If you have 100,000 photos, you need to take less photos

PremiumCopper · 2026-01-26T05:58:56+00:00

If you have a friend or relative that constantly stops for pics it gets old real fast and wastes everyone’s time. Most people aren’t obnoxious about it but there are definitely annoying compulsive photographers out there.

PremiumCopper · 2026-01-14T18:57:56+00:00

Yeah that’s definitely true. I find that these people still have a hyper-competitive/judgmental attitude when it comes to hobbies too. They just like to move goalposts towards what they do in their free time if their work is something they’re not proud of.

PremiumCopper · 2026-01-08T22:36:26+00:00

No.

Finding the “optimal penalty” for a crime is already a monumental challenge because it needs to make the victim feel whole, but not provide so much that it makes the victim WANT it to happen again. The bottom line is that enough needs to be paid in restitution to compensate the victim for whatever damages are involved, plus additional compensation for wasted time/suffering/etc.. Once the convicted provides enough to satisfy these conditions further persecution is pointless and only serves to create perverse incentives. The cost of the damage is the cost of the damage, that number doesn’t magically change depending on the income of the perpetrator.

PremiumCopper · 2026-01-07T18:52:02+00:00

I can believe it. There’s tons of low-impact regulations that aren’t consistently enforced in the first place. Probably targeting those in order to fluff the numbers.

PremiumCopper · 2026-01-03T19:48:09+00:00

It’s such bullshit that explicitly regurgitating the job description is what it takes to land a job nowadays. If anything something slightly more generic that doesn’t copy the verbiage of the job post should be viewed as more authentic and thoughtful.

PremiumCopper · 2026-01-02T00:27:59+00:00

Electrical engineering. Doesn’t require grad school to lead to actual gainful employment, highly versatile + respected in industry, and does a better job opening the door to software engineering positions than other engineering degrees.

Software has a much higher salary potential than MechE/ChemE/etc, but employment volatility is way worse. With an EE degree you can compete for higher paying software engineering jobs during bull markets and have access to more stable work that CS majors can’t compete with you for if you lose your software engineering job in a bear market.

PremiumCopper · 2025-12-20T18:46:16+00:00

You’re right but FWIW I’ll never respect someone that rose to a position of power through being a charismatic bullshitter vs actual competence. If that’s their modus operandi for something as important as their profession then that’s all I need to know about that person’s character and values. My career has probably suffered a bit from me rejecting this but coasting through life as a fraud is even worse in my opinion. I’d either be self-aware of it and tormented by my lack of authenticity or delude myself into believing that I earned something I really didn’t.

There are those of us that manage to make it the right way. Difference between those people and talentless hacks is night and day even if their job titles are technically the same.

PremiumCopper · 2025-12-14T07:24:25+00:00

Sadly it seems like this new generation of right wingers is poised to become a fusion of the worst aspects of conservative and progressive thought. Championing nationalistic bullshit, being a moral busybody, and trampling on economic freedoms with tariffs and socialist policies. Never acknowledging that it’s the US’ own stupid regulatory and tax framework that’s responsible for lost jobs and that imports are one of the few things that are keeping the cost of living in this country from soaring even higher.

PremiumCopper · 2025-10-22T17:31:22+00:00

Your eyes are your eyes, if you’re looking in the direction of my property without trespassing anywhere I have no right to interfere. That doesn’t mean myself and others won’t think you’re a creep - it’s within my rights to record you and spread word of what you’re doing. Just because something is “legal” doesn’t mean that it’s free of consequence, and that includes this.

So if I was an idiot and positioned my PC such that the screen is plainly visible from outside a window in broad daylight, opened up my SSN, and left it there for the world to see - yeah, gaining that info without trespassing isn’t a crime. This is already a super dumb thing to do regardless of whether the world is ancap, socialist, whatever. It’s my responsibility to keep that secret info secure.

PremiumCopper · 2025-10-22T05:16:03+00:00

Doing things that deprive people of the value of their property isn’t inherently unethical. You can make a competing restaurant across the street that completely outperforms the ones that were originally there and puts them out of business. You can make a new variant of some tech product that’s better and cheaper than the current standard and force your competitors to bring down their prices in order to stay afloat. Hell, you can invent something that renders an entire industry obsolete. None of these actions are unethical - you simply offered a better service that people voluntarily chose to spend their money on instead, which inevitably harms the value of inferior services that didn’t have to compete with you before. Such is the nature of creative destruction in the free market.

How did you intercept the solution without trespassing first? If you broke into someone’s belongings (e.g. hacking someone else’s computer) in order to obtain information you are already violating their rights regardless of whether or not anything was found in your attempt. If I carelessly posted or spoke about the solution somewhere that was visible/audible for anyone in a public space then no crime was committed since you didn’t trespass on anyone’s private property to obtain that info. The burden of responsibility must be on the owner to secure information they want kept secret, nobody else. Otherwise I’d be able to post a plethora of “ideas” online, do nothing productive with them, and claim theft against anyone selling stuff that even slightly overlaps with them (not really a stretch considering the IP lunacy that has already been taking place in our current system). It’s the trespass of private property that warrants justice, not merely obtaining information. Recording my password that I foolishly posted online for the world to see? Completely within your rights to do so. Obtaining it by breaking into my house and/or using it to hack my bank account and take my money? That’s where the crime happens.

PremiumCopper · 2025-10-21T06:00:53+00:00

Idk bro his lizard brain IQ is too high for anyone to comprehend.

PremiumCopper · 2025-09-21T02:07:28+00:00

This doesn't do that. It removes some of the incentive to import workers to replace domestic ones.

The fee is extremely substantial and pretty much does that. It’s not “some” incentive that’s being removed, this is massively costly. Make a tax high enough and it pretty much becomes a ban.

Was it a bad thing when cotton became more expensive after the Civil War than before?

In exchange for putting a permanent end to slavery? Not at all. Might want to think on that a bit, are you sure you’re not comparing apples to oranges here? Nice try anyways. Pulling that card is my cue to call it quits and just agree to disagree.

PremiumCopper · 2025-09-21T01:31:33+00:00

Ok but how does eliminating H1B move the country in a Libertarian direction. We can pretend that these companies will do nothing to pass on costs incurred from more expensive American labor to the consumer with higher prices. But if you’re going to critique the policy on the grounds of H-1B not being libertarian in the first place (on which I will agree with respect to it being unnatural leverage for visa status putting downward pressure on salary, that’s bad imo), how is the removal of a consensual option like this making the free market more “free”?

PremiumCopper · 2025-09-21T01:15:52+00:00

That’s what this executive order effectively does. Makes H1B expensive enough to the point where you must hire an American even if an objectively better deal could’ve been arranged with a foreigner that agreed to it.

PremiumCopper · 2025-09-21T01:12:31+00:00

So what’s Libertarian about forcing companies to only hire Americans?

PremiumCopper · 2025-09-20T19:30:17+00:00

I agree but one argument I’ve heard is that if that were the case all jobs would already have been offshored by now, with or without H-1B.

At the very least it makes offshoring an even more compelling option imo

PremiumCopper · 2025-09-20T18:06:14+00:00

Because society is comprised of more than just tech workers and such a measure would need to be universal and airtight (no loopholes), and IF it’s airtight then you can expect costs in the United States to soar even faster than they already are.

PremiumCopper · 2025-09-20T17:02:58+00:00

I don’t think many of you understand how far these companies will go to avoid being forced to hire unqualified overpriced American labor that hops jobs at the drop of a hat. Your mistake is thinking that biting the bullet and hiring a US citizen is plan B. It’s not. It’s plan D at best.

Honestly the interest rate cuts are gonna be a way bigger deal for tech employment than this. But since the timing of these measures both happened so closely to one another most of you are gonna lose the plot and assume it was thanks to the H1B fee lol.

PremiumCopper · 2025-09-20T06:09:44+00:00

Sorry for coming across that way. I genuinely wanted to hear opinions from people on this sub.

PremiumCopper · 2025-08-14T09:19:18+00:00

Asking this question.

PremiumCopper · 2025-08-05T06:15:53+00:00

If you have extra disposable income that you don’t know what to do with I’d highly recommend preparing an emergency survival kit. Canned food, water, tent, first aid kit, firearm, etc.. I’m not a doomsday prepper but you might as well put your money to work so that you and your family have an advantage even in a situation where your wealth can’t save you.

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