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by maximente 6y ago
yikes, this is painful to read. the power software engineers wield is almost unfair, compared to non-software laborers - there's unlimited ways in which to get paid fairly well, ridiculously easy lifestyle, and also work on tech that a
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by maximente 6y ago
this is perhaps controversial but i actually think datomic is so powerful, it's worth using clojure for. in other words, the database is driving the choice of programming language. the idea of viewing a database as an immutable state
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by maximente 6y ago
in your future ideas section you have listed a few features or directions that the software could go. what about selling those? in my mind, in order to monetize a greenfields FLOSS project, it seems you need to basically create software so
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by maximente 6y ago
i think you are not mentioning meth and heroin, despite them being on the RAND report from 2012 (one may suspect that order/rank may have morphed significantly since then), because the conversation around legalization around them would
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by maximente 6y ago
that's fair, although i will say that people tend to complicate these things to a ridiculous degree, coming up with a laundry list of reasons they can or cannot make strides towards these goals.
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by maximente 6y ago
hypothesis: "technology" is largely data collection platforms with thin veneers on top (social networking, dating, food delivery, etc) if you agree with that premise, then it's no surprise that every possible source of data t
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by maximente 6y ago
google legal frequently shares information with legal departments from other tech companies when it comes to moderating/acting upon content/users. in fact, the big tech companies' legal teams share information pretty regularl
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by maximente 6y ago
yeah, honestly i'm sort of worried about decade+ effects of coffee with intermittent fasting (read: coffee on very empty stomach). i am about 3 years in. i don't eat until the afternoon probably 85% of the time, but typically have
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by maximente 6y ago
i think it's typically 40x, but yeah, although IME it's not super religiously followed. a lot of landlords are fairly reasonable when it comes to working things out if you're close, especially now as vacancies are way up.
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by maximente 6y ago
to whom is it offensive? there is no sense of honor or duty when it comes to mating, LTRs or even hookups - it's largely a factor of mutual attraction and the extent to which both parties want to continue it (and perhaps have children)
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Tesla Semi(tesla.com)
70 points by maximente 6y ago|58 comments
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by maximente 6y ago
don't take this personally, but you sound lazy, afraid, and without a mission in life. if you're seriously considering what you yourself have called an "irrelevant" and "outdated" thing that will take up, in al
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by maximente 6y ago
i think it's really tricky because we aren't really smart when it comes to dealing with the future and/or counterfactuals. risk averse investors (?) may want a lot to go towards prevention of catastrophic but perhaps lower pr
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by maximente 6y ago
> Personally I think we should be hiring on merit rather than any other factors. if by merit you mean competency in coding, and by years of experience you effectively mean years in coding, what you have stated here is directly in conflic
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by maximente 6y ago
what's your point, exactly? men are way more likely to apply for jobs when they don't meet the requirements than women are, generally. if you're legitimately using years of experience as a /hard/ cutoff, you're
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by maximente 6y ago
> A big part of the problem is Minneapolis’s moderates have turned a blind eye to the problems in their police force for years that is a massive leap in agency that doesn't seem appropriate at all. any cities' "moderates&q
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by maximente 6y ago
it is absolutely precious to see software engineers wake up to the reality that they are, at the end of the day, plain ol' labor and are thus treated like labor when capital gets itself moving in a particular direction. all of the atte
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by maximente 6y ago
executive compensation is not handled the same as rank and file vanilla labor compensation - which SWEs are, despite (seemingly, most of) their world views to the contrary.
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by maximente 6y ago
there's no value add - other countries aren't really concerned with security theatre to the extent that the US (maybe UK?) is. witness the difference between screening at e.g. international airports outside of US/UK and then
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by maximente 6y ago
why does it bother you? you're thinking like some individual laborer in a weirdly abstract sense, not like the person paying them. hint: you aren't paid based on your worth, you're paid based on, in general, the lowest that y
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by maximente 6y ago
a little bit :) most helpful for me was making a "said i'd do it" category on my planning document. it has led me to: - commit to doing things i put on the list - even if they suck - lead me to promising to do a lot less thin
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by maximente 6y ago
integrity issue IMO. you're OK with making commitments and not delivering on them. controversial, perhaps, but fixing your integrity issues can go a long way. part of that means making commitments that matter, not role-playing about th
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by maximente 6y ago
actually, paying people more in unemployment than they made working is great public health policy for maintaining quarantine, aligning financial incentives with desired behavior. quite shocking that the US government managed to get it done.
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by maximente 6y ago
such a small trite comment can't really be taken by itself as a consideration of whether or not amazon has behaved in an anti-competitive manner. it's not appropriate to look at a part of amazon's portfolio in isolation; thei
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by maximente 6y ago
this is a horribly irrational and generally unwise way to live your life, imo
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by maximente 6y ago
link to paper please if available online?
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by maximente 6y ago
i doubt it, for big tech anyway. those larger tech companies get a fair chunk of change from .gov (e.g. US DoD cloud JEDI contract as well as lord knows whatever classified/black projects); they also aren't subject to NSA offensiv
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by maximente 6y ago
i don't think morality is really useful here: right or wrong, it doesn't matter. labor is labor; that software engineers are a talented, "woke" (or at least perceived as such) group of labor doesn't change anything.
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by maximente 6y ago
you're almost certainly not in a vacation hotspot. in FL, many of the coastal counties have banned short term airbnb style renting indefinitely. miami dade and broward counties in FL are still uber locked down and won't even be co
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by maximente 6y ago
i am an owner of a purism and this seems great if only to push forward full openness down to the hardware/schematics level. i also like the trackball. but... that enclosure looks kind of thick and blocky for a heavy travel setup. it al

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