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by ptero 3y ago
As a person who is generally suspicious of regulation on the grounds that it is an always growing beast (rules do not get revisited enough and rejected when they become an unneeded complexity), this viewpoint is spot on for me. And while th
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by ptero 3y ago
Boeing makes a lot of different products. If I worked at Boeing I probably wouldn't want to work at a next company that smears all Boeing employees with the same brush. If I worked at the 737 Max quality control it would be another sto
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by ptero 3y ago
Heh, I have grown up not having the toilet paper -- workers paradise, stores carrying mostly the necessities, and luxuries like the toilet paper are only for the few big cities. Using scraps of paper does not kill you. And dental work witho
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by ptero 3y ago
This is exactly what I am suggesting to address. We currently have separate narratives of "<side 1> engages in manipulation, here is their misinformation" which polarizes and causes highly emotional reactions against the e
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by ptero 3y ago
That is a solvable issue -- give examples of manipulation and misinformation for both sides in roughly equal quantities. There is no shortage of examples for any argument. Nothing helps making people manipulation resistant like seeing manip
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by ptero 3y ago
I didn't claim that the cause of the problem was with manufacturing capacity. But if the US didn't have implicit price controls ("just try raising prices 3x at this time of national need, you will regret it" from polit
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by ptero 3y ago
There is no such thing in the US as a truly free market. While rising prices for the toilet paper would have quickly solved the shortage situation it would have elicited the wrath of local and national authorities. And those authorities can
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by ptero 3y ago
Agree on "being unemployed does not look great", but senior, financially secure folks that chose to take a year off will likely have "developing tools to deploy X at Y at a stealth startup" or some such on their resume i
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by ptero 3y ago
While there is a basis for many of your points, the overall take is a quite a bit too doomsday-ish. Many senior software engineers have financial cushion. This market will probably get worse before it gets better, but like after dotcom boom
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by ptero 3y ago
Downvoted are for comments that do not appear to add value. That's not a rigorous definition, but in practice it works reasonably well. The original comment made a pretty explosive claim without any rationalization. Without some subs
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by ptero 3y ago
He might be. Or he might not be. He did not provide any justification or even argument, so his post reads like a simple flamebait. We should keep those on reddit. My 2c.
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by ptero 3y ago
I think (although not sure) that cell phone on planes ban was much less about interference with plane electronics and more about the poor handling of a rapidly moving phone on ground cell networks at the time. Enough flying phones would cau
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by ptero 3y ago
Mate, please tone it down a notch, this is not reddit. You make some good points, which will likely get downvoted and hidden just for the writing style that has nothing to do with your argument. My 2c.
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by ptero 3y ago
There are plenty of one-off tasks that can cause a short, transient memory need. Killing anything due to this is generally a bad idea. As an example: I run a small Hetzner cloud instance (for about $4.50/month) for quick prototyping wh
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by ptero 3y ago
> The service is specifically for non-average users who want to maximize privacy. That I think is a pretty small sliver of Proton users. Users who want to maximize privacy are certainly there, but I think most simply want a stable email
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by ptero 3y ago
"Does not care" is not the case here. Folks usually do care about the wishes of their ancestors and take those into account. But when there is a clear conflict between the wishes of the living and the wishes of the dead, the livin
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by ptero 3y ago
There is no ideal solution to this; if this is important to you, find someone (a person or a company) to handle your final wishes when you die. But that agreement should be a private one, not something that the society should be enforcing.
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by ptero 3y ago
I may be wrong, but I think the alleged victim writes a financial column at one of the pretty big houses. And covered scams before. I would be really surprised if that person stuffs $50k in cash into a shoebox for an "undercover CIA
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by ptero 3y ago
Why? An honest question, I thought undersea cable repair is a common, straightforward procedure. In this case the repair ship might need some air defense, but US or UK could easily provide that.
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by ptero 3y ago
This. Good code is clean and has a well thought through internal architecture. LLM-ifying the code and treating it as a black box (if it passes the tests, it is acceptable) is tempting, but it works until it does not and the "does not&
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by ptero 3y ago
And he is saying AMD focusing on non-GPU markets and going from being a laughable underdog to a powerhouse hardly qualifies as "being asleep at the wheel".
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by ptero 3y ago
Limiting the time of the protection would go a long way towards its acceptance. With the speed of technology today, 3-5 years seems reasonable. Anything beyond this is an overkill. This also discourages early filing (which now causes to mos
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by ptero 3y ago
> Getting fired is widely considered to be the individual’s fault (e.g., non-performance). I’ve heard something about the standard being “egregious misconduct”, but that’s just beyond the details that I know about. I have no real informa
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by ptero 3y ago
Are you sure about the unemployment? Given that it is usually administered by the state (at least in the US) I am surprised that any non-criminal involuntarily termination would be rejected for the unemployment benefits. But IANAL and perso
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by ptero 3y ago
A few of those thoughts I completely agree on: results of overhiring, and technology enabling bigger impact by fewer people seem spot on to me. But a few I find strange. For example, a semi-implicit assumption that hiring, profits and stock
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by ptero 3y ago
Yes, but hardware is hard. Reliably building up to enough volume to put a dent in Nvidia sales is extremely hard and independent of designing the successful product, tying it to current software APIs and convincing users. I am not surprised
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by ptero 3y ago
I would agree: while not impossible, it seems like some key information is missing. On the one hand I would definitely expect zero empathy from a hedge fund. They should pay big bucks (pounds in this case), but if they consider an employee
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by ptero 3y ago
You generally cannot downvote old posts (24 hrs and above I think, but not sure), but can upvote for months (maybe forever). Was the post you checked with no downvote arrows older than 24 hrs?
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by ptero 3y ago
Just a single data point and a personal opinion, take with a grain of salt. The companies do hire principal and staff levels from such postings (as well as from other channels). But even more important, many companies are open to hire at
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by ptero 3y ago
Is 100g mentioned in the writeup a common size? A few times I tried it, visiting friends (in the US) the onigiri felt smaller than this. Although maybe they felt smaller because they disappeared so fast.

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