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> People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there's someone with loud as exhaust on "sportish" car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained. > Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I've noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly danger…
> Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time… From the instant the idea to do something pops into management’s heads, or is explained to them by sales (who heard it from a customer), the clock is ticking. Actually developing the software necessary is just an irritating overhead. Something to be reduced to near zero. A one-dimensional “scalar”…
"If we do it this way, the next feature will take 10% longer, and it will cost 20% more to rectify. When we compound this our feature rate will grind to near 0, or you'll have to hire infinite head count. Your roadmap is 12 months long, and I have reason to believe this is the fastest path to that set of asks, and also sets us up for an excellent future beyond that too".
The world is significantly better than the year before cause the world is not just USA. Imagine being gay even 20 years from now. Imagine being black during slavery. Imagine being a woman in the 50s. Imagine having your country colonized. Imagine dying of polio before the vaccines... This is endless. Things are still broken, but we human as a whole still improve.
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I really believe that this is what happens when you go so long without a substantial recession coupled with an easy money regime. There's apathy because no one has been scared in a long time. Landlords haven't been scared of not finding renters and not being able to pay their mortgages. Workers haven't been really scared of not finding jobs. Businesses have not really been scared of not being able to raise money. Awf…
I'll preface this by saying this is all anecdotal evidence based on my personal observations, so it may not apply to everyone. I often feel the same way, especially with tech. For those of us that remember before the internet was ubiquitous, the optimism and promise of the "information super highway" seems in stark contrast with what we see today. I try to keep in mind a few things: First, we are living in a time tha…
It's astounding as a mere 4 decades ago such news as the amazon poop would of taken weeks to get out.
In the 90s this was not even a pipe dream for most people. I was tech savvy as a kid and at 12 I built my first computer but even I didn't foresee how connected we would end up.
If you live in USA or western europe, real living standards have been decreasing for decades now. But thats probably not something youd particularly notice over 5 years.
It seems like I can see a distinct decline between Now and 5 years ago. And between 5 yrs ago and 10. And between 10 and 15... etc.
Little things I've noticed decay in my 40 plus years. I noticed credit card machines fail a lot more. Like 5 or 10 years ago credit card machines very rarely failed. Like you didn't even think about it. Now it's like a 25% chance the credit card machine I'm using will not work properly. This is not a new technology. No one lets you in in traffic anymore. you used to be able to put your blinker on and people would wav…
I think it is pretty amazing. I vaguely remember my parents and grandparents discussing or using traveler's cheques (which I never got around to understanding the concept of), but I can go almost anywhere in the world, use my credit card, or use my debit card, and get cash out via a machine at near the spot rate of pretty much any currency and pay no fees.
Focus on the good. Reject the bad, evil, dark. Focus on the good, true, love, kindness, compassion, right, lovely, righteous.