amusedcyclist

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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
The smartest of them all teach math in universities
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
But there is actually right and wrong in this. If there were no consequences to NIMBY-ish no one would care, but the truth is from a house price and climate standpoint, we can't afford NIMBY-ism. I'm a homeowner in a pretty nice p
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Because money for a person is different from money for a government. "Creating money" generally means increasing the ability for banks to give out loans, which spurs economic activity like starting a new business etc
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
This is why I'm convinced titles means nothing unless you're talking specific levels at a well established company. Often super duper Staff+ engineers or CTOs at no name startups often have 0 idea what they're doing
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
2 other major things I'd say are : - They can design systems that last (functional, performant, don't need to be remade constantly) - They can solve a wide range of technical problems (investigate performance, build a basic UI, ad
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Reversing a linked list is pretty straightforward. This is going to be unpopular, but i wouldn't hire someone who can't write a program to do that.
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
" Don’t use your intuition developed from grinding out web crap to try and reason about the forefront of human knowledge. " . This should be stickied on every HN thread
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Instead of "stop", the more realistic approach is tax those things to reflect their damage to the environment and watch consumption patterns change. Unfortunately most governments won't do that either
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Yes, I recognize that most people want to continue to live their lifestyles. I've come to accept that its very likely the planet is toast.
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
I gave you a very precise set of actions that you personally can take, it can also function as a set of broad goals for governments to set tax policies (tax meat). I'm sorry that you don't like them
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Sure thats why the commenter said we're going to fry the world for our comfort. There are lots of straightforward steps we can take to reduce emissions, the issue is a lack of willingness
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
1. The Cold War wasn't won by the military. 2. You can definitely run a military on green energy 3. The world is moving towards more cooperation, not less. 4. Yes the west should re-industrialize by electrifying everything and replac
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
What do you mean saved us every time in the past ? We have never faced a problem like climate change. Its the first time we've been so advanced as a species that we can destroy our environment from over consumption. Historically the pr
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Stop eating meat, stop flying, stop driving, stop buying new clothes (for starters). Its not "feel good", its reality.
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Highly unlikely, the best and most ambitious will move to get better jobs, as they always have
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Yes its definitely harder for a new immigrant to understand the cultural norms required to work in a law or media (i think plenty work in "business"). But the fact that a field requires a particular cultural background makes it le
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
I don't think its seen as a trade, plenty of people in tech have PhDs or other degrees which are significantly more difficult than those required for finance, law or media. Its just more meritocratic than those fields which rely heavil
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
What he said actually addresses the article though
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Warrants on everyone in a particular geographical region purely by virtue of them being in that geographical region? Yeah I'm against that
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
please provide more details on your location so your claims can be verified
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
I mean I'm not so impressed, because it seems like someones figured out the ventriloquist trick and and is just spamming it to make anything talk. Its fun enough, but unclear what this is achieving
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Please most medicine isn't that complex either. Only a small minority of doctors really do anything the average person cannot do. Its really just that they've set up barriers to protect themselves. The really complex stuff in any
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
My friend group is about 60% lawyers, so I have a reasonable sense of what I'm talking about. I think a lot of software is also over-worded nonsense, and I try very hard to make sure I don't work in a place where that's encou
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
That I think if you're going from software to legal work you're likely to be bored.
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Please, patent lawyers (and lawyers in general) are the scum of the earth.
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Its pretty mindless, even the "reading" and "researching" is extremely dull. The level of logical complexity isn't that great and its a lot of overworded nonsense.
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
I agree that it matters, but google drive/ ms word are both significantly more important than dropbox in terms of moving paperwork to computers
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Voters decide who sits in congress, not who gets to talk on twitter, thats a job for twitters employees
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
No they definitely should, this is precisely their job. Why should public officials not be held to the same standards as individual citizens
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
I think just modern computing in general replaced those not dropbox or stripe in particular

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