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by cardosof 5y ago
In 2018, the 26 richest people in the world held as much wealth as half of the global population (the 3.8 billion poorest people), down from 43 people the year before. https://www.un.org/en/un75/inequality-bridging
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by cardosof 5y ago
Some people just want to build CVs, not products.
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Inequality is something we can measure to some degree and it seems to be rising fast.
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Google is a media company. You can call it tech or adtech, it will never hide the fact that they want to get your eyeballs to look at the highest paying ad with the minimum effort. And they want to keep running this operation with the least
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by cardosof 5y ago
Would investors pour their money if they were more conservative and said something along the lines of "look, this is a very complex subject driven by and for humans, we should hire a bunch of non-technical people with relevant industry
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by cardosof 5y ago
I don't understand why lab leak isn't, like, the first or most important investigative line. It's just a matter of asking and checking - thoroughly - every person and every machine involved with the lab in that timeframe. Aft
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I honestly hope you're wrong but damn that and its development would be something interesting to see.
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Yes and Google too shall pass.
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by cardosof 5y ago
You're right - in my experience it's great for, say, creating an online calculator/simulator for something specific but it too fast becomes difficult when you started trying to add features like SSO, persistence etc.
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by cardosof 5y ago
This certainly is true depending on the industry. In ad tech for example, countless companies claim they're using AI to optimize digital campaigns in real time or whatever, when it's just a "dump Google analytics into Google
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by cardosof 5y ago
I too quit playing catch up with MS no code stuff - they change so much it's definitely not "fast iteration", it's "throw everything and see what sticks".
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Folks bashing PHP like it's crap but praising any crappy thing if it's built with an esoteric lisp-based language. I mean, if you're starting out, chances are you're better off with js/py or even go but in the end y
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by cardosof 5y ago
I believe the opposite: with more responsibilities life is more meaningful and therefore less prone to suicidal ideation. Not saying that having children is the cure for severe depression, though - just saying that if you had thought about
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> The deeper I look into the shipping process the more complex and grift-oriented it seems to get. If you don't like what you see, then you shouldn't look into advertising and ad tech.
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no-code works and has been working for a long time now, depending on how you define it. Think of all the web site builders, young and old, and all the things they helped non technical people achieve. The difference now is that the tech is b
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This is bad for us users because we will get less information and won't know what contents are being rejected and what's being accepted. This is good for their ad business department because more users will click on play, increme
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by cardosof 5y ago
Half of American kids have lead in their blood[1] and I don't think this is only happening in the US. I don't think governments are inclined to fixing this either. [1] https://futurism.com/neoscope/half-americ
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The Most Accurate Hacking Scene Ever (2015)(youtube.com)
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git is one of those things that are so popular and accepted as the true way that questioning its use makes you look like an idiot but, in reality, many devs would benefit from a simpler version control system, one not intended to handle arg
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by cardosof 5y ago
Just wanted to mention that this is getting harder and harder - companies will just let you use their approved hardwared, full of monitoring software to keep you in line. And it will get much worse, as in Mana by Marshall Brain
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Non-US citizen here: is Fauci at risk of losing his job due to these horrible treatments to animals or due to (I'm not sure if it's proven) funding of gain of function at Wuhan? I'm not sure this is the right place to ask thi
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by cardosof 5y ago
Congrats! That's very inspiring.
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I believe there are two kinds of colleges, the Rich Kids Daycare (RKD) and the Trade & Professional Formation (TPF). RKD doesn't always have a ROI, but it doesn't need to - people attending those are usually very rich. They ju
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by cardosof 5y ago
Anyone using Evernote, can share their opinions? I use it for saving text stuff and writing, but I'm curious if it works well for daily plans.
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Pokemon GO was a hit because of Pokemon, not be because of AR. Players will use the AR feature one time and then disable it and play like there's no AR in the app at all.
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This comment is a refreshing take on what real work looks like - thanks for sharing.
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It seems to me they're not evaluating the pair {problem, solution}, they're evaluating the pair {problem, founder} - the solution may be changed and tweaked and not be special but the founder has to be special, and carefully desig
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Everything was possible, and some of the brightest minds of our time took the opportunity to mine eyeballs.
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If you strap sensors to people and have their eyeballs inside a box full of sensors and lenses, imagine all the data you'll have for better targeting and advertising insights!
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You can buy old hardware and have the whole vintage web experience!

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