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Yes, certainly people in medicine are aware.

> we let a 90 yr old with dementia/diatebetes/etc. pass with dignity.

Often it's a 4 week old baby.

For every 1 sophisticated family member, there are 19 unsophisticated ones, who toss a weighted coin and, if it's heads, they decide they want their dying, non-responsive relative - possibly their baby, possibly their mom, etc. - to be kept alive at all costs. I don't know if this is politically toxic as much as it is cultural, and possibly globally cultural.

> ...dealing with larger strategy issues as a senior developer and working with other developers and being involved in the sales process?

I don't have any way to talk about your specific situation.

If you're asking, "how can you generalize broadly about" what sounds like big company problems. Maybe as this economic reshuffling / contraction continues, I expect those big company problems to go away via "reduction in force." Because if your folks - superior, subordinates, whatever - couldn't figure out a system to get you focused on programming, which is your valuable elite skill, for the last X years, they aren't going to to have the wisdom suddenly to do it now, in reaction to an equities crisis.

And isn't that exactly what's happening?

Just consider how hard it is to find good people for a startup. What if indeed, most tech workers everywhere are bad? It doesn’t mean you observe lots of turnover. But it makes it possible that a company is really successful because of it, rather than despite it.

In my experience, things like code formatting and style were really predictive of the person’s contributions to a team.

I’m not saying he’s making a strategically wise move. But there are potentially another 100,000 developers in this industry who are in meaningful jeopardy over their jobs, because they are truly bad at it.

I think the shocking this is we are still talking about this when it has been everyone's lived experience for decades.

> But the SK Chaebols are really the problem.

Where, in Asia, is something like this not a problem?

Why do we need these obscure CAs?

This advocates for, "Say nothing," which ironically was the status quo regarding mental health at least between the 1800s and 1950.

Their innovation is that they had an in, somewhere, probably at various printers or e-Book distributors, that gave them access to digital copies of books. That is how they manage to have inventory of really obscure stuff. The software doesn't really matter.

> neither for "social justice"

Listen to yourself.

> I can't see stealing some poor author's work in the same light.

I sympathize with this sentiment. I have writers in my family.

Anyone who wants to be making money in writing is either (1) doing something else, like being a celebrity, and selling a book directly to their pre-existing audience (2) writing for TV, movies or went to law school. So few authors make money on their books, that the existence (or non-existence) of piracy has no impact on the aggregate experience of authors.

> if we don't buy their books

The truth is there is no audience for the vast majority of paid-up-front books, games, movies, music or other creative media. There is a large audience for TikToks. Part of the journey is coming to terms with this. The reality is people are writing because they like to, and the money doesn't matter, and the piracy doesn't matter, and they are not on Hacker News complaining about it anyway.

That said, I believe these sentiments, expressed elsewhere, about being American and being poor or whatever. The commenters have limited empathy and bandwidth.

Southwest also advertises many more flights than it plans to actually fly. Like if there's no penalty for a less than 2 hour adjustment, why not advertise flights every hour, and then regroup people day of? Or send them to Oakland instead of San Francisco, day of?

There is a tremendous amount of pharmaceutical advertising.

I understand it's appealing, oh let's hate on the influencers. We DO see influencers advertise pharmaceuticals / health adjacent products, like with public health campaigns, that is a regulatory distinction and not a substantive one. When asked what was the one thing he wanted, Dr. Fauci said, 'Leonardo DiCaprio to encourage people to advocate for COVID measures.' They use ad inventory, they use ad techniques to reach their audience, they ARE ADS. Seemingly regulators have figured out a process for them.

Video games are really interesting too. For some people, they are medicine! For some people, they substitute alcohol!

Finally this question is no longer considered fringe.

I don’t comprehend how or why you are defending bureaucracy, on the idea that because the capriciousness he experienced doesn’t exactly match the capriciousness you experienced, then he must be wrong. Surely you see the irony in that.

I am an insider to this space and I think you are probably an outsider.

That link doesn’t say what you think it does.

LCP before optimization is a cause of what? For example, a complex product page. Well of course that will convert worse, because the product is complicated.

But not too simple! 0.5s performs as bad as 2s.

Anyway, in my real experience, conversion fluctuates so much across products, the range greatly exceeds the impact measured by aggregate conversions by LCP, so your interpretation is wrong.

I don’t think the guys in India Japan and China who write the C++ code in the games and apps I use for the pay the offshorers want to pay are going to give a fuck.