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by babycake 5y ago
If you are hiring people to do the work, why do you need to spend time in apprenticeship?
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by babycake 5y ago
> they ran some calculations that showed that there should have been some coupling between their object and the water it was passing through, which suggested that there should have been some turning—it was just too small to see. The team
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by babycake 5y ago
There's two ways to look at this. One is you've found your dream job, and that job defines you as a person. That's fine, because it's working for you and it's how you want to spend your life. But I feel this is a ra
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by babycake 5y ago
No, but their lives have been ruined for... what? Think about this: we spent millions of dollars identifying the leak by Assange, then forcing Assange to sit in an embassy, on PR to discredit his character, and on convincing countries to ha
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by babycake 5y ago
The problem with the theme that the US went in to 'save' countries under a repressive state is that it's simply untrue. Why would the US just go in to save people? Given its war crimes exposed by Assange and its crimes agains
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by babycake 5y ago
Wow, this speaks so many truths. And to add to this, if you want us to care more about the product, the simple truth is just to pay us more. Hit that sweet financial spot for us and we're yours. This is universally true for any job, in
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US millionaire CEOs saw 29% pay raise while workers’ pay fell(theguardian.com)
72 points by babycake 5y ago|38 comments
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A false facial recognition match sent this innocent Black man to jail(cnn.com)
1 points by babycake 5y ago|0 comments
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by babycake 6y ago
> They benefit nobody but the people in the union. Amazon has enacted policies that are entirely employee-hostile... like creating timetables that are impossible to fulfill unless they pee in bottles or take a dump to fertilize a custome
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by babycake 6y ago
The author added this jab at the end, lol: > Bezos’s Washington DC mansion has been reported to have 25 bathrooms for his own use.
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by babycake 6y ago
> Stop. Buying. Stuff. Made. In. China. This isn't possible to follow on the individual level, even if you wanted to. Those 'Made in America' labels on product boxes aren't even accurate either, the parts can be built
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by babycake 6y ago
Those numbers are pretty close to what I've seen from colleagues who share their salaries with me (those who are not from FAANG, or top tier companies). That's the feeling I get too, most software salaries aren't that high.
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by babycake 6y ago
There's a lot of great things mentioned in this article, and while not all of it applies to software engineers in terms of work-life balance, a lot of it still resonates, especially for those who have grown up poor and have seen both s
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by babycake 6y ago
Remember not long ago when Uber killed a pedestrian? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54175359 > Ms Vasquez was charged on 27 August, and made her first appearance in court on 15 September. The trial is now set f
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by babycake 6y ago
Who knows, Christopher Columbus used to be hailed as a hero. Now he's the villain!
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by babycake 6y ago
But they don't achieve better than white people, they just have that perception based off school grades. When it comes to life, that is career, they tend to not get promoted as much or be in much executive positions.
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by babycake 6y ago
How much do you pay in storage costs for storing all those photos? What about the bandwidth costs?
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by babycake 6y ago
I don't know about this. Most experienced developers I know of have family, and they generally value their personal time. They don't mind doing boring software. And even if they are bored, I don't think it burns them out. Wha
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by babycake 6y ago
Don't forget that the Democratic party has something called Super Delegates, which basically blocks any candidate they don't agree with, even if the candidate won the popular vote. If Trump ran as Democrat, he wouldn't be pre
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by babycake 6y ago
There are lots of reasons that a society would change. Some factors would include newer generations introducing ideas that the older generation didn't take heed to. Marriage used to be strictly between a man and a woman. Now society sa
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by babycake 6y ago
> What criteria makes one a man or a woman? That's up to the society, hence their definitions as social constructs. For example, when you shop for dresses, do mostly men or women come up? Articles of clothing by themselves are not t
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by babycake 6y ago
male/female are biological descriptions. Men/Women are social constructs. A man can wear a woman's dress, but a male cannot be pregnant and give birth.
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by babycake 6y ago
Maybe the new grads with those legendary salaries are paid closer to their true value, while the seasoned devs are not?
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by babycake 6y ago
Don't do it. A full time job gives several benefits: steady paycheck, taxes done for you, healthcare (if you are in US). Going freelance erases all of the above benefits, and further creates more stress since clients can more easily ch
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by babycake 6y ago
If you are so critical to the company's operations, then can you deduct 3 hrs every week from the PTO you are taking? ie, if you are taking off 40 hours, then only log 37 hours PTO taken, because you're expected to work 3 hrs a we
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by babycake 6y ago
And when these bad cops are protected from prosecution across the entire country, it's no longer about a single bad cop in a barrel of apples from an isolated tree. It becomes an institution encouraging bad policing, a systemic issue.
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by babycake 6y ago
You can't fight politics with tech, because politics win every time. Some of the things you listed don't make much sense when people are angry enough to spill into the streets to protest. For example, > - Combatting disinformat
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by babycake 6y ago
Politicians, police, corporations, media... the institution is trying to pushing the idea that protestors == looters. And therefore the protests should be quelled. Several states even went so far as to declare, without any evidence, that th
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by babycake 6y ago
No, it really can't and everyone needs to stop pushing this corporate narrative. This is another one of those feel-good gestures that doesn't really result in any real progress. Can you imagine the next time the topic of gender or
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by babycake 6y ago
Sure, modus operandi to get any company to do good these days is to make a public post about it. Spin up that medium blog! I'm not even joking is the sadder bit here.

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