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by lr4444lr 3y ago
"Bullshit Jobs" is still pound for pound the most impactful concept I ever learned that explained viscerally to me why modern work makes so many people miserable.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
That's not fair. A business has to plan for the future. That means investments in capital and labor. These users have the right of their contract to resume using the service at a moment's notice, which the business is honoring by
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I never understood why even though homelessness is concentrated in the U.S. cities where car ownership is difficult (NYC, SF, some parts of Boston), when said areas only account even collectively for a fairly small portion of the country&#x
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Why would I ever want to send a large sum of money fast ? The larger the amount, the more concerned I am about fraud, and want checks in place.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
It's a hobby. It doesn't have to have a goal other than leisure or relaxation. It's only unreasonable if it causes distress and prevents him from reaching other goals. I do not for the life of me understand why every waking a
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
A personal trainer I had at a very low rate (about $35/month in 2015) Manhattan gym confided in me that the place had something like 10X more active memberships than they could ever fit into the gym, even if everyone came at a uniform
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Like stock options? Yeah, even that is contentious.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Hot take: it's a life skill to look at a company beyond the salary they offer you and get at least a basic sense of whether they are over staffed, well managed, offering a valuable service, and not in a dying industry - or at least be
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
You're reading an interpretation into something he isn't saying. He may likely just mean that it saddens him that his daughter lacks coping skills, and that he doesn't quite know yet how to convey them - not that the tantrum
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
And that software purchasers demand changes . I would imagine we are not far from an AI being able to take over pure Waterfall development methodology. But successful businesses aren't static, nor are their software needs. Once the AI
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
That is so short-sighted. Practically all technological breakthroughs are expensive during the discovery and R&D process. Over time, engineering makes things more affordable at scale. And markets free to respond to supply and demand are
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Peter Zeihan? Is that you?
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Ah yes, "managing upward"...
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
There's a big difference between government contract work that results in lackluster results and cost overruns, and research grants. I think the article is focusing on the former, but the title is admittedly vague.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Pretty good piece. All new devs should be lucky if they find an org that is exempt from even 1 or 2 of these problems.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Latin. It's the only other language with similar levels of field-tested universal compatibility.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Aesthetics. You want sunlight for a variety of reasons, so you cannot grow trees, passability, so not thick bushes, and you don't want it looking like crap. A lawn is am easy default. Pass any zombie home with unmaintained lawn for eve
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Really? More than manufacturing or vehicular emisssion, and agricultural waste? Color me deeply skeptical of that priority...
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
IANAL, but data sharing does not sound like it meets the threshold for collusion.
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Sleep, like digestion, wound healing, or respiration, seems to be one of those complex bodily processes that can suffer from dysfunction for a variety of reasons we're only now beginning to understand rigorously. A quality polysomnogra
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Nietzsche smiles up from the abyss toward you.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I don't want to get too tied up in the terminology, but "microservices-first" does not seem to be the problem the post is describing: One way to mitigate the growing pains of a monolithic backend is to split it into a set of
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Don't disagree with the article, but to play Devil's Advocate, here are some examples of when IME the cost IS worth it: 1) there are old 3rd party dependency incompatibilities that you can spin off and let live separately instead
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
You've inspired me to start doing this. (Don't think I'll carry around that exact denomination, but the point is, giving a $%^& is a really good thing to financially incentivize.)
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
For the record, I hate running - at any distance, any speed - but I do a 1.5 mile Cooper Test 3 or 4 times a year just to get an honest assessment about my cardiorespiratory fitness level, and adjust my other exercises accordingly. Much to
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
People gain a natural satisfaction out of seeing progress in pretty much allof their pursuits, leisure or otherwise. Catching a bigger fish, closing a bigger deal, growing bigger muscles, cooking a more elaborate meal, etc.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
The important question isn't how many, but who : will this likely be a net increase or decrease to public liabilities and tax receipts?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Yep. It's a limited analogy. Other than Pharaonic Egypt and Confucian China (maybe also Mayans/Aztecs), empires back then didn't have a clear understanding like we do today about planning for sustainability. And even those tw
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Isn't this why Oscar Pistorius was considered to have an unfair advantage by many?
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... which even lower level primates, and some birds are capable of learning. Our brain is hardwired to understand tokens of pure exchange value.

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