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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Barely any mention of contracting outside of "the crusty old legacy developer"? That's pretty much the #1 route for people I know, get out of the full time lackey game and chill.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Anecdotally a _lot_ of people I know have become significantly less civic minded as a result of the way that coronavirus has been handled. Basically, they figure, well, the law became insane (lockdowns, business restrictions, silly rules, g
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Homelessness in Western countries is not about money, the people on the street are mentally or physically disabled or do it by choice. It is essentially impossible to genuinely be homeless in the UK for more than a few weeks unless you just
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
The median income and the homeownership rate, particularly outright homeownership. There are lots of super poor people, those aren't the ones quitting.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Google is a company, it's not comparable. Companies almost by definition seek to gain at the expense of others, if not initially then a few years in after the honeymoon. I agree that decentralisation is the whole point of the WWW and I
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
The majority of people, at least in the UK, have far more money than required for basic needs. Particularly if they live with parents, share with friends, or move to a cheaper area, or just go to 3/4 days a week. Minimum wage zero savi
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
The entire point of cryptocurrency is to bypass this stuff. If you're using a regulated exchange, just go and buy Apple shares or use a bank instead. It really is almost completely pointless.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Sometimes people just want a medium density city. I like my medium density neighbourhood and I like being in a city that has them. If I wanted to live in a tower block I'd move more centrally or to another city. I also don't think
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
I agree, don't pollute. False equivalence. We can talk about carbon taxes and renewable energy if you'd like, but if we're going to go down the path of "any energy use is sin unless I approve of it", then I ask agai
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
So don't use it. Done. Do people not get bored of telling others what to do? What next, "The Case Against Popcorn"?
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Reddit is one of, if not the single least reliable source of information on the Internet. You are looking at algorithmic feeds which propagate only information which has the majority vote. Not only that, but a majority vote of a community w
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Yeah, no. Having literally every indoor space be freezing cold is not reasonable. In the UK this happened earlier in the year (no-one cares any more) and generally everyone would huddle in the most sheltered part of a venue to make up for i
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Projects get reassigned over time regardless. It's not as if this is some strict 1:1 relationship, we obviously had more than 1 person with knowledge of / working on a codebase. It would have been an issue if 2-3 working on the sa
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Er, what? On call for an entire week at a time? Does this actually exist? It's like an... anti-holiday. Insane.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
I don't follow. Most jobs I've had were high trust, this was the weird exception. I didn't need a union to fix that.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
I'm jaded about the entire industry, it feels like we've invented everything genuinely useful and now we're just doing make work. I'm more bullish on technology in general and some of the software that can enable that (e
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
No, because in that case you are responsible for other people's systems you have no idea about and there is no incentive to fix them. I am always on call to secure my own house, so I have a good alarm system, cameras, locks etc which m
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
You think about that when you design it. I used to work on trading systems which were managed in real time by a rotating team of traders (i.e. mathematically oriented people as opposed to software engineers). You design the system so that i
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Most jobs I've had there was an implicit expectation that if your shit breaks, you fix it. This resulted in systems which didn't break because, well, that keeps work to working hours. A few years back I took a job with no mention
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Why not? I don't know the stats in the UK, but anecdotally, everyone I know who regularly goes to the theatre (as opposed to occasionally e.g. once every year or two) isn't far off financial independence. Poor people will just wat
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Sure. I don't mind taking a 0.5% risk to avoid 1% of my life spent in lockdown. Neither does my mother or grandmother. It is not an axiom that an increase in death rates at the population level is bad, because people are willing to put
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Yeah, I don't do any of that. I left the industry, only software development has really gone all in on it.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
I just left the industry. There are other fields which are not doing WFH to the same extreme. Most office jobs aren't even going as bonkers as software dev. If you see me saying "software development left me behind" as a humb
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Thank you. I honestly find these people to simply be trolls. The views espoused make no sense. Imagine if I suggested that they just video call their children from the office as a replacement for watching them grow up. You want A, I want B.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Right? I would find it amusing if these guys weren't so _serious_ about it. It's a religion.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
False dichotomy, lockdown is a choice. I will never lock down.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
I consider that to be theatre too. Frankly I just don't interact with corona-obsessed people in real life any more, which they probably prefer. Everyone wins.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Your entire post is based around me fitting my round peg into your square hole. I have left the industry because of WFH. I have no interest in compromising, it was fun, and none of what you have described is fun, so why bother? I wish you t
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
I can do all of that now, I live in the UK which has no restrictions. You talk about being "forced" to be in an office but ignore the other side of being "forced" to work over video calls. I mean, neither are forced, lik
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Also we'd need to vaccinate those bats with something which actually kills off corona rather than just reducing its' effects a bit.

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