bdangubic

> The calorie count for Cola is listed right on the bottle. Just don't drink it if you're to fat. And spend a few hours teaching your fat kids to read.

it is legal to drink Cola, yes? so I will drink it as I have no control over it... eventually I am going to have serious health issues... and Ray20 will pay for this from his taxes... or alternatively, we can add some tax to companies that are net negative to society and are causing Ray20's money to be spent on my fat asses healthcare, yes?

care to elaborate? if my machine is doubling my money, why do I have to raise debt?

"lower-value human capital" sounds like a compliment to me, would expect a lot worse from an average CEO

both around waaaay before LLMs

if ugliness = taxation on cars, every US made car should get a special $100k tax on top of MSRP, Ford and Chevy like $150k :)

he’s not a hands-in researcher just like lebron is not a basketball player but media personality :)

not a high bar to pass, google can (and did and does) a lot of stuff microsoft failed at

this is exactly it… if google was smart they would focus on providing that experience on search vs. AI summarizing results. I want that fluid search experience, with refinement that remembers my previous ask…

With all due respect I am not sure how you can write this with a straight face. You premise is that "something that last long can't possibly not appreciate"?? I am sure you can find myriad of examples where this simply does not hold water.

The housing is artificially inflated and you are one administration away (e.g. see current one for the kind of power we experience in 'democracy') from having your "investment" worth a lot less than you think it is. Why do you think you and I are able to deduct mortgage interest but when I charge my credit card for gambling, hookers and cocaine (a lot more enjoyable than housing) I am unable to deduct my 29.99% interest on my Visa?! What about "villas for 1 euro" that you can buy throughout say Italy? some of them are older than our country is and I am not sure you'd be happy with your "investment" if you bought it in 1999 but you know, "something that last that long can't possibly not appreciate, right?!"

industrial revolution also played a part too? :)

unfortunately 100% true. the “road” projects take roughly 7865x the time they take in any other country so roughly 98.56% of that collected money is skimmed

so after Fed and CA taxes this is like $10k/month? :)

if this was the case Musk himself would be homeless and not “richest” person on earth

neither he nor people that will decide 2026 election give a hoot about his net approval rating. they should not even poll this. the only thing worth polling is few states that could swing the election one way or another (and this is even smaller number than normal for upcoming midterms). what americans think on the whole has stopped mattering awhile ago…

they way to “handle” this is to stop viewing housing as “investment” - especially short-term investment. once you do that, you are good. when you buy you will consider all the implications of that decision and then you can live with it when you need different housing

both

both are related though… a lot of folk think that career progression as SWE must follow a path of “work something couple of years, then go elsewhere to get a much bigger salary bump than you would have gotten if stayed.” but you can also just stay and have a job for life pretty much if you become more valuable to the company than they are too you. this should be taught at Unis, it is the most important thing every SWE should strive for

What would be a reason to money launder the inflow?!?

US Navy has shown particular strength in this conflict against Iran, sitting in the international waters many (many, many) miles away and chillin :)

My career in a nutshell:

- I picked a company that was less than 100 people and in business for at least 2 decades, and profitable these were my core parameters

- I worked like a dog first few years, specifically focusing on picking up everything no one else wanted. And in every shop there will be plenty of this

- I f'ed with the code that says DO NOT TOUCH THIS, NO ONE KNOWS, EVERYTHING WILL BREAK

- I intertwined myself with every part of the product (multi-million lines of code product)

Then:

- At 5th year anniversary I asked for 60% bump and yearly 15% raise moving forward, the owner did not think for more than a minute and agreed

- At 10th year I quit, started my own LLC and offered my services to the company at the same rate they were charging their customers for senior engineer rates (which was roughly 2x what my salary was - no problems)

I made more money that I can spend in 4 lifetimes just following these simple principles. I became virtually irreplaceable and henceforth could demand just about anything I wanted (within reason of course but that 'reason' is very high...)

I always find myself thinking why are so many people trying to get jobs at FAANG/Big Tech where there is a much simpler (and attainable) path that being one of the thousands and practically just a number.

> Make yourself as replaceable as possible.

On the list of top-100 things SWEs need focus on to have the most prosperous career this one is 1 through 95

yea, totally lost the plot…

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TEAM/atlassian/rev...

Fascinating that “Meta did ______” makes the front page weekly it seems. I have long reached a point in life where “Meta did _____” is either interesting or surprising

yup, all the while they convinced their voters that “the other side” is to blame - quite fascinating (also says a lot about the general level of intelligence of cohort supporting this for these last XX years)

america regulates to ensure companies (as few as humanly possible) profit while europe regulates to protect the consumers. the core difference, yea! and americans seemed to be always shitting on europe completely oblivious of what is being done to them, for decades now

especially true for companies that use Microsoft’s AI products :)

farmers would like a word

yes it does, if you understand middle school economics

republicans are much much bigger spenders than democrats by miles. they are “anti socialism” publicly but are 2nd largest socialist party on the planet (behind china).