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firstfewshells··on NASA Benefits to US Economy in 2019. $64.3 billion. 312,000 jobs
"With an investment of just one-half of 1% of the federal budget"

US federal budget 2019 was $4.4T[1]. 0.5% = $220B. So with an influx of $220B NASA generates $64B worth of output. Seems like a sinkhole to me in terms of economic value.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324

firstfewshells··on Ask HN: How does your data science or machine learning team handle DevOps?
All the companies I've worked at have a dedicated Platform team that does all of the things that you mentioned.
firstfewshells··on Indian IT consultancies struggle against technological obsolescence
Reminds of magic leap
firstfewshells··on Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies
Basically, trades that exceed a large amount, say $10 million worth of Delta stock bought or sold.
firstfewshells··on Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies
I think what would be more useful would be to have a summary of bulk deals for the major index tracking ETFs and S&P 500 companies. I haven't been able to get this data on any free platform.
firstfewshells··on Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100
I think you're way off. I interviewed with them last year and the number I got from them was close to 850 engineers globally.
firstfewshells··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi Peter, Thanks for doing these. If someone is on an H1B visa and is in their last year with less than 10 months remaining with no I-140, what options do they have if they aren't able to get their I-140 approved by the end of their H1.
firstfewshells··on The draft Bill for upcoming $2.x trillion stimulus package [pdf]
Also very worrisome is the section titled "TEMPORARY BAN ON STOCK BUYBACKS" which prohibits stock buybacks for a paltry 120 days after the end of the Covid-19 emergency period. Clearly tokenism at it's best.
firstfewshells··on We May Not Have to Age So Fast
Try this https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/we-may...
firstfewshells··on YouTuber charged fans $199 for ML course that copied other people's GitHub code
Great to see his bs is now in the open. Classic charlatan.
firstfewshells··on Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
Criminal prosecution for dog poo? You must be kidding me.
firstfewshells··on The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
At the risk of nitpicking, Kerala population is actually close to 34M.
firstfewshells··on Ask HN: What paths for a software engineer are age-resilient?
Is there a consistent, low risk way of getting 7%/yr. I invested in a few ETFs and am down 1% since 2018. How does one go about doing this reliably?
firstfewshells··on Walked in looking for $100 gloves, got $1500 of gear. A lesson in sales
Anyone else seem to have an NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID error in Chrome on Windows?
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