engineerworks's comments

How long untill we've rocksdb storage engine.

If he liked keeping quiet he wouldn't need asylum in the first place.

And many don't want these changes because they also want to make money before things change. This is one reason such change is not going to happen any sooner unless money stops mattering anymore.

The largest driver for economy in US is wars and dollar export.

Russia is also capable of this I guess.

Singapore, UAE, Malaysia, Switzerland

I work for an evil corporation which is harvesting data off gullible people who have no idea how their data is being used.

If there was UBI, I'd have stopped working for them altogether.

American, European, Arabs do routinely buy these exotic animals to keep them as pets.

But most of these are used for traditional Chinese medicine.

Not everyone has ability to figure things out on their own.

Why do you see people as possessing equal problem solving abilities and resources?

What will society benefit the most from? Teaching the people at bottom and bringing them to average or teaching the top ones and moving them to edge?

Because candy doesn't solve problems like makeup, garcinia combogia or other weightless gadgets do.

But imagine, if you are a VC and you invest in a Brothel then you risk your reputation etc...

But if you act like an advisor for Mr. Evil Money, then it's not you who is on the hook, right?

Basically, it means they want to do something more aggressive and risky and maybe the opportunities in VC space are disappearing.

I kinda think getting rid of the VC status is better than you can encourage investment in something unethical and risky without being on the hook because "we are just the advisors, it's the person with money who takes final shot with what they wanna do with their money"

I can see why it can help if the opportunities are shrinking in the legit space.

Maybe the winter is finally coming?

Not really as an engineer who had been in similar problem.

It's not that I am programmed to keep my head down and focus on technical stuff only and that I don't see the big picture and externalities of our actions.

Having a technical degree instead of humanity or philosophy doesn't make you less ethical. I'd bet a broke and uneducated person can be more ethical than me despite not having the technical education I possess.

I can see the ethical problems but when I raised them to the management.

Management acted like my friend and told me, look pal, there are many people in the world and we can't just think for everyone. You need to care about yourself and your family and we care about you. This is our group and we only care how much our group prospers (read: makes money) and we don't care about outsiders.

It's ingroup and outgroup politics here and it's much easier to sympathize with the people who are in front of you acting desperate to make money than those who you'll never see.

Then they bring their legal team, who assure me that this plan is completely legal, so we will not run into any problems!

Have you ever seen Wolf of Wall Street? It's much similar to that, we live in bubble where it's okay to do those things and no one around us judges us for that, so we feel safe and secure.

There is no one telling me that I am doing something unethical.

If you want to study this problem then go back to history and see how much unfair the world was and people who had it easy were pretty okay with all that.

I can choose to leave this job but it basically means being stripped of your status, income and group (which took years of hard work) and even then someone else will right? And I can move up the chain, some day I might do ethical work, system can only be changed from the top, right? It's easy to justify your actions to yourself this way and stay at the place.