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New comment by joinjune in "Looking Ahead to Postgres 19"

joinjune — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:09:14 +0000

Oracle = Pain, Suffering, High Costs, Litigation, and Human Misery. If it wasn't for non-technical middle management that likes the perks of buying high cost software from vendors that throw nice parties they'd be out of business.

New comment by joinjune in "In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough"

joinjune — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:29:37 +0000

Short term you might be right. Long term we have seen that western "education" results in declines in birthrates. Demographics are destiny.

New comment by joinjune in "Hillary Clinton Plans to Campaign Against Uber’s Contractor Economy"

joinjune — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 06:11:16 +0000

Uber will fight the laws for at least a couple of years and by then be half way through replacing the entire labor force with autonomous cars. This is a political tactic designed to get Hillary points in the media. She's smart enough to know it'll have little to no long term impact.