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by paganel 10mo ago
Thanks a lot!
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by paganel 10mo ago
> the Mississippi River Valley had more millionaires per capita TIL. Does anyone have any good recommendations for a (relatively) good social/economic history of the Southern US states? (because I guess that that type of history boo
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by paganel 10mo ago
> And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation. Ellul and Uncle Ted were always right, glad that people deep inside the industry are slowly but surely also becoming a
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by paganel 10mo ago
For those interested in the subject (and who can also read French) I also heartily recommend the most recent edition of Augustin Thierry's Récits des temps mérovingiens [1]. Of course that it has most probably long been surpassed whe
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by paganel 10mo ago
That's a very neat idea! If you ever have the time to do it you should try it out, in fact you've gave me an idea of trying to do the same for my city, Bucharest, just need to find some relevant data-sources.
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by paganel 10mo ago
A lot more compared to 3-4 years ago, still not reason enough to sell my soul and trying to re-enter the rat race.
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by paganel 10mo ago
Getting a salary that pays rent/mortgage and puts food on the table doesn't always have to be about being in a rat race (which is what the "laddering" bs really means), to the contrary.
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by paganel 10mo ago
At first I though it was a metaphorical hippy way of writing about this industry, which would have been par for the course, but it looks like the author really did mean it, he really does think in the ladder and "levelling" bs. Al
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by paganel 10mo ago
No need to throw daggers at Wayne Rooney just like that!
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by paganel 10mo ago
It's a good thing that the anti-comprador discourse has find its way on this forum, too, out here in Eastern Europe they (the compradors, that is) occupy almost all positions of power, it's really tiring. Back to the article, it o
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by paganel 10mo ago
> I just fundamentally disagree that there is some threshold below which people can't make decisions about their own life or career. Stuff happens to you and to one's family that you just cannot "strategize" your lif
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by paganel 10mo ago
Statements like this one come for a position of privilege, which is to be expected on a forum like this one targeting techies who are most probably solidly middle-class, but just wanted to point that out. More exactly, most of the (normal)
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by paganel 10mo ago
You’re correct on all things in principle, but hiding one’s subversive thoughts (or what may be catalogued by any given regime as subversive) only plays into the regime’s hands, because it atomizes any chance of real resistance. It is much
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by paganel 10mo ago
I'm talking about the front page of this tech forum, where a lot of users have received money (as employees) from Microsoft and Alphabet. And I know that this isn't the first time when the names of Gates and Brin were connected to
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by paganel 10mo ago
This should have been higher up, never saw it on the front page, but I guess engineers who take home at least 600k in yearly comps are ok with working for pedos. Also see the divorce of Melinda Gates from her husband, which took place just
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by paganel 10mo ago
They should be able to discipline their kids, if not, then it means that they're not capable parents and social services should be called on them.
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by paganel 10mo ago
I thought we were talking about human-scale (as in not multi-human) projects, my bad.
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by paganel 10mo ago
There are always unknown unknowns which a rigorous testing implementation would just hide under the rug (until they become visible on live, that is). > They had 9000+ tests. They were most probably also written by AI, there's no oth
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by paganel 10mo ago
Everything mentioned in the article was inevitable (maybe not in this exact form, but as a principle) for us fans of Jacques Ellul and Uncle Ted. At least the money was quite good for many in the industry, for some of them it still is.
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by paganel 10mo ago
> China changing the narrative on dictatorships There was no "change of narrative", the West just stopped delivering, similar to what happened to the Soviet system starting with the 1970s (and which ended the way it did by the
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by paganel 10mo ago
By “calling out” you mean invading, or what, exactly? And haven’t you guys had enough of fighting “evil” while causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians? See Iraq.
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by paganel 10mo ago
Still seems to work via the desktop interface while accessing the old.reddit version, at least it worked a couple of days ago for me, I can't speak for the new web version nor for their phone app, cause I'm not using those.
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by paganel 11mo ago
> Given that he literally swam across the Caspian Sea in order Why didn't he take the ferry there?
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by paganel 11mo ago
Not in the UK, but from Romania, I last checked Tripadvisor back in 2012, and that was for a holiday stay in the Greek islands. Google Maps has eaten the lunch of almost all of the entrants in this space, and I say that having worked for a
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by paganel 11mo ago
> there are no billing caps or credit-based billing. Was really curious about that when I saw this in the posted article: > I had some spare cash to burn on this experiment, Hopefully the article's author is fully aware of the r
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by paganel 11mo ago
> technosolutionist I'm going to steal this for my arrr rspod conversations.
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by paganel 11mo ago
> I don't think we should normalise children on platforms where the content contains political agitation Why not? Why won't you give political agency to young adults? I'm saying this as a kid who grew up in Romania, just a
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by paganel 11mo ago
> tech workers, or some other group? This was in the context of innovation (or lack thereof), and this being a tech-website then, yes, I'm mostly talking about tech workers. One cannot have (tech) innovation while getting paid 5 to
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by paganel 11mo ago
> I’m often horrified to follow them down the rabbit hole and see it is a Redditor’s comment. Genuine question, how are you able to do that? Searching by exact matches with some portions of the AI suggested "response"? Some oth
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by paganel 11mo ago
Our salaries have certainly not kept up with the pace from across the Atlantic, I'm talking last 10 to 15 years.

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