imcrs

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by imcrs 2mo ago
> in 2023, Google laid off some twelve thousand people, representing around six per cent of its workforce, and, in the years that followed, an estimated four hundred thousand jobs were eliminated across tech This right here, ooh you&#x27
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by imcrs 6mo ago
What's actually really unhelpful and actually harmful to the viability of hybrid work arrangements is RTO. > "I should be able to work anywhere and my employer must accommodate me" is an extremely privileged and elitist vi
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by imcrs 6mo ago
I like a full service espresso bar at the office. If I ask my employer for that, guess what they'll say? Fuck you, you're here to work. And I have to take it. I'm sure you can guess why.
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by imcrs 6mo ago
> This makes sense when you consider that all of these big companies are run by leaders who talk in similar networks and listen to the same consultants (McKinsey, BCG, etc Yes, it certainly does! I'm sure they also talk to Pinkerton
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by imcrs 6mo ago
RTO is about controlling labor, nothing else. Everything else is a smoke screen. Ask yourself the following questions and you'll understand what happened: - why did RTO happen seemingly right after salaries jumped and labor became scar
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by imcrs 10mo ago
To be clear I'm having a lot of fun being snarky here. Like everything it's a mix. In seriousness, I do find the labor perspective sorely and quite conspicuously lacking in these discussions, both discussions about remote work and
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by imcrs 10mo ago
Do you pay your programmers hourly or on salary?
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by imcrs 10mo ago
I've already kind of made it clear here where I stand on this, but I gotta tell you, you really do sound a lot like management. Do you really think your superstar programmers are well and truly doing intellectual work, the kind of work
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by imcrs 10mo ago
For your comment about the turn towards authoritarianism, yeah, there's a reason every DEI program at every large corporation was pulled back within a few months, and it's not because the C suite all reads the same Musk tweets on
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by imcrs 10mo ago
It's not about productivity at all. These same companies were commissioning studies during Covid that told their analysts "look how productive our employees are now that they are working from home!" It's about crushing l
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by imcrs 9y ago
I would call that having health insurance and a place to stay when things go south 9 times in a row.
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by imcrs 9y ago
I have always wondered how we can reconcile that things "are" objectively so great and yet "seem" subjectively so bad. In my experience both online and off, there is a pessimism about work, poverty, and basic security th
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by imcrs 9y ago
It does take time. But I would put it up in the trifecta of Most Important Things a person can do. Everyone says exercise makes you happier, but I will take it a step further: it fulfills a fundamental need for a person to be comfortable in
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by imcrs 9y ago
Someone will have them. Who do you want it to be?
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by imcrs 9y ago
I am American, and I hear this from Americans all the time. The reality is far different, though. Does the Russian military perform more humanely in war than the US military? I don't think so. Would the Chinese? Things like My Lai and
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by imcrs 9y ago
What is the solution? I would rather have automated drone armies in the hands of the US government than anyone else. The same could be said of the atomic bomb. A weapon made purely for mass scale indiscriminate destruction of humanity. But
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by imcrs 9y ago
He has a point though. The author chose lawyers as a comparison point. Why? Manual laborers work long hours. People with two or three part time retail jobs work long hours. Lawyers have a different set of qualifications and requirements tha
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by imcrs 9y ago
Artstyle is far far more important than graphical capability. A game like Team Fortress 2, released in 2007 (!) looks so much better than many modern games because there is a coherence and style to the art. It's not "HD" for
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by imcrs 9y ago
I think it's the natural depression that eroded where the water first comes off the top half of the chute.
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by imcrs 9y ago
That would assume that the number of people buying domestic wouldn't just shrink in proportion to the tariff, because they can't afford goods anymore. And also perhaps in addition, because their company cannot pay them anymore bec
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by imcrs 9y ago
this would separate the wheat from the chaff with regards to special interest groups.
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by imcrs 9y ago
Best thing I've read about the news: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews I read monthlys now. Only sometimes I can't resist checking the daily (or instant) news.
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by imcrs 9y ago
If you thought eliminating interference in the taxicab market was difficult...
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by imcrs 9y ago
Not when they decide to drive themselves and their kids on the freeway every workday.
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by imcrs 9y ago
It was going to happen regardless, but it makes me deeply cynical to see this infrastructure going up in the folksy tone of "neighborhood safety." I guess to justify erecting yet another component of the massive surveillance appar
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by imcrs 9y ago
Singapore. I didn't even mention first class, because I forgot about it -- they boarded the plane from a separate walkway/door to be insulated from the peasantry. I think they have individual beds/cabins.
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by imcrs 9y ago
I recently took a 24 hour flight to Asia and chose the cheapest ticket. The seats were very small and very cramped. Economy plus seats had the 35" or 36" of legroom that were standard decades ago, and business class had 40" o
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by imcrs 9y ago
Sadly, if it's just a single compliment with no relation to the actual image posted, it's likely a bot doing the commenting. This is a common way for people to boost their follower count.
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by imcrs 9y ago
After issuing their threat, and getting "no" back, they would say -- "We do not negotiate with terrorists" and go in with the guns. Collateral damage be damned. That's how wars happen, and why it's a bad idea t
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by imcrs 9y ago
Learning math is like learning a language. It simply takes a lot of time and effort. If you read the rules of German grammar cover to cover, that will not prepare you to speak German; in order to be fluent, you MUST practice, over and over

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