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by danjac 5y ago
It comes with the adrenalin rush. Similar addiction some have to extreme sports, or people who shoplift even when they have plenty of money. I heard that in Iceland after the 2008 financial crash wiped out the banks traffic accidents went w
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Lol the phrase "we're fighting to change it from the inside" sounds like every student socialist who gets a job in the bank after graduation. You have the moral backbone of a jellyfish and you're doing it for the sweet s
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Unless they have significant savings and/or some passive income, or they don't have family and can live with their parents or adopt a very frugal lifestyle, they will find their focus distracted by worries over everyday things lik
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More likely due to long-term export, supply chain and hiring issues.
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Sure, maybe, but building that "something else" isn't trivial, is prone to the same problems as Facebook, and even if it were not, would not appear overnight.
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> you're responsible for deployment of your app, so you can use whatever you want, but you're responsible for it. What happens when you leave the project?
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> The immutability makes it impossible to redact or remove information, even if that information is encrypted. If that's the case, does it not run foul of GDPR?
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I know a lot of immigrants/expats and Facebook is pretty much the one thing they have to keep in touch with family and friends back home. Personally I loathe the company and would be happy if some fatal DNS or other issue took it down
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by danjac 5y ago
Given that Facebook was originally conceived as a way to compare female students in a "Hot or Not" list, there is no conscience to be found, just a black hole. A database company for example could be run by ruthless salespeople (s
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by danjac 5y ago
The New York Times may well be junk, but you're not helping your argument with articles from Unherd and Spectator, both notorious "rent-a-quote" right-wing rags of ill repute. Next you'll be quoting Spiked. I've als
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by danjac 5y ago
The NYT does not have an axe to grind with Brexit, an issue for a foreign country. Even when it does have an axe to grind, it's default flex is "to both sides" an issue to the point of parody. Yet even the NYT can see the ele
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That's not what news reports say outside the tame media of the UK's "managed democracy". https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/britain-fuel-cris...
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Well, FB hired Nick Clegg, whose name is a shorthand in British politics for "I will betray all my promises and principles for a paycheck". So maybe they just assume that anyone who goes to work for them is in it for the money and
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by danjac 5y ago
Sadly there's always enough smart sociopaths willing to work for a fat pay cheque or to learn "interesting" tech. "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,"says Wernher
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by danjac 5y ago
> The Renaissance, Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution happened in the propsperous centers of those European countries, in cities that hadn't heard of conquest for a century or more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by danjac 5y ago
Scrum in of itself is not so much a deal, if it just provides a light framework/training wheels for companies transitioning to Agile. Start with 15 minute daily standups and 2 week sprints, for example, but if you work better with a tw
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by danjac 5y ago
The early modern period - Renaissance, Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution - occurred among highly competitive, constantly warring European states.
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History says otherwise. A mass of disfranchised people can stay disenfranchised indefinitely. A ruling class tends to be toppled by some external cause - such as a foreign invasion (e.g. Iraq in 2003) or long-term changes that slowly underm
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by danjac 5y ago
Great! Does that mean fusion is going to be here in just 10 years in the future as opposed to the 20 years in the future it's been for the last 50 years?
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The thing is though that higher pay, at least where I live, entails considerably higher taxes. "Fuck you" money is never going to be a possibility, outside of winning a lottery ticket or coming into an inheritance. Friends/re
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To be totally fair to sales people, it's very, very hard to say "no" when an enterprise customer is dangling a contract in front of your nose that means your company keeps the lights on for another year. But enterprise is rea
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by danjac 5y ago
I remember a conversation with an inexperienced PM, who was still in the mode "we need to add X because a customer asked for it". What I've learned - although I've never had a PM role - is not to blindly just give custom
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by danjac 5y ago
> Having a team you like is nice and all, but owning a house or being able to go on nicer holidays is better. You spend maybe two to four weeks a year on a nice holiday. The rest of the time, for around 8 hours a day minus weekends, you
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Frankly don't care about the investors, they won't go hungry and they should have known better. Endangering the lives of ordinary people though - 10 years isn't enough.
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Some Etruscan words may have found their way into very modern English: - antenna - satellite - people/person - ceremony - serve
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> Vascon and Etruscan survived (and possibly others) How about Finno-Ugric? While the Hungarians only arrived about 1000 years ago, the ancestors of the Finns, Sami and related groups have lived in North-East Europe possibly since the l
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by danjac 5y ago
I'm well aware of when/how Scrum was invented, hence "tinfoil hat". The point was that whatever the origins and intent, Scrum benefits Big Tech (who largely avoid Scrum as per OP) by hobbling smaller competitors who adop
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The tragic thing is that this is just a re-run of history, with the whole "first time tragedy, second time farce" ring. After the Suez Crisis in 1953 it was clear to the British establishment that the US would put its own interest
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My tinfoil hat theory is that Scrum was invented by Big Tech to hobble potential future competitors.
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https://floridanewstimes.com/the-decline-of-heroku-infoworld...

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