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by redisman 5y ago
I didn’t find that to be the case at all. In the beginning it was ok but once the days and shifts start to blend into a large unmemorable mess of tedium my mental state very quickly made me find other lines of work. I couldn’t shake the fee
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by redisman 5y ago
Most manual labor has you doing a handful of quite repetitive moves over and over and over until something breaks and you retire on disability. Some people seem to think it’s like going to the gym or something smh
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by redisman 5y ago
You could sell your item in a shady alley for money/drugs instead of through the developers marketplace for their in-game currency.
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by redisman 5y ago
I don’t understand why would that be an asterisk. Anyway they have the multiplayer game with the biggest reach (Fortnite) and they develop the premier game engine Unreal. I don’t see why they wouldn’t be in a good position to make a play in
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by redisman 5y ago
The reason is that if you’re working in any realistic room people have in their house you’ll be standing or sitting or laying down. I doubt there Will be a better text only device than the keyboard so you have to be able to reach that. You
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by redisman 5y ago
> have emails look like a stack of papers that you could actually process - pick up, hold, throw in a trashcan For some reason this is a hilarious image in many ways. Perfect example of imagining the future being a better horse. But it a
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by redisman 5y ago
That demographic makes sense. If you’re 40 you grew up with the birth of video games, you read the sci-fi and the early hype and failure of multiple VR products along get decades and you have a bunch of disposable income
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by redisman 5y ago
After seeing some of the programming environments people have posted here in the last few months I’m becoming more convinced. I’d love to test out a VR work environment where I can sit on a fairly realistic mountain top or in a quiet forest
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by redisman 5y ago
They changed the game spamming algorithms from insane to useless. It was many orders of magnitude less traffic so I’d imagine most of those games are in life support or shut down
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by redisman 5y ago
We’re seeing only the first iteration of NFTs. Gaming can be interesting. Like if WoW had some unique Legendaries in NFT form I think that would be interesting and lucrative. I’m not sure if the incentive is there for existing games because
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by redisman 5y ago
Exactly. Poor countries have huge problems other than low salaries. Corruption, crime, lack of freedoms, bad infrastructure, poor investment options, etc. As much as many Americans like to think their country sucks, it’s a literal dream lan
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by redisman 5y ago
Asynchronous is the real difficult part. A lot of companies already have offices in locations with good engineering talents and they usually work as a independent unit. It’s just really hard to coordinate a project when you have 0-1h of pos
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by redisman 5y ago
As much as people deride it, and I'm not trying to defend the book or Tim on what's on the page - but it definitely started a little ember in my head on thinking about WLB more seriously. I guess I'd be happy with a 4-day wor
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by redisman 5y ago
Ok so we’re back to offshoring as a silver bullet. Consider me extremely skeptical having lived through the last offshoring scare. I do think the global best engineers are about to get a big raise though.
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by redisman 5y ago
Let’s not jump to any hasty conclusions
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by redisman 5y ago
This is the opposite of a HEPA filter as it’s emitting particles into the air
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by redisman 5y ago
Yeah the first step if you want to be successful on some metric is to type “time tracker” into AppStore search and see that is completely hopeless and pick something else that doesn’t already have 100+ professional and commercial implementa
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by redisman 5y ago
Maybe if you’re manning a conveyor belt. I couldn’t care less when my coworkers get their work done and think it’s completely reasonable if someone wants to shift some hours around if it makes their life easier/more enjoyable
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by redisman 5y ago
> they implicitly assume that non-parents can and should 'pick up the slack' Not accurate. I expect management to “pick up the slack”. If the work can’t be finished in a normal work week then that’s not my problem (and it wasn’
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by redisman 5y ago
Astral codex is now the new Freakonomics
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by redisman 5y ago
Socialized losses, private gains
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by redisman 5y ago
Tech wages are growing at similar rates if not more
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by redisman 5y ago
I don’t think so. In fact it’s driven the housing market (the one asset class where it could have helped) into financial speculation yet again
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by redisman 5y ago
It’s naive at best. If there’s no mechanism for externalities then why would we stop burning coal and oil when the infrastructure is already in place?
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by redisman 5y ago
Why not both
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by redisman 5y ago
Nuclear should be subsidized to keep them online for sure. All governments should want a backbone that can work under any circumstances (excerpt flooding I guess )
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by redisman 5y ago
Wow that’s so great. If you’re filthy rich
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by redisman 5y ago
Wikipedia has a major recent events section which is the closest thing to this I’ve seen
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by redisman 5y ago
I don’t have to maintain a facade. Most companies don’t actually give a hoot if you buy into the CEOs blabberings. They care if I can get my tasks done on time and with decent quality. It’s all a part of the Gervais principle
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by redisman 5y ago
I know, I’m creating CRUD as we speak

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