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Sure, I'm in much the same boat. I did my last programming in COBOL in the 1980s, and it wasn't even the main part of my job. I've made no effort to keep my knowledge current. I'm simply not a techie, if ever I was.
But reading Hacker News is always interesting, so here I am.
Plain corporate propaganda. Sorry, no. The harder you work, the harder you're expected to work.
Wisdom says, work hard enough to earn your wage, but remember everything that matters in life happens after hours.
Location: Seattle, USA.
Remote: Sure, and for a lower wage.
Willing to relocate: Probably not.
Technologies: None. I'm an office flunky mostly, but I'm good at it. It's actually the only thing I'm good at.
Résumé/CV: https://www.douggles.com/p/workwanted.html
Email: dougocotton@gmail.comUh, that's me. I didn't know it was clickable until reading these comments.
It is paranoid of me to envision conversations planning this, a conspiracy amongst corporations? I don't remember ever seeing prices rise so steadily, so quickly (and I am old).
https://www.itsdougholland.com/
Not at all tech-oriented. It's just me — a cranky, anti-social old man — and my opinions, about old movies, public transit, news, politics, my mom who gets on my nerves, and long-ago memories of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll.
For me it's just the paywall. I pay for my local newspaper, pay for the NY Times, pay for The New Yorker, but I'm not made of money and I know of nothing at medium.com worth paying for.
USA: Wisconsin.
I never met the guy. It's entirely possible he was a raging racist. I've read some of the papers in question, though, and while it's been some years and maybe I missed the white pointy hoods, I don't remember the racism in his writing, and I think the author at Scientific American has misread the work.
E O Wilson never said anything like "genes determine who's smart and who's dumb," which would be racist. He said something like "genes are a contributing factor," and fuckall, if that's racist then just pull the plug on science.