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by snarf21 3y ago
But couldn't you have also just given her an extra $20 without it being an integrated and ingrained experience?
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by snarf21 3y ago
I understand your sentiment but human history has shown us that "being content being filthy rich" is short lived at best. It is a way of keeping score and even people who no longer need to work at all don't just want more mon
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by snarf21 3y ago
Curious: Does a policy of making these things non-transferable solve the issue?
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by snarf21 3y ago
I agree and think that HUGE whistle blower awards including up to re-location as part of Witness Protection Program would help a lot. There are people in bad personal situations that feel "trapped" but have the knowledge that th
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by snarf21 3y ago
All things in life is grey. But I think we should ask about is the MAIN thing they do net good or net bad. Most philanthropist spend their lives amassing massive fortunes built on exploitation and then leave a (large?) percentage of their
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by snarf21 3y ago
I agree they are all choices and all have trade-offs. I was specifically speaking to the pain point of groceries on mass transit. You still have a "someone's else's schedule" problem on transit because when you want to g
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by snarf21 3y ago
I think this is a problem best served by scheduled delivery. The CO2 footprint from shared delivery of groceries is quite low. Also, you save time by just picking them up at the curb or in the lobby. It is one of the few win-win for deliver
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by snarf21 3y ago
For sure .. I've also found it helps if your hobbies involve others aren't solitary .. Even playing a MMO or FPS online is quite different than being in a board game group or kayak club .. Good luck!!!
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by snarf21 3y ago
It seems like that would only be viable if supply remains constrained. If they kept building for new hires plus a spare percentage, then holding tons of empty un-rentable properties seems like a bad return. It is a complicated question for
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by snarf21 3y ago
Is there way to help others in your life? Either by volunteering or via your hobbies? Selflessness is very cathartic in my experience.
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by snarf21 3y ago
Why not just sell these houses with no restriction even at a market profit? If reasonably priced nice houses are required to attract talent, just solve that problem. Healthcare shouldn't be tied to employment, WWII is over. Housing sho
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by snarf21 3y ago
Most of us old timers have been there, done that. At some level, it never changes. It is VERY difficult for work to provide your true meaning in life. 95% of software is personal preference. Most code will be thrown away when priorities c
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by snarf21 3y ago
Genuinely curious: how so?
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by snarf21 4y ago
Well, I think the real answer is to just be honest that it couldn't be found. Product wouldn't do that in the early days.
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by snarf21 4y ago
Totally agree. Two weeks for knowledge transfer should be it. Remember that most leadership view all engineers as replaceable cogs. Just wrap up what you can and loop others into the things that can't and move on with life. Big compani
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by snarf21 4y ago
A lot of this had bad fall through logic. Most times if a distinct place couldn't be geocoded, it would take the centroid of the parent object and use that as an estimate. So if you knew it was the US but couldn't find anything sp
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by snarf21 4y ago
Well, balance is a very very funny thing. There are lots of board game design articles about it. A lot of designers will employ spreadsheet and Monte Carlo to achieve "balance". The thing is that players don't want actual bal
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by snarf21 4y ago
I design board games and have designed 30+ (one signed so far). I've come to the following conclusion about game design: It is sometimes a freaking slog! I always tell people to work on the design (or game part) they are most excited t
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by snarf21 4y ago
Software was targeted directly because they couldn't agree how to change 230. There are those who want to punish the "tech" people who were "censoring" things they didn't want censored. It was designed to be ta
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by snarf21 4y ago
I have found that making friends around a hobby or activity is quite easy even as an adult .. Throwing yourself into a hobby (photography, pickle ball, boardgames, running, etc.) and you will meet people who love that hobby and throw them
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by snarf21 4y ago
These points are well said. It is easy to create a set of private but shared bathrooms around the existing plumbing blocks .. It could also let people have downtown apartments for 1/3 cost with a potentially great view .. We really nee
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by snarf21 4y ago
In my many years of software, I've come to the following conclusion: The "worst" process followed consistently across all levels of a company will always outperform the "best" process followed haphazardly with no
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by snarf21 4y ago
Exactly, the headline should be "AI WILL steal your job!". How it will steal it is irrelevant to one's loss of job.
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by snarf21 4y ago
I would argue that the point is that AI WILL steal lots of jobs (directly or indirectly) and the directness of that theft is fairly irrelevant. :shrug:
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by snarf21 4y ago
This is a nonsense headline. This is the equivalent of "Factory automation won't steal your job, companies that buy factory automation will." Democratization of AI tools will have upsides and downsides but non researchers wer
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by snarf21 4y ago
I agree that some of these expectations are a bit unreasonable. However, probably 90% of all software jobs require some basic knowledge about SQL, Javascript/HTML and/or system modeling (MVC, MVVM, etc.) I would never expect netwo
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by snarf21 4y ago
We need a mechanism like a credit lock. The ability to block all transactions over $XX.00 until verified out of band. For a lot of these people, that would be only a few times per year and not a big headache. We need to give the CFPB more p
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by snarf21 4y ago
Sorry, I meant SBF but transposed.
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by snarf21 4y ago
Except that 99.9% of people will buy "stable" coins on Coinbase. Not your keys, not your crypto. If Coinbase gets leveraged or goes the way of SFB, you have literally the same non-immunity as a bank run except you also don'
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by snarf21 4y ago
I would argue no. The issue is that the FDIC has deposit insurance limits already. The depositors are free-rolling on the amount they are getting made whole on above the limit. Then you are just encouraging some new kind of "bank"

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