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For parallelizable workloads it scales just fine, and giving exams is perfectly parallelizable. Any good programmer would know that.

Having done both I would say not by much

I remember reading a theory on this that basically it is a symptom of the decline of the news media industry. The positive attitude in the industry lined up with good times for the…

"Freely available" doesn't mean they are free of charge, but that they can be obtained at any time with minimal effort.

Cigarettes and alcohol are freely available to kids

OK, that's fair. I don't deny I broke the rules there. I was just surprised at the unevenness because I assumed you had seen the context.

This is the comment I was replying to: > I read that left-wing people are consistently found to be much more able to process conflicting ideas than right-wing people are. Nothing i…

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Yes I'm sure that is genuine belief and not just a manifestation of envy. I can't describe the level of contempt I have for people who go around opining on how much money they thin…

It doesn't rise to the level of critique. Just baseless accusations and conspiracy theories. Success speaks for itself and the mental gymnastics of those that deny it screams "envy…

They must be seething in envy at the superior returns of the average HN naysayer who has been predicting the imminent collapse of all the "scams" Elon Musk is running for the last …

Who has delivered better value for money on government contracts than SpaceX?

Envy is a hell of a drug

Have you got any evidence for these claims?

I'm not seeing it. > “Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?” Musk states on 13 December 2013. > “any day 1st - 8th . play it by ear if…

They don't have to be willing because hiding the losses would be a crime. And it still doesn't matter b/c anyone with a calculator can tell you exactly what the value of their posi…

You should stop asking people for money for any other reason except that you provide value in return. Your enjoyment is your own business.

I don't have a CS degree, and I am talking about inbound recruiter emails, so it's not credentialism or networking. I did get my current job via networking though, but networking i…

If somebody is paying you to do something and someone else comes along that can do that thing much better than you and/or for less money you've got a problem. Whether or not you ca…

The AI will not stop them, or anyone else, from doing what they enjoy. It will stop them from getting paid for it. And nobody has the right to get paid for having fun. To get paid …

US fintech. Language / framework agnostic.

Why would that be different? It seems right now that tech billionaires are the group that is most in favor of advancing technology. What politically powerful group would it be more…

Sample size of 1 here, but my inbox is absolutely overflowing with recruiters. Sample size of more than 1 - the SWE who were laid off recently from my company are finding new jobs …

It does and has done so consistently throughout human history, so I do not believe this will be any different. I couldn't care less what the shared amount of money is because it so…

Rockets have a self destruct feature to avoid exactly this type of contingency