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by thunky 2y ago
You seem to have lost the thread. It started here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43172240 You've had some pretty shitty tech jobs if you've had to provide a status update jsutifying why you should keep you
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by thunky 2y ago
Nobody said "every tech job", but it's certainly not uncommon. The "standup" part means that it's supposed to be a quick meeting at the beginning of each day - so quick that you don't even sit down. But i
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by thunky 2y ago
Ever heard of a daily standup? They are typically mandated by managers to get status updates, which leads to people justifying their job every day.
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by thunky 2y ago
I don't know all of the ins and outs but I think a big mechanism was offering $25k buyouts: from https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-buyo... : To reduce the work force by 102,000 positions by t
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by thunky 2y ago
I agree with everything you said, but it's also not impossible to be laid off by the govt for no reason so there may have been a false sense of security: https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/nprrpt&#x2F
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by thunky 2y ago
> How many people, who have good prospects elsewhere, are going to work for a government agency -- usually a lower pay -- to put up with shit like this that doesn't even happen in industry? Would you? You could remove the "to p
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by thunky 2y ago
> Again, if you didn't want to accept that risk you could have just sold the stocks instead of taking a loan. I could have reasons for not wanting to sell it. Maybe I don't want to boost up my income for the year and be subject
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by thunky 2y ago
Yeah, I lost $100. That's what I gambled. So why am I paying taxes on $1000 again?
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by thunky 2y ago
Because you paid taxes on something that's worthless, which is the argument against this kind of tax: the value is too dynamic and hard to determine. If paid $1000 for the stock, then took a loan and paid interest on it, then paid taxe
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by thunky 2y ago
> I should pay taxes on that either way If the stock value drops below $1000 (or to $0), would you get your tax $ back?
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by thunky 2y ago
> maybe you could tell us what you'd have the Democrats do Instead of limp statements by Schumer and the like taking about "bromances" and complaining about how Trump and Musk are executing their actions, maybe they coul
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by thunky 2y ago
> it doesn't sound like the president's opponents are going to try to stop him I don't think they have an incentive to. Better for them to sit back and watch trump break things so they can be the ones to (campaign to) fix
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by thunky 2y ago
Yes that too
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by thunky 2y ago
> you take the help you can get Was it really help if the outcome ends up being worse than without any help? I'm taking about loss of life, property, and land.
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by thunky 2y ago
This shows that Trump reversed course on the ban, but it doesn't explain why.
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by thunky 2y ago
What I'm saying is that in order to do a fair comparision, you should include the total amount of (inflation adjusted) income your father got from the govt for his job, not just the yearly income recieved during working years. To illus
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by thunky 2y ago
> Ideological nutters are completely ignorant or delusional about how much government workers get paid. How much did the government pay your dad after he retired? Guaranteed lifetime income is a big reason govt pay is lower, and should
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by thunky 2y ago
> he could have attempted multiple businesses and likely become moderately rich and at the very least been of service How do you know he didn't do any of this? It's not like he's been sifting through garbage this whole ti
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by thunky 2y ago
Good question. HN flagging either needs more transparency or an overhaul.
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by thunky 2y ago
> by the end of Trump's term, if it said term doesn't continue forever Comments like this, sarcastic as it may be, help to normalize the idea.
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by thunky 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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by thunky 2y ago
> but the overall tone seems like they are scolding Docker I didn't find the article to be scolding or offensive in their tone. It's just a straight reporting of their experience and (imho valid) concerns.
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by thunky 2y ago
So what is your proposed solution? Ban technology that helps us "think" and go back to paper and ink? Or would you rather we keep innovating but then pretend that technology doesn't exist (closed book, no calculators) to forc
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by thunky 2y ago
From https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-backs-dismissal... [Judge Smith] found OAN and its parent company were unlikely to prevail on the defamation claim because the challenged speech was not a statement of fact
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by thunky 2y ago
It's true though. All cable news is "entertainment news", not "news". Nobody should have been getting their "news" from Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon, or Rachel Maddow. IMO they shouldn't be allowed to c
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by thunky 2y ago
Don't you want robots cleaning your toilets so you don't have to? A strike won't stop that from happening. Why is engineering work any different?
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by thunky 2y ago
> I imagine most of us will be still be working just as much -- if not more Yes but there will be far less of us working. Which, in a healthy society would actually be a good thing.
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by thunky 2y ago
> I was criticized for not getting enough story points merged And I bet you learned to stop doing reviews so quickly. Your coworkers may have already figured out where the disincentives were.
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by thunky 2y ago
I can't believe all those dummies in line for lunch never thought of that.
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by thunky 2y ago
That 0.1s is to write 4k rows to clickhouse, not per (log write) request.

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