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by billy99k 2y ago
The alternative is to start your own company or start consulting. I've been doing this for over a decade and make great money compared to a salaried employee. Doing this has also made me realize that development is only a small part of
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UK is #23, so it's not like there aren't other well-developed countries on the list.
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Sure, maybe in 50 years. At the moment, it's a productivity tool. Strangely, by the look of the down votes, the HN community doesn't quite understand this.
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I already started incorporating AI into my workflow. It's definitely helped with productivity. At some point in the future, if you aren't using AI, you won't be able to compete in the job market.
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I remember reading about these automated store businesses on a marketing forum. I did something like this myself in 2009. I would use my own software to find arbitrage opportunities on other websites (and also cancel listings when they were
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by billy99k 2y ago
Interestingly enough, the EU has imposed tariffs in the past, and it never made national news or linked on HN: -Airbus-Boeing Dispute (2019-2024): Stemming from a long-running WTO case over subsidies, the EU imposed tariffs on $4 billion of
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Any time a manager has tried to rigidly use scrum, things fell apart quickly. I think it can work, but you need to tailor it to each situation/product.
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AI won't replace humans at the moment, but it does make humans more productive. I've personally increased my productivity by many % after integrating AI into my workflow.
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We are supposed to believe 'rivals'? When deep seek came out, the press (and many in the tech community) believed the hype with no proof. When it finally came out that the initial claims were false, everybody just moved on. What a
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It has nothing to do with the product/company itself and everything to do with emotion/opinion. It's probably a good time to buy.
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Why? Many are reporting losses. Do you expect them to pay taxes on something other than profit?
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It's because the people that lied about the pandemic and vaccines never got punished and we just went on with our day. People's lives got ruined and we seriously had people saying that parents refusing to get their children vaccin
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"The famed mantra of the liberal left in the early months of the pandemic – trust the science – has faded from view, as hero worship ceases for the bureaucrat scientists (Anthony Fauci) and even for the pharmaceutical behemoths that de
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My director demanded we integrate AI into our processes, with no explanation at the beginning of the year. 10 bullshit meetings later, he now states that it's 'mostly hype'.
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...Or they're lying because they don't want to get attacked by domestic terrorists. There is a difference.
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This just confirms that companies over hired during the pandemic and are now cutting jobs back to those levels.
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One option is to find a job that has legacy work. A good place to look is a non-tech company. IE: a company that might use tech to run the business (which you will support), but tech isn't their main product. These companies tend be us
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They are so greedy, it didn't take me much effort to run a successful phishing campaign against multiple scammers a few years ago, when I got bored.
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"But most underpaid civil servants, teachers, nurses or police officers chose their work" Why are we conflating jobs in the federal government that are wasting our money with actual useful jobs. They aren't currently being cu
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by billy99k 2y ago
Most people don't want change and re-training for even simple things like a ribbon location change in MS office takes time and money.
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"My impression is actually that if shops weren't forced to accept USD, 100% would still do so." Kind of like the crypto pump and dump scams that we see daily. Who wouldn't want to create their own currency? It would even
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I would agree to this if we also displayed the amount going toward taxes.
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by billy99k 2y ago
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-... I will leave this here. I wish I could pin it. It's also very disingenuous to proclaim that the economy is 'terrible' a
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by billy99k 2y ago
because it is. Anyone who spends 5 minutes on Reddit knows this has become code for violence over the last few months.
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I don't work full-time for startups, because of this. I was contracting for a startup last summer for about 6 months. They paid really well, but after researching the company, they were on their 3rd round of funding. The estimated year
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Well, it worked for Twitter. Lots of people screamed that Twitter would implode withing 6 months, after the massive cuts. There was some scrambling for a while, but I haven't noticed any issues. In fact, they've added tons of new
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by billy99k 2y ago
I think hell for me would be stuck in Academia when I retire.
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The Left is always violent when they don't get their own way.
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Chinese propaganda has been happening for much longer. However, whenever it's brought up on sites like HN, it's down voted or 'racism' is in the reply. Most likely people with pro-China sentiment or actually people hired
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Does putting sanctions on Russia make sense in your scenario?

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