donaldknuth123

Given that recent grads probably male 200K their first year at Google I'd say its probably north of 1.5M which is obviously ridiculous. Top portfolio managers at major Hedge Funds barely make that.

1. The data you posted is 20 years old.

2. The data is talking about 5 year survival rates and not actual survival. The US Healthcare system is great at keeping people alive who should have stopped treatment long ago.

3. The US is behind on every other major health indicator, Infant Mortality, Life Expectancy, Cardiovascular Disease, Obesity etc. Cancer isn't the only expensive illness in the US.

This thread is overrun with Astroturfers.

>In the U.S. the class into which you are born determines the class you'll reach more than any other factor. Overwhelmingly. It's not even close.

Who would downvote this, the data isn't even remotely controversial.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/economi...

>The technical interviewing scheme is not great, but I haven't seen another system that works.

I would argue that pair programming or take home projects do a far better job than the standard Whiteboard Algo interviews. In fact I don't think it's even close but SV engineers have been captured by this Whiteboard Interview Stockholm Syndrome/Hazing and continue to perpetuate the insane idea that there is no better way.

So dongle mania and crap keyboards aren't an issue for you?

Sales have already tapered off and Apple stock fell off a cliff when they announced their most recent production numbers.

Not sure I agree with this. I think most people imagine that they have a landscape of possible choices or thoughts in front of them and they have some agency to maneuver through that landscape and modern research and even simple meditation will reveal that this is simply an illusion. I don't really want to chime in on the nature of Consciousness though.

I agree, just don't make the mistake of thinking that Reason and Logic are meaningless if free will doesn't exist. They are still critical.

I'm not opining on the morality of it, just saying that the idea that the money disappeared or was put in a pile and burnt is obviously silly.

Indeed, that's certainly one way to interpret the lack of free will. You might be inclined to join the Compatibilist camp, which I find intellectually lacking but many people are more comfortable with than raw determinism. Whichever stance you take its virtually certain that Libertarian Free Will, the kind of free will 99% of people imagine when they think about the idea, does not exist.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/

Eventually it will be split from actual Data Science work which is essentially either Machine Learning or Statistics. Imagine making a master sculptor mine his own Marble, it would be absolutely absurd similarly it would be silly to make a PhD Machine Learning expert work on data cleaning. A massive waste of talent on trivial work.

Edit: trivial isn't the right word, it's obviously an important step in the process but quite different from what you are really paying a "Data Scientist/ML Engineer/etc" to do.

Unfortunately the vast majority of Academic Philosophers disagree with you. Thoughts obviously exist but the idea that you are in control of what you think about is patently false. Take a look at modern stances on Free Will if you doubt that.

Good idea for whom is what you should be asking. That money wasn't burned, it was sent to the bank accounts of major stockholders in Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Halliburton etc... Lets be very clear, there are people who benefited and still benefit greatly from US Military spending.

Oh it went to private hands. Hands that owned stock in Halliburton, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin etc...