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by billy99k 1y ago
"Charm and generosity mixed with a grand vision attract followers while psychopaths still consolidate power. Divide and conquer by rewarding insiders and demonizing outsiders. Remove regulation and control the flow of information. Rule
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exactly. I've been a consultant for a large company for 7+ years. We had a very large conversion project and I am the subject matter expert on one of the internal systems involved. My effort during the launch was minimal, because I kne
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"but it doesn't feel like when I was in college and hung out with a crew of 10+ people on a weekly basis. " I'm in my 40s and in my 20s (shortly after college), I created a meetup group and regularly met with a group of
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"looking for work but can’t find full-time employment, as well as those stuck in poverty-wage jobs, according to CBS News." If you have a 'poverty-wage job', you are employed. If you are working part-time, you are still
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by billy99k 1y ago
I think the solution is to pay more, so you don't have to watch commercials at all.
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I would love if this happened to me, so I could get a C2 installed on their computer and break the entire back-end operation for fun.
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Funny how copyright infringement has made a come back in AI and it's somehow a bad thing. What happened to all of the pirates fighting for our right to not pay for anything?
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"If the mRNA-based covid shots produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech represented the cutting edge of vaccine technology, applying ultra-sophisticated approaches never before seen in an inoculation, the approach by Taubenberger and Me
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by billy99k 1y ago
It's been like this for awhile now. Aside from companies like Google and Facebook, most companies are using some CRUD web app where the development consists of gluing code together for multiple third-party services and libraries. It&#x
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by billy99k 1y ago
I argued this point in the early 2000s when Richard Stallman was seen as a god in the software community and tried to convince everyone that this would be the new business model for software. The same could be said about copyrights/pat
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10 year breaks? Good luck getting back to your old career.
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Good. This is the #1 way to prevent climate change.
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"Elon Musk had already turned Twitter into a right-wing echo chamber since purchasing it in 2022" I disagree. I look at this frequently and Twitter has right and left wing posts pretty equally. Many people think it's a '
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I'll believe it when I see it.
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I used to be in the book business. We would constantly see students and other sellers try to pass off Indian editions as the regular edition, and charge full price. When I was in college, I made the mistake of buying an Indian edition for a
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by billy99k 1y ago
I always liked the take-home project interviews where you had to come back after completing the project and answer questions about why you used certain things/methods/etc. If a candidate had AI code it for them, I don't think
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by billy99k 1y ago
Twitter already revolutionized it. Freedom of speech with community notes for you to check. Bluesky is more of the same authoritarianism that we saw with Twitter, before Musk bought it. This isn't good for democracy or freedom. Everyon
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Spirit and morality don't work so well in the business world. Cut them off and make them pay. Why are you still supporting them?
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by billy99k 1y ago
The timing on the sale was genius. Similar to Mark Cuban with Broadcast.com. I guess it's best to sell something before the value plummets to 0. As far as its demise? AI ate its lunch. I use to use Stack Overflow all the time and haven
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Good luck. I've gone through a project like this. After the 5th failed attempt over 3 years, we finally have a partially new system in place with > 50% of the users still relying on the old system for some things. The Director got h
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by billy99k 1y ago
I think everyone should be getting at least familiar with chatGPT/AI, because it's here to stay. However, "Ms. Stapleton decided to do some digging. She reviewed her professor’s slide presentations and discovered other tellta
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by billy99k 1y ago
I know many software engineers in their 50s that refused to become managers. One layoff after 50 and most of them had to change careers because many companies don't want to hire 50-something engineers, but will hire a manager. On top o
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by billy99k 1y ago
UBI might work in the short-term, but as more and more people are having kids (and learning from parents on UBI, to also get UBI), we would run out of people actually working and paying the taxes to support it.
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This isn't my experience at all. When most companies pick a framework/technology, they usually stick with it for a long time (until some other circumstance forces them to change). I could see startups blowing through VC money doin
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I suppose it depends on the engineer doing the fire fighting. Most of the time, I've been the one cleaning up the mess from a previous engineer. I have the skills to fix the issues and get it shipped (and also build it right the first
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He gets death threats every day and you are shaming him for putting up a large wall? The level of evil I've seen against Musk and Tesla lately is astounding.
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I think this is a good idea. It keeps the troops motivated (especially 20-something men). Now, if Russia was doing this? There would be protests in the streets. It's amazing the kind of behavior people will accept when it comes to peop
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If it's a good school. Why not?
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I like the gamification aspect. It keeps me using it daily.
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I feel like some of these changes already happened. I've been using it for 3+ years now and my listening practice over the last couple of weeks changed from words that I recognized, to a completely new set of words/sentences at tw

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