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by xyzzy123 2y ago
"Senior" software engineer salary in NZ is maybe $120k NZD (about $70k USD), median house in Auckland or Wellington (which is where you need to be to earn even that much) is about a million NZD. Cost of living is very high. Maybe
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
They're a component of the S&P 500 / various indexes, so what is weird is that to some extent the drive for returns from people's own 401ks is the source of the oppression. The human centipede of capitalism.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
You need a certain degree of practicality to do proper damage to infrastructure, the trades have it in spades but political types not so much. You have to have some mental model of which parts of the system are hard to replace. Sometimes th
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
The number is large because they are a large entity with 350k employees and something like 400B revenue. They're also a public company with all the financial obligations and market expectations that come along with that.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
I am struggling to come up with a way you could run a health insurance company and NOT be hated. Can anyone come up with examples of successful, beloved health insurance companies? Their role in the system is to more or less to do rationing
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Most good plans will have actions / tasks that reduce risk or uncertainty as highest priority. A good heuristic in the absence of a detailed high level plan is "work on the highest risk things first".
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
The difficulty is co-ordination. My job as a "responsible parent" is much more difficult if I have to fight prevailing social norms and my kids perceive they are being excluded from conversations and arbitrarily cut off from their
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Common patterns of behaviour are: 1. Generalised nepotism: heads-of favouring their buddies / installing crony networks, hiring/promoting only people of certain races or ethnic backgrounds, influencing supplier relationships for t
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
> If you can't afford actual education For working people it's not necessarily the cost of a degree, it's the opportunity cost of time out of workforce. Rent/mortgage still needs to be paid. > settle for a scam? Ye
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I agree although I feel like one could easily make the exact same comments regarding compilers. I can't quite pin down why there would be many free (for various values of free) industry standard compilers but not cad programs.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Quietly create a retrovirus which will write your data into the DNA of every living human.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Have thought about this a bit. I think there's a "business model" where a non-profit foundation charges a very high price (say $50 or $100/gig) and the interest on that pays for the hosting and admin. One issue is startu
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Get a Mitutoyo, it'll be accurate AND the battery will last 5 years. It only hurts once. Cheap calipers hurt every time you use them :/
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
> You need to be able to gradually roll out a change to prevent problems from escalating and causing downtime. From my perspective I prefer it to rolling updates, it just costs a lot of resources. It gives you a chance to verify all the
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
> Australia will probably be the first "western" country to block Tor. The Australian way would be to "ban" tor without any particular concern for enforceability or technical feasibility. Any actual blocking would be
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Sort of; at medium scale you can blue/green your whole system out of the monorepo (even if its say 20 services) in k8s and flip the ingresses to cut over during release. Of course k8s not required, you can do it in straight IaC etc (i
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Most (but OK, not all) ultra-rich people will be diversified and hold some of their wealth in securities, real estate and other assets. They'll have family offices and expected rates of return, they can arrange for enough of their weal
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
I agree efficiency vs latency, but it's also "exploit vs explore" balance, work/life balance and more, leaving time for research, exploration, shooting the sh*t, decorating the office, buying christmas gifts at lunchtime
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Sorry that I was not clear, my bad, I did not mean to imply that you personally "lack understanding" in any way. What I should have written was that there seemed to be a lack of shared understanding among the team, (i.e, agreeme
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
The review requirement often comes from compliance, many standards require a control to stop developers getting code into production by themselves without anyone else looking at it. Sometimes it's because an engineering manager read a
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
I think this comes down to a lack of shared understanding on what a PR approval means, it sounds like you didn't believe it meant the same thing as your team did. There's not one standard meaning of the "rubber stamp". I
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
This horse has been long flogged to death. My list: Mostly fits in my head, gc, not horribly slow, boring concurrency, low effort cross-compilation, good distribution story. It's contentious but I like the "low abstraction ceiling
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
It's also, what kind of startup are you? What kind of workload do you have? If you are bootstrapping a crud app business then 1 beefy hetzner box (or something slightly more reliable) with postgresql is probably fine until you reach
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
This selects for people willing to do 8 years of schooling to earn 60k EUR.
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Some options: You can keep track of which email addresses have been invited to a specific org (or match by domain if specific domains have been allow-listed) and post-validate that the email address you get from social login is allowed. May
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
It seems like there's considerable demand for human labour "below the API" that you don't have to talk to. It's kind of sad but people seem to get comfortable with it very quickly.
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IMHO the problem with this is that in a business environment where you need growth, eventually you run out of revenue you can extract from subscribers. I'm skeptical that this kind of service can be sustainably provided by any profit
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Are you sure that's true? How do you know? How much does it depend on where in the US you are?
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The other great thing about public transport is you don't have to "lug" / "chauffer" them at all after about 8 or so (what age makes sense depends on area and the kid of course). They can exercise some indepen
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
I feel like the framing in the article is wrong. Tech startups are desperately searching for solutions that will generate value. When a "new hammer" is developed or discovered (lets say, radiation) there's a natural inflectio

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