ramesh31

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by ramesh31 5y ago
>Then let natural selection run its course to favor reason. Well we are, and thus the exploding case numbers right now in the anti-vax portions of the US. Darwinism is not a great public health policy though.
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>But please fight these idiots with facts and not authoritarian censorship. You can't reason someone out of something that they didn't reason themselves into. We've seen time and again that "fact checking" only m
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>Generally though the Pinkerton's beating on union guys or the union guys dealing with scrabs resembles a gang war more than a "literal war" That's the quaint history book narrative we like to think about in relation
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>As a result, the existing national unions have repeatedly demonstrated that they’re not interested in improving working conditions for their members. It always comes down to this. And you can argue endlessly about the various failings o
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by ramesh31 5y ago
I know there's a lot of hate for the Teamsters union in particular. Corruption exists in every human institution. But in the modern oligarchy that is the US, where politicians are completely bought and paid for with corporate money, or
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>Burnout and boredom are dramatically different concepts. Are they though? I really can't imagine "burning out" on something I didn't find boring. And vice versa. The rest of the advice seems to boil down to "tak
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by ramesh31 5y ago
Everything gets boring after the initial rush of learning a new skill. Everything. I'm certain that even astronauts are "over it" by the 3rd or 4th time they go to space. The key is seeking out orthogonal fields. Luckily with
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>"Why is that? What's wrong with SF for dating? (just curious)" Where to begin? The tech industry is massively skewed towards male, so right off the bat your odds of meeting someone in your work life is near nil. Then, wit
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>and aren't living in some rural area (or san francisco lol) That was a good laugh. I think in retrospect spending my 20s in San Francisco had a lot to do with now being single in my 30s.
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>I know people who met and got married in their 40s... It all depends on what you're looking for I guess. Certainly you can get married in your 40s. But at that point having a single child, let alone a few, becomes a monumental task
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>I'm 33, only a few months into my current relationship, and I have to say that dating is so much better at this age than it ever was. You can get lucky. There are certainly unicorns out there. Or you can date younger, if you'r
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by ramesh31 5y ago
I've never been so envious of happily married people in my life. Being single throughout this ordeal has broken me mentally, particularly at an age (31) where I'm staring down the last couple years of being able to meet someone my
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>I really believed computers would make people smarter, better informed, able to make more rational decisions. They'd understand and trust science more, make better political decisions. As a 90's kid who grew up online, this wa
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>I always had a feeling that "engineer shortage" articles are only made to push people into studying CS so employers can drive wages (even) lower. And it's working. In the last 10 years, CS has gone from an obscure group o
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by ramesh31 5y ago
We all hate it, but it pays the bills. It's ultimately better to be in this position as a thoughtful person aware of the consequences of your work, since they would just replace you with someone less conscionable otherwise.
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by ramesh31 5y ago
Getting too big for my britches, and thinking that recruiter emails = job offers. I quit a lucrative junior position that had just promoted me to mid level thinking I would have multiple big offers lined up immediately. After 6 months of de
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by ramesh31 5y ago
This goes for pretty much everything in life. People generally won't care how competent you are if they like having you around.
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It's also a calculated risk. Every ICO in existence has its' detractors. But with so much free funny money floating around, the calculation is heavily outweighed towards FOMO.
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>There are thousands of people just looking for that one weird trick to get rich. Increasingly I think they're the smart ones. I'm sitting here working my butt off for a few thousand dollars a month, while these guys raised hun
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>As I get older, I do not understand how known scammers, especially the ones that raise millions over and over, get support time and time again. Con artists are good at what they do. People are a thousand times easier to hack than a data
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by ramesh31 5y ago
>How is it possible to keep a private key private, if you have to use 3rd party hardware and software (no one builds their own computer components), to use the key? It isn't. And this is the fundamental problem with using crypto for
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by ramesh31 5y ago
> It wasn't so long ago that pilots weather info was just a print out. It also wasn't so long ago that scheduled domestic US airliners crashed on a fairly regular basis. That doesn't happen anymore because of advances in t