FreedomToCreate

To modify a quote from The Dark Knight:

"Let me get this straight, you think one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, who owns the Washington Post and pays out of his own pocket to send rockets to space, won't stand up for himself so your plan is to blackmail this person?

Good Luck

There is more to this sell off than simply Nvidia earnings report. With such a large investment, this is a fairly short duration to sell after, especially considering the gain for Softbank isn't as large as your would expect. Its difficult to speculate on why but losing faith in the long term potential of Nvidia being one of the leaders in compute for machine learnings seems shortsighted at this point.

Not true. USMCA was signed before the arrest. Approx USMCA was finalized on Nov 30 (negotiated in the months before that. Meng was arrested on Dec 1).

Citations: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672150010/usmca-trump-signs-n...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/tech/huawei-cfo-arrested-cana...

This is an perfect example of a news for the sake of news. The author twice points out that he could be wrong and that they can't really predict at all.

I guess if things do go south, he will be able to use this article to point out that he had predicted it and that he is a economic guru.

Wonder how many people there are who would be good programmers but never had the opportunity to code in the United States? Have there ever been studies on the programming capability of people who never coded before who are given some training?

The piece came off to me as somebody looking for a way to be offended. She criticizes Damore and Google but doesn't point out what is lacking in Damore argument and instead of showing why google is wrong, her argument makes me realize how bad of a PR position google really is in. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Surprised that there is no mention of the 6 million people who also just live within 4 hours north of Detroit (corridor leading up to Toronto) and the opportunities available there (and greatly leveraged by the auto industry).

That sounds like a social nightmare. Complete dissolution of the concept of trust in society. And there is that much bureaucratic steps to get it on, it really may become an activity that's more trouble than its worth (vs the current worries of STDs and accidental preganancies).

Can we let the thing get announced before we all jump on the Tesla bandwagon. We have no idea what the capability of this thing will be.

There are enough professionals with bachelors being hired from top universities outside the US (ex. University of Waterloo, ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, Peking University, etc...) who come to the US on H1B visas in the 65K batch.

Note that is at the current exchange rate

Well you will have an I94 form and a slip/stamp indicating TN status in your Passport. Would be kind of ridiculous to be carrying your Degree, transcript of grades and documents from your employer every time you cross the border.

There are two really big problems with this outlook. First if everyone achieves a high level education, the competition for high skilled jobs also goes up, making the higher education mean less and requiring further education to beat the crowd. This is something millennials are experiencing right now. Second, if employers take more risk and hire more people from underprivileged backgrounds, it just means that someone from a privileged background missed out on the job and just shifts the resentment from one group to the other. It doesn't really solve the fundamental problem.

Working hard will move you forward. How forward is hard to determine, and it varies. The reality is that some people in their lifetime won't achieve success but they lay the foundation for their children too...ex his mothers struggle to get from Africa to the UK laid the foundation for him to achieve his success. Their is little chance that he will become say the Prime Minister, but his children may...thanks to their dad being able to provide them with a privileged life.

If people purely judged each other on what they googled...no one will ever get hired.

Care to elaborate on that?

Does this guy not have enough he already has his company working on. I'm really looking forward to see how they solved the weight to energy density issue for this.

With all the focus on autonomous systems, I haven't seen one dedicated to coordination between two or more vehicles like this. Interesting idea to take advantage of drafting for trucks.

Except you are also subjecting yourself to poor air quality, tight living conditions and filtered news.

The phrasing "Canada's AI Moment" to me implies that this is temporary.

Its a joke about how Tim Ferris followers can be very protective and dogmatic about his teachings, which parallel the way followers react to a certain prophet of a certain religion we all know.

I'd also love to hear which employer is paying 250K for an entry level position? This seems like the salary the 1 genius for every 10,000 good graduates would get. And without taking bonus into account, I doubt an engineer is getting paid 900K. You would see that engineer out the door the moment his retirement account was full. No engineer is gonna bust their ass for someone else once they know they are set financially.

As someone who lived in Toronto and now lives in SV, this is great news for the region, which is flush with talent and is really doing everything to support researchers and entrepreneurs. However the cost of living(COL) is prohibitive, maybe even more than SV and the ratio of salary to COL is definitely higher than SV.

Good to see someone can see the irony.

You mean its apart of a $600 bundle. You are getting items which add up to $600 so it not scalping in that sense.

The idea of rent seeking is becoming very popular and the best place to see it is Silicon Valley. Everything is becoming subscription based and housing is pretty much out of reach for everybody. Only way to afford anything is to rent it. Things my parent owned by the time they were 26 I have no choice to rent, since I couldn't even imagine right now buying them (even though I make 3x what they were making at the same age). For example I rent a house with friends ($5000 a month spilt by 4), a parking sport ($200), and lease a car ($200). I don't own any music or movies (Netflix and Spotify). Its a convenient way to live in terms of flexibility but you never feel like these things are yours and that leaves this sense of detachment. At any time these things could be taken away and you would have nothing. I grew up in the country and have the ultimate goal of buying myself land where I can build a house and workshop.

I don't think getting paid a large sum of money is the contributing factor for the departures. If this was true, than logic would dictate that no company should be able to retain executives based on their compensation payouts each year.

If anything, the exodus at google shows clear lack of vision and direction from the management and executive teams. Engineers care about achieving something they can feel proud of and if the project lacks that, they move on.

This article is written in a way that suggests engineers should be paid less so that they remain loyal...you know, like slaves.

In such a globalized world, where economics are so linked that many countries, including the US, couldn't survive without the others, this type of stuff just sends society backwards. Not like we don't have enough guns pointed at the world, why not spend an exorbitant amount of money to point an even bigger one. You may be able to get someone to listen to you by pointing a gun at them, but never their respect.

This piece seems to have its own agenda than just critiquing the film.

And the reason you need to know this information is what?

Every time I read calPERS, I think scalper.

Anyway, just goes to show that its not just big corporations that are greedy.

Any reform will be difficult without adjustments to the promised pensions. With an economic slow down coming in 2017-2018, the gap isn't going to get smaller.