jseban

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by jseban 4y ago
> Not everyone that is quiet is an egotistical toxic maniac. No but being quiet unless prompted to speak, will make a team work environment dysfunctional.
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by jseban 4y ago
> shows amazing tech skills, and talks when prompted to, I mean, will you reject this person in favour of a less stronger candidate just because that weaker candidate was more outgoing? If they are the opposite, they will not ask questio
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by jseban 4y ago
Yeah but you get tired of the fact that all of the low level business people abuse their "rank" to turn you into their personal assistant. If I have to help them with everything, why don't I just talk to the users directly an
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by jseban 4y ago
> Buying shares of stock in a company that doesn’t pay a dividend isn’t investing, it’s the textbook definition of speculation. Yeah but this reflects the fact that starting and growing a company in itself is a type of speculative activi
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by jseban 4y ago
More like a handshake, a reputation at stake, and a threat of death penalty, if you want to take a more honest look at what would happen if you committed mutiny.
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by jseban 4y ago
Stream of consciousness with a way too big scope, gives in to the temptation to conclude that everything will just collapse and disappear to get out of trouble in the end.
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by jseban 4y ago
It's speculation on the future development of the company's performance, you aren't entitled to a share in the profit, but you often get one anyway in the form of dividends. If you buy a stock on the open market you don'
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by jseban 4y ago
> i don't really agree with this - the money used to purchase financial products don't disappear, because for every product bought, there was a seller. This seller now has cash, which would be invested elsewhere. And buying sto
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by jseban 4y ago
Yeah or is it like the infomercials where people show you these awesome gadgets that solve problems that you actually don't have, just to sell you a bunch of crap so that they can make money.
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by jseban 4y ago
Seems like a pretty autistic way of thinking to me, as if the world exists of only mathematical proofs and religion.
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by jseban 4y ago
Yeah maybe you're right, I just remember all those hello world examples with advanced design patterns and how that gets people all excited to overengineer and overcomplicate everything. Edit: I'm a bit tired of all these "thi
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by jseban 4y ago
Until he would have shown that 6-line sql query beats whole cloud of Java microservices, then he would just have been banned.
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by jseban 4y ago
I don't know, isn't this kind of demonstrating a chain saw by chopping up a carrot, seems like it would be somewhat easier for the presenter since they don't need to get an actual log, but at the expense of really misleading
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by jseban 4y ago
Yeah it's really surprising to see how supposedly scientifically educated people are driven completely by fads and basic social needs and personal gain, and don't bother to even try to motivate decisions with anything more than &q
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by jseban 4y ago
I think the failure of communism more or less proves that greed is not just an accidental flaw of the system, but rather an amplification of our natural selection, and as such cannot just be suppressed or removed, because it removes too muc
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by jseban 4y ago
I think that's true for everyone, definitely for me and my acquaintances. The only thing that works well are multi blade cartridges or two passes with a double edged razor (never tried a straight razor).
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by jseban 4y ago
It makes you look younger, that's probably the fundamental benefit (same reason women shave).
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by jseban 4y ago
Yep it's a lot more work. I think the "wait until it kinda looks like it might be ready before you press down" part is the most annoying step of the french press.
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by jseban 4y ago
The other thing I've noticed, is that you can't casually watch something in the company of some visitors, it's going full movie night or nothing. That's a real use case I'm missing with a TV. And you can't even
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by jseban 4y ago
I agree with you here in general, and I think this is part of the definition of civilisation. But I still think the way it's phrased in the parent is wrong, that it's a "flaw" and "what's wrong with society&quo
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by jseban 4y ago
> Nothing in this piece suggests a replacement for the drive to work, or the virtues of working and earning. Nothing in it contemplates what a society without those virtues might look like or what meaningful thing would replace the conti
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by jseban 4y ago
But isn't greed a reflection of the asymmetrical reproduction system that serves for natural selection as evolution of the species?
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by jseban 4y ago
> Specifically, increase in productivity can be used to eg shorten the workweek even further and demand protections against work encroachment on personal life. I see that this is happening with some companies embracing 4 day workweeks, o
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by jseban 4y ago
Stop serving cake and having useless meetings, Karen, get a life and leave people alone. I've worked on the assembly line, it was like being in the army, they screamed at us like drill sergeants to make us work faster. I'll leave
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by jseban 4y ago
Americans like to believe that social democratic countries just conjure up more stuff for everyone by means of politics, so they can have more benefits, or that they actually take it from the rich. In reality it's a really tough compro
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by jseban 4y ago
> Technology holds the promise of solving fundamental problems, right? I don't think so, I think it only amplifies the human condition, in a neutral way. Non-profit organisations are benefitting from technology just the same as prof
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by jseban 4y ago
Sure, moving to Europe sounds like a pretty reasonable approach if you want to have more socialism, as opposed to revolting against computers. Europe is not less efficient and they are not against computers, it's just a different type
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by jseban 4y ago
Having a utopia is impossible hard, and those issues you want to solve are literally the same fundamental problems that have existed since the dawn of civilisation, they are not caused by technology, and destroying computers in the office a
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by jseban 4y ago
Blaming the technology is what's unfair. You can go back in history and see the luddite movement or Marx's theory of alienation to describe exactly the same issues in the industrial revolution, do you think we should have used tha
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by jseban 4y ago
Yeah and by people like the person who wrote the article, which I find ironic, that the article complains about being "forced" to work efficiently robbing the work of it's social and human aspects, yet people in the comments

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