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by matrix87 2y ago
Is it just me, or is LinkedIn giving priority to job postings from M$ and their subsidiaries? I get the impression that they are, and I'm a little skeptical of the legality of it
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Once you secure that market, you could then move upmarket onto LinkedIn's turf. Probably won't work because of classism
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> If you connections number is over 500, that's a plus, under 500 and it's a bad thing. How is this supposed to be correlated with employee quality? I doubt there's a positive correlation
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> You're writing it for yourself, 99% of the time. The other 1% is the future you. Or alternatively it could be a place for educational stuff like the more detailed answers on stackoverflow. Except the middleman gets removed
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by matrix87 2y ago
It also works the other way: people can be socially pressured into having children That outcome isn't "more natural" than a hypothetical where they aren't pressured and don't have children There's no way of dis
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by matrix87 2y ago
I didn't specifically mention government when I was referring to overreach. But in some cases there is government overreach involved regarding family planning. At least in the USA, trust is very low regarding this atm There's a di
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by matrix87 2y ago
Because... They don't want to? People aren't obligated to justify their own family planning. Even raising the question in the first place is overreach And no, people aren't obligated to make family planning decisions that con
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by matrix87 2y ago
If this disconnect didn't exist, who would bother doing business with them? As a company they're essentially synonymous with shitty UX OSS alternatives could eat their lunch overnight if it weren't for "corporate hospita
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by matrix87 2y ago
international law in itself means almost nothing, it's just a convenient excuse for the more powerful to threaten the less powerful
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by matrix87 2y ago
> myopia of greed that's a universal drain on public wealth, for some petty local optimization. It's all a question of who gets to do this first, until then everyone who doesn't gatekeep is a sucker. You think M$ won'
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by matrix87 2y ago
The CTO with a shitty track record, not the line employees. He deserves zero reprieve
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by matrix87 2y ago
who is hiring these fucking idiots? they need to be blacklisted
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by matrix87 2y ago
If it's a mature system and management is highly risk averse, not fucking up means more than slinging shit quickly
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Software controlling flight systems in planes is already held to very high standards, but is enormously expensive to write and modify. Here's something I don't understand: those jobs pay chump change compared to places like F
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by matrix87 2y ago
The same credential game in the top 10 trickles down unfortunately
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16-21 is a super hard age. I have no idea what affect that kind of credentialism will have, maybe it just ends up delaying the growing pains that take place. Which might not be a good thing because high school and college are more forgiving
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Maybe that’s because I mostly took math and engineering classes. The second you step outside of the stem bubble into liberal arts courses, it's like woke everything Now I will say, there's good woke and bad woke. I had one cl
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by matrix87 2y ago
Don't know why you're getting downvoted... seems very well said. There's this disturbing attitude in right wing media that almost celebrates people deciding to turn away from higher ed. It's like they actually want peopl
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> What he did was really not that difficult I don't know about that, he probably had to scout the area and find a line of sight. Also he got a bunch of bombs from somewhere
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by matrix87 2y ago
What's the motive here? Either the FBI is withholding information or the shooter didn't leave a trace. If it's the latter, there could be other parties (e.g. foreign governments) involved The fact that they can't find a
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Everything is political in some way. No. If someone posts a link to code or an article that's strictly about code, nobody actually considers that political For example, lobster.rs actually censors political content. People only tr
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by matrix87 2y ago
A lot of things were better in the mid 20th century. Wealth inequality for example
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They said it was a bullet 20 mins after it happened, no idea what you're on about
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> Unless this is a lone, unstable individual, it is more evidence that our system needs more balance. When is it ever not? A lot easier to believe than a bunch of handwavey "across the aisle" garbage
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Chevron deference is the reason the US works at all. I mean, arguably it worked better during the years before the decision Not to say that I agree with the recent supreme court decision, but eventually the dust will settle
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by matrix87 2y ago
Just fyi, Supreme Court has an upcoming case on affirmative action https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/affirmative-action-law...
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by matrix87 2y ago
> According to a 2016 OECD estimate, 54% of Russia's adults (25- to 64-year-olds) have attained tertiary education, giving Russia the second-highest attainment of tertiary education among 35 OECD member countries. [0] Wonder why, wa
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by matrix87 2y ago
> But if there’s a reliable & scalable way for vigorous, systematic management to reward the spontaneous human drive towards efficiency instead of punishing it, I am yet to see it. This is the gist of the article, it has nothing to d
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> Bug fixes work a lot like efficiency improvements, the main difference being that competent management makes things much worse. You can’t make fixing bugs into a “goal,” same as you can’t make optimization into a goal, because people w
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Do you know how to defuse an entrenched argument between coworkers, help a burned out coworker get out of a rut, or tell someone they're not doing a great job without making them furious? Managers do. Ehh, maybe if you're luc

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