astonex

Joined 13 years ago

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Software Engineer in the UK, previously South Korea
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Comment · 29 days ago
Most likely not. Their Crawling service for example does not bypass the cloudflare protections either.
Comment · 2 months ago
Isn't that what independent reviews are generally useful for? To try all the options and share feedback for someone to make their own choice.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Shame on Microsoft for allowing this
Comment · 3 months ago
From their status page

>The second path involves rolling back a recent change to the billing computation subsystem.

Want to bet AI code was involved?

Comment · 3 months ago
And with that 37k a day, or 185k per 5-day work-week, what exactly has he achieved?

I don't see any actual output coming from these AI tools, despite how many are saying it's greatly increased their productivity. Where are all the new businesses and tools? I only see more shovels being sold.

Comment · 4 months ago
Not sure what the difference is between this and any regular P2P network?
Comment · 4 months ago
Ever experienced being the founding engineer and getting 0.5-2.5%? The amount of work done by the founding engineer for the amount of equity they usually get, there is definitely an unfair exchange here. I'd say the founding engineer is 99% of the time better off finding a non-technical co-founder and building something for 50% each.
Comment · 1 year ago
Anecdotally, on my few visits to the US (NY and Colorado), the driving I saw was absolutely atrocious compared to Europe. People were swerving and failing to stay in their lanes on Interstates, everyone was speeding well above the limit (everyone speeds on Motorways, but it seems it's taken to another level in the US). Then you have turn right on red meaning drivers just don't care and turn regardless. Then you have everyone driving massive fucking trucks where you can't see anything from inside.

It seemed every morning I got up and turned on the hotel TV, there was another news about some crash on the Interstate that morning

Comment · 1 year ago
It's about making the right choices for society as a whole
Comment · 1 year ago
It's been mentioned that you will be able to get a physical card with a chip in it for those who want it
Comment · 1 year ago
>Can anyone really point me out the real problem about the immigrants?

This minimises the problem. The UK voters have consistently voted for reduced immigration, with polls showing the preferred number to be somewhere between 0-100,000. Those elected have consistently ignored them which has raised tensions.

In the last few years, the UK had around 1 million people net per year. 1 million people is bigger than most cities in the UK for comparison, so imagine a new city of people, every single year. The infrastructure could not, or did not keep up and has contributed to worse living standards through overly-subscribed national services, increased living costs, etc.

>for example the lack of funding of the NHS or the hyper funding of other initiatives such as war in Ukraine.

The NHS is already the single biggest expenditure of the UK's taxes. I remember it being more than 25% of the total budget. How much should be spent on the NHS? 50%? 90%?

The cost of defending democracy and freedom from a tyrannical Russia is also barely a drop in the bucket, while having huge meaning for many. Only 2% of the budget for the entire Armed forces, let alone just some support for Ukraine, compared to the 25+% on NHS. It's nothing.

Comment · 1 year ago
>It is really a distopean future in US and UK right now.

This ignores the fact that most of Europe and Asia already have national IDs

Comment · 1 year ago
Orwell was born in India. You should learn a little about him before saying everything is Orwellian

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