Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
I mean, this is all hypothetical to me as I'll never make this much. I just don't understand how time (in particular time spent while in good health) does not become the most precious asset once you have the financial means to esc
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by Bakary 4y ago
They usually are held to a higher standard by default because they have fewer or no resources to defend themselves. Or rather the larger companies are held to a lower standard than could be expected
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'm sympathetic to the client as I want large companies to be held accountable, however it's frustrating to read that she pretty much didn't even do 5 minutes of homework. It's the is/ought distinction
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's not that they are displeased with the Word doc or examining every detail. Just that aesthetically pleasing things attract our good graces on a subconscious level, and CVs are in competition with other CVs. Really we are overcompli
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by Bakary 4y ago
Dumb things such as having a tiny bit of color or a slightly less basic format can make or break you when the recruiter/hirer is sifting through the pile. Besides, it takes all of ten minutes to do this and be done with it. It's l
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by Bakary 4y ago
You don't need it to be fancy, you just need to be one step above the raw Word appearance you have there. It's the equivalent of having the same pair of pants but it fits you. But as you've said it's moot now that you ha
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by Bakary 4y ago
Fashion and art are a special case because to some extent the value of what is discussed will shift with the amount of attention given to it, since it has much to do with social signaling. The magazines boost or even determine the success o
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's not that the definitions don't matter, just that they aren't invoked in good faith for the most part, or don't take into account the broader situation of stuff needing effort to come into existence.
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by Bakary 4y ago
For that to work in practice implies a rigidly monogamous society where almost everyone participates in the same context, bonds for life and does so at an early stage of their lifecycle, as well as few mismatches between both relationship g
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'm not interested in the details of American laws or any national law for that matter or whether it meets the definition of theft in one locale or not. The dictionary-oriented debate about legal definitions or the appeals to the 90&#x
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by Bakary 4y ago
To be clear, I'm not trying to assign blame here. I am pretty stingy myself. My point is simply that the argument that piracy exists or stops existing for convenience's sake makes sense in an asymmetrical situation where the legal
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by Bakary 4y ago
Your money is also a data sequence on the internet, but you might miss it if it were gone. I don't necessarily see a problem with looking at things this way, but the end result is that we have extremely powerful adtech companies, the d
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by Bakary 4y ago
I can agree to some extent with Gaben's take. In fact, Steam has been instrumental in changing my habits because it's more convenient than the alternative. However, once you have a paid service and an unpaid service with otherwise
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by Bakary 4y ago
If you pull in a million+ a year... why not just become financially independent and do the work you want to do?
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by Bakary 4y ago
I pirate quite a bit but what bothers me about this reasoning is that at the end of the day the goal is to not pay for other people's labor, and the reason it happens is primarily the ease of achieving this rather than the nature of th
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by Bakary 4y ago
The design concept is absolutely perfect for working adults. Instead of having a session where you make slow progress on a very long adventure, you get an actual self-contained experience while also making some headway towards a larger goal
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by Bakary 4y ago
That doesn't sound logically possible, and if it were it would not last long as average men get wind of it
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's hard to say because the terms end up shifting to mean various things as the genre solidifies. I personally like using roguelite for games such as Hades, in which case the operating features are procedural generation, permadeath, a
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by Bakary 4y ago
Are there any actual stats of how profitable African countries are for Microsoft?
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by Bakary 4y ago
We don't have enough studies or evidence, but we do have our subjective physical experience. And that pretty much tells us what is healthy or not for the most part. Our back aches when we sit for too long. We feel depressed when we doo
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by Bakary 4y ago
The term itself is not sarcastic but the concept acknowledges the inherent sarcasm of it, since the chain of programs must have an initial mover
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by Bakary 4y ago
Reading Don Quixote was fairly mindblowing in general because the humor seemed so modern... in a time when the novel as we know it was itself a recent invention. Now your fun fact makes it even more mindblowing.
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by Bakary 4y ago
It might never become popular but every individual aware of the argument can then choose to reproduce or not (assuming they aren't barred from it for other reasons). In other words, we can't really hide behind the survival of the
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by Bakary 4y ago
Yes, so the conclusion is that political agitation is necessary if the goal is to change those working conditions
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by Bakary 4y ago
What bothers me is that many basic ethical principles fall by the wayside when the topic shifts to our own children. The reason for that is obvious: we are the descendants of organisms that valued reproduction. It's nonetheless an inte
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by Bakary 4y ago
Kinda makes you wonder about the ethical aspect of deciding to give birth
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by Bakary 4y ago
The quality of the material produced is evolving quickly, and the cost to entry is dropping as well. There's a difference in being able to produce one convincing piece of fake news or abusive material in a week or in 15 minutes. The wo
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by Bakary 4y ago
If you end up watching traumatizing content for a low salary it does mean that the cards you were dealt at birth weren't so great. Perhaps they could have been in a better place if they pulled up their bootstraps but I'd challenge
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by Bakary 4y ago
On the surface, places like HN or the software world in general sound libertarian in a limited sense. Capable people with the resources and skills to make things happen and tinker with projects. There is constant talk of reform or how to en
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by Bakary 4y ago
Do they currently have an incentive to move past this?

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