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Nimitz14··on Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough
The people who will have money to buy new cars which can drive by themselves are not young.
Nimitz14··on Tips for a Better Life
I just googled "frying pan reddit" and this was the first result:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/4lnezr/best_option...

You have a point, but this "Reddit will tell you that cast iron is the only option." is not accurate.

Nimitz14··on Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019)
Lol, have you considered it might be you who had the extremely rare experience?
Nimitz14··on Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019)
This does not match my experience.
Nimitz14··on Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to CEO
Not true, see christian's tweet. It's also obvious that a paper like this one will receive more scrutiny than a technical one.
Nimitz14··on Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work
Worked fine where I worked. You know you can turn notifications off? You know you can tell a sales guy he's being annoying?
Nimitz14··on Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work
> Strongly agree, but it's not just clients. Sales people, for example, love to use Slack because it's a backdoor channel to circumvent management and go straight to the engineers.

And that's bad because?

Nimitz14··on Earnestness
I am European (Eng/Ger) and totally agree with his assessment.

And yeah, most of the time, brits are relatively bad cooks.

Nimitz14··on Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance
This comment is absolutely laughable.
Nimitz14··on Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?
Let me guess, you were a child so don't really know what the bureaucracy is like there. Switzerland is actually much more progressive (good luck doingt anything online in Germany!!).
Nimitz14··on Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?
Don't know why you felt the need to tell me that? Swiss people are in reality not that multilingual, the foreigners are (because they know native+french/german+english language).
Nimitz14··on Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?
I have so many issues with this.

1. BW is governed by the greens. You know what counties get the highest CDU vote in elections? It's not in the south, it's in Niedersachsen (Cloppenburg etc.).

2. Switzerland has different cantons which are very different. I live in the French part where the average person speaks three languages and 40% are foreigners.

3. I can totally understand swiss' people wish to be separate, this has resulted in them having by FAR higher living standards than other Europeans. Salaries are TWICE as high while taxes are TWICE as low. I'm underestimating that by the way. In the meantime Europe has fucked themselves with the Euro and massive migration which has depressed wages, good luck dealing with that.

4. There is HUGE amounts of funding compared to Germany. I'm in the process of that right now and it's kind of insane how many different options are for getting 5-6 digit sums. Got approved for 100k last week and applying for more.

Nimitz14··on Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?
Moved here recently, find it great so far. I didn't realize how many foreigners there are in Switzerland. Speaking three languages is normal!
Nimitz14··on To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
Can't seem to edit, I agree with the repliers this was a bad reply.
Nimitz14··on To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
You seem to not have read the sentence you quoted? In that case the product is directly related to politics.
Nimitz14··on Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU for AI
I've been using the weekly for many years now amd that's not the case for me.
Nimitz14··on The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
> You're starting with some of the most intelligent, diligent, bright-eyed young people on the planet and letting them work independently in a field that they presumably have a deep passion for.

Most PhDs I know have barely any passion and are just doing it because they don't want to work.

Nimitz14··on Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter
The only thing you've actually told us with this comment is you follow people who post a lot of drama. Presumably because you like reading it. I have no sympathy.
Nimitz14··on Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
I just looked up some scheme code. "Tasteful" ? lol. Python's syntax is perfection.
Nimitz14··on The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
You do, you probably just aren't willing to pay for them.
Nimitz14··on Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
I was going to point out that xnnpack was basically created by a single guy who also created qnnpack, and how amazing it is for the work of a single guy to have so much impact, then I realized he posted it! Congratz dude!
Nimitz14··on Lessons from six months at Shopify
You cannot maintain that same level of responsibility when you have 1000s of employees.
Nimitz14··on Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training
I do not understand how to use this... how is this supposed to train something when I'm selecting and can see the note played?
Nimitz14··on Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software
Nowadays every CS student reads HN and blogposts like this one so by the time you end up having to work with them they're so indoctrinated into the "must write Enterprise(tm) ready code" mindset trying to teach them to be more relaxed is a real pain.
Nimitz14··on U.S. faculty job market tanks
This does not match my experience at all.
Nimitz14··on EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
??? This is false. Look at the top researchers in US companies and universities and a massive share is from Europe.
Nimitz14··on Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
Dude matt levine is a legend. I think that despite having no connection with the finance industry.
Nimitz14··on Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest
Awesome talk thank you for sharing.
Nimitz14··on Social Cooling (2017)
People have a FB account because it's occasionally useful, but very few people actually post and read the feed.

I would have thought this is obvious, but clearly not.

Nimitz14··on Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?
The building costs are high because noone builds them. It's always expensive when each project is a "first" for the people involved.

> once it's completed will provide energy for 10x the current cost of solar/wind.

Ah right that must be why electricity costs in Germany are so high and so low in France LOL

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