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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
This is a proven trend that's happened in multiple fields. It's not about the gender of your individual coworkers, it's about the relative prestige of a field. When women become more prevalent the credential or field becomes
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
This is the point of dialectical materialism - before the 8 hour workweek there was an even longer work day with worse conditions. The people born into those circumstances struggled against capitalists (in the sense of people who have capit
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I'm not sure if I understand your point, but the point is there's a kind of credentialing treadmill where once women get into a particular field or class of institution it loses prestige and men flee to alternatives which become m
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
The trend among men, sadly, is a flight from higher education. It used to be a status symbol, but since more women are entering STEM fields men are increasingly looking for alternative credentials like bootcamps. This is a common phenomenon
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Individual self-reliance and coping only goes so far. I think OP's thesis is that this is a larger cultural issue of capitalism increasingly squeezing every once of joy out of people's lives, and demanding more labour from fewer p
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
It depends on the context! Trying to Americanize Godzilla, for instance, has largely failed because Godzilla is an allegory for the unique horror of nuclear bombing which Japan experienced. Making him just a lizard that walks through New Yo
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
TFA says most of the injured people were wearing pads and they went head-first over the handlebars. Reading between the lines, it sounds like they landed on their heads and the forces on their spine caused injury. Much like CTEs in football
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Does this even rise to the level of parody? This is just... A thing. Just kinda lying to people and then saying gotcha.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Bundy apologists in the wild? Insane.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Such an insane paperclip optimizing way of thinking. The marginal cost to serve static content is very low as well - if they really didn't want to pay anything they could give it to a third party.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
There's nothing shallow about it. Companies don't make "levelling up" worthwhile unless you have your ego invested in your title in an unhealthy way. If you hang out at senior+/staff level you can just plug away unt
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
> Your job working at startup is to get into that group and be one of the boys. First step: be a man. No but seriously in my experience this is a pre-requisite.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
FDR doesn't make the cut?
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
It takes a diversity of tactics to overcome an adversary as entrenched as the pharmaceutical industry. I don't believe in their wild "one day everyone will manufacture their own medication" BS, but it's valuable to keep
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I wonder if people who are "invested" in cryptocurrency are more susceptible to these kind of scams. There's a strong aspect of FOMO in getting people to buy imaginary internet money, and also in getting them to panic and fum
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Besides the antitrust issue, this also creates a perverse incentive for Amazon to "lose" consigned products and then pay the cost, then resell them at full price.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
For a greenfield project that's fine - solve the issues that come up as they come. Someone is getting value right away. Code you throw away makes the most sense to me for prototyping cross-cutting features in existing systems. A lot of
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Contracting as a solo dev is taking on sales and marketing as well as development. You have to charge accordingly. But you also have to be comfortable doing all of those roles, or else you won't have any work.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Wait, so if you cut out the middleman, doctors would make more money keeping people alive and the government would pay for it? Huh that's the opposite of "death panels". Meanwhile private insurers definitely deny coverage to
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
This is extremely sad and I'm sorry for Suchir's family and friends. As someone who has struggled with suicidal ideation while working in the tech industry for over a decade, I do wonder if the insane culture of Bay Area tech has
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I mean if you replace "taxes" with "profits" you have the current American healthcare system. Condemning people to die from a lack of treatment in order to save on profits.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
This is true even for non-consultants. If you're the only person who understands The Thing you're in for a world of hurt because whenever it breaks it's your problem. I've been at companies where I rearchitected a piece
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
The point of TFA is that you won't have any doctor very soon.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
This is like saying "I got kicked off a plane so I bought a Civic and bolted a wing on the back". Cloud front is doing all the heavy lifting and you're not really getting data center level reliability.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Such a sign of the world we live in that restoring a old building raises a billion dollars, but we somehow can't afford to house people who are freezing to death in the streets.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I would want to have at least dev + prod clusters, sometimes people want to test controllers or they have badly behaved workloads that k8s doesn't isolate well (making lots of giant etcd objects). You can also test k8s version upgrades
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
You can find jobs developing apps for internal workflows. It doesn't pay as well as Silicon Valley startups with fancy technology. Honestly if you can get testing, build and deploy right you've solved 90% of the problems in any co
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
We've been through this song and dance before. AI researchers make legitimately impressive breakthroughs in specific tasks, people extrapolate linear growth, the air comes out of the balloon after a couple years when it turns out we co
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
At the end of my 5 year computer engineering degree, one of the groups had nothing to show for their industry project. They had written an Android app with MySQL credentials hard-coded into it, and on the school's network they couldn&#
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Putin and Xi's big advantage over the US is that American presidents get elected every 4 years. If they gradually encroach on their neighbors and make intervention unpopular in the US via propaganda they don't need to attack a US

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