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by satellites 4y ago
Every time I raise an issue like this with a manager, the manager makes all the right noises but nothing actually changes. Maybe I’m just not direct enough. But I’ve never had a conversation with a boss about an issue like a role mismatch a
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by satellites 4y ago
Thanks for posting. I happen to be putting in my notice today at my current role, and this helps validate my reasons for leaving.
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by satellites 4y ago
I bet they’d be even happier if they were paid the same as American workers, seeing as they’re doing the same job. If a minimum wage worker happens to enjoy what they do, that doesn’t mean that we should all settle for minimum wage. Your ar
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by satellites 4y ago
> And the Indian devs work their ass off out of fear of getting PIP’d and with their work authorization, they lose their job means they have to leave the country. This matches what I saw at Nike. Though it was a bit less extreme, it was
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by satellites 4y ago
Capital and the Capital-owned State work in tandem to make things like this happen. They are one and the same.
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by satellites 4y ago
Answer: yes.
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by satellites 4y ago
Absolute bullshit. Not that communist countries were particularly environmentalist. But the US has mastered the art of offloading negative externalities to the third world while pretending to care about the environment. On the whole, the US
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by satellites 4y ago
Office birthday parties are the perfect analogy for the hollow, “happy” facade that Meta has presented thus far.
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by satellites 5y ago
Paying to become a co-op member is optional. Not required for listening. The latter seems like an issue though. It would be great to be able to convert a listener account into an artist account, or to have both under one account entity.
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by satellites 5y ago
This seems really cool. Its aim should not be to usurp Spotify (will never happen since major record labels are entrenched in Spotify now). Rather, I could see this as an alternative to Bandcamp or other similar indie music sites. I actuall
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by satellites 5y ago
But crypto coins are so much more trustworthy and secure than traditional financial institutions... /s
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by satellites 5y ago
I've had this argument on HN before and I'm generally against that - I don't think the ability to pass a standardized licensing test is any more of a marker of a good engineer than an interview is. If anything, it's less
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by satellites 5y ago
I can't imagine that you'd compare this idea with firefighting. Firefighting: a public good, paid for with public tax dollars, so that you don't have to worry about paying out of pocket for fire defense. They just show up whe
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by satellites 5y ago
No, it's still feedback. It indicates an extremely negative emotional response to this idea, or even in the most cynical view, it represents the fact that there is social clout to be gained by having an extremely negative emotional res
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by satellites 5y ago
You're saying that as if it means tech should have a large, expensive barrier to entry. That financial barrier is a problem in those other fields too, and it does disproportionately affect people from disadvantaged backgrounds in tho
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by satellites 5y ago
> Is this sustainable, though? Easily. Few people stay at a software engineering job for more than a year or two as it is. I went almost 4 years without staying at one job for more than a year, and not a single recruiter batted an eye th
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by satellites 5y ago
That may be true for management-type positions, but at least in my experience, engineering is somewhat more merit-based. As long as you're good at interviewing you can get a job regardless of who you know. Obviously, having connections
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by satellites 5y ago
Because with a trivially large enough network of friends willing to game the system, you could just keep buying each other top-paying jobs over the course of a few years. So long as you're at least a mediocre engineer, you can make it
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by satellites 5y ago
Sure, but who is benefiting? It could catch on because companies and bosses like it, but it could harm workers for all kinds of reasons. Thus, workers need to loudly voice their concerns, so that companies will be discouraged from adopting
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by satellites 5y ago
Picture the inverse. Would you really email an old boss from 2 years ago asking for $50 so you can buy yourself a new job? I would not, nor would I want coworkers asking me for money. Imagine if someone asks you and for whatever reason you
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by satellites 5y ago
Airbnb is not a good example - it still has its own problems and controversy. But even with that said, it is nowhere near as ripe for abuse and fraud as Skip the Interview is. Also, there's already a solution for reputation - the stand
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by satellites 5y ago
I think people are defensive and outraged because if something like this ever caught on among tech companies and became a normalized practice, it would make the process of job seeking much more frustrating than it already is. It's basi
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by satellites 5y ago
Maybe it's the Silicon Valley (HBO) joke about how every startup says they're "making the world a better place," but dramatic titles like this make me automatically roll my eyes. Reading further, it seems like this is th
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by satellites 5y ago
Is this really just a two-sentence article? Is Reuters a news site or just a mouthpiece for the U.S. security state? I don’t understand how this is considered journalism. There are no specifics whatsoever.
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by satellites 5y ago
That is very true. I’m just wondering how this even became an article. It’s a government statement with zero citations or elaboration.
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by satellites 5y ago
In many areas of the country, the pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction. Malls are dying and downtowns are rising again. America chose Wal Mart and then regretted it. The death of Main Street and the associated economic insecurity
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by satellites 5y ago
I’m not surprised that this was written by a self-described serial entrepreneur. It has all the hallmarks of a “capitalism isn’t all that bad, it turned out great for me!” type of view. From a philosophical standpoint I do agree with the au
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by satellites 5y ago
I’d wager they like job security better overall, they just respond strongly to the flashy cheap knicknack in the moment. We really don’t need more cheaply made junk in the world.
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by satellites 5y ago
As opposed to what? The wonderfully secure blockchain-based alternatives where redress for fraud and theft is still handled by… those stodgy old institutions?
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by satellites 5y ago
I’m glad it’s not just me. I enjoy deep conversations with strangers more than I do with people close to me, a lot of times. I don’t know what that says but I find the experience can be very enriching and cathartic.

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