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by unishark 5y ago
It think it's just based on the title itself. Part of preparing to quit is preparing for what's next.
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I think they might have meant to say "may not be valuable advice" (but left out the not). Makes a little more sense as a thought worth posting.
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by unishark 5y ago
But it also says .."in a document, bug, code comment—wherever..." You don't have to make a big effort of it. Paste the question and answers from the emails into a text file. Make it into a FAQ email to share or paste it into
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Is your goal to be indispensable as in the only person still able to maintain some ancient legacy project that is still continuing? Or as in the person who gets things done? Highly-paid professions have cookie-cutter skill-sets taught from
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If you can win a lawsuit against a company for a failure it is probably because it wasn't an externality but a contract or warranty agreement they have breached. This is present even in niches with minimal regulations. Data centers off
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That falls under what I'd call not a meaningful internet presence because it is google handing over the same info from maps and business directories.
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I imagine the author of the article would say you are still conscious while zoned out, just not necessarily self-aware about it. Your mind contains an internal representation of the world and your place in it, just not also a high-order sel
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Politics is largely of a game of making simplifying over-generalizations about other people so you can attach negative labels to them.
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> Maybe we should just cut to the chase and admit the obvious, that ants, bees, octopi, monkeys and fishes are both conscious (whatever that word even means for humans is up for grabs) and intelligent. The irony is that "intelligenc
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> ...most businesses your option is either have a strong search presence on Google or go out of business. Your perspective is a bit skewed here towards the software world. There are businesses on every street-corner in the US, and for th
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You can make that decision in rural areas. It costs a lot of money to get wires run to a new house. You might use solar instead with a generator as backup. In many urban areas you may not even be allowed to opt out of utilities meanwhile. I
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But any idiot can figure out which are the successful products on those search engines. They are literally there trying to be found and broadcast their popularity. The patent system is for protecting ideas which the law allows to be protect
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> On the other hand, google could take over almost any business like this. I have never worked with a technology company that would in danger of being taken over in this way. The examples you list are all free information you can find on
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Or perhaps they know for a fact someone read the article using Tor or a VPN, and want to go after the server next. Still seems pretty far out there.
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Isn't that pretty much what these stories are about? Big tech company implements policy that says no more political activism at work (big tech company already has policy to fire anyone who expresses racist/sexist or other taboo vi
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It isn't math so much as objective measurements that are necessary to have science. So I'd say the ability to impose math on those measurements is a necessary but not sufficient condition. One can produce garbage even in hard phys
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Your May 2021 story includes the following quotes: > But Fauci emphatically denied that the money went toward so-called “gain of function” research, which he described as “taking a virus that could infect humans and making it either more
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People will forget stuff over the summer before the next school year even begins. Much less waiting until after they graduate. Material has to be covered repeatedly in a series of courses building on each other. E.g. first you learn basics.
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> I don’t dispute it is one point of suspicion, but Wuhan is also one of the 10 biggest cities in China. It isn’t a surprise the first US outbreak was in the biggest city. The first cases could have been anywhere. Is that really so for
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The headline might be vague (though I'd personally love to see drone strikes on the scumbags that scam elderly people to of their meager savings) but the article itself talks in terms of priority and effort for investigations into ma
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by unishark 5y ago
But aren't there any lunch trucks, roach coaches, etc around for normal people to get food?
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> The problem is that Universities aren't punished for teaching inadequately. They are punished in a way. It hurts a school to get a bad reputation among local companies for poorly-prepared grads. R1 research schools, particularly i
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By "can" do it I mean are able to without burning bridges or feeling like you've betrayed people. A big difference from walking away from a small business you run, by contrast.
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I think this is an aspect of a general network security problem. Another example is how the internet or phone system turns people in developing countries into targets for scammers worldwide. We just assume it's a inherently good thing
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Also economics. The database for this message board must contain a million proposals for re-architeching society from scratch.
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It's not rare at all. Any field where the company or person paying for the code has absolutely no ability to do anything with it themselves anyway. And frankly people tend to keep and reuse their code anyway, but I prefer to be honest
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The gulf coast may have a higher population than the west coast depending where the line is. So three heavily populated coasts. Supposedly something like 2/3 of the population lives in the 100 mile border zone.
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It's not just a US thing. The grace period to find a new job might be higher elsewhere though.
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> Usually it becomes a business that requires constant attention as it scales. You seem to be talking about the typical solo entrepreneur story where someone tries to guess at a consumer product, makes it on their own time, then tries to
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> And worse, they can fire you in two weeks instead of 6 months. In the US regular employees can be fired in two weeks most commonly, though big companies traditionally give a few months severance in good economic times. The upside of th

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