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by d0lph 9y ago
By live better parent commenter almost certainly meant make more money. Even if luxuries are not cheaper, food, shelter, healthcare etc. are, freeing up more monies.
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It is not, shockingly, racism does need to involve race. Nor do I think my nation is the greatest, and all the others suck. So I don't think it counts as nationalism.
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The majority of offshore developers I have worked with have been from South America, India, and Eastern Europe.
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Are offshore developers not being payed competitively to their local rates?
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How bad should I feel exactly? Is this equivalent to murder? Had we foregone some luxury many could be saved from starvation. I don't even really disagree, but the weight of the burden you assume responsibility over is very great. Why
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by d0lph 9y ago
And I think realizing these differences is maybe helpful somehow, but here is the reality: > In that sense it feels perversly exploitative and priveleged to make so much more money ... It seems to be more useful for shaming people. >
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To be honest I thought it was common knowledge, but I assume there exists no such study of code quality between countries.
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Not at all denying the existence of low quality programmers in the US, but generally it seems like there is a focus on quality that does not exist for the majority of offshore developers, just about churning out code as fast as possible.
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by d0lph 9y ago
I would imagine among most companies the cheapest option is not the one they go with. It's not a new business concept, cheapest thing is not usually what you want. I would also be curious what the relative salaries are, e.g. food and s
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by d0lph 9y ago
Great example, very representative. Largest global tech company vs. your average offshore developer.
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I speak primarily from experience.
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This is why people don't like the concept of privilege, it seems almost built to shame people for having more due to circumstances.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Offshore developed code is not usually the same quality. Not that we all deserve huge salaries, but code quality important.
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by d0lph 9y ago
I'm intrigued by the 'possibly never will be' part, any references or reading on that?
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In spite of the name, North Korea is a dictatorship.
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Actually a republic is a type of democracy.
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I think it is actually, you see, the elections and such.
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Why?
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I would imagine losing money usually causes people to learn.
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How so? The market is just what people are willing to pay isn't it? Do you think the precious metal markets are wrong?
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by d0lph 9y ago
"Real" languages use "=" and "==" ;) Was unfamiliar with the minefield of bash issues, still, I do like the -eq operator, even if bash implements it poorly.
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by d0lph 9y ago
I actually kind of like it, powershell also has -eq, and there's no chance of mixing up assignment and equality operators.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Although that was the central point, they did a lot more than just default the browser. IMO I don't think bundling a browser in and of itself is anti competitive. "Underlying these disputes were questions over whether Microsoft al
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by d0lph 9y ago
Because probably for most people UFO means flying saucer.
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Why is this arrogance instead of ignorance?
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Those things aren't very similar.
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True, but imagine if these drones handled food/grocery/retail delivery, the amount of cars on the road would drop immensely. As long as the tradeoff is 1 car -> 1 drone.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Well, yes, it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus
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Because they aren't picking and choosing who lives and dies, who is sick and healthy, they're deciding how to spend their money to help people, not on something that would give them more selfish enjoyment. Not sure how you spin th
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by d0lph 9y ago
OC is moreso talking about taxes as a concept.

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