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by gregjor 3y ago
I think a lot more played into the revolutions you listed. Many more countries have lost wars and/or lost significant overseas holdings without political upheaval. The USA lost (or walked away from) multiple wars since WWII with neglig
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Do you think those destabilizing political consequences would turn out worse than the political dysfunction America has already without losing a war? Since America almost certainly won't get attacked or invaded on its own soil, the US
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by gregjor 3y ago
Americans have the least to worry about. Just like the last two world wars, the destruction will most likely happen in Europe and Asia. America doesn't fight wars on its own soil. Widespread nuclear war could happen but that doesn&#x
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by gregjor 3y ago
That seems like a naive reading of the employment rate. A lot of Americans have jobs that don't pay a living wage, and don't have benefits. Many people do gig work to make ends meet. A person who used to have a good-paying manufac
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by gregjor 3y ago
Suppose I accept your statements as true (as if NATO didn't exist). I didn't claim the world has no problems, or that Russia and China won't escalate conflicts with the USA. I asked what good does it do for Americans to worr
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Innovation can create jobs, but at the same time it can displace people from their jobs. Innovation in manufacturing created jobs overseas in places with cheaper labor and less regulation, while eliminating jobs in the USA. AI may do the sa
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by gregjor 3y ago
I no longer live in the US. A Big Mac costs $4 in Thailand, but I can find better burgers for less. More and more Americans are figuring out how they get scammed and ripped off and leaving.
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by gregjor 3y ago
People rarely use encryption for email so it's not a top-level feature. If you want to communicate securely with someone use Signal or WhatsApp -- email is the wrong medium. You could send encrypted paper mail too, but that would be eq
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by gregjor 3y ago
Companies do pay for compliance tools and consulting. "Compliance" doesn't describe anything specific enough, it seems you specifically mean legal compliance around terminating employees. A whole industry of consultants and l
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by gregjor 3y ago
Americans have more immediate things to worry about. The possibility of war, which is not something individual Americans have control over, doesn't make the list when prices for everything are going up and people can't find jobs,
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by gregjor 3y ago
Businesses have plenty of money, they aren't laying off to save money. The wave of layoffs happened mainly to satisfy investors, and in reaction to higher interest rates. The fact no one wants to say: many companies overhired (and over
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by gregjor 3y ago
I regret taking it at all seriously. I should have better hype and bullshit detection at my age.
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Seems unlikely unless the company has a very high profile, and even then I don't think anyone blames the rank and file for executive-level offenses. Most of the big tech companies have constant investigations and fines imposed. Google
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by gregjor 3y ago
Both the sender and receiver need to share a secret or key to encrypt and decrypt. All of the major email services already support encryption (S/MIME), including Outlook, GMail, iOS Mail, Proton, etc. PGP encrypted email has been avail
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by gregjor 3y ago
Personally I have worked on handling interruptions and resuming focus quickly, because that lets me adapt and respond better, especially freelancing for multiple clients. I can't always change my environment by reducing meetings and ot
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by gregjor 3y ago
I don't think PHP and Java really compete for mindshare. Java has mainly thrived for larger enterprise projects, whereas PHP appealed to individual developers and smaller businesses, and applications like WordPress. Of course there&#x2
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by gregjor 3y ago
PHP arrays are ordered maps , not arrays of a homogenous type as in Go or Java. Array is a type in PHP, but all arrays have the same type, regardless of what they contain. You can describe the expected value or key/value types of an a
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by gregjor 3y ago
You would have to compare PHP to the alternatives available at the time. Originally PHP replaced Perl and ASP, which have their own problems and no static types (back then). Ruby/Rails came out and got traction but was slow, buggy, and
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by gregjor 3y ago
Maybe upgrade to a recent version of PHP from the last five years. It has strong typing, not just hints in comments. If you like strong typing, great, but many popular languages have weak types and dynamic types by design. It’s not some hor
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by gregjor 3y ago
Programmers who get paid by their employer or customer have to work in the context of an organization. Companies pay for code to achieve business goals, not for the code itself. Some teams and organizations have more meetings and other bure
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by gregjor 3y ago
All of the generalizations you gave hold true in some situations, and always have. Software has always suffered from poor quality, complexity, and the short-term demands of companies seeking profits. I keep programming because it pays well
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by gregjor 3y ago
Yes I understand the difference. Expats may also stay on retirement or marriage/family visas with no intention of immigrating, or they may work at an overseas office for their employer. Expats generally settle in for the long-term as r
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by gregjor 3y ago
List incomplete and dated. I think calling these long-term visas "digital nomad visas" confuses some terminology. Digital nomads generally (not always) travel and stay on tourist visas. Someone who obtains a long-stay visa in a fo
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Contracted with former employers. Word of mouth.
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by gregjor 3y ago
1. Freelance. 2. Get a job, do it well. Do it remotely. Cultivate trust with your employer. Then do it remotely from another country. If you add value, communicate promptly, and don't make your remoteness and location an issue for your
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by gregjor 3y ago
More like an MLM with LinkedIn at the top of the pyramid.
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Only if you stay in the US. Any unexpected medical condition will take a bite of savings. Retiring in the US turns into poverty for many Americans.
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A web site can't have the property "enjoyable." People experience enjoyment, or not, subjectively. If you don't enjoy HN you can think about why you react to it the way you do. I don't expect to "enjoy" HN
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Yes, most organizations have inefficiencies. Reducing or removing those would likely add business value. But those inefficiencies don’t go away when people ignore them as trivial. If you identify an inefficiency do something about it. That
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You don’t get paid to write code. That’s a means to an end. You get paid for adding value to the business, solving problems, and multiplying the overall effectiveness of your team and the organization. Taking a narrow view of what you can o

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