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by pietrovismara 5y ago
> Natural and innate != good. Deception and tribalism, for example, are innate. We still have deception and tribalism anyway. Wouldn't it be wiser to at least preserve also our better innate traits? Altruism is universally recognize
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
That's the point, toddlers don't really discriminate in this case. I'm not even sure if they have the same concept of "strangers" that you have. If we could all preserve this mindset, we would all be better of.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
I'm not sure if I'm misreading the chart, but Health sits just above National Defence, with $796.8 B (12%) of expense, not $1.5T. Anyway it only makes it more absurd; that the US as a nation manages to be the first military world
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
> Italian usually don't benefit from "more tax money' Like Amazon would have used that money for the greater good instead. Like the US is much better at this, throwing trillions of public money in weapons while they can&#x
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
I agree, what I wrote applies only to developers/technical roles as far as I know. I don't really know how it would work for a management position.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
Maybe that's the problem. We stopped giving dance lessons to the ruling class a long time ago, but those lessons have always been the only reason why, as working class, we have the few good things we have.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
Why should we be more productive if all the additional value we create goes up? Why should we do charity for the rich?
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
> Can you speak a bit to your experience with recruiters reaching out to you on Stack Overflow? How frequently do you get reached out to? It's mostly a matter of quality over quantity. On SO I got 4 job offers since September, all o
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
I don't know. It seems easier and more fruitful to build some cred (not even that much) on stackoverflow, then sit down and watch job offers pop up in your inbox without any further effort on your side. If you follow this path the posi
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
> software security education for all developers. 1 year of it. Mandatory. Financial penalties for developers and their employers. Either you offer it completely free to anyone in the entire world, or this is just another barrier to prev
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
Life today is so much better than at any other time in history, because washing machines! And because I'm middle upper class, almost forgot that.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
If you just want to train your new hires: - prepare good documentation - be on a call with them when you have to explain stuff verbally - be available in text chat to answer their questions No need to be always on call like this. I can only
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
I don't think so; it says "moderately". As in, this is a marathon, not a sprint. If you run too fast, you won't get to the end of the race.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
Meritocracy as we imagined it never worked. We just deluded ourselves into thinking we all have a chance, but we deeply know that's not true.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
It's not secret knowledge at all. Just invested 2 minutes in searching: > US health insurers report billions in first quarter as small providers face stress > UnitedHealth Group, reported $4.9bn in profits in the first quarter of
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
> My taxes aren't higher than in the US: IN fact, they might be lower than taxes plus insurance premiums - and that doesn't even touch on the deductibles. I start to think that some people aren't really concerned by the am
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
Then, as someone who doesn't own property, why should I pay taxes that go in police funding just to protect your property? That means higher taxes which is very undesirable for someone who's already near poverty.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
Public money, that as you might know comes from a variety of sources, including taxes. But to say some taxpayer is paying your "free" treatments is a grotesque simplification.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
The worker is always an an autonomous, self-realized human being. It's working as a cog in the machine that alienates him. To stay with the kitchen examples, cooks would not be alienated if they could: - afford to eat where they work -
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
Penguin is great: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ The sci-fi section: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/science-fiction-fan...
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
I don't know, perhaps they could actually create some value, rather than profiting off speculation. That would be a good start.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
I was thinking the same. I do hope the "bubble" bursts, it might be the occasion I get to actually own a house for once.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
Agree to disagree. Nobody does scrum "correctly". Generally only the parts that are supposed to squeeze the most short term value from the employees are picked.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
Arguably THE open source software that revolutionized screen recording and live streaming. Not just software.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
This is correct. I feel there are 2 distinct levels of knowledge with Typescript: the application level and the library level. The application level is fairly easy, but if you want to write libraries with good types you're going to hav
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
"Killing people will fuck you up, no matter if legal or not". Who would have guessed?
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
There are currently 720k unsold houses in the US alone[0]. How is building 100k more going to help anyone but builders? There are probably other factors in play here rather than simple availability. Perhaps we should stop treating housing
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
So you'd rather trust Rupert Murdoch to make your interest? Because it is 100% guaranteed that his news outlets are going to serve only his political agenda.
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
The "about us"[0] page is a bit hidden but explains well the concept. - [0]: https://www.propublica.org/about/
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by pietrovismara 5y ago
The same exact statement is true for private ownership. The difference is that with public funding you can legislate to prevent governments to interfere with the news outlets. When they are privately owned on the other hand, you have no con

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