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by squokko 4y ago
What's wrong with jail for someone like that? There are some people who just cannot accept that some other people are unfit for civilization, and must be permanently excluded. They search for explanations like "mental illness&quot
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by squokko 4y ago
These are excellent tips for a programmer who's never thought about design to make something that looks workable. Will you get better results for a few hundred dollars from Upwork? Yes. But before you get to that stage, these rules are
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by squokko 4y ago
Hilarious that in Silicon Valley, "IC" is the vanity title.
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by squokko 4y ago
At a bank, 90% of the people do not have any distinctive talent - the companies just hire Type-A looking people, even regardless of college major. This is in many ways why they work so hard and subject themselves to such indignities -- fund
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by squokko 4y ago
Yes, edited
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by squokko 4y ago
Yes I typed it backwards
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by squokko 4y ago
Easier for one person to spin up 1000 emails than 1000 phone numbers.
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by squokko 4y ago
You maintain the property to make it suitable for your needs. But if you didn't "maintain" it, nothing would actually happen to it. It would still be completely usable in 1 million years.
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by squokko 4y ago
I don't really see what's wrong with the residents of a town saying "town's full, go away." The properties in CA are expensive because it's a highly desirable place to live. There are other states with open arm
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by squokko 4y ago
No, you don't own the property. Under what coherent system of thought could you possibly own something that was there before humans existed and will be there after humans are gone, and which you did nothing to create or maintain? Pro
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by squokko 4y ago
Remote work is going to do a real number on any US software engineering talent that's not extremely competent, and a big boon to engineers in Europe, Latin America, and to some extent India and China (although timezones make that a bi
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by squokko 4y ago
Exactly... the most fanatical football nuts I know are the ones watching the game on TV with the different angles and the slow-motions and the replays... the people going to the game are very tribal, they love painting their faces and shout
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by squokko 4y ago
Hard to say from the article but I think the accusation is not that Facebook is deliberately running down batteries (why?) but that they are deliberately running tests in the background which run down batteries, eg. surreptitiously having a
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by squokko 4y ago
Very rarely are claims like "worst layoff email ever" actually true... here I think it might be accurate. Honestly, if I was a board member at PagerDuty, I would be having some serious conversations right now.
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by squokko 4y ago
The legal profession is at the least risk of adverse financial effects from anything, because the people who make the laws are largely lawyers, and will shape the law to their advantage.
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by squokko 4y ago
Prison creates absolute animals. We shouldn't put people in prison unless they're going to be there for their entire lives. Singapore-style caning is probably much better for both the convict and the broader society -- take the in
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by squokko 4y ago
You need to have your own infrastructure monitored by completely different infrastructure, otherwise they will fail at the same time. Instead of having your AWS shop maintain a separate Rackspace-coloed team, etc. it is much simpler to outs
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by squokko 4y ago
Don't know why you hate cruises. Definitely the most cost effective way to see multiple spots on the Alaskan coastline.
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by squokko 4y ago
The market demand is satisfied by like ~250 podcasts the same way that there are about that many TV shows or fewer. The difference is that unlike TV shows, which cost a lot to make, amateur podcasts are very cheap to produce so there are a
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by squokko 4y ago
This is interesting because it provides a very clear geopolitical incentive for actors to acquire control of Reddit moderatorships - an anonymous and untraceable way to influence a Supreme Court decision.
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by squokko 4y ago
A person with a million loyal adherents is worrisome even if those adherents are only sitting on computers. For similar reasons, a person with a trillion unflinchingly loyal AI adherents is worrisome.
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by squokko 4y ago
Car companies are in for a rough 2023 so if Mercedes loses money will they deduct from their salary?
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by squokko 4y ago
It is, but it's difficult to do, needs documentation, etc., and most managers in Big Tech would rather not do it unless required to from above (which is what a layoff gives them the opportunity to do).
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by squokko 4y ago
That's what some of these companies have stated on the record. Like Zuck explicitly said that some people shouldn't be here, months before the layoffs.
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by squokko 4y ago
No
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by squokko 4y ago
Both. Teams that haven't gotten exec buy-in just get axed (with lots of good people) and then every Director is required to sacrifice a few people (in this section, most of the people laid off are low performers, but definitely some go
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by squokko 4y ago
Every Big Tech collects bad hires and these are the best times to get rid of them.
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by squokko 4y ago
It's sad to see a company that has actually produced an excellent normal car, get so insane about its essentially fraudulent self-driving representations.
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by squokko 4y ago
eBay banning the sale of the DVD is extremely dystopian
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by squokko 4y ago
Doubtful that people are going to start mass abandoning their jobs in a layoff wave.

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