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by pm90 4y ago
No that totally makes sense. It would be a small fraction of the defense budget. And having an educated and informed populace is just what we need to remain competitive globally.
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by pm90 4y ago
would be so easy for some random billionaire to cut them a check
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by pm90 4y ago
Your inability to get the argument doesn’t distract from the point being made. The article goes into various instances of this phenomenon happening, and your response is that it “sounds bad faith”? Thats not a strong argument.
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by pm90 4y ago
False equivalency.
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by pm90 4y ago
> Pre-Islamic Persia barely appears at all in Western media Wait, you’re talking about Hollywood/ PostWW2 Western media, right? Because if we look back at how Western historians generally framed the events of the eighteenth century
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by pm90 4y ago
From the article: > The men who consume this stuff — and yes, it’s almost exclusively men — tend to believe two things: that ancient Greek and Roman culture are the basis of Western civilization and that these cultures are the exclusive
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by pm90 4y ago
fuck off
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by pm90 4y ago
one issue here is that the spine covers are not universally available; while the book covers themselves are (etc on goodreads)
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by pm90 4y ago
+1 If the local tmux then remembers history and allows looking up commands on the remote shell, that would be huge . Currently all my local work is saved but ssh into another machine? All that work is lost forever unless I explicitly save
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by pm90 4y ago
I use a Braun Series 7. It has detachable heads for different kinds of shaving (body v/s face) and for different “lengths”. It takes a bit more time than a razor to get a close shave, but no chemicals, no waste and no recurring expense
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by pm90 4y ago
Indeed. Japan has amazing urban culture, people and food. Language is definitely a barrier. But the lack of options for long term settlement certainly pushes away all but the most hardcore immigrants.
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by pm90 4y ago
People who work closely with machines develop an instinct for how it operates. If you think about it, all mechanical machines are state machines (in the CS sense) and if you’ve had to work with and fix shit long enough your brain commits th
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by pm90 4y ago
I don’t find anything wrong with being addicted to getting things done if the productivity gains are shared amongst the labor force. Specifically, increase in productivity can be used to eg shorten the workweek even further and demand prote
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by pm90 4y ago
They may be going off the the market very quickly now. That’s exactly how asset inflation works. People living in their homes that are suddenly worth millions of dollars aren't going to sell their homes now necessarily. When they do ge
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by pm90 4y ago
> but if there are buyers, competition, and houses are continuing to move quickly, They’re not though. Thats the whole problem. Asset bubbles can inflate the paper value and there might still be some trading activity. But if nobody can
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by pm90 4y ago
You don’t really sound like a person who writes code for fun. Just because you don’t or cant do it doesn’t mean that others should follow. side projects’ intended audience isn’t future employers. It can be anything the creator wants to hack
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by pm90 4y ago
Agreed. cloud providers’ incentives are aligned with growth which naturally mean easy accessibility; hence all the defaults being generally “open”. Its so easy to make a resource accessible to anyone, or an IP accessible from anywhere in th
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by pm90 4y ago
Im guilty of being rather judgmental of others who performed worse than me in academics. I don’t really want to go into the reasons but, yes its very unhealthy to think that way. People have their reasons for why they choose to focus on som
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by pm90 4y ago
India, the 2/3 largest producer of wheat/rice has strict controls on exports. Other countries will impose restrictions when they realize their poor will rise up in riots. One theory for arab spring is that it started because of ri
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by pm90 4y ago
The Amazon? Yeah sure but not sure thats a good trade: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/amazon...
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by pm90 4y ago
theres some really simple solutions to food waste https://youtu.be/6RlxySFrkIM
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by pm90 5y ago
> I'm curious what you think a Senior+ role should entail in your ideal world. I'm not sure how you can get away from impact, since otherwise I'd perceive that as authority without responsibility. The technical expertise I
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by pm90 5y ago
I agree with this perspective of the world (that senior+ software engineers need to be able to express themselves more fluently to be able to be impactful) but… just as a thought experiment, I wish it didn’t have to be that way. Writing is
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by pm90 5y ago
I agree with this. Making these concepts easy to understand, with examples on how to do this concretely in the company’s custom setup goes a long way in ensuring that developers both understand these things, and like you pointed out, make t
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by pm90 5y ago
> Frankly, the amount of derision I see here and in other tech circles from SWEs against basically every other role in tech makes me think SWEs are the ones with the ego, for that matter. I can believe this. It’s especially funny when bu
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by pm90 5y ago
> Instead in the corporate world we have layers of layers of management demanding progress reports and skill assessments and performance rankings and velocity audits and what have you. I'm sure this eats way more time than if they j
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by pm90 5y ago
I haven’t implied any of the things that you’ve asserted.
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by pm90 5y ago
This story actually does mention that. And while I understand the desire to dismiss the whole company, it should be remembered that companies, like any communities, are large and diverse.
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by pm90 5y ago
> To this day, I believe these new leaders had a fundamental misunderstanding of what problem Uber’s SRE organization was solving (enabling bottoms-up organization with highly fluid priorities that weren’t resolved into a single priority
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by pm90 5y ago
Both these views are incorrect. Software is one of the only professions in the US where non executives have managed to enjoy a sliver of the increase in compensation that executives do in most other sectors of the economy. The spectacular

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