bob001

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by bob001 8mo ago
Pick up phone (may be in another room), unlock phone, open app, navigate to information in app (often fairly annoying due to modern low information density app design and multiple apps), return to original location. Versus. Just look at scr
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by bob001 8mo ago
That we think have no cost. The massive failure rate of drug trials and some famous cases of issues discovered only after wide scale deployment indicates we're not that great at knowing ahead of time. The body is like legacy spaghetti
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by bob001 8mo ago
If only you had read the article. >There may also be consequences to dialling up the immune system beyond its normal state – raising questions of immune disorders. > Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at the Liverpool Scho
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by bob001 8mo ago
> I smell longterm cancer or similar. Or simply autoimmune reactions which can be devastating.
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by bob001 8mo ago
The job is 99% program management and 1% tech. It’s the government. Anyone focused on tech will burn out in 2 weeks and quit loudly via twitter. You know, like DOGE.
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by bob001 8mo ago
The UK simply puts you in jail for not doing so.
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by bob001 8mo ago
That is again a claim with no backing that can be applied to anything without actual data to back it up. For example. I can just as equally state with the same data to back me up (ie: none as it stands right now) that you are a US governmen
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by bob001 8mo ago
Takeaway is to not enable biometric unlock if you are concerned about your data being accessed by authorities.
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by bob001 8mo ago
Do you disagree with the facts of the article? Or is it propaganda simply because the facts doesn't support your narrative and ideological inclinations?
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by bob001 9mo ago
> Occupy was after the capital class White washing history doesn't change the reality of what the people actually making up the movement wanted. Not what the self-elected spokespeople who had no actual power since there were no lead
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by bob001 9mo ago
For more context: There's also social media posts accusing ptorrone of engaging in harassment campaigns against other people.
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by bob001 9mo ago
I think its also that few companies have a way to allow a 10x individual productivity engineer to focus on just the things they are 10x as good at. It's almost never everything. Once you add in meetings, politics, proposals, perf ladde
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by bob001 9mo ago
"Senior". Looks like you've already made it a tenure and not output based pay system. Which I think proves exactly what people don't like about unions or those who push for them. In an output based system the number of h
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by bob001 9mo ago
I was talking about the good days over the last decade and not now. As someone noted Europe made $50-80k. So around $250-400k. I knew a ton that made that. Basically anyone above junior at a tech company including late stage startups and se
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by bob001 9mo ago
It's not your choice. It's the choice of the average union member.
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by bob001 9mo ago
There are those who can provide 10x output in certain kinds of problems. Either due to experience or however their minds work. If their output is as a tech lead then even a 2x can provide an overall 10x increase through second order impact
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by bob001 9mo ago
There is a large pay disparity. Why wouldn't someone at the 50th percentile vote to have those at the 95th get lower salaries so the 50th percentile goes up a bit?
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by bob001 9mo ago
Unions aren't about what you want them to be about but what the average member wants them to be about. More or less.
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by bob001 9mo ago
> The maximum cap sounds just stupid. Conceptually unions are a democracy and people are selfish. Why should I let some other worker make 10x what I do when I can instead have them make 1x and spread out the other 9x around including to
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by bob001 9mo ago
To me the only question is if there's a hypothetical revolution who will end up swinging in the wind by their neck and I have no doubt many engineers working for big tech would have been in that group. There's always nice rhetoric
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by bob001 9mo ago
Having talked to Occupy Wall Street people at the time I don't think many on the ground differentiated as much as you think they did. I used a generic word because from my experience that is how they saw the world. I got told I deserve
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by bob001 9mo ago
To me you're describing a team with mediocre communication and social skills. That's common but its not all teams. It has everything to do with maturity, motivation and competence. The best teams I've been on didn't care
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by bob001 9mo ago
I disagree. In a company of 5-6 total engineers who are actually self-motivated and competent none of these things matter. If you need stand-ups for people to be aware of work being done then you're bandaid fixing a deeper issue. Same
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by bob001 9mo ago
Engineers were the privileged class. They were part of the group occupy wall street wanted to bring down. Not hard to guess why they didn't want that.
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by bob001 9mo ago
Until recently American engineers made a lot of money at comparatively cushy jobs. A decent engineer in the US could make 5x their equivalent in most European nations. Staff+ engineers at FAANG could make 5x that. People in a good position
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by bob001 9mo ago
I get to solve interesting problems at a large scale with minimal politics or BS with legitimate unlimited PTO so I'd probably stick around. Eventually I might do my own startup or consulting business or some such. I find joy in solvin
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by bob001 9mo ago
I mean, $10m comes out to $400k in year at the 4% rule which is top 2-3% income in the US. And top 1% in Europe. I guess being in the top 1% is barely scraping by nowadays.
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by bob001 9mo ago
If you think the Trump administration wouldn't make up "DEI efforts" and then sue them for much more than $1.5m to exert pressure in other areas then I have a bridge to sell you.