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I believe some tech censorship hurts society more than it does good. The video in the OP appears to be a good example of this.

Can someone give a good argument for why China’s Great Firewall is good? Tech Censorship and China’s internet censorship appear to be the same.

I can’t picture a future utopia with the direction tech censorship is going. Who can?

How about authoritarianism?

Warren Buffet isn’t most rich people…

Zimbabwe. That’s what we will do. You can’t simple hand assets over to normal people and expect the assets to maintain their value.

The Zimbabwe government took the farms from their owners and gave them to normal people. Mismanagement of them lead to food shortages.

Ahhh I love left wing hacker news. Lots of down votes on conservative principles, zero responses.

Amen. It takes away personal responsibility.

Most rich people don’t have all their wealth in cold hard cash. They have assets. You can’t force rich people to sell their assets. And if you did, it would crash the economy.

If you tax 100% of the money rich people have, it wouldn’t even put a dent in the debt.

Inequality will keep getting greater till businesses stop sleeping with the government AND the government stops handing out free money. Corporations, and that means executives, got fatter cause they lined their pockets with all that free covid money.

Flat tax, cut spending, cut welfare programs, fire everyone in the government who overspends the budget during their term. Problem solved.

what can you build with it?

Bankrupt people cannot help people financially. Like, bankrupt governments cannot help people financially.

My first job, year 1, $40k a year

Second job, year 2 $75k a year

Third job, year 3, $75 hr

Fourth job, year 4, $100 hr

Certs are worth getting. I have 12, charge $100 hr as a contractor, and have only been doing it for 5 years. No degree. I get people reaching out to me daily for work.

I see it as a long term career. Salesforce has the tallest building in SF. They own Heroku.

Salesforce is not fun to work with. What is fun for me is being in demand making a ton of money.

This is my situation right now on a contract I started a few months ago. A consultancy was hired and spent over a year building a system. All the in-house employees don’t really know how it works, it’s essentially a black box to them. So I’m digging through the code to make sense of it and no one from the business can give me test data that reflects what the system was meant to handle. Only thing I can really do is best guess and slowly learn how the business operates while at the same time fix bugs and launch new features.

My boss is not technical. Never been a developer. I have no mentor.

An example of over complicating things is I will ask too many questions to make sure I fully understand an ask. I will keep asking more questions if I feel I can make an ask better or I see a risk.

Honestly I feel like if I spent more time designing my boss would think I'm just making things more complicated than it should. Do you have a design book in mind?

How can I use agile as a solo developer? Everything I've read on it involves a team environment.

Is agile relevant when you are a solo developer?

THIS. But it's important to emphasize that Gus was saying this in the context of providing for ones family. There is no greater motivator...

My wife and kids. I'm the sole breadwinner and want to give my kids a greater life than I had. My dad was (still is) a deadbeat and didn't support me and my siblings at all.

A routine also helps me stay driven and avoid burnout because I know what to expect each day and there is a clear end in sight.

In a free market, workers are always in a position to negotiate. They can always renegotiate.

Is Amazon the only employer in the USA? No. So workers always have somewhere else to go for work.

The workers credit is the compensation they agreed to when deciding to work for Amazon. Nothing more, nothing less. There is nothing special about accepting employment. That’s what the majority of people do.

“It’s just Bezos and Amazon on the news” because Bezos willed Amazon into existence, a company that brings endless value to millions of people. You are right, starting a company is not difficult, but creating a company that brings so much value is.

I don’t understand the value of your first sentence. It’s obvious Bezos didn’t build it by himself. No one who believes in capitalism believes that.

What about them? They signed a contract when choosing to work for Amazon. They can negotiate their compensation before signing. They can renegotiate after signing. If they don’t like what Amazon offers, they can go somewhere else.

It boggles my mind how much credit is given to the workers when it was Bezos who: knew how to hire the right people, started the company, provided the compensation and benefits, and has taken on the most risk.

Listen to Naval Ravikant. He has a great Joe Rogan interview or you can listen to his podcast. Each podcast episode are short 1-3 minute bits of wisdom. Naval talks at a high level on how to achieve the trifecta of what most people want: health, wealth, and happiness/peace. These are the three things we need in the modern age to be free.

How can someone learn from a business standpoint what the software is suppose to do without anyone internally teaching them? The system is for finance and this is my first finance software job. Should I start learning finance?

It's difficult to know what can be made better because I don't really understand how the entire system works. It's a monolithic system. Again, it would require a businesses analyst to understand what needs to be improved.

Also, they don't want changes made unless there is a need because they don't want to risk new bugs being introduced.

Do you believe all coastal, sea-level cities will be swallowed up by the sea?

related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCtAdgpW_Vs

Of course there is not a shared level regulation among all the states. But generally speaking, the healthcare industry is a highly regulated system, which means higher costs.

Cheaper healthcare cannot be achieved because of the amount of regulation that is in the healthcare system.