RonanTheGrey

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   by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

   OK so I have spent the last month trying to make it on Upwork after seeing some of the "$1000 a month income on my side project!" posts here on HN and decided to start doing some side projects while building a rep on Upwork to try
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   by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

   So you've never worked in a startup, then. :(
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   by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

   I saw a comment here on HN once on a related subject that essentially said, (paraphrasing), "When wisdom is seen as a basic human need like food or shelter, the resulting world will look very different." That all starts with educa
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   by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

   I was agreeing with you :)
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   by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

   The very large population earning $30-$50 a week work for companies or individuals who will never report that salary in order to avoid paying taxes on it. This means any statistics related to this issue are going to be hard to trust namely,
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   by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

   Holy crap I didn't realize it was that easy. That's incredibly scary, because presence on that list basically destroys your life, your family's life, and your ability to ever build a life - all because it is public and used f
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   by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

   I want to live in the world you propose. But.. I'm sad now.
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   by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

   Any system based on trusting a government not to do something is bound to fail, usually in spectacularly explosive ways. This is why trust is not a cornerstone of the US Constitution.
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   by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

   That seems a fairly shortsighted estimation of what balances power between police and the people. And FWIW the UK is arming more of its police, since that is clearly the country you are referring to.
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    by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

    I'm sad now.
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    by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

    Imagine men saying to women "you are not welcome here" in any context except a bathroom and you begin to see the problem.
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    by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

    Aside from wives, other elephant in the room: accusations of harassment, sexual or otherwise. So easy to make. I'd be curious to quantify the chilling effect this has on office relations.
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    by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

    For those of you getting 500 or "Article not found", SA has blocked the ycombinator.com referer url. Just open the link in a new tab.
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    by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

    I think you missed the point of the Wikipedia article. Structurelessness (and that is still what you're describing) leads to a tyranny where there are unspoken leaders who basically bully the rest of the organization. You described exa
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    by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

    Interesting story, if you had fostered an American accent you'd have avoided the issue as well. They expect Americans to be abrasive. Behind you 100% on the Brits ignoring you thing. They're very responsible for the perception of
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    by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

    I admire how polite your responses to these posts are. Kudos.
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    by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

    A big part of the issue is that distributed computing is hard to think about, for the same reasons that multithreading are hard to think about: the single threaded model (either on a local machine or amongst a set of machines via something
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    by RonanTheGrey 10y ago

    I haven't used it in years and am happy never to go back. There are so many other programs out there that can manage your music. When I want the fad-of-the-day music I will pay to stream it. Which isn't very often. We all have our