themolecularman

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by themolecularman 5y ago
> I feel strongly about this, mostly because it happened to myself: After being sold, the first company that employed me introduced a "completely fair and transparent" compensation scheme. After I saw the scheme projected to th
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by themolecularman 5y ago
I like crypto, but damn it's inefficient and costly. Even the crypto that's newer than Bitcoin (all of it?) and therefore more efficient (not proof-of-work/stake?) is still not efficient in cost/time/other-resources
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Agreed. But I think big tech didn't use their power years ago when advertisers started demanding their ads don't appear next to X, where X is the offensive thing/position/etc. Big tech has power but it folded and immedia
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Sounds like he believed in The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis: > The hypothesis of linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis /səˌpɪər ˈwɔːrf/, the Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting that t
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by themolecularman 5y ago
> A good first step would be to stand aside and let ICC prosecute, which even actual pardons would not block. Who would they prosecute? Obama or Bush? It seems like the implication people have when talking about this is that the CIA agen
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by themolecularman 5y ago
> I wouldn't recommend either if you haven't read Dune, book 1, though. Read it. Why is that? I read Dune when I was a kid but don't remember the particulars -- do I need them for some reason?
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by themolecularman 5y ago
To be honest I don't pay attention to my paychecks. I work in Silicon Valley and have things direct deposited into my bank account, which I never check. Theoretically, my current (and past) employers could have left out a dozen paychec
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by themolecularman 5y ago
> Picture tech people walking on their treadmills for compensation and then picture gerbils running on wheels for food. Picture tech people drinking Soylent and then picture gerbils eating pellets. The world is whack. A bit much? I'
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Haha I just finally splurged on that $0.99/mo iCloud storage, after just not backing up my phone forever :/
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Yes, definitely. The tech company I work for was all SF based for it's engineering. Now they're open to hiring from anywhere. They haven't entirely committed to hybrid/remote. They have however expanded beyond the Bay Ar
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by themolecularman 5y ago
This is a great project. I recently read the books "Your brain on Porn" and "Quit Porn and get Rich". Porn induced erectile dysfunction is now incredibly common. Younger and younger men are taking viagra and cialis and f
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by themolecularman 5y ago
To be fair America has the Veterans Affairs administration, which is socialized medicine, albeit for a small subset of the population, veterans. If you recall from Donald Trump's presidency, one of the things he campaigned on for veter
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Would you recommend people skip Blockly if they want to teach people to code?
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by themolecularman 5y ago
I dislike this story in journalism and podcasts too. I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts: > Before Y was murdered, they lived in X. X is a quiet town, the type of place where you don't need to lock your doors. Y has a happy upb
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Right. I'm wondering what the hell this donation means. Van Jones isn't an activist and is a partisan commentator. This country has been divided by people like him in the news media constantly turning out better ratings by instiga
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by themolecularman 5y ago
It's not a bribe. Van Jones will likely quit his job as a CNN commentator. Why would he stay? It's a strange donation tbh. Also CNN is a very partisan news source and Van Jones isn't a "middle of the aisle" type. I
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by themolecularman 5y ago
What do you think the long term impact will be? The company I work for may have adapted to remote work by noticing they didn't need the Bay Area talent pool. In the past few weeks offices opened in Mexico City and elsewhere for enginee
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by themolecularman 5y ago
> If you stand in solidarity with those who flagrantly abuse their power, you're not doing your best. I've been thinking of this. And everyone on HN is not doing their best then. Every tech employer that we all work for qualifi
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by themolecularman 5y ago
I think it's more the fact that there aren't alternative options. Other comments have already explored how America has a "union monopoly" system for lack of a better term: where unions exist, the labor pool that is non-u
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by themolecularman 5y ago
> My practice has been to automatically restart my phone whenever I am approached by a police officer. This has happened maybe once in the last year or 2. In the United States (where I live) this seems risky. I think most here would pref
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by themolecularman 5y ago
The people who draw the distinction generally don't like the pilgrims settlers because of what they did when they got here. In contrast to immigrants, who did not "settle" anyone or any land. You can see a lot of this in toda
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by themolecularman 5y ago
> My elderly parents are unable to make the switch from Yahoo to Google. I’ve walked them through it multiple times. It’s just not possible for them. They don’t have the knowledge and skills. How old are your parents? Is it search you&#x
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Overly negative take: hopefully one of these days the people who try to turn their pets into "social media influencers" will be seen as animal abusers :)
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Yea I considered looking into Coinbase when they announced a similar policy - but I've got some equity keeping me at my current job. If that weren't the case I may jump ship.
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by themolecularman 5y ago
I agree, the Verge article mentions this explicitly that DHH and JF are routinely outspoken on progressive issues: > Both founders are also active — and occasionally hyperactive — on Twitter, where they regularly advocate for mainstream
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by themolecularman 5y ago
I'm hoping the company I work for will follow suit and ban discussions about this stuff in the workplace. Two years ago we had Ibrahim X Kendi speak at our company, he's now considered by many to be a "neo racist". Withi
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by themolecularman 5y ago
> If there's a good alternative never use Google anything. Brave instead of Chrome. Duck Duck Go instead of Google. Proton Mail instead of Gmail. The only thing I haven't been able to replace is YouTube. That's a tricky on
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Wasn't Project Dragonfly shut down by internal Google "activists" rather than by outside forces?
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by themolecularman 5y ago
Indeed - in fact Microsoft recently tried to buy Pinterest just to get a large company that they can move from AWS to Azure: > The deal, which would have been Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, confirms that the tech giant is conti
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by themolecularman 5y ago
I know that bit, but other commenters have implied that this is a direct signal that the police don't care about what the judge says. I'm just wondering whether that is the case and it's a conscious decision made by the offic

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