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by barrysteve 3y ago
Obviously having a drink with the colleagues has nothing to do with alcoholism. I was responding to the comment that 'in the extreme, alcohol is a truth serum'. It isn't.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Diplomacy brings flexibility. A well oiled team always has some level of diplomacy to keep everyone working shoulder to shoulder pointing in the same direction. I don't think collective harmony aims to be a dick either.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Alcoholics lie, cheat and steal to fuel their habit. Extreme alcohol is a horrific poison to the body and mind. I'd wager a healthy man who can drink you under the table, wouldn't reveal any secrets. He'll finish the drink in
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by barrysteve 3y ago
It's artificial. The Chinese reputation is so poor in the West, people have to be forced to buy them. The cars coming out of traditional manufacturers have onbvious flaws that could be fixed tomorrow. But they don't...
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by barrysteve 3y ago
You have no idea how much it pleases people in charge to have complete surveillance. It's pathetic.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Obesity is foremost a governing problem. Why do we allow people to buy and sell addictive fast food? Living life perfectly is not a solution to the obesity epidemic.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
The cultural context of colloquial speech is incredibly difficult to pick up online. It is literally never communicated, you have to scrape Culture Shock and reaction videos for weeks to piece it together. Or study full time, or live there.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
It bugs me how similar Youtube Shorts is to the spinning wheel game on The Price Is Right. So much of social media is TPIR style gambling for dopamine and worthless knowledge.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Total data collection and we still can't attribute copyright to the creator of the work. Content creation is a free-for-all. No genuinely sane person would try to bring good content to this tech landscape. We broke the old institutions
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Yeah it changed mid-2020. Youtube was a nice place to go. Cheap entertainment is getting boring.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
All good. I have nothing to add to that. Real life people who know you, would have more to say. I hope it works out.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
I'm a man who wasted twenty years programming with nothing to show for it. I moved on, to a working class job. You're riding false hope and trying to get blood from a stone. HN doesn't pay for commenters, it pays start ups. Y
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by barrysteve 3y ago
So you want to preserve a problematic principle to keep talking about it's contents? How terribly meta. The shirky principle is not needed. Shirk is already an English word meaning 'avoid or neglect responsibility'.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
He sounds plenty motivated. He's willing to start his own business to chase a $5 million dollar idea. In a knowledge based role, the company is paying you to churn out solutions to their problems because the technology stack is setup t
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by barrysteve 3y ago
There's nothing cryptic about his post. He'a referring to an idea that sounds nice in theory and doesn't work in practice. It's a common English phrase. And the phrase works well, the concept of informed concept sounds g
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Yes, changed country, friends and job. In the end, old family ties brought me back to where I started. It is very hard for a tiger to change it's stripes. I've gotten better results standing up, from where I am now. The radical ch
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by barrysteve 3y ago
That attitude is insane and politically naive. Yout biggest peer competitor copy-pasted your military technology because you can't keep secrets. You made your allies poor by taking away the advantage of research and you can't stop
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by barrysteve 3y ago
The article waffles on without providing any real insight or solutions. The key solution is technology that empowers men. - Self-driving cars should be an option for drivers to flick on and off at will. - Mechanized looms should be custom b
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Make it socially unacceptable for anyone to use foreign electronics and scan the RF spectrum for unathorized devices. It's not that hard if you're really committed and can accept chasing up offenders after-the-fact.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Same pattern for me. Keep getting videos with nearly no views and occassionaly I comment on them and get real feedback from the creator. Definitely an odd experience.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Our society was based on population growth. It's not that it needs to grow or doesn't need to grow. It's that the change to our way of life and economy is as big as ww2. Peter Zeihan does a good lecture explaining the impact.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Porn and contraceptives did a lot of damage. It used to be that deciding to conceive made parents get their child into schooling and a lifelong career. Instutions were built and maintainted to support inflow of children and stable corporati
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by barrysteve 3y ago
It takes a few people in an inner circle turning code to their benefit. Then playing their complexity game is the best way to make money. Software engineering should have been much more than it is. Dedicating SWE to service jobs in the corp
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by barrysteve 3y ago
There it is. The line. Physically forcing anything is a failure of governance. If you have to force it, you had no authority in the first place and you're just covering up that fact. America is absolutely committed to creating hell on
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by barrysteve 3y ago
You want to push it, until we are forced to return the favour? When one side doesn't listen, then these conversations are nonsense. The concept of having a conversation is coming to a close.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
When someone's wrong it's not always in the content of their comment. Often they're missing context, don't have the whole picture and have made an excellent comment for the wrong point. It takes a lot of time to turn tha
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by barrysteve 3y ago
He doesn't say that. He chooses to relate to Australian law, not maths. It's his job to do that. He is not a mathematician. It is frustrating watching Muricans balk at a change of topic, by saying that he claims something he didn&
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Long since resigned. It's impossible to keep a secret on the internet. You can't secure military technology, bank secrets, crypto tokens or prevent piracy. Computers were designed to be open by default. General purpose computing m
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by barrysteve 3y ago
All the new builds in my area share a rendered concrete and jail-bar fencing aesthetic that is monstorous, undesirable and ugly. There are no sensible features to look at. The corners of the build look so sharp, you'd cut your hand if
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by barrysteve 3y ago
It will likely take centuries to reinvent digital ownership. The top-down influence is too strong to have nice things.

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