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I quit when they expect me to stay beyond 5pm. It's software. It can wait more often than not.

Yeah but I don't feel like suffering from every aspect of my life just to make an impact. My suffering will become a full time job. Focusing on not eating x/y/z, not wearing x/y/z, not doing x/y/z, not going to x, y, or z, for x/y/z reasons. And so on and so forth.

I work a day job, I don't have time to give a shit about most things, least of all adjusting my entire diet for activist ideology, let alone reading enough about these micro topics to get actionable data from. I have trouble just sticking to a solid routine every single day. If I possessed the power to just change my shit up for arbitrary disconnected reasons like lowering global antibiotics research, then I'd already have the mental fortitude to be a billionaire.

Would personally rather donate to a foundation that is able to accomplish the same goal on a larger scale. Our efforts should be focused on the rich putting their efforts into these things.

I never vote with my wallet. If I vote with my wallet and it costs me 2 hours to go across the city to get an item that's 14-16% of my day lost to acquire just one item in my life because I had the luxury of 'making a statement'.

Yes, and 99% of the time it's "fuck it who cares dude lets just lie we need users". I've been at the forefront too many times. There's never been a remotely 'human story'.

>but at the same time there are still legitimate projects being started right now that could become very valuable in the next couple of years.

Care to name a few?

Your crap humor could use work.

How do I become this guy? I get paid $80 an hour for a much harder job.

I sort of want to start but don't want to deal with the explaining. My buddy started with the nice leather briefcase and he got relentlessly roasted in college.

No but you should take it with a grain of salt when he talks about "getting a seat at the table" and the ideas he has.

He's just another rich asshole working a new angle now that he made his billion. At no point in time during his time at FB did he have a conscience? He could have done more earlier.

Just seems like he's working a new angle now to grow his billion into two.

>I like pranks like this where nobody gets hurt physically.

I'd rather get punched in the face and get it over with than endure this.

There are contexts and limitations. I have no practical use to understand my fridge to such a degree because it will yield me nothing in the future. I just need to keep it plugged in, cool, and not broken. All easy to verify.

I have control of my money and bitcoin is within the realm of learnability, so I'd say it should be required. It is intimate knowledge of a protocol with many working parts that will have a direct effect on your earnings.

I'm talking gross salary offers are in the 2.5-3.5 range for me. Not factoring in QOL.

I work remotely and I can't leave my friends and family over money. Money is just money, if I can max out what I make in my radius, cool, but I won't be moving to chase it.

I'm not making up numbers, just speaking from personal experience.

That article is extremely dumb. The title does not match the slogan. Is it salary or quality of life? You make way more in SF than Toronto, but your QOL might suffer because of exorbitant rental rates. That's not new information.

>To prove this, we are going to look at the money you can put in your bank account at the end of the year after paying taxes and living expenses.

We're obviously talking gross not net because net is subjective.

Absolutely not. Nevermind even starting to talk about a specific niche of tech like AI. Article is completely false on almost all counts.

>“I just think Canadians realize better than most that there is an opportunity here”

We have no atmosphere of innovation because our salaries are garbage compared to the US. This is the problem, every single time. Most of my Canadian graduate friends work for US companies, some remotely. We literally do not have economic reasons to stay here. No amount of lip service will ever transform 100k into 300k.

>“consequences of AI, the consequences of automation,” and the “economic imbalance of those who own the robots and those who are displaced by them.”

Wasn't this shown to be a meme? That automation has already been happening very slowly, it's not going to be some sudden iRobot level change. Example: as a web dev now you only need one full stack guy to launch a production app, does the job of the designers, devops, frontend etc through various tooling that helped him automate processes that other developers would have done in the past.

>Canadians have a tendency to travel, Trudeau said, and that results in a global outlook on how cities work and their different approaches to things like traffic and how people live in urban environments.

More like I can make 3x for the same job here.

I refer to my previous comment with respect to the waterfront, when will this tech bullshit be over? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15550745

This all reads like crap propaganda without saying anything, just some nice meaningless buzzwords. Actually it's even worse, looks like a paid for advertisement by Google and they have Trudeau in their pockets using him as an advertising puppet.

Trudeau is a prime minister who was born into riches and surrounded by royal families since birth. This guy hasn't the faintest idea what he's talking about with anything related to real life much less tech or fucking AI.

Nobody wants a 'smart city'. It'll just be another data mining project except now they will literally be optimizing your entire life for their profits. You can't meme a city into existence like all those cute little renders. Cities/villages have to rise up organically and then be tamed and incentivized to grow, not built with extreme robotic precision using data from the ground up. At best it's going to be some hip little place with crap corporate chain bars for working professionals just like it currently is cause that makes the most money, anything else is a pipe dream. Completely sterile and devoid of life, like all these projects turn out to be.

>If the initiative proceeds, it would include at least 3.3 million square feet of residential, office and commercial space, including a new headquarters for Google Canada, in a district that would be a test bed for the combination of technology and urbanism. [0]

[0] - https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/google-sidewal...

I think they meant that concept behind an ICO are a scam not that blockchain is.

That's exactly the level of plausible deniability they need, so people like you come to the comments defending them. I promise you 0% of these coins will be a thing 10 years out. I'll put money on that.

What? This is like every shit coin. Tons of them tank to near zero and deflate. Anyone who thinks these coins are legitimate are fooling themselves. They are built with one core requirement, do just enough to differentiate from other coins, pump it, get out.

The average person can't understand 99% of the specs of these coins, it's all speculation. The whole thing is a ponzi scheme.

Location: Toronto

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: started with ASM/C++/C as a kid. did C in school for a bit. Then I did a lot of game hacking and exploitation in high school. Went to uni and did more C and PHP then dropped out. Did work in Python/PHP/Golang/Node on the backend professionally. Great at design as well, and even better at frontend (ReactJS/Vue/Angular/Ember + Redux/MobX).

Résumé/CV: Upon request.

Email: r at rublev dot io

- Worked in crypto building a bitcoin exchange for roughly a year.

- Quit and have been day trading crypto for a couple of months now.

- Building a SaaS billing platform with python+react/redux using ETH/BTC on the side as well.

- Working on trading side project with Haasbot and various other crypto API's, working on my own trade executioner.

- Worked on a few side projects with crypto API's and Stripe API, a payment analysis engine that tracks valuable metrics related to your startup.

- Worked my entire career in finance, started off at a bank designing their mobile client+commercial banking apps many years ago.

Then what's the scam? I'd imagine they're looking for a very specific skill set (those tech skills, but in the context of crypto).

>Approaching the problem from the FinServ lens, rather than FinTech, can radically alter your view ;)

What do you mean?

Yes and I'm posting about a tech company in a tech thread. Why did you comment?

By quitting. 16 hours? What the fuck.

Unfortunately I'm too much of an idealist to work for a random company so there's not much opportunity to work on meaningful stuff. Would love to though, currently unemployed! Working on crypto/payments stuff so I can break more into that world.

When will all this annoying tech bullshit be over? I'm so tired of screens and data and information and whatever-the-fuck. Can we please just stop at the smart phone? There is no chance Google will improve my life. It's going to be a disgustingly modern sterile piece of crap which is where everything is headed these days. I want to smoke some cigarettes and have a malt 40 without anyone complaining to me while looking out at the water. Not sip $7 lattes on some 'smart campus' designed for business assholes.

They are a corporation. They are here to do nothing but make more money. They are not here to make your life better. Fuck off Google, this article ruined my day.

You mean like some embed like Scribd? I've never really liked that sort of stuff, always works wonky for me. Text is great.

Very cool. Downloading PDF's has always bothered me and this is a fantastic and easy way to view papers, esp while commuting.

A Native android or iOS tablet app would be neat to track your papers etc.

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I just drop those people. Why should my mental health suffer just to leech off someone? They should be willing to reciprocate.

I don't see it as a switching cost. Well I do, but only in the beginning. You switch the thing on and you are exposed to X more people. Then it seems like switching it off you're losing those people, but you're probably just going back to your original state.

>Commonly this is the switching cost of learning how a new app works but to lose those friendships are not worth the anonymity that I gain from not using the services.

It is to me. I would definitely make a switch for a friend if all it was was changing an app. If they can't do the same, like they literally couldn't download or use a different fucking app then they can fuck off. Like our friendship is worth so little they can't EVEN be bothered to download an app. Fuck those people.

>This is naive, at best. I have a network of people in my life that I must maintain contact with, and their platforms of choice are these platforms.

Must maintain? With who? Do you use FB to exclusively chat to your wife and boss or something? Will the stasi knock at your door for not checking in with Lord Zuckerberg every 5 minutes?

I find it incredibly difficult to believe that there are people who's ONLY platform of communication in a digital age is Facebook. I don't mean 'primary', I mean 'only'.

If your 'friends' much less family won't keep in contact with you because of choice of platform, can you really say they are your friends/family? If we didn't live in an age of cellphones, if calling is too much effort, would they have ever come to visit me in person?

I deleted all that crap way back and only a few people came out of the wood work, the rest I forgot about and couldn't remember if I tried.

In reality the only effect social media has is lowering barriers to communication, letting in all the shit connections. Much like a dam. Lower it, and the crap water comes in. Same with this, just makes it easier to be connected, which is built on the illusion that these connections are now somehow important.

I have yet to encounter a plausible real life scenario that requires facebook. At best, it might add a tiny bit of convenience to your life wrt events/comm. But it's nothing that can't be easily replaced.