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I would not pursue this idea.

> We work in the sleep space Is this another way of saying you work from bed?

Americans look at their 9k a month salary and don't care about loosing an extra 300 USD on health insurance. I've experienced the British and Swiss systems - Swiss is like the Amer…

throwing money on the floor outside Manchester Piccadilly train station

Has been happening for at least 10 years.

Well it will be multimodal, training and inferring on feeds of distributed sensing networks; radio, optical, acoustic, accelerometer, vibration, anything that's in your phone and m…

In the UK, most CS degrees are actually Software Engineering, little maths content. There are probably a handful of universities where CS is treated as a branch of maths (top 3 or …

Nick Bostrom has written good stuff on this, and all of the morbid implications.

What's a problem you get only after 15 years? Lower back pain? I've never heard of interesting problems being gate-kept by years of experience. PhDs have the best share of current …

I prefer to work for between 2 and 4 hours on Saturday and Sunday. And it's always work for myself, not an employer. I'm always fresh for a few hours after I wake up, and enjoy it.…

I think there's reason for concern. I own, but haven't read Nick Bostrom's "Superintelligence", which lays out the risk scenario in depth. I have read Bostrom's "Global Catastrophi…

How can you work for 26 years on a US salary, and then panic when you're laid off? Guess you have somewhere between 1/4 and 3/4 of a million USD, in some form. I'd lay myself off i…

I had a look at Nature job ads, and I see a big gap between the salaries I read about on Hacker News for your run-of-the-mill software engineer with a CS degree (eg. $100K average …

You should put it all on black 28. If it doesn't roll, put 65k on 1st third. Thank me later.

I would wipe your partner from your mind. Forget about tracing any problems to your parents too. It's worse than unhelpful. If you can't stand your parents, keep them out your mind…

Never regretted quitting either. My first job was pretty stellar too, in engineering R&D, and probably the smartest set of people I've worked with to date. I must have been among t…

I've been working with it for a few weeks. Developer but no gamedev background. I love it. Very easy, documentation is extensive, good support on the forums. I will agree with othe…

What's easier than dd?

I'll expand on this by adding that at the beginning of your career you're often happy to be doing any paid work related to your degree. After time you want a combination of interes…

Some points to consider: If you want a job in science (in Europe), then you'll want a Masters. If you want to work for companies like LEGO, then probably not.