throawaybay

Umm.. you vote out the corruption?

Well it is an economic thing. It means that jobs and wages don't support independent living. It means that young people don't (or can't) migrate for jobs. It may mean that there aren't enough jobs or they are otherwise unqualified.

Same with behavioral analysis.. praise the result/behavior you want.

I'd rather Amazon pay higher wages. I would pay more for Prime to support that. I also shop at Costco because they pay their employees good wages. We should avoid races to the bottom.

buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Foundation Medicine. PGDx.

It's all about oil, land and water. Ideology is about your country being the best. Everything else is irrelevant.

I would have thought that Google and Facebook coming in would cause wages to rise?

I mean, it should be.. you are learning a probability distribution over the nodes and then performing some kind of inference at eval time.

125k base + some stock... 8 years experience, age 36. Bay area. Full stack, mostly java.

Talking with friends it seems like salaries have exploded the past 1-2 years. I know of two at ~160k and recruiters are indicating 160-180k base right now.

So it seems like I'm leaving a lot on the table....