x is a private company and it can do what it wants
It doesn't help that powerful entities use it as a trojan horse to further less noble agendas, think of the patriot act as an example.
Social media algorithms are designed to capture your attention. It turns out humans can't help but click on and watch softcore porn of teenage girls dancing, thumbnails with cartoonishly expressive faces, and videos…
Being economically strained is relative. Middle class people clutch their pearls at the thought of having children before they have completed their master's degree, have their 4 bedroom house in a safe neighborhood with…
Sounds good, except that fertility rate correlates inversely with income. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility If you gave a population a $10k raise (in a hypothetical world with no inflation) the birth…
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You don't pay and don't generate ad revenue. They won't miss you.
>Leverage experience and expertise where it matters most without paying a full salary with benefits. Someone that useful would be worth bringing on full time.
Reminds me of https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/27/technology/security/iran-ha...
Many people, when given a hypothetical scenario, say what they daydream about doing not what they would actually do. It's a subtle brag saying something like "If my boss asked me to do X, I would quit on the spot!" In…
Self taught programmers come in different flavors but people tend to think of one type when talking about them so it is hard to have good discussion. There are classic self taughts, like George Hotz who had an interest…
Time is a terrible metric for judging how hard a job search is. "I've been looking for a job for a year" says almost nothing. For all we know you applied to a job every other week. My first offer came in at 4 weeks of…
It seems to me there is a chicken and egg problem with (non-car) infrastructure and the demand for that infrastructure. Nobody wants to get on a train full of homeless people or a bus that's always late or a sidewalk…
Good luck. Even with a CS degree it took me months and hundreds of applications to find a job.
If your mechanic gave you a 1 month estimate to fix your flat tire, they'd deliver on time every time
It is infuriating that Google seems to be doing nothing about scam ads. For years I have been seeing "Click to install iPhone update!!!" ads on YouTube mobile. Easy to have huge profit margins when your company hires no…
I saw a discussion about tech layoffs few weeks ago. Someone had noted that layoffs should have come as no surprise when you had employees bragging about how little work they were doing. This comment stirred up a lot of…
If you become a novelist not because you want to tell stories but because you want to sell a few books, don't be surprised when nobody likes your novels
x is a private company and it can do what it wants
It doesn't help that powerful entities use it as a trojan horse to further less noble agendas, think of the patriot act as an example.
Social media algorithms are designed to capture your attention. It turns out humans can't help but click on and watch softcore porn of teenage girls dancing, thumbnails with cartoonishly expressive faces, and videos…
Being economically strained is relative. Middle class people clutch their pearls at the thought of having children before they have completed their master's degree, have their 4 bedroom house in a safe neighborhood with…
Sounds good, except that fertility rate correlates inversely with income. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility If you gave a population a $10k raise (in a hypothetical world with no inflation) the birth…
[flagged]
You don't pay and don't generate ad revenue. They won't miss you.
>Leverage experience and expertise where it matters most without paying a full salary with benefits. Someone that useful would be worth bringing on full time.
Reminds me of https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/27/technology/security/iran-ha...
Many people, when given a hypothetical scenario, say what they daydream about doing not what they would actually do. It's a subtle brag saying something like "If my boss asked me to do X, I would quit on the spot!" In…
Self taught programmers come in different flavors but people tend to think of one type when talking about them so it is hard to have good discussion. There are classic self taughts, like George Hotz who had an interest…
Time is a terrible metric for judging how hard a job search is. "I've been looking for a job for a year" says almost nothing. For all we know you applied to a job every other week. My first offer came in at 4 weeks of…
It seems to me there is a chicken and egg problem with (non-car) infrastructure and the demand for that infrastructure. Nobody wants to get on a train full of homeless people or a bus that's always late or a sidewalk…
Good luck. Even with a CS degree it took me months and hundreds of applications to find a job.
If your mechanic gave you a 1 month estimate to fix your flat tire, they'd deliver on time every time
It is infuriating that Google seems to be doing nothing about scam ads. For years I have been seeing "Click to install iPhone update!!!" ads on YouTube mobile. Easy to have huge profit margins when your company hires no…
I saw a discussion about tech layoffs few weeks ago. Someone had noted that layoffs should have come as no surprise when you had employees bragging about how little work they were doing. This comment stirred up a lot of…
If you become a novelist not because you want to tell stories but because you want to sell a few books, don't be surprised when nobody likes your novels