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by billy99k 10mo ago
Who says I only have one client? It's also one of the reasons that it's so difficult to actually start a company in many of these countries, and the economic landscape consists of large multi-national corporations and the governme
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Tech companies already shape elections by intentionally targeting campain ads and political information returned in heavily biased search results. Why are we worried about this now? Because it could sway people in the direction you don&#x27
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by billy99k 10mo ago
I think it's mostly tariffs and the uncertain economy of 2026.
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"Forcing people into working conditions in which they are uncomfortable is only going to harbour resentment towards the company and if you are in a country where workers actually have real rights you will have a hard time firing them.&
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by billy99k 10mo ago
If services are more than $0, piracy will thrive. It is now and has always been justified with these sorts of articles. It's really just an excuse to get free stuff.
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in 99% of the cases I've seen (and experienced), employee equity is diluted with each new round of funding (you have no control over this). It really is a lotto ticket, with the numbers changing every few months, and the chances of win
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by billy99k 10mo ago
Wikipedia is biased in so many ways. Epstein may be laying out his strategy here, but it's no different than politically motivated moderators removing/updating content based on opinions, and not allowing anyone to change it.
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by billy99k 10mo ago
"especially as we won’t work on product marketing for AI stuff, from a moral standpoint, but the vast majority of enquiries have been for exactly that." You will continue to lose business, if you ignore all the 'AI stuff&#x27
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"It’s just the banal idea of if you have “grit” and work really hard, you are somehow guaranteed success" When has anyone ever said this? I can study for a test and still fail, but not studying ever will guarantee failure. "G
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The problem is that because lots of people have a degree now, employers have no problem finding candidates by requiring one. So now, almost all white collar jobs require a degree. You may not ever be able to move into management without one
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by billy99k 10mo ago
Desktop Linux is still clunky and apps break so often with updates, it's not ready for non-tech savvy users. I just don't have the time anymore to waste hours of my day to get apps working, when it just works on windows or mac.
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It's most likely when you have kids/get married.
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I've never understood open sourcing something, but only if I like you. The answer is to have proprietary license that you only give out to select users/companies.
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Sure, but if Bill Gates was a drug addict with no software, there would have been no deal and he certainly wouldn't have been successful. Whenever I see the topic of success, people LOVE to talk about 'survivorship bias' as a
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This is a result of over regulation in the auto industry. I always shake my head at the group of people that wants cheaper prices on goods and services, but propose regulating large companies to death. China is winning because they don&#x27
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HN was supposed to be startup, founder, and business content. Now it's mostly big tech engineers that aren't interested in any of this.
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Social media is really the only place you can get actual news, without the heavy bias of the mainstream media.
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They are growing, because institutions get more funding for it and they keep changing the goal posts. It's very similar to what happened to Autism.
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The UN seems to have no opinion of the freedom of speech being taken away in the UK or the fact that they are now getting rid if the Jury system.
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"subsidized by government contracts" Subsidized implies they are getting free money for doing nothing. It's a business transaction. I wouldn't call being a federal worker being subsidized by the government either.
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So army, police, legal don't benefit you?
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It's already starting to replace Google searching for many people. This is why Google (and other big tech firms) started investing in it immediately. All they need to do is start adding in sponsored results (and the ability to purchase
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by billy99k 11mo ago
Having 10 million and 30 million aren't all that different to the minimum wage workers barely making ends meet.
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by billy99k 11mo ago
The point is that you don't allow vibe coded slop to get into production by having seniors review it first.
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I've been on both sides of it (in a union and working with union members when there was no other choice). They all work the same way. I'm fundamentally against the idea of unions after seeing how they stifle innovation in nearly a
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"In this whole process, people loose a lot of time, some people don’t act their entire lives and are haunted by their inability to act when they were young in their deathbed." This has many spelling and grammar issues. I stopped r
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Being anti-ai means you want to conserve the old ways in favor of new technology. Hardly what I would call 'progressive'.
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How are unions any better than mega corps? My brother is part of a union and the leaders make millions. He's pigenholed at the same low pay rate and can't ever get a raise, until everyone in the same role also gets a raise (which
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If you mean technical debt, this can be prevented with a good senior reviewing all of the code.
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Where I work, we hired a developer that was supposed to be familiar with SQL. It turns out, he can't even write simple queries (and spends 0 time outside of work getting up to speed). The director purchased a subscription to Claude and

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