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And yet he still has 4 billion dollars and is a president of the US. Must be pretty good at negotiating.

Trade negotiations are underway. This is a part of that, as was the initial ban. Trump does this again and again: he creates leverage in the form of negative consequences should he…

We pay this much to strong PhDs with a good publication record. So do Google and FB. Must be able to code really well, though.

Competent big data folks still pull down $300-400k fairly easily. I’m talking about people who _really_ understand the field and have a track record, not “graduates with a degree”.…

Au contraire, my friend, it’s only in the beginning of an upward hockey stick.

Not for top AI talent. That starts at $400k/yr

It could use spikes and/or go on all fours in “fast” mode. It’s whatever you design. My main point though is not mechanics, but the significantly lower reaction time. Given enough …

As Elon Musk quipped, in a few years this thing will move so fast you’ll need a strobe to see it. It’s not subject to the human reaction time or mechanical constraints.

Are you sure? This means the whole grant vests in 2.5 years. Their vesting period used to be much longer than that.

A slightly larger version of Sand Flea seems like a better fit. Disposable, can be deployed relatively cheaply in large quantities, with good camo nearly invisible on the ground, c…

All of this is _very_ recent.

Not playing the money game is dangerous as well. Like it or not, money is a potent signaling mechanism. The more you’re able to charge, the better you’re treated, the easier it is …

Didn’t know. Then, Microsoft, take notice. :-)

They are also not meant to do R&D. For one thing they don’t pay market rate, so their access to top talent is non-existent. For another, there’s no accountability and no “fear of d…

This sounds like an excellent way to burn a trillion dollars with no tangible result. Government == money black hole, with very few exceptions.

I heard FB starts vesting monthly right away these days, which imo is absolutely the way it should be. Google, take notice.

And Charlie Gard would have disagreed with Stephen had the court not decided that he should die. There is another high profile ALS sufferer in the US: Jason Becker, a super virtuos…

Nothing wrong with chasing money and status, especially in the initial stages of one’s career. If that’s what _really_ makes him/her tick, great. Money especially tends to have mul…

Not in my case. I’ve asked them numerous times to remove my email, it subsides for a while and then comes back at the same rate.

I heard FB is good as well, though I still don’t get why they need so many people to do what they do. Heck, even MS is probably better than Amazon. I delete all Amazon recruiter em…

Seems like you wouldn’t like universal healthcare then, where such things happen to _everybody_.

>> and neither would Lenin I grew up in the USSR, and this is news to me. Do you have evidence in favor of this claim?

Pretty sure there will be a lawsuit. What kind of Gattaca/1984 bullshit is this, the state where everything causes cancer? How did CA techies not rebel about this?

Even if Google cured cancer, Gruber would still find a way to complain. According to him, tech is only flawless when it comes from Apple.

Époisses is my favorite “smelly” cheese. Smells like bum’s dirty socks. Put it on a slice of baguette, and you will forgive the smell. Favorite cheese of Napoleon Bonaparte, IIRC.