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There is a wealth of startups out there takings small hordes of junior devs out of non-CS grads. Learning on the go, they become proper devs or get into business a few year later. Projects get out there by pure force of will.

They are like the E. Coli of devs, cheap to make experiment with, and very adaptable to any environment.

__insert rant here about how living in SV is so expensive, and how moving elsewhere to reduce my six figure salary a bit is impossible__

I disagree with this. I used to have passion hobbies until I became so time-poor that keeping them would mean cut the little amount of time that I spent with my family, or not being able going out of my apartment for a walk.

> even paying for software which is hostile to them and their interests

Consumers have been sold a dream, and after the tech advances and sweatshoping can't go farther, they would rather eat skimpflation day after day than pay more. This is most evident online, where a good chunk of the population expect everything to be free.

I think it is just part of the commercialization of the web, the same dynamics that happens everywhere where a firm with a good product/brand change it to increase cash flows or some other KPI. Though much more clear in consumer market, but also happen to rich, influential companies (think about the clients of Oracle).

> but I’ll take it over how finance jobs are where it’s all about connections and where you interned when you were 19

Is this different than Big Tech really? If you do not go to the right schools, internships, whatever it can take years to have the right employers in your CV to be called for an interview.

You will be surprised. The absolute worst candidates can stay very long in market and appear everywhere. Someone can look good on paper but a short call can tell you right away that you do not want to deal with them.

I am actually the other way around. I use them as one data point to find new libraries in fields I have never worked in. They tend to be incomplete and no curation at all. But still useful.

Initially it had amazing writers, the UI was never good really.

However it was from the beginning an unsustainable business, fueled by VC.

I am planning to try this, basically the real (neo)vim inside VSCode,no emulation.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...

R is another language that it is bashed constantly, but it is generally much productive in its field (EDA and stats on structured data) than the alternatives like Python.

IMO a little bit the same and in my case I ended up here because it pays well. I had other hobbies before that could not monetize no matter what.

> Does anybody really even care what a TLD is or is "meant" to be used as?

Yes, the owners of the TLD. The same way that I cannot register a .google, .no, or .uk at all.

I might be reading this wrong (I always have problems calculating AWS costs), but this seems VERY expensive. Much more than paying a 10Gbps internet plan for a year where I live.

Legal threats from some IP holders. I assume that the situation with the other part of libgen (the book one) should be similar.

How people goes about downloading/mirroring sci-hub? I assume you cannot start torrenting from your home in Texas without getting into problems. Do you get a seedbox? You are in a state like China or Russia?

Getting these > 70 TB to a residential address does not seems easy.

Leverage just set the ceiling, then you enter on offer and demand kind of world. Software developers just have it good in 2021.

Also, if OP lives in a low income country, he has better options to sell himself compared to a doctor, normally constrained to the local market.

Are there good Dutch tomatoes out there? I associated them with the worst tasting produce and avoid them like the plague.

I have bookmarked the second link long time ago. Incredible resource, thank you gov.uk

It is that or a low paid but cozy government job.

This is one of my main gripes with MtG. It just feel like a scam, a 90s loot boxes situation. I do not want to contribute to the business model, even if the product is solid.

I will probably sell my collection and print some proxies.

My father got online in his 60s in ~2000 for business reasons. Email, video-conference, banking, auctions, etc.

Today he gets confused every time Outlook or another provider changes its interface. He is losing control and making himself vulnerable to scams.

> isn’t proof that authoritarian central planning isn’t worse

All advanced economies in the world today are mixed economies. One can point USA or China as two success stories (in their own way) and argue for years about what is best.

> It’s a business owned by the People’s Army of Vietnam.

I do not know anything about Vietel and how they will operate. Would the population be served better if it was privatized? Because I can point plenty of failures of the so called "free market capitalism" that is so perfect that never exists if it fails, as proponents of communism do with "communist" countries.

Would Swiss be better serviced with private trains like in the UK? Would the UK citizens would be better serviced with private healthcare like in the US?

> One can still acknowledge, however, that some approaches lead to this result much faster.

Agree, but there is plenty of nuance on it. A vocal proportion of HN likes to throw around some blanket statements about state institutions, tax, and societal issues... that are questionable at best.

> that use institutions and public resources into either weapons or sources of self-enrichment

I think this is not a good example. Look at the situation right now with the military-industrial complex in the USA, or the lobbying problem. The independent courts and NGOs are muted or are not very effective.

No.

Also there are similar drinks in other places the world (often much older than Baileys), maybe not with whiskey but brandy or other liquors.

There are plenty of reports of:

- Amazon predatory pricing

- Amazon trying to mistreat their workers (including AWS) as much as they can

- Amazon/AWS copying products, FOSS software, and messing up with companies that they invest into.

- Their complicity with all the scams going on their store.

- And a big, big etc

But, but, Amazon is not AWS! Amazon is retail and is a different environment! Yes, but it is under the same people.

Note that in Spain most immigration comes from Latin America, and they can get the citizenship after only two years, so they disappear from the immigration statistics quite soon.