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It's a very multi-faceted problem. This[1] graph about the Chinese vs Western middle class is very telling. The world is equalizing due to globalization, and as they say, equality feels like oppression (in this case depression) to the privileged.

There's also the fact that as urbanization continues, real estate in big cities will keep raising in price. People will see real estate more and more as an investment. This completely chokes the housing market since everyone overpays, everyone thinks 'fuck you, I want to get mine', housing becomes unaffordable for starters.

Then there's automation which also hits the middle class a lot. A lot of jobs are cheaper fulfilled by manual labor than automation, and difficult jobs are yet out of the reach of machines.

Add to that the fact that ever more wealth keeps getting stuck at the top (especially the 0.1%) and its a very bad cocktail.

A good beginning to fix it would be an inheritance tax of 100% with a cutoff at ${million} (1 million? 10 million? whatever is reasonable but doesn't give your kids a crazy advantage). Assets would count towards this. Right now we're in a sort of pseudo-feudal system where once you're over a certain amount of wealth, your family/kin is set for life. I'm not against working hard and leaving something for your kids, but there should be limits.

A negative income tax (a sort of basic income light) would also help, as there would always be a proper fallback should you ever have bad luck. It also moves a lot of leverage from employers to employees.

Cities (especially big cities) should no longer seek to extract the maximum amount of tax per piece of ground (resulting in only expensive developments) but should have policies that aim for maximum societal gain: this means building housing to the exact class percentages of the population. 10% rich, 40% middle class and 50% working class in the country? That's what cities should aim for.

Universities should be public and admit students purely on merit. No legacy systems, no positive discrimination. However, I am okay with limiting foreign students (say 10-20% max).

Even with all these things I am probably missing a ton of pitfalls. As I said, its an extremely complex, multi-faceted problem.

[1]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1564426/original.jpg
> You just completely changed the subject

How so? The OP said that by 2040 there wouldn't be ICE vehicles on sale and the reply we're on remarked about the need for dramatic improvements in battery. I stated that I felt charger availability and battery degradation would be limiting factors. We're discussing charger availability and two of the key factors to availability are infrastructure and cost.

> So, apparently, you don't understand how people who currently own electric cars & can charge at home do charging.

> Also, I hope this is a good illustration of why you should not tell other people on HN that they don't understand something.

I think you should heed your own advice because as I stated before, I own an electric car, charge from home, and don't have a L2 Charger.

> I've had several friends who've had to go back and forth a few times with their electrician to get a L2 charger installed at their house.

Are you implying I didn't try hard enough to get a L2 Charger? I can get one installed, I haven't and you have literally no idea why nor have you asked.

> I live in an apartment, and after 3 years of lobbying, my complex installed a charger.

That's great, what happens when 10 tenants at your apartment all buy EVs? Do you have to petition for another 3 years to get additional chargers installed? Or does your complex implement fines to encourage sharing? The parking deck at my office has 4 spots for 2 chargers and charges you $20 if your car occupies a spot for more than 4 hours because the demand exceeds the capacity and they're not about to shell out for additional capacity.

Things like requiring new construction to offer chargers is great but it will only take us so far. How many L2 or DC Fast Chargers can be supported by the transmission lines being installed with that new construction? As soon as 50% of the parking spaces in that new construction demand access to chargers there will be a reckoning because the cost to install the necessary equipment will be significant. Eventually we're going to run into a situation similar to what happened in Australia with solar deployments, the demand for charging stations will put such a demand on the grid that a moratorium will be imposed.
> scientifically proven by medical science to lead to mental health-type symptoms.

Which vitamin or mineral deficiency leads to psychosis? (With a link to this scientific proof please)
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>> I'm surprised the cut-throat world of registrars don't compete on this.

How many people go looking for that though? For most people my guess is people go shopping for CHEAP first, EASY second, maybe LOOKS GOOD third, and some where down that list is "much more secure". I hate to say, I rarely go looking for the more secure option of anything.
Accelerating it is exactly what makes it more humane. You now have 3 months to find another job instead of immediately losing income.
Also, it's good to remember what 'marginal rates' are. I always say, if you want to argue as if marginal rates are the base rate, let's ask your accountant if they'd like to adopt your line of argument. I daresay they'd have a pretty clear idea of what's at stake.
Do C++ developer have more salary?
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This leads to people who are sick finding out before they are fired, that they are fired. Happened at a client's place a couple years ago, they letting go of all the senior sysadmins, killed their credentials, then fired them. 2 of the admins were out sick, and they lost their email, and their access to the monitoring tools.

When the employees came in, they were escorted by "guards" to get their stuff, and not allowed to say goodbye to anyone. That said, they were allowed in the next day as a guest with no issues.

Company's assume the worst of people so they put in all these policies and procedures instead of treating adults like adults. If the adult decided to delete something. Charge them with a crime. I would go ahead and guess that no one that was laid off in that time would have done something so brazen.

Last I had lunch with any of them, they were doing better in their new gigs. More money or freedom.
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Excellent follow up!

I know a few product managers who think that managing a technical product can be reduced to entries in a backlog... and features are somehow separate from the technology that drives them. What the miss is... Technology "IS" the product.
I can honestly only appreciate this comment as a form of sarcasm ?
If instead you were serious please consider the following,
our understanding of psychiatry is constantly evolving and psychiatrists are trained MDs, please don't confuse badly trained psychologists and the pharma industry trying to pump you full of drugs and nutritional supplements, with the science of psychiatry.
> So that's the real ethical question involved here: do you go to Apple and get your $50-200,000, knowing that Apple will give you credit for the bug, let you talk about it at the next conference, and seems to care enough to try to fix these things quickly...

> ...or do you sell your bug to a group that resells it to some government which then uses it to try to spy on people like Ahmed Mansoor, "an internationally recognized human rights defender, based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and recipient of the Martin Ennals Award (sometimes referred to as a “Nobel Prize for human rights”)".

Selling the bug to Apple or some black hat group is rather a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. If you sell it to some exploit vendor, it will have the ugly consequences that you outlined. On the other hand if you use Apple's bug bounty program, Apple will use this information to lock the golden cage even tighter on its users - a consequence that I would also strongly avoid.

So I can understand that if it is a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea, you will sell it to the best-paying buyer. On the other hand, if I could be sure that Apple will never ever not use the provided information to lock the golden cage on its users, I would accept your reasoning. As it stands now, I won't.
Although there might be opportunities for beach-front surf shops on tropical Baffin Island, good luck getting customers when the rest of the world has gone to hell.
This is very troubling, despite this good outcome: here is an extra level of active surveillance and 4th Amendment erosion.
"Some people need help to learn what foods to eat properly because their parents never taught them how or they just have bad eating habits."

You don't need a nutritionist to tell you to stop eating junk/processed food. All other diet advice are pure b.s. as there's no scientific answer to what "a proper diet" is. What is "healthy" and what is not changes on a similar rate as weather broadcast i.e. see a recent turn on fat.
this is something that my bank is testing on its users now, whether I need to confirm the transaction or cancel my automatic deposit prolongation it asks me to make a photo and send it to them for confirmation, which takes them in average 5-10 minutes. Though it is not a ver comfortable way for an end-customer, I guess some kind of biometric authentication/confirmation will take place as soon as a user will tolerate that.
Even without abandoning a generally capitalist framework you can impose restrictions on what corporations can do. Even among countries with a capitalist system the American system is unique in how easy it is to fire people.
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I think it is that when investors invest, they expect you to use their money to grow quickly. You can't just sit on the money and grow at the same rate.

That means you end up getting huge offices, loads of employees, etc. It becomes a gamble that your product will be successful at a huge scale rather than a natural growth from a small scale. If it fails you still have the hundreds of employees and massive rent, but no revenue.
Aerospace and defence too.
Interesting, thanks.

We have a small fridge in our small kitchen which will need replacing soon as the door has gone rusty underneath and the seal is beginning to go.

It used to be a standard size of fridge but they're all wider and deeper now (maybe to allow thicker walls for better efficiency - the internal dimensions are often no bigger) and we can't find a name brand model to fit in the space, only cheap budget brands. So it's good to know that a cheap fridge can be just as good.

Meanwhile, our other name brand white goods have needed replacing after 2-3 years each. It's impossible to find anything with a decent warranty. Strange to remember that my parents' fridge, cooker, washer, drier when I was a teenager were all older than me.
This may be different in Canada, but in the US if a company is owned 100% it makes more sense to have it taxed as an S Corp. In that case all "distributions" are salary that is taxed as ordinary income.

This is done because even though the income tax rate is high, it is lower than getting double taxed (paying corporate tax rates plus playing capital gains).

So generally if a company is owned 100% by one person there are no distributions. This means for a company like this equity has virtually no value and profit sharing is a far better deal for everyone involved.
What game did the bot play?

How was your variance?

Did you use an established framework? (I know at least the one popular one existed a few years back)
>>You get unemployment but it's administered at the state level and in most states it caps out at under $800 a month, but it's been a while.

My state is 50% of your pay upto ~$1,500 a month, this seems to be about the average, i can find no state that under $800, the lowest is Mississippi coming in at $940

http://www.savingtoinvest.com/maximum-weekly-unemployment-be...

> A moderate mortgage is twice that.

That depends on where you live, using Mississipi as an example, the average home is $113,000 with a traditional mortgage the payment would be $576 no where near the $1,600 you caim is a "moderate mortgage"

In my area in the midwest the average home is closer to $150,000 however that still would not be a $1,600 mortgage

That would be about a $360,000 mortgage, almost double the national average home price

>>On top of that, US companies don't like hiring people who have been laid off.

This has largely been disproved as a myth or as out dated thinking, that may have been the case 20 or more years ago, but I do not believe that is the case today

>The US still hasn't gotten over it and it's been going on full force for 20+ years now.

The US still has not gotten over it but it has not "been going full force" for 20 years, far from it.

Government Intervention in the market, and various other factors masked some systemic problems, in the attempt to prevent more damage the government and other actors have simply band aided over the problems that are now a festering infection just waiting to be exposed
Another harmful effect is that overfunded startups are "zombie companies"; the traditional zombie is an old-school business propped up by a government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_company

However, an overfunded company that is propped up by investors can make competitors unprofitable. For instance, Uber giving out half-price taxi rides has been harmful to everyone in that business. (Of course Uber made a deal to only offer service in the NYC area in NY and ban ride sharing in upstate because Uber wouldn't want to waste half-price rides on people in Albany, Syracuse and Buffalo who won't help them IPO -- and they don't want competitors to emerge there.)
This is literally the Nuremberg defense: the crimes committed by the Third Reich were mostly legal under German law at the time they were carried out -- and in many cases refusing to carry out those orders would have been a crime under those laws.
"He's competing with the banks"

Canadian banks are horrid employers for software devs. I worked for RBC FG after having my first child -- e.g. time to get serious, etc -- and it was absolutely soul crushing. My pay was out of their bands so every year was a new middle manager making me and everyone else justify it, etc. They're always trying to replace you with either external solutions, or outsourcing. Peers at other banks have all the same impressions.

The Waterloo thing is just weird. No, not really.

And for what it's worth, of the programmers I've worked with, having spent years working downtown for both RBC and Bell, and then a number of smaller firms all through the GTA, the overwhelming majority live West of town in the "suburban hell". Increasingly pushing even further to Oakville and Burlington. Most prioritize positions to the West of downtown. And there is good food everywhere in the area.
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Thank you for a great idea for my next startup - an application to micromanage remote workers. It will be even better than office micromanagement since the boss will have a large screen where all the remote desktops will be visible and under control simultaneously and the boss will be able to assist remote developers get back on track should they ever consider taking any initiative or heaven forbid be creative. It will also make it much easier to spot activities that do not seem to be directly work related. I feel I'm really on to something :-)
Repairing and recycling are very different discussions. To my knowledge, recycling eletronics is no more a problem than it’s always been. Companies like Apple have pretty impressive recycling efforts.

And repairability? I don’t see the problem. If my iPhone breaks, I can go visit the Apple store, and they’ll take care of it. Having third-party repair services for some so tiny and complex is just a recipe for warranty problems and headaches.
I'll ad hominem here - hey, an article by the host of the "NYMag Sex Lives" podcast!
awesome.... doesn't appear they did anything to rectify the service disconnect, nor any of the other Spanish site that shutdown as a result.
This is going to be a Awk-world
All in the design. Don't like your service? Join another. Not a big deal to move - no belongings, just show up at another complex tomorrow night!

And options have to be a big part of it. Sign up for the pub-crawl package, or the comicon package, or join the swinger subgroup or whatever. Upgrade your appliance package, get a good kitchen or no kitchen at all. Need garage space - choose from the brochure from basic oil change to grease rack.

Cute vid by the way. But I always was suspicious of that song - calling a house 'ticky tacky' is bourgeois talk (oh look they can't even afford the best) which is at odds with the message.
Don't negotiate like that. Instead, just keep score.

If they offer you a homework assignment that you think is going to take some time, and they give you a week to do it, and you can do it on your own time, just do it. Stay positive and upbeat. But learn from the homework. is it trivial? Or is it related to the work you'll be doing?

If, however, they make you come to their office or be available for specific times, and they don't offer to compensate you for skipping your other job or obligations, take that as a sign that they aren't considerate. You could put that as a negative in the "core values" bucket.

But yea - don't demand anything during an interview. You may certainly ask politely, but don't demand. It's a two-way street. Even when you negotiate your salary, don't demand. Be firm, but be nice.
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How much does Soti pay? How do you know it's bad?
If you're equating 'management' with 'supervision' then it's no wonder you feel this way. All of our managers are non-technical and they really have no reason to be. Their skills are with people, process, and logistics and I wouldn't have it any other way. They have to deal with all the bullshit so I can sit in my office and actually do work.

You are supposed to be your management's bullshit detector. Sure, in an ideal world everyone in your office would be perfectly knowledgeable about all relevant topics but I would rather have management that's actually good at management, knows nothing about tech and knows they know nothing about tech over one that knows just enough to be dangerous.
1. I hope you don't actually think you should do this sort of thing to kids.

2. You don't seem to understand what ADD and depression are. They're vastly more serious and prolonged than the sort of candy-induced, momentary fit-throwing you're suggesting.
I've occasionally seen issues on one of my machines where applications would send out garbled audio until I killed the PulseAudio process and restarted the application (the latter was insufficient alone; PA had to be killed). Hasn't happened lately, though, and it might've had more to do with the application.

I use Slackware, which tends to be more conservative about these things; the fact that PA is now the default in Slackware is a good indicator of PA having overcome its growing pains.
Unfortunately this article is totally useless. A non-technical manager is going to read this:

> When someone on your team says…
>> “I’m making a generic version of…”
>> “I’m creating a framework to…”
>> “It’s platform independent.”
>> “I’m adding this to make sure it’s future proof.”
>> “I really need to refactor this bit…”

and then assume that they should fire anyone that mentions these words. In reality, it's always dependent on context and the article specifically does not talk about the technical details that non-technical managers need to learn, in order to judge these situations correctly.
I mean, almost by definition and in ANY profession, most people will be average and good people will be scarce. If everyone was good, then everyone would be average and only the outstanding ones would be good.

So, I respectfully disagree. I think it's as hard to find good coders as it is to find good managers, good opera singers, or good baby sitters.
Show me how, then.
My solution was to replace the realtek with a $16 intel based wifi card. I spent some time trying to fix the realtek but ultimately my time is money.
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Then show me how, please.
> We don't just go around picking random people to become angry with.

There are all kinds of people and plenty in Linux community do pick up on people merely for not be deferential enough to authority. Or for asking question they find stupid (or don't know answer for). You can get flamed quite easily.

Not all, probably not you, but a lot of people there get quite aggressive quite easily.

> We like change just fine if it brings improvements.

I personally know people who get outrages over changes whenever change happen. Maybe not you, but you are not everybody.

> All of the anger is caused by technical reasons.

No, not all of it. A lot of it is cause by arrogance which is not technical reason. You don't need to know someone personally to get that feeling. A certain amount of the anger has faulty reasoning on itself.
I would say there should be a lifetime security warranty on all software. If you have a machine running Windows 98 Microsoft should still be providing security fixes. Note that this is just security, all other bugs are on you, as are device drivers.

I'm fine with saying that Windows 3.1 wasn't designed to be connected to the internet (it wasn't) so they are doing nothing. I recently got a recall notice from GM for a 13 year old car - they found a safety problem and it needs to be fixed even though the rest of the warranty ran out about 10 years ago.
Right but it's DRM free, multi format and all the proceeds go directly to the publisher.
Might give this a go as well. One other app I tried only allowed you to use pre-defined exercises.
People claimed to know what caused sickness, and how to cure it, for a very long time. They claimed to know how the Earth was created. They claimed to know the fundamental elements which combined to form all matter.

All of these pre-scientific theories were wrong. But we don't reject modern medicine, cosmology and atomic theory because of it. Humanity's history of doomsday predictions has no more bearing on the science of climate change than the former practice of leeching has on modern treatment of septicaemia.
Because enough people would still buy them at full price, and if you were willing to scam your way into a $5 ebook, at least you're paying something for it instead of just pirating it.

I always saw it as a way to turn pirates into paying customers, and the would-be pirates still felt like they were getting a good deal. It's a win-win.
Arguably, between AMP and Instant Articles, the original articles don't really count as "in play" anymore.

I doubt news is as easy to enter as you imagine. Google and Facebook are in it due to their dominance in search and social respectively. Both are arguably monopolies in their respective fields, and news distribution runs secondary to that.

I see where they're coming from, but it's also hard to imagine a legal framework that supports what they'd like to have here in the US.
>"In the study, the goal was to predict the probability of death (POD) for patients with pneumonia so that high-risk patients could be admitted to the hospital while low-risk patients were treated as outpatients."

So what they wanted to know is the POD|"No hospital" but they clearly collected data about POD|"Hospital" (since it included ICU admission, etc).

The problem is they measured the wrong thing and then misinterpreted their results. Worse, it looks like the study was designed to be this way!
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