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by fsociety 5y ago
Don’t worry Chamath doesn’t work at Stripe so we’ll be good.
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by fsociety 5y ago
My experience was the exact opposite. Startup couldn’t afford for me to work in anything but a niche space. FAANG had me working on literally everything. There are exceptions, FAANG can have incredibly specialized roles. I just think that g
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by fsociety 5y ago
This is likely the truth, code blindly extracts metadata from the photos without being aware of the privacy permissions. Doesn’t excuse it but outlines that a developer can have good intent but bad outcomes.
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by fsociety 5y ago
You come off as making an ad hominem attack, saying that this information is trivial and if the replier can’t find it then they shouldn’t be commenting on the subject. If it is true that iOS’s permission model is done on the App Store leve
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by fsociety 5y ago
I agree with your characterization but don’t think that it makes him insufferable or have questionable motives. He’s authentic to himself and shows it on YouTube warts and all. Have to respect that. Take his videos as 50-75% opinion and it’
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by fsociety 5y ago
Then they will either adapt or be pushed out for managers who don’t need to micromanage and foster trust and responsibility.
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by fsociety 5y ago
Do you think fiat can’t do that?
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by fsociety 5y ago
Cardano contracts won’t be released until August.. optimistically.
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by fsociety 5y ago
Lots of people do. When I joined Facebook, I received several death threats from someone in my circle and routinely get called morally bankrupt on the internet. I’ve also had encounters with individuals where they shun me after learning I w
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by fsociety 5y ago
Not to mention the privacy concerns of allowing someone else’s machine to proxy all of your web requests.
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by fsociety 5y ago
It doesn't sit right with me that a comment here was flagged for saying that there are a bunch of white guys in here complaining about this. It is worth sitting down and thinking about why some people feel attacked when reading an arti
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by fsociety 5y ago
It is so people can express themselves with emojis that represent their own skin color. Seems important, no?
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While I agree, I think at the same time companies prioritize engineers to work as fast as possible, so no slack time means no time to deeply learn the product.
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by fsociety 5y ago
I never said "Tech" isn't political, or that "I'm just an engineer somebody else is in charge". Both are true and we best take time to think of the moral implications of our work. What I am saying, is that you
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by fsociety 5y ago
Facebook contributes a ton to the Linux and Python communities as well, by this logic you shouldn’t use either. Thinking that infrastructure engineers have direct influence over the product is wrong. Instead they work at Facebook because it
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by fsociety 6y ago
To your point paper production is a wasteful process, I’ve heard figures of 10-20L of freshwater are used per one piece of A4 paper in addition to transportation costs and running a pulp mill. Pulp mills produce waste as well. The phone has
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by fsociety 6y ago
Ha placing homeless people on mass into very small towns doesn’t help. My small town had a major influx of homeless from the big city and we didn’t have the resources or opportunities to help them. Also you seem to be responding to things t
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by fsociety 6y ago
I sleep well at night knowing our ads are safer. Thank you.
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by fsociety 6y ago
Unless you really value the company, people, execs, and mission there I’d keep your head down and start interviewing elsewhere. If you do really like it, I think there is a risk when bringing it up but you should be able to find a compromis
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by fsociety 6y ago
I’d take it any day over the gross conditions animals are raised and butchered in. I’m not a vegetarian but am unbelievably excited for this to become normal place. It’s many years over due.
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by fsociety 6y ago
Idk sample size of 1, I’ve seen Cloud SQL almost bring a startup to death with issues. We wanted to move to AWS but migrating the data was too cost/time/risk prohibitive. The support engineer was helpful but ultimately the issues
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by fsociety 6y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/249740/percentage-of-hou... That link says 40% say they own a gun. Regardless, you want to ask how many people who are pulled over have guns in their car. Potentially it is high
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by fsociety 6y ago
Think of it less as n-dimensional in meat space and more of n-dimensional in how it functions.
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by fsociety 6y ago
This so hard. I’m fearful when I hear things like Java being under hyped. Do people think this is the pinnacle of what software development is today? I think it’s made worse by the fact that you can program in another language, in a shitty
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by fsociety 6y ago
The candid answer, from reading your post and especially replies, is that you come across as a bit entitled and likely get denied job opportunities because of how you communicate. That might be good news, because you don’t have to change yo
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by fsociety 6y ago
They are now Bright Data, I’ve anecdotally heard sketchy shit can happen on their proxies. Scary stuff.
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by fsociety 6y ago
Privately sold 15% of their supply for 80 cents, they are currently selling the remaining supply for around ~$60 today on their site - was 85% of supply now is allegedly around 50%. Moxie was the CTO for MobileCoin according to their first
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by fsociety 6y ago
I agree that the "West" is in a decline, and I'm hopeful we can get out of it. The issue I have with these articles is that it suggests the "West" has always ruled the world, when reality is a bit different. The US
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by fsociety 6y ago
Yep we are completely insufferable, now let us be :)
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by fsociety 6y ago
It’s a privilege to get to say that the existing (fiat) financial system does a lot of good. Yes, it is a core part of our society but it is cruel. The government, ultimately, makes this worse. Perhaps we will see this change, only time wi

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