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by inconceivable 4y ago
"trivial" also fits into this category. i've been keyboard jockeying for 20 years and every time i see that word i groan a little, because it's both a shitty flex and probably untrue.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
your transparent, smug condescension is greatly appreciated.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
the fact that you are posting on HN and able to form complete sentences is a privilege. just this morning i walked past a homeless guy that was clearly out of his mind and on drugs. won't you think of him when you enter your bubble of
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by inconceivable 4y ago
this comment is posted on literally every discussion about money and work on HN. there's always That Guy who points out "won't you think of the people who aren't as x, y, z. don't you know you're privileged! h
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by inconceivable 4y ago
maybe you should try to stop buying cheap crap in general instead of getting angry at shady internet marketers on the other side of the planet. you're not going to stop china's economic rise without military intervention. the worl
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by inconceivable 4y ago
good luck avoiding the components, materials, and packaging everyone uses that are made in china. including the stuff made in india, malaysia, thailand, japan, singapore, indonesia, germany, usa, canada, and mexico. i say if you want to fig
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by inconceivable 4y ago
draconian parenting in a free society leads to incredibly bad outcomes. the parents undermine their own authority and the child doesn't know any better but to rebel. this is why parenting is hard, you need to walk a fine line between &
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by inconceivable 4y ago
it sounds so easy, doesn't it? they've been trying to ban tiktok for 4 years now.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
if tiktok were banned from the store, they could just publish an api and let 3rd party developers create client apps. an app store ban might even have the opposite of the intended effect. which would be pretty much on par as far as sanction
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by inconceivable 4y ago
i dunno, that doesn't seem so bad compared to an i.e. sports car collection.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
seems like salvaging the audiophile label is a lost cause. i think most people just call those types audio engineers now. maybe audio quant will become en vogue in the future. or audio data scientist.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
quite honestly HN is the last place you want to do market research on pricing. the income distribution is skewed extremely low and extremely high and attitudes on paying for anything do not reflect market reality, largely due to ideological
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by inconceivable 4y ago
it works in group settings but not an individual, which the author is.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
you should try it in real life and tell us how it goes.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
the author is a woman. https://www.wired.com/author/virginia-heffernan/
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by inconceivable 4y ago
like you said, timezones are a thing. now you're managing a global team.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
i would say that easily 80% of asian americans don't really care about it unless it affects them. in other words, do you think 20% of asian americans are pro-actively doing anything about it?
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by inconceivable 4y ago
spinning up a subsidiary in another country (especially one with very strict labor laws, like in european countries) is not as easy as "find some guy on the internet and pay him to watch your dashboard. and then give him root so he can
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by inconceivable 4y ago
lol do you actually live in LA to witness the towers going up everywhere over the last 10-15 years? also, 3 orders of magnitude is 100% -> 10% -> 1% -> .1% of reported numbers.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
nobody qualified wants the 24/7 SRE job unless it pays an enormous amount of money. i wouldn't do it for less than 500 grand cash. getting woken up at 3am constantly or working 3rd shift is the kind of thing you do with a specific
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by inconceivable 4y ago
there's plenty of precedent for just throwing the bill of rights out the window for asian americans. 99% of americans simply don't care, or actively encourage it. the supreme court agrees. look up the case law. so why not? nobody
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by inconceivable 4y ago
yes, it is, but it has a wide variety of meanings. 'prompt engineer' could be anyone who is simply typing things into the chatgpt website, or a veteran software engineer using a framework like langchain to program an AI workflow
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by inconceivable 4y ago
kwon is south korean and wanted by the south korean authorities.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
"we round them all down and just drop the remainder... into an account that we own." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjCQ3T5yXo
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by inconceivable 4y ago
that was voluntary, and uber was losing money and marketshare.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
there's no way bytedance will sell tiktok to an american company. anyone who thinks this will happen is high as a kite. imagine instagram had taken off in china. would the US allow it to be 'force sold' to bytedance or tencen
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by inconceivable 4y ago
right, i'm sure this guy is going to turn his company into a very specific type of enterprise software vendor just because you want him to.
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by inconceivable 4y ago
i'd imagine at least half of that is shipping and handling and import duties. tack on retailer margin and that seems about right. couches don't exactly flat-pack. i do a lot of sleeping on my couches so i've always had extrem
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by inconceivable 4y ago
in my personal life i'm basically a pretty mellow and passive guy. in running a business however, i'm nice to genuinely nice people (not 'niceguys') and an absolute galaxy-sized asshole to jerks, because generally they&#
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by inconceivable 4y ago
mechanics, welders, CNC operators, CAD operators, industrial designers, materials engineers, metallurgists... really it was an explosion of roles once the technology was there.

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