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Eh. Poetry and handling kids is orthogonal to intelligence. Intelligence is a very narrow and specific skill of discerning the real. It allows us to predict things. Coincidentally,…

There is a reason why a cashier works for minimum wage. A few days ago I went to a grocery store to buy sparkling water. I got 16 small bottles and arranged them as a 4 by 4 grid b…

I know SDE IIs at MS who made 350+. However 90% of those SDE IIs don't even approach the entry level Google pay. My info about the principal salaries comes from those principals th…

Microsoft is pretty good, indeed, but they don't match the Google pay. A senior at Google pulls 350 (add free food and gym to that), while a principal at Microsoft will be lucky to…

That's more like the low end for L5, honestly. And 500k is the high end, for a top performer L5.

I heard that Tesla could effectively "run" experiments in his mind, not just visualize them. Another pointer is that some "schools of thought" divide the art of thought into abilit…

There is an interesting analogy. Two uranium hemispheres remain peaceful only until they are joined.

If you know names of those better workplaces, I'm all ears.

First. Thanks to HN for not demanding phone numbers: anonymity allows to say things that cannot be said. Second. Many googlers read HN. In some sense, HN is the extension of the in…