ElViajero

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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Fun fact, due incompetent management 90%+ of my team left in the past 5 years. Not fun, but I get the idea. That is never a good situation. I has been a manager in the past, and I have seen many people that despises the position. I thi
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>It's not really a single company I heard similar things about Ericsson, here in Sweden. > I work on the IBM Cloud platform, which seems to be one of the most innovative places at IBM currently That makes sense, it is a newer tec
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> IBM-er here. What do you think that it is the level of competence of people at IBM? For what I read here in Hacker News, it would seem that you have very incompetent colleagues. I am old enough to remember IBM with certain sympathy&#x2
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Ouch. Yes, that is such a complete misunderstanding on what IBM does that it hurts. IBM is a huge corporation close to be 100 years old that still is one one of the most innovatives in the world. "In 2020, IBM topped the list of p
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Clearly they are not complete idiots, since they did end up building the most valuable company in the world. We should add a new fallacy to the list, ad money. There are many companies get rich by playing to the powers that be. Has not
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> If you're too lazy to figure out yourself which products are quality Amazon is a gambling company. People buys things with the hope that, this time, they are getting a bargain. And, as any gambling company, the customers will lose
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> "If you protest against CCP abroad, they will find people you love to make you pay. Even if you are in Australia," a student not identified in the report told Human Rights Watch, referring to the Chinese Communist Party. Fear
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by ElViajero 5y ago
The web stack, from tunneling thru HTTP to the JavaScript language itself, is a very interesting case study. I think that many decisions, like creating a virtual DOM, make a lot of sense in isolation. But, if you look at the complete ecosys
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> “Proposed U.S. Army Mobile Nuclear Reactors: Costs and Risks Outweigh Benefits,” authored by Alan Kuperman, coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the Universit
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by ElViajero 5y ago
When I was a kid it seemed that electric cars will come sometime in the future. But, it was difficult to imagine how incremental is the change. It seemed that once we had electric cars, everything was going to be electric cars. Nowadays, I
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by ElViajero 5y ago
That is the hardest way. It is easier to regulate Facebook and make it behave correctly than to try to change the behavior of a thousand million people in hundreds of countries that want to be in contact with their friends and loved ones.
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> evolution had humans use their absolute income/wealth to judge their relative status This is false thru history. A noble man could be higher status than a rich merchant, to not talk about race. The article gets what could be some
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> “Heatwaves across the contiguous United States have occurred more often and lasted longer since the 1960s, which is consistent with a warming climate due to climate change.” Climate change is causing this trend. It is not an isolated e
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by ElViajero 5y ago
From the article, and up to your point. On the expected learnings there is: ... > Choosing realistic contribution goals. (Initially students tend to wildly overestimate their ability to contribute to a project.) This is a key activity in
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> I think whether your statement is correct or not depends on how you define “capitalism working right” I agree, even I will say that it depends on how do you define "capitalism". > Effective regulation is needed to prevent
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by ElViajero 5y ago
I was wondering why there was a black United States flag in the background in the Tour de France. But, it is actually the flag of Brittany from a region in France. What looks like starts are actually representations of ermines, and there ar
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> “If authority figures for youth say constant surveillance is OK, what happens when a romantic partner wants access to every message on their phone? Or an employer wants your social media password? Invasive monitoring isn’t acceptable,
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> July 1, 2021 issue I guess that they published the July issue some days early. I guess that if the month issue is already finished, it makes sense to publish it. Here you can see the mail-date cover-date relationship for the physical p
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> A socialist worker model of co-ops can provide competitive marketplaces as well. Yes, co-ops are also a recognized type of organization in capitalist countries. They exist all over the world in and compete in the markets where they pa
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> "exorbitant profit" in critical areas may not be that different from corruption, nevertheless. I agree. In a capitalist country an "exorbitant profit" for a long time is a failure of the system. Why nobody else is p
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> I dont' have brainpower to completely relearn from scratch every few years anymore. I understand what you mean when it comes to new frameworks. I learned to code in the 80s, and nothing has really change since then. There is this
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> The best proof is the fact that 80% of all of Cuba's vaccines are produced in the country itself, Moya said. He was not surprised by the high efficacy of Abdala, saying it was simply the logical consequence of a health care system
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Vaccination was key. So, like the rest of the world. I have heard also this from Spain to Sweden. Once people is vaccinated, things will go back to normal. > no daily numbers This is strange, as there is numbers for other diseases l
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Sweden has one of the largest wealth inequalities in the world. Sweden has a low income inequality. Around 20% of the population are immigrants that have yet to accumulate wealth, myself included. If you own an apartment in Stockholm y
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by ElViajero 5y ago
What startup leaders should do is to stop to externalize their costs. I have seen again and again (Uber, Uber Eats, AirBnb, ...) startups pay less than minimum wage, label employees as "self employed", treat residential neighbors
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by ElViajero 5y ago
I guess that it is part of the curse of knowledge. Even the article starts by "I just want to share my thoughts on Kafka after using it for a few months, always from a practical point of view. I don’t know anything more than the basics
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The director that makes that move is going to be fired faster than China start to think to go back to normal. The problem from the start is the trade between USA (& Europe) and China is unbalanced. The USA is way more dependent to Chin
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> The wording sounds as if it is trying to assign blame for the problem. Yes. It sound like someone that have been in a million discussion about why "that your program crashes is not a bug in our operating system". Many people,
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Second, if this were true, the number of innovations would have decreased after we became globally connected. It is not only about "innovation" but about cultural diversity. For good or bad, a globalized world is standardizin
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Freedom means facing the consequences of your decisions. I completely agree with you. That is why scammers should pay for their actions. The people that is lying and abusing the trust of young and inexperienced people should pay. And t

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