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by billy99k 3y ago
The vax doesn't prevent you from getting covid. Everyone I know that was vaxxed (including me) has gotten covid multiple times, some severely. Now it's impossible to actually know if it does anything to help. The more likely sce
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by billy99k 3y ago
"But why would women choose a sector where the numbers indicate they aren’t welcome?" I've known many women that got into STEM and dropped out. Why? Most don't want to sit in front of a computer all day without social i
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corruption at all levels of the government
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Why would I want to do that? With ever-changing technology, keeping yourself intentionally behind will probably hurt your future job prospects. You won't be able to relate to younger employees (which helps pass interviews) and many c
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by billy99k 3y ago
"thanks to an $80 cleaning fee, a $66 service fee, and additional taxes" Instead of blaming capitalism, why not point the real culprit? The government. AirBnb was great, until the hotel industry lobbied the government to drive A
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by billy99k 3y ago
not me. I've worked at multiple places where I've warned my manager (and people higher in the company) about a potential disaster scenario...which was ignored. The disaster, in some shape or form, eventually came to pass. I then
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by billy99k 3y ago
With this kind of thinking, people got arrested and investigated for being in the city that day (based only on google location data) without participating in the riots. We need more humans and less tech.
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Some friends of mine bought an electric car, thinking they could go on a road trip about 80 miles away with us (it was fully charged before they left). They weren't calculating the weight of other things they brought in the car for the
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by billy99k 3y ago
first at 37, second at 40. It's tough, but I love every minute of it. Wouldn't have it any other way.
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by billy99k 3y ago
I work in a non-tech related field as a consultant and my company had one of its best years during Covid. We have since been acquired (also during Covid) and it doesn't look like anything is slowing down soon.
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by billy99k 3y ago
I met most of my close friends (about 20 people) in my mid 20s (I'm in my 40s now). I created a meetup group and ran it for almost 10 years. People would come and go from the group and eventually, a solid group of friends (and my spo
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by billy99k 3y ago
I made this same mistake when I first started out as a developer (forgot the where in a sql statement on production). Both times, we had backups and could easily restore all of the corrupt records. I haven't made that mistake again (
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by billy99k 3y ago
This is the case in every society throughout human history.
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"Their boss looks down and sees Director managing 30 people and getting amazing result X, where X is 90% the effort of the one super star." This is interesting because it was my experience in school as well. In most group projects
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by billy99k 3y ago
I've also had a bad experience with Delta flight attendants. I've come to the conclusion that they are authoritarians with no other power in their lives. I flew with my wife and two kids a few months ago. We had tickets for the
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by billy99k 3y ago
Bitcoin speculation. Like most other people.
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This has to be violating their service agreement.
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by billy99k 3y ago
I ran my own company for 10 years and when my revenue dropped to the point where I needed to get a job, I ended up consulting as a happy medium. I don't have to deal with the majority of the bullshit a regular job entails and I can s
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You need a job that allows it. Once you have this, it's easy.
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by billy99k 3y ago
It stopped being useful to me a couple of months ago. My guess is that corporate figured out that they can dumb it down for the average person and rent out the better versions to the people with the deepest pockets. Most likely governm
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It's because these companies over-hired during the pandemic.
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by billy99k 3y ago
patio11 is smart, but I never understood the attention he got as an entrepreneur. He had a bingo card creator, which barely netted enough to survive in almost any US city (He would frequently post his stats during the JOS/BOS days), a
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by billy99k 3y ago
You can say 'good riddance', but this just means when you get laid off, it will be harder to find a job, because the only companies around are the large/established tech companies.
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by billy99k 3y ago
If you kill someone. Intentional or not, you will most likely serve jail time. are you telling me that if all vehicles were driver-less, there would cease to be any sort of jail time for any death-related to an accident?
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..Because they're dead.
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I think the problem is that you picked an idea that requires you to be overly-social for it to succeed, and you are an introvert.
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"Probably the human behind the wheel that failed to properly act as a line of defense against faulty computer decision making. We don't send Boeing engineers to jail when autopilot crashes a plane" But most airplanes still ha
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by billy99k 3y ago
The problem is that it's not a person driving, it's a vehicle that's property of a company. If that vehicle kills someone, the company is responsible. Who goes to prison? The company owners? CEO? Vehicle engineer(s)? upd
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by billy99k 3y ago
Same here. I've had really simple pieces of code in production for a decade with no issue.
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by billy99k 3y ago
I thought all of these companies were bankrupt. I haven't seen electric scooters like this in at least 3 years.

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