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by jgeada 5y ago
Being brutally honest: because Equifax and similar agencies always engage in politics. They lobby politicians, they have people on staff on alert should any legislation related to this topic come up, etc. Angering these companies carries
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How's that my problem? I don't owe you a profit! More, we don't owe you anything , the obligation at best runs the other direction. Users of open software are making use of work of others frequently without payment or any si
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Note that this is the minimum lifetime. Semiconductor aging is a statistical process, some devices will happily last much longer, but there is a design minimum lifetime that has to be accounted for and met. Also, the aging calculations are
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And note also that all the software that is needed to engineer those things is also not allowed to be sold to China, so that is also another thing they have to replicate. And by the time you catch up on the decades of R&D and trade se
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Have any of you ever answered a poll? And answered truthfully? I'm inherently suspicious of most polls because everyone I know either refuses to participate in polls or deliberately lies to the pollster, either for fun or to get take
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by jgeada 5y ago
And yet they tax individuals on our revenues and not our profits …
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Cost of replicating software is near zero, if you want the same thing as the next guy you can have it right now, no schedule risk. Except that isn’t what they want, they want the same “except for this, and with this extra, and change that…”
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> "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." Except that isn’t what software engineers largely do, we aren’t building the nth copy of
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Because that child with behavioral issues is sharing a classroom with 10 to 20 other children. It has never been fair to everyone else to put up with the issues on the one. In more brutal prior days, they'd be expelled and become the p
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by jgeada 5y ago
I’m not going to expose myself to a 1% chance of dying for your profits. None of us owe you a profit.
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http://www.thetower.org/article/the-map-that-ruined-the-midd... Maybe deliberate is too strong a word, but certainly the map ignored all tribal, geographical and cultural boundaries. Nothing other than instability shou
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The Brits intentionally created unstable countries so that none could rival them in power in a region. All those countries were too busy dealing with internal strife to become regional competitors to England.
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And they are ever so full of themselves. They're a perfect embodiment of Dunning-Kruger.
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What capital is that shareholder taking elsewhere? Once a company has sold a share, it no longer has much direct interest in the value of that share on further transactions (much like a publisher only gets value from the first sale of a boo
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It is about time to focus on the right problem: management standards that cause this crap to be pushed, and the effective immunity from consequences companies have when they lie. Why blame scientists when power is actually with management?
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Interesting that developers are expected to do all this other ancillary work that is the remit of other professions. How often do we expect the technical writers, marketing, sales, management, etc to also do their share of writing the code?
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When I moved to the US my nominal salary tripled but my quality of life dropped noticeably. The first part I knew going in, the 2nd part came as a total surprise. Taxes actually come out about the same when you add the multitude of separate
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It is as if people keep thinking of the military as this altruistic organization staffed by pure self-sacrificing people willing to put it all on the line for the defense of country. Sure, that is somewhat true of the troops. But the genera
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Major storms can move faster than most sailboats can sail out of the way.
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well, unless you bring a number of the inner contents of several such packs into very close proximity, at which point the reaction is going to be very much accelerated. Warranty probably not valid if you get anywhere near criticality ;-)
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Funny how none of that ever comes up when we're discussing bailing out corporations. Quantitative easing by itself was several trillions of dollars arbitrarily invented, let alone the various bank and corporate bailouts over the past d
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Less than 6% of the stimulus funds went to pay people, most of the money went into tax savings for banks and big companies (that clearly hadn't stopped eating avocado toast and starbucks coffee and hadn't salted away money for eme
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by jgeada 6y ago
Trust. What you're really talking about is trust. If you're not coding 100% of the time on important value add tasks, you're not ever going to be as technical or as current on the details as your team. As a manager being the
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by jgeada 6y ago
Everybody lies on exit interviews. You mostly don't want to burn bridges and frequently will need some references. So HR departments have 0 useful information as to why people are leaving and even less about the costs of having develop
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by jgeada 6y ago
The "work" that the artist did once is producing a lifetime of revenue by taxing everyone else's work. The artist isn't lifting a finger in the work that Spotify (or any other music platform) is doing. Why are they e
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by jgeada 6y ago
The reason you know about academic fraud is that lots of the process is public and has many unaffiliated people involved that are potential leaks. So, sure, fraud happens and clearly that’s bad. But you do hear about it. By contrast the sam
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Direct pay may be so-so, but indirect pay is stellar. Look at how most everyone in Congress & Senate become significantly richer during their tenure, how frequently bureaucrats get hired as high level management in the industries they w
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Fundamentally, this is just the legal system defending its own reputation by using its monopoly on law. Basically corruption.
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My salary is taxed. And yet when I spend it, it becomes someone else's salary, and theirs is taxed too. How come the silly "double taxation" meme is only brought up when we're talking about rich people's money? (ie
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> In Germany I suspect they'd not be allowed to book appointments anymore or would require a gatekeeping referral. This is the kind of comment that immediately classifies the commenter as never having lived outside the US and/

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