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by vba616 3y ago
Don't lie. Don't act/feel guilty. Embrace (in your head, in preparation) the reasons you had to leave as though they were your own. Only talk about the aspects of leaving your job that you have in common with a voluntary resi
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by vba616 3y ago
1. If a web browser can display content at a URL, why would ChatGPT be violating IP rights by doing so? 2. If a web browser can display all the content much faster, why not use one? (plagiarizing the linked Twitter thread) ...maybe the answ
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by vba616 3y ago
>a 250k person will ask you why the code is written the way it is and then go on to redo it from scratch Are you trolling to see if anyone knows this quote: "...the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
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by vba616 3y ago
I really don't know anything about Dr. Who. All I know is allegedly, according to Google today, in this particular timeline, the Tardis is not supposed to be red. And I remember this, from the VHS era: https://www.macintoshr
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by vba616 3y ago
>I think the "duck-tapers" Graeber describes in his book are a bit different from what you understand currently. He's mostly talking about the people who are doing tedious cleanup work because of reasons that can obviously
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by vba616 3y ago
Are you temping? If not, what's your reasoning for that?
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by vba616 3y ago
On an unrelated note, should I be concerned if a British style police box seems to have appeared in a random location in my town? ...and it's red? ...and there is a line of tiny skulls on stakes near it? ...and until I checked Google S
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by vba616 3y ago
> a huge number of people believe their own job is bullshit That's no more likely to be true. In order to correctly understand the context of our jobs, we would have to understand other jobs we don't and never will do. It'
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by vba616 3y ago
You know who thought he knew what was a "bullshit job"? Paul Bremer, that's who. That worked out well. Edit: Maybe the clusterf*ck was Rumsfeld's idea. "all public sector employees affiliated with the Ba'ath Pa
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by vba616 3y ago
I disagree with every part of this quote and the whole "bullshit jobs" thesis. People think they know what a job is, without having done it. You cannot imagine even, say, stocking shelves at a retail store, without doing it. If, f
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by vba616 3y ago
>If people regularly lose access to their belongings when there's an incident, that's not a 1 in a billion billion It was an estimate for an individual . >The premise of this conversation is that this is the regular process
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by vba616 3y ago
>It has to do with the fact that Europe as a whole is not part of the classical definition of the West Everything depends on context. How far back is "classical"? If you're saying that the Byzantine empire or the Ottoman e
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by vba616 3y ago
Modern Western capitalism is pretty similar to the Soviet Union or China's. "State capitalism" and "monopoly capitalism" (the bad kind according to socialists) are about as different as Coke and Pepsi. Ultimately th
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by vba616 3y ago
On the other hand, some unions (mine) sign contracts that say they will not strike and do whatever they can to prevent one. I haven't witnessed what happens if the members were determined to anyway, or read up on the circumstances of p
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by vba616 3y ago
Are you applying to HN type startups or "regular" companies? Do you have a problem with lowering your standards, at least temporarily? Non-SWE positions? Or are you like "I'm overqualified, I won't apply for that...
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by vba616 3y ago
P.S. "cleaning the office microwave" is sarcasm...a placeholder for an infinite collection of jobs, some programming and some not. BPO = Business Process Outsourcing
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by vba616 3y ago
I revised my comment - isn't the name of Russia itself a remnant of Scandinavian origins? I don't know what "Eastern Europe" has to do with "Westerners". If you are lecturing a random American on the definition
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by vba616 3y ago
The major tech companies outsource stuff that matters - I mean, for 20 years at least - to contracted outside companies who pay 1/10th the amount to Americans in "flyover" country and even less to offshore employees. They do
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by vba616 3y ago
Some people signed up for Twitter, years ago, specifically to avoid other people using their name. I think it was a thread on HN. Once you are signed up, it's tempting to use it. Then you realize it's a bad idea to use it, but it
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by vba616 3y ago
What are Russians if not Westerners? I read that the name of the country comes from Rus', originally used for Scandinavians or Vikings or something like that.
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by vba616 3y ago
I believe that remotely disabling your car if you don't pay has been an established practice among "buy here pay here" dealers for many years. It's an "innovative" way to lend to people who have bad or no credi
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by vba616 3y ago
>if you can honestly say that passengers will get their onboard items within 7 days of an emergency You can't honestly say that...that's why it's an emergency. Everybody knows that, so you can't change behavior.
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by vba616 3y ago
People worry in an emergency because they don't know what's going to happen. People do not worry more or less because of some particular 1 in a billion billion event that happened yesterday. Well, maybe yesterday , but wait a day
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by vba616 3y ago
>In how many G20 members does the average person make significant, regular use of non-metric measurements in their daily life? This is an interesting question. The amount of usage would need to be quantified. The definition of "aver
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by vba616 3y ago
Ok. I'm maybe not following your point. Do you think the FAA's policy is a problem?
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I'm confused where the concept of a single expert making policy entered the discussion.
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by vba616 3y ago
There may be some destitute jet-setters who know all FAA regulations by heart and are cool as ice when staring death in the face. I think the argument was that there aren't enough to make the contrived reasoning why the FAA is stupid f
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by vba616 3y ago
It's one thing to do the math to estimate how many idiots there are. It's another thing to claim that the idiots are doing the math. To describe throwing a ball, you may use calculus. But if you then reason that people who throw t
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by vba616 3y ago
>because the FAA as the latter policy, people will be more prone to try to take their stuff Approximately nobody in an actual emergency has any idea of the details of FAA policies or is running through their logical implications, come ON
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by vba616 3y ago
People say the US, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only countries to reject metric. If this wasn't bullshit, then people would be able to spontaneously state the criterion that produced this specific list. I mean, the criterion exists ,

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