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by marricks 4y ago
He disputed his way into becoming a co-founder of Tesla so I'm not surprised.
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by marricks 4y ago
You can have a middle class salary, save well, and become a millionaire in time for retirement. In fact, at retirement age you really need millions nowadays. Not that most people have that. And most of those retirement age millionaires woul
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by marricks 4y ago
It's feels like your "utopia" is a world controlled by a few giant corporations which guarantee the "effective movement of capital" around. If that's the case we have few things we'd agree on as our world
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by marricks 4y ago
What was his vision? Destroying millions of mom and pop shops and forcing millions of people to work for poor wages and harsh conditions delivering Amazon products? I'm not sure a 2 day delivery window is worth that.
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by marricks 4y ago
I didn't say it wasn't impressive but it's as impressive as... watching someone win the Squid Games by backstabbing everyone else? I don't think it deserves any applause or proves anything.
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by marricks 4y ago
"Bezos achieved" it's never one person that changes the world, it's the conditions being ripe for it along with some bloke having enough seed money and brutal determination to make it happen. - Internet was just starting
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by marricks 4y ago
Singularity enthusiasts have been saying that for 20 years. Even said we'd be there by know where we're obsolete. Will technology put some, even many, folks out of a job? Sure of course, that's been happening for hundreds of
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by marricks 4y ago
So the pay bands go up. Everyone gets paid more, board salary go down a bit, and things hopefully become a bit more event. Sounds good? Things have been going the other direction far too long.
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by marricks 4y ago
I should have put the example I was comparing to: VIM. I like VIM as an editor because it's extremely fast and works well once you adapt to it. I'm sure VSCode and Linear are fast, nice, and fine. I just hated the lag/latency
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by marricks 4y ago
Also all have the same magnitude of latency and lag. At least you know if one of them bugs you, they all will.
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by marricks 4y ago
Given > Person 1 says there is a lot of politics, ass-covering, and throwing under the bus It sounds like you have to be good at politicking or it doesn't matter if you write bugs or not :(
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by marricks 4y ago
Yes and no? My m1 MacBook Air doesn't have a fan and performs better than my Intel MBP in many respects.
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by marricks 4y ago
It’s Maslows hierarchy of human needs: some employees are treated well enough they have capacity to care about other issues and how their work affects the world. Ideally all employees would have the time and capacity for that care.
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by marricks 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
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by marricks 4y ago
Why are you saying this? It's what every single corporate pamphlet and forced talk says. No one is saying unions will bring everyone enlightenment and cure cancer. What people are saying is workers need a say in how the workplace is ru
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by marricks 4y ago
Because alcohol has been around for thousands of years, theater for thousands of years, video games for half a century and super addictive social media for less than 20. Any time a big change happens to people's daily experience I thin
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by marricks 4y ago
Yep, and folks will keep complaining until it’s just a fork of Chrome.
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by marricks 4y ago
They own the web through Chrome, it’s one of their best investments. They’re killing Firefox with it (RIP) and successfully killed IE with it (rest in piss). We’re getting to a desktop browser hegemony again but I doubt a scrappy upstart wi
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by marricks 4y ago
I mean, look what happened to Qwest. It’s totally believable.
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by marricks 4y ago
It’s important to note you actually have a choice to use Apple products or not, or even use this relay or another. In many places in the US you have barely any choices for your ISP which could be tracking you and selling your data. This is
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by marricks 4y ago
That’s the thing though, you don’t have to seek attention or power. That’s not an Asperger trait. That’s the thing which really makes it inexcusable. You can also be rich and relatively unknown, most rich people are. He chooses to be super
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by marricks 4y ago
Isn’t there usually some sort of removing of the skeletons from the closets before a deal closes? Yahoo revealed there massive data breach while their deal was closing and such.
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by marricks 4y ago
Then why did we build the JWST! /s
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by marricks 4y ago
Don’t some European counties like Germany have the number of delegates forced to roughly equal the total vote totals for a party? So if you have “60% violet party and 40% teal party” but the seats are split 50/50 10 closest seats move
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by marricks 4y ago
It works for my team is all I can say :( and our new devs would leave if we switched to working in an office.
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by marricks 4y ago
We train new devs at our office using screen share and open audio channels. Which is to say there’s ways to do it. It’s a bit disingenuous to brand WFH as self centered and not helpful to new devs.
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by marricks 4y ago
Who here is saying Canadians are perfect? I’m sure it’s easy to find individuals who had a better experience in the US.
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by marricks 4y ago
Those stories aren’t irreconcilable. The US is huge and has a lot of specialists and I don’t doubt there are some cases where you can get better treatment in the US, especially if you’re rich. The issue is we fail most people and those we d
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by marricks 4y ago
And what you focus on brings about thoughts of a zero sum game which I called out. You can safely assume I don’t agree with what you find most pertinent. I think a country which lets some get rich off of other’s cancer is an abhorrent, inde
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by marricks 4y ago
I have Canadian friends and it sounds better than when my older brother had to call their insurance company every months to get their anxiety meds covered because, for some reason, the insurance company lost the paper work for approving the

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