mdgrech23
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I'll go against the grain but our capitalist way of life is totally incompatible with solving climate change. Likewise one country can't solve this problem alone. You need the whole world on board. I truly think the only real solution is a one world government truly working toward for the betterment of the planet and it's occupants. We all know that ain't ever gonna happen though so we're hosed.
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mdgrech23 on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:47AM
from the self-post dept.
At one point well before the age of industrialization all furniture was hand crafted so to speak by trained artisans. As time went on they started working together in workshops, had more formal training processes through guilds and perhaps most important saw improved work flows through specialization, improved tooling and the use of ever more sophisticated jigs and templates.Industrialization...
I can't say I know the AI research community well but I'd imagine OpenAIs alignment w/ the military would not align w/ the the personal philosophy of many.
typical tech bro - they don't want any government regulation and want all the federal dollars they can get for nothing in return. we shouldn't be giving tax payer money to any private or public profit driven corporation ever. Mind you that's also a libertarian principle but tech libertarians always leave that part off.
when people talk about a players I feel like a lot of times it's really just the person who knows the project best or maybe they wrote a lot of the original code so they have the best idea of how it works. My point being who's an A player in my opinion is not reflective of actual skill per se but rather other factors.
Since OP mentioned quality to me that's almost always synonymous and things like TDD and Agile which I view as a false prophet to quality.
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mdgrech23 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:40AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Elon has plans to double the number the H1B visas driving down the price of labor. H1B workers are also easier to exploit and less likely to unionize which is currently the tech sectors biggest fear. More American devs are waking up to the reality that despite being salary workers they should not be consistently working nights and weekends for free. It will be easier to force H1B workers to...
knowledge is power and people don't always want to share. Maybe it's more reflective of my company culture but I've seen knowledge effectively hoarded and used strategically as a weapon at times.
yea this is the sad shitty answer - it's just a private company w/ a government contract gathering data on us
100% hear this and I know as a developer at a big company I have no say over the business side of things but there's probably something to be said for we should all push for clear logical business processes that make sense. Take something like a complicated offering of subscriptions, it's bad for the customer, it's bad for sales people, it's bad for customer support, honestly it's probably even bad for marketing. Keep things simple. But I suppose those complexities ultimately probably allow for greater revenue as it would allow for greater extraction of dollars per customer e.g. people who met this criteria are willing to pay more so we'll have this niche plan but like I outlined above at what cost? Are you even coming out ahead in the long run?
wow oh wow what a great comment. I think the reason dance went away is a lot of men engaged in predatory behavior while drunk, that is that would approach the woman from behind and "grind" himself on her which is really just sexual assault.
I often think about how we replace things with technology and say it's better. Bread is another example in my opinion. Towns used to have bread makers, well respected and well paid. Now, at least here in the USA we replaced the bread makers with machines. We got rid of the bread makers and ultimately replaced them with engineers who design the machines and repair men. Even they've been replaced, once designed there's no need for the engineer and it's often cheaper to buy than repair so the repair man too went away. What we're left with is subpar bread. How is any of this progress?
honestly feel like we're actively being lied to about how "good" the economy is.
this isn't why people buy Bitcoin. they buy it b/c they don't have confidence in the power of the US dollar or want to hedge their bets. It's the equivalent of gold, that is people turn to it when they think shit may hit the fan but it doesn't have the downsides of physically holding gold.
If you think we're currently a democracy you're very wrong. Being a democracy means you actually get to vote on things like whether or not we should go to war, whether we should have national health care. We have 0 say in things that matter. That's not a democracy.
This is exactly why deadlines in tech are such bullshit. It's my personal experience that more times than not I'm told the deadline as opposed to us reaching some kind of agreement. It's reasons like that that I have hard time taking it seriously when I'm told we're late. It's more like you're "estimate" was wrong or you demanded completion date was too aggressive.
large application codebase - consistent - have you worked in the field? I feel like usually there are 3 or 4 patterns from different people/teams at different points in time that spearheaded a particular ideology about how things "should" be done.
I learn a lot of stuff of my own but I have to admit for almost everything in hind sight I probably would of been better off doing it the proper way. There is no better setting than a classroom, that meets regularly, with an experienced professional who takes the art of teaching seriously showing you how to do something and being surrounded by other beginners and watching their mistakes.
dude don't take offense to this but you're an obnoxious person
Reddit does a lot better of job bringing good relevant comments to the top.
YC was cool like 15 years ago when I first joined this forum now they kinda sux
unfortunately in the current system it mostly takes money to move the needle of change and if you don't have money how do you move the needle?
so how can we put pressure on the people running this country to start fixing root problems?
Obesity is a lifestyle issue bc people have to work multiple jobs and don't have time to cook. They have long commutes and don't have time to cook. Both parents have to work and don't have energy after work to cook. The grab and go food you can get on the road or even at restaurants in trash. In France if bread is machine made rather than by hand it has to be marked as such. There has to be some regulations we could put in place here to better the situation but I agree that as individuals we can't do much but why do you have to act alone? Wouldn't that just make the first problem to solve getting a group together before you can solve subsequent problems?
All of that is 100% true and like you said we could choose to allocate resources in a way to certainly fix the hunger problem and the housing shortage but we actively chose not to. In my opinion it's because here in the US our politicians have been bought by capital and largely represent the interests of capital owners. If your fed and have a roof over your head you're way less desperate and ultimately less likely to have to take a job that pay scraps. A large number of Walmart employees are on welfare for example. We, the people are effectively paying for Walmart employees so the billionaires can have even more money.
Libertarian forum is a funny word considering many of these companies keep government subsidies which have been cleverly renamed to things like clean energy investments.
Their problems become yours. Look at school shootings.
There's plenty of people on this sub who call themselves problem solvers. They ra ra another billion dollar rocket launch while people 5 miles away from the launch are living in their car and their kids are hungry. Why is no one solving those problems?
We have an obesity epidemic because our food is poor quality and loaded with calories. It's loaded with calories b/c it's cheaper to make it taste good by adding sugar or oil rather than using quality ingredients. People don't have time to cook homemade meals b/c they're working multiple jobs. They have long commutes and work long hours and don't have the energy to cook when they get home. A pill to curb your appetite is just a bandaid. Your appetite isn't the problem. It's our food and work culture that is designed to benefit the business owners not us.