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by rmk 6y ago
Most of what I state does mean a lot. You can't project power without a world-class navy. Both world powers (in fact almost all) have/had the best navies in the world. The two parts to a world-class navy are the ships and the men.
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by rmk 6y ago
The PLAN has been building up its navy and is expected to handily exceed the USN in the next 5 years. Basically, in a short period of 5-10 years, the PLAN has grown from insignificance into a serious adversary that builds capable ships that
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by rmk 6y ago
China emits half or less on a per-capita basis than Australia, if you just run the numbers from the headline. Add to this the fact that a whole lot of manufacturing has been outsourced from Australia and other advanced countries to China. T
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by rmk 6y ago
The issue is not the 757 per se, but the particular Pratt & Whitney engines that are used on this model. I'm sure the 757 comes with more than one engine option, and more than one model uses the particular P&W engines (although
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by rmk 6y ago
The whole point of the blog post is that the University Department is supporting the (allegedly guilty) Professor to the hilt. There are countless such scandals, including an epidemic of Title IX sexual assault "investigations", w
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by rmk 6y ago
All of what you said is true, but the meaning of tenure is that you are paid a salary by the university and get to keep your job. That's a very generous protection and it's offered to encourage free discussion and exchange of idea
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by rmk 6y ago
Having been through grad school I can assure you it’s tough no matter your gender. In fact, women stand a higher chance of getting more financial assistance for their studies because of the structural support for women that continues at the
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by rmk 6y ago
How is Uber a creditor of Levandowski's? Also, the crux of their arguments is that Levandowski violated the IRS's 'arms length' rule by investing the IRA cash in his own company which later sold for a fabulous profit on
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by rmk 6y ago
I have heard that academic departments literally bend over backwards to cultivate women as professors and extend every possible advantage to them in order to promote them. This is from a classmate who did her PhD and is now a tenure-track p
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by rmk 6y ago
You are talking about the Google ethicists who are leaving, right? Also, can you clarify what you mean by 'shouting themselves into the void'? Are they being denied venues to publish their research, thereby rendering their shoutin
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by rmk 6y ago
I hope you are using hyperbole here. Google employs hundreds of researchers who are free to publish their work as far as I can tell (plenty of seminal systems, AI, economics -- auction mechanisms and such, and other papers are testament to
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by rmk 6y ago
I realise that the corporatisation of universities and increasing monoculture/groupthink is eroding many of the protections offered to even tenured professors, but that's a different discussion. Do you have anything specific about
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by rmk 6y ago
For people who are familiar with this, I have a question. How does research in an industrial lab vs. a university work, insofar as independence is concerned? In a university, aside from well-defined ethics guidelines for conducting research
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by rmk 6y ago
17 minutes to do something that should take 17 seconds. These folks are the masters of dark patterns!
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by rmk 6y ago
You hit the nail on the head. It takes time and effort to cultivate the QA mindset, and to shift into it from a developer mindset. Doing both simultaneously is often difficult in practice because it increases the lead time to produce the en
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by rmk 6y ago
As a developer, I emphatically disagree about the "same job" aspect. QA requires a pretty different mindset, one which developers lack entirely. This is particularly true about testing things like storage appliances, routers, swit
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by rmk 6y ago
Why not start as a technical writer and then work your way up? People will have ZERO qualms about hiring a remote technical writer. Writing technical material will also improve your understanding of technology and give you an 'in'
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by rmk 6y ago
Falling salaries? That's news to me. Are you talking about IT and operations, which is a very different endeavour from building hardware/software product? Or are you talking about the latter? As far as I can tell, core software an
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by rmk 6y ago
I think last year's Bay Area fires that blotted out the Sun for weeks have made a big impression on folks outside of the Bay Area (there's no doubt that Valley residents also got a rude awakening from that). Fires are a regular fe
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by rmk 6y ago
One crucial item is not listed - weather. For people who migrate from all over the world, including places with even better weather, CA weather is a happy compromise. It is sunny for much of the year, there is rain in the spring months, the
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by rmk 6y ago
I agree with you that it is absolutely fair to compare FAANG salaries and stock performance to that of fast-growing startups because they are the primary avenues for smart people trying to make money in this industry. But the latter clearly
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by rmk 6y ago
It's a tool to reduce cash expense on compensation. Many startups offer at or below market compensation, and attempt to make up the difference by granting stock options and RSUs. More often than not, it's a sucker's deal: the
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by rmk 6y ago
Sorry to hear that you got nothing for your hard work. But this happens more often than you think. What this means is that people who can scuttle the possibility of investors getting their money out are getting paid to essentially go away a
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by rmk 6y ago
Based on what I have heard, FB is a very demanding workplace. Lots of smart people trying to get ahead and with that comes a cutthroat culture and poor work-life balance. As an engineer you will have access to smart peers, which can make a
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by rmk 6y ago
Three observations: First, there was a lot of research in this area in the context of minimising data center power usage. But the main players who stand to benefit from improving power consumption operate in places where power is very cheap
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by rmk 6y ago
I'm not arguing that children should be kept out of in-person school. In fact, I'm against it, and was against it even when the pandemic was raging last year. I agree with you that children have been silent victims of schoolteache
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by rmk 6y ago
I'm not saying that places will be shut down completely. I was talking specifically about masking and physical distancing mandates and other such restrictions. I don't think big business and the public will tolerate losing another
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by rmk 6y ago
This is one of the problems with the newly-developed vaccines. It's not clear if they confer sterilizing immunity, so it's not clear if a smaller percentage of people getting the vaccine will stop the disease spreading. Therefore,
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by rmk 6y ago
No one will pay the political price of causing infections among children by reopening rapidly. And I'd like to believe that as a society, we are cautious about letting children be infected with a novel disease whose long-term effects a
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by rmk 6y ago
I have been downvoted elsewhere in this thread for saying that it's not clear whether the vaccine confers sterilizing immunity (or perhaps, for suggesting that restrictions will continue until children are vaccinated. Who knows!) Be ca

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