alright_scowl

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by alright_scowl 4y ago
I'm not imposing anything on anyone. Merely stating the inevitable.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
That sounds great actually. Reality is overrated. I welcome the future where humans have become obsolete.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Man, I really miss Tay. Good times.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
I don't expect people to be after badges of honor, generally speaking.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
That has been my observation as well. And curiously enough, I normally don't care about being PIP'd or layoff, as I engage in healthy job hopping so that I was never actually laid off over my relatively long career. Typically I&#x
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
I understand full well what "social capital" is supposed to mean. My point is that fostering a culture of mistrust and competitiveness among the employees is antithetical to protecting social capital. I won't effectively coll
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> remote work diminishes "social capital" Stack ranking forcing a number of your employees into "low performance" and putting them on PIP is awesome for social capital however. As are layoffs. "it's all bull
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> I don't think that's true. If you poll the vast majority of people in intro to CS class, most people never coded before. I recall it being a small minority at least back when I was in school (> 10 years ago). I remember my
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> Specifically, would you actually prefer to see people as individuals whose only goal is maximizing their personal interests, all else be damned? Should they exploit every interpersonal relationship and externalise every negativity in t
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> What I'm advocating is changing the STRUCTURE in which they operate so that "becoming nicer" is prompted by the system. The current system fully expects only the primary goal of maximizing profit/value for the share
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Some talking points are repeated ad exhaustion as if they were absolute truths, when they are largely relative: - People collaborate better in person: Bullshit, a lot of developers collaborate better through text. Code Reviews, code snippet
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Romanians moving to Germany (as an example) should definitely be counted as immigration. They are still foreign nationals for Germany, with the caveat that due to agreements within the EU they are free to live and work in Germany without an
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Not really. But they are entities designed to pursue profits as their primary motivation. With proper regulation, when the pursuit of profits align with the needs of society, they can be great to have around. Problems arise when regulation
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
You described quite well how companies, in their pursuit of profits at all costs, corrupt the systems that should rein them in so that they can freely exploit workers and externalize negativity. The answer for that is more regulation, stron
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> Almost no reasonable regulation will be effective if this is the standard of behavior That is the standard of behavior. Regulation is what stops companies selling you contaminated food, working conditions similar to slavery, factories
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> They clearly don't do this though. Forgive me for perhaps being blind, but I fail to see it with the same clarity as you do. Typically, what stops companies from ruthlessly exploiting workers, selling products that damage society,
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> Nor do many European politicians pepper their speeches with "nation of immigrants" and "diversity is our strength" It will be a chilly snowy day in the hellhole I hail from when I give credence to the platitudes a p
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
I am both an employee and a small-time investor in the stock market. I actually prefer to see companies as entities such as their only goal is maximizing profits, all else be damned. They will exploit every worker and will externalize every
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
And yet in most European countries there's a clear path to citizenship. US is a popular destination because people are after money, not because it's good for immigration. Ask for all the H1Bs that risk being deported for being lai
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> Most countries in Europe are a lot more restrictive on immigration than the US They are not. I'm an immigrant myself in EU. Know plenty of people that migrated to the US.