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by anonyme-honteux 3y ago
I'm not talking about Musk, it may be hard to believe, but I genuinely don't care about him. He is the current guy with too much money, fame and ego. I'm talking about his fans and their perceptions of Musk. They hear "h
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by anonyme-honteux 3y ago
That's so true, why bother doing great work, which is a lot of work, when you can get the credit of many people doing it? That's what Elon Musk has done since the start of his career and it has worked pretty well for him. For tha
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Great, love it when shitty work culture super, who doesn't like to have a boss that thinks he is a medieval landlord?
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" did not refer to the teaching of Luther that are mainstream in Germany but specifically to the Calvinists and Pietists that brought their value to the US. --- https://en.wikipedia.org
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
For example Bernard Arnault is currently the richest man on earth and the cult of Bernard Arnault in France is pretty much inexistant.
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Founder worship is a straightforward evolution of a general US/protestant (See Max Weber) worship of rich people. It's here to stay because that permeates US culture completely. Most don't even notice it. I do because I was
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Open source projects are under financed and their maintainers are overwhelmed. I would rather read proposed solutions about that because that seems like the more important problem.
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Also matches my experience with Twitter
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Using those kind of Unix tools is like having a time travel machine to understand what kind of mistakes you should never do when Iyou design a software. Not having system wide keyboard shortcuts is one of them: vim, emacs, nano etc all have
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Isn't that because it's our true nature as human beings? We used to be survival specialists knowing the basics of lots of things. Those who didn't didn't survive. Then division of labor kicked in and it's both a ble
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
I don't think so, many people have a wide array of skills and interests, but none of them is business related. Are they being taken advantage of? Sure, most people are being taken advantage of, that's the system we live in, it&#x2
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
No it's about generalists versus specialists, problem solvers versus maintainers. There is not one category inherently better than the other contrary to the 10x bullshit, they will thrive in different contexts
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Nobody is removing null because null itself is not the mistake. The mistake was to say like in Java that null is a valid value for every possible class under the sun. What Kotlin & cie are saying is that if your parameter is a RandomGe
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Freedom of speech exists in dozen of countries but "Free Speech (TM)" is a very US specific thing that seemingly generate an infinite amount of non-sense. People get lost in abstraction and start to think that giving a megaphone
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
There are so much bad hiring practices in our industry that I indeed choose to trust the rare companies that do it right over the ones that cargo cult Google brain teaser questions, make you implement quicksort on a whiteboard, give you a t
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
It's the US, there are no worker rights but there is this dumb ubiquitous storytelling about billionaires who became rich only because they are smarter and more virtuous than everyone else. Unfortunately some people will need to suffer
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
It's not very buried, Mars'x quote that "religion is the opium of the people" is famous. But it's also misquoted. "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Wahabism is an ideology. Saudi Arabia sucks because the owner of the country (yes the coutnry is owned by a family) made it a state ideology. Atheism is not an ideology, it's an absence of one. You can be atheist and anything, includin
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
You're right but Iran doesn't need to be pro West for a balance of terror strategy to be workable. Iran needs only to hate the US and Europe less than it hates Saudi Arabia, which I believe is the case .
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
It's one of the craziest self defeating decision that the US and to a lesser extinct Europe decided to pick a side between the two horrible oil financed theocracies - Iran and Saudi Arabia - instead of simply playing one against the ot
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Unpopular* opinion: actually theocracy sucks * Not
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Nope the git log is a merkle tree. The blockchain is a merkle tree plus all the layers of overengineering you need to have a consensus algorithm. And usually you "need" a consensus algorithm mostly for ideological reasons. My view
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
It has nothing to do with the platform really. If a platform is huge enough, there are lots of humans there, including lots of humans who post very interesting content. Even LinkedIn, I used to think it was a pure waste of time to be on Lin
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
America with good public transit would definitely outperform dollar-wise America without it.
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Sounds way less efficient than just building a train.
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
I'm confident that we should stop talking about crypto "currencies", because a currency where you get rich by just holding to it is the contrary of a good currency. I create value in the real world and use the euro to exchang
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
Actually sending money directly to the poor is a very efficient form of government program. It's the exact contrary of bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is deciding for the poor what they are allowed to do with the money on the wrong assumption
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
I don't doubt that the US can produce good schools and good engineers. Like I said what happened during world war two was unprecedented. But good engineers from good schools won't stay and become great at their work unless they ha
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
The relevant context here is that everything is done to crush any kind of wannabe unions in the united states of America, unlike say in Germany or Northern Europe. I come from France where the desire from the elite to crush unions is also s
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by anonyme-honteux 4y ago
So what do you think that the US plutocrats would welcome German style strong unions efficient at negociating higher salaries?

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