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by majikaja 4y ago
Design some experiments for consciousness then you're talking. I'm not going to waste my time expecting to find answers to such things on a message board for software engineers and money men. May as well be 4chan
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by majikaja 4y ago
I think people just need to accept things as they are. People have thoughts and they happen to correspond to brain activity. So be it.
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by majikaja 4y ago
I don't think most porn stars care about getting rejected by FAANG If they cared about their reputation, they wouldn't be porn stars
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by majikaja 4y ago
I feel like worrying about ethics is often a coping mechanism hard working men do to deal with the fact that they can easily be out-earned by a woman with very little skills.
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by majikaja 4y ago
Maybe because humans are also just burnt or left to rot in the ground after they're done?
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by majikaja 4y ago
This showed up in my RSS feed next to an article about Vince McMahon
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by majikaja 4y ago
Japanese companies only seem to return profits to shareholders when they feel like it... maybe this will change when interest rates aren't zero.
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by majikaja 4y ago
If he is able to successfully maintain an audience on social media and date celebrities while juggling multiple CEO roles it sounds to me that this disorder is mostly cured.. unless you can prove there is a region of the brain that is respo
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by majikaja 4y ago
I genuinely spend a lot of time studying people offline and online. I think someone who can't do this from first principles is probably going to struggle if they try living in a very foreign country or amongst a different subculture of
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by majikaja 4y ago
I would have judged him to have good social skills if he managed to drum up such a following to help raise money for his ventures. Obviously depends on the crowd
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by majikaja 4y ago
I guess, just feels weird that someone who is #2 on Twitter describes themselves in this way. Kind of a high bar
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by majikaja 4y ago
I have a bit of difficulty trying to understand what ASD means for such individuals as adults. If one is highly intelligent one can just spend time studying people to determine how they respond to situations. I don't really grasp why u
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by majikaja 4y ago
My stack nowadays is MySQL server + MySQL Workbench.
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by majikaja 4y ago
Most of the engineers I worked with (non-tech industry) never seemed to have a clue about the business situation of the company. They could just see there were lots of requirements and assumed the future was bright. Edit: Yes, I see this co
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by majikaja 4y ago
Ok maybe you're right (I have no experience of trying to integrate huge numbers of people coming from outside big tech in a way that doesn't devalue their skills), but I would feel a bit concerned for my future compensation regard
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by majikaja 4y ago
The employees must have seen the writing on the wall when the company was hiring en masse. Hiring standards must have fallen if they added people so rapidly.
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by majikaja 4y ago
Why don't we just force all people who make appointments with psychiatrists to take a course in how the brain works, including theoretical reasoning of how unusual thought patterns can occur just like random weather fluctuations. If pe
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by majikaja 4y ago
If people say that the placebo effect will be diminished.
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by majikaja 4y ago
Maybe normalizing skirts and makeup for men like they did the opposite for women would reduce the rates a little. They've released lace underwear for guys in Japan lately.
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by majikaja 4y ago
Aren't there traditional matchmaking agencies for people looking for serious relationships in the USA?
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by majikaja 4y ago
Yahoo Japan was paying fees to Yahoo US for use of the brand name, but they bought the rights outright recently I think.
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by majikaja 4y ago
Or salaries come down to match the simplified workloads.
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by majikaja 4y ago
Going to brothels with coworkers at the end of the day was a common thing regardless of marital status back in the day here (before my time). Not sure what happened
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by majikaja 4y ago
When companies trying to make cost cuts see an employee making $500k I don't think they go 'oh that's okay because they're working long hours'.
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by majikaja 4y ago
If tech were that fun all SW engineers would be paid games industry salaries.
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by majikaja 4y ago
I'm not sure if money is the bottleneck - I think billionaires are already throwing as much funds as they can to such companies. I don't think a few extra millionaires are going to make a difference. I'm not particularly conc
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by majikaja 4y ago
If I had $1m lying around now I would drop everything and focus on longevity/medical research. Who cares about making improvements to gadgets if we're all going to die in a few decades. The faster this tech bubble bursts and peopl
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by majikaja 4y ago
The CS-leaning finance professionals are often bad too. The best use of CS knowledge is knowing how to avoid the quant trading herd.
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by majikaja 4y ago
Trading is mostly a zero-sum game so people are going to be selective about sharing useful ideas. For investment the horizons are so long it's hard to know which people are worth paying attention to. Maybe some people try to influence
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by majikaja 4y ago
I don't live in the US nor work in tech, but I am wondering - have the big tech firms been doing much juniorization lately as part of the recent recruitment spree? In my industry there certainly was a lot of jobs being dumbed down and

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