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To what degree are we seeing team or organization veterans making less than new hires? I’m sure it happens but am curious about the extent to which it’s the norm.

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It’s a complicated problem, right? Many of these places lack significant opportunities which causes the young to leave and things to get worse for everyone stuck behind. I’m uncertain what a good solution might entail. At some level these places need to change so they’re attractive places to live.

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I think a major challenge facing smaller employers in 3rd tier cities is that there’s a finite limit on growth. Everyone can’t be an SVP at a 15-person company that does oil changes and sells tires or a regional accounting firm.

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I mean the advancement system for white collar work is pretty clear: move to a new role every 2-5 years. The only folks surprised are longtime management at companies who don’t seem to understand the game.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Love it! Needs mechanisms to pull players in to resolve emergent game crises.

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What’s up with these AI videos of a mom and daughter pumping up a life raft before a tsunami?

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Are any neoclouds offering genuinely compelling side offerings beyond capacity?

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Very cool thanks for building!

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think a lot of people just don’t reboot devices anywhere near enough anymore. A once-or-twice-weekly reboot keeps memory leaks away.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I went to a very average US state school (smaller than anyone is thinking) and it’s still better rated than a lot of non US national universities.

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It’s bait for their readers.

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I love LED bulbs! I hated changing incandescent bulbs and never liked CFLs because they were too blue.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Nope, he just mistakes valid criticism for being cancelled.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Their market cap is what $6.45bn? They’re already worthless, they just don’t know it yet.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

These people are just unfamiliar with how the world actually works. Rather than engaging with primary sources, they watched TNG which formed the basis of their worldview.

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

People owned different clothes AND fewer of them.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The majority of college degrees are not job training. I have a philosophy degree and have spent my entire career working in engineering departments as an engineer. My education’s value wasn’t in securing a job as a philosopher, but rather in teaching me a structured approach to thinking.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

US datacenters have been near capacity for a couple years now—and that was just hosting on prem infra for companies too small to build and operate their own datacenters. The AI boom hasn’t helped but conventional usage wasn’t static.

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s a pretty solid indicator of how those people drive.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The *vast majority* of Americans know less than nothing about politics. This includes “Americans interested in politics.”

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I still don’t understand the datacenter concerns. They very much seem dominated by a few edge cases like xAI’s Colossus sites.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I always assume anyone who says “a thousand years” in this way is a Nazi.

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Unfortunately populism doesn’t lend itself to competency. There’s no serious way of boiling society down to “the good/pure people” and “the bad/corrupt elites” it’s just more complicated than that.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Classic build vs buy risk. If you build it you own it, no matter how much you wish it isn’t so.

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I wonder the degree to which this is just a symptom of men who grew up working class getting white collar jobs and feeling alienated from the masculinity of their youth.

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

These figures are only accurate if you’re the type of terminally online high income person who doesn’t understand “much of what you see on social media is fake” because people are lying on the internet for clout.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some people just want to endlessly critique power.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tbh most people interested in working for the federal government are mission driven or interested in very unique work.

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Honestly I think the challenge is racism just presents differently in different countries/cultures/regions and thus the lack of cultural awareness means it doesn’t register for visitors.

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On one hand, games aren’t played off physical media anymore. On the other, having physical games is nice, it’s a fun way of showing off what you’re into!

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Americans have a hard time conceptualizing politics beyond the local framing we’re to which we’re accustomed. Many Americans, particularly on the left, will swear “there’s no racism in Europe” while the EU sinks boats full of asylum seekers in the Mediterranean—to prevent immigration.

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We need more state level funding for public university systems. The problem is voters at the state level have largely voted to reduce university funding. But I’d argue higher education costs are a complex issue with few silver bullet fixes.

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I think people’s views of “service sector” are also too narrow. The actual definition is “portion of the economy that produces intangible goods” but I think people hear “McDonald’s cashier or retail” and recoil.

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We’ve tried that and people said, “but I don’t want to retrain, I want to work in mine/factory!”

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

People have no idea how much it costs to manufacture in the US, especially if your whole supply chain is MiUSA. People say “I’ll buy American” but when it comes time to buy a $200 shirt or $1000 shoes, they don’t.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There are only two reasonable vehicle choices: Subaru Impreza hatchback or Porsche 911 GT2 RS.

Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What’s so frustrating about articles like these is that both liberalism and conservatism have answers for post industrial societies—but people in former industrial areas don’t want them. They want a return to the way things were which isn’t realistic.

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Jackson @jacksontech.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I don’t think most of the people making those memes are aware of the hukou system.