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by sershe 5y ago
Being a hitman is more likely to have actual moral consequences affecting other people, although e.g. a hitman killing a warlord might be more moral than a software developer working on Great Firewall. All of the rest comes down to baseless
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by sershe 5y ago
It is not me who is confused. In either case selling time IS selling limited power over yourself, the use of your capabilities. My employer pays me to think about their problems and solve them with my brain (and fingers). A client of a sex
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by sershe 5y ago
You might as well say the same thing about software developers. Instead of working honest jobs with their hands like most people, they just have to sit in a chair and be smart. Even if they get a real job, when the times get rough they will
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by sershe 5y ago
The "small monopoly" in this thread is Paul Graham, who created his capital himself. First-a, he deserves what he has (as far as you can make such a statement in a complex society). He provided some value, got paid for it, he now
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by sershe 5y ago
How does hiring immigrants fit into this pipeline? Every team I've worked was majority immigrant (myself included ;), from entry level all the way to a few layers up the management chain. Most didn't go to any US schools.
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by sershe 5y ago
That assumes everyone has a realistic view of their contribution. I've definitely worked with "10x" engineers, and also "0.1x" engineers, and a good share of the latter would be really offended if the pay was fair a
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by sershe 5y ago
Where do you draw a boundary? What you're saying is "you are doing a thing that is bad for you, /I/ know better what /you/ should be doing". You can talk about externalities, but unless it's something
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by sershe 5y ago
Thinking about living a "good life" implies knowing the point of living a life :)
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by sershe 5y ago
I recommend reading Myth of Sisyphus by Camus (the full version, maybe skipping the stuff about other philosophers and where they went wrong). It describes the notion of Absurd, something that arises from the irreconcilability of the consci
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by sershe 5y ago
Why would tales of expats skew negative? Expats tend to be better educated and come from more privileged segments of the populations. When an expat is complaining about how an engineer in Soviet union lives with his family in a 700sqft 1-be
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by sershe 5y ago
Interesting question I thought of reading about "safety net/services" comments from the people who worked in both the EU and the USA, i.e. those that have moved at least once. Let's say you are from the EU. Why wouldn&#
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by sershe 5y ago
I think I understand what you are trying to say, however... > I don’t think anybody is saying “make Facebook illegal” ... consider whether such machines have any place in a healthy society. That sounds exactly like a moral crusade. You d
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by sershe 5y ago
Sure; and there were massive civilian casualties in WWII. If WWII could be prevented at the cost of e.g. entirely obliterating Berlin in 1935, it would be "worth it", strictly as a matter of lives lost and saved. Would it prevent
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by sershe 5y ago
The gp does say users- slash -customers, usually meaning "or". There were social media platforms before them that lost despite the network effects, and there are platforms that have appeared after them that gained a ton of users d
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by sershe 5y ago
Why does the first part need to be rehabilitated? With whom is it controversial? I've never heard of this controversy before. First, a decapitating strike against Soviet Union /could/ have made sense given the information at
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by sershe 5y ago
Is the implied question "/from/ the US"? :) I moved from Russia to Canada and then US, my story is probably very typical, with some variation because (a) I didn't plan or expect it (b) to me, it actually didn't
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by sershe 5y ago
Aren't you privileged?! :) I used to be 95% apolitical but now that the recent events have re-energized my old hard-libertarian stance, with a new addition of a big dose of anti-wokeness, I cannot have the same luxury as you do. If I w
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by sershe 5y ago
There's a very specific meaning to price rangers of restaurants, I always use Yelp $ sign ratings as an example; they categorize every place into 4 price ranges from $ to $$$$. Generally, the breakdown is as follows: $ - counter/f
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by sershe 5y ago
The standards for biking in Netherlands are very different... people treat it more like walking than like driving, as far as I can tell. Everyone's upright on a comfy bike and going pretty slow... the distances are shorter so you don&#
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by sershe 5y ago
The differences are on the margins... many activities become unprofitable or less profitable if you have to pay carbon tax. Many fuel sources (e.g. coal) become uneconomical, so people switch. I don't see any issue with rich people pol
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by sershe 5y ago
Given the effects of tax-funded wars on drugs, poverty, terrorism, etc., I'm in - as long as the money is spent on war against Earth, i.e. earnest efforts to make it heat up faster. I'm pretty sure we only need a few $Tn and 20 ye
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by sershe 5y ago
In some people (e.g. me) it takes the form of wanting to accomplish X before sleep, but being too tired/lazy/... to start, and so procrastinating a little bit, while still intending to do X. Then, as time progresses, I probably be
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by sershe 5y ago
I found that even the concept of doing the "binary search" when debugging is an acquired skill. I often see people facing a vague (in a sense that it could be anywhere e.g. among multiple components or services) issue either think
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by sershe 5y ago
So, apparently Sweden, with massive taxes and welfare state, is 85+% right-wing (on l2r axis), and even the democratic socialist (literally meaning worker control of means of production), free-everything Sanders just barely makes it to the
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by sershe 5y ago
Is that really your answer? If I were to respond in the same spirit, I could only suggest you watch less RT or I dunno, read less Jacobin. I don't remember what it was called back then, I asked about the league in general. Spartak Mosc
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by sershe 5y ago
The comment was that for the small guy, it's too expensive and complicated to set up these companies. Imagine if there was a cheap service that would allow the small guy to structure his business "just like the big boys". Big
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by sershe 5y ago
Non-IT related opinion: compassion is vastly overrated. I think it is similar to tribalism and moralistic fervor; it's good as an abstract motivator in small quantities, but if used continuously, it makes you feel great about yourself
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by sershe 5y ago
IT-related opinion: if you gratuitously perform blocking operations (disk IO, network calls, taking locks blocked on the same) on the UI thread, in a commercial product that has a close button (i.e. not an ATM UI or a nuclear reactor contro
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by sershe 5y ago
I agree, and people do tend to disagree, and not just because of security. Forced non-security updates for paid software should simply be mostly-illegal. For non-networked software, and most changes for networked software, it's a no-br
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by sershe 5y ago
Lots of good comments, but I think the under-appreciated aspect is having a source of motivation. From my experience there are broadly 3 for sport stuff: (1) you enjoy the activity itself, (2) other people - either social aspects or impress

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