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by taurath 2y ago
Oh, but my employer is different and a union would only make business more complicated and less likely to give me raises and promotions! I’m a rising star, you know. - A literal supermajority of software developers
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by taurath 2y ago
Ortega for one. Maduro in Venezuela. The world is littered with both corrupted reformers and problems of succession when power is concentrated
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by taurath 2y ago
Hype is that companies can only raise money or keep their stock price afloat if they have some angle into the Next Big Thing, regardless of whether the Next Big Thing actually turns out to be that.
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by taurath 2y ago
It’s one of the most common tropes throughout Latin America (and the US, and the world) that getting and holding onto power often requires significant betrayal of the principles on which change is originally sought.
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by taurath 2y ago
It’s to say we stress so much about avoiding actions to try to push for a society what we actually want, we don’t actually end up making any nudges towards that society. HN is much more happy with the status quo because they on measure earn
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by taurath 2y ago
Here is where I’d point out the other central point of the article which is that systemic problems need systemic change, not heroes - if it were possible to be an individual hero, you’d see a lot more change because there’s tons of good peo
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by taurath 2y ago
This is sort of why I feel somewhat pessimistic about AI - the inevitable most profitable usecases being so bad in aggregate for a society with almost no bounds or values other than profit. It will never be easier to waste peoples attention
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by taurath 2y ago
It works for a few years and then everyone moves on, like almost every other platform that stops caring about the user
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by taurath 2y ago
One can ground themselves in many ways, many of which don’t necessarily include ceasing further inquiry as many relgious faiths utilize as cheap mental crutches. Becoming un-anchored is a reasonable place to be while trying to hash out what
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by taurath 2y ago
Their recommendation algorithm is pretty terrible and seems to be based around people linking remotely to youtubes, rather than finding things on platform. Watch one “sleep white noise” video and that’s all that shows up in recommendations
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by taurath 2y ago
> Does someone with my experience really have to grind leetcode and memorize algorithms to prove his capability? If you're going into a coding job, expect that people will test your ability to do code (relevant to the job, or leetco
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by taurath 2y ago
Imagine if Google search had improved rather than gotten worse over the last 5 years, there would be even less than a gap
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by taurath 2y ago
Give referrals and connections for referrals mainly. Walk them thru interview processes, help them brush up on skills, new advancements. Had to take 3 years for a health problem during which I mentally just couldn’t code. Still looking and
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by taurath 2y ago
> impractical things like creative music and abstract art also make the world better If you expand your definition of practical, it becomes quite practical!
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by taurath 2y ago
Mine is 2 years younger but it resulted in post traumatic stress and high dissociation for me, and not nearly as bad effects for my sibling. We were treated different, had different roles, we are different in that I’m neurodivergent and he
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by taurath 2y ago
The concept of normal is a childish notion, having to do with a lack of appreciation for the complexity of others
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by taurath 2y ago
It’s both - you have to go on living an aspect of your life as if it didn’t for a while in order to survive, and then when you have reached a safer point it becomes time to start unpacking it. Burdens are sometimes carried without us knowin
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by taurath 2y ago
We often downplay the prevalence of dissociation as well - sometimes formative experiences are not necessarily even apparent. Then when they have a kid it comes flooding back, the same cycles repeat as the underlying emotional blindness is
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by taurath 2y ago
It’s a larger club than you might imagine, and even to the deepest depths of nigh-unimaginable mistreatment there are people who have worked through it.
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by taurath 2y ago
Every kid hands up having a separate childhood even in the same house, because the caregivers/abusers will change over time. Often one kid tends to take the brunt of the abuse, and the family roles end up reinforcing that.
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by taurath 2y ago
They got the userbase and importantly took a massive amount of money at a multibillion dollar valuation, but now have to monetize so the product will get worse until the userbase goes away. It really is a Ponzi scheme all the way down
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by taurath 3y ago
Look for boring. Insurance, infrastructure, tools for industry, construction, etc. Find people who build things you find useful in your daily life. Also don't discount places that do one shitty thing but otherwise provide a good servic
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by taurath 3y ago
As someone who's met the clinical criteria for MDD at various points but later discovered the cause lied in a severely traumatic upbringing, I'm not sure about pushing TMS on folks when the state of psychiatric care is so poor. We
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by taurath 3y ago
The layout of the data being poor and accuracy issues called out, while rightly, don't really engage with the narrative. This infographic talks about the economic outcomes, but there are also major health outcomes like early death, men
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by taurath 3y ago
I have 7/10 ACE's and am a self-taught senior software engineer. We exist. Not always well, and good lord is it hard to find empathy from coworkers who had the "standard" life advancement, but we exist. Among folks who&#
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by taurath 3y ago
I was responding to the second paragraph in the original article, in which the author gives opinions on the success of other initiatives based around moral panics. If you wanna know what’s going on with kids and mental illness and suicide,
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by taurath 3y ago
> I think it is a very good thing that alarms were rung about teen smoking, teen pregnancy, drunk driving, and the exposure of children to sex and violence on TV Excuse me? I remember sitting thru Nancy Reagan’s “good morals” which were
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by taurath 3y ago
> In fact, the reverse path could be true: that differences in brain function cause lower SES. Except the ACE study exists, showing a massive difference in brain function and attainment based on childhood adversity, regardless of SES. h
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by taurath 3y ago
Worried, but in a measured way. Craftsmanship is still important and will remain important. Being able to work with systems as they exist is also incredibly important. There will be a lot of apps created and they will need to be maintained,
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by taurath 3y ago
Sorry though revenue per employee is still massive for a lot of companies. The folks who own the companies are even more overpaid. Also the insecurity really does reduce quality when you have people performing what used to be 3 peoples role

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