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> The recurring dream of replacing developers > In the end, I think the dream underneath this dream is about being able to manifest things into reality without having to get into t…

> an investment in the task the software does that is unlikely to be paid off if it only does a single simple task I don't think that's true at all. The tool linked here is exactly…

Agree with this wholeheartedly. Stay there for now while looking for a new job. If things work out ok at the current place, end your search and enjoy your current job. If they don'…

Like I said, > Persuasion is necessary

What is the point of being great at persuading if one is persuading peers, reports, and leaders to do the wrong thing? Persuasion is necessary but it should be second to the sugges…

I think it's interesting to also think about it from the other perspective. If this is someone who is supporting themselves through this work, then what they have to at least charg…

A lot of drivers tend to drive like assholes so this isn't too surprising.

Exactly. The car in front might be reacting to some road hazard that just appeared that is not visible from behind it or it may have some mechanical failure. It doesn't matter why …

If a human driver had been driving, they also could have fled the scene, like the other human driver who caused the whole problem in the first place, and left the woman laying on t…

Same here, I learned how to touch type years before I heard about Dvorak and found it very difficult to switch so I'm still using qwerty.

Same thing. The idea is go without a lot of the comforts we are accustomed to in order to experience life as those less fortunate do so that we may be more empathetic towards our f…

Nope, no fap.

> People keep talking about how 'this is a solvency crisis because if SVB had to sell everything today, they wouldn't cover liabilities' when that is the definition of a liquidity …

> That gnawing sense of futility and impending failure that I’d been feeling for 15 months would finally, today, get addressed. Sounds like this guy just needed to feel heard. Ther…

And by not at least naming one of the problems, the author is being cowardly and/or lazy. It's like describing a reviewed item as "good". It conveys no information other than "I li…

It's not just a "commonly taught idea that businesses should focus solely on generating profit", it's the fundamental principle upon which economies are built today almost anywhere…

You are right about the benefits GitHub provides to the FOSS community but I don't think that was ever the stated goal of this company. Their goal is to make profit, not foster FOS…

I agree with your point wholeheartedly. This makes me think of "knowledge transfers" in software companies where a meeting is set up between the outgoing engineer/team and the new …

> But is it more or less anti-social than running a huge software platform that advertises the ways to exploit itself? Security through obscurity is no security at all. Google is n…

Defining "more important" this way seems limited to one actor. In your original post, you talk about multiple actors, namely hospitals and individual people. Different actors are g…

I wasn't suggesting you should do it just for this article. My library has a really good selection of newspapers and magazines that they make available online and I use it frequent…

> high prices direct resources to more important uses I don't think that that is always true. High prices will redirect scarce resources to those who have the means and desire to p…

Also, your local library might have an online subscription to The Economist. Take advantage of it :)

What does ESD stand for? I did a quick google search but there were too many seemingly irrelevant hits.

One doesn't need to be an aerospace engineer to know that Boeing planes crashed because the company leadership decided to forgo quality for the sake of profits. Before the crashes,…