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by baumy 4y ago
I think you and the poster above are talking past each other. He doesn't seem upset, and as someone who agrees with him I can say I'm not either. Having said that, of course I can get upset when society changes! It would be very s
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by baumy 4y ago
Fully agreed, it just shows what people should already know - the only folks who know a layoff is coming in advance are C suite and VPs, maybe a few others. And they will lie through their teeth about it right up until the moment it happens
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by baumy 4y ago
I have a message from them in my linkedin inbox from January 3rd (8 days ago) telling me about exciting opportunities there. > You’d be joining at an exciting time, Flexport is in a hyper-growth stage
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by baumy 4y ago
I don't think you can casually dismiss the ability of one of the greatest chess players to ever live to identify when his opponents are engaged, concentrating and thinking hard, and when they are not, without twisting common sense past
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by baumy 5y ago
? Did you perhaps get taken in by "We are evolving from a video game retailer to a technology company that connects customers with games, entertainment and a wide assortment of products"? Everybody and their grandmother is claimin
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by baumy 5y ago
Well I could throw out a number of examples, any of which you may reasonably disagree with and all of which are by necessity controversial, so I don't think there's value in steering the conversation in that direction. But asking
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by baumy 5y ago
I'm not sure what's complicated about this. People "regularly posting obvious lies and bs" is, definitionally, not censorship. Censorship can only take place when something isn't said, not when it is . > I thi
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by baumy 5y ago
Love this! Stole it and added a bit of bash-fu to it to avoid needing to define the extra aliases: et() { exa -alT --git -I'.git|node_modules|.mypy_cache|.pytest_cache|.venv' --color=always "-L${1:-1}" | less -R } comm
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by baumy 5y ago
I had the same take away from that founders letter as you did - full of arrogance, as well as very chilling and creepy in my opinion. Somewhere in this thread one of them is commenting, and made a point to link to that same letter saying ho
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by baumy 5y ago
Yes, I disagree with that. Even if I agreed, I'd still think we shouldn't do anything about it. How much bad stuff is "too much?" Which stuff is "bad"? Who gets to decide? Why should I trust them? Who and wha
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by baumy 5y ago
If the choice is between 3.5 million dead, and the rise of authoritarianism and censorship, then yes the former is much less tragic than the latter and therefore the more acceptable option. And that's before taking into account that th
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by baumy 5y ago
$$$ It's really that simple. I also think Facebook is a net negative for humanity, but if I was willing to subject myself to leetcoding interviews and passed theirs, I'd work there in a heartbeat because they pay senior engineers
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by baumy 5y ago
I remember when I first saw that USC dataset, it was mind blowing. Any public health official worth their salt should be absolutely horror struck that the public's perception of the risk profile of a disease is off by multiple orders o
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by baumy 5y ago
> Countless millions will live with a permanent disability their entire life. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I see no reason to believe this at all. Side effects from a viral infection, and specifically coronaviruse
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by baumy 5y ago
No, you are wrong, and didn't read carefully. The comment of yours that I took issue with your response to the user "luckylion", who's only mention of the word "vaccine" was to mention that he himself is vaccin
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by baumy 5y ago
> What are you even going on about here? You think that encouraging healthy people to get vaccinated to help protect other people is stupid because most people are willing to accept the risk of driving? You position makes absolutely no s
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by baumy 5y ago
A sincere thank you for all of those links, very educational. It seems to me that the "condescending sweep under the rug" you identify is motivated by the same reasoning that caused Fauci to declare early on that masks don't
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by baumy 5y ago
Exact laws: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/chapter-5/subchap... The rest of your question I consider invalid. Companies do not have civil rights [1]. Hell, it's in the definition of the
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by baumy 5y ago
Yes, that would be the only way, but basic arithmetic yields the conclusion that it is not possible at present, even ignoring the political impossibility of it. And no, I very much agree with the ancestral post. I think it would empower a s
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by baumy 5y ago
Sure whatever, but the rest of my post is more pertinent. These experiments have no value. Measuring the wavelength of the color of the sky is empirical and offers roughly the same insight into the impact of UBI on society. Empiricism on it
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by baumy 5y ago
Those experiments are worse than useless for predicting what would actually happen in a "true UBI" environment. I say "worse than useless" as opposed to just "useless" since they make people think they have s
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by baumy 5y ago
> If your desired comp number actually is $1M/year, will that just flag you as a joke to Triplebyte companies? With post-pandemic stock price increases a lot of engineers at FAANGs are making more than that now. For any reasonable d
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by baumy 5y ago
> it should be illegal to bulldoze structure where somebody lives! This seems pretty obviously like a bad idea to me. What's to stop someone from erecting a large structure inside a public park, stealing the right to use that land f
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by baumy 5y ago
I have mostly the same thoughts, and found this to be the best presentation of them I've come across: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b3Ob4CK4Xs There's also a book by the same title
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by baumy 5y ago
Just so you know where I'm coming from - I've been vehemently anti lockdown since late April 2020 and still am, I'm generally appalled at the level of mindless obedience to "experts" and "the science" th
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by baumy 5y ago
> What in modern society (or even this website) makes you think it's only 40 hours? The jobs I've held for the entirety of my so-far 8 year career, where I can count on my hands the number of times I've worked more than 40
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by baumy 5y ago
I feel very confident saying that there are lots of software jobs paying in the ~150k range (particularly for people with at least a couple years of experience, which you clearly have) that rarely if ever require more than 40 hours per week
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by baumy 5y ago
I've been wanting to build a new desktop with a 5950x ever since it came out, and have been completely unable to find anybody who has it in stock except for scalpers at a 30%+ markup. This is fairly well known information.
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by baumy 5y ago
Gonna take this opportunity to shill for my favorite keyboard ever, the UHK: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/product/trackpoint There's that module, and also a trackball and small touchpad one that attaches ne
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by baumy 5y ago
35 Celsius = 95 Fahrenheit for my fellow yanks. That seems like a pretty extreme line to draw for "when do I need AC". I don't know about you, but the indoor temperature above which I start wanting AC is around 72-75F, or ~23

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