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by vkou 4mo ago
If you've been working for three years as a junior and just put down a big down payment on a house you can barely afford, yes, you're going to have problems. If in 19 years as a SWE, you haven't saved up a lot of money, you a
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by vkou 4mo ago
Presumably they haven't been living paycheck to paycheck for the past 19. It's not that difficult for a SWE in North America.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Thank you for bringing up this incredibly rational, and not at all offensive or infantalizing presumption - one that hypothesizes that my spouse is incapable of thinking and deciding for herself . You are, of course, the sole free-thinking
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by vkou 4mo ago
The kind you'd find in any place with a housing or food shortage, (or a job shortage if you are the sort of person who has #firstworldproblems) or really any other shortage where some public demand cannot be met by limited supply. We
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by vkou 4mo ago
It's good that you're helping to pad your boss' CL and doc output count. His OKR for IC contributions on top of his management responsibilities won't fill itself.
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by vkou 4mo ago
There's no amount of money (that society could ever afford to pay) that could convince my wife to have children.
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by vkou 4mo ago
What about the pain from overpopulation and a glut of uneducated labour? Doesn't that shit roll downhill, too? "The poor will always pay for it" is a thought-terminating cliche that is often trotted out in support of the stat
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by vkou 4mo ago
The degeneracy of these millennials who want to maintain healthy sleep habits...
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by vkou 4mo ago
How well do SCAM500 stocks do over a time period that includes two recessions, compared to SP500 ones? I've no doubt that the short-term gains during a bull market on all sorts of garbage are significant.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Nearly everyone in the world is heavily dependant on international trade. They all manage to get by without the leverage of 11 carrier fleet groups. You know, trade between equals, and not subjects. WW2 was largely driven by the personaliti
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by vkou 4mo ago
No, America's influence over its globe-spanning empire is predicated on that. That's not the same thing as it's national security. It would do just fine if it weren't the head of a global hegemony, although it might have
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by vkou 5mo ago
A compromise solution would be to fail safe with a cook-off period and a notification for any active users. It would mean that someone can't gank an account from under you while you're using it, but you could recover it after a we
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by vkou 5mo ago
It was one 25 years ago.
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by vkou 5mo ago
So, on that spectrum, is the MAGA hat lewd, obscene, or offensive?
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by vkou 5mo ago
1. Does the pilot need anything but his personal biases to claim that poses a risk to the plane? 2. Because any rational person understands that we need to coexist in a society with a spectrum of political opinion, and that a fucking access
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by vkou 5mo ago
Will the captain likewise call the FBI if some knuckledragging mouth breather with three ex-wives and a flag tattoo on his groin has an access point called 'Make Murucuh Great Again'? That would make me uncomfortable on the flig
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by vkou 5mo ago
Here's the thing. If you're going to forbid a bunch of words and names for bullshit security 'reasons', you're going to have to be clear and up front about it. Just like how we are clear and up front about water
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by vkou 5mo ago
Plenty of wait times in the US. Go to any clinic that accepts walk-ins in the afternoon, and you'll see a long line of sick, insured people waiting. Getting a specialist in a major metro area will easily take 6-9 months. Family doctors
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by vkou 5mo ago
It couldn't do it without switching to a war economy and full mobilization. And that would spell the end of the current US regime long before it would end the Iranian one. Trump's approval rating has a floor of 40%, but that would
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by vkou 5mo ago
It wouldn't even get to that point, because in order to be fighting an insurgency, you have to actually win on the ground and occupy the country. Without a coalition of fools, the US has zero odds of success in that first step. It wo
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by vkou 5mo ago
In the past 60 years the Iranian regime has only closed the straight in retaliation to a second massive suckerpunch against it. I'd say they are acting in a far more restrained and reasonable manner than the belligerents in the &#x27
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by vkou 5mo ago
Nobody believed it in the first place. If you asked any modern MAGGAT in 2014 what they thought of DJT, they'd probably call him some rich turd from New York, and would not give him the time of day. Now he is still the exact same man,
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by vkou 5mo ago
e) Invading Iran would not be a thee-week special operation like invading Iraq was.
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by vkou 5mo ago
'Stock goes up so we buy it' has sufficient explanatory power to resolve this conundrum.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Musk in a nutshell, but as long as the stock price goes up everyone looks the other way.
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by vkou 5mo ago
So, how are you planning on dealing with Trump and friends? Appeasement clearly isn't working.
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by vkou 5mo ago
You don't want to go short on a company when that happens, you want to go long. Amazon stock goes up when AWS bugs take down the entire internet, because everyone realizes that more of the internet depends on Amazon than they thought.
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by vkou 5mo ago
You're giving the system too much credit. The users and the SWEs don't get a choice in this, they eat whatever the thought leaders and PMs spec out. They are the ones who make the decisions, you can either get on board or look for
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by vkou 5mo ago
Software quality sucks because the consequences for getting it wrong are low for the people and organizations making it. Which is often fine, but sometimes isn't.
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by vkou 5mo ago
I care about those things but not enough to keep people who can't do the curriculum taking up a university slot.

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