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by debt 7y ago
Simple economics: expensive legal prescription drugs drives people to source cheaper alternatives. Unfortunately, the cheaper alternative is also much more lethal. I think there's a narrative that is the opioid crisis is driven by addi
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by debt 7y ago
What's a "reference"? You can enter arbitrary info during a transaction? Genuinely curious. Is this a UK thing or available everywhere?
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by debt 7y ago
Sneakernet is the most future-proof solution. It's impossible to stop by design. It can be discouraged with arrest, but not stopped completely.
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by debt 7y ago
The only way is mesh. It’s the only way to permanently stop it.
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by debt 7y ago
Awesome story. Very touching.
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by debt 7y ago
Maybe unsustainable in the traditional sense, but if they can negotiate contracts with the talent on their platform, that may be a different avenue for profitability. I mean look at the success of Lil Nas X. Highly successful TikTok talent.
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by debt 7y ago
That’s my biggest gripe with stand ups. Management has as much if not more access to all the project management tools the developers do, so if they need a daily standup they should be able to get a sense of what’s going on simply by correct
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by debt 7y ago
“while being paid six figure salaries.“ And that’s still not enough! Think of the value we return to an organization, and we’re only paid six figures. Ya know, you’re allowed to fight for the absolute best working conditions as a worker. Yo
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by debt 7y ago
“This stuff is always highly context dependent” Well I think standups, on average across all possible developer contexts, are useless. To put another way, standups are likely to be useless regardless of context.
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by debt 7y ago
“It help immensely with production as your colleagues often help keep things from falling through the cracks.” But your job as a developer is to not have this happen. It’s nothing something that would be a nice to have, you’re supposed to a
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by debt 7y ago
Yup. This situation is about to get somewhat complicated. Many American C-level execs at many large tech companies are huge pro basketball fans.
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by debt 7y ago
I can save ya even more time and you can just call business software: software. It’s 2019, software is the business. There’s no need for the redundant “business” prepended to it.
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by debt 7y ago
I've recently been very intrigued about executive pay. Because your average work makes like, what, 1/1000 of what an executive makes. But those 1000 workers help that executive earn very high compensation, but then I guess managin
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by debt 7y ago
It's fascinating to watch first hand, management's inability to properly estimate project timelines. I think it's from a lack of really digging in and solving the thousands of tiny problems that eventually add up to solving w
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by debt 7y ago
This thread annoys the shit out of me! What are we talking about?! Y’all are like “man Apple sucks so I develop for Android now” We only have two options?!? That’s fucked up! This is not at all an okay state for software development ecosyst
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by debt 7y ago
“Is he worth that much though?” Of course he is. He is(was) about to help Google make many billions of dollars of which he and his team would only ever see a very small fraction.
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by debt 7y ago
“Levandowski was paid a bonus of $120 million while at Google” God forbid an engineer get paid what he’s actually worth. If anything he should’ve been paid much more . The automobile industry is a multi trillion dollar industry he’d be be
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by debt 7y ago
I'm pretty green but I love how they break things out comma-separated like "Z, Y, X from years C, B, A, respectively" Feels slightly awkward as you have to make the associations in your head(Z to C, Y to B, etc.) but actually
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by debt 7y ago
I absolutely love that they shared the dataset. Hopefully deters future bad actors as the raw data itself will be shared with the greater public and hopefully for greater analysis.
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by debt 7y ago
I think the biggest realization I've ever had is that things take time away. The sensation of procrastination happens when you feel the "thing you need to do" should take some smaller constrained amount of time, usually in da
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by debt 7y ago
When there's this much money floating around, it's not surprising it brings out the worst in people.
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by debt 7y ago
“Our core "business logic" lives in Rust.” Uh oh. So immediately you do understand that you have taken on the risk of potentially being unable to find any good(or bad) Rust engineers in the future, correct? Also they won’t be chea
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by debt 7y ago
YouTube sets the rates it pays creators not the advertisers. A union would require YouTube doesn't arbitrarily change the rates it pays it's creators and also might be able to prevent them from instantly demonetizing videos. A uni
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by debt 7y ago
“Of course, to be honest, the consequences usually fell on a more junior programmer who had to deal with an irate developer that had something unexpectedly stop working when I tore up the code to make it “better”.” Ye people like you kinda
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by debt 7y ago
it blows my mind that people don't understand that c-level people at corporations literally legally cannot have control of their own stock in this capacity. it sells off at predetermine intervals throughout the year set by accountant
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by debt 7y ago
The heart of the problem is that neo-nazi's are secretly compiling lists of opponents they wish to harm.
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by debt 7y ago
Unfortunately for the current administration, it would be cheaper to remove them from office that it would be to comply with their investigation. A future administration may be much friendlier towards tech. Big tech will likely drag this ou
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by debt 7y ago
"Only 7 of them could be reproduced with reasonable effort. For these methods, it however turned out that 6 of them can often be outperformed with comparably simple heuristic methods, e.g., based on nearest-neighbor or graph-based tech
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by debt 7y ago
timing clearly is everything
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by debt 7y ago
Hopefully this is just US-based employee surveillance as this type of employee-data data mining is strictly illegal in Germany.

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