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by tharne 5y ago
Bingo. Corporations don't have morals, they have interests. Sometimes those interests can be served by championing this moral cause or that one, but it really doesn't go beyond that.
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by tharne 5y ago
Good point, I can see how I may have implied that it was an either/or. I wasn't arguing that that was the only path. Just one that's there if you want it.
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by tharne 5y ago
Most tech jobs outside the FAANGS and the startup bubble are 9-5, e.g. working as a developer for a regional bank or a local hospital. You don't get the enormous salaries, but it's a nice life overall. And re: where to live, gener
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by tharne 5y ago
> Everyone here seems to think FB is some horrible, unethical company I don't think that's true. Most of us here see Facebook as a drunk 16 year-old with a set of car keys and Daddy's credit card. Not evil, just hopelessly
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by tharne 5y ago
I don't think FaceBook is going to be able to pull this off. While Zuckerberg is clearly a talented individual, the area he has consistently shown himself to be most lacking in is self awareness. Unfortunately for him and Facebook, th
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by tharne 5y ago
> Dear "Hackers", it doesn't matter what McKinsey does. It absolutely matters what McKinsey does. Practically every business in America has a significant number of shallow-thinking MBA types who have next to zero understan
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by tharne 5y ago
It consistently shocks me how rarely this is brought up as a solution. Price of something too high? Increase the supply.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Inferior products prevail all the time. The free market is far from perfect. Especially when one product exploits negative externalities. Exhibit A being the QWERTY keyboard most of us are typing on right now.
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by tharne 5y ago
That's all well and good, save for the fact that "violence" has become a much squishier term lately. Particularly, though not exclusively, on the the left there's an increasing tendency to classify unpopular or ugly spee
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by tharne 5y ago
> I know we talk a lot about ageism in this industry, but does this not happen in other industries? I genuinely don't know. I just don't think this angle has been explored. It can happen, but it's much less common. Right o
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by tharne 5y ago
> Yes, I've been surprised too by the sentiment in the article of "it's too hard to keep up with new developments in programming languages" because that is what we all face, be it young or old. What you're ignori
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by tharne 5y ago
> This is another thing rarely talked about that's quite common - people really high up in the tech companies don't use the stuff. This is true, kind of like how most drug dealers don't do drugs themselves.
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by tharne 5y ago
It's not unrealistic to not carry a phone everywhere. Do you really need to be reachable while you're at the grocery store? Unless you're on call or a firefighter, there are very few cases where you must be reachable 24/
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by tharne 5y ago
> Restoring SALT deductions mostly helps the wealthy since you can deduct up to $10,000. It helps folks in higher cost / higher tax areas. It's not really a rich/poor thing. That was one thing I always chuckled about with
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by tharne 5y ago
> Is this any more helpful than saying "throw away your iPhone" or "uninstall Windows"? I've done both those things, and am happier for it. So yes, I would argue that it's helpful to advise people to cut jun
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by tharne 5y ago
Some of us see this as a feature and not a bug :)
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by tharne 5y ago
> A frustrating feature of large silicon valley companies is that if you leave the company and come back later you will typically have better compensation than if you had stayed. Unfortunately, that's true of almost all large compan
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by tharne 5y ago
> It's highly ignorant to call unvaccinated Americans idiots. Agreed. The correct term for them is "immoral". The only world in which it makes sense to forgo the vaccine is one in which your life is only one that matters.
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by tharne 5y ago
This is fantastic. I love seeing things like this and the framework laptop starting to emerge. Even if it's clearly just a niche market thing, it's awesome to see some pushback against disposable everything.
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by tharne 5y ago
tl;dr "I don't like python because it doesn't have the features I personally like" If you find a language you like better than Python, cool, use that language. In the meantime, don't post rants posing as objective c
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by tharne 5y ago
This is really cool. It's great to see someone pushing for good desktop applications. I'm not an electron hater, but I don't love it either, and I'm happy to see new alternatives emerge, in a fun language like clojure no
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by tharne 5y ago
As someone else mentioned, this is complete BS. It certainly does not represent the vast majority of interactions between citizens and police officers in the U.S. Of course, focusing on sensational outliers as if they were common occurrence
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by tharne 5y ago
This is exactly why in the U.S. when there are evacuations for things like hurricanes, most towns and cities sometimes send firefighters to knock on doors and notify people. They used to send cops, but too many people simply wouldn't c
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by tharne 5y ago
> Arguably lean manufacturing is an anti-pattern. When taken to the extremes that modern business has taken it to, it is 100% an anti-pattern.
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> I really disagree with this on so many levels, and I believe the market will ultimately reject it too. I wish this were true, but unfortunately, I think too many consumers don't think critically when making purchases, even on thin
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by tharne 5y ago
This is not quite accurate. Toyota began stockpiling materials a while back after having its supply chain disrupted. Having extra inventory, no matter how well-implemented, is actually an anti-pattern in lean manufacturing -- the good folks
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by tharne 5y ago
Fun fact, in the early days of lean manufacturing (of which "just in time" is a part), the practitioners often referred to it as the "fragile production system" for precisely the reasons you mention here. So yes, lean ma
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by tharne 5y ago
And remember, "violence" is whatever Amazon says it is. Heck some people even claim that failing to endorse a particular viewpoint, i.e. being silent on the matter, is itself a form of violence.
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by tharne 5y ago
Exactly. Whenever these companies get caught doing something on unethical, it's never a moral failure. It's us rubes "getting confused" because our feeble minds can't process the brilliance of these big tech compani
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by tharne 5y ago
> The guy is, at minimum, a total fucking creep This is exactly the kind of commentary I was talking about. The guy spots a serious problem 30+ years ahead of time, devotes his entire life to fighting it, while making tools that every de

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