beachtaxidriver

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by beachtaxidriver 2mo ago
It'll settle down probably. Just the hallmarks of a newly wealthy society. (within a generation) Give in 2-3 generations the kids will be doing art history stuff.
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by beachtaxidriver 7mo ago
Because the amount of ai slop code from peers and the amount of ai slop emails to read from management has exploded.
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by beachtaxidriver 7mo ago
Yeah I'm with you.
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by beachtaxidriver 7mo ago
As a resident who likes to breathe clean air and drink clean water, none of that seems all that bad. I guess there should be an ability to do this farther from the population centers though.
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by beachtaxidriver 8mo ago
I can't dispute anything the author says. In fact I'm pretty sure he's right in almost all his articles. But man, big tech is a joyless place to work right now.
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by beachtaxidriver 10mo ago
It's true, but do you really trust the AI generated + Nurse Review output more than Organic Nurse generated? In my experience, management types use the fact that AI generated + Nurse Review is faster to push a higher quota of forms gen
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by beachtaxidriver 11mo ago
I know some people like that: the insane nest egg and that security _is_ their quality of life and the blanket they sleep well under. Their current consumption doesn't matter too much to them.
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by beachtaxidriver 1y ago
But it used to. In the post war boom it definitely used to produce enough value to support several people. And we're far wealthier in aggregate now than before, it's just distributed badly now.
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by beachtaxidriver 1y ago
Maybe. But last I checked the trades pay horrible and destroy your body by 40. Every story of the trades pay well is just "be a trades business owner" well okay, but basically every alternative "be a X business owner" pa
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by beachtaxidriver 1y ago
This right here. When Silicon Valley was cheap enough to live in that people could casually start a company in their garage... Then people didn't have to relentlessly optimize for short term comp. Today you have to work at FANG to affo
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by beachtaxidriver 1y ago
Google used to be so un-cheap they had a dedicated ergo lab room where you could try out different keyboards. They eventually became so cheap they blanket paused refreshing developer laptops...
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by beachtaxidriver 1y ago
Exactly. When the average house in urban areas started being around $1M... There is no more truth seeking.
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by beachtaxidriver 1y ago
Lol that was my reaction too, this guy is an asshole. He should just leave.
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by beachtaxidriver 2y ago
Luxury has the same cost of land and utilities. Costs like 15% more and sells for 30% more. Building economy is a losing proposition.
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by beachtaxidriver 2y ago
I read your original post and almost every reasonable person would have paused, but then have written it off as dark humor by someone they didn't know that well. The only reason you might think there were "signs" you should h
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by beachtaxidriver 2y ago
I mean... what do you think human therapists are doing. I'm sure they have empathy and do care for their patients... but it's definitely empathy-for-money too.
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by beachtaxidriver 2y ago
You can downvote it. Many hackernews readers have pretty diverse interests though, and want to hear about both tech and general social issues.
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by beachtaxidriver 2y ago
If you don't mind me asking, how many are you starting with now? Because three is a lot. And if you're starting from 0 or 1 today, I can't imagine you actually want six.
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by beachtaxidriver 2y ago
I see your point. But I think you may be taking it to extremes. A parent can snuggle multiple kids at once, read to multiple kids at once, take multiple kids to the zoo at once, etc. Moreover siblings have their own rich relationships. Havi
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by beachtaxidriver 2y ago
Amen. If the net present value and risk of being a professor paid as well as dealing with corporate B.S. I know which I would do...
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by beachtaxidriver 2y ago
I was also surprised. I think he's off almost exactly a factor of 10.
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by beachtaxidriver 3y ago
"we need to add this one more feature in 2 weeks so I can get promoted" -everyone at the company Loop this for 8 years on a single product.
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by beachtaxidriver 3y ago
Isn't the "miracle" just a persistent unexpectedly higher level of inflation, over a long period of time, doing a soft-default and screwing over long bongholders? That seems like the most painless way out.
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by beachtaxidriver 3y ago
OP mildly exaggerated, but nothing he described is crazy for the expensive parts of California.
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by beachtaxidriver 4y ago
I also think that junior new engineers are less productive remote, because they can't absorb the context and experience of their more senior coworkers. Probably the only group made more productive are senior independent engineers.
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by beachtaxidriver 4y ago
I think family mechanics and accountants do get asked for help. Plumbers maybe a little less. I think there's an accurate perception that IT work is generally air-conditioned and doesn't involve physical danger or sewage, so it&#x
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by beachtaxidriver 4y ago
But... They are. At least the newly arrived ones are.
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by beachtaxidriver 4y ago
The subject of the article killed two men, and is now living on social security and subsidized housing. If I was family of the two killed men I would be furious.
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by beachtaxidriver 4y ago
When middle class people use a government service, the quality goes up.
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by beachtaxidriver 4y ago
If you look at COST it was pretty darn good to be a shareholder too. Somehow they made that work out where all three of them won.

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