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by alephnan 3y ago
>> users will still see political content from accounts they follow, but the apps will no longer “proactively amplify” such posts. > So it's giving people an option, and even better, an opt-in option. That seems like the furth
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by alephnan 3y ago
> We build cybernetic systems called companies with the goal of creating/increasing profit. Except CEOs such as Google's are incentivized to maximize their own payouts. It just happens that during their tenure, this happens to
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by alephnan 3y ago
> I don't think productivity gains explain why companies need fewer people to be employed Right. If these productivity gains actually scaled, then why not add more people?
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by alephnan 3y ago
> Some of this (tech industry) productivity gains just come from adoption of existing tools like Google Workspace or Office 365, issue trackers and version control with tools like Gitlab, Github, or Jira. Why would other industries need
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by alephnan 3y ago
The nihilistic view is that nothing matters anyways. The sun will die. It doesn’t matter if you are Bill Gates. In 1,000 years, most traces of our existence would have been forgotten. Look at the ancient kingdoms and rulers. Sure, the phara
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by alephnan 3y ago
With all the layoffs going on, I think companies will be cutting UI/UX needs as well. Figma valuations may have peaked.
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by alephnan 3y ago
The rest of the world also doesn’t have the strongest military.
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by alephnan 3y ago
Yes, it’s terrible. Bootcamps have stopped reporting their employment numbers since 2022. This question is better for r/cscareerquestions where there are more junior engineers and college grads. Gauge the situation with recent CS grads
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by alephnan 3y ago
The irony is companies do this when they have leverage. IBM stock did great this week. They punish the people and practices that helped boost the stock. This is why you should never have loyalty to a company.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> This internet-based ecological study, revealed that this use of artificial shells is a "global phenomenon". "We saw it in two-thirds of all terrestrial hermit crab species," said Prof Szulkin. "That's what
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by alephnan 3y ago
> host Putin. They have no credibility and they’d credible if they hosted Joe Biden?
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by alephnan 3y ago
SA’s bargaining power will wane if the world order tips more and more in favor of the West.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> If you had an inkling of a genocide going on and a chance to act, obviously you'd immediately do anything in your power to stop it? Doesn’t seem people care about what’s going in Africa. People care here because this is a war of r
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by alephnan 3y ago
> one of mightiest army of the modern world Technologically advanced, sure. Mighty? They have a pretty small population compared to most countries in Asia.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> They always respond to applications. That's not true. YC startup Tailor, the first (and only?) Japan startup that YC funded, left me on read on LinkedIn. They ignored my application without a response, too. Pretty confident this c
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by alephnan 3y ago
This is a case where statistics could prove of systemic discrimination and statistical anomalies
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by alephnan 3y ago
The McDonald's ice cream machine always work in Japan.
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by alephnan 3y ago
Parent thread said: > to access public data Keyword is access. Hosting on AWS is an implementation detail that doesn't block the end consumer from accessing the data.
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by alephnan 3y ago
Ah. The ego of Effective Altruism and Sam-Bankman Fried.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> go to a good college (that you're expected to help pay for) Either don’t send your kids to college or don’t expect society to pay for them then
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by alephnan 3y ago
Venture capital funding
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by alephnan 3y ago
What is the target market? IPhone users? What's preventing the developer from shipping their app as a web app? The developer can still reach their target market.
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by alephnan 3y ago
If you don't like making $6.71, the alternative is to make $0 by not selling it on the Apple app store.
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by alephnan 3y ago
Right, but points 1-5 aren't about these issues you're bringing up. Sure, people can rote memorize "public static void main(String[] args)", but there's way you can test them their understanding on each of these mag
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by alephnan 3y ago
A fizzbuzz question would sufficiently address points 1 thru 5. The issue at hand is that the "unrealistic" algorithm questions aren't fizzbuzz.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> trying to find out your (software engineer) unconscious mind reveals during the process. For many decades, Floyd's Cycle Detection algorithm was unknown in academic circles as the most efficient method of cycle detection. It is no
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by alephnan 3y ago
> nobody has found a more reliable proxy yet. Companies have not found a process at scale where they can train their employees to systematically gauge candidates. Small and startup companies where leadership is still involved in the inte
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by alephnan 3y ago
> it's just an filter to get someone very dedicated Dedicated is a nice way of putting it. The school system was funded by industrialists who needed well behaved and obedient workers. Academic and Leetcode problems which exist in a
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by alephnan 3y ago
I was using Leetcode this week and realized how terrible the software is. The login flow was broken where it kept signing me out when I tried to click “subscribe to premium”. There was no way to give them money and I was stuck in a loop.
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by alephnan 3y ago
Pensions have been on the decline

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