FirmwareBurner

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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
That's why you don't leave stuff as important to the people as housing, to a for profit corporation who's accountable to it's shareholders not to the taxpayers. This scenario feels more like the fictional OCP in Robocop.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>the current high-interest-rate This current level of interest rates was the norm before the money printing bonanza of 2010-2022. Only that ~decade of ultra low rates was the exception not the norm. And yet housing was still being buil
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Same in the semiconductor sector. You run everything remotely off a centralized on-prem mainframe and your laptop is just a thin client to a X11 session on the server. At least that's how it was 8 or so years ago. Maybe now they starte
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>Wouldn't there be basically no dogs left in a couple year? No. Plenty of people still won't sterilize their pets and abandon their litter in the street or some just run away or are lost or abandoned by their owners, therefo
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
"But what about m'uh innovative and disruptive SV unicorns!? EU bad."
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>moving to Finland for some reason, where WFH is more the rule than the exception for software jobs Maybe I should move to Finland. Here in Austria the norm is working in the office and WFH the rare exception.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Damn, now I'm in the mood for making garlic slices so thin they instantly melt in the pan.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Question: Why would "not quitting" be a headache for employers? I thought in the US you can just fire people you don't want anymore, instead of waiting for them to quit. Makes no sense to me.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>In college, I played World of Warcraft just to farm gold, just to get by. Is that also not a privilege? In most developing countries people have to do much more body or mind crushing activities to support themselves.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Yet companies still don't get it.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Sure. There are a lot of opportunities in the developing world to remotely extract wealth (legally or otherwise) from the wealthiest part of the world in exchange for services at starvation wages there, thar are well above minimum wages at
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>A Video Game that Pays Errr..no. I only played video games because they were fun, not because I made any money from them. While the job or workplace, for the vast majority of people on this earth, including those in SW development, is
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Exactly and they know this. The biggest market is mobile now, and people on mobile don't open their web browser on their phone and start typing google.com before they search for something like people used to do on desktops 20 years ago
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
You're wrong about Microsoft here. They too have loads of experience developing their SW for multiple architectures, even moreso than Apple. Windows NT shipped on about 7 or so architectures including PowerPC for the Xbox360. And they
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>In British terms, why isn't there a Milton Keynes or Reading in the Zurich metropolitan area? Maybe because Zurich is so much smaller than London.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
A few years ago I reed a comment on HN mentioning that NEC at the time had a product capable of reverse engineering the microcode of any CPU and that the tech was later sold off to another company who was into the business of emulation. Not
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>or lower demand (improve transport into the city, make other parts of the country more attractive to live in) That's a chicken and egg problem. Most companies want to hire where the labor already is, aka the big expensive cities,
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Vienna is quite of an outlier in the EU and even in Austria itself. Here's why: Firstly, social housing there is a very old concept, and because of that, a significant portion of the population (>50%) already lives in social housing
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
There's your problem. You can't regulate your way out of supply shortage by capping prices below their market value. Venezuela tired that, ask them how it's going. You either build more housing to math the demand, or you rest
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>And when I say "money" I really mean "raw materials" and "human labor" and "time". Biggest pain point in housing is the limited amounts of land and living space, not the building cost. > wha
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Yeah, but that goes to show you how limited in know-how people complaining about TPM are, and they keep spreading FUD like this and others keep buying it. And this is a supposedly tech focused platform where the tech literacy is at its high
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>People like making content for tons of reasons. Pretty much yeah. Just remember back to the first few years of youtube. Nobody was making any money from that but they were still doing it out of passion/hobby.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Devil's advocate: Profits from what exactly? Windows 11 is a free update and they don't make profits from the sale of new hardware since they're not in the business of selling hardware (barring the niche surface devices which
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Sure, I get it, and while there's several companies who think like your own, that's not the norm, many, especially the big trillion dollar ones, are the exact opposite. Do you think Apple, Microsoft, Google, Saudi Aramco, etc. go
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Wow, that's very generous. In Austria you usually get unemployment 50-60% of your wage for about 6 months depending how many years you worked.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>Not necessarily. They can be profitable without being greedy. Sure, but then they'll be overtaken by their competitors who will rake in more profits as they don't mind being greedy, and your shareholders won't appreciat
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Pretty much this. Nokia had it's record year of profits the year after the iPhone launched even though the writing was already on the wall. It's easy to go from winner to looser in a snap with no way to turn back and hiring even m
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>Otherwise it's just corporate greed By that logic, every business around us operates on corporate greed since their sole purpose is to increase their profits and bring down costs, not to be a UBI jobs program. Sure, certain large
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Meh, product managers (when competent) are very useful and very much necessary in projects of such scale. That not some scrappy 10 people start-up operating in the web space.
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by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Hilarious that Apple thought this would work.

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