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by atlgator 6y ago
I love how they make their mission sound so humanitarian when it's really about monthly active user growth and data profiles for everyone in the world... that they can sell. This whole movement of masking profiteering as social justice
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by atlgator 6y ago
The author doesn't realize AWS is for more than just ecommerce making the comparison highly suspect.
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by atlgator 6y ago
Inflation has been hidden since the Obama years of quantitative easing due to globalization. You can pump cash into the market and, if you keep the cost of consumer goods low by outsourcing to 3rd world labor, the CPI doesn't increase.
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by atlgator 6y ago
Advancing technology doesn't make up for destroying humanity, IMO. Fuck Facebook.
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by atlgator 6y ago
Work with Amazon Robotics to automate them out of a job. It's only a matter of time anyway.
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by atlgator 7y ago
It's a LOAN of $1000 per employee, and you have to retain your employees for 180 days in order for the loan to be forgiven... do the math. I assume most employees make more than $2000 per year. The money is only "free" if you
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by atlgator 7y ago
Posts like this are why I love HN.
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by atlgator 7y ago
In my experience, high-performing teams arise when every member has expertise that is acknowledged and respected by the rest of the group. As soon as you add skill+experience redundancy, performance will be hindered by jockeying to "be
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by atlgator 7y ago
Atlanta had a similar story in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_85_bridge_collapse
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by atlgator 7y ago
Journalism schools teach provocation. Look for the edge, look for the spin. There's no money in objectivity.
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by atlgator 7y ago
During the Iraq War, everyone marveled at the great new technology behind the Predator drone to conduct surveillance and deliver ordnance during strike operations. Then it leaked that the Predator had been developed 15 years earlier and use
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by atlgator 7y ago
I wish I was good enough to work for them. It must be fascinating.
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by atlgator 7y ago
Mother of God, you are right! You just changed my life for the better.
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by atlgator 7y ago
I still don't care for their search results UI. There's a lot of wasted space on widescreens, content isn't centered, and the font blows. It really triggers me.
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by atlgator 7y ago
I was an architect for a custom multi-platform RTOS built for many core NUMA systems (C/C++, Ada, Java). Most challenging work I ever did because you can't just look up the answer on Stack Overflow. Took a job in IT for 40% more.