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by ren_engineer 5y ago
the point is that generally there is some expectation of loyalty to the country that allowed you to become super-rich in the first place. In finance specifically many of these people participated in outsourcing a huge chunk of the American
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
the entire point is that companies spend far more money having to replace current employees because they don't give raises. Recruiting and onboarding a new engineer takes months and the lost productivity is at least 100K when you facto
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
in a world of at-will employment, why would anybody go the extra mile for an employer? Trust and loyalty are 2 way streets, the social contract has been broken by corporations
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
>The odd thing about this is that gold, the traditional inflation hedge has gone nowhere fast my guess would be people are putting that money into bitcoin
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
drug cartels "touch" the lives of millions of people and make billions in revenue and I'd say they are a net negative for society most consumer apps are net negatives that sell digital dopamine hits and studies have shown mak
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
maybe in the 60s, current NASA is living off past accomplishments
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
pay more money or any other incentive that would cause more people to be interested in the job. Why do you think FAANG has hundreds of applications for each job while startups struggle to hire?
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
there's a difference between a fan and a fan boy who worships everything he does.
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
Musk is pretty much the dream of what every nerd wants to become. There's a lot of jaded people on HN who think they are just as smart/talented as Musk but don't have anywhere near the success. They deal with the cognitive di
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
based on trends of Western companies bending over backwards to fulfil China's whims, I'd say the odds are more likely this gets exported around the world
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
this, social media platforms really have minimal incentive to ban bots until it starts hurting their bottom line.
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
the people calling to ban crypto don't care about the environment, that's just an easy selling point for them to garner public support from people who normally wouldn't care. It's all about control of the financial syste
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
this implies their actual service and marketing website are running on the same infrastructure, which is unlikely
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by ren_engineer 5y ago
>Why is everyone in such a rush? because most people are desperate to get a job that provides them a decent standard of living