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by Frost1x 5y ago
Lots of people can live without running water, sewer, power, cars, hygiene products, etc. but that doesn't make any of it practical in modern society in the US. There's of course a limit to this as to where the baseline is, but I&
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>Should it be legal to use hidden cameras to record images of people without their knowledge? Probably not but many of us live in the surveillance states. Businesses and governments already have lots of hidden and visible video cameras e
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I haven't looked at it in depth, but they have a list of approved "partner" institutions. Those institutions will have incentives and pressures to tote a false narrative of preference towards Amazon, especially as universitie
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I believe you misinterpreted. State community colleges are likely better than any sort of "training programs" Amazon provides in terms of education. If those "training programs" happen to include a waiver at a full state
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Not to Amazon it's not, but you won't see that in their propoganda. Even Random State Community College is likely a better education (this is not meant as a backhanded compliment to community colleges, which are at least honest an
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by Frost1x 5y ago
> "We launched Career Choice almost ten years ago to help remove the biggest barriers to continuing education—time and money—and we are now expanding it even further to pay full tuition and add several new fields of study.” They ac
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I think when people mention ideas like taking a hit to business profit margins vs the new boiler plate "it will increase consumer costs" they're typically not talking about Bill's Steak House down the street, they'r
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Clearly, it's n + 2*i^4 layerations.
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I mostly agree with this assessment although I think it's still good for such efforts to continue. I wouldn't say carbon sequestration ventures only use is marketing (it's definitely the largest use and definitely the primary
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by Frost1x 5y ago
You have the choice to nose dive off the Burj Khalifa, sign over all of your assets to me, or record a chicken dance video and put it on YouTube. OP's point is giving a set of all undesirable options which under normal circumstances
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I'm not a proponent of many of the practices Facebook regularly engages in but this, as described, is quite harmless. I'm not sure what the purpose of this article is other than to try and paint a false narrative. Are people reall
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I blame the extreme penetration of capitalism everywhere. We've created a culture where everyone thinks like a business and looks to do the minimal effort for the maximal compensation. If you don't do this, "you're dumb&
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Sounds like the point would be to keep the intrigued reader wondering what the significance or meaning was by leaving 42 or 'n' words--what is it that was of similar importance the author didn't share with us but used elsewhe
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Ditto. I've had my a set of requirements that generalized one level of abstraction over my niche resume so it wasn't nearly as obvious. The org wanted to hang on to me because they knew I'd leave if I didn't get a signif
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>And after 20 years of professional development on multiple platforms and languages, I still largely prefer web development. I'm far from alone. I think that says a lot more about classical "application" development than i
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I'm a firm believer that at certain scales, competition becomes impractical to the point of irrelevance. The incentive structure has to exist to draw competitors into capital intensive markets like this and it just isn't there. As
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by Frost1x 5y ago
This is what singularity did in the HPC world (amongst other handy features): https://singularity.hpcng.org/
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>Your overstimate what we protest for and the effectiveness of it. I don't keep up with all the protests but it's a far more active middle finger against infringement than most countries where we sit around and watch our libert
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Urgency doesn't imply value. Time horizons can vary and while there tends to be a correlation of cost and time horizons (higher urgency - higher costs, lower urgency - lower costs) that doesn't mean one is more or less valuable, i
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by Frost1x 5y ago
What is dubbed as an "architecture astronaut" is, in my opinion, a researcher in software engineering as is the work they do. Largely, software engineering and practices aren't well defined and there's a lot of ways to a
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by Frost1x 5y ago
If they were applying in the tech industry you would. Might as well lump in metallurgist, chemist, materials scientist, and sheet metal workers because we do this in the tech industry. Everyones a generalized set of specialists rolled into
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by Frost1x 5y ago
> More often than not, when stakeholders require "causality" to make a decision, it takes way too long so they lose patience and end up making a decision without any data at all. And therein, I believe, lies the problem. I thi
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The underlying cause here is unbound and often unregulated profit motive with the farse that competition self regulates. At some scales competition self regulates but at scale we see now, it simply doesn't. There are too many barriers
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by Frost1x 5y ago
But do the means justify the ends? Most people understand that unethical behavior or concerning actions to get a desired 'good' result isn't acceptable. But the current approach is to mask the ends, the end goal may actually
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Well, you have to play the culture game and tell everyone you have absurd goals and just realize those aren't you goals. Business expectations for employees is at an all time high in levels of absurdity. They want you to be ambitions b
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by Frost1x 5y ago
If it's not it should be. You can't push free markets for everyone else then controlled markets for yourself (I mean you can, but it's hypocrisy). I'm tired of the double standards businesses and the capital ownership cl
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by Frost1x 5y ago
R&D is much like startups in this respect, as many have connected. The lines between work and life easily blur. In a startup environment, especially if you're one of the key stakeholders, you have a high incentive structure nestlin
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by Frost1x 5y ago
For the longest time I was a proponent of limited tooling. In many cases its good to know what you're automating or simplifying because I often found myself in situations where I may have environments I need to do things where I didn&#
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by Frost1x 5y ago
If the vast majority of the cost is labor and your overall price to consumer is low, the people doing the work aren't being paid. It's pretty simple. I like cheap rides but I also don't like taking advantage of people. Unfort
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I find it odd that an article written about scale, and not just scale but the biggest scale, didn't include a photo that demonstrates... relative sizes. The official page demonstrates relative size at quick glance (I guess they do use

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