spoonjim

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by spoonjim 4y ago
I think the person you're replying to has an embedded assumption of "climate change is fake news"
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If all the countries are borrowing from China and Gulf countries, then they don't really have to repay it. The combined military of NATO is more than enough to resist China and the Gulf's ability to recoup a default. Of course it
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Shamelessness is in fact the reason that our civilization is in freefall. The fear of shame in one's community used to keep people's behaviors in line. Now that nobody cares what anyone thinks they will do anything they fucking fe
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This system is currently only cost-effective with water, and only where you have a natural place to put it (i.e. a crater on top of a mountain vs. building a tank on a tower). Constructing a greenfield mechanical apparatus is too expensive
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It's not really relevant whether they're fully responsible. Is a dog responsible when it bites a person? No, but it's unfit for civilization, and must be put down.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
College professors are like the academically top 1% of CS graduates. Are you comparing apples to apples?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Wow, advocating for a lighter hand in the murder of James Bulger is certainly new. Personally, I would have preferred life without parole in that case.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Their economic output has nothing to do with why they should be locked up until they die. If Elon Musk commits murder he should be locked up for the remainder of his natural life as should these lowlifes.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The country that has places no value on life is the one that lets murderers out to walk free among civilization.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You don't need to get the person fired - you need to get them afraid of potentially being fired. Not everyone will do a rational takedown like this, and if they do, you have millions of accounts to dox.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Call them, tell them you'll publish an expose with their real name and get them fired from their job unless they pay you $5k.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There are a lot of ways to monetize it. Run 2FA attacks on celebrity accounts' phone numbers, dox anon accounts that post racist stuff or follow gay porn and blackmail them, etc etc.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The difficulty of unwinding it is what makes it a valuable signal of commitment.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
AirBNB is terrible as a place to stay, but it's great for destination vacations. If you are having a family vacation with 10 people it's a lot more fun to be in a big house than in 4 hotel rooms.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
What is your goal in getting credit? The CEO doesn't give a flying fuck who wrote the code. If your goal is to get promoted into a managerial role or some additional compensation then talk to your boss directly about it, say you want s
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I was not closely involved with the project. They essentially built the first one to "spec" like "use this kind of steel in the tanks" and the remediation process was essentially tearing those out one by one and "us
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I worked for a pharmaceutical company that tried to open a second factory producing more of the same thing that it was already successfully making and it never worked. They built the entire factory, it didn't work, they spent years and
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is why I only use Upwork for design and assets. If I don’t like something I throw it out and am not too bent out of shape about it. Quality is only marginally less than hiring someone.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If it’s unfixable, the person should be fired (by their boss). If it’s fixable, they should be explained why and how (by their boss).
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by spoonjim 4y ago
No, that's not how it is. If the LP doesn't pay their capital call they go into default and the returns on all the money they've invested so far can be taken away. The only LPs who default on the capital call are individual i
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Whether or not it's a Ponzi depends on whether there's any path to get normal profitable businesses to buy the software.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I will disagree on Figma. It's taken a huge chunk of workflows at some extremely old school businesses. Amidst a sea of shitcorps it is the real deal.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes but the 30,000th best software engineer is making $1 million working at Google.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
That's why the Soviet Union is the country that consistently invested in ground effect vehicles... because they have the Caspian Sea and Black Sea (which does have waves but usually <3 ft)
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The whole origin of the tradition was to showcase some other available women for marriage. "Look at these other beautiful girls! Maybe some eligible young man you know would like to be introduced?"
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I once performed services for a wedding where there were 28 bridesmaids and groomsmen combined (a roughly even mix of each). Everything seemed very status driven and the wedding was at least a $500K affair.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Minimum competence to earn a living as a basketball player is much higher than minimum competence required to earn a living as a software engineer.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Just because something’s not attainable for everyone doesn’t mean you shouldn’t aspire to it yourself. Sure, lots of people will have to do stuff they don’t want to, so what? It’s like aspiring to be the best basketball player of all time.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Well there is some stuff you want to enjoy and there's other stuff you want to process as fast as possible so you get more time to read the stuff you enjoy :)
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It's not intellectually honest to weigh Google's worst actions (like tricking poor people into clicking on ads, when they would obviously much rather trick rich people to click on ads) without also weighing their contributions to

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