Mr_Shiba

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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
For anyone interested in this topic I strongly recommend: The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets by Thomas Philippon Serious research with data, but also approachable for noneconomist.
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
Yep, borderline hollywood celebrity nonsense, pretty sad indeed
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
Usually product owners and business are the biggest enemies of engineering minimalism - [PO] A/B testing says button must be outside table - [DEV] But that makes the code unreliable and overcomplicates things the framework is not desig
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
But he is saving the world by filling it with toxic batteries and ugly trucks Haven't you heard?
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
Too bad I work for a living and paying bills, I don't work so I can "growth". That is just good old self-improvement brainwash to exploit labor I have hobbies, I have a family, I invest in culture, I enjoy free time, that is
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
Lobby money. Legal bribery at work
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
free speech is highly overrated, is not even granted in other democracies that are functional It has also not prevented the US to go into a de-facto oligarchy state if anything the NRA and others have manipulated the "free speech cult&
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
> From a very broad moral perspective, their human rights violations are legion This judgement coming from the country with the highest incarceration rate, criminalized abortion, caged immigrants, historic systematic racism, legal briber
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
Lived for a couple of years in America and opted to return to my country for similar reasons as yours Industrialized nations mistake comfort and wealth for happiness
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
Ultimately in my experience titles mean nothing, right now officially I'm just "software engineer", you can be a CTO in a 2 man company, which is cool I guess but it really doesn't mean much. What I mean with upward tren
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
Actually I think you are reading way to much into it, seems to me she is neither condemning nor praising, the article conclusion does mention there is an upside to this raise in travel: "they also mean more cross-cultural exposure, mor
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
I disagree with the article as well. Whenever I stumble upon really good engineers they are for the most part hyper specialized in what they do. I would like to add that after I stopped saying yes to everything, my career took a upward tren
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
NYT's China hit article of the day
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
Once we tried to had a conversation about gun control, health care, and social security with an American ex-colleague. He went from being this nice composed man, to be a GunNutz-take the government out of my health care jihadist in just sec
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
Exactly my point, I don't mean to brag but just picked react and redux 4 months ago. I'm already one of the most productive react-redux sr. engs at my current job Is not about me being a "ninja" is about me doing this co
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
>I'm 45 and have gray hair. I'm reaching 40 next year, 20 years of code experience. What's bizarre about the whole thing is that I would be consider to be reaching my productive peak in the next 10 years in any other field
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
I take 5 miles of walking over 5 minutes of traffic everyday.
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by Mr_Shiba 7y ago
I don't consider bashing a toxic-unsustainable transport culture unsubstantive.
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
> exercising freedom of speech uuughh..
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
> technical analysis Probably not, but common sense should be enough. It is 2 inches, on a road...
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
Can't blame them. US institutions have been slowly poisoned by the cancer call lobbying. You have regulators with interest ties to the industry they have to supposedly regulate all across most agencies.
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
> Tarn isn't known for being a good developer. He's just very dedicated :) Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration - Thomas Edison.
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
> The more I see Musk doing stupid pseudo-celebrity stuff like appearing on a kiddy Youtube channel to "review memes" False prophet, this is why celebrity cult sucks
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
How about 300 deaths already, and well know design shortcomings as primary factors ?
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
> They are essentially risking their entire company over the safety of this plane But all that profit, would someone think of stock holders please!?
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
Yeah well, this only makes me redouble my efforts to get rid of whats-app. If only idiotic managers would stop making pointless job related whats-app groups for everything...
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
>because a lot of high profile startups are moving away from it Lucky for everyone there is a world beyond "high profile startups" whatever that means. You may even argue "high profile startups" is an irrelevant perce
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
Agreed, duckduckgo ftw.
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
This is a great opportunity to encourage everyone to delete your facebook & Instagram.
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by Mr_Shiba 8y ago
Curious, I just red "It doesn't have to be crazy at work" by David Heinemeier Hansson. Could not be more true, we have created a toxic amoral culture that is making everyone miserable. This work thing, the whole point is to m

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