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Oh man, was it implemented as an ISAPI extension? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the wild.
> But I want out, and this is coming from someone with a ton of FAANG experience. But where do you go? Retraining is too expensive for decent paying fields to be worth it and there a very few careers otherwise that…
> On steam you have to go out of your way for such games to be recommended for you. Go on steam, not signed in and go to new releases. I promise you there are porn games right there on the first page of results. Often…
> Did you read the post I wrote initially? I give the breakdown of how much of the money I pay to the union goes to the worker on his paycheck (55%) with the rest going to insurance, taxes, union dues, pension, etc…
Well sure, my questions is why is the Union charging over double what seems to be 90th quartile for electricians in small to mid sized MSAs and only a bit more than the 90th quartile on high COL cities. I suspect the…
They’re also nearly untouchable often disconnected from anything the mainstream would experience and experience things the mainstream never will.
> Then it's called "mainstream" music for a reason, most people are OK with listening to it in the first place :) I think there’s bewilderment is mostly from these not being “mainstream” people.
> Why would I work on building websites in my local community if google is going to at least 3x the salary to build and cancel several products? We need to flatten the capital distribution curve and many of these…
Bread and circuses
> Coinbase, Uber, DoorDash, and Stripe during the Great Recession. Now that the barrier to building products and companies is much lower than it has been for years, we will see the next generations of rocket ships. Oh…
Reminds me of when I lived in a shit meth town. Dead economy, propped up entirely by a single military base. Lots of drugs and violence. Most people I knew there worked a shitty low skilled job and sold meth. One guy I…
> I pay $100/hr for a union journeyworker electrician in a metro area of ~3 million, $106 for a foreman, and $112 for a general foreman. Genuine question: Why? I picked the Cincinnati MSA, as an example, as it’s both…
> I'm curious what hiring managers are now looking for to cut through the noise. A referral. At least, in my experience a year or two ago. It was impossible to get past initial screenings for jobs I was perfect for on…
Tbh, even if they are paying for it, they’re probably still the product. Unless maybe they’re an enterprise customer who can afford magnitudes more to obtain relative privacy.
> How can I be free to do my gardening whenever I want when the landlord is asking for $11K rent in my SF flat? You can work his fields in exchange for most of the harvest of course!
Interesting how much of it is just radio schlock. I guess I underestimate how much people really listen to that stuff.
Of course, not sure why I didn’t see what’s plainly in front of me
The people it affects the most aren’t engaging those sort of thoughts day to day. The architects of it don’t care, as they will have secured their own feudal power .by the point things get nasty
> Imagine doing what all your competitors are doing while being one of the least desirable big tech companies to work for. Good thing you have very few of them because your industry is way too capital intensive to start…
Don’t forget, the promise of an utterly schizophrenic utopian future coming soon (tm) if we all just submit to their desires.
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Oh man, was it implemented as an ISAPI extension? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the wild.
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> But I want out, and this is coming from someone with a ton of FAANG experience. But where do you go? Retraining is too expensive for decent paying fields to be worth it and there a very few careers otherwise that…
> On steam you have to go out of your way for such games to be recommended for you. Go on steam, not signed in and go to new releases. I promise you there are porn games right there on the first page of results. Often…
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> Did you read the post I wrote initially? I give the breakdown of how much of the money I pay to the union goes to the worker on his paycheck (55%) with the rest going to insurance, taxes, union dues, pension, etc…
Well sure, my questions is why is the Union charging over double what seems to be 90th quartile for electricians in small to mid sized MSAs and only a bit more than the 90th quartile on high COL cities. I suspect the…
They’re also nearly untouchable often disconnected from anything the mainstream would experience and experience things the mainstream never will.
> Then it's called "mainstream" music for a reason, most people are OK with listening to it in the first place :) I think there’s bewilderment is mostly from these not being “mainstream” people.
> Why would I work on building websites in my local community if google is going to at least 3x the salary to build and cancel several products? We need to flatten the capital distribution curve and many of these…
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Bread and circuses
> Coinbase, Uber, DoorDash, and Stripe during the Great Recession. Now that the barrier to building products and companies is much lower than it has been for years, we will see the next generations of rocket ships. Oh…
Reminds me of when I lived in a shit meth town. Dead economy, propped up entirely by a single military base. Lots of drugs and violence. Most people I knew there worked a shitty low skilled job and sold meth. One guy I…
> I pay $100/hr for a union journeyworker electrician in a metro area of ~3 million, $106 for a foreman, and $112 for a general foreman. Genuine question: Why? I picked the Cincinnati MSA, as an example, as it’s both…
> I'm curious what hiring managers are now looking for to cut through the noise. A referral. At least, in my experience a year or two ago. It was impossible to get past initial screenings for jobs I was perfect for on…
Tbh, even if they are paying for it, they’re probably still the product. Unless maybe they’re an enterprise customer who can afford magnitudes more to obtain relative privacy.
> How can I be free to do my gardening whenever I want when the landlord is asking for $11K rent in my SF flat? You can work his fields in exchange for most of the harvest of course!
Interesting how much of it is just radio schlock. I guess I underestimate how much people really listen to that stuff.
Of course, not sure why I didn’t see what’s plainly in front of me
The people it affects the most aren’t engaging those sort of thoughts day to day. The architects of it don’t care, as they will have secured their own feudal power .by the point things get nasty
> Imagine doing what all your competitors are doing while being one of the least desirable big tech companies to work for. Good thing you have very few of them because your industry is way too capital intensive to start…
Don’t forget, the promise of an utterly schizophrenic utopian future coming soon (tm) if we all just submit to their desires.