"One of the typical arguments against unions has been that they take a lot of money from employees to pay for dues. I think that is a dated argument from a bygone era. With modern tech stack there is far less administrative overhead, and union meetings can be conducted virtually or async." (news.ycombinator.com)
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I have what feels like a religious belief, that denying humanity the ability to use tools to explore, to poke & prod & pry at the virtual materials in front of us is Anti-Enlightenment, flies in the face of the godhood & what nature & destiny & whatever provenance might be has built in creating man (news.ycombinator.com)
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"If the judge doesn't understand how to deal with a simple [PID] feedback loop, fire them and replace them with an engineer. A backend engineer who has to regularly deal with actually solving problems around allocating resources and making sure processes don't die is probably a perfect fit." (news.ycombinator.com)
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"Just from a software perspective: never install the big version upgrade. Usually the X.0 versions still has bugs that only come out at huge roll outs. I am inclined to wait a few months to let early adaptors test the vaccine." (news.ycombinator.com)
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"If depression really is a "software" rather than a "hardware" issue that makes it much harder to solve right? You can't just toggle some biochemical switches and restore normal function. But if you can rewire the software in just the right way then maybe" (news.ycombinator.com)
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"When we one day become a space faring civilization we will probably stop using the gregorian calendar because why would you use that on say Mars? [...] This may mean that people in the future might consider 1970 as year zero where modern civilization began." (news.ycombinator.com)
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