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by safog 6y ago
It's been a pretty rough year for anyone trying to buy any sort of PC part this year (CPUs, GPUs even PSUs). Had to go stand in line to get one of the 3060 Tis like it was an Apple launch or something.
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by safog 6y ago
My other problem with N95 fitting argument (as I've seen it made during the early days of the pandemic) is that there is a level that is "good enough" for most people. Yes, if you want absolute certainty in a highly infectiou
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by safog 6y ago
Everyone's (EU, India etc.) super impressed by how China was able to homegrow a couple of tech giants and wants in on the action. This is more about having EU be competitive in the tech space than it is about really protecting the inte
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by safog 6y ago
I'm pretty worried about this as well - esp. about heatwaves, but I don't think that would result in nuclear war in our lifetimes. Unless China messes around with rivers that originate in Tibet that is. Possibly my biggest worry i
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by safog 6y ago
I think China themselves have targets to cut emissions and transition to clean energy [1]. They've been leading the charge on all clean energy tech so far. It looked like some of the dirtier industries are being moved on from China to
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by safog 6y ago
I wonder if there's ever a successful company that upsets the status-quo that does not have people vehemently against them. It's also kind of strange for me to see this level of conviction against a company that rents out rooms wh
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by safog 6y ago
Your employer isn't forcing you to do 70hr weeks, plenty of people put in their 40hrs and go home and do just fine if that's what you wish. The people who work 70hrs a week are people who are ambitious and want to get ahead in the
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by safog 6y ago
You really believe Google and Facebook are hiring SWEs and paying them 1/2 of what they pay Americans? Yes contractors are a thing, but the impact is being way overstated.
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by safog 6y ago
This is true, but this is literally right now under exceptional circumstances (hiring freezes, reduced head counts etc. while COVID progresses). The last time this was true was after '08 - '10 or so. I don't think grandparent
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by safog 6y ago
This is just blaming immigrants for their work ethic. You can't keep up with people that work harder than you, don't disguise it as "un-due power employer has over employee". The SWE market (where most H1s are employed)
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by safog 6y ago
> All those consulting firms like Tata Consulting Services are gaming the H1B process, middle manning the employees, and in result Facebook, Home Depot, and others hire them for 1/3 or 1/2 less. This tells me you have no clue w
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by safog 6y ago
Not really, they wanted 3000 positions, they only found 2000 qualified Americans, so they hired the additional 1000 on a H1b.
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by safog 6y ago
Mass generic recruiting doesn't mean that the jobs being filled aren't highly specialized. They're not hiring cafeteria workers on a H1b. SWE is a specialization and job descriptions typically ask for things like experience d
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by safog 6y ago
I don't know what you mean but to add additional context, the PERM process takes ~1 year and the employee is free to leave before / during / after the process. It is not exceptionally hard as an employee on a H1 to have an em
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by safog 6y ago
It's a good time to write a crypto whitepaper and put up a fancy website. It's not alt-season yet .. when it starts is when you see the real shitcoin proliferation. Wouldn't be surprised if the number is in the 1000s.
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by safog 6y ago
I think BCH is a reasonable idea, block size is a problem with BTC and increasing it is fine even if it makes it less likely that normal users will run full nodes. The scumminess of it comes from people like Roger Ver who peddle it as the &
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by safog 6y ago
Hey - this looks great. Couple of questions: - Does re-balancing create a taxable event? If so, given a bunch of these cryptos trade in BTC pairs, do you generate all the documents necessary to file taxes? - What do you feel about the top 1
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by safog 6y ago
"Your margin is my opportunity." - Jeff Bezos
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by safog 6y ago
Any sources for this? I've been trying to read up to understand how / when Binance decides to print USDT and what they do with it once it's on their exchange. e.g., https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status&
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by safog 6y ago
A govt ban on exchanges would do it as well, but the US response thankfully has been pretty moderate.
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by safog 6y ago
Tell that to the Iranians or to the people in Venezuela. Countries can be mis managed, currencies can be mis managed, people can be targeted (financial sanctions), traditional financial services are just not available in a lot of places. To
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by safog 6y ago
Used to be the case in 2017, but no longer true. You're more than welcome to get burned if you short into a hyped bull market.
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by safog 6y ago
Yes, free money inflates risky assets, but it's also just supply and demand. Mining rewards got halved, so miners can't sell as many BTC as used to do after mining a block, so the supply of BTC just went down significantly. The mo
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by safog 6y ago
That link out to the China drone swarm video is pretty crazy. I hope we do live in boring times and don't have to deal with drone warfare wherever we live. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37062/china-con
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by safog 6y ago
I've worked in the space for a few years and I'd discourage anyone from trying to build a career as a software dev in the Healthcare IT / EMR space. It's extremely sales driven (devs aren't valued at all), code qual
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by safog 6y ago
Hey - this is pretty amazing. I have learned a lot about AOE from watching L_clan (mostly L_Clan_Chris but others as well!) replays back in 2004-2008 when I was playing a lot of Age. Never had Zone access, so we lived in a little bubble in
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by safog 6y ago
You can usually tell from skimming the blog post / looking back at the author's history of posts - it's hard to put it into words. I suspect quality means different things to different people and even changes based on context
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by safog 6y ago
Tried a bunch of Indian (and not even Bollywood) songs, worked just fine. Seems to use YT / Google Music content as a reference.
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by safog 6y ago
There's a timeout, so if you're patient it eventually stops
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by safog 6y ago
For the first time in my life, I was able to talk to an honest to god support person over Chat for Google One support (I was trying to link my wife's storage w/ mine and it wasn't obvious how I'd do it). Storage is paid,

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