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I'm just saying in the absence of any alternatives (which I'm sure there are), it's better to have 1% of trillions of dollars going towards advancing humanity and technology than 0…

Never said TCJA or the Bush era tax cuts were used for good purposes :) but it's probably better for the country in the long run to have excess money flowing into tech VC funds rat…

Eh, quick DM to Wall Street Journal or Financial Times and if it's a decently large bank the PR fallout will quickly prevent any potential retaliation.

Well I think a big contributor to the current inflation problem was the last round of stimulus passed right as the pandemic was starting to wind down. At that point unemployment nu…

> Right now the labor market is good for workers It is good _nominally_. Real wages are basically flat. Meanwhile, for everyone who didn't get a raise or can't currently find a new…

Gentrification is a classic example of supply and demand from microecon. As an area becomes nicer to live in it gains more and more demand with people with high willingness and abi…

The US and Europe have great safety regulations for workers. It turns out given the choice women would rather not live in the middle of nowhere in -40C weather getting soaked by cr…

> teachers with X degree and Y years experience get Y0,000 ±5% That would never work in tech. And the higher paying firm you go to, the less it works. High performers in FAANG can …

Ironic they leave out Asian men in the graph at the top. I guess those numbers wouldn't fit their "America is racist" trope. Other than that though, standardizing pay will balance …

Unfortunately the party in charge right now is trumpeting the idea that inflation must be because companies are price gouging customers rather than trying to slow down domestic spe…

We have a huge trades shortage and COVID might force a lot of supply chains to come back at least in part to the US. The demand for new construction has never been higher either. A…

> This isn’t a flaw in a healthcare system, it’s a symptom of a broken transport system. Nobody wants to sit next to piss/weed/cig smelling people and get their shit robbed on publ…

> everyone in the administrative region gets covered for everything That leads to rampant abuses. For example in certain East Asian city states with "universal" healthcare people w…

Climate change is perhaps one of the many reasons both the Roman and Byzantine empires fell or lost ability to project power. The Byzantine conquest of Italy was finishing up when …

Not quite true, because on-die data transfer is a lot cheaper than off-die. If you look at full system power consumption between even chiplet based and monolithic Ryzen products th…

Not sure why you were downvoted but this is true - desktop Ryzen chips have terrible idle power usage due to the IO die. The APU variants have lower IPC and performance due to lowe…

As long as public transportation in the US continues to be unsafe, dirty, and slow people will continue to drive cars. It doesn't matter how much public transport you build out, if…

That cache is not uniform time access. It costs over 100ns to cross the IO die to access another die's L3, almost as much as going to main memory. In practice you have to treat it …

Many GB5 (and real world) tasks are memory bandwidth bottlenecked, which greatly favors M1 Max because it has over double a Threadripper's memory bandwidth.

Cinebench R23 is a worst case scenario for M1 because it doesn't have high core utilization and sits in L2 cache. If you look at a broader set of benchmarks (SPEC) then M1 Max in l…

Strongly disagree if we are talking a complex problem like coding a distributed system. It is very possible for an implementation to be 90% correct but it won't compile or it's wro…

Curious how this will work with more complex cases? E.g. distributed systems, concurrency safety, etc. Also, how do you deal with solutions that don't compile but are 95% of the wa…

> If you have any serious medical issues, you carry your own insurance I've never seen this at any tech company in the SFBA. They cover 100% of the premium for yourself and it's on…

> I'd rather know what is "normal" i.e. common. I think using comparative benchmarks instead of absolute benchmarks is where we differ. The absolute bar - being able to grok large …

I know many startups who are now paying _interns_ more than other companies are paying senior devs. It is conceivable to get paid $70+/h at Series A startups as an intern and $140-…