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by Draiken 3y ago
Never said that. My sarcastic rant was there because locking people up is simply not a good enough solution. I can guarantee you the vast majority of people in prison can be reformed and reintegrated. But most prison systems don't want
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by Draiken 3y ago
You will likely learn this yourself, but having done this transition in the past, the image I had of this world was simply not real. Startups fake shit all the time, cut corners everywhere (even when they shouldn't) and the hustle cult
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by Draiken 3y ago
In my view: none. Realistically, even if it started to happen, the giants would simply swallow it whole, as they've done very effectively in recent times. Long gone are the times where a small Google could disrupt a field and debunk ev
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by Draiken 3y ago
Works for who? The corporations profiting from slave prison labor? If we at least arrested the corrupt white collar criminals that never get punished, then we could look at this as something more than an uninformed extreme measure. Imagine
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by Draiken 3y ago
That makes zero sense to me. Theft is not acceptable by any means. People that steal do so by several motives, most commonly because they feel like they have to due to poverty, addiction, etc. You also already get punished for it with harsh
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by Draiken 3y ago
Definitely agree that it's not just Tesla that failed, but I think the focus on them is because they kind of kick-started most of it. When you're 10 laps ahead and you still manage to lose the lead, you're gonna be the main s
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by Draiken 3y ago
BYD will have dominated the world before Tesla does anything at this rate. Here in Brazil, EVs basically didn't exist. Only very few Prius were seen around, and I mean very few. Now, BYD showed up and everywhere you go you see one. Had
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by Draiken 3y ago
It's very hard because I don't see how we would ever actually trigger any sort of revolution anymore. I personally live way too comfortably to justify to myself the possibility of being arrested, hurt or even killed for anything I
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by Draiken 3y ago
I can definitely understand that assuming everyone is not a sociopath is very naive. But the reason I say this is inhumane is not about the security implications. There's a whole plethora of issues around layoffs that are often ignored
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by Draiken 3y ago
I believe this discounts the very heavy anti-union propaganda that we've all been subject to since... forever. I'm not even from the US (I'm from Brazil) but here, similarly, most have a very bad view of unions, fueled by emp
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by Draiken 3y ago
I agree it's a process (not very clear everywhere though), but the reasoning is 100% being afraid of what the employees can do. If the company could keep reliably profiting off of the employee during its notice period, why wouldn'
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by Draiken 3y ago
So because the company hired a criminal sociopath, every other person laid off until the end of times must be treated the same way? Certainly there are better ways to handle even this crazy scenario you mentioned. That feels so inhumane to
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by Draiken 3y ago
Isn't this only the latest definition of "startup"? What exactly defines a startup? Is it growth at all costs? Is it reckless spending? Complete focus on short-term gains? Something else? These investment rounds are only ther
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by Draiken 3y ago
Interesting, because on existing startups I've seen them build features/products solely because they believe VCs will like it. Just look at AI and the amount of useless chatbots and other half-baked "AI" solutions severa
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by Draiken 3y ago
That mentality is working wonders right now, isn't it? Hundreds of dead startups because after all that unnecessary spending, they still have unnecessary buggy software that got sold to other startups that, when push comes to shove, wi
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by Draiken 3y ago
The fact is that location is irrelevant for some roles. If you are looking for top talent, you'll pay top talent value. If you constrain your hiring to a single location, you're simply reducing your own pool of candidates. Today,
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by Draiken 3y ago
This is the dystopian future that is likely already happening. Slowly but surely we will lose control over our own labor. As the name implies, we're just human resources.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Early on, depending on what you're building, you don't need a fully fleshed DBA and can get away with at least one person that knows DB fundamentals. But if you only want to hire React developers (or swap for the framework of the
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by Draiken 3y ago
I see this argument a lot. Then most startups use that time to create rushed half-assed features instead of spending a week on their db that'll end up saving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Forever. For me that's short-sighted.
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by Draiken 3y ago
The ingress/egress cost is ridiculously high. Some companies don't care, but it is there and I've seen it catch people off guard multiple times.
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by Draiken 3y ago
I don't understand. This is literally part of what the video talks about: how he got fired after giving them billions. How is this an ideological battle? It's what was described in the video. I don't disagree that I talk abou
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by Draiken 3y ago
It's incredible to see with cases like this how extremely absurd the relationship of capital and labor is. If I was someone aspiring to be a researcher, I'd most definitely give up due to stories like this. The person created prob
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by Draiken 3y ago
Nobody's talking about socialism. But let's say it was a more socialist society. As a result, everyone would be earning more, including him. And maybe the CEO that tried to fuck his research would earn less. IDK but for me that so
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by Draiken 3y ago
How is that not the problem at hand? The only reason the inventor didn't get properly compensated is because the system is designed to reward existing capital. I can guarantee you the CEO that inherited the position due to family ties
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by Draiken 3y ago
This, so much. Unfortunately all we get is content now. Even games have started to become pure daily content.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Maybe it partially explains why cars hurt/kill so many people every single day? I agree with GP: automating everything and removing humans from the equation would be a much better solution. Unfortunately it's not practical because
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by Draiken 3y ago
Haha, that's a fair point. Cries in dynamic languages I've definitely had code with typos consistently replicated due to auto completion, then had to fix it all later on, haha.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Not unless we know what those changes are. Guess what, all typo commit fixes are <50 lines and never get reverted.
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by Draiken 3y ago
I'm not arguing that big PRs are better. I'm arguing that being smaller also doesn't make it better. Neither has any real meaning without context. Take your same 1000 line change example, but make that change span multiple ar
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by Draiken 3y ago
Weirdly, what the article claims is that it's the ideal size because of speed. So they are trying to say it's faster, therefore it's better. Which is in my view a very silly claim devoid of any context.

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