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by Clubber 3y ago
>At least, this is my experience in the large FAANG type companies. We already have so much code. Just figuring out what that code does and what else to do with it constitutes the majority of the work. That sounds horrible. I've alw
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by Clubber 3y ago
>a generation didn't prepare appropriately for old age This will have a snowball effect because their children will need to support them and save less for their own retirement, then their children's children and so on. In all f
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by Clubber 3y ago
>I don’t recommend dying on this hill No, I'm just amused by the absurdity of it. I could just imagine a bunch of professors coming up with the term in a room who either forgot their history or just decided to mess with everyone. I
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Think about being a PoC in the 1980s In the Jim Crow era, black people were called "colored people." You would see "whites only," and "colored" written on signs everywhere. It was and is generally considere
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by Clubber 3y ago
Intracourse.
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by Clubber 3y ago
Another problem is a vast majority of people want to / have to live in a very few select places. We could alleviate housing costs by changing that as well; back to supply and demand. I hope that StarLink and WFH are big pieces of the p
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by Clubber 3y ago
I agree. I think the government needs to block a whole lot of M&A than they do. I wonder if the ultimate plan is to break TikTok away from the CCP and allow it to be bought domestically. I recall Trump trying to do that with Larry Ellis
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by Clubber 3y ago
>very well be a mass psyops machine run by a hostile foreign government. I think that fits word-for-word for domestic companies minus the foreign part.
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by Clubber 3y ago
Santa and Commodore kick started a whole lot of careers.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Banning TikTok wouldn’t be a dangerous precedent. Authoritarian countries do that all the time. Wanting to live in a non-authoritarian country, I think you missed the point you just made, or were just being sarcastic and it went over my
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by Clubber 3y ago
Monopolies are bad, mm kay.
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by Clubber 3y ago
Think of the children! The (probably paid for) fear mongering campaign is getting rediculous. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” ― Walter Langer What's the lie? That AI is a systemic dang
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by Clubber 3y ago
>my coworkers, my bosses, the entire world, just does not care about doing the right thing. I was pondering today about how the current economic condition of the populace incentivizes workers (everybody) to ignore moral concerns. If you
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by Clubber 3y ago
This; Gates too. It's becoming an obvious attempt to garner support of the government restricting the use of AI to large players. None of the entrenched interests want any disruption that AI might cause what so ever. Replace "AI&q
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by Clubber 3y ago
> Are We Watching the Internet Die? Short answer, no. I was in college when the internet went public. It's very much alive and well and exceeding all expectations.
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by Clubber 3y ago
I'm a big proponent of not lying and none of these scenarios require lying: >If you answered the door to this crazy axe-wielding man, would you tell him where Karen was? I hope not. You would lie, and you’d be right to do so. You co
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by Clubber 3y ago
Yes, the general rule was to stay at least a year though. My first two jobs were a hair under 2 years each. The first one was an unbearably toxic environment, but that's typical of your first job. I learned a lot because I did everythi
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by Clubber 3y ago
This is a massive one; they tried to do the integration themselves under a deadline with no expertise while increasing scope under said deadline. They also had massive churn. Any vendor's solution they chose would have most likely fail
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by Clubber 3y ago
Not to give Oracle a pass, but there was plenty of blame for the state as well. https://upperedge.com/erp-program-management/7-decisions-tha...
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by Clubber 3y ago
Not necessarily. They could add a surcharge over a threshold amount rather than just charging everyone more, even people who conserve water. $1 / gallon for the first 100 gallons $2 / gallon for every gallon over 100 Whe
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Droughts will come again; there's absolutely no reason not to continue to encourage water conservation. California could encourage water conservation with tax breaks, no?
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by Clubber 3y ago
Well according to that logic, having everyone go to an office also facilitates sexual harassment and other undesirable behaviors. No one can grab my ass when I'm WFH except my spouse.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>it's absurd to me that companies aren't giving out offices to their employees like it's 1976. It's because offices are now a status symbol and the manager who works in an office and forces their employees to work in
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by Clubber 3y ago
>If you think now is bad imagine trying to get a job in 2002 in tech. Tech was deader than dead. After 6 months of unemployment (with 4 years experience) I had to move to another city to find work and it was definitely a pay downgrade. A
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by Clubber 3y ago
>I wouldn't count yourself out just because you are a junior. Companies love hiring junior devs because their salaries are the lowest. It's senior devs that should be worried. This sounds right but it isn't, at least in my
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by Clubber 3y ago
Also the pattern as I understand it is game companies work devs to death then let them go once the release is out. The advantage game companies have is people tend to like games therefore there are a lot more people who are interested or de
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by Clubber 3y ago
When I was growing up in my career, private sector jobs were considered much better than government jobs. I feel the private sector has been squeezed so hard the last 20+ years that public sector jobs are on par with private sector jobs and
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Just that the world doesn’t (appear) operate with that in mind anymore. >I’d argue it never really did. I'm not really sure what you mean.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>we ardently believed that networking and communication amongst people would increase understanding and improve lives by ensuring no one would be cut off from the common wisdom and knowledge of humanity How is this not true?
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by Clubber 3y ago
>The proportion of the population under 20 years old has changed from about 19% to about 12%. That's easily disprovable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

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