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by j245 4y ago
I’m not arguing that everyone must be WFH. I’m saying if you choose to WFH or remote you can still enjoy social activities. The “you’ll always be worse off socially if you WFH” argument isn’t valid. If your personal situation dictates that
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by j245 4y ago
> since you’re basically always on call. It sounds like this is the actual problem you need to address. > extra-curricular activities There is no curriculum at work. Socialising isn’t exclusive to the work place. There are ample oppor
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by j245 4y ago
Hopefully it’s clear that running is just an example that can be replaced with any other social activities you enjoy. My point is you’re not stripped of every opportunity to socialise if you choose to go remote, and it’s entirely feasible t
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by j245 4y ago
I’m the same as you, I’ve made good relationships in office and remote. I think the social contact aspect is only an issue if you don’t understand or avail the new opportunities you have. We’ve been WFO for so long, some folks are strugglin
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by j245 4y ago
On the point of meeting people and socialising.. Have you considered that it might be a self correcting problem ? The 2 hours you save by not commuting can be used to join a local running club. Suddenly you’re meeting a lot of new people yo
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by j245 4y ago
Tech workers DO understand what they are losing. They have done the cost/benefit analysis and it’s significantly better to WFH in many scenarios. One clear example is people that commute and have children they would otherwise miss seei
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by j245 4y ago
Let me guess, the solution to ending world hunger is.. It’s just hunger, use your wallet, just go buy some food and eat it.
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by j245 4y ago
The funny thing is you’re talking about a huge restructuring of everything and that process will require a lot of excess energy. Don’t forget about the energy required to modify all our current systems. To fight against the current system a
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by j245 4y ago
You’ve missed the point. Energy use by itself does not lead to global warming. Energy sourced by burning fossil fuels does. Deprecating harmful sources of energy is what we care about, not total consumption. There is no compelling argument
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by j245 4y ago
Can’t imagine a significant number of users ever accepting this solution, there’s too much hassle involved. Users who are not attempting world record attempts or playing tournaments where money or fame is on the line.. in other words.. 99.9
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by j245 4y ago
So many problems with this idea.. Can you imagine your child saying “Mom / Dad I need to buy a webcam to play this game”. Alarm bells will be going off immediately. Financially speaking, every player needs to buy a webcam to play even
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by j245 4y ago
I don’t think anyone is arguing that specific groups will survive no matter what. The discussion is around whether the human race will survive and continue to grow. As you may have noticed, population numbers have increased since the days o
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by j245 4y ago
Yet here we are.. having a discussion about whether too many humans are surviving for too long.
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by j245 4y ago
We need to re-work the economic system. Currently the incentives are greater for the “first world” to divide and exploit the “third world”. Once you start increasing quality of life and education, birth rates will plummet. It would only be
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by j245 4y ago
We will come up with a way to “fix” that (if it’s even a problem), as we have done in the past. Why ignore human ingenuity ?
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by j245 4y ago
Disagree - for many people, rolling the dice is too risky. If you have something nice to fall back on (rich family, nest egg) or no dependents, then sure.
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by j245 4y ago
“Absolutely hilarious” that you’re forgetting there is usually a system design round that tests things like “setting up infrastructure on an enterprise-level”. The coding round is supposed to test that.. you can code. For the record I’m al
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by j245 4y ago
The point is, a couple of anecdotes don’t prove the rule. You might not find GPS useful, but a lot of people find it immensely useful and revolutionary. If your use case is travelling to a new place once or twice and never again, there is n
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by j245 4y ago
And the distance between love and glove is only 1.. who cares ?
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by j245 4y ago
Science can’t explain everything. It can’t tell you why the Empire State Building looks the way it does. There are other factors involved. I’m not sure what the scientific model is based on, but it’s borderline impossible to quantify how so
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by j245 5y ago
PS5 is another notable example of selling at a loss (at least initially)
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by j245 5y ago
Agree with all the benefits you listed about in-person sport. Main issue is the time commitment with team sports. VR is in and out in 30-40 mins and the sports venue is your living room or garage (no travelling required) IME - VR can be mor
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by j245 5y ago
My point is the comparison is meaningless. If they get this to work, they will just build something with 100x or 1000x the output. The number isn’t really important here, some indication of how the development of the technology is coming al
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by j245 5y ago
> So they made about 1/4 of the full Tesla Model 3 battery. Focusing on absolute numbers is pretty irrelevant, wouldn’t you say ? We know once we get a working prototype it can be scaled up relatively easily. Strange to see a storag
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by j245 5y ago
Oxford is also a geographical location. So it could be interpreted as, Research lab in town of Oxford.
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by j245 5y ago
okay - so you’re concerned there is a high chance of collisions in this case as apposed to companies like Stripe, Amazon and Oracle where there is less scope for confusion. > Meta’s usage of it is relevant to its meaning. Is it though ?
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by j245 5y ago
Interesting question - What replaced the word Apple ?
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by j245 5y ago
Depends on the company no ? For FAANG type places sure, but not everyone runs their interview process with that content. Anecdata: I interviewed at a bank once and they wanted to know how specific library functions were implemented in a spe
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by j245 5y ago
> I find it as a reminder of my fungibility as an engineer: I get paid absurd sums because of supply and demand, not because of my skills; anybody who can game the leetcode exam (and the architectural diagram quiz and the personality qui
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by j245 5y ago
It will be interesting to see how things evolve. From anecdotal experience one big reason was always: ‘You can get the same specs in a Windows PC for 1/2 the price !!’ Now with M1 - you can’t get comparable specs/performance in a

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