bradjohnson

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by bradjohnson 3y ago
It's really not.
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
This is clearly not true if you observe actual real estate and rental prices and as long as we continue to allow corporations to own a majority of development projects, it should be obvious this won't work. The profit incentive doesn&#
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
> The people with remote contracts aren't affected by this. False. I currently work at Amazon and was hired remotely, as per my employment contract, and I've been forced to relocate or resign.
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
SEO optimized turds have been floating to the top of google results for years and google hasn't done anything to effectively combat it. Why would this be something that google would do something about?
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
Personally, I think it's interesting to see federated services get put through the ringer as possible alternatives. Lately there's been a perfect storm of entitlement from corporations (i.e. Twitter and Reddit) over their userbase
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
Why not? Typically users of reddit are subscribed to more than one subreddit, so migration to a single destination that can handle all of those communities seems like an obvious choice. The network effect of many users advocating that their
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
The article tone portrays the critical thinking of a third grader and the confidence of a used-car salesman. I would say that this blog post was worthless, but that would be giving it too much credit.
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
> Then they simply wouldn't set any such goals. Why would they bother risking it? Good. At least then they're not profiting off of the climate crisis while taking no action.
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
I'm referring to the article, not a feature of a product. I consider profiting off of green-washing while simultaneously being one of the biggest contributors to pollution and then silently reneging on your carbon emissions target a &q
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
>It seems pretty clear you are implying we will literally go extinct because of global warming. This is crazy. It's implying that we are sending ourselves towards extinction, just as if you were sending yourself towards obesity by c
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
> Nothing is stopping customers from holding corporations accountable, by taking their business elsewhere if they find a corporation to be unreliable. Nothing except layers of political lobbying, misleading advertising, opaque corporate
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
The visible decisions that I've seen attributed to CEOs range from "absurdly and obviously bad" to "good, until you find out the same decisions are already echoing throughout the industry". It begs the question did
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
There is no basis for the increase in value. Crypto at large is a Ponzi scheme where the increase in amount of suckers buying into it is the sole evidence given for its usefulness. Every stalwart crypto supporter talks out of both sides of
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
There's no such thing as monetary debasement for bank notes as there is no intrinsic value for the physical dollar. If you're saying that inflation in general is bad for the economy, I would encourage you to read this: https:&#x2
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
Useful how? Linking a real-time deflation chart doesn't exactly scream "useful".
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
I'm saying that any knowledge you think might tip the scales in one direction is inconsequential. You will lose money or gain money depending on the will of those with the most stake. It is never a "smart move" to invest in c
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
If red hasn't come up in a while on a roulette table, is it a smart move to bet on red?
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
Not true, but don't let facts get in the way of your kneejerk racism. > The U.S. is leading in global LNG supply growth with an additional 5.9 million tonnes of capacity in 2022, for a total of 80 mtpa. > Norway saw the second-la
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
>If consumers spend more money, then businesses will respond by hiring more workers. That is not how economics works...
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by bradjohnson 3y ago
Most automation of physical jobs didn't happen by dropping a robot into the same situation as a human, but by adapting the environment for automation. I think the essay spends too much time positing that since most times robots can&#x2
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
I don't think it's fundamentally different, and I think you're conflating complexity with randomness.
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
That's true. I think that it is analogous to the discussion of AI limitations. Both of these are tools and are not categorically exclusive. In the case of translation of floating point numbers from base-2 to base-10 we have to make app
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
>The answer in the Javascript console is still a correct answer. It's wrong in the same way that saying 1/1 = 1.0004 is wrong. It's not a matter of chosen precision in that it doesn't make the answer correct when you
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
Primarily, the problem with that is I don't know anywhere that I would choose to spend money that also takes ETH. I also don't really think that what you're describing is good or common. Common: The middleman is still there i
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
> You also ignore the "nonexistent enterprise" bit. What is the enterprise? Cryptocurrencies themselves have no governance or accountability. They don't have any responsibility to continue to exist beyond the efforts of th
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
I really like the idea of going through the list of common warning signs for a Ponzi scheme and still having to weasel around like "well technically if you squint, this one doesn't apply to every cryptocurrency." Unfortunatel
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
Citation needed on the "selling" part.
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
I agree, I think it's mostly framed as something Amazon does to screw over employees by dangling stock they might not ever get a few years out. I'm not even arguing about the other points for the parent of my original comment, but
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
At my last company, the stock price when I joined was at $150/share, it rose to over $200/share and crashed to under $30/share by the time my initial vesting date came. I lost six figures of expected TC based on my original o
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by bradjohnson 4y ago
Disclaimer: I currently work for Amazon but I would argue that their vesting schedule is their strongest selling point, especially in the current market. If you got into Amazon relatively recently, you're in a strong position for your

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