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by ativzzz 6y ago
Time to set up a family 1password, or if you're up for teaching your family, keepass.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
I feel the safest way to use Reddit is to create a new account for every subreddit/community/subculture that is in any way tied to real life, and absolutely minimize the amount of information you give out in each one by keeping it
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by ativzzz 6y ago
I firmly believe that the only way an online forum, particularly an anonymous one with free signups can remain relatively civil is very heavy handed moderation. This is not a free speech zone (it's a privately owned space), and the onl
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Consultants are forced to travel primarily for marketing value rather than for productive value. Yes, you want to travel to meet your client in person, maybe to do some big planning/milestones, but for every day work, the consultants a
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Interesting it's so low, considering they are the highest revenue company in the world (as of 2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> The issue with Reddit is that there's little to no user engagement with older content. Comments on posts older than a day in pretty much every reasonably active subreddit are ignored. This is also an issue on HN. This is even wors
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Then people just yell past each other and everyone becomes Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law Generally, when unmoderated, the loudest user(s) will drown out everyone else
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by ativzzz 6y ago
that's a private community
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by ativzzz 6y ago
I would argue that market rationality and efficiency described in economics textbooks does not exist, nor has ever existed.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> I'd like to find challenging work and make upper echelon salary This has always been the case for humanity, that typically people who do challenging, high salary work come from wealthier families with access to better resources, i
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by ativzzz 6y ago
One of the counterpoints is that it's not the same insulin, it's constantly new and improved insulin that functions better than the insulin we had 10 years ago, but of course each improvement comes with a price increase.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> Being dead is basically the equivalent experience as not having been born Completely untrue. Maybe as an individual, but your impact on other humans is the biggest difference. Particularly if you have children, there is no equivalence.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
So then, once a population reaches "ideal" mutations, if that is possible, then wouldn't the opposite start happening?
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> I’ve been on a few remote teams where I write a lot (in plain language too), and have found that if my audience is non-technical management that they simply don’t read it. Decisions continue to be made on their gut whims despite access
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by ativzzz 6y ago
The OP should have prefaced his post with "If you want to make top 1-5% of engineering salaries". The vast majority of engineering jobs are done at boring non-tech companies by average programmers who have average educations and e
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> literally any good or activity is just money In the grand context of life, no (despite the vast majority of large scale events that we learn about in history being usually a result of conflict over money/power) , but in the contex
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Sure, and here is a counterexample from the 1600-1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company Literally they bought an army and took over India for money.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> I miss the days when businesses existed not just to serve investors but also their employees and the common good Uh when was this? For-profit businesses have always been created for the primary purpose of making money. Any side effect
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by ativzzz 7y ago
That's good though, if an employer is unwilling to meet your anchor then you don't want to work there anyway so they save you time by pulling out early.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
The issue is it's not as simple as calling `setTimeout` as soon as your use case becomes more complex. See this great post from Dan Abramov about using setInterval with hooks: https://overreacted.io/making-setinterval-d
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Unfortunately you can't just throw technology or money at problems to solve them.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
The U.S. is absolutely not the ideal place to live in. However, it is the ideal place to aspire to if you want to make a lot of money without being born to an already wealthy family. (Wealth of course being relative, because you need some w
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by ativzzz 7y ago
People do not want to be challenged in an echo chamber. Either talk to them (without convincing them of anything) outside the chamber, or walk away.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> Can you imagine a Windows based PC lasting half of that time? Yes? I built a ~$1500 PC in 2013 and still use it for non-work purposes. I did put Elementary OS on it though instead of Windows 10, and it's starting to show its age r
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Such arguments are usually emotional and spouting off facts is unlikely to change the other person's stance and instead make them double down harder.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
1. Many businesses are closed at the moment due to lockdowns 2. During a recession, people will save that money and not spend it
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Again, your choice of JS front end framework has nothing to do with the design of your UI. You can code the same design with React, Angular, vanilla JS, QT, etc. From what I've seen, most programmers are awful designers who overestimat
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Disagreed, the vast majority of business problems with tech are solved with some form of CRUD which frameworks are perfect for. If your framework all of a sudden doesn't support your business needs either you didn't plan ahead wel
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Apply to big non tech companies who probably run on older tech
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Yea if a framework makes breaking changes to the point where you can't upgrade your app, that seems like it could be a recurring problem so after the first rewrite you might as well learn native code and write it there.

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