Raptor22

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by Raptor22 2y ago
Two things: 1) This is war. It's not pretty and it's never not messy. 2) This is precisely why every human, and every leader of humans, should avoid war at all costs. The image of a "clean" war is a myth. Even the Alli
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by Raptor22 3y ago
> original project (a bus) This is actually insane to me. Like bonkers, even. The MBA types are surely the source of that idea. From a brand perspective, the only car that ever truly made sense for Apple to make was something at least re
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by Raptor22 3y ago
> And yet it's the best system we've devised so far This is the truth, and it's the saddest part of all...
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by Raptor22 3y ago
> It was neither particularly violent Wow. I know perhaps this makes sense from a non-American perspective, but as an American, January 6 was incredibly violent. I think some people forget that this isn't normal .
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by Raptor22 3y ago
What are some examples of these crucial incidents?
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by Raptor22 3y ago
I'd say it's the opposite, actually. If Amazon embraced WFH, the Seattle commercial real estate market (and the city itself) would suffer major damage. So the mayor and many CRE groups are lobbying the C suite to go back to the of
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by Raptor22 3y ago
Look, I agree with your fundamental sentiment. But I think you're being incredibly naive too. > I don't see how the world can function if everyone were to think and act like that My brother in Christ, the world barely functio
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by Raptor22 3y ago
> They are applying to different companies? Do you believe these employees made a decision to work for one of these companies for life and will now never again get another job? What is your point with this part? Who is hiring in tech rig
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by Raptor22 3y ago
On the surface, yes, there are many employers. How's that going for the folks that have been recently laid off from checks notes ... Amazon, Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, EA, Indeed, Yahoo, Github, Zoom,
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by Raptor22 3y ago
This is a simplified version of the argument, but basically: right now, I am dependent on an employer for my survival. Keeping a roof over my head depends on my being competent at my job, AND my employer not deciding to fire me. One of thos
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by Raptor22 4y ago
You and I both know that as messed up as this was, nothing will be done to reign in the power of these VC's. I always vaguely knew that the billionaire class has the government over a barrel, but now they know, concretely, with real
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by Raptor22 4y ago
My experience working in a small startup, a largish tech company and a FAANG, is that management (especially at the top) follows a highly unbalanced bimodal distribution - that is, about 85-95% of management has no idea what they're do
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by Raptor22 4y ago
Can someone explain the differences between Google and the C++ standards committee? I understand it has to do with breaking ABI, but what exactly does this imply? As someone much more experienced in other languages like Python and Swift, my
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by Raptor22 4y ago
> How can he immediately turn from "people shouldn't post publicly available information that can be abusable" to posting someone's abusable public information? Hypocrisy
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by Raptor22 4y ago
> about to learn yet another lesson Bold of you to assume they're capable of learning at this point.
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by Raptor22 4y ago
It's literally initialed TRAP. This is Looney Tunes levels of villainy. C'mon, corporate America, at least put in the effort to make the dystopia believable.
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by Raptor22 4y ago
Oh dear God, here we go...
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by Raptor22 4y ago
Are you planning on bidding on the Puerto Rico generation privatization contract? Because you fit right in with the clowns at Luma Energy.
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by Raptor22 4y ago
See, the problem is you used logic here, unlike senior management.
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by Raptor22 4y ago
> How unreliable is your power grid? If you live in Puerto Rico, extremely unreliable [0, 1] > It's a lot easier having someone else manage the entire infrastructure Indeed it is, if they're competent [2, 3] > Unless yo
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by Raptor22 4y ago
> This seems to be a sticking point among high achievers, but you really need to dial back any societal expectations you may have. You’re here for a short time, and you’re given the option of watching the spectacle at your leisure. Enjoy
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by Raptor22 4y ago
Who captures most of the profit from these better devices?
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by Raptor22 4y ago
> You're opening the floodgates to massive governmental and corporate control. The irony of this statement in a discussion about taking a public company private
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by Raptor22 4y ago
Isn't it interesting that many otherwise intelligent people don't seem to understand this? I don't know _how_ we solve this problem, but the sheer amount of people who refuse to see this as _a_ problem (and who should know be
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by Raptor22 4y ago
> for example, in a "free" twitter, i could post some racist tirade, and expect it to gain no traction/retweets from my followers & some random others. people might see it, but it is principally no different to making
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by Raptor22 5y ago
I would kill to not have deadlines... I also work here heh
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by Raptor22 5y ago
Really depends, some of it for sure is autogenerated code. I've seen similar situations.
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by Raptor22 5y ago
How?
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by Raptor22 5y ago
You weren't kidding about Google, damn...
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by Raptor22 5y ago
Sigh... I laughed hard at your comment, but it reminds me of just the sheer amount of idiotic shit management comes up with... It's like they're living in a totally different universe from the ICs.

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