throwawaycopter

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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
I did it a couple of years ago. Just left and accepted a slightly lower compensation in a non-FAANG company, but still a very respectful salary. Didn't regret it for a moment. My advice is to just fire some CVs, do some interviews, and
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
> I couldn't imagine being forced to work in a job that I no longer wanted to work. Well, that is easier. Just show up drunk and tell your boss to fuck off. Piss on his door if his office has one. They will terminate you immediatel
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
The UK, thankfully, is not part of the EU anymore however. I don't think labor protections are eroding however. Those tend to be very popular among the population here. Perhaps I am wrong? Do you have more information about this? I kno
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
Yes, that tends to be true. On the other hand, a lot of things influence employment beyond labor protection as well.
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
It doesn't really matter either way. Unemployed people in most EU countries do have access to healthcare, benefits that keep them from starving, etc. Not a paradise, but not a hellhole.
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
Is that not related in a roundabout way? Part of the reason the US has dismal social security is the same "dog eat dog" hyper individualistic mentality that is also present in people thinking it's their sacred right to own as
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
I never had a problem with extended notice periods. The companies hiring me know full well how the law operates. It offers me no disadvantage. Only upsides.
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
> How is this legal, in the famously pro-labor EU? Because it's actually pro-labor. I go into a job knowing an employer cannot simply fire me out of the blue. Meaning I have a little stability to be able to plan my life a few months
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
> I don't understand why it's necessary to treat employees with such sudden distrust To be honest, every employee should treat their employers with the same level of distrust. It's important to have mutual mistrust as base
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
> Each to their own, but I wouldn't hire you It's okay, a lot of other companies do. There's plenty of fish in this particular ocean. Even if you would hire him, nothing meaningful would change.
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
As I said, this makes me very confused. Face to face communication tend to be absolutely inefficient in my experience. They are a hindrance more often than not.
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
You just described with incredible precision my approach to jobs and career. The only difference is that I make a point of leaving my current job in 18 to 24 months. That is the sweet spot. No matter how good or bad I think the job is. Alwa
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
> Face to face collaboration is a lot more efficient. That's really not my experience. I'm always very confused when I see this statement being thrown around as if it was a universal truth. Perhaps depends on your role? Honestl
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
I actually think AGI will bring about the collapse of civilization, and perhaps the end of humanity. I'm okay with it. I also think it will solve things such as energy and space travel. World hunger, medical science (among other human
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
This is actually an interesting reply, and something I did not consider. To me, the most impressive part of ChatGPT was not that it could give mostly correct answers to known problems. In a sense, internet search could do it already (just
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
And I still need to hire and accountant to do my taxes every year. Just throwing numbers on a spreadsheet didn't do the trick.
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
> Sure. But will that be the case 5-10 years from now? Not with language models. A language model can parse natural language, and with enough training data, give out what it thinks the answer is based on the data it was trained with. It
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
When all you have is a hammer, all problems look like nails? I'm genuinely impressed about ChatGPT, and have been thinking about many times in the past when having such a tool at hand would have been massively helpful. Natural Language
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but answering questions for known answers is precisely the kind of thing a well trained LLM is built for. It doesn't understand context, and is absolutely unable to rationalize a problem into a solution. I
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
Probably even more upvoted? That's the pattern I normally see online, people tend to be sympathetic to victims.
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by throwawaycopter 4y ago
The only thing insane about this election was how he blatantly disrespected the law by increasing government spending in the months prior to the election. Multiple institutions verified the results of the election system. The "armed fo