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by 908B64B197 3y ago
I mean, 50 cents is still 50 cents. Every one of them wouldn't think twice if a US Green Card magically appeared in front of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europ
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> but aren't keyboard switches essentially the last product one would want to 3d print en masse? Yes. Or at least use resin. To me it's the difference between craft and engineering; nobody would consider hand-crafting (or prin
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
Montreal yes. Toronto I'm not so sure. Few years ago we acquired something in Montreal related to AI, and it's interesting because when we tried to get the team to relocate to California many weren't interested. A lot of the
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Twitter hasn't collapsed and is delivering new features. Their API is gone, breaking every third party client out there. Bots using screen scrapping are fine and there are more than ever on the platform. Half of their pre-acquisi
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Me personally, I dont even think I'll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too expensive liv
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> And I'm sure the real expenses of Twitter are all about managing the nine billion pies its got its fingers in, especially the massive hassles of moderation and placing advertisements. Exactly. > Still... it feels like it just s
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Yeah I live in one of the lower-wage EU countries even though I'm from one of the higher-wage ones. Though in practice it doesn't really matter as cost of living is lower too, it just matters when buying electronics. Or a car
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
Isn't the answer simply: My body my choice?
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Executives are truly impressed with Twitter these days from an operations stand point. The mass layoffs, the strategic regrouping, and the fact new features are being added with reduced staff. They don't see the technical issues b
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> The world will not stop while he figures out how to deal with the colossal ramifications of his own actions. And that will cost him even more. It seems unlikely the company will ever turn a profit. It's crumbling under the weight
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> South Africa has come full circle: Under apartheid, electricity was unreliable in black townships; after 30 years of ANC rule, electricity is unreliable everywhere. Middle-class homes own gas generators as a matter of course in case of
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> All of the inclusivity movements that have happened in my workplace have involved hiring people unfit to do their job. I'm starting to think there's more harm than good with these inclusivity movements. It creates two categor
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Whether those levels of immigration can be sustained without causing social problems is not yet known. Certainly housing is extremely unaffordable and taxes are very high. Canadian immigration quotas are simply out of control, about 10
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Even paying me $120k to prop up the OSS solution (Moodle) + build out migration software is profitable within a year. My 2 cents: Keep the IP for the migration software.
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> per capita levels The thing is, from the planet's perspective, per-capita or whatever made-up metric don't matter. A ton of CO2 is a ton of CO2 no matter what.
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> will claim the West is trying to suppress rising countries like China from becoming globally competitive because the west is trying to get them "force green policies" on other countries and skip the parts we had the luxury to
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
It's interesting to see how IT is perceived as a cost-center and not essential to the business in healthcare; yet everything crumbles and collapses when there's an IT outage. These organizations might not be culturally accustomed
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
The west is working hard at lowering it's emissions, but all that work is getting undone because China's emissions aren't slowing down. Coal is incredibly cheap when there's no carbon tax or emission standards. One of th
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Edit: You'll never get all the kids to leave the class loving CS, but you can usually get all of them to leave the class not feeling frustrated by it. There's nothing wrong with kids not enjoying CS at the end of the class. I
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> I don’t think you grasp the hodgepodge of obsolete computer systems that are attached to computer networks to run lab equipment, MRI machines, process pharmacy prescriptions, and manage a patient’s chart. Keeping all of this secure and
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> In other places this is much more difficult - see Bangladesh, Pakistan, various sub-saharan countries. At this point I have to ask what's these countries excuse not to adapt. Isn't it the government's job to plan for the
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
The thing is, there aren't a lot of French-speaking ML experts on the market. So they'll have to pay a premium for them.
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Well sure, but a lot of non-engineers do that too. Where's the real distinction at? A lot of non-lawyers can discuss law principles and explain laws pretty well; but someone who passed the bar I know for a fact are familiar with c
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> It's unprofessional to do this in conflict with your company's interests. Great work happens at the intersection of employee's and company's interests! Why not simply align the two? Compare the Xerox Alto with the M
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> I've worked in a number of projects where they decided to move to microservices for reasons they wish they had I've advised engineers to rewrite code before, mostly for resume building to help jumping ship to somewhere better
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
So, like all other "raspberry pi killers" this is running a patched kernel released by some company in Shenzhen with no plan to upstream changes or get them into the main kernel tree. E-Waste in less than three years!
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Not using SQL? Okay. You're spending a lot of time and effort hand-rolling your own shitty database. I've seen this before. It crashed and corrupted most files because the author didn't understand how file IO really work
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> It becomes more art than engineering or science. The opposite. > All that comes down to the large variety of training everyone in the field gets, from university to youtube tutorials. A big problem is that a lot of the youtube/
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
I can't help but to think it's a complete "me too" play. Realistically, these guys will have to fight an uphill battle for talent. Dev comp in France is nowhere competitive with the US, and won't provide employees w

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