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No, but it does learn from where we are. If where we are is debt, debt is where we'll remain.

> [post 1] "One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible" > [post 2] "Of course they share responsibility." I'm not following. We're also still disregarding the fact that no…

There's a lot to unpack here. > that politician trusted some poorly paid staff - I assume that politician is the one / main person in charge of doling out payments. Does that mean …

> The culture of Google is that you hire "the best" developers (say top 0.1%) and hamstring them with process and cumbersome tools so that you need 10x as many of them as another c…

> If I had a choice between React (Facebook) and Kubernetes (Google) I would pick the former anyday. Can you elaborate on why these are at all comparable techs to use as a develope…

> Things people mostly do when they feel good. This sounds like an inversion of cause and effect. > All three activities are hobbies. [...] It's nothing that gives life a purpose. …

Measurable responses to the environment lag, Moore's law has been slowing down (e: and demand has been speeding up, a lot). From just a sustainability point, I really hope that the…

Disclaimer: raised Catholic, now Atheist, married to devout Catholic. The Church as defined by the institution is a community. I do not see it as a contradiction that the head of t…

> Your boss, asking for a project to be finished early, may be an overdemanding boor – or just an Asker, who's assuming you might decline. I don't pay for the Atlantic and thus am …

Reminiscent of the Vogon plans for the highway through Arthur Dent's house being on display in Alpha Centauri for 50 Earth years.

This is largely "false dichotomies: the app".

It boggles my Detroit-grown mind that so many people claim this about so many thriving cities. I live in the PNW and regularly visit most of the major cities there and in NorCal. W…

This is the God's honest. I worked on the MS Word core team for a little over three years from 2010-2014, and de-facto owned a significant part of implementing ODF / OOXML Strict s…

In cultures with more normalized haggling there's a conversation happening between two humans with agency, which this doesn't even have.

> amounts to having political control over land use decisions This exists in America, in ways that have generally escaped the label of "Communism". The most basic example of this m…

I haven't used it in a while but https://theoldreader.com/ seemed like a fairly drop-in replacement for Google Reader.

Detroit hasn't, downtown has. Downtown has improved wildly since when even when I was growing up near there in the 80s/90s, but people don't realize how large Detroit is. It's near…

> Everyone else they had interviewed had stormed out, pissed off that they had wasted their time; they didn't even realize what they did until I started asking questions after I go…

The point is that "escape" in this case means not having to work to American Capitalism levels, not escaping working entirely. Retirement in the FIRE sense does not imply in all ca…

Do you have an office in Seattle? The Data Engineer role lists both Seattle and Remote.

I've seen this cited several times in this thread, but I've seen no one mention that (according their own FAQ): > medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and di…

Regarding taste tests, it's common for very sweet drinks to win because they give a small amount to taste. The experience of drinking the normal serving size (in the US) of 12oz is…

It's in the legal complaint by the State of CA. https://aboutblaw.com/YJw

This behavior by recruiters is wildly frustrating to me even without NDAs involved. I can't count the number of times I've actually been looking for jobs and gotten a coy "I have a…

As another developer in his 30s, I don't think it's quite the same. Mystery meat navigation is purely opaque, whereas icons like GMail's are at least trying to convey meaning via t…