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by abernard1 4y ago
> will eventually start rejecting remote work and want to live the lavish tech office lifestyle with other 20-something’s again. You assume a lavish tech office lifestyle will return in a world where the Bay doesn't have a monopoly
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How will AI figure out how to properly mill a part to spec knowing that failures will end the contract? How will AI know the particular workarounds in the way laborers deal with ad-hoc problems in picking strawberries? The answer to these q
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by abernard1 4y ago
Step 1: Put that you went to Harvard on your cover letter.
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The author should look at himself and his class for why the Central Valley is so bad. The Central Valley population is the serfs of a political system owned by a group that hates them. Let's look at the blessings that class has brough
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In the US, cities tend to run their municipal water systems. That's why they're called municipal. You're welcome.
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Ummm... yeah they are. You're referencing defamation law and contract law. In the case of defamation, you can't be defamed if what the person said is true. And in case of contract law or fraud, lies impact the integrity of a tr
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There's more to it than that though. Aside from global insularity, Americans have an extremely short psychological conception of history. One of the reasons Russians remember history is they have a lot more of it. When your civilizat
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The tech community is not only not smarter than most other communities, in many cases tech workers are less capable and intelligent than the average person. Half a century of conformist education and a financial machine around scaling compa
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Steve from Alabama is not the person complaining this time. It's Ignacio from San Francisco. Let us ignore both the historical reality of US industrial mechanization and that "startup" is liberally defined in the US; you&#x2
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> Yet another to the improvement in the seismic sensors and technology used. This is a huge one. Almost all of that geoseismic downhole sensing technology uses radioactive emissions. In 1940, it was impossible to "see" anythi
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From the first article: > Saddle Lake Cree Nation revealed on Tuesday that since 2004, there have been numerous discoveries of partial remains that were accidentally excavated while new graves were being dug in the community's cemet
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> But I believe the capability still exists within you Maybe, but the thing about creative people is they create . Creativity isn't about potential, it's about an objective act of making something new.
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A better example perhaps is `www` or `mail` or `news`. Or magnet links. Or JWT on top of JSON. In the era of The Information Superhighway, the World Wide Web, and spinning Netscape comets, people were quite ok standardizing on `www` as a
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> but the real world is messy and no "correct" structure exists. Then why would we expect Mozilla or Google or anyone else on that committee to ever determine one? Or to object to a free-for-all naming scheme if the problem is
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> Every tech worker I know who moved to Austin is here in spite the fact it’s in a conservative state, not because of it. Then you missed the party. I hate to break it to you. Welcome to being a consumer of tech culture, not a producer
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Well, perhaps. But at least when they had homeless people dying on the streets and shit all over the place, they finally cleaned it up in a little over a year. One may ask how many decades it takes for that to happen in the places all the
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Dude, you do not understand Texas Democrats. And Texas Democrats do not understand you. If they did, frankly, they would not vote the way they do. There is a type of cultural elitism, and a freeness that Austin voters have that is not ind
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And I, having seen Austin, TX grow from a laughingstock to an industry powerhouse, find your points humorous. There is a very big elephant in the room for where people are moving. And those people are young. And those people do not have t
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I suspect, having had a long career in tech, no one of import will care. "The Industry" is an embarrassment. It is lazy, incompetent, and would be drowning if not for its oligopoly status. Companies who produce useful software w
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You are correct, and for some reference, Mockito 1.0 came out in 2014. @Mock, @InjectMocks, and the ability to wire up an entire dependency tree has been something Typescripters have still not perfected like crusty Java devs.
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Indeed. And this is because lumber export bans made them unable to trade extremely precious resources like Mahogany. So they did the obvious thing that any impoverished, developing country would do and burned it down for farmland and agric
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From one of the astronauts [1] "We personally choose our flightsuit colours months in advance, so they can be made and packed in time for launch. Thus I suspect the blue and yellow wasn’t intended as a political statement, but I like t
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They've had these same uniforms since 2015 [1]. I know that despite this obviously true, verifiable statement, it will not matter to a certain cohort of the professional managerial class. Any criticism of lies will be met with emotes
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3. The Polish do not want to be involved and are forcing the Americans / Germans to initiate and back up their testy rhetoric. The US state department is saying they were not informed of Poland's decision [1]. Poland has already c
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> Video streaming is not a monopoly It is more of a monopoly than Standard Oil was in terms of market share. There were plenty of competitors back then, just as now, and yet the Sherman Antitrust Act happened. The network power of the
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> you should not interpret that to mean that Youtube is infringing on first amendment rights It is much more like 14th Amendment rights and the 1964 CRA enhancement of that. There are prohibitions on private organizations denying equal s
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Why do they need to "mitigate" anything? Politics has been rife with BS and lies forever. This isn't a one-off, they've been doing this for years and only in a certain direction. Not un-coincidentally, it's in the
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Here's an infographic that shows the timeline of the German blitzkrieg vs this [1]. By any measure, this is one of the fastest and most aggressive sieges of all time. It is comparable to the speed of Desert Storm or Iraq, and those we
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I find the whole argument moot long-term. As a long-term non-SF tech worker, companies are going to move out the Bay Area whatever they do. Scenario A: they pay less but receive the same quality of workers (and no, Bay Area folks you are no
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> Is this the new variation of value theory of labour? I'm very confused here. The value theory of labour is based upon time spent in labour, and not value produced. The argument was if for whatever reasons, the value produced be

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