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Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware

yhoneycomb — Mon, 23 May 2022 23:36:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-22/broadcom-said-to-be-in-talks-to-acquire-vmware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31486181

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New comment by yhoneycomb in "What We Lose When We Don't Speak the Same Language as Our Immigrant Parents"

yhoneycomb — Thu, 19 May 2022 23:07:49 +0000

Yes, I'm not a goldfish.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "What We Lose When We Don't Speak the Same Language as Our Immigrant Parents"

yhoneycomb — Thu, 19 May 2022 22:51:06 +0000

When was the last time you've heard a non-black person described as articulate? I can't think of any, personally.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships"

yhoneycomb — Sun, 01 May 2022 01:25:30 +0000

Plenty. Here is perhaps the most recent: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/scope-practice/...

But of course, nobody cares. The rich will get MDs and the poor will get midlevels.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships"

yhoneycomb — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:26:26 +0000

Exactly this. The VA already is hiring as many midlevels (NP/PA) as possible so that they don't have to hire MDs. You wouldn't believe how low the bar is to become an NP. PAs receive substantially better training, but at the end of the day they are still midlevels.

Worse still, many NP programs are now giving out "doctorates" of nursing practice so that NPs can introduce themselves to the patient as "Dr." Smith.

In short, the VA is willing to gamble with your life if it means saving a few bucks. It's pretty harrowing.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "PayPal shuttering its San Francisco office"

yhoneycomb — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:21:13 +0000

Willing to bet that the kind of person who holds views like the commenter above also harbors racist views

> I do know people who moved to the area from California, but they fit in wonderfully

ie, white?

New comment by yhoneycomb in "I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)"

yhoneycomb — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:22:55 +0000

What differentiates a course as "high school" level vs. college? I honestly feel like my high school courses were just as hard as my college courses. The only difference is they required the prerequisite knowledge from the high school courses. Or, at least, having that knowledge helped.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)"

yhoneycomb — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:10:19 +0000

> It was pretty normal to come out of freshman year engineering, CS, or chemistry with a sub-2.75 GPA

Was it normal, or was that just what you and your friend group experienced? Is there any hard data?

I find it hard to believe that a 2.75 GPA would be anything but the bottom 10% or less of students.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year"

yhoneycomb — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:19:25 +0000

Actually, that’s exactly how unfettered “free market” capitalism operates. The end game is big companies end up controlling everything, including the regulations in order to tip the scales in their favor.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Robinhood: We are letting go approximately 9% of our full-time employees"

yhoneycomb — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:36:20 +0000

Went from being the golden child of /r/wallstreetbets (literally every portfolio screenshot was of robin hood) to being villainized due to suspicious circumstances regarding locking people out of trading Gamestop "for their own good." Now any screenshot of robin hood is ridiculed.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "U.S. forgives 40k student loans"

yhoneycomb — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:17:08 +0000

> which itself would require the existing system to produce and pass

or a revolution

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Show HN: 4917 Machine Code for Kids – Card Game"

yhoneycomb — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 10:31:49 +0000

Pretty liberal use of the word "game"

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Tipy – One Hand Keyboard"

yhoneycomb — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 14:33:57 +0000

This product is uniquely appealing to me because as a kid, I actually used to type almost completely with one hand at 40 wpm using my right hand solely for the backspace, enter, shift, and space keys. The only reason I stopped and learned how to use both hands to type was that my left hand started getting arthritis-like symptoms as a 10th grader.

Unfortunately, my hand hurts just looking at the example in the promotional video I found. I don't see how you could hold your hand up at that angle like that and not end up straining it. However, I'd love to be wrong.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Tesla must pay ex-worker $15M for “disturbing” racist abuse, judge rules"

yhoneycomb — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:48:12 +0000

Yeah, this is very strange to me. There was a case involving Cleveland Clinic where an Asian nurse's coworkers and supervisor were openly racist to her, and the case was straight up dismissed.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-6th-circuit/1767833.html

> Plaintiff alleges that younger nurses called her an “oldbie” or “old bitch” and referred to rice she ate as “lice.” (Lee Dep. R. #33-4 at 170) She asserts that one nurse stated, “you Chinese people eat anything that crawls and walks” and also stated that Plaintiff does not have “chinky eyes” even though she is Chinese. (Id.) In December 2013, Plaintiff reported the incident to a different supervisor, Debbie Brosovich (“Brosovich”), who responded that she was “overreacting” and being “sensitive.”

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Are film critics losing sync with audiences?"

yhoneycomb — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:51:32 +0000

“I hire people who think exactly like I do”

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice"

yhoneycomb — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:51:06 +0000

If they're going for diversity, I don't understand why they didn't choose an Asian American, considering we currently have NONE in the supreme court?

As an Asian, I just can't get behind any of these "diversity" pushes when they unilaterally mean "we don't like having Asians around."

New comment by yhoneycomb in "An elegant bamboo structure in Vietnam"

yhoneycomb — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:49:26 +0000

Understandable that my comment seemed to point only to bamboo, but I really meant I don't believe most/any of the current builders in America are capable of creating anything that requires this level of unique mastery, bamboo or not. And if they are, there's certainly no evidence of it. All we have is blocky 5-over -1s.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "An elegant bamboo structure in Vietnam"

yhoneycomb — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:58:07 +0000

I'm disappointed that all the credit in the article goes to the architechts who designed this. I'm much more impressed with the actual builders who were able to accomplish this. No way something like this would ever be able to be accomplished in America.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Real-time market monitoring finds signs of brewing U.S. housing bubble"

yhoneycomb — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:50:36 +0000

They have a whole lot more in common with each other than not. You haven't dismantled anything.

New comment by yhoneycomb in "Real-time market monitoring finds signs of brewing U.S. housing bubble"

yhoneycomb — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:06:40 +0000

How is this a "grand conspiracy"?

People are going to manipulate things in their favor as much as they have the power to do so. Oligarchs in America and elsewhere have the most power, and thus do the most manipulating. Also, it's no secret that the vast majority of wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.