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by ITB 3y ago
Conspiracies happen. They are just really hard to maintain. Conspiracies that require all of the rich and powerful or the entire government to maintain secrecy, are probably bullshit. Epstein is likely a real conspiracy. However I do believ
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by ITB 3y ago
On the other hand, there are people that look at whistleblowing as a way to propel into fame. They call themselves and whistleblowers when in reality they are just publicly critiquing their company over known facts. They give whistleblowing
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by ITB 3y ago
Get it
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by ITB 4y ago
I'm sorry you've had all these bad experiences. I've had the opposite. Every time I made a decision that followed my interests and long term potential, as opposed to my immediate term paycheck, I've come out on top. In m
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by ITB 4y ago
I’ve been all over the spectrum, and I believe I can provide pretty strong technical guidance, either directly or by pointing out to the right person or documentation to talk to. As long as the mutual goal is to drive results, then the part
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by ITB 4y ago
There are managers who aren’t competent, either at their functional craft, or managing. And there are organizations which have too many layers. But effective leadership is indispensable to make a company successful. And the best way to dist
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by ITB 4y ago
Agreed
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by ITB 4y ago
This is not a story of class struggle. This is about a government driving confidence in property rights.
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by ITB 4y ago
Why are people so freaking obsessed with passing responsibility onto depositors. It’s perfectly reasonable for the government to be responsible for protecting money as property, just like we do with every other property. Unlike a house whic
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by ITB 4y ago
Exactly
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by ITB 4y ago
People won’t increase their standard of living by making labor more expensive. This is simply going to accelerate economic momentum towards automatization. And silly efforts to try to tax “each” robot as a human, to provide for those displa
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by ITB 4y ago
This is wild. I thought I was about to read a critique coming from a less leftist point of view, as the NYT is already fairly far left. It’s counter productive for groups that are directionally after the same goals to vilify each other. Ane
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by ITB 4y ago
Why do people in HN get so upset that companies hire and fire employees? It sucks as an individual to have to deal with a layoff, but it’s the dynamic of an economy. Optimal growth comes from over and under dampening, not from steady state.
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by ITB 4y ago
The author hints at this problem being more acute within a particular demographic: a “database of courses that are statistically likely to have a large proportion of young women from certain cultural backgrounds ”. Some societies put a lot
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by ITB 4y ago
Why do you describe exhaustion as a collective “we”?
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by ITB 4y ago
Sorry, but I think a post like the above should make someone like you take a time to reflect, instead of immediately prepare a defense. Regardless of what is driving your desire to watch so much YouTube, which in the end is what defines the
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by ITB 4y ago
This. I worry we will exhaust our genetic engines and deteriorate our bodies by overuse.
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by ITB 4y ago
The whole idea that obesity is a “stigma” is overplayed. Obesity is unhealthy. If I see an obese young child, I might form a negative opinion about their parents. If an adult is obese, they should want to lose weight because it will make th
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by ITB 4y ago
You just couldn’t help it
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by ITB 4y ago
Ubuntu keeps getting better and better for me. This year I bought an Asus laptop with all the bells and whistles, and allegedly the only supported Linux was Fedora. I tried to get everything setup and failed multiple times, and then I went
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by ITB 4y ago
Software stacks keep becoming so unnecessarily complex. I suspect this approach will hide more stack details and therefore promote even more pico-services madness.
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by ITB 4y ago
Some people on HN were bragging during the pandemic about having multiple jobs and doing the bare minimum to stay employed. And many in HN often talk about the transactional nature of their jobs. In my view, the hacker spirit was about work
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by ITB 4y ago
Just what we need to fight global inflation.
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by ITB 4y ago
A lot of people have a goal to minimize work and maximize income, and for those people, no matter what flexibility they are given, they will continue to minimize productive work. It’s sad in my opinion, and it leads to hedonic pursuits inst
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by ITB 4y ago
Picasso offered a drawing in a napkin for $1M dollars, even though it took him 1 min to draw it. You know the gist. Bezos might do 20 hours a week of “work” because he scaffolded a giant organization around his brain, so he only needs to pr
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by ITB 4y ago
I read this article and imagine myself being invigorated if I was working inside Twitter, a company finally emerging from a death spiral. Anecdotally, I’ve seen an increasing number of software developers that don’t care to innovate, learn,
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by ITB 4y ago
COVID is never going to be over. So at some point it becomes your decision to move on with your life. And if you decide to continue being protective of a vulnerable loved one, then it’s not the pandemic— it’s the burden of caring for a love
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by ITB 4y ago
https://HighScalability.com is excellent
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by ITB 5y ago
Many international companies trade in U.S. public markets, even if they are foreign. Like the dollar, the U.S. stock exchanges are to some extent the international exchanges.
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by ITB 5y ago
I personally think Python is nice to work with and I really like Django as monolithic web framework with no dependencies- a rare thing these days. But when thinking about long term projects I’m unable to reconcile things I like with the fac

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