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by zeruch 4y ago
"Why would an employee in the tech sector prefer an employer-managed pension?" They might not, but that position presumes that the person has only experienced the 'upside' of the industry. Why would ANY employee in ANY
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by zeruch 4y ago
"We have normalised firing of people." We spent decades in the US smashing unions, smashing pensions (replacing them with more volatile instruments like 401Ks) and made at-will employment dangerous for both sides of the equation.
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by zeruch 4y ago
its a terrible company, period.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Unfortunately being on-call 24x7 is the base expectation at big companies," Occasionally is that true, unless you set that precedent early. If you set boundaries up at the start, in most cases, they stick. It's just critica
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by zeruch 4y ago
I'd look into stuff like Harold Budd, William Basinski, or Jon Hassell (who in turn influenced Eno; you can hear some similarities but also radical differences because Hassell played processed trumpet and had a much more dense sound pa
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Perhaps it's a matter of finding the exercise you can tolerate." This. I was a bit of a free-weight gym rat in my 20s and never liked it (still don't), but have over the years find things I have/do enjoy, and that
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by zeruch 4y ago
I do.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Ultimately I feel I've had both experiences depending on which locale I'm in. Depending on whether 1, the other or both ave a critical mass of vehicles in an area on any given night, I've seen either be cheaper/faster (
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by zeruch 4y ago
"fear of failure and intolerance for anything less than instant success...focused on short-term dipshit Wall Street investors" A nice distillation of most of SV these days.
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by zeruch 4y ago
LOL. The self-righteous hyperbole is just downright use-net circa 1996 adorable, but it doesn't make your statements any more compelling, nor does it show that you grasped the point very well.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Given he stated he was a native, why would he (your pedantry aside)?
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by zeruch 4y ago
As overused as the term is, "Orwellian" seems weirdly apropos here.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Your second item is so unbelievably on point, it hurts. The failure of so many to look at even a cursory sense of history would know that this industry has always had volatility baked in, and that affects not only "disruption" of
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by zeruch 4y ago
The term is probably "regulatory capture"
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by zeruch 4y ago
Teams has to be one of the worst products in its class, of all time. It is a catastrophically corpulent and fickle mass of errors, wrapped in a UI that looks like Prince shat it out circa 1998.
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by zeruch 4y ago
It's already here. (Web3 will exacerbate it). Seriously, in terms of a 'segregated' network, we already see giant walled gardens and their pseudo-kin everywhere, and web3's sole focus seems on monetization of anything o
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by zeruch 4y ago
TC seems to be the only focus on Blind. It's almost laughable, but I suspect the demographics on it skew very early stage career/young. And yes, I've met two people who worked at AWS and liked it, essentially because they wer
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by zeruch 4y ago
"No one can think of anything to do with web3 other than make money off web3." Agreed. And that in and of itself wouldn't be a problem if not for the fact that "The proponents of web3 cannot articulate any desirable futu
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by zeruch 4y ago
Decades.
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by zeruch 4y ago
I gave up GIMP for Krita years ago and have yet to see a reason to change (I still use Adobe as well, but for FOSS tools, Krita has stayed at the top for me)
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Are we witnessing the slow death of (online) advertising? " Hope springs eternal, but we could also be witnessing the Bladerunner/Transmetropolitanization of advertising.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Fireworks was truly brilliant in its day (and probably still usable now TBH, but I like using archaic tools sometimes for purely artistic reasons). What happened with Macromedia was tragic.
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by zeruch 4y ago
This is the kind of tech I'd love to see regulated and/or Google-nuked into oblivion. "reconsider if this is truly the product you want to create for this world" If they were self-serving and crass enough to start the i
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by zeruch 4y ago
I remember sitting in a hotel room in SF with my girlfriend at the time and her waxing about Godard, whom I knew little about. She was right about how influential and brilliant he was.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"That seems a bit crass to me." Not anymore crass than creating a cargo cult of monarchist sycophants, and expecting it to go on unopposed into the 22nd century for the sake of 'civility', particularly given the most re
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by zeruch 4y ago
Hopefully no, and good riddance. As edifices, they are better suited to being campuses for any number of other things, and the sooner we get out of the habit of creating endless ziggurats for mindless bland LCD consumerism the better. I&#x2
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by zeruch 4y ago
"economic theory looks like math from the shoreline but it tastes and feels like philosophy when you dive in." I'm plagiarizing that for the rest of my life
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by zeruch 4y ago
Until you define a method/definition of "Evil" you're out of luck. What you can do, is use this to track changes, and then match it to a corpus of other data to get a better fidelity on what may influence legislation; f
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by zeruch 4y ago
I've always been an anti-monarchist/posh class in terms of the sense of entitlement and inherited perks while "in government", but I also feel as a leader QE2 was an unusually astute 'Monarch' (in quotes as s
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Most importantly city has been hostile to tech and business owners." You are laughable. The reason the City is in this state is because it pandered to tech firms that wanted the "coolness' without paying anything for it

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