noelherrick

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by noelherrick 10mo ago
As someone in flyover country, I don't think anybody in the coastal cities hates me, and I have never encountered someone from a big urban area that has treated me badly based on geography-that sounds like propaganda meant to divide pe
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by noelherrick 2y ago
Self-driving cars are a solution to a problem we already fixed a hundred years ago: we fixed transit with trains. PS: I'm not claiming that every single transport need can be solved by trains, but they do dramatically reduce the cost i
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by noelherrick 3y ago
I don't know why you added "Try again", especially because I intentionally specified "Individual contributors". Your response also highlights what I was talking about: unions do not hold back their highest paid memb
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Sports and movies/TV have unions, and those are by far the highest paid individual contributors. Tech workers just have been sold a bill of goods that they will be held back by unions. Meanwhile, tech CEOs "unionized" to make
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Layoffs don't work long-term, especially for healthy companies looking to cut costs (Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about... )
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Humans, including kids, are inherently social creatures, and are happiest when communing with their fellow creatures (including pets, but mostly other humans). Kids are most happy when they and their friends are playing together, and my per
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by noelherrick 3y ago
There are examples of all three that are electric, although planes are the hardest to make happen. Train electrification is so common that in English it is used in an expression: "touching the third rail". As with the debate betwe
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Why do some of the most highly-paid people (actors) join a union and join the picket line? Even if you are high performing, joining up with other workers increases your bargaining position. Why did Steve Jobs join up with Adobe to stop poac
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by noelherrick 3y ago
My experience has been this: if a company is funded by venture capital, my work helped zero people. If it was private/bootstrapped, somebody used and was helped by what I did, and many times was a key factor in the success of a compa
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by noelherrick 3y ago
And the biggest casino of all is the stock market.
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by noelherrick 3y ago
It says it in the article: it's what their business model is like. Netflix pays a bunch of money in R&D and then has a low marginal cost for each additional customer, who are on a subscription (like so many SaaS businesses). Disney
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by noelherrick 3y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: SE Asia (+7 UTC) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No I'm a software developer with over 12 years of experience, specializing in Web application development. I bring the most value in database design and writing S
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Really? I was just looking a Michelin starred restaurant and their tasting menu was 300 euros. I suppose you could pay with three different bills, but it's nice to be able to just carry one as well as smaller bills. An a flagship phone
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by noelherrick 3y ago
I think GP means this: different companies call them different things, but the difference between a Sr. Software Engineer compensation and Staff Engineer compensation can be 100% in some companies.
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by noelherrick 3y ago
We live in a society. If you want to build a company in international waters cut off from the rest of the world, by all means. I hear there was a nice anti-regulation company that has a boat they don't need anymore, so maybe you could
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by noelherrick 3y ago
I don't think that's true, and I think you're revealing something about yourself vs. the majority of people (besides the fact that most folks, especially in the US, don't have enough money for an extra 0 to mean much). I
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by noelherrick 3y ago
After watching him operate Twitter, it seems that he's not a good businessman or technical contributor. What he says about programming and his approach to engineering speaks of unearned confidence, and he uses the same tone to talk abo
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by noelherrick 3y ago
I see what you're saying, but in my experience children do not have this response unless there's a hyper-addictive product such as modern TV/video or sugary/processed food, which bypasses the normal social circuitry in y
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Not disagreeing, but these aren't just toddlers, but insecure toddlers who have never been told no and think people pushing back is equivalent to hate. A normal toddler who has caretakers who are loving and accepting does not respond l
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by noelherrick 3y ago
I understand your point - whenever people ask what era I would like to born in (that's not the future), I always say now. I really like mRNA vaccines, the discovery and proliferation of mindfulness/meditation/mental health, a
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by noelherrick 3y ago
You can definitely argue that trickle-down economics was a failure. London School of Economics does exactly that.[0] I am also a bit surprised that you haven't heard the absolute despair of Millennials and Gen Z. Wealth inequality is o
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Folks that get laid off from one industry because of productivity gains go to another one. The most dramatic example is farming, where in 1800 it used be that 90% of people were farmers and in 2000, 1.8% were employed in ag. Closer to home
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by noelherrick 3y ago
If I read your comment with extreme charity, I think that sentiment boils down to the fact that everyone needs money to continue having food, shelter, and medical care. If I read your comment mildly charitably, it would reduce to a tautolog
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by noelherrick 3y ago
I'm confused by the analogy. Let's use the iconic steel mill from the industrial revolution. Even if you gave me the machines, I still need the feed stock, electricity, and a bunch of fellow-workers (Carnegie said his workers were
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Industrialization was a massive success, but classical liberalism had to be reined in by governments and unions. We as a society succeeded despite it. The peons had to get gunned down by the Pinkertons so we could get sane working hours, co
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by noelherrick 3y ago
I would push back on this, because left ideology hasn't really changed since the term was invented, and they weren't talking about transition surgery in the 1700s. It's always about removing current power structures and insti
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Huh? We already do that for people - we have a court system set up to handle that. If I as an individual keep sending a suicidal person ways to commit suicide, and they do it, I can be charged for that. Yet when Amazon shows young girls sui
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by noelherrick 3y ago
HN is one of the most pro-capitalist forums ever. Literally created by venture capitalists to promote capitalism and further capitalists' aims. I visit this site because sometimes Reddit is too much of a progressive echo-chamber. Since
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by noelherrick 3y ago
I have no idea who makes the final call, but NASA has shown they too were willing to jeopardize the life of their crew once budget cuts had removed any margins for them. I'm also not saying that Elon has made bad safety calls, but what
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by noelherrick 3y ago
What SpaceX is doing is amazing, and it is a fun show. Reusable rockets are beginning to be as cool as the space shuttle was. However, it could very well be the case the Shotwell and the engineers are actively trying to prevent Musk from ma

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