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bendbro commented on Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership daemonology.net/blog/2025... · Posted by u/stock_toaster

la64710 · 4 days ago

That’s bullshit … just another scaremongering post against employees with some kind of visa. Leadership depends upon individuals not upon their immigration status. From direct experience I can say there are leaders and non leaders on bothe sides. BTW ec2 was first conceived and made in South Africa.

bendbro · 4 days ago

H1Bs risk deportation when they are fired. It is inconceivable for this to not impact their performance and behavior. Combine that with Amazon's Jack Welch style stack rank and firing of the bottom and it becomes even worse

bendbro commented on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States post.japanpost.jp/int/inf... · Posted by u/Kye

Retric · 11 days ago

Automation consistently outcompetes sweatshops.

What’s missing from these discussions is the idea of competitive advantage. It is inherently more efficient to grow crops in climates where they thrive, tacking a tariff to protect domestic production means intentionally lowering the standard of living of everyone both domestically and abroad to favor some tiny group doing something wasteful.

bendbro · 11 days ago

I don't want to compete with pollution, child labor, slaves, extreme hours, and poverty-tier living conditions

bendbro commented on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States post.japanpost.jp/int/inf... · Posted by u/Kye

cheema33 · 11 days ago

This needs to be repeated. Tariffs are a tax on ordinary citizens. Unlike regular taxes, tariffs are not progressive and therefore benefit the wealthy.

These are the sort of things the poor and middle class voted for. To make the rich, richer. And then turn around and complain that rich are getting richer and they are getting poorer.

bendbro · 11 days ago

> These are the sort of things the poor and middle class voted for. To make the rich, richer.

Experts show saving 7.1337% at Walmart is worth losing your job to offshoring!

I haven't seen meaningful change for poor or workers with a decade of Democrat policy, so pardon me while I ignore that and vote for some tariffs.

bendbro commented on Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/MBCook

gbacon · a month ago

Yes, VFR pilots need to look outside a huge majority of the time. The rule of thumb is look out the window 90% of the time and peek at your instruments the remaining 10 percent. New primary students and especially simmers have a tendency to stare at the flight instruments, a bad habit that can be tough to break.

For example, ATC might give an altitude restriction for safety: “Cessna 123AB, maintain VFR at or below three thousand for crossing traffic.” Observing this restriction is important, but staring at the altimeter will likely result in the heading wandering all over the place and ironically even a tendency to over-control altitude that may cause wandering up and down. The proper way to execute it is to learn what the level sight picture looks like, put the nose there, trim for straight-and-level flight, and occasionally peek at the altimeter and VSI to confirm that it’s staying there. If the pilot gets distracted, say looking down at an iPad for a bit, look outside first to get back on heading if necessary, check the instruments (“take a picture with your mind”), and make small adjustments to get back to where it should be.

ATC operates on lots of buffers. For a restriction of three thousand, that crossing traffic is likely to be at 4,000 or higher.

bendbro · a month ago

Ah that makes quite a lot of sense and I'd definitely find myself with that bad habit if I tried flying. In a sim my purpose is to have fun flying the plane by the seat of my pants but flying in reality would have me anxious to avoid breaking any rules.

bendbro commented on Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/MBCook

gbacon · a month ago

As a flight instructor, flight sim teaches lots of bad habits that need to be unlearned at the beginning. Over-fixation on instruments is at the top of this list for VFR operations. I am not at all convinced that a person with only sim experience would be able to successfully land a C172.

bendbro · a month ago

Flight sim experience causes "over-fixation on instruments"? I'm surprised, I would have expected the opposite.

bendbro commented on Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf] research.vu.nl/ws/portalf... · Posted by u/djoldman

bendbro · a month ago

Tabula Rasa bros... our response?

bendbro commented on Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now · Posted by u/sepidy

gyomu · 4 months ago

When I was in college (over 20 years ago now), what we called “hackathons” was a bunch of us (4-6 max) holing up in an apartment for the weekend, and working on our personal projects while ordering pizza and sleeping on couches.

It was really nice having a group of people you could demo what you were working on/ask for help or feedback within immediate range at all times. There was also something really peaceful about coding at 5a on Sunday while everyone else was fast asleep.

When I moved to SF, I was so surprised to find out that there were “professional” hackathons. I went to a couple and came to the same conclusion as you.

I do miss the vibe of the OG hackathons I did with my friends, but I was 19 and we had no commitments back then. Nowadays the best way for me to be productive is to have regular meal, disciplined working hours, and good nights of sleep - so no more sleeping on couches with half empty boxes of pizza by my side.

bendbro · 4 months ago

> There was also something really peaceful about coding at 5a on Sunday while everyone else was fast asleep

Great times

bendbro commented on TikTok goes dark in the US techcrunch.com/2025/01/18... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

kgen · 8 months ago

Or maybe occam's razor suggests that there's indeed something more concerning about usage of the app that we aren't privy to?

bendbro · 8 months ago

Yes, occam's razor would suggest the government randomly decided exactly now was the time to start working in our best interests, and also those interests are super secret and have absolutely nothing to do with recent geopolitical happenings nor anything to do with the stated beliefs of the politicians driving the government.

bendbro commented on Fraud, so much fraud science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/nabla9

bendbro · a year ago

Aw shucks, better luck next time. I bet each of you hackers possess exactly the humanist, ethics focused, inclusive, science based, data driven solution "we" need to fix this problem. If only it wasn't for those bad people who made this bad system turning all the good people into bad people!