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by rjtavares 4y ago
I'm shocked (but not totally surprised) at the response to the concept on HN. I cannot even imagine how one could think this is a good thing - necessary, I can understand, but not a good thing. I don't even know how to argue that
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by rjtavares 4y ago
Yeah, I really want this to happen. I follow really interesting people for their thoughts about one topic (say, Movies), but whose tweets about topics like politics I really dislike (not necessarily things I disagree with, usually I just di
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by rjtavares 4y ago
The madlad did it. Almost 10 years and 10 revolutions later, the podcast is over. If you haven't, now is a good time to binge it.
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Well my friends, I just hit publish on the final episode of Revolutions(twitter.com)
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If that was the case expenses would never be rejected. The truth is more complicated than that.
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by rjtavares 4y ago
I agree, up to a point. I feel that companies up to a few billion dollars in stable revenues in a non data intensive business don't need teams of Data Scientists, but would benefit from some people having Data Science skills (both Data
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by rjtavares 4y ago
If you bought BTC before centralized actors became dominant, you didn't lose money. If you bought BTC after, you should have known that could happen.
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Oh shit... This whole thread is making me nervous, but this comment is straight up scary...
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I'm not optimistic. China learned that the West won't get troops involved directly, and Taiwan doesn't have a land border with a nearby friendly airport you can use to supply them with weapons (check https://twitte
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I've seen discussions of extra vacation days for jobs that cannot be WFH. I think that's a fair tradeoff.
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Also highly recommended from the same podcast: the episode on the Han Dynasty. Chinese history is such a fascinating and underexplored topic in "the West", most of what's in that episode was new to me.
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> We need to radically transform our economy. Critical infrastructure (electricity grids, power generation, gas grids, oil refineries and pipelines, telecommunication, rail, road and air transportation, airports, railway grids) must be n
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I agree with all those problems. But what are the solutions?
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The check for capitalism should be democracy (through regulation). If money controls policy, then capitalism is working better than democracy. To balance it you either weaken capitalism or strengthen democracy. I think the latter is a bette
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by rjtavares 4y ago
I think most of the faults atributed to Capitalism are really Democracy not working properly. For profit prisons wouldn't even be a thing if corporate interests didn't have so much power over elected officials.
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Here's a good video with an example (from today, I think): https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1579433935075147777
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by rjtavares 4y ago
There are already US citizens fighting Russia in Ukraine. As long as there's plausible (or honest) deniability, USA and Russia aren't directly engaging in combat.
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No, it's Oracle.
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PeopleSoft became part of Oracle (and now uses the Oracle brand) and some of their people left and founded Workday.
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I can understand the criticism about technical terms (they work better if stable and precise), but regarding the rest: that's just how language works. You can't (and shouldn't) expect words to keep their original meaning fore
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Just like images after text, pretty sure once the novelty of images ends we'll move to animations, music, movies, computer games, and so on.
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So who can replicate the path? The lucky ones?
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by rjtavares 4y ago
> You can look at the types of actions people took to get a big tech job (...) and there's probably a double-digit percent chance of you being able to replicate it. You think more than 700 million people can get a big tech job?
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by rjtavares 4y ago
Can we stop pretending theses things aren't luck? Sure, there's merit involved - but that's a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. There's a million competent people having basically the same drive and capability.
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by rjtavares 5y ago
> you can simply weigh sides with probabilities Absolutely. And is most cases one side has a 60%+ probability. That should be your side.
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by rjtavares 5y ago
Although you have to be careful not to fall into "Enlightened Centrist" mode all the time. While there are usually solid points on both sides of an argument, you should take one side on many (most?) issues.
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by rjtavares 5y ago
Pretty sure competent people anywhere in the world get the same salary in remote only companies. That has actually become a trend in Portugal: people are quitting local companies to get US/German/UK salaries working remotely for U
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by rjtavares 5y ago
This is especially annoying for Portuguese people. Because most Portuguese speakers are Brazilian, sometimes websites default to Brazilian pages or trends. Twitter is becoming almost unusable with their suggested topics - I know they'r
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Statement from Meta on the Russian decision to block access to Facebook(twitter.com)
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Apparently doesn't work outside the US/Canada: > You appear to be accessing the site from outside the United States or Canada. While a credit card from the USA/Canada is required to purchase a monthly membership, it is pos

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