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New comment by oculusthrift in "Ways to Bring Tech Jobs to Rural Areas"

oculusthrift — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:23:33 +0000

i think it’s perfectly fine to invest public money on things that improve everyone’s lives. for me and and many others fiber provides a much higher quality of living even if it doesn’t bring extra growth economically.

New comment by oculusthrift in "How the Valley treats experienced people"

oculusthrift — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:03:11 +0000

for what it’s worth i did triplebyte as well and it was actually a really good interview process. I didn’t end up accepting an offer from any of their companies but I thought they asked very practical things instead of just algorithms.

New comment by oculusthrift in "How the Valley treats experienced people"

oculusthrift — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 17:57:31 +0000

in my experience a lot of the younger people spend a lot of the day at work messing around. (socializing etc). they also come in for breakfast and dinner and go to the gym. and then stay late working since they didn’t get much work done during the day. If you naively count the hours spent at the office it does indeed add up to 80

New comment by oculusthrift in "If San Francisco Is So Great, Why Is Everyone I Love Leaving?"

oculusthrift — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 04:06:44 +0000

i think you meant an M not a B

New comment by oculusthrift in "If San Francisco Is So Great, Why Is Everyone I Love Leaving?"

oculusthrift — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 04:03:39 +0000

are you joking? tokyo is inspired by marin county? i can name better food cities in the same state (LA) let alone country or world

New comment by oculusthrift in "The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter"

oculusthrift — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 07:39:59 +0000

their parents were most likely smart and educated because of their genetics which they then passed down

New comment by oculusthrift in "How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar"

oculusthrift — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 07:35:53 +0000

that’s cool! thanks for the write up. i learned a bit

New comment by oculusthrift in "Microsoft Admits Normal Windows 10 Users Are 'Testing' Unstable Updates"

oculusthrift — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:06:18 +0000

isn’t that how most companies launch products now adays? test it on 1 pct of users before full launch?

New comment by oculusthrift in "Google Tech Dev Guide"

oculusthrift — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:34:19 +0000

why? university faculty isn’t all that impressive? they are usually just people who made the choice to stay in school longer while others wanted to do something useful right away. many google engineers are phds. but once again this doesn’t mean anything

New comment by oculusthrift in "Google Tech Dev Guide"

oculusthrift — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:32:34 +0000

i work at google but have no idea what solid is. but i can do dynamic programming. i guess it’s what they select for

New comment by oculusthrift in "Google Tech Dev Guide"

oculusthrift — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:30:02 +0000

yes anything that requires competence has those consequences. you could say the same for not learning anything.

New comment by oculusthrift in "From Graduate School Student to Amazon Warehouse Janitor"

oculusthrift — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:06:43 +0000

why did she have to make it about being a black woman? instead of the other factors. i know the same exact story but with white men.

New comment by oculusthrift in "Trump Prepares to Unveil a Vast Reworking of Clean Water Protections"

oculusthrift — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:12:20 +0000

don’t get why you’re being downvoted. it legislation was passed then it would be much harder to revoke with the next president on a whim

New comment by oculusthrift in "Search is on for Google workers leaking secrets"

oculusthrift — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 17:39:22 +0000

the problem at google is there are radical activities believing everything is type 2. there’s something to be said about solving problems internally. And in many cases no real problem exists but the person “whistle blowing” just wants to feel special or be an activist

New comment by oculusthrift in "US Is Net Oil Exporter for First Time in 75 Years"

oculusthrift — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 17:37:50 +0000

the saudi’s will always be propped up to to hurt iran and help israel

New comment by oculusthrift in "Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity Among Older Adults"

oculusthrift — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:26:25 +0000

Wouldn’t fatter people naturally try to switch over to low calorie sweetener in order to lose weight? whereas non fat people might just enjoy sugar instead?

New comment by oculusthrift in "Israeli Software Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi, Lawsuit Says"

oculusthrift — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 05:35:33 +0000

why are you discussing moral relativism so boldly as if it’s a fact. it’s that postmodernist philosophy that’s totally degraded society.

in some societies it’s “immoral” not to rape someone as punishment or to not kill a “unclean” ethnicity and your definition supports that

New comment by oculusthrift in "For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Northern Aggression"

oculusthrift — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:19:12 +0000

yep. states rights to make their own laws about slavery superseding the national law

New comment by oculusthrift in "Google could buy $110M worth of land, without subsidies, for San Jose megacampus"

oculusthrift — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 06:16:09 +0000

really wish they would expand somewhere else instead (i know they are doing NY).

New comment by oculusthrift in "The New York Hustle of Amazon’s Second Headquarters"

oculusthrift — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 19:09:12 +0000

right but how do you factor in longer commutes for existing residents? or current residents having to move or have their children go to different schools? What is your dollar value on that? and before you say that isn't relevant, thats the exact mindset that brought us trump. valuing the dollar value over quality of life of existing people. it also outsources alot of the quality of life to visa holders instead of residents.