lezojeda

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by lezojeda 4y ago
You are describing ways of getting acquaintances/just friends, the article describes ways of deepening those friendships such as paying more attention to questions that lets you better know people, I found it very helpful, it may come
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by lezojeda 4y ago
>Do you mean that sex is a product of a degenerate society? They never even hinted 'sex'. Probably sex work, from people who in other times had other job opportunities besides selling their body online. >Do you mean that sex
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by lezojeda 4y ago
I think she clearly compensates the alone aspect of her travelling by having a 1.58M subscribers youtube channel with 500k~ views videos. I am not saying this COMPLETELY replaces face-to-face interaction, but I bet travelling without videob
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by lezojeda 4y ago
"Adjective. parasocial (not comparable) One-sided (especially of a relationship, as for example between celebrities and their audience or fans)." In which way organizing a raid via (say Discord or whatever communication way you us
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by lezojeda 4y ago
What do you mean by developing world? I live in Argentina, developing world afaik, and I have all of that. Majority of people here does.
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by lezojeda 4y ago
Why do you need people in the same physical space than you? What can't be achieved via remote tools?
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by lezojeda 4y ago
>Interesting that Steam solved most of that problems for game distribution though. They have worldwide publishing agreements, regional prices AND good support of local payment providers in many countries. I think a lot of people underest
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by lezojeda 4y ago
10 USD is the average cost for an e-book from my anecdotal experience, some even 20. 200 USD our average salary range approximately. It's not easy for us, you can say "well if you can't afford them then tough luck" which
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by lezojeda 4y ago
I also highly recommend "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter which also talks about the economic diminishing returns of any activity in societies as they become more complex. Uses the roman empire as its main exam
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by lezojeda 4y ago
Although I agree, nothing would make me spend ~2hs daily commuting again. My company's office is 40 minutes by subway + 25 min walking if I choose to walk to the station. It's even worse considering I work as contractor for a soft
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by lezojeda 4y ago
>I'm hoping that the recession will kick in harder than it is now and allow the managers to start requiring people to come back in. Those who threaten to quit will make the manager's lives easier so that they don't have to
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by lezojeda 4y ago
Already seeing those diminishing returns. They really are out of ideas aren't they?
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by lezojeda 4y ago
Well, I understand how you feel but... you are the one who moved, not them, I'm not from North America but I imagine it's not a small distance just judging from a map, not that easy. I have a friend who moved to Switzerland for ex
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by lezojeda 4y ago
I literally lol'd when I read "a blindfold for the ears which encourages us to disregard the whispers of the planet". I guess this person leaves in the countryside or some really beautiful forest, I really like my blindfold t
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by lezojeda 4y ago
Not my fault pal, they started this shit many decades ago, I was born in the 90s, I'm not gonna take the burden of fixing this country. Also, if you'd live outside of the first world bubble you'd know how our corrupt governme
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by lezojeda 4y ago
>I've heard this a lot. It seems a point of contention. I don't see how people don't depend on work for some level of social interaction. How can one want to spend 1/3 of their life not giving a fuck about the people
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by lezojeda 4y ago
And why should those competent, employed individuals pay the cost of having an incompetent government who's willing to steal around 75% of their salary through unfair taxes? You receive, for example, 2000 USD and are forced, by law, to
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by lezojeda 4y ago
Latin America is too brown to be from the west?
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by lezojeda 4y ago
>The government doesn't control them now. What do you bet there are armies of programmers working for the government, figuring out how they can? Argentinean here. That probably won't happen... for many years, at last. Programme
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by lezojeda 4y ago
>Why not build a society where everybody is building their own business, and we connect them all together? Why does Google have to build their own browser? Why does Tesla have to build their own GPUs and Amazon their own datacenters? Som
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by lezojeda 4y ago
>It's a great shame that academia is terribly paid and an unstable career path in the West. Is it better in the East? No loaded question, I genuinely want to know your answer
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by lezojeda 4y ago
I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina and it got really tiresome to hear the same people complaining about rent costs and lack of housing also complaining about high buildings, new apartments in their neighbourhood, etc. It's so annoying,
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by lezojeda 4y ago
If someone is willing to do it for money and I'm willing to pay them for it, why should I do it?
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by lezojeda 4y ago
And tbh, it really does take time to prepare a good meal, including washing dishes and all that. For those of us living alone it takes a good chunk of our free time after work.
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by lezojeda 4y ago
But many people think they're worth that. I don't think there is an intrinsic "worth" for each developer, demand is high, supply is low, that's why salaries are high.
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by lezojeda 4y ago
>Developers in their 20s are definitely overpaid Why?
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by lezojeda 5y ago
Just curious, why do you find Gmeet so bad? Among the three most common used (in my experience ar least zoom teams and meet) I find it the most usable.
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by lezojeda 5y ago
Are you kidnapped or held against your will by your employer?
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by lezojeda 5y ago
The one who feels personally attacked is the article's writer IMO. From this article and others from his website you can see he clearly has a problem with new developers, especially those from JavaScript. A lot of resentment can be rea
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by lezojeda 5y ago
No, I didn't. Have a nice weekend.

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