mdgrech23

I'll go against the grain but our capitalist way of life is totally incompatible with solving climate change. Likewise one country can't solve this problem alone. You need the whole world on board. I truly think the only real solution is a one world government truly working toward for the betterment of the planet and it's occupants. We all know that ain't ever gonna happen though so we're hosed.

I can't say I know the AI research community well but I'd imagine OpenAIs alignment w/ the military would not align w/ the the personal philosophy of many.

typical tech bro - they don't want any government regulation and want all the federal dollars they can get for nothing in return. we shouldn't be giving tax payer money to any private or public profit driven corporation ever. Mind you that's also a libertarian principle but tech libertarians always leave that part off.

when people talk about a players I feel like a lot of times it's really just the person who knows the project best or maybe they wrote a lot of the original code so they have the best idea of how it works. My point being who's an A player in my opinion is not reflective of actual skill per se but rather other factors.

Since OP mentioned quality to me that's almost always synonymous and things like TDD and Agile which I view as a false prophet to quality.

knowledge is power and people don't always want to share. Maybe it's more reflective of my company culture but I've seen knowledge effectively hoarded and used strategically as a weapon at times.

yea this is the sad shitty answer - it's just a private company w/ a government contract gathering data on us

100% hear this and I know as a developer at a big company I have no say over the business side of things but there's probably something to be said for we should all push for clear logical business processes that make sense. Take something like a complicated offering of subscriptions, it's bad for the customer, it's bad for sales people, it's bad for customer support, honestly it's probably even bad for marketing. Keep things simple. But I suppose those complexities ultimately probably allow for greater revenue as it would allow for greater extraction of dollars per customer e.g. people who met this criteria are willing to pay more so we'll have this niche plan but like I outlined above at what cost? Are you even coming out ahead in the long run?

wow oh wow what a great comment. I think the reason dance went away is a lot of men engaged in predatory behavior while drunk, that is that would approach the woman from behind and "grind" himself on her which is really just sexual assault.

I often think about how we replace things with technology and say it's better. Bread is another example in my opinion. Towns used to have bread makers, well respected and well paid. Now, at least here in the USA we replaced the bread makers with machines. We got rid of the bread makers and ultimately replaced them with engineers who design the machines and repair men. Even they've been replaced, once designed there's no need for the engineer and it's often cheaper to buy than repair so the repair man too went away. What we're left with is subpar bread. How is any of this progress?

honestly feel like we're actively being lied to about how "good" the economy is.

this isn't why people buy Bitcoin. they buy it b/c they don't have confidence in the power of the US dollar or want to hedge their bets. It's the equivalent of gold, that is people turn to it when they think shit may hit the fan but it doesn't have the downsides of physically holding gold.

If you think we're currently a democracy you're very wrong. Being a democracy means you actually get to vote on things like whether or not we should go to war, whether we should have national health care. We have 0 say in things that matter. That's not a democracy.

This is exactly why deadlines in tech are such bullshit. It's my personal experience that more times than not I'm told the deadline as opposed to us reaching some kind of agreement. It's reasons like that that I have hard time taking it seriously when I'm told we're late. It's more like you're "estimate" was wrong or you demanded completion date was too aggressive.