clio
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Which direction is the zeitgeist blowing? From my perspective, it seems that there is a real and ongoing erosion of local communities (labor, religious, or otherwise) that are replaced, often times, by a shallow virtual existence. It does not have to be a religion in the conventional sense, just something that attempts to give meaning to the meaningless.
The atheist generation will have grown up and begin to look for someone to tell them everything will be okay. It's a good opportunity to start a new religion.
Also, some form of artificial companionship.
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clio on Sunday May 14, 2017 @05:12PM
from the ask-hn dept.
A popular "Ask HN" was posted recently, that asked how to find a wife[1].Suppose you have found someone. When do you know it's the right time to get married?[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14332698
If we count trees as people, there is no difference
Additional anecdata: At my place of employment, after the required code review, we must write an essay about the change and have at least two coworkers approve it. Then we must email the essay to a mailing list of several hundred people. One of those people is the designated external reviewer, who must sign off. However, lately, this final reviewer has been requesting 10+ modifications to the deployment essay due to a managerial decision to "improve deployments". Moreover, deployments are not allowed 1/4th of the year unless a vice president has signed off.
Any code change requires this process.
Probably when stock vests for college hires.
At age 13, I completed my PhD at Google while having an internship at MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley. By age 15 I won the Nobel Prize while working at my tenth SV startup. My name is Franklin, and I drink wine on the weekends.