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by jgh 8y ago
> Care to elaborate? Many of us held minimum wage positions for some period of time before gathering the skills / tools / time to move on to something better. So did I, but I don't regard someone a failure who deserves mis
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by jgh 8y ago
Capitalism is a system created by humans, presumably for the benefit of humans. If it doesn't do a very good job of making the lives of humans better then it could be considered a failure. As we're seeing now, wealth and income i
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by jgh 8y ago
Then capitalism has failed humanity.
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by jgh 8y ago
LOL this is such a typical HN reply. "Just get room mates". Come on, the solution is to pay people so they can live a decent life and have a family if they want to.
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by jgh 8y ago
Good.
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by jgh 8y ago
The comment this person was replying to seems to be saying exactly that....
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by jgh 8y ago
They're occasionally the largest company in the world, headed by the richest man in the world. I'm sure they can find the money somewhere to pay their employees a decent wage.
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by jgh 8y ago
> If these workers succeed in unionizing, it will only just accelerate Amazon's quest to replace MOST of these workers with robots. I'm sure they've thought this through more than some random poster on Hacker News.
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by jgh 8y ago
> A simple fact is that all 7 billion people can't live like upper middle class Americans, it's impossible. Why not have one place in the world that a huge number of people sit at the top? Because winning the birth lottery gets
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by jgh 8y ago
i wish they would launch gpu instances :(
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by jgh 8y ago
I assume the statute of limitations has passed for the OSHA suit here
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by jgh 8y ago
The massive amount of money basically sits in an investment account and generates dividends to live off of. That's what people are talking about. In order to have a salary they're used to they need like 20-30x the cash in the ban
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by jgh 8y ago
they changed it this year didn't they? Weren't people making jokes that now firefox is square and chrome is round?
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by jgh 8y ago
diversify into what exactly? The entire cryptocurrency ecosystem seems highly correlated. Take a look at coinmarketcap.com, the charts are essentially the same for nearly all the listed coins.
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by jgh 8y ago
my cat likes to pretend like he enjoys going outside, then when he gets outside he flops around for about 10 minutes and then goes back inside.
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by jgh 8y ago
Interesting, thanks for the link! I'm strongly considering doing this for my next project and all the information I can get is helpful.
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by jgh 8y ago
Aardman Animation becoming a coop has captured my imagination. I am very curious how well it could work in the context of a tech company.
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by jgh 8y ago
wasnt there a story linked here a couple weeks ago about neurons possibly having some sensitivity to quantum interactions? Wouldn't that mean that the quantum level is not actually below neurological free will?
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by jgh 8y ago
Chrome started becoming really popular when Firefox started becoming terrible around 10 years ago. Chrome was much faster and had better features. Firefox was bloated and slow and was pretty much resting on its laurels. These days it has
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by jgh 8y ago
I agree, dealing with Google open source is never a pleasant experience.
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by jgh 8y ago
Ultimately this is probably the real solution: Less work, more remote.
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by jgh 8y ago
Not if we want to achieve aggressive climate goals.
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by jgh 8y ago
holy cow i thought the scrolling text would end at some point.....
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by jgh 8y ago
> The non-PC argument If you want to have a reasonable discussion about these things, don't front-load your argument with labeling people who disagree with you in such broad, and frankly wrong, strokes.
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by jgh 8y ago
I believe Akamai has implemented QUIC but I haven't heard of any other CDNs that have.
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by jgh 8y ago
Could you expand more on this? I'm having a hard time picturing how the 'myth of the tech talent shortage' benefits the powers that be. Doesn't it cost them more?
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by jgh 8y ago
Indeed. There's a dead reply to your comment that mentions eastern european salaries being comparable. That might be a bit of an exaggeration but there are outsource to Canada companies that, I think, are mainly in the KW area and ar
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by jgh 8y ago
Discord came out of a game studio as well (Hammer & Chisel)
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by jgh 8y ago
Could they do something like what Aardman Studios did? The company saves up money to buy out the owner at fair value then puts the shares in a trust and effectively makes the employees the owners
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by jgh 8y ago
According to this article prior to the change: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/why-all-the-fus... it was 65,000 transit commuters per day vs 20,000 vehicles per day. edit, here is the latest data from

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