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by matwood 1y ago
> The point of a consultant is they have a lot of experience in a specific domain This is your mistake. The point of a consultant is to tell the business to do what the business was already planning to do anyway. This way the consultant
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by matwood 1y ago
The problem is that it's a misallocation of human capital which slows progress for all of society. We should be providing social safety nets for people, not fake jobs.
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by matwood 1y ago
The DX was certainly better. I wrote some early iOS apps and the docs were good. They have never been at the MS level though, which is what I programmed for in my day job at the time. MSDN was an achievement.
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by matwood 1y ago
> I'd argue you can see the hostility if you compare shipping to Windows vs shipping to Apple. Windows has had 3rd party developers built into its DNA since the beginning though. Even today, Windows goes to great lengths to maintain
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by matwood 1y ago
China as a huge manufacturing hub shows that while people may talk about China's internal policies, the economics are what really matter in geopolitics. Then there's Africa which China has been actively engaging and the USA has al
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by matwood 1y ago
> there is nobody willing to step in to compete for their place China has been stepping on a number fronts. They are working on trade deals that exclude the US, and I'm sure are excited about the soft power vacuum left when USAID sh
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by matwood 1y ago
> have reached a critical mass to beat back this wall of disingenuous bad-faith bullshit I hope so.
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by matwood 1y ago
I agree completely. My point above is that they are really focused short term. The hubris that nothing would change I believe shows how disconnected they are. They could have made some self adjustments and likely made more money long term
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by matwood 1y ago
> One word: greed. This is too easy of an answer. Would you take more money if I offered it to you? My problem with Apple here is that I believe it's short sighted. Lack of compliance or whatever you want to call it, could threaten
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by matwood 2y ago
You literally said lets think about 1625. If your point is we should socialize more, I agree! I don't agree that somehow taxes are the primary reason we don't socialize. IMO, socializing is hard because with the good comes chall
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by matwood 2y ago
Yeah, just counting bullets does not convey the work involved in defining a new standard prior to implementation.
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by matwood 2y ago
I hope this is parody. The average life expectancy was 35-40. The average person was working 12 hours/day with much of it being heavy labor. No one was going to the pub or having a good meal, they were just trying to survive. I don&#x2
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by matwood 2y ago
The US has enjoyed amazing prosperity, but it was squandered by allowing the majority to only go to the 1% instead of spreading it around through programs like universal healthcare and free education. Thinking that workers would still be wo
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by matwood 2y ago
> Curious if there is anyone here who genuinely sees this as short-term pain / long-term gain for American economic interests. I think at a base level someone must think that isolationism is good. Personally I think the world should
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by matwood 2y ago
Back the blue, unless of course it's the Capitol Police.
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by matwood 2y ago
...or is lying covers most of what he says.
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by matwood 2y ago
Why are you only blaming Biden? Trump put more stimulus into the economy than Biden did. Both are culpable if looking at raw numbers. Additionally, I would argue that PPP loans from Trump's CARE act were mostly a failure, transferring
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by matwood 2y ago
> White House should be furious. Furious that Amazon is highlighting the WH's bullshit line that consumers won't pay for the tariffs?
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by matwood 2y ago
Trump stabs everyone in the back eventually. It highlights the narcissism of all the tech CEOs that they somehow thought they would be different.
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by matwood 2y ago
I’m not sure talking about guns in the US is proving what you want. The US has a much higher gun murder rate per capita than most other high income countries. It’s in fact near the top with active war zones. When everyone has weapons, more
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by matwood 2y ago
What ‘conservative views’ are being terminated in mathematics departments?
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by matwood 2y ago
Trump has always been a terrible executor even when getting the initial idea correct. See all his failed businesses. In this case, along with the tariffs, his frame of reference is 40+ years out of date. He thinks that people will do whatev
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by matwood 2y ago
His poll numbers have dropped, so people are starting to shift. What’s fascinating is the how effective propaganda has been in the age of social media and Fox News. It used to sequestered to AM radio. For example, to see his supporters rail
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by matwood 2y ago
> There is nothing to suggest that the fall of the United States and subsequent replacement (with whatever may come) will reverse the thousand year trend of increased education and decreased violence. The US recently put the world on not
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by matwood 2y ago
> What comes after will be more transparent, more fair, and more integrated with society. No one is claiming that US been or will ever be perfect, but what are you smoking? Everything that's happened in the current administration ha
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by matwood 2y ago
> can become a church? Now we're talking about something that needs its non-profit status revoked...
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by matwood 2y ago
> Reason and truth are the enemy of authoritarian regimes. They want you to believe that truth is subjective. Truth and reason provide alternative legitimacy to authority. If nothing is true, there is no basis on which to judge those in
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by matwood 2y ago
It's worse. SCOTUS says he's immune to any law while POTUS meaning he can have people commit crimes on his behalf and then pardon them (or simply commit them himself). See the 1/6 insurrectionists.
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by matwood 2y ago
> I would really like my tax money used more efficiently Except by most accounts so far it was being used efficiently by the federal workforce. This whole debacle will end up costing the US tax payer more money. See cutting the IRS or
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by matwood 2y ago
Those watching and reading Fox News who will likely completely the ignore the story.

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