skellington

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by skellington 2y ago
there is that very famous quote: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man," by George Bernard Sh
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by skellington 2y ago
The Marxists are downvoting you because they don't understand that there is no other place in history or the world where SpaceX/Tesla/etc. could exist other than the US now. But that door is rapidly closing. In not too many y
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by skellington 2y ago
I dunno...too hypothetical a question to answer, since we already have enough nukes to destroy everything and nobody is going to reduce their arsenal to one.
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by skellington 2y ago
There is no form of full scale nuclear war where the production apparatus for anything becomes a factor.
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by skellington 2y ago
Obviously.
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by skellington 2y ago
Logging in to your bank account to pay the Mars mortgage would take like 4 hours.
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by skellington 2y ago
I hope the readers here are aware that this is just the political smear machine being turned on by WaPo employees and their political friends that don't like this guy because he told them that 'woke' doesn't sell and tha
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by skellington 2y ago
You can go pretty deep if you try to discover the fundamental belief systems or reasoning behind the 'core' DEI people. A lot of people just casually agree that "being fair" and "not being racist" is good. And
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by skellington 2y ago
Currency devaluation was the norm for Argentina for the last 30 years and NOW the squid-turds are worried about it? He was going to stop that train on a dime. Things take time, they have more pain before the restoration.
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by skellington 3y ago
The hate is so deep that people lose their minds when it comes to a minor Tesla issue and conveniently forget the HUGE list of problems and recalls from all manufacturers over the years.
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by skellington 3y ago
Except this has nothing to do with those things. This is just the f'n rubber pad on the accelerator can come off which isn't great, but harms nothing. What is wrong with the people here?
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by skellington 3y ago
True. It's a discount on the tax, but you don't get it all back. So, RSU = 100K (33K taxes), you get 67K after initial taxes. You donate 67K, you get 22K in tax credit. Government gets 11K in taxes even though you didn't see
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by skellington 3y ago
Yeah basically it's 15% worse case if your company stock is on a consistent downward or sideways trajectory. And 15%+ is the stock is generally rising. There is always a small black-swan chance I guess. In all the places I've work
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by skellington 3y ago
That's relatively rare in tech, but some companies are very touchy about their trading windows. Usually smaller companies, lower floats, lawyers trying to manage insider trading risks, etc.. For larger companies, it's almost alway
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by skellington 3y ago
I don't think that's what the person is asking. He's asking if you can avoid ALL taxes on RSUs by donating all of it. And the answer is NO. You can't transfer an RSU grant and when it vests, the taxes are automatically p
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by skellington 3y ago
Netflix is the one notable exception. But they are the exception.
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by skellington 3y ago
No it doesn't. Not for people who earn tech salaries which is what this article is pointed at. You're always going to max out pre-tax 401k first, then backdoor 401k post-tax after if you have enough spare income. Moving up a brack
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by skellington 3y ago
Someone new, and let's be honest, who is naïve and hungry for the big-tech paycheck is going to naturally be enthusiastic. Compare that to someone who has worked in organizations for 20+ years. That person is going to be a realist, whi
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by skellington 3y ago
Leetcode is a form of hazing that no other professional class endures. I'm surprised they don't make programmers solve problems for 36 hours straight to see how they do when massively sleep deprived. Just because... EVERYONE in th
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by skellington 3y ago
that's hilarious...a grumpy senior engineer who has been in the trenches and is usually the kind of person that gets hard problems out the door is "damaging" but toxic managers who screw their team with a smile is normal or e
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by skellington 3y ago
You're clearly correct. If you look at almost any organization, the people that move up are the ones that are most like the people already at the top. The hiring process at most companies STRONGLY incentivizes hiring people who are nea
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by skellington 3y ago
Politically editorialized data. They just redefine what unemployed/underemployed means. But the official numbers are undercounting the unemployed because they also changed the way they interpret the numbers. The real unemployment rate
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by skellington 3y ago
Sort of. The deep-learning AI revolution started with back propagation techniques (80s) that made neural nets trainable. But since then it's taken a long time to get to the relatively recent architectural breakthroughs like transformer
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by skellington 3y ago
He's talking about population, not physical size.
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by skellington 3y ago
Nobody can tell a lab grown diamond vs real by eye. They are the same. With the right lab equipment you might be able to tell the difference through some fluorescence or other very hard to perceive property. Honestly, what gives away lab gr
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by skellington 3y ago
Sure...maybe...if you believe that gold is actually there and who knows if it is. But either way, 1/2 a trillion is just 1/8th of the yearly federal budget. Not sure it is an amount that matters much to the government.
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by skellington 3y ago
Yeah but how do they connect the eye nerves? We've been told over and over that modern surgery doesn't know how to do this.
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by skellington 3y ago
LAWYERS and insane politicians are the reason why it is this way. Google is just working around all the BS which unfortunately leads to these bizarre behaviors.
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by skellington 3y ago
You're only being downvoted because of your accuracy.
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by skellington 3y ago
SpaceX said it was more a question of timing. That the water system would take too long and they were hoping to test before it was fit. The first test involved a subset of all the engines so they hoped the concrete would survive.

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