thwayunion

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by thwayunion 4y ago
> My expectation is that the judges you know are not Supreme Court Justices. This is true, but one is federal. And substantially younger than most of the SCOTUS justices. He doesn't know how to use a web browser. Which, to be hone
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by thwayunion 4y ago
The unique/new concern is less about legitimacy in the political/culture war sense and more about investment risk. Companies like Disney and FAANGs getting caught in the middle of political battles is different in kind and, if it
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by thwayunion 4y ago
I largely agree; the questions here are primarily legal, not technical, and a lot will boil down to legislative intent. As a technical person, I am actually sympathetic to the plaintiff's argument that Section 230 may not necessarily p
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> Just don't promote, suggest, or downvote content. Certain types of promotion and downvoting are clearly within the legislative intent of Section 230. Suggestion may not be, and I am sympathetic to the plaintiff's argument
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by thwayunion 4y ago
During the pandemic the real economy learned that lean supply chains are more efficient but also present a massive liability. That they needed to accept slightly higher costs in exchange for greater robustness. And then the entire tech worl
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Grad students are Very Special in tax code. For example: guess how much grad students and their universities pay in FICA taxes for graduate stipends (can be north of $40K; typically 8% of gross for employee and 8% of gross for employer)? $0
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> Or $0 if you're a SWE living on the coasts... I'm getting frustrated with the government telling me I'm rich while I can't afford an <strike>upper middle class</strike> home. I hear ya, brother :)
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> The idea that because there are other issues with hiring in Academia that these "Faith Statements" don't matter rings pretty hollow imo. You may have missed it, but by "Faith Statements" I literally meant &qu
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> I feel fairly confident predicting that their politics are more or less aligned with present-day progressivism. I have no clue what the fuck this means, but I can tell you I think HR DEI training is a bunch of bullshit. I have to do
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by thwayunion 4y ago
150 are publicly striking. If I were a CS grad student at Temple, I definitely wouldn't strike. But after this hooplah I definitely wouldn't be slinging code at $10/hr either. After all, I'm a good programmer who can wri
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Tuition remission isn't pay or compensation. Very explicitly so. Universities even lobbied to maintain this status quo during the TCJA process.
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> When I was doing it, the pay was 2/3 of what you could reasonably expect in the industry You must be quite old or not in CS :) It was conservatively 1/5 when I was a PhD student (30K was a quite good stipend vs 150K was a
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by thwayunion 4y ago
The person you're responding to is correct in very specific cases like the GRFP; certain fellowships function differently. You're correct in the case of 90+% of grad students.
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by thwayunion 4y ago
This is true but irrelevant. The students striking are all phd students with TAships or RAships.
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by thwayunion 4y ago
I'm sure Temple has good lawyers, but I'm skeptical. My employment contract as a graduate student was one page long. There was definitely an implicit consensus ad idem regarding tuition remissions for graduate students. It was n
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by thwayunion 4y ago
EBNF is awkward if you're describing a typical regular grammar. It's very natural for typical context-free grammars. The dirty secret of CS school is that your theory course is mostly about parsing until you get to turing machines
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Yes! I have been writing regexes like this for 20+ years. The "well then just don't write line noise...?" realization comes easily for those of us that spent a few years "maturing out of Perl". Because first you sto
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by thwayunion 4y ago
And even worse than that , there's a good chance that most of the grad students being charged for "tuition" in this case aren't even taking any courses for most of the semesters they're in grad school . I have no
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by thwayunion 4y ago
This seems incredibly short-sided. Graduate students are the “individual contributors” of academia. A Computer Science PhD student typically makes somewhere between $25K and $40K. At well-regarded universities, the bar is relatively high. M
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> Nothing in the statement I see precludes Temple... Nothing precludes them from doing anything, and nothing precludes students from seeking legal remedies for those actions. Look, I'm not sure. Temple might have a defensible c
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Yes, but if you were a grad student your W-2 almost certainly didn't include your tuition rebate as part of your total income. And the university sure as hell didn't pay taxes on it.
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Typically. Not always. Some institutions/departments will promote to associate without tenure. At those same places, they'll typically let you stick around for quite a while as long as you keep bringing in the money. In every fiel
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by thwayunion 4y ago
But they're going to anyways. A non-tech midwest friend who drives truck treated me differently on that same suspicion. We basically fell out over it. The kicker: he was unionized; I found out years later he wasn't making that muc
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by thwayunion 4y ago
This as well. Things that make for fantastic lifestyle businesses -- a few people doing mid-seven revenue with minimal compute expenses -- just isn't worth it for a FAANG spending an order of magnitude more than that per hour just on o
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> Why are these large companies so slow? A combination of risk aversion, regulatory burden, and process. The corporate machine can't afford to trust the judgement of individual contributors or even their managers or even their dir
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Yes. A bunch of my personal writing, and a lot of transcribed audio (recordings of my own conversations). About $1K worth of cloud compute, but on my home rig so that's just a number.
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Serious question: how is working for Walmart different from working for Amazon Retail?
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by thwayunion 4y ago
"The 80s are back, baby: bank loses all income, gets arrested for cocaine dealing, staff forced to choose between porsche and slip fees"
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Credit Suisse is in free-fall. Down 83% in fixed income sales and trading. Down 95% in equities sales and trading. Down by half in M&A. On trial for cocaine dealing. A bank losing all its income and going down in a criminal probe into
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> But it would still require extensive input of my experiences in order to create something new from its compressed models of feasible designs, and those experiences are something it can't hallucinate. This is exactly why I record

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