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by cliglot 2mo ago
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> CPI inflation would suggest that the current cost ought to be about $692. Rent alone will probably blow that. I live in a burnt out rust belt shithole city and I’m struggling to understand how rent is this high. I pay a good bit more t
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by cliglot 2mo ago
How you define “rely”. I’ve certainly seen trust fund kids who’s success is anchored on “daddy gave me a sweet job at his company” and others who’d be dead or in prison if it wasn’t for the constant money poured into the legal system by the
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> Expecting to own a high end house in a dense metro are on its own, is a pretty insane expectation. High salaries and an industry boom over the last decade created a sort of whiny arrogance amongst software developers, and particularly
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by cliglot 2mo ago
I may have ended up that way if I hadn’t gotten into software as a teenager. Luckily a did and the timing was right for me to make some sort of decent career out of it. I did live independently prior to going into software, but it sucked an
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> We're probably just a few short years away from the current generation of right-wing populists Right wing populists are nearly as useless as left wing populists now. The people they put into power and now betraying them for monied
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> Personally I think data centers should pay a 100% fossil fuel tax. Markets respond to incentives. Yes, by changing the incentives to align with their desires. I guarantee if a politician had a serious chance of introducing something li
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> i think you need to catch up Likely futile though. The way to get jobs now is through network and connections. If OP doesn’t have those already, it’s unlikely they’ll be able to “catch up” in a reasonable amount of time.
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> after buying his way in with trump with his 250M donation to create a new part of gov that was not democratically assembled I’ll add: after these people spent years whining about “unelected bureaucrats”.
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by cliglot 2mo ago
I’ve been in a bit of creative/intellectual rut the last few years, but before that there were a handful of things that intrigued me in the last 5-10 years. Most recently, I became interested in the field of photonics/optics, part
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> There is plenty of surplus labor available with the right economic incentives. Instead the “Economic incentives” go to the Chinese owners who then learn that Americans are not interested in working in a sweatshop and instead rely on th
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by cliglot 2mo ago
I just wait till I feel I have too many and just nuke them all at one lol.
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> This paints everyone as right or left, which I don’t find accurate or helpful. I’d argue it’s incredibly helpful. I live in a state with a couple contentious elections coming up. Something I’ve noticed is no one seems to have anything
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by cliglot 2mo ago
I recall a story some years back of a tank plant in Ohio that was producing tanks that went straight to a landfill. The military just did not need so much tanks for their modern conflicts. However that tank plant was the one major employer
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> Also, I still do believe some people just want to work on "cool" stuff. One thing I’ve noticed more and more is all the “cool” jobs require you to already be an established domain expert. Another things I’ve noticed, and thi
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> I’m not surprised that these companies are well funded and hiring a lot of people. I’m surprised that they chose to hire the people who were previously making “Uber but for dogs” gimmick apps and not just hollowing out the HPC speciali
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by cliglot 2mo ago
I agree this is a fine compromise. Sadly the zealots in my state won’t end there. They’re going after plain leaf powders too.
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> I've used kratom for 10 years for pain management and it was my best option at the time. Any weird side effects. My girlfriend and I tend to use Kratom for the mild stimulant effect. The worst is ever done for me is make me nauseo
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by cliglot 2mo ago
Yep, I will say it’s not as bad a old USB-mini connectors but I’ve soured on USB-C after too many of them have broken on me (among other issues this thread covers well) Some years ago I may have cheered on the pushes to get iPhones to use U
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by cliglot 2mo ago
I gave up with a dreams of returning to school when I realized in my early 20s, despite paying my own rent, bills, taxes, etc, the financial aid system considered me a dependent of my father still and lumped his income in with the calculati
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> I'm not trying to gatekeep or belittle the author, but there's something funny about this genre of articles that assert with utmost conviction what it takes to be successful in business. Of course, we all have opinions, but t
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by cliglot 2mo ago
The government has had no qualms in the past using the army or national guard to break strikes.
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> often hinged on incompetence or negligence rather than lack of information sharing. Or just technology. Almost every “50 year old cold case solved” I see is because advancements in DNA processing .
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by cliglot 2mo ago
I guess the Chinese are also hacking people’s power company and hacking their bills up. Maybe if these jackasses want data centers so bad, they should build it next to their own neighborhood. Having these people been hoarding land recently?
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by cliglot 2mo ago
Perhaps one day we’ll have a government not made up of dementia patients who can’t seem to remember what they just said and did the previous week.
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by cliglot 2mo ago
Probably because they’re too stupid to see all the wonderful things that have now. You can buy a massive flat screen TV for under $400 at Walmart! Computers are so cheap that everyone can be a gambling/porn addict now. Who cares about
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> If only mobile devices had better external monitor support. What I don’t get is modern phones are impressive. My iPhone from several years back was capable of running full blown Civ6 and certain older Total War titles. So clearly the r
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> I see this as more or less analogous to the DevOps shift of the mid 2010s. Ugh, I desperately need to find an exit soon.
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> but ultimately what they seek is "fame and glory" (literal quote). lol how old are these people? You have better chance at fame and glory if you started a stupid YouTube channel.
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by cliglot 2mo ago
> What if one’s entire existence doesn’t revolve around the role they play in capitalist systems. Quit playing for a little bit. Quit working. See how quickly people derided and devalue you. If I don’t work, I don’t eat, I don’t get a pl

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