throwaway432334

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   by throwaway432334 4y ago

   I studied at a Chinese university for a semester and as part of the program they put on seminars on things like the media, demographic issues, etc. One of them was about the economic system and they explained that while small businesses (th
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   by throwaway432334 6y ago

   I think this is a great argument for why unionization in tech is going to be important. Right now the only way to disagree with unethical actions by your employer is leaving; easily replaced.
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   by throwaway432334 6y ago

   There's not a meaningful distinction between the party and companies.
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   by throwaway432334 6y ago

   Engineering wise, it's a miracle that UPI works. All of the banks have very little in the way of consistency checks and proper abstractions. Everything is superglued together and very brittle. There was clearly little direct communicat