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by apercu 4y ago
If the end game is suppress salaries and increase control (by forcing people back to offices), maybe the morale hit is worth it over a couple years.
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by apercu 4y ago
It's the dependency loop of Wordpress really - people can't update the core because their plugins don't work with new core (yet, sometimes never), so their (outdated) core remains an exploit.
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by apercu 5y ago
I like the way your mind works.
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by apercu 5y ago
I've been in and around platform development in the .NET space for over a decade (not as a developer, I stopped programming for the web in like 2002 because I couldn't stand the the entire front end paradigm). My biggest issue wit
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by apercu 5y ago
You are listing companies that in several cases have been around for decades. I was really thinking about the startups I have been involved with. I have never worked for a FAANG and have never had desire to. Also, the odds of 95% of HN read
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by apercu 5y ago
Retail therapy. More people than ever are disconnected and deeply unhappy and advertising increases the social pressure by telling people they will be happier if they buy "this" or "that".
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by apercu 5y ago
Because controversial headlines generate clicks which allow for ads to be served to monetize the traffic. It's just a loop of bullshit. lol.
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by apercu 5y ago
"Stock options used to be an enticing form of ownership, now it’s a crapshoot: you’re gambling that you won’t get screwed." I've had options and equity and RSU's and all sorts of things. Even diluted but still owned 11%
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by apercu 5y ago
Or using whatever agency they had to direct the US voters towards what they feel is more effect public health policies and stopping millions of unnecessary deaths? Look, I am not defending anyone, I am saying that _all_ things of this natur
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by apercu 5y ago
'NSO Founders Defend Revenue Stream' FTFY.
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by apercu 5y ago
Sure, and it could be political. In fact, most things of this nature are at that level. So, maybe, the people in charge didn't like the previous US government admin so they didn't help improve its numbers. That is certainly more l
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by apercu 5y ago
I would be extremely reluctant to visit China or Russia at this point in my life. I felt differently in my 20's. And I am modestly well-travelled.
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by apercu 5y ago
It does sound dismissive (and flippant). lol
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by apercu 5y ago
I don't know that they meant that flippantly. But at the same time I am glad you said something because if we objectively look at the world there IS rampant sexism and there IS rampant racism and we DO need to call it out.
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by apercu 5y ago
Thanks for this. I needed a chuckle.
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by apercu 5y ago
Lol. Love it. Don't use Microsoft, instead become an expert in cisco OS and Linux and don't spend ay time generating anything of economic value but instead spend all your time securing your infrastructure and doing pen tests. (yes
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by apercu 5y ago
Cyber Insurance is a huge growing sector in Toronto at least, and I worked on strategy for a "startup" in the space last summer.
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by apercu 5y ago
I get your metaphor but I don't think it meets the situation. If you were paying a security guard to watch your apartment and they instead went to guard some other place for additional money for 2 hours and then your apartment got robb
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by apercu 5y ago
Not suggesting at all that the USA is some benign superpower, but Russia is run by a criminal gang and China by a despot and a corrupt communist party. Note that I am a US citizen than expatriated after the second gulf war. So I am not a fa
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by apercu 5y ago
I meant April 2019. lol.
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by apercu 5y ago
Yes. I don't believe anything I read on the internet. Or see on TV. Billions and billions are spent on brainwashing and propaganda. We (humans) eat that shit right up. We don't stand a chance. lol.
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by apercu 5y ago
That's fair, I just meant if the stern letter from a law office (which I am sure New York officials get weekly) didn't do anything.
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by apercu 5y ago
So why do we a accept that VC's invest in software tech but we don't expect them to do the same in biotech (obviously some do I am generalizing) but instead expect Americans (mostly, I live in Canada though) to subsidize Big Pharm
714.
by apercu 5y ago
Agreed. Sue the city. That will get someones attention. Well, maybe not in NYC. I honestly don't know.
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by apercu 5y ago
I have. 25% increase.
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by apercu 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't express that well. I don't want to make rich people richer while they are actively trying to suppress my income in order to make their margins bigger. Because that's been my experience for the last 15 or so ye
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by apercu 5y ago
That's fair. I have never met anyone that enjoyed this or wants it to continue. If we had taken this seriously form day one we would not be in this position. But I knew this would happen in April 2020 because all the historical evidenc
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by apercu 5y ago
I bet if we took all the legal and illegal offshore shenanigans and the laws written by the wealthiest that create more loopholes, the amount of "inhibiting" of tax collection by cryptocurrency in comparison is a rounding error.
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by apercu 5y ago
That sounds like a typical right wing bullshit stance. I don't know a single person, much less American that wants everyone locked down in a mask.
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by apercu 5y ago
"3) Social media is a cancer on society" Yessir. Hacker News sometimes too.

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