mdgrech23

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by mdgrech23 18d ago
I'll go against the grain but our capitalist way of life is totally incompatible with solving climate change. Likewise one country can't solve this problem alone. You need the whole world on board. I truly think the only real solu
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Coding might go the way of woodworking
4 points by mdgrech23 4mo ago|2 comments
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by mdgrech23 6mo ago
I can't say I know the AI research community well but I'd imagine OpenAIs alignment w/ the military would not align w/ the the personal philosophy of many.
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by mdgrech23 1y ago
typical tech bro - they don't want any government regulation and want all the federal dollars they can get for nothing in return. we shouldn't be giving tax payer money to any private or public profit driven corporation ever. Mind
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
when people talk about a players I feel like a lot of times it's really just the person who knows the project best or maybe they wrote a lot of the original code so they have the best idea of how it works. My point being who's an
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
Since OP mentioned quality to me that's almost always synonymous and things like TDD and Agile which I view as a false prophet to quality.
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Ask HN: How do you personally plan to handle Elon's scam to drive down wages?
11 points by mdgrech23 2y ago|3 comments
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
knowledge is power and people don't always want to share. Maybe it's more reflective of my company culture but I've seen knowledge effectively hoarded and used strategically as a weapon at times.
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
yea this is the sad shitty answer - it's just a private company w/ a government contract gathering data on us
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
100% hear this and I know as a developer at a big company I have no say over the business side of things but there's probably something to be said for we should all push for clear logical business processes that make sense. Take someth
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
wow oh wow what a great comment. I think the reason dance went away is a lot of men engaged in predatory behavior while drunk, that is that would approach the woman from behind and "grind" himself on her which is really just sexua
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
honestly feel like we're actively being lied to about how "good" the economy is.
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
this isn't why people buy Bitcoin. they buy it b/c they don't have confidence in the power of the US dollar or want to hedge their bets. It's the equivalent of gold, that is people turn to it when they think shit may hit
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
If you think we're currently a democracy you're very wrong. Being a democracy means you actually get to vote on things like whether or not we should go to war, whether we should have national health care. We have 0 say in things t
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
This is exactly why deadlines in tech are such bullshit. It's my personal experience that more times than not I'm told the deadline as opposed to us reaching some kind of agreement. It's reasons like that that I have hard tim
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
large application codebase - consistent - have you worked in the field? I feel like usually there are 3 or 4 patterns from different people/teams at different points in time that spearheaded a particular ideology about how things &quot
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
I learn a lot of stuff of my own but I have to admit for almost everything in hind sight I probably would of been better off doing it the proper way. There is no better setting than a classroom, that meets regularly, with an experienced pro
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
Reddit does a lot better of job bringing good relevant comments to the top.
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
unfortunately in the current system it mostly takes money to move the needle of change and if you don't have money how do you move the needle?
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
so how can we put pressure on the people running this country to start fixing root problems?
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
Obesity is a lifestyle issue bc people have to work multiple jobs and don't have time to cook. They have long commutes and don't have time to cook. Both parents have to work and don't have energy after work to cook. The grab
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
All of that is 100% true and like you said we could choose to allocate resources in a way to certainly fix the hunger problem and the housing shortage but we actively chose not to. In my opinion it's because here in the US our politici
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
Amen 100% agree.
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
Libertarian forum is a funny word considering many of these companies keep government subsidies which have been cleverly renamed to things like clean energy investments.
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
Their problems become yours. Look at school shootings.
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
There's plenty of people on this sub who call themselves problem solvers. They ra ra another billion dollar rocket launch while people 5 miles away from the launch are living in their car and their kids are hungry. Why is no one solvin
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
preach
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
We have an obesity epidemic because our food is poor quality and loaded with calories. It's loaded with calories b/c it's cheaper to make it taste good by adding sugar or oil rather than using quality ingredients. People don&
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Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems?
26 points by mdgrech23 2y ago|51 comments
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by mdgrech23 2y ago
That is messed up. These dudes have to work so hard to afford scraps they're literally falling asleep at the wheel and gaming the system to get more time behind the wheel so they can get more cash to afford to live in this country. We

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