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by friedman23 4y ago
How is capitalism the issue here? Under what system can people without ability to contribute magically gain the ability to contribute? Capitalism means literally everything to everyone, it's absurd at this point.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Ok, so when do historical victims stop being victims and stop being treated like victims?
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by friedman23 4y ago
Do type related programming bugs include null pointer errors? I also think this 2% stat is just complete bs. Anyway, this debate is over. Absolutely every top language designer has seen the merit of statically typed languages, if not for av
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by friedman23 4y ago
> so please update me on what you know here and on what you think we should have as policy. > on another note, it seems silly to have both firefox and safari. perhaps there is some unificaiton strategy that we can get these two to pu
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by friedman23 4y ago
I feel like that's a terrible use of their capital if all they are trying to do is just not screw things up. I'm not a shareholder but if I were I'd rather have my money returned to me than have it spent on a bunch of project
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by friedman23 4y ago
Amazing
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by friedman23 4y ago
> “Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time” Isn't Google's software engineering culture kind of a joke right now? I've spoken to multiple ex-Googlers and they tell me they leave because e
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by friedman23 4y ago
The Larry Ellison remarks are written with a lot of sarcasm.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Yes, that's the common refrain, just migrate when you hit scale. Just pay people to do the migration. My experience at multiple, billion dollar companies has been that it's never that easy. People become afraid of doing schema mig
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by friedman23 4y ago
Happy to find this blog, wish there was more talk about NewSQL databases. I've personally seen the amount of cost that goes into migrating off of traditional RDBMs systems to sharded RDBMs systems and was wondering why people don'
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by friedman23 4y ago
It's not just lithium and none of this is as simple as you imagine it to be.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Funny enough I think it's actually undervalued now. Tesla has bought up all the mining rights for the minerals required to ramp up battery production and will likely be the only EV manufacturer that's not supply constrained for th
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by friedman23 4y ago
Building good onboarding is not easy and it's quite tedious work. It's also extremely important work that is frequently ignored because of how tedious and thankless it is. Why is it important? Onboarding is the single place in a p
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by friedman23 4y ago
Ok, so you think being in a bubble with people that agree with you is worth 16% of your income a year. Meaning if you work 30 years you need to work 4.8 years longer to retire. This doesn't take into account investment returns.
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by friedman23 4y ago
I think overall taxes are undercounted in California because the state taxes absolutely everything. California has the highest income tax and highest sales tax in the US. Throw in the grocery bag taxes, and all the other random taxes in t
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by friedman23 4y ago
Why do you think I moved there myself? The jobs didn't exist anywhere else. Thankfully that's changing. If you are a valuable employee, one trick you can do is after working at a company for a year ask them to let you work remotel
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by friedman23 4y ago
People are doing the math. If you make enough money in California you pay 10% of your income in taxes. First of all, what do you get from that 10% you pay that don't get in other states with lower or no income taxes? For the people pay
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by friedman23 4y ago
When I was reading Dijkstra's wikipedia page and read that he called himself a programmer I suddenly wanted to start calling myself one.
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by friedman23 4y ago
I want to know why this thing was automatically added to my menu bar
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by friedman23 4y ago
Of course they will be affected if their customers are unprofitable and are forced to cut costs or go out of business.
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by friedman23 4y ago
> Catering to vegetarianism is virtue signaling? Yes, it is. All the stuff you wrote makes 0 sense in the context of what we are discussing, I suspect you are very deep in the bubble. >Was the investment because of “moral beliefs” or
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by friedman23 4y ago
I reject that it's reductio ad absurdum. We do not know the effect of this kind of stimulus on children and how it can affect their development.
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by friedman23 4y ago
The evidence is that an entire class of multi billion dollar companies based on vegetarian and vegan food alternatives exists and they will all go bankrupt or be acquired for pennies on the dollar. So how did VCs get that so wrong other t
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by friedman23 4y ago
ESG as an investment thesis is a sad joke. I wonder how much of the money that was destroyed by investing in oatly was done because of virtue signaling. You couldn't seriously look at projections and think this company would ever be wo
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by friedman23 4y ago
Ah ok, so you are fine with taking your child to Las Vegas and sitting them in front of the slot machine with a handful of quarters? Maybe just give them a small heroin injection too, there's a chance they wont get addicted.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Like I said in another comment, phones and tablets are portable slot machines. Gambling wins over "other interests" every time.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Yep, all these people don't understand they are handing their kids slot machines disguised as harmless kid games. Completely irresponsible.
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by friedman23 4y ago
I tried everything before considering medication. I took every vitamin under the sun, walked 5 to 10 miles a day, lifted weights, did cardio, slept at the same exact time every day, and ate at the same exact time every day. None of it worke
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by friedman23 4y ago
Those databases I mentioned are not NoSQL, they are relational databases.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Can someone explain why I shouldn't just use something like cockroachdb, yugabyte or spanner for my primary database nowadays? I've seen the pain and resources wasted from teams needing to find ways to shard mysql and postgres and

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