g00gler · HackerTrans

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This leads me to wonder, do you think free trade and ad or government subsidized everything from TVs & smartphones to Internet and cellular service to content serve to keep the lot of the working classes satisfied instead of the dignities sought by the European union members & syndicalists of yesteryear?

g00gler

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Maybe there’s some sensible common ground between Germany and the US system where everyone is required to get a general education even though a lot of people have no interest in it which also causes a lot of problems and makes it worse for everyone.

Anecdotal of course but from my own experience and from the few teachers I know now, there are so many issues with students assaulting teachers, assaulting each other, kids who can barely read, write or do math, etc.

I strongly preferred my liberal arts classes at my university but most people in them were just checking the box because they viewed the expensive ($20k+/yr in state) school as a job training program even though it isn’t that.

g00gler

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I could be wrong but I think the other effects of smoking are worse for quality of life as you age and are way more common than cancer.

I knew a lot of lifelong smokers. I believe only one got lung cancer, didn’t die of it, but all that lived long enough had oxygen tanks, at least periodically, later in their lives.

g00gler

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I don’t vote, I’m a proud non-voter.

People frequently make this statement and I think it’s wrong at face value.

If you vote you are giving legitimacy to the beltway uniparty. If the election is “free and fair” why does voting give you the right to complain?

g00gler

2 jaar geledendiscuss

You’re both right! Nuance is important :).

This is an interesting thought, assuming a call center employee is paid $35k, total cost of employment being $70k, you could hire 14.25 employees for every million dollars.

If every Concast exec got paid a paltry $5M (lowest paid exec salary), they’d be able to hire around 975 more CS reps.

They have 13.6 million subscribers, so they’d increase the number of support reps by 0.000071691176471 per customer.

My thought was maybe they could reduce their marketing budget but it seems their business has shrunken by ~50% in the past 10 years.

https://www1.salary.com/COMCAST-CORP-Executive-Salaries.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/497279/comcast-number-vi...

g00gler

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> Near as I can tell, the US is getting hit with massive manipulative propaganda BS, and a lot of people are burnt out and even having PTSD type reactions (See Complex PTSD) to other people because of it.

Read any good articles about this phenomenon?

g00gler

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> I mean, isn't the possibility of any of the major cloud vendors getting 'hacked', or cryptolocked, one of the biggest threads to any country?

Right, but I think the point in this case is that Microsoft was rent seeking with the logs.

To your point, I’ve been wondering lately how much of a national security threat outsourcing, offshoring and H1B in tech poses more generally.

g00gler

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I’m not sure if $2,200 is a lot or a little but isn’t there some non-zero cost associated with facilitating, transporting, storing and performing the autopsies regardless of whether the examiner is paid or is a student? Eg clerical work, drivers, equipment, use of a vehicle, refrigerators, etc.

g00gler

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One guy killed himself and the other got MERSA. Only kooks believe that Boeing killed them!

g00gler

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Just pointing out, now these guys will never be on 60 minutes or giving interviews to popular mechanics, Rogan or Lex Friedman. Whatever testimony is made available will be all that we have on the topic.

g00gler

2 jaar geledendiscuss

That’s really interesting and compelling. What’s the rest of your backend stack look like? Do you get good performance from the database drivers written in dart?

g00gler

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> There are no jobs for me; even for positions that totally align with my skills, the employers express no interest.

I often wonder who they have working there and applying that is so much better than me they won’t grant me an interview. I’ve always been a top performer so it’s really quite puzzling.

g00gler

3 jaar geledendiscuss

How about US developers can’t compete with offshore developers?

Average Indian earns $571/mo. Even if devs earn 2x average you’d be able to hire at least 3 for just the average SF/NYC rent a developer in the US has to pay let alone taxes, benefits, etc.

Not particularly good for the country or economy long term; is the end game to destroy the US and start over paying people here $571/mo?

g00gler

3 jaar geledendiscuss

They pretty much did the work for a lib at this point…

g00gler

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I’ve been struggling with this for a bit — I am working on something I’d like to make open source for every use except resale / selling a hosted version.

Eg, you can have a private fork you use at work. You can host it for your own use anywhere you want.

I just want to retain the exclusive rights to sell it.

So 2 questions;

Is this not open source?

What’s a palatable license if you want to be able to sell a hosted version of your product?

g00gler

3 jaar geledendiscuss

What about a collective approach run by the businesses in a town rather than companies that charge high fees on both ends?

g00gler

5 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm from the NYC Metro.

Insane pricing pushed us out initially.

Philadelphia is such a horrible place, pre-covid I was longing to go back.

COVID restrictions and now the fallout from that don't make it feel like a good idea.

Really thinking about Florida now.

g00gler

5 jaar geledendiscuss

It’s absolutely insane and there’s really no reason for it.

Controversy with the angular team or high profile developers — why?

I’ve been off social media for years but I’d hear about it second hand from coworkers.

g00gler

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Religious schools aren’t the only use of vouchers either. There are also charter schools. Charter schools can often provide specialized programs. Montessori schools seem awesome as well.

g00gler

5 jaar geledendiscuss

A future where humans are no longer able to drive will have to be a decade or more after self driving arrives. It’s impossible for everyone to replace their non self driving cars immediately.

The used car market is a $150bn industry. A quick spot check found that a 2010 Honda Civic still costs between $5k and $10k depending on mileage, etc.

By the time that self driving is required by the NHSA or whatever body requires backup cameras and the like in new cars self driving will be standard.

A $20k Subaru will come with it out of the box, no add ons, just like a backup camera today.

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