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As an employer it’s very very hard to actually discern who did CS as a prestige degree vs people who are actually into it.

Signal v noise ratio so much higher in hardware, nobody performatively studies mechanical engineering to make $60k in ohio.

Re:Global warming has accelerated significantly on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:45AM (#47276420)
The majority of pollution is caused by 3rd world/ eastern countries.

Do you want to go to war with China to enforce an environmentalist agenda?

Like virtue signalling techies are actually able to do anything about it.

Fix your own house - as the previous poster said - and then worry about outside your family unit.

I got a car loan at a 8% rate right out of undergrad… you got hosed, maybe you were in a hyperinflationary environment though.

I bet they sent you a letter telling you it was your lack of credit history. You didn’t find one of the many credit providers and have them fight to give you the best rate?

Credit is an extremely elementary thing to grok in a day or so

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024) on Friday August 02, 2024 @02:59PM (#41141576)
We're hiring founding engineers at Aurelius Systems - aureliussystems.us

We shoot down drones with laser guns.

Position;

1. Founding hardware engineer, Mechanical + Electrical 2. Founding software /robotics controls engineer 3. Founding optics engineer

[email protected] with resume and projects!

Re: on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:05AM (#40996262)
Aurelius systems is a newly funded directed energy startup building counter-drone laser guns. We're hiring for a series of founding engineers - working in person in pac heights, San Francisco.

Positions are: 1. Founding Mechanical / Electrical engineer 2. Founding Software / Robotic systems engineer 3. Founding Optics / Laser systems engineer

If you love lasers and this country please reach out. Hires will receive a copy of meditations and an electric scooter to join our laser scooter gang in SF.

[email protected] or the linkedin link.

Re:Stellantis CEO confirms $25k Jeep EV on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @05:13PM (#40517085)
The market is pushing for all SUVs, more than 70% of new cars sold are SUVs or Trucks. The car companies don't decide to make all SUVs, the consumer decided they only wanted those vehicles and the car companies obliged.
Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift on Monday February 26, 2024 @06:30PM (#39518168)
Money supply is a zero sum game... If you only view the game instantaneously.

Wealth grows, production increases the wealth of everyone around you. If a few people hoard all of the money, they're not putting that money to useful work and those that do do this will make all the returns (which is why people don't really horde money, it's all being used in the form of investments in businesses).

Re:DIY MBA: My Reading List (2019) on Saturday February 03, 2024 @03:24PM (#39244382)
As a previous M7 FTMBA student who dropped out halfway through to do a startup, the real MBA is starting a company. Venture, cash flow/lifestyle or otherwise.
Do you know the difference between revenue and profit?
Re:Low-intensity fires reduce wildfire risk by 60% on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:17PM (#38232235)
Related topic - there are trees like the Jack Pine that need forest fires to reproduce!
Re:Ask HN: Are you actively fundraising? How has it been? on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:19PM (#38222429)
Neither, we're building out now
Re:Ask HN: Are you actively fundraising? How has it been? on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:59PM (#38210298)
Raised a preseed and are good to continue from here through next year. Was tough, especially for a hard tech product

Ask HN: How to organize work to build hard-tech MVP as first time CTO?

We recently raised our pre-seed and now I need to build this thing. I've been reading the relevant literature and running simulations, ordered components for what I think is the first step for a POC en route to our MVP.Any successful hard-tech startups or even R&D experts here do this before? Of the maybe 8 technical domains our product will use, I'm familiar with maybe 4, so need to...

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Re:Ask HN: Are You Religious? on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:35PM (#38157358)
Yes, Christian

Customer discovery in industrials – tips on not coming off like a clown

Hi HN, I'm a 2nd time entrepreneur that had a modest (small) exit this past summer. I've got a team with me looking into the next idea and we want to move into industrials/manufacturing, construction, agriculture or other areas with a large labor needs that are experience more and more difficult labor situations.I've worked in manufacturing engineering in the past, have gotten a few calls from...

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I would do anything to keep a personal vehicle and live with land separating me and my neighbors. I have a 20-30% incident rate taking the BART in the last year. If public transit isn't similar in safety to the japanese system I have no interest in bus/train systems.