DC1350

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by DC1350 6y ago
Still cannot begin to understand the mindset of people who believe their employees actually care about their boring projects. Give people a reason to care and they will. I gain nothing if my manager or CEO succeeds.
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by DC1350 6y ago
What do you think about the idea that it's a generational mindset? What motivates me more than anything else is the fear that I'll never own property, and I'll have to live with roommates or a have a very long commute for the
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by DC1350 6y ago
I know he does now but I’m talking about the earlier sections of the essay. He mentions taking time off from art school to work because he needed more money. What’s interesting to me is how he just decided to go to art school, study philoso
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by DC1350 6y ago
This was a good read. I wish I could understand the mindset of people who can live spontaneously like this. I always plan so far in the future because I feel like it’s way too easy to ruin my life financially. Is this a generational thing?
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by DC1350 6y ago
Self promotion is an entirely separate hobby from programming. Most people don't blog about their hobbies.
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by DC1350 6y ago
Healthcare in Canada is the responsibility of provinces and each province has their own independent system. You need to be a resident of a new province for a few months before you can switch to a different provider. Healthcare doesn’t need
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by DC1350 6y ago
Chinese people only became wealthy after major economic reforms that abandoned anything related to communism except for the name and aesthetic
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by DC1350 6y ago
The transition from slave ownership to slavery as a service is truly one of the most disruptive innovations of the last 200 years.
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by DC1350 6y ago
Because nobody with money gave a shit about the global poor until they realized they could be used for cheap labour. The ability to collect the surplus value of their work encouraged investment in poor regions
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by DC1350 6y ago
> I never actually understood this. If you grow up middle class or better then it’s pretty much impossible to make good decisions and end up poor. The incorrect “moral failure” mindset comes from projecting this belief onto people who gr
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by DC1350 6y ago
There are lots of good reasons not to outsource to a third world country, but not many reasons to hire a remote American over a remote Canadian if a company already has a presence in Canada.
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by DC1350 6y ago
> remote work trend might end up being terrible for wealthy countries I don't think so. Most wealthy countries don't have jobs paying anything close to what Americans make. When you're talking about tech, the division is r
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by DC1350 6y ago
This looks like an article you would find at the bottom of the page alongside a gif showing how much weight you can lose by switching to an all banana diet.
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by DC1350 6y ago
Those countries are nothing close to socialist
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by DC1350 6y ago
I think you have a poor understanding of why the average LinkedIn user cares about their job. Most people would quit immediately if money wasn’t a concern, so the idea of spending time posting about their career for fun comes off as extreme
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by DC1350 6y ago
If you’re wondering like me why they would bother building in an expensive country with fewer qualified workers: “To build a leading-edge manufacturing facility, Samsung needs rather huge incentives from authorities. In particular, Samsung
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by DC1350 6y ago
Everything I know about contractors and government work comes from Edward Snowden’s memoir where he was paid like garbage ($120k as a senior IIRC) to work as a contractor for the NSA. That’s why I thought it might matter. I’m sorry you don
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by DC1350 6y ago
I know contractors are common but I don’t know if they’re paid a lot or if they can ignore the government employee pay scale.
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by DC1350 6y ago
I’m more interested in their compensation than how they get paid. I know lots of work is done by contractors.
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by DC1350 6y ago
How is it possible that the FBI has so much advanced stuff when I’ve never met a skilled developer willing to work for what the government pays? Are their tools developed by high paid contractors?
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by DC1350 6y ago
I’m not sure how you would prove it. I just feel like everyone jumps on the idea that this is a technology problem when it might be caused by something else. Maybe more people really are experiencing the world differently and they seek out
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by DC1350 6y ago
Is there any proof that the algorithmic echo chamber is a real thing? I don’t use any social media that has algorithmic curation, but I still get the strong feeling that I’m in a bubble whenever I encounter other internet bubbles. How much
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by DC1350 6y ago
Off topic but do female body builders also use testosterone injections for muscle building?
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by DC1350 6y ago
I don’t understand why people care about local book stores if not for the atmosphere. Buying online from local stores makes no sense. The store doesn’t make the books. They’re exactly the same thing no matter where you buy them from. “Local
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by DC1350 6y ago
This is a prediction about what I think will happen, not what’s morally correct. People almost always make decisions based on their personal best interest, so a community with a “regressive” tax structure would be really attractive to remot
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by DC1350 6y ago
The future is to have enclaves of high income remote workers who pay a flat fee for the government services they use instead of an arbitrary % based on where they live. This is a good development. Income tax is not well justified anymore si
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by DC1350 6y ago
There’s a huge difference between single mom with a baby daddy that ran away, and a shared custody agreement between two people who are both in the picture. “Single mom” stories and statistics are usually about the former. I’m not sure how
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by DC1350 6y ago
Why not? Sometimes things just don’t work out. It’s obviously worse than staying together and being happy about it, but it’s a sunk cost fallacy to think you should always repair your marriage instead of finding a new partner.
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by DC1350 6y ago
I’m not making things up. This is how native americans hunted bison in the Canadian plains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump And obviously they could preserve it somehow because they didn’t die.
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by DC1350 6y ago
It's very easy to hunt buffalo without technology. You just need some friends and a big cliff.

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