FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
Given the voting trends, many who initially fell for it eventually recovered over the next 8 years.
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by FredPret 2y ago
If you replace “Nvidia” with the much broader “technology” then it is indeed the major reason the modern world economy is good.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Oracle is an interesting company. Lots of locked-in enterprises, but everybody in tech hates them. I think they're a future IBM, but it'll take a long time, perhaps decades, to get there (once an ERP, database system, or cloud pro
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by FredPret 2y ago
When you run up against a fact (see? we’re being fact-based ) that doesn’t fit your worldview, that doesn’t mean someone had to “completely misrepresent basic statistics”. It could simply mean that you are wrong. A possibility you no dou
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by FredPret 2y ago
You’re the one interpreting a stat in a motivated way. Middle class Americans have high net worths; some in stocks, some in cash, some in home equity. All of the above can be leveraged when cash is needed.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Perhaps but they do serve their blog at scale, including video and interactive widgets. They’re the most popular of the news blogs. It’s not rocket engineering but it’s not nothing.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I admitted no such thing. Read again. - in a thriving environment, lots of companies are hiring - some people quit or get fired, and it takes a couple of months to get a new job. This is no biggie in a country where the median individual ha
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by FredPret 2y ago
True but that’s inevitable. A certain % of people are always going to be in the process of switching jobs.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Have you ever done knowledge work with offshore contributors? It’s challenging to say the least. Even when working between first-world countries speaking English, there’s a host of serious problems. Cultural differences; different expectati
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by FredPret 2y ago
This has happened with several offshore manufacturing destinations already. These formerly poor countries become middle class and then manufacturing has to shift to one of remaining poor countries.
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by FredPret 2y ago
The actual development of capitalism around the world has shown that when business is thriving, there tends to be lots of employers willing to mop up any excess labour. We’ve seen a ton of automation and offshoring for centuries now but emp
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by FredPret 2y ago
I don’t know - there are a couple of companies that are a red flag on a resume. Some companies get results, and some specialize in Powerpoint and politics. It all comes down to the managers in charge. Would you hire a VP/manager that s
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by FredPret 2y ago
Nvidia did ride a perfect storm of gaming + bitcoin + AI. But AMD and others could have done the same, had they been better at riding that wave. There’s a reason it was Nvidia who won out.
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by FredPret 2y ago
That’s true - it’s not in proportion. But how do you punish this without making it even worse in some other way? Much of the current situation stems from fairness-minded regulations forcing companies to post jobs they already have a candida
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by FredPret 2y ago
I know; I’m saying it bites these companies in the ass when their hiring is broken.
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by FredPret 2y ago
There is a cost to the employer. Any smallish 1-2 hour meeting with a couple of people on it can easily cost thousands if you work out people’s hourly wage. Add on the context-switching costs impacting the rest of their workdays. Then add t
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by FredPret 2y ago
If leetcode wasn't hard enough to make a good programmer fail now and then, there would be no point to it.
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“Bankruptcy imminent”
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But those are modules added on by developers other than the 50 core devs.
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by FredPret 2y ago
It comes in a little black (glass) pot - maybe that's where the name comes from
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by FredPret 2y ago
If you hate Marmite, try putting it on cheddar
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by FredPret 2y ago
What I mean is here in Canada the government (essentially a huge insurer) sets the rates they’ll pay for various kinds of doctoring. If those rates are too low for some doctors or potential future doctors, they’ll: - leave to the US - never
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by FredPret 2y ago
It’s certainly always worth learning from others; just making a point about statistical comparisons. Just because the US, Norway, and Singapore are all categorized as countries doesn’t mean you can compare their stats directly without addin
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by FredPret 2y ago
Funny enough, I actually live in Alberta. My personal experience with the healthcare here is actually amazing. But I’m in Calgary. There’s still a big, expensive challenge in providing care in the tiny towns. Alberta is pretty much infinite
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by FredPret 2y ago
A lot of the problems in medical care have nothing to do with the system (Canada vs US) and everything to do with doctor supply. It’s simply not a great career choice anymore. You start work very late in life, and make only OK money. Some s
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by FredPret 2y ago
When government sets prices quality won’t always decline right away, but supply will be limited. This is what happens every time a Canadian doctor moves to the US for the money.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Yes but it’s also the size of a medium-sized city. It’s easy to imagine a small, rich region in the US / Canada / UK running its own system and doing well at it. The scale of caring for an entire country is a challenge onto itself
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by FredPret 2y ago
In Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves (read immediately) the moon explodes for an unknown reason. I always imagined it as being caused by a rogue mini black hole zipping through.
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by FredPret 2y ago
> Such an innocent and naive view can only be described as child-like. I was under the impression only a small child could legitimately believe businesses don't have the intention of maintaining the addictive practices that keep the
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by FredPret 2y ago
1. Don’t be a dick. We come down on different sides of this - don’t assume people who don’t agree with you are being children. 2. To the extent that FB is addictive, it should be treated the same as alcohol and tobacco as I noted earlier. R

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