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Speaking of low salaries, I saw a $30K/year job ad in a western EU country for a research engineer who will need to build a secure and scalable infrastructure - and I laughed hard.…

Take look at luigi, which is a lightweight task orchestrator with minimalistic dependencies. [1] https://github.com/spotify/luigi

It's funny, if it weren't that sneaky and scuzzy and very much in line with what FB excels at: web scale deceit.

Exactly, do not expect a business (except it is a non-profit) to do something out of charity - they don't.

Probably so. The part of the population that reacts in any way to "delete your account" is probably 0.25% - FB knows that, too. Fine if every other month a #deletefb campaign comes…

Yes of course. You have to give in at a point, because you have no options, it's probably simple as that.

Sad to see that FAANG is so attractive - sure, pay is nice, technical problems are nice - but you are actively working on walled gardens. You become a walled gardener.

Good for them. I find it strange that we have this org setup at all. A union illustrates the clear divide between capital owners and workers. It sounds so 19th century, but it's ju…

Always remember: Don't get high on your own supply.

I don't know. I see the nice HSBC building in my city and all I can think of is that half of the business of theirs is crooked, money laundry, trafficking, drug cartels. No shiny b…

I can see that mining is a good incentive to look for excess energy in all kinds of places and make use of it. That's a capitalistic motiv, finding solutions to derived issues, whe…

That's my #1 reason to be bearish on B$ - it's just a complete environmental cluster-fuck. And in order to not see this, you'll have to ignore a lot of facts - which in turn tells …

Internet as a public good.

I was stretching the point, but what amazes me is the amount of stuff people want to do vs. the amount of equipment they throw at the problem.

To put it into perspective: You give me $72K and I'll set you up a 1PB replicated storage infra with a total of 100+ available CPU cores and half a TB RAM. I saw people burning thr…

Just sampling: The last billionaire I looked up was a north american mining guy. He owns mines, in Africa. Can you guess which country? Yes exactly, the one that prospers much more…

Maybe it is a better way to learn independently, with regular, e.g. monthly or quarterly check-ins with an experienced mentor? Would solve quite a few problems altogether - people …

One exception may be Niklas Luhmann, a German sociologist, who was a prolific writer. His note taking method was part of his philosophical process, I assume.

No, I do not want a part in that.

I had an ok, low life once. Today I work 80h to catch up with capital gains of those who sell me food or own my place. The essence of capitalism is embodied in private equity today…

If you have me guess, what the effect of low access to resources is (time, money, health, job, anything) I will bet having lower resources will have an adverse effect - because tha…

Excellent video. We have the tech and skill to reconstruct reality, at the same time we do not possess the skill to let reason rule critical parts of our (here: Beirut's) infrastru…

I'm sorry for the circumstances. I just want to note one thing: any large community will have aspect (sometimes many) that many people will not like. That's not personal, it's just…

I calculated that so far I saved with my pro-bono work in open source and documentation around 2,085,000 million hours of professional labor. Now my hourly rate is 100 bucks, so th…

I'm off the main hubs, SF, London, NYC, but here, in my gamma level city people talk a bit about AI but I have yet to see applications that are not vaporware. Don't get me wrong, I…