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The glorious state of California has the highest taxes in the nation and is the home of the tech industry. If wealth isn't trickling down, it's because it is being wasted.

Presumably, Google's core business has better return on capital than real estate, or else Google would have become a real estate shop.

Cray nowadays is purely a government contracting shop (think healthcare.gov in terms of technology chops).

Reading Hacker News, I get the impression that tech startups are the only sector of our capitalist economy that has transcended the profit motive and is apparently serving a higher…

In my small corner of numerical computing, pretty much every name I know on the east coast who doesn't hold a university position has moved to Yahoo Research in recent years. So at…

I can't see how arXiv helps with the outlined problems. The goal of publishing is getting a stamp of approval from your peers, which you can then bring to hiring or promotions comm…

S3QL may be a good fit for your needs. It's a FUSE filesystem for S3 that supports encrypted dedup snapshots. You can do backups by rsyncing your current state into the filesystem …

Adding in neuroengineering makes it sound even more pretentious and fake.

As a tangent, I was appalled to read that Stanford undergrads can major in "management science". What happened to the high academic standards for which Stanford is famous?

It takes the groups and arranges them as the columns of a table. Whereas groupby allows you to operate on this table in the vertical direction, the full pivot table allows you to a…