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ca01an

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    Comment #31369551

    What would you suggest they study in order to learn how to write code properly? I've been working in chip design for a few years (writing verilog code instead of software code) but…

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    Comment #31369207

    I think FB, Google and Apple simply being more profitable than Cisco has more to do with it

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    Comment #31324920

    He has divulged in the past that “Is that all there is?” by Peggy Lee is his favourite song

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    Comment #30072546

    What exactly has happened to them under SoftBank that caused their margins to drop so much? I have no idea why they can't turn a decent profit, given that, as you said yourself, th…

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    Comment #29921155

    What tech do you have to specialize in to get $1 million a year?

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    Comment #29576679

    Did DeepMind have anything to do with the TPUs? I was under the impression another group in Google designed them

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    Comment #29550209

    Not sure what it is like in the US, but in the UK, the RSPB doesn't seem to think cats are a major cause of bird population decline https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advic…

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    Comment #29348913

    Vaccines only help you not get seriously ill, they don’t seem to help much with preventing covid infection in the first place

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    Comment #29092846

    How does this benefit purchasers in any way? Did you mean to say it benefits the seller?

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    Comment #28838886

    Would you hesitate to hire someone from Facebook or any of the multitude of western companies with a history of unethical business practices?

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    Comment #28797257

    Baffling to me hearing about Americans in SV who can't afford to live on their own on over $150k, that would easily be a top 1% salary in the european city I live in

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    Comment #28614398

    UK doctors earn way less than US doctors, same as engineers

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    Comment #28610131

    UK salaries are a lot lower than US salaries but every country has lower salaries than the US and the UK fares better than most. I would guess this means brits have less incentive …

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    Comment #28541494

    Why is this the case? Looking at the posts on Blind, even Google and Facebook seem to pay their hardware engineers a bit less than their software engineers, probably because they k…

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    Comment #28459431

    Most chips are not processors running software and most of the manufactured processors are small embedded ones, i.e not the kind of processors running extremely bloated software ap…

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    Comment #28456573

    Do you have the option of just paying for one gym session? Most of the gyms near me have yearly/monthly subscriptions as well as allowing you to pay for a single gym session

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    Comment #28443142

    The USA has made life objectively worse for a much larger number of Muslims than China has over the past few decades

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    Comment #28442930

    I don't see how it is any worse than the many western social media apps and games that use the same addiction inducing techniques

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    Comment #28153986

    I'm curious, what sort of salary range would there be for engineers in your country?

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    Comment #27982667

    no guarantee that future returns will match past returns but they are a pretty good guide

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    Comment #27759098

    Most people are more likely to end up in prison in the USA than they are in China

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    Comment #27737695

    A lot of negative responses here but my own experiences having graduated with an EE degree from an average university (in the UK) 3 years ago has been pretty good so far. I was abl…

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    Comment #27720070

    Many of them were slaves, who were also trained athletes