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by ativzzz 5y ago
More likely loneliness, the article mentions solitary drinking long before we worked in cubicles.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
IMO live chat is awful for community building, especially one with deep knowledge bases such as gardening. It's great for troubleshooting problems and asking questions, but it does not do a good job of retaining information, and it exc
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Human civilization has collapsed before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse Like you said, what remains may no longer be as we know it, but then again humanity has gone through so many paradigm shif
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by ativzzz 5y ago
You should probably listen to him and walk more since you're much more likely to die of heart disease than you are from anyone trying to take your life.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Eliminating corporations is like eliminating feudal lords during feudalism. The only way is to kill enough of them in wars and replace them with an entity with even more centralized power.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> In practice, a lot of bad choices aren't truly volitional; they are mainly the result of conditioning. Is more of a "do we really have free will?" debate
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Because we are humans, and the factors that drive humans who are capable of making widespread change that would make things fair steer them towards wealth and power instead. That's just reality.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I guess it just depends on what your app does. At my previous job we were serving several million requests/day off about 15-20 rails instances on heroku
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by ativzzz 5y ago
So maybe it should be limited to certain industries, like low skilled laborers and not white collar office jobs
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I don't think it's that massive, especially because you should be figuring out a salary range within the first 1 or 2 conversations with the company regardless. For software engineers anyway, not sure about other less-hot markets.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
You only list one position, with 3 different bands, but ofc we know nobody is gonna read that part.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Doesn't this happen already? In fact, that's how I got my current job, I applied for tech lead and they gave me an offer for senior and I took it. The difference being I know the salary ranges of the bands before I apply and talk
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by ativzzz 5y ago
So why not just list the position for a software engineer, along with 3 different salary bands for 3 different experience levels? Or does that not comply with the law?
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Because whoever has the largest force wouldn't agree to it. For instance, if these counties chose to ignore all the rules and join Idaho, the U.S. has a very large force that it can use to prevent this from happening. In fact, it doesn
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Which distro did you move her to?
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by ativzzz 5y ago
No it doesn't, but maybe your children one day will be able to, after all, why else are you slaving away? To give your children a better life. At least that's what my parents did
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Biggest difference between US and rest of the world is that in the rest of the world it's more accepted to bribe normal people.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
It's also through spraying the lawn with chemicals that kill unwanted weeds.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
So shouldn't likewise a business pays for what it needs, so if it doesn't find enough employees at a lower pay it needs to increase pay?
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Having done a lot of driving through the Texas triangle, I can tell you that the biggest detriment to HSR would be the fact that you still need a car after you get off your train. I've taken the greyhound/megabus between cities, a
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Typically you can either give everyone the same percent or say you set aside 10% of your profit and divvy it up proportional to people's salaries
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> What if your car insurance was more expensive because your last name was associated with an ethnicity that happens to have more car accidents than others? But why is it fair to charge men more than women? AFAIK car insurance is more ex
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by ativzzz 6y ago
That depends on the definition of > psychological harm Are they going to go into a codebase and figure this out? If I use AI to pull these levers vs using a series of if/else statements: if person.has_bought_multiple_items
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by ativzzz 6y ago
For the vast, vast, majority of us, nothing that we do individually is important. Sure we work and provide some value to somebody somewhere, but if we didn't exist or didn't do that job, the world wouldn't be any worse off. I
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Depends on what you're building. Rails/django/heroku are web app accelerators. If you are building a web app, then yea they make it super easy and take away a lot of having to think about complex systems, but if you're b
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Same here. I've never bought a house so I don't quite know the details about it, but if people are getting 15-20 offers on a house within 24 hours of it going on sale, why not just raise the price?
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by ativzzz 6y ago
And I'm glad, let's leave those on reddit
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by ativzzz 6y ago
From the article, > SpaceX beat out Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, which had formed what it called a “national team” by partnering with aerospace giants Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Maybe if we gave every country nuclear weapons we could stop having proxy wars through poorer/developing countries.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> Without restrictions we can play God We've been playing God for about as long as human civilization has existed. Agriculture is playing God - overwriting the byproducts of nature. Medicine is playing God - overwriting natural sele

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