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by tharne 5y ago
> Since no one under 16 has been vaccinated yet, about 70% of the population is vaccinated (44M out of 67M). This fact really bothers me. I feel like once adults got vaccinated we all spiked the football and said "F--k the kids, I
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by tharne 5y ago
Most of the biggest safety features that had the most impact were developed in the 1960's and 70's after people like Ralph Nader really pushed the auto industry to do better. There was a second big bump in safety in the late 80&#x
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by tharne 5y ago
There are some hurdles for sure, but for most of their history cars did not have chips in them, so we must have found a way.
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by tharne 5y ago
Crazy idea: make cars that don't rely on microchips and software. As a bonus, they'll probably last longer, be cheaper to repair, and won't distract drivers as much. There is software in too many consumer goods, usually with
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by tharne 5y ago
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict... The concept of norms, laws, and social customs being set my the most stubborn and intolerant among us: "The Minority Rule", by Nassim Taleb.
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by tharne 5y ago
I see a business opportunity here. Although I might undercut you and write a version that only requires 2 steps :)
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by tharne 5y ago
They're not great, that's true. My point is that they're not unusual in the U.S.
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by tharne 5y ago
Would if I could, how's an American go about getting a work permit?
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by tharne 5y ago
> Healthcare is expensive, but it's less than 20k/year. That's not true. I pay about $10,000 a year for healthcare and my company pays roughly another $20,000. And that's before I have pay per visit up to my rather
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by tharne 5y ago
> Europe has much higher taxes, in part to pay for that free education and healthcare. That part about higher taxes paying for "free" education and healthcare had me cracking up.
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by tharne 5y ago
Six to eight weeks of vacation, plentiful Holidays, a 35-hour work week. If you look beyond pay as strictly salary and break it down into an hourly rate, I'd argue that European developers make considerably more than their American cou
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by tharne 5y ago
Don't fall into the trap of credentialism. While the author may not be known outside of the Bitcoin world, he points to a whole slew of public social media posts that clearly show the Taliban usiing a service run by a large American te
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by tharne 5y ago
What aren't any media outlets picking this up? While the issue is larger than whatsapp, this is an angle that's worth acknowledging and discussing -- An insurgent force used an American tech platform to take over a country, while
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by tharne 5y ago
> Billions of dollars in the capital markets chasing ever-diminishing returns. But that music will stop eventually... Exactly. While it make be very difficult to pinpoint exactly when a Ponzi scheme will blow up, it's not hard to f
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by tharne 5y ago
> ...SV just makes apps to snitch on people Love that line. I'm filing it away for future use :)
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by tharne 5y ago
Didn't think of that, you're 100% right
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by tharne 5y ago
I'd argue woodworking tools are harder. People expect physical objects to work correctly, whereas the word has largely come to accept buggy, glitchy software.
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by tharne 5y ago
I think the problem Apple ran into was that there was no confusion at all. Apple announced they were going to scan users' devices after years of marketing themselves as a "privacy-focused" company. Shockingly, customers were
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by tharne 5y ago
At this point, education (both the level of, and the schools one attended) is mainly a proxy for social class. That's why employers love to ask for it. You can't say on your job posting that you want middle class applicants only,
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by tharne 5y ago
> The assumption that someone with a PhD is smarter, on average, than someone without a PhD is quite laughable. While the sample size is admittedly small, my own personal experience has suggested that the opposite may be true.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Because if you say "China is a totalitarian state", is an implicit admission that totalitarian states can be ashtoningly sucessful. This is exactly right. For the longest time, it was widely-believed that only liberal democra
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by tharne 5y ago
I've had the opposite experience. Most experienced develops tend to learn things much quicker because they've got a lot more experience learning new things. I'll willing to bet the third or fourth programming language you lea
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by tharne 5y ago
> It's not about obscene secrets, I was just a different person at 18 than I am at 40. I don't know why so few people consider this point. People change, social norms change, so it's very easy for an older conversation to
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by tharne 5y ago
In addition to ageism, I think the proliferation of the MBA/McKinsey school of thought really works against older programmers. You have an increasing number of managers who have little to no domain knowledge around 1) Programming, and
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by tharne 5y ago
I really love the way this post was written and wish more folks would adopt a similar approach. The author lists his experience and what's he's learned, but also lists his limitations, and areas where he might not be as authoritat
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by tharne 5y ago
> Less snarkily, I'd like to see more parenting credentials for those purporting to advise me on how to raise mine, as these Really Smart People don't seem to have society on an optimal course. Regardless of what one thinks of
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by tharne 5y ago
> I know we love evidence, and rightly so. But I do think there is space here for intuition. Is a life of mindless clicking ever going to be as good as a real one, spent in the company of real people who aren’t endlessly distracted? This
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by tharne 5y ago
> No one is forced to look at their phone, the reality is that people have trained themselves to want it. Not quite. Tech and social media companies have spent billions to make their devices and apps as addictive as possible.
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by tharne 5y ago
> But smartphones are delivering no benefit to mankind. At all. This statement may be hyperbolic, but at its core is not wrong. Smartphones are very easily a net negative in terms of cost/benefit to society. They're ubiquitous
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by tharne 5y ago
> You can still live like what's described in this article. Get yourself a dumbphone and a paper atlas, only pay with cash, avoid loyalty cards, read paper books, newspapers, etc I've been doing this a fair amount lately, parti

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