dubya123

You basically said something to the effect of "Purple elephants are the best incentive for solving world hunger."

Shocking, people that dedicate themselves to research don't end up very wealthy. Whoda thunkit.

I don't know what job postings you are seeing but the vast majority of Data Scientist/ML Engineer postings at large tech companies that I've seen explicitly mention Statistics as a requisite skill.

Mass Migration blows up your entire scenario.

Given that historically it's taken decades to build new plants from scratch this doesn't look like it will be nearly in time to make an impact.

If it is classified and a cleared employee at Amazon/Apple/etc. blabbled there would be life altering consequences for them.

"Solving Heroin Addiction is an Underappreciated Market Opportunity."

Even for the hyper-capitalists of HN this is beyond the pale

I think that gives little reassurance.

Hmm yeah hard winters or having your spouse deported. Hard choice.

SF and NYC attract the top talent from around the world.

When Salary is adjusted for CoL Austin is often at or near the top. When you factor in large stock grants in SV/Bay Area things do get murkier.

They sure have strong opinions about working on Government projects but none of them have any issues creating tech that intrusively monitors and manipulates people for the purposes of serving them advertisements. What heroes they are...

How is this any different than a job at Big Tech in SF or NYC?