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nsotelo commented on Tech talent is still in demand but outsized salaries may be disappearing   cnbc.com/2022/06/19/tech-... · Posted by u/Victerius
amsnl · 4 years ago
In my experience EU (particularly NL/FR/DE) engineers have a very different understanding of the level of effort work should entail, and general work/life balance. Perhaps it has something to do with the different level of social “safety net” or just chalk it up to culture.
nsotelo · 4 years ago
As a European I work hard but do expect labour laws to be respected, if that's what you mean. Minimum of 22 days annual vacation (that I use 100% of), paid sick leave, 14 national holidays per year, etc.
nsotelo commented on Bank of England warns of 'apocalyptic' global food shortage   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/IdEntities
xrd · 4 years ago
Because it is hyperbole.

Will this affect US wheat prices?

Yes, because they are priced on the global market.

Will it mean citizens of the US will not have enough wheat to eat?

No, generally it won't, because the US doesn't import wheat at all.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/the-russian-invasi...

Pay attention to the articles, many of them confuse global supply with exports, as if all countries need to import everything they consume. That's not true. These fluctuations will affect people and prices but the reporting is often hyperbolic and incorrect.

nsotelo · 4 years ago
It's not important because it won't affect the US?
nsotelo commented on Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work   macrumors.com/2022/05/07/... · Posted by u/carlycue
jstx1 · 4 years ago
The expense of others is a point that works both ways. You could equally say that someone who insists on being remote because it's better for their family life is preventing/slowing down the return to office, and that's at the expense of people who prefer to be in the office.

But I wouldn't put it that way because I don't think it makes for a productive conversation - office or remote, people like what they like and they have their reasons for it.

nsotelo · 4 years ago
These are not morally equivalent. The office-worker wants others to modify everyone's behaviour to support them, whereas the remote worker just wants to control their own behaviour. The remote worker is completely ambivalent to where others want to work.
nsotelo commented on Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?    · Posted by u/ak_111
geoduck14 · 4 years ago
I love it:

Do you need <something you almost certainly don't need>? No -> consider DATABASE

nsotelo · 4 years ago
Future historians will laugh and cry knowing we invested trillions and boiled the oceans for the sake of a useless append-only log.
nsotelo commented on Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses   reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/croes
MomoXenosaga · 4 years ago
Look I always encourage people to read the Israeli constitution.

Jewish state. Fact.

Not multicultural, not secular. Jewish. That was the founders design.

nsotelo · 4 years ago
This doesn't make it immune from criticism. What if the United States added "Caucasian state" to the constitution and started discriminating against other ethnicities. Would that be okay for you?
nsotelo commented on Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/kettunen
shp0ngle · 4 years ago
> The first benefits are authenticity and availability: if you are running Tor Browser and if you click/type in exactly the proper Onion address, you are guaranteed to be connected to what you expect — or not at all.

What? Writing raw onion addresses is like writing raw IPv6 addresses. Nobody can remember then and check them.

What is easier

> https://nytimes.com

or

> ej3kv4ebuugcmuwxctx5ic7zxh73rnxt42soi3tdneu2c2em55thufqd.onion

nsotelo · 4 years ago
You can use the onion location header[0] to redirect the user, as mentioned in another comment thread.

0: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/oni...

nsotelo commented on The Crypto Backlash Is Booming   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/pseudolus
rvz · 4 years ago
Once again and as predicted, we have another 'web3 is a ponzi' article. The creators of web3, and everyone else knows it is a giant scam, just like how ICOs where in 2017. All thanks to and started by Ethereum.

Not sure why this article presents this as a great surprise or a new discovery. Sure, the majority of NFTs (Especially the JPEGs) are a pump-n-dump ponzi scam selling images to each other. When the NFT craze runs out of steam, 90% of all the image/audio/video types of NFTs will collapse. 10% of the other NFTs will survive with a valid use case.

I don't see how the whole 'web3' narrative should apply to every single cryptocurrency and project in existence, like how this article has done. Just look at this sentence and the quote:

> A person investing in crypto or a shared future on the blockchain is said to hate Earth and support the “hyperfinancialization of all human existence.”

How does that apply to every single cryptocurrency as the author of this tweet has just generalized? [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1465682611171467269?s=20

nsotelo · 4 years ago
Are there any valid use-cases? For any suggestion I've heard, it always seems that a relational database or PKI would be better.
nsotelo commented on Crypto, the left, and techno-feudalism   metacpc.org/en/crypto-blo... · Posted by u/supernihil
RunSet · 4 years ago
> “Within our present oligarchic, exploitative, irrational, and inhuman world system, the rise of crypto applications will only make our society more oligarchic, more exploitative, more irrational, and more inhuman.”

Varoufakis assumes the current world system will continue to apply but on the scale of human history the current world system is a novelty and there is no reason to expect it to be stable in the long term.

True, the current system needs to create money at a whim so it doesn't want to bitcoin to flourish. It also needs to print money so it can't exist if bitcoin flourishes.

nsotelo · 4 years ago
He does state that when (not if) we move beyond the current system, distributed ledgers will become a useful tool.

> I consider blockchain, and Ethereum-style mechanisms, as technologies that will prove extremely useful once private property in the means of production ends. But, on their own, these technologies will not liberate us from the extractive power of the few.

nsotelo commented on Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview   mashable.com/article/anti... · Posted by u/caaqil
alexb_ · 4 years ago
Look, I'm not trying to defend her. But do you think that autism goes away when it's a zoom call or something? I think that it's a perfectly fine explanation for no eye contact/rocking, as both are common symptoms of autism. Think it's a bit rash to immediately assume they are "clearly not medically disabled".
nsotelo · 4 years ago
The point remains, maybe as an autistic person they don't like eye contact or sitting still but that's where discipline comes into it.
nsotelo commented on Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for spare parts   davidgerard.co.uk/blockch... · Posted by u/davidgerard
sasaf5 · 4 years ago
And the "metaverse" is following in line.
nsotelo · 4 years ago
I got an occulus quest 2 (manufactured by meta) recently and it's a lot of fun. VR is not revolutionary but it's definitely going to make money for meta and others.

u/nsotelo

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