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by apercu 3y ago
I was on call in the biomed field many many years ago, one week a month. I got a separate line item on my check for that. It wasn't much but I was compensated. Rarely got calls either, because I didn't support operating room equip
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by apercu 3y ago
Seems that the justices these days just take money from vested interests and rule accordingly.
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by apercu 3y ago
I guess I could have been more clear that I wasn't talking specifically about Meta. But, looking at this another way, when you make an example of a highly compensated, in demand worker (like a senior SW engineer), what message does tha
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by apercu 3y ago
The capital class thinks that the serfs are getting too "uppity" with all this "pay me a living wage to help deal with insane inflation" and WFH. All the layoffs send signals so the working class has an existential dread
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by apercu 3y ago
The issue is inventory. Fewer people are selling, because they're locked in to sub-3% mortgages and a new mortgage might be 6.5-7%. As an aside, a friend in real estate thinks the profession will lose a lot of agents this year due to l
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by apercu 3y ago
"No one" is a a pretty broad statement. Julian Lage is my favourite guitar player to come along in a decade or two. And he releases instrumental albums.
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by apercu 3y ago
Hm.. I have had Logic (OSX) for a while. It wasn't cheap but it was fairly priced. And they supported all you can eat upgrades (admittedly, not very many major versions). Sort of a bummer that it's a subscription model on iOS. Tha
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by apercu 4y ago
The previous option (a $1500 Iridium 9555 and a $100/mo plan with a 2-year minimum term for 100 minutes/mo+a little data) was expensive so it's good to see more economical options for people. No argument on the oligopoly.
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by apercu 4y ago
Should make it faster to play 18 holes. :)
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by apercu 4y ago
Makes boundary testing a lot easier.
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by apercu 4y ago
I guess I define middle class as somewhat comfortable.
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by apercu 4y ago
High? Based on what data? Is inventing things all day and understanding rapidly changing complex systems easier than family law? Outside a few thousand high paying jobs concentrated in a few regions, if you objectively look at most software
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by apercu 4y ago
Greed is a hell of a drug.
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by apercu 4y ago
If you have ever worked at a company that did layoffs or rolled back benefits or salary in difficult economic conditions you will have witnessed a long-lasting malaise that affects morale further and hampers productivity. There is nothing r
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by apercu 4y ago
If no one buys cars that have subscriptions for things like seat heaters, no one will produce that rent-seeking bullshit. If people resist returning to the office, employers will stop demanding it. It is about control, it's always been
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by apercu 4y ago
I have spent half of my career "self-employed" and 10-11 years of that working from home. "Nobody owns my IP or time." That's what is is. I just define it differently, my thing is when I am being controlled by someo
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by apercu 4y ago
Fair, but it's not always easy in "winner take all" politics like in the US. Also, I am not sure that American voters (at least) are actually very educated in issues, or candidates.
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by apercu 4y ago
Perhaps if a US or EU company could operate independently in China it would be fine. But they can't and therefore the US possibly should restrict their function (for example, force them to merge with a US entity to operate here, simila
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by apercu 4y ago
100% agree that independents are not "independent" but in the US system there are only two viable parties (by design, apparently) so you have to vote for one of the parties or you lose any agency whatsoever (the US doesn't ha
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by apercu 4y ago
Intelligence analysis (at least those reported in US Senate investigations) show Russian-linked code and Russian language in the Wikileaks leak of the hacked DNC emails. Assange either lied (lies) about not receiving that content from Russi
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by apercu 4y ago
Where did I say any of that? War crimes are a serious problem, of course. But it's also quite possible that Assange's distribution of Russian propaganda affected elections in multiple countries and allowed for Russian human rights
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by apercu 4y ago
Agreed. I find both of these things true: People in government positions in the US and UK abused their power. Julian Assange is not a good, or honest person.
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by apercu 4y ago
I've been in leadership positions in tech companies for a long time. I don't let people schedule Friday deployments because in the off chance that something does go wrong it means that multiple people lose their weekends. That&#x2
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by apercu 4y ago
> changing part of the tech stack every month Still happening. Everything must be REACT now. For reasons.
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by apercu 4y ago
If we have to buy insurance to insure our money, the financial sector will just game that, too, and make even riskier bets. That we (taxpayers) end up paying for.
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by apercu 4y ago
> The DUI checkpoints up in BC are wild too Not just BC. ON, too.
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by apercu 4y ago
Innovation doesn't seem that fast to me. I've been in tech since the mid-90's and all I see is iteration when it comes to storage technology. What is faster and faster is anti-consumer activities and the general acceptance of
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by apercu 4y ago
But there is a lot of copy-catting going on. Have you called a bank or any other large institution in the last 3 years? "We're experiencing larger call volumes than normal". The fact that this is pervasive and constant makes
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by apercu 4y ago
Weird. I usually call it "Discover Weakly" or "Discover Meekly" because it's usually about every 3rd week that I find a new artist. I like all sorts of Americana but Spotify loves to feed me blues. I'm not all
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by apercu 4y ago
I started doing this in 2015. I had to quit my job and go back to consulting. I found that somewhere around 12-20 hours per week of knowledge work was peak efficiency (output versus effort). Unfortunately, from 2020 to now, I have had to wo

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