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91.
by hcks 3y ago
> critique of modern certitudes > it’s bottom of the barrel degrowthism Every. Single. Time.
92.
by hcks 3y ago
It’s not crazy money, it’s just workers getting a fairer compensation
93.
by hcks 3y ago
Google doesn’t pay very well, actually
94.
by hcks 3y ago
The whole benefits of kidney donation to a stranger comes down to an effective donation of $10,000 using the same logic. How is it effective when he could have probably raised 2 times that amount by working in place
95.
by hcks 3y ago
Or maybe it’s just a dumb drug that stinks and makes you into a schizo?
96.
by hcks 3y ago
I mean they’ve been shipping the same game every year for all this time too
97.
by hcks 3y ago
Yes, when I think small not at all overrated game studio producing very original gameplays I really think Nintendo
98.
by hcks 3y ago
There’s a bunch of fake studies that won’t replicate in 20 years when we’ll try to understand why we started frying peoples brain
99.
by hcks 3y ago
1/ please stop deterring people from undertaking the medical treatment recommended by professionals 2/ there is increasing evidence that psychedelic therapies for mental illness were all based on hype and don’t actually perform an
100.
by hcks 3y ago
The whole cringe around the name of the thing is enough to know it’s probably not real in any practical sense
101.
by hcks 3y ago
Any other recommendation with the same focus?
102.
by hcks 3y ago
In my experience diagrams that are pedestrian enough to be automatically generated from the codebase don’t add much value
103.
by hcks 3y ago
This doesn’t make any sense.
104.
by hcks 3y ago
This is insane, people are really unwilling to let go the idea that illegal psychoactive drugs may have any beneficial effects for depression.
105.
by hcks 3y ago
I don’t get why people always hate on leetcodes. Anyone can train and get good at it, it makes interviews short and not time consuming, it’s a standard accros industry so you can focus on studying it and not have to read one book for each c
106.
by hcks 3y ago
meetings, design doc reviews, capacity plannings and allocations and alignments are not supposed to be used as ways to hide mediocrity
107.
by hcks 3y ago
Google, Meta, Apple, OpenAI, Citadel are incompetent organisations. Wow lads
108.
by hcks 3y ago
It’s just a proxy measure for IQ really. They could have handed out Ravens matrices and got better outcomes prediction.
109.
by hcks 3y ago
Funny how the top comment on "hacker" news is an *unsubstantial* comment about how, actually, TFA is wrong. Even worse, adding a comment on how actually you shouldn’t be curious and understand how things really work.
110.
by hcks 3y ago
I mean when you pick a job based on the language you’ll use and it’s the same language crypto companies love you have to ask yourself some questions (esp if you hate crypto)
111.
by hcks 3y ago
Wages in the USA have not stagnated, actually
112.
by hcks 3y ago
1/ each additional employee comes with additional costs: management, communication, onboarding, HR, office space, etc.. 2/ People in a 40 hours contract usually work more than that. Employers can try to seek out employees that don
113.
by hcks 3y ago
I wish euros could explain to me why they speak of "their data" as if that was their souls
114.
by hcks 3y ago
Please explain how enforcing their right to be paid for what they sell is destroying the internet
115.
by hcks 3y ago
> ‘I was recently able to charge around twelve thousand pounds to write a two-page report for a pharmaceutical client to present during a global strategy meeting,’ he said. ‘The report wasn’t used in the end because they didn’t manage to
116.
by hcks 3y ago
1.5% chance of becoming a billionaire per try is good odds, actually. Also doesn’t take into account all the outcomes you become merely a millionaire (likely over 5% in the case of YC?)
117.
by hcks 3y ago
Im pretty sure the 500k employee at Google is vastly vastly more free to leave his desk than the small business owner making that much.
118.
by hcks 3y ago
The "FAANG bubble" itself employs like 100k engineers and many many more startups and Fortune 500 companies pay >90% as much.
119.
by hcks 3y ago
Yes yes I’m a plowing ox, put a collar on me and let me pull the heavy heavy weights for my masters.
120.
by hcks 3y ago
Tankies getting mad when someone spends 0.1% of the annual public education budget to try something out.

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