Bajeezus | 2 years ago | on: What went wrong at Techstars
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Bajeezus | 2 years ago | on: A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K
You're comparing a living superstar to someone who has been dead for over 40 years.
Bajeezus | 2 years ago | on: There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets
You're still incorrect. Those are "assets", the term "agent" isn't formally used anywhere in the IC
Bajeezus | 2 years ago | on: It's Time to Tax Billionaires
It's significantly weakening one of the US's greatest geopolitical enemies for a small fraction of the US defense budget.
Even if you don't care about the US's geopolitical aims and want to reduce the defense budget, eliminating Russia as a military threat is the best justification for reducing the defense budget and stabilizing European democracy.
Bajeezus | 2 years ago | on: Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California
An absolutely disgusting response, to the point where I don't think you read the article or have a vested interest in preventing action.
This isn't about "the US recognizing the caste system" or even about who is responsible for it. It's about preventing very real, very tangible discriminatory effects happening to people TODAY, right now. When the time comes to prevent actual, quantifiable harm, slippery slope arguments and debates about the origin of the problem help absolutely nobody.
Bajeezus | 2 years ago | on: Fusion Foolery
I used to work at the Rochester LLE! I never worked on capacitor logistics, but I heard that it was a PITA to work with local utilities to get those on the grid (but nowhere near as much as the PITA to get that building zoned for Brighton in the first place)
Bajeezus | 2 years ago | on: Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google Cloud Platform
The Google Distributed Cloud Hosted project is a non-borg port of GCP that could be run by anyone.
Bajeezus | 2 years ago | on: Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest
The mods have all the leverage. They’re literally volunteer workers, they can quit their duties with no real downsides.
Bajeezus | 2 years ago | on: Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet
Speaking from experience: You can work your ass off from a beach. If anything, I'm more likely to do so
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: Google tells employees that fewer of them will get promotions to senior roles
That was true 5+ years ago, but these days I can easily name 20+ companies that pay roughly the same or more at the senior level.
Half your compensation at FAANG is name recognition for your resume.
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)
USDS requires an SF86 now??
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: Microsoft Kosmos-1: A Multimodal Large Language Model
"Fun" fact: There is another common internal service at Microsoft called Cosmos, and it is also a database.
So now there is Cosmos, Cosmos DB, and Kosmos.
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs, after CEO predicted no more layoffs
Honestly, your discouraging attitude towards negotiation is far more disgusting. Negotiation is the only tactic employees have these days for market-rate compensation adjustments.
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree
Depends on the level of clearance you're going for. TS/SCI w/ Full-Scope Polygraph (the highest intelligence community level) covers the last 10 years, with a heavy emphasis on your activities in the last 5. They'll interview friends, employers, teachers, neighbors, etc. going back 5 years (but you get to pick the ones to be interviewed). They'll also run FBI background checks on you and your family (including extended family) and you'll be required to turn in financial info annually.
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: H.R.2184 – End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act
1. Presidents only need to go through the Iowa caucuses once (baring exceptional circumstances where they get primaried)
2. The Iowa Caucus has a fairly low correlation with nomination success
3. 99% of congress will never need to give a shit about the Iowa caucuses
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: Cloud.gov
I worked on government projects at Azure for years. Their US Government cloud is a second-class citizen. Getting the average engineer to care about problems with their their offerings in government clouds relative to the commercial cloud is like pulling teeth.
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: Vladimir Putin, in speech, hints at further territorial expansion for Russia
What is this comment even supposed to mean in this context?
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: Web3 is expensive P2P
"Will the government ever allow something like that?"
It's not that they won't allow it, its that its largely useless. The dollar is fungible. Who cares if a dollar spent on a new M1 Abrams was "your dollar", its identical to everyone else's dollar, so everyone else's dollar could have substituted yours. What benefit would knowing that possibly provide?
Bajeezus | 3 years ago | on: What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
I think calling for banning of A/B testing is a bit of an overreaction, don’t you?
Bajeezus | 4 years ago
I’m a bit disappointed that an article which isn’t even publicly accessible is rising this quickly. It’s a dead giveaway for people voting without clicking…
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People entering this environment SHOULD know what they're signing up for. Its not like startups are the only jobs out there.