brsg

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by brsg 5y ago
I think there's 2 opposing forces that will affect "us" (rich country engineers) over the coming decade. 1) An absolutely insatiable demand for software as _everything_ needs to be remote friendly and digital. 2) An equally i
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by brsg 5y ago
I thought this was an interesting quote A: Two thoughts. First, you can leave a foreign country behind in an orderly way. Ask the British Empire, which mostly ended its colonial occupations in an orderly way. The interviewee says this as
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by brsg 5y ago
It's no coincidence that the following events seem to coincide * Distrust of traditional media * Collapse of local media * Rise in social media platforms Traditional media isn't competing with rival newspapers on a stand anymore.
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by brsg 5y ago
I'm a little suprised they're still around tbh. Their competitor in New York, Knotel, straight up went bankrupt and got sold for parts. They must've had a lot more cash to endure this. https://techcrunch.com/2
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by brsg 5y ago
Idempotency is a pretty critical concept in system design, and I think most developers have run into issues related to it even if they aren't directly familiar with the term. To give another simple example as the OP - Suppose you have
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by brsg 6y ago
Speaking anecdotally, going back to school for an MSc allowed me to pivot from an engineering career in the transportation industry to the data/software field. It would've been more difficult to get interviews for entry level role
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by brsg 6y ago
You're asking this in good faith, so you don't deserve to get downvoted. I think people on hn are a bit sensitive to comments they perceive as "reductionist" that may oversimplify complex problems, even if they're h
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by brsg 6y ago
Of course, I hope that you didn't take too personally the snark in my original reply =). At most other points in human history, our discussion probably would've been a cordial trade of livestock for bread and there would never be
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by brsg 6y ago
To be fair, HN does remove a ton of political posts. If they didn't, this tech forum would be overrun with irrelevant political discussion. Conservative think tanks posts can definitely stimulate good discussion, but if you don't
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by brsg 6y ago
That's fair! I think I may have confused you with the OP that responded as such to the moderate point. For what it's worth, I think you may be surprised how much you can discuss on this topic without crossing "the line"
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by brsg 6y ago
I agree with this and, for what it's worth, I've found discussions like this are always far more cordial in person versus online - even if you already know the person online. I genuinely blame social media for this "descent i
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by brsg 6y ago
Yeah, but why not stuff like immigration, stances on environmental regulation, income tax rates on high earners, gun rights... You've gotta agree that those fall under the moderate umbrella a bit more right? I've lived/worked
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by brsg 6y ago
I'm not going to "cancel" you, but it's a little telling that your example of a moderate view immediately went there.
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by brsg 6y ago
This is a dishonest argument. Trump ran I 2016, when gay marriage was already law. It was explicitly the result of Democrats being elected that legalized gay marriage.
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by brsg 6y ago
Weren't polls actually quite accurate for the UK in 2019? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2019_U... Obviously social media is a terrible barometer for political mood. It's designed to bu
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by brsg 6y ago
I think people's memories are a bit short regarding just how dire things were in NYC back in April. I think things are a bit more complicated than just blaming the governor for shutting down restaurants. Every resident in or around New
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by brsg 6y ago
I guess it really depends on what you mean by "stimulating" manufacturing. They're only recourse, really, is to make purchases of the equipment (does increased demand count as stimulating?). The federal government, and only t
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by brsg 6y ago
People are "allowed" to be frustrated with the situation, and I think it's a little dismissive to accuse them of having "victimhood". It's perfectly reasonable to miss direct interactions with coworkers, and th
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by brsg 6y ago
Demographics alone probably explain this well enough in the US. Tech workers skew heavily young and skew heavily college educated. If you sample any population with those demographics - in this political environment - you're going to g