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by taurath 4y ago
Welcome to the US service economy, where providing value is only a minor speedbump in monetizing literally everything and everyone without any regard for consequences or harm.
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by taurath 4y ago
Corporations and the investment class took all the money out of the economy, and now they're about to lose it as their balance sheets dry up. It is the people who will suffer the most. It worked out okay when we had extreme levels of c
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by taurath 4y ago
Maybe its not about economics and cost and more about priorities as a culture. Start here: * Teachers should be paid a living wage * Teachers should get overtime pay for working overtime * All schools should be funded such that there are eq
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by taurath 4y ago
We need a completely new system of culture in the US - nothing important gets taken care of, the most important roles for peoples well being and enrichment like schoolteachers or nurses are treated like garbage. Ask any teacher or any nurse
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by taurath 4y ago
£550k roughly. Average is around £850k. Out of range unless the head of engineering has a spouse
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by taurath 4y ago
Incredible that one needs to be the head of engineering for a major finance firm to reasonably afford a median home in London
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by taurath 4y ago
I agree wholeheartedly - I’m currently using google fi which hasn’t had an improvement of any real impact in over 3 years, and it still barely works on my iPhone. I suspect it will be shutting down soon - which is a shame, it was a fantasti
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by taurath 4y ago
Companies will do /anything/ nowadays to keep people from being an employee. Can we please simply take the whole idea of benefits away from employers? The life and health of people shouldn’t be in the hands of some capitalists try
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by taurath 4y ago
And that’s the problem in this comment pool to call out, clearly.
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by taurath 4y ago
It’s literally in the platform of the Republican Party to “fight woke culture”
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by taurath 4y ago
“Woke culture gone wild”
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by taurath 4y ago
Can you post a source for any claim that theyre harmless? I don’t think any reputable researcher has ever said that, but they have started talking about potential for positive effects, which is a far cry from “if you take this it will ruin
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by taurath 4y ago
I did similarly over a few months trying to choose a new apartment to rent. I learned the area and all the types of places that might be available and when one came up that was ideal I jumped on it even though it was in a very low season fo
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by taurath 4y ago
I wish we could just do it for minimum levels of food and shelter at least. Lack of the most basic security creates fault lines throughout all of society.
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by taurath 4y ago
I’ve gone thru those it a few times - while most all other companies were doing hiring freezes or layoffs as well. It’s times like that that employers really squeeze every last bit out of those “lucky enough” to stay around.
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by taurath 4y ago
In my experience those types of folks are the ones who create some of the most cutthroat environments and perpetuate poor working conditions among their companies. They are the least equipped to hire, promote, and model in ways that and mai
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by taurath 4y ago
That we still think there are biological rather than sociopsychological roots shows we’ve got a long way for science to catch up. Misunderstanding of trauma and the effects on physiology of it abound. The amount of pressure put on children
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by taurath 4y ago
I am the same (though I avoid FAANG for ethical purposes) - I don’t feel like it’s a reasonable statement to say anyone can tackle any problem, but within known domains there’s little that can’t be done given enough time
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by taurath 4y ago
Respectfully it’s not, and I’ve never heard of needing devs with 10 years of experience to do non-menial work. Within my first year without a formal education I was shipping major features out to customers. Yes most of that year was big squ
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by taurath 4y ago
Most developers I know who are self taught have been passionate about building things for a long time and have been experimenting on their own time for a long time before they got their first SE role. Even with the potential financial rewar
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by taurath 4y ago
OTOH, reducing complexity is one of the most important things in working on an engineering team. Having “one” way to do things rather than the n n n*n helps anyone new to be able to focus more on the system itself rather than picking up a n
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by taurath 4y ago
Correct. I am self taught but it is only through my somewhat relevant experience as a project manager and in IT that a company would even give me an internship based on a small demo and a recommendation from a lead engineer that I had promi
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by taurath 4y ago
Imagine a kid growing up in the US today, they are functionally under house arrest as neighborhoods are built for cars and not people. Everyone is isolated to their family unit almost entirely and all activity gated on parents time and will
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by taurath 4y ago
That’s my understanding and feeling as well. Psychiatric medication imo should be used to help stabilize for psychological work, not create a new chemical baseline.
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by taurath 4y ago
> Yeah an unregulated and uncontrolled consumption of a poorly dosed hallucinogenic is totally better than a double-blind study of SSRI/SNRI. Frankly, it could be and we’d have no way of knowing with the “rigor” we put through pharm
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by taurath 4y ago
You know that feeling you get when you read a newspaper or see someone report on something you know intimately, which gets the most basic elements of the story very wrong or worse gives out full falsehoods? And then you read about something
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by taurath 4y ago
The more recognizable you are the more discrimination you get, depending on the location. Often it also means finding roommates and optimizing for safety before anything else - harder to do when one is say, visibly transitioning in a smalle
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by taurath 4y ago
Physical and psychological safety is a far more primary concern when it comes to a living space for someone. One’s home is, for more people, a place to relax not a place to challenge social dynamics. LGBT people regularly move across the co
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by taurath 4y ago
Earlier in my life I nearly died driving 50 miles to get into work as a grocery store clerk on no sleep because a manager called me and in no uncertain terms told me if I didn’t come in that day I’d be fired. I was raised to believe that a
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by taurath 4y ago
I found out why I wanted different things. Honestly it has been a lifelong journey to answer that question and finding the answer can be very complicated and not at all what you expect when you start, or it can take so long that it subsumes

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