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by uncircle 1y ago
> I'm hoping that this is just the high watermark, and not the new standard. I’ve been hearing a variation of this for at least 9 months. Can’t help but see Americans as frogs in the boiling water. Surely it can’t get hotter than th
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by uncircle 1y ago
Yeah; it's even worse than that.
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by uncircle 1y ago
If one wants to go deeper, and more radical, may I recommend Bob Black's "The Abolition of Work": https://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/abolitionofwork.ht...
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by uncircle 1y ago
If you don’t have the full story, how are you saying one side is gaslighting? Stop throwing around accusatory words.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Thankfully, I do not live in Canada nor in USA, and I do not wish to live anywhere expensive. I just have very modest requirements and acceptance that I will not be able to afford anything better than a fixer-upper. I have been saving from
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by uncircle 1y ago
I got into mountaineering (movies) after reading Into Thin Air, about the disaster atop Mount Everest in 1996. Haunting story, fantastic book. For real life lost at sea stories, there’s “438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at
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by uncircle 1y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. If you want realistic, modern spy show, I strongly recommend “Le Bureau Des Legendes”. I heard there’s an American remake, which probably makes it over-the-top for their audience, but the original is top-tier
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by uncircle 1y ago
My blue collar job will soon be carpentry and fixing up a cheap house. That way I can stop paying exorbitant amounts for rent slavery, and I don’t have to burn out 40 hours a week in tech to make rent. It’s not gonna be fun for my joints, b
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by uncircle 1y ago
Apple’s design dept. doesn’t seem to do much better now that Ive has left.
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by uncircle 1y ago
I have no excuse: I read that book, and I thought I was quoting his advice from memory.
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by uncircle 1y ago
I've recently enjoyed the German philosopher Max Stirner's liberal usage of em-dashes to add, at the end of his sentences — great emphasis. > Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a
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by uncircle 1y ago
Unlike your 's
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by uncircle 1y ago
This is in reference to a meme ( https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stop-doing-math ) and made relevant by the first paragraph of the post. > Have you ever seen a Number grazing in the fields? Or a Functor chirping in the
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by uncircle 1y ago
Thank you for your rebuttal. I certainly have to defer to your experience, and perhaps I have to work harder to find a meditation technique that plays better with my wiring.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Great analogy with your dog. I noticed that when I’m doing the washing up, my DMN, for some reason, takes me to ruminate negatively about my relationships, and I constantly have to return my attention to something else. No wonder I’ve come
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by uncircle 1y ago
Many such cases
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by uncircle 1y ago
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
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by uncircle 1y ago
I won’t comment on your tone and unterminated string quotes, but the link seems interesting enough to share: https://worrydream.com/refs/Papert_1980_-_Mindstorms,_1st_ed...
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by uncircle 1y ago
I’ve been wondering the same thing about meditation: it is “known” that is is good for you in the long-term, but I wonder if spending time focused on a point in your mind is a very good idea for people that spend a lot of time stuck in thei
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by uncircle 1y ago
Rousseau speaks of this.
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by uncircle 1y ago
“The Work Outing”, the episode with a vaguely similar plot which made me cry with laughter the first time I saw it, is available for free on Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cj490uNht4o&pp=ygUVaXQgY3Jvd2Q...
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by uncircle 1y ago
Also a favourite among those that compare apples to oranges.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Yeah, and imagine how much more time could the medieval peasants have spent working if only they had electricity, machines and computers at their disposal. The joys of progress.
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by uncircle 1y ago
All technologies go through the hype cycle, but the magnitude of the cycle and its effects on the economy are very different. Neither VR, mobile video calls or 3D printing were expected to radically change the entire work economy, if not br
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by uncircle 1y ago
Yes, because all rules have been created for your own good, so you must follow without ever questioning them. The world is more nuanced than your silly black-and-white duality, unless it's a Twitter argument and it's all about div
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by uncircle 1y ago
X86 isn’t CISC, sure, but it isn’t a RISC architecture either.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Exactly what I thought. 10am-4pm is sane, 10 hours a day is still crazy, but I guess to employees talking about 996, in comparison it seems a good deal. I have been self employed for 12+ years, for 9am-1pm is a very productive day, and anyo
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by uncircle 1y ago
The poor.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Yes. Too large a comment/vote ratio causes articles to be defrontpaged, as well as some domains. Moderators do a lot of manipulation behind the scenes to keep what they deem ‘hot-button topics’ down in 3rd page or shadow-banned altoget
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by uncircle 1y ago
You forget that the vast majority of software engineering in the real world is boring tech, not the new hotness that’s being peddled on Hacker News. There is a large market for Java, C++ and COBOL engineers to this day, despite all startups

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