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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“Internally, companies have full on top down planning just like governments.” They are basically run like communist states. 5 year plans, celebrating plan achievement and so on. It’s all there. The only difference is that their outside bord
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It’s part of “hustling”. If you lie and win, you are a “hustler”. If you don’t win you are just a liar.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Empathy is good because you understand people. Psychopaths may have empathy which often makes them good manipulators but they lack sympathy so they don’t feel with others. That’s my understanding.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Personally I have seen a pattern where people who are making more money are less reluctant to ask for money versus people who really don’t have money. They often seem to suffer in silence. I have now seen several occasions where people who
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I agree with you but this is not what this is about.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
" I would hate it if my daughter tried to do that for me." But you are OK if other well-meaning people pay? If you make 200k you can take the hit and you should have known better.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"The ER bill was about $50k and she decided that the best way to pay it was by creating a GoFundMe campaign before she even tried to negotiate with the hospital or fight it with the insurance. " at a minimum she should have tried
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Whenever I see these I tend to think that the people who have the best story will get the most money and not the ones who need it. It's pretty much a market for self-promoters and scammers, not necessarily people who need help. I als
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Exactly. It's an excellent way to validate your idea.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
" those same entities would absolutely prefer that their product does NOT in fact kill their customers or potential customers as that would just reduce their maximum potential profit." But since their products or their production
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
There certainly is a legitimate self defense need for weapons technology. Realistically you cant do without. But things get murky when we start selling weapons to questionable allies.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The free market is very good at reducing prices in some areas but then it would also not serve other areas where there is no profit. So in a free market health system you would see cheap prices for some stuff but people with certain disease
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Mass murder for profit is normal operating procedure. Otherwise we wouldn’t have cigarette companies, mining companies fighting safety regulations or companies fighting tooth and nail to keep leaded gas.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think it needs a mode where you can watch for few minutes while the image slowly develops. That was half of the fun of Polaroids.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"I work out and stay healthy." You are aware that this is not a 100% plan for staying healthy ?
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
There was a backlash but no real consequences (the fine was pretty low compared to the cost of the cleanup). Same for Equifax. Just sit it out and it will be forgotten quickly.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Maybe another interesting factor would be learning curve. I bet C++ and Rust have a pretty steep one compared to Go for example.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Is Rust slower dev time compared to C++? That doesn't sound good. Also C# dev time is much faster than C++. C++ done right is hard.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
How about paying their employees better?
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It depends. If the investors have the money and no crazy loans it just means that the lower price range is not available for the individual buyer anymore.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
this started to get interesting with VB4. Suddenly you could create COM servers which especially back then was really difficult to do in C++. VB6 was a really well rounded tool.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
You have no idea how to control these processes in the long term. There is a good chance that you would trade one problem with a bigger problem.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I am pretty convinced nothing serious will be done. We may get lucky and technology will improve to reduce CO2 output but most likely we’ll just deal with the consequences of climate change. The world has been always been at flux so we may
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"As the essay notes though, I think VB possibly made programming _too_ easy, which led to poorly built and poorly maintained apps." This feels a little elitist to me. VB (and Access) allowed a lot of people to develop mission crit
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Probably a good analogy. And it's also incredibly slow so you need to have a good amount of RAM and CPU cache.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Yes, you need both. I think it's even more important today with the massive amount of information that's available. And in addition you need the skill to look up stuff.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Agreed. I often just want the answer but for a lot of people it’s about the interaction, not the solution.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s total nonsense. Having a good memory is still extremely valuable.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I would like to see that study.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Even in amateur leagues it's pretty annoying to lose against somebody who cheats. When I did kickboxing I knew some people were taking steroids and other stuff so either you have to take stuff yourself or you are in a bad position from

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