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		nawitus on March 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Recruitment Process for a Google Site Reliability ... There's nothing irrational about that. Rationality is about maximizing your utility function. If you care about sending rockets to Mars, then it can indeed be rational to take a paycut.

toomuchtodo on March 16, 2014 [–]

Thank you!

noir_lord on March 16, 2014 | [–]

If I was financially independent I'd work for SpaceX for free.

They build rockets!.

I'm not remotely in their league though as a programmer.

I build web apps.

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