anthony_d

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by anthony_d 3y ago
> Every time a Republican celebrity or politician posts this song and a working class stiff likes or retweets it, a useful idiot is born. That might be true but I hope with some time and self reflection you’ll recover.
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by anthony_d 3y ago
> Those upper echelons are only there as an accident of history. That seems like an awfully bold assertion. Mafia bosses have a different set of rules than most of us, but to think they survive by repeatedly flipping a coin and being luc
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by anthony_d 3y ago
Are you sure your large financial institution doesn’t have some group doing public cloud work? Mine does and we struggle to hire outside. I’d love to find an internal candidate who’s interested in padding their resume for a year or two. I’d
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by anthony_d 3y ago
Sounds like you didn’t actually read the comment you’re responding to. Any chance you work in politics?
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by anthony_d 3y ago
Well, this is also one of those rare articles that keeps me coming back to HN.
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by anthony_d 3y ago
I’m inclined to agree with you, but I’m extremely suspicious of most cost analyses. It’s pretty rare to see one that isn’t written to support a preexisting ideology.
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by anthony_d 3y ago
Before giving my anecdotal response I want to say I’m well into the senior end of the spectrum. Maybe that disqualifies me but maybe it doesn’t. Anyway, my previous company was about 100 people and purely remote. I had a brilliant manager w
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by anthony_d 3y ago
You were at least making relevant statements, even if missing the point, up until “ I have zero tolerance for all this pearl clutching.” Quit clutching those pearls so tightly and just relax a bit. Calorie consumption vs calories burned isn
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by anthony_d 3y ago
I work at a very large company with very complicated systems. Fighting unnecessary complexity at every opportunity is the only way to keep things near comprehensible. A lot of the articles rules are even more important in complex environmen
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by anthony_d 3y ago
Whatever your feelings toward the book, it’s directly relevant to this post. It is overly verbose and the characters are pretty flat, but the core idea seems pretty interesting to me. The writing is very different but has a similar feel to
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by anthony_d 3y ago
The parent made a few direct statements that seemed pretty clear so I’m not sure what you’re looking for. It wasn’t me so I _could_ be wrong but I read this: 1. Twitter has more right wing content than it did before Musk. 2. It’s generally
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by anthony_d 3y ago
That looks a lot like satire but I can’t quite tell. So, to clarify: if someone is clearly a violent criminal, are you really saying we should feel bad for them and assume they are a victim of “the system”? Do we drop charges? What’s the ac
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by anthony_d 3y ago
I’d say someone passionately screaming they don’t like milk is absolutely not the target. Ads are for the neutral or ambivalent.
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by anthony_d 4y ago
The thing is that everything is ultimately meaningless. Maybe you’re 5 or 6 levels removed, maybe it’s only 1 level removed but it’s still meaningless. Work _creates_ meaning. It doesn’t have to and you’re free to not find satisfaction in y
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by anthony_d 4y ago
> That's easy to check, and very wrong. It looks a lot like you actually agreed with the parent. Was there a disagreement I missed?
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by anthony_d 4y ago
And they would be right too. I’m not a doom and gloom/end days kind of guy, but there is no reason to believe society and cultures always improve.
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by anthony_d 4y ago
Feels so backwards to me. I’m much happy driving an expensive car to grocery shop and taking groceries home to my nice house to cook. I’m amazed how much money you can piss away with stupid purchases that never even make you smile. I smile
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by anthony_d 4y ago
I’d be surprised if many people mention a wage gap without knowing the different measurements. Like most things it’s the underlying assumptions combined with the view on ethics that people tend to disagree on. For example, your assertion th
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by anthony_d 4y ago
Nothing is sustainable. The universe eventually goes cold. Are you saying anything more?
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by anthony_d 4y ago
I’m guessing that’s just a reflection of who you know. In my experience no one likes Fountainhead and most of the people who like Atlas Shrugged are men.
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by anthony_d 4y ago
> Poor guy gets money from the govt. == "a leech"; rich guy gets money from the govt. == "a stimulus for the economy". Huh? That's the exact opposite of everything I've seen. Rich people are called leeches j
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by anthony_d 4y ago
I’m ready to agree with you as long as you understand software engineering isn’t a thing.
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by anthony_d 4y ago
I was completely with you until you got to Victor Frankl. I just can’t stand what he writes. Respect what he dealt with but he sounds like a fortune cookie.
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by anthony_d 4y ago
Given the parent comments point of view: What would you say of the case where you do all your grocery shopping and they close the full service checkouts right as you wrap up and force self checkout? You’ve agreed to shop with the intention
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by anthony_d 4y ago
And the irony here is that you're complaining about taxing the poor while living in an affluent suburb. Unless you still live with your parents, you chose to live in a part of the city with expensive housing and no public transportatio
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by anthony_d 4y ago
None of that changes word meanings. Violence is physical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence
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by anthony_d 4y ago
But they’re more likely to be impacted.
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by anthony_d 4y ago
> A byte is the smallest addressable unit on a given architecture. That’s normally called a word. I’ve seen casual usage of “byte” in that context but formal documentation has always used word.
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by anthony_d 4y ago
> If the system refuses to face truth, you will need to circumvent the system. That is a terrifying sentence. It can be used to justify anything while denying accountability. There's always the possibility (probability) that you are
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by anthony_d 4y ago
> Also this fascination with NYC and it's trash situation is such a tired and frankly disingenuous dig at the city. While it is expensive, no argue there, it is not dangerous or filthy. You'd think after having lived there for

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