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by omscs99 3y ago
> Beijing more resembles Greater New York—a conglomeration of over 70 cities—than it does New York City. A similar pattern holds for most Chinese cities. TIL with this one, I’ve been wondering until now how so many cities in China have a
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by omscs99 3y ago
I agree with the premise of the article, but something caught my eye in it: > Some experts worry that this kind of information may shift policing more toward quality-of-life issues and property theft rather than life-threatening crimes s
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by omscs99 3y ago
Hypothetically, if she figured out how to automate it on her own, would she get any kind of reward for it? If not, why should she automate it? Another example, if there’s some repetitive task that you automate at a software dev job, would y
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by omscs99 3y ago
> only to end up, a decade or two later, in either a regular struggling life like so many others, or a downright bad place It isn’t like they transform into the ubermensch and transcend the bodily functions of eating and shitting. At the
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by omscs99 3y ago
> Beloved websites are destroyed by money hungry ghouls everyday. Seems like a common theme: people build a community around something, it becomes something really cool, and then a bunch of businesspeople insert themselves and liquidate
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by omscs99 3y ago
Most of the time it’s like I spend 90% of the time trying to understand context of preexisting application and requirements, that’s purely reading and not writing Once I start writing, it’s normally straightforward what’s needed. What diffe
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by omscs99 3y ago
Just go into software dev. Don’t go into “Devops”, it’s just some shitty buzzword for having a bunch of oncall. “Data science” is really oversaturated atm. Cybersec in industry isn’t as glamorous as what you might think
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by omscs99 3y ago
> There's no "guarantee" but there's an increased probability This is part of the problem. If you work hard but don’t benefit, you’ve essentially fucked yourself because then you’ll get assigned more, you’ll be stuck
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by omscs99 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities... SF has one of the highest measures of property crime in the country. Article was mainly referring to violent crime. Don’t have any drug stats off the top
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by omscs99 3y ago
> a) Years at job = pay. Absolutely no pay increase or decrease for working harder or being better than average. It’s already like this > b) You are near impossible to fire unless you do something really dumb (caught watching porn at
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by omscs99 3y ago
> It's good for society, the individual, and the employer when people have room to grow/work harder/contribute more and be rewarded for it. Rewards are distributed based off of seniority. If you do more than what’s “expect
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by omscs99 3y ago
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-bukele-gangs-60... How does this relate? There they actually enforced the laws and threw violators in prison. A similar strategy could be employed with drug dealers, propert
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by omscs99 3y ago
I really don’t get why all of the fanfare and hand wavey attempts at outreach are necessary here. You have a well defined problem: high rates of property crime and drug use. How to solve it? Maybe try what they did in El Salvador, since tha
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by omscs99 3y ago
> In other words, it's like living in a Nordic country. What’s this about? Do Scandinavians have a reputation of being fake or something?
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by omscs99 3y ago
> no one really wants to leave anymore. According to what exactly?
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by omscs99 3y ago
> Anecdotally, in my circles, most truly thought that this won't have an impact in the compensation levels. I mean, even if it does, it’s not that big of a deal. Fewer people propping up a ponzi scheme of a real estate market that t
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by omscs99 3y ago
> We can’t regulate acts of nature How can you be so sure? What about controlled burns?
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by omscs99 3y ago
Wow you just described my current gig, it’s like they have this inner circle of management/architects that just withholds information. No one documents anything. It’s a fucking mess
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by omscs99 3y ago
> Many people now prefer not to even use search if they can help it, because it's got so messed up. According to what exactly? Journalist speculation?
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by omscs99 3y ago
What I don’t get is this: why does youtube still have such a monopoly after all this time? It’s had a shitty reputation since I can remember, why don’t creators just band together and take their viewership somewhere less hostile?
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by omscs99 3y ago
Well yes, I was talking about a different hypothetical :)
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by omscs99 3y ago
> we're one thought away for being thrown into jail for shower thoughts that go slightly the wrong side of "publicly acceptable". Not really. That’s like being laughed at for being naked at a nudist camp. If nobody has pri
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by omscs99 3y ago
A lot of negative comments here but I could see some merits to this (supposing it’s in an open source context and the data doesn’t go anywhere) For example, whenever you start to get stressed out, the thing will tell you to take a break. Li
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by omscs99 3y ago
Meanwhile someone joined my team a couple months back and is getting paid to literally do nothing and take sick days every other day I don’t need to say anything more about them given the context of this comment
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by omscs99 3y ago
No there isn’t some conspiracy to leave it unprosecuted, just that people with psychopathic tendencies are good at sniffing out the areas where the victim is unlikely to hit back From my experience, only way to really deal with those types
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by omscs99 3y ago
WSJ is utter garbage and the account that posted this has spammed 5-6 WSJ articles on here in the past 24 hours. Mods should probably take a look
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by omscs99 3y ago
I remember I was at a party few years back, some guy did way more acid than what he could handle and had a breakdown. I remember there was another guy there who was “tripsitting” but just something about him seemed kind of off, like he was
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by omscs99 3y ago
I don’t get why money is so concentrated in NYC and SV Why are people willing to pay more to get you to move to those areas? It just seems really weird, like there’s some man behind the curtain pulling strings to concentrate people in the a
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by omscs99 3y ago
Imo all of this talk about being “well treated” in SE is an utter load of shit Regular office jobs don’t have oncall. They don’t get randomly pinged outside of business hours. They aren’t as rat racey. There’s less ageism. They don’t force
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by omscs99 3y ago
> It’s kind of a miracle engineers are treated as well as we are compared to most traditional office jobs. Other office jobs are treated better. They don’t get pinged at random times outside of business hours. They don’t have to attend l

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