Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
There's a nested Pareto in that 20% of that 20% causes 80% of the 80%. Considering that psychopathy (or whatever the updated term is) runs at a bit more of a percent of the population...
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's not beside the point. The usability of Windows vs. Linux must factor in the availability of software. I would literally be unable to do my job on Linux
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by Bakary 4y ago
Trusting a crypto company with privacy seems a bit odd to me.
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's also a dystopia according to our current sensibilities. Or at least for a plurality of people. Even the people who don't seem to care tend to react adversely once they understand how it can affect them.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I am inclined to agree with OP's view, but consider the following scenario: mass uploads of brutal deepfaked pornographic videos involving your likeness and/or that of your loved ones. What would your reaction be? Personally, I wo
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by Bakary 4y ago
The tradeoff depends on your social class. The Westerners who have the resources to move to SEAsia/China etc. or the upper-class people from those countries who return there will find themselves freer there because they by definition h
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's not about class-based custodianship but rather the simple fact that the number of attempts like these will multiply like wildfire. You won't need to be determined, you'll just need five minutes with the software before h
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by Bakary 4y ago
They aren't uncomfortable. They just aren't sure how to maintain control over the technology and monopolize it. Which is why they are so cagey about releasing anything.
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's not the only reason, though. Just the thing that solidified the decision to leave. I just came to realize that I was depending on a shady entity for everything. The service I ended up paying for (which is similar to fastmail) can
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by Bakary 4y ago
Why can't we mobilize for the ability to reliably communicate, AND avoid monopolistic privacy-eroding nonsense?
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by Bakary 4y ago
What made me switch from Gmail is stories of people losing their entire account overnight with no possible appeal process due to an algorithm deciding there was suspicious activity.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I am not sure why your comment ended up killed. It is literally true that the highest paid tech workers are employed by very shady companies. I don't exclusively mean FAANGs but also outfits such as Palantir. A large plurality of other
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by Bakary 4y ago
You've hit on an uncomfortable conclusion, which is that these highly-paid youths and those with similar salaries do not care about consequences that barely affect their social class.
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by Bakary 4y ago
>This does make sense - they have better technical skills (because of better education - you said this yourself) and better communication skills (because of cultural context) and also in general I think better attitude and aspiration. Th
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by Bakary 4y ago
If we take the premise that companies will hire solely based on getting the job done vs. the cost of hiring, the current market we have wouldn't make sense. It would not make sense for a junior American dev to ever be paid equally or a
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by Bakary 4y ago
Everything you've said is logical, but the radius you are describing is multifaceted. There are regulations, inertia, cultural and ideological factors, and all sorts of other considerations that come into the capital vs. labor struggle
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by Bakary 4y ago
Well that's exactly my point. There is great educational infrastructure in America, so all else being equal Americans have astounding opportunities to become highly paid knowledge workers and the American society will produce many of t
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by Bakary 4y ago
There are many reasons to hire people locally, even if they do work remote. This factors into the replace-ability aspect.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Companies still want to hire local, non-remote talents for all sorts of reasons, from timezones to regulations to just internal/external culture. This will take a long time to change, if it ever does. Technically, a company could chose
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by Bakary 4y ago
It doesn't work like a game of Civilization. Allocating resources to a research problem means you increase the social and material rewards for a certain type of person to work on a certain type of project. There is no guarantee of succ
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by Bakary 4y ago
To clarify my earlier point as I now realize I sounded more hostile than I intended to. Sometimes, people will flag for aesthetic reasons even if the comment doesn't technically deserve it. They might be tired of negativity, and click
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by Bakary 4y ago
It depends on your social class. The people interviewed in the article are all highly-paid software workers who can negotiate good working conditions. Meanwhile, people who don't have the funds to move around have to deal not only with
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by Bakary 4y ago
You are paid based on how difficult you are to replace. Hence the location based pay
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by Bakary 4y ago
In a way it can root out psychological weakness. You rarely get contractually guaranteed resits in the real world when you mess up.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Your comment seems fine to me and it's still standing at the time of writing, so there's no issue there.
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by Bakary 4y ago
This is exactly why I believe Lars: from everything that I can deduce about him, his driving force is to prove that he's correct about what can be done with traditional archery.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Personally, I see it as an equation of Story/atmosphere quality x mechanical pleasure x length where story is the trump card. A game like SOMA has low mechanical pleasure (it's a walking simulator, essentially) and a short length,
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by Bakary 4y ago
You can vouch for comments to unflag them by clicking on the timestamp. I have done so multiple times when it was clear the author had made an interesting point but did so in an unduly hostile manner. However, the ratio of flagged comments
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by Bakary 4y ago
I've always been surprised by this metric. True, if the game is only a couple of hours it can be a bad investment. However, I can think of at least half a dozen ten hour games that have left me with a more memorable impression than som
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by Bakary 4y ago
From what else I've seen of the author of this feat, I can fully believe it.

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