whateverman23

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by whateverman23 3y ago
This is the opposite of stifling innovation. It's literally not innovative, which is a big point of the ruling. The company produces and sells watches with the technology. It's not a patent troll.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
Okay, but that's not the framing of the argument I'm responding to in this thread. The title of the article and the people I'm responding to are framing the percentage growth as the problem.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
S&P 500 YTD is at 20% Vanguard growth fund (VIGAX) 42% AMZN 71% APPL 56% MSFT 55% GOOG 52% TSLA 124% Anyone with an aggressive but not insane portfolio could be at 47% growth in 2023.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
You can't fully remove the "gag-worthy" label unless they use the word "layoff". Calling it "rightsizing" or "headcount reduction" is gag-worthy. A great gag-worthy line: "Please know we are
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> in order to get the discussion centered more on the idea itself and competing views on the extent to which folk's have found some usecase or success with it? So you only want "competing" views if they line up with your v
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> there's really nothing all that malevolent or irresponsible about the suggestion You are underestimating the impact of sleep deprivation, and the ability for a person to recognize the impacts while sleep deprived. https:/&#x
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> Why don't you try it and see? I feel great after a few beers, but keeping that state is a very bad idea. "try it and see" is not a great idea when it comes to your brain.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> Well, if there's not a cost difference, why do they keep trying to double my pricing when the base tier goes up? Because you keep paying for it. It's not like you're going to not pay for internet, and you probably don&#x
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by whateverman23 3y ago
Would it actually be that much less costly to give you 20-25 vs 75, though? My uninformed assumption was that it was largely artificial once you get to a low enough speed.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> But who bears the cost of this betterment? We all do, of course. > I certainly don't want to be responsible for paying a cost for someone else's bad choice Then, in some cases, you'd prefer them dead/permanently
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by whateverman23 3y ago
People often confuse society as a whole with individual choices. An individual can independently choose to brush, floss, engage in less risky behaviors, have a good diet, maintain a health weight, etc. It's not hard. But when talking a
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> Why should an ISP know more about a child’s Internet activity than the parents? They shouldn't. Fight the ISPs. > For what it’s worth my personal philosophy would be trust, but verify. That necessarily entails some way to verif
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by whateverman23 3y ago
Please focus on the core message of my post rather than three words. If you're so concerned with Internet pornography that you want to lock down your child's digital life and know every single thing they say and do, then so be it.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
See my other comment below for a more detailed answer but: no, my claim is not that I needed porn to become the engineer I am today. But the level of restrictions proposed by the top level comment in this thread would have, and it seems blo
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by whateverman23 3y ago
I'm a millennial, for context. So much to unpack here. These restrictions just don't make sense to me. I was a pretty reserved child, so I can't imagine getting over all the hurdles needed to grow as a person and foster my lo
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by whateverman23 3y ago
You can't become a highly paid engineer today with just books and punch cards. I don't know why any of that is relevant. So porn is part of the issue? Really?
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by whateverman23 3y ago
Unless we're talking about very very young children, I have an extremely hard time with this. I had none of that as a child, and I assume neither did most adults here. Because I had none of that, I'm a software engineer making hun
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> Perhaps, but the posted does not say that... It doesn't say the government is profiting either. You just made that up.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> There’s only no harm in more data if you handle false positives perfectly. Surely, this is never the case, so there’s always some harm in more data. That's not the correct way to think about it. The correct way to think about it i
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by whateverman23 3y ago
The reason is pretty simple. As companies get larger, the culture dies. Those who joined big-tech early-ish in their career likely see the state of the company at the time as way better than what they're used to. Then it gets worse. It
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> well, unless you have a engineering degree, you're not actually an engineer That's not a requirement in the US.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
ctrl+f "ads" ctrl+f "monetization" ctrl+f "moderation" ctrl+f "existing infrastructure" ctrl+f "personalization" etc etc Yeah about what I expect from a "we rebuilt twitter for cheap&qu
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by whateverman23 3y ago
We're not talking about impact. We're talking about the claim that "c suite often work a lot more". That claim is hard to substantiate.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> "Private offices with doors that close were absolutely required and not open to negotiation." Where does this come from? It's something that sounds right, but then I look back at my parent's office jobs and pop cult
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> I'm almost certain c suite often work a lot more and have higher demands than junior employees. Lmao. I'm no where near C-Suite but I've also never worked as hard as I did as an intern/junior engineer. Moving up oft
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> Is this really a pharmaceutical issue or a societal structure and support issue. Any if it is? We surely can't solve every, or even most societal issue that causes it. You can continue to support improvements to the societal issue
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> looks like no experience Got it, I see you're in the "make up stuff about the other person" phase of the discussion. No point in continuing here.
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by whateverman23 3y ago
Everything you can do remotely, you can do in person as well. I don't know why you think you can't screen share or send links and commands in a chat if you're in person. So at minimum, in person would be the same. So I can&#x
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by whateverman23 3y ago
> Remote is better for collaboration and training. Oh come on... I get arguing that there are ways to make remote training good enough. Maybe even similar. Maybe even a net-positive when you look at the entire picture (including the prod
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by whateverman23 3y ago
That's... my point. WFH isn't for a lot of people. And there are factions who say stuff like "Just get a hobby dude!" as if that fixes anything.

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