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by throw__away7391 10mo ago
I think this varies quite a lot from one location to another. I grew up in an impoverished town in the US south. When I was a kid if your car broke down, a stranger would stop to at least give you a ride or possibly even try to repair it on
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
As I have gotten older I've slowly realized that waiting for people to die takes a long, long time, and no longer regard it as a good strategy.
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
Every junior I've brought in over the past 7 years or so with the expectation of training them has immediately left after I've invested not only money but also significant amounts of more experienced developers time to bring them
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
People in the US believe that if inflation eases, for example from 4% to 3%, that means that prices are going to go back down to what they used to be before inflation started rising. They furthermore believe that if that does not happen it
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
This change has zero effect on your EBITA.
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
I think it’s just intended as a pun, “staff” == “staff”, and not as a religious statement, but I could be mistaken.
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
Weird that you say that because these life support systems are exactly what I had in mind as evidence to the contrary. Without such an external life support system attached keeping you alive, there's not going to be some drug that hold
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
Exactly. It is far more fantastical to imagine such lifespan improvements resulting in a planet of crypt keepers than one of external youth. What magic do you expect would keep such people alive?
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
When a project is abandoned, when updates are slow, when features people want are not being released, when tracking upstream dependency updates are delayed, sure, you are not entitled to anything and I’ll be the first one to say get off you
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
Covid messed with the math a bit, but it’s amazing how precisely it was designed to run out of money. My entire life since I was a kid people were talking about how it was going to run out of money but none of them did anything. Now that th
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
My experience so far is it's gotten much better at tricking me into believing its hallucinations. I fed it some old code and asked for feedback and it gave me a long, very technical, super convincing explanation of how my approach was
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
We used to have to physically fly out a technician to each of our customers office to install software updates and fixes. Those bugs were very expensive to patch!
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
I have employed a massive hack for the past two decades--whenever asked to do any random task or assist someone, and in particular where the asker is just lazy trying to get someone else to do their job, eagerly and pleasantly agree, but as
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
I visited the Biltmore Estate years ago, the home of the Vanderbilt family. It occurred to me during the tour that all the end result of all this wealth was approximately equivalent to having a 5 bedroom McMansion. A huge percentage of the
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
Behind this question is a road that leads to all kinds of horrible things.
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
Yes. Clearly. I spend most of my time outside the US, I thought I was coming back to Germany 1933, but it seems it’s more Rome 476.
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
I went to a protest. I was anxious about being photographed and added to some biometric database to be used for who knows what purposes. My wife and I had a serious discussion about whether to go, the possible risks, the possibility of viol
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
This comes across as more than a little bit fanciful, nevertheless I agree with the sentiment. There's an awful lot of people on the sidelines with their eyes on gaining control over software with intentions that are not at all reflect
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
I think that while the trait itself is fairly common the ability to bully and pressure everyone around you to give in to this level of petty and demeaning deference is quite rare. You only see it in powerful people because they're the
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
If we put half the effort into shoring up our institutions and reinforcing our shared norms and cooperative values as we are into "de-risking" everything, right now, and all at once, we'd all be in a much better place. Overni
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
Actually I stand corrected--he was ALSO caught on tape with a much more chilling version of this statement.
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
Maybe there’s a conversation to be had about that but this isn’t it, this is attempted coercion, and yes, it is fascism.
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by throw__away7391 1y ago
Not caught, he held a press conference and announced that he was going to try to do it.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
> What are the flaws in this thinking? -> Treasuries are considered safe during such crisis. Is that truly still the case? Does the world consider the US stable right now? I am astonished at how effectively the administration has blow
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
True, but I think this misses the deeper dynamic nature of such things. Trump is the symptom, but these voters were also reacting in their turn. It is highly unlikely that this exact sequence of triggers will immediately repeat themselves.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I’ve been thinking that the emergence of drone warfare may have a similar impact as the start of the Iron Age, when suddenly instead of needing complex networks of trade to acquire tin and copper to make expensive bronze weapons, cheaper an
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
Asianometry made a video on exactly this: https://youtu.be/aNNt9O70ASc?si=U2VSh5W3r6rfdA34
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I’ve seen this happen many times during the RFI/RFP process for large projects, the largest players put boots on the ground early and try to get into the ears of the decision makers and their consultants and “helpfully” educate them. O
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
Well I hope you are right. All of those things were already either done or tried by Trump during his last term. The trajectory is leading towards further escalation. The protests will escalate in the summer, when the weather is warmer, more
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I think the administration is gambling on being able to consolidate global power before anyone is going to have a chance to build anything. Europe is completely reliant on the US and US technology for defense right now, these systems took d

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