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At one point well before the age of industrialization all furniture was hand crafted so to speak by trained artisans. As time went on they started working together in workshops, ha…

I can't say I know the AI research community well but I'd imagine OpenAIs alignment w/ the military would not align w/ the the personal philosophy of many.

typical tech bro - they don't want any government regulation and want all the federal dollars they can get for nothing in return. we shouldn't be giving tax payer money to any priv…

when people talk about a players I feel like a lot of times it's really just the person who knows the project best or maybe they wrote a lot of the original code so they have the b…

Since OP mentioned quality to me that's almost always synonymous and things like TDD and Agile which I view as a false prophet to quality.

Elon has plans to double the number the H1B visas driving down the price of labor. H1B workers are also easier to exploit and less likely to unionize which is currently the tech se…

knowledge is power and people don't always want to share. Maybe it's more reflective of my company culture but I've seen knowledge effectively hoarded and used strategically as a w…

yea this is the sad shitty answer - it's just a private company w/ a government contract gathering data on us

100% hear this and I know as a developer at a big company I have no say over the business side of things but there's probably something to be said for we should all push for clear …

wow oh wow what a great comment. I think the reason dance went away is a lot of men engaged in predatory behavior while drunk, that is that would approach the woman from behind and…

honestly feel like we're actively being lied to about how "good" the economy is.

this isn't why people buy Bitcoin. they buy it b/c they don't have confidence in the power of the US dollar or want to hedge their bets. It's the equivalent of gold, that is people…

If you think we're currently a democracy you're very wrong. Being a democracy means you actually get to vote on things like whether or not we should go to war, whether we should ha…

This is exactly why deadlines in tech are such bullshit. It's my personal experience that more times than not I'm told the deadline as opposed to us reaching some kind of agreement…

large application codebase - consistent - have you worked in the field? I feel like usually there are 3 or 4 patterns from different people/teams at different points in time that s…

I learn a lot of stuff of my own but I have to admit for almost everything in hind sight I probably would of been better off doing it the proper way. There is no better setting tha…

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Reddit does a lot better of job bringing good relevant comments to the top.

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unfortunately in the current system it mostly takes money to move the needle of change and if you don't have money how do you move the needle?

so how can we put pressure on the people running this country to start fixing root problems?

Obesity is a lifestyle issue bc people have to work multiple jobs and don't have time to cook. They have long commutes and don't have time to cook. Both parents have to work and do…

All of that is 100% true and like you said we could choose to allocate resources in a way to certainly fix the hunger problem and the housing shortage but we actively chose not to.…

Amen 100% agree.

Libertarian forum is a funny word considering many of these companies keep government subsidies which have been cleverly renamed to things like clean energy investments.