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> Beijing more resembles Greater New York—a conglomeration of over 70 cities—than it does New York City. A similar pattern holds for most Chinese cities. TIL with this one, I’ve be…

I agree with the premise of the article, but something caught my eye in it: > Some experts worry that this kind of information may shift policing more toward quality-of-life issues…

Hypothetically, if she figured out how to automate it on her own, would she get any kind of reward for it? If not, why should she automate it? Another example, if there’s some repe…

> only to end up, a decade or two later, in either a regular struggling life like so many others, or a downright bad place It isn’t like they transform into the ubermensch and tran…

> Beloved websites are destroyed by money hungry ghouls everyday. Seems like a common theme: people build a community around something, it becomes something really cool, and then a…

Most of the time it’s like I spend 90% of the time trying to understand context of preexisting application and requirements, that’s purely reading and not writing Once I start writ…

Just go into software dev. Don’t go into “Devops”, it’s just some shitty buzzword for having a bunch of oncall. “Data science” is really oversaturated atm. Cybersec in industry isn…

> There's no "guarantee" but there's an increased probability This is part of the problem. If you work hard but don’t benefit, you’ve essentially fucked yourself because then you’l…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities... SF has one of the highest measures of property crime in the country. Article was mainly referring to violent crime. …

> a) Years at job = pay. Absolutely no pay increase or decrease for working harder or being better than average. It’s already like this > b) You are near impossible to fire unless …

> It's good for society, the individual, and the employer when people have room to grow/work harder/contribute more and be rewarded for it. Rewards are distributed based off of sen…

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-bukele-gangs-60... How does this relate? There they actually enforced the laws and threw violators in prison. A similar strategy could …

I really don’t get why all of the fanfare and hand wavey attempts at outreach are necessary here. You have a well defined problem: high rates of property crime and drug use. How to…

> In other words, it's like living in a Nordic country. What’s this about? Do Scandinavians have a reputation of being fake or something?

> no one really wants to leave anymore. According to what exactly?

> Anecdotally, in my circles, most truly thought that this won't have an impact in the compensation levels. I mean, even if it does, it’s not that big of a deal. Fewer people propp…

> We can’t regulate acts of nature How can you be so sure? What about controlled burns?

Wow you just described my current gig, it’s like they have this inner circle of management/architects that just withholds information. No one documents anything. It’s a fucking mes…

> Many people now prefer not to even use search if they can help it, because it's got so messed up. According to what exactly? Journalist speculation?

What I don’t get is this: why does youtube still have such a monopoly after all this time? It’s had a shitty reputation since I can remember, why don’t creators just band together …

Well yes, I was talking about a different hypothetical :)

> we're one thought away for being thrown into jail for shower thoughts that go slightly the wrong side of "publicly acceptable". Not really. That’s like being laughed at for being…

A lot of negative comments here but I could see some merits to this (supposing it’s in an open source context and the data doesn’t go anywhere) For example, whenever you start to g…

Meanwhile someone joined my team a couple months back and is getting paid to literally do nothing and take sick days every other day I don’t need to say anything more about them gi…