn talks about two competing paradigms. In the corporate world, you have a large number of people with contrary interests--in other words, n-paradigms where n > 2.
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by raincom 5y ago
I don't want to call JvN a terrible person. He is like many brilliant people who develop surveillance tech for masses. The moment the lives of these brilliant people are surveilled by others, then they claim "it is wrong". Sa
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by raincom 5y ago
All outsourcing companies follow the same formula: set low expectations, add more billable hours. Just go and look at how WITCH(wipro, infosys, tcs, etc) operate. In fact, many Indian middle managers get bribed by transferring money and ass
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by raincom 5y ago
Sabine's comment: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12604#comme...
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by raincom 5y ago
A few questions: (a) what kind of gigs? (b) how you manage meetings? (c) how you manage the delivery expectations?
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by raincom 5y ago
If one studies the history and philosophy of sciences, Woit's criticism is on the mark. Make predictions, and test them out. Or explain novel phenomena.
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by raincom 5y ago
Car theft rings focus on particular make, model, year.
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by raincom 5y ago
That is possible for some people, also depends on the culture of the team one is part of. An average guy needs good mentors, good team mates who can teach, etc. Such teams are very hard to find. So, in that case, one has to be driven to lea
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by raincom 5y ago
"If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job." Between the two extremes (mediocre and rockstar/10x), there are many 'competent&#x27
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by raincom 5y ago
Good advice even for one job--whether remote or in-person. Why put in 30% more effort, when you are not getting paid 30% more. That's why stick to the average pace of your team.
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by raincom 5y ago
In the west, governments collude with the media entities. This collusion is not discussed in the mainstream or in the academia that much, as the latter is part of that collusive cooperative. In China, CCP controls the media. The difference
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by raincom 5y ago
When one uses an existing word, it carries a lot of epistemic and ontological baggage, thereby causing trouble to those who are new to the domain. That’s why scientists go for a linguistic reform: invent a new word during a conceptual or sc
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by raincom 5y ago
There is a thesis called "Indeterminacy of Translation" by the late philosopher W.V.O Quine. You don't need to worry about "fully translating" any word from one natural language to another language.
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by raincom 5y ago
When can we expect the same from ACS (American Chemical Society)?
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by raincom 5y ago
In a cut-throat environment, where 10% of people are PIP'ed, it is expected: your senior colleagues are not going to help you, will lead you down a wrong path, etc. That way, the tribal knowledge will be with them, and they can outshin
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by raincom 5y ago
There is an inverse relationship between the contract rate and the length of a contract. You can charge $350 per hour, such a contract doesn't last no more than 3 months. If you charge $150 per hour, it can last a year, even three year
888.
by raincom 5y ago
This has to do with collusion between the ultra wealthy class, the media class, and the political class.
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by raincom 5y ago
Almost everyone accept what you say. Somehow, the capital class, and the intellectual class (media) heavily discount it.
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by raincom 5y ago
There are people, who spend 6 to 12 months to prepare for FANG interviews. Even kickstart programs for interviews last two months. There is a huge group of people who spend at least 6 months for top pay, etc.
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by raincom 5y ago
Besides cheap and slave labor, what are other "real competitive advantages over western countries" which China has, but which "media rarely speaks about then" ? This is not a rhetorical question. Just interested to know.
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by raincom 5y ago
Contracting itself has many flaws: who makes more out of the contracting? The contracting companies. Such companies filter out good candidates who wants better pay.
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by raincom 5y ago
Between the Afghan People and Taliban, there is a hindrance called the Afghan Govt, which is run as a criminal enterprise, looting the American booty. That's why it is a massive failure. Because of the bad governance by the Karzai govt
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by raincom 5y ago
Interesting tidbit, do you have any paper or book that talks about CIA's role in the PDPA coup?
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by raincom 5y ago
Another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_let_live_(World_War_I... This example was discussed in Robert Axelrod's "The Evolution of Cooperation".
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by raincom 5y ago
Exactly this. Wish some journalist provide an accounting of how much Military industrial complex made out of this mess.
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by raincom 5y ago
My question is neutral wrt whether the West is authoritarian. The West supposed to progress in terms of, as the saying goes, 'the rule of law', whereas it is in regression in the Orient.
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by raincom 5y ago
In what way is it different from prosecutorial discretion practiced in the West?
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by raincom 5y ago
Just like there is a difference between interface and implementation in OOP languages, here 'theory' is in the heads of the original builders of the software, and the 'implementation' is the code written in particular la
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by raincom 5y ago
There was a huge brawl of sorts about "a mathematical proof is not the same as a code review" between Neal Koblitz, Alfred Menezes, etc on the one hand and theoretical crypto community on the other hand wrt "provable security

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