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2 things with that survey:

1. It said American cities had fallen because of dollar weakness, which means it sounds like they're comparing based on exchange rates instead of purchasing power parity. Obviously for people paid in dollars in those cities, a weaker dollar doesn't make anything cheaper.

2. A lot of those expensive cities, especially in Europe, have much better social services. So Oslo may be very expensive and taxes sky high, but families there aren't worried about how to put their kids through college or how to pay for medical expenses.
What duties would you have that would cause a conflict of interest that aren't already against the GDPR? It seems that's the only situation where there would be an issue.
This looks great. Looking forward to the coming parts.
I'd like to see a transparent ledger for software releases, to make targeted malicious update attacks detectable.

Similarly, pinning the hash of the index resource for a web site using a transparent ledger could let web apps be as secure as native apps with auto update.
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Most people here use it as a test of whether you are from Amsterdam. You can tell the locals because they're the ones weaving their bike through the crowd at zebra crossings. I am definitely guilty of this but I use my discretion - because I know the area I have a good idea of how busy it is at which times at which lights. That's why locals do it but tourists shouldn't.
> it just doesn't make sense to me for a startup to try and grow there.

When you have access to limitless amounts of capital that prefers to deploy that capital in it's backyard, then yes it does make sense.
Rule #1: Never install new copper in the outside plan.

That being said, there are companies specializing in installing fiber cables into sewers. They use tracked robots to install steel bands inside the pipes that keep the fiber cable in place. It's not cheap, but it is cheaper than ripping open the streets in a city.

There are also techniques to install fiber cable into water pipes.
And that's why the ACLU is still working to make regulation of this rule and how it's assessments work more fair. It wanted changes to the risk assessment tools in the bill, but didn't get that. What I think the various California ACLU groups (there are three of them actually) groups wanted data collection, independent risk assessment service agencies, and better due process for those facing negative bail decisions.

Anyway they are going to try to get changes to tweak the law, probably try to do their own assessments of racial bias, and I expect they'll sue locally for specific county level changes that are allowed within the law.

I think we'll get there. We know that existing risk assessment tools tend to overestimate black and latino people reoffending and underestimate white people, and if they can show a systemic bias they'll have ammunition to change things.

Getting rid of the bail industry is huge though, especially getting rid of lobbying from them against this in the next round. I'm hopeful that this will be a step forward, and allow for another step forward.
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Maybe, but then I'd argue this story proves the hurdle is way too big, if it ends up people asking psychiatrists for back pain diagnosis. Instead, why not ask them to explain the need for the chair, in writing, to the HR or procurement department? But then I guess outsourcing the decision - and all the related social risks - to doctors is safer.
I don’t think you’ve really internalized how completely fucked the American education system is. Always assume the worst about it.
It can be an awesome experience om many drugs to share it as a couple. then again e.g mdma can be used for many things. Shulgin's (creator) wife used it a lot and said it was great for reading on.
>I doubt the current crop of engineers working on things like GMail refresh are anywhere near having that kind of skills.

They must. GMail has 1.2 billion users.
Burger King stops advertising on Tv and loses even more market share to McDonalds. McDonalds then spends less on advertising because it realizes it doesn't need to because Burger Kind gave up. You're left with a "monopoly", McDonalds whose shareholders/top management make even more money, rather than it being redistributed to employees of Burger King.
If you buy in to Yuval Noah Harari's narrative than the limiting factor has been and is flexible cooperation within group, at scale. It is what out highly developed sences of politics and religion are for. Its what money is for, caste systems, popes, grand admirals, corporations and premium fashion brands.

In any case... a lot of traditional "bullshit jobs" are about. Middle management. Lawyering, reporting, coordinating, administrating, bureaucratic procedure management....etc.

Maybe we should think of these as extremely inefficient ways of solving that neverending "problem" of flexible cooperation in large groups. Even though the low hanging fruit is gone and the marginal efforts are extremely inefficient... throwing resources at bottleneck is ... to be expected.

Just a thought. Not sure that I'm convinced myself. I think it might explain the chair rule though.
They’re also not admins.
> I don't believe BS jobs are prevalent in the private sector

> As a manager
I asked at DEF CON about these, but they said they were not the same as the Titan. Hardware looks to be the same, but they may not have the Titan firmware, but rather the original Feitian one. I...don't actually know how to verify that claim though.
A company can do what it wants but when it decides to fight for one cause then it's ignoring others by definition or it won't be in business for long. You claimed you can fight for more things at once I am saying you can't fight for all things and thus you will be ignoring some by favoring others.

In this case, it's especially absurd as those companies that are most vocal about supporting ex "gay rights" didn't have the problem to begin with.

And no it's not addressed and you are setting up a strawman.

No, it's like saying. Let's make sure the kitchen has a fire extinguisher only for gay people. That's what you are saying and that illustrates exactly the problem here.

What about the fat? the ugly? The introvert? the short, the stutters etc. That's why fire extinguishers are for EVERYONE not just one type of person.

You don't have to advertise that you are cool with gay people to be cool with gay people that's the point.

You don't have to celebrate gay, white, black, Hispanic, straight, man, woman to be cool with any of them.

And that' brings us back to the beginning. You don't have gay rights, you have human rights. Unless you don't subscribe to being a human which would be odd then you don't have rights I don't have. You don't have your own fire-extinguisher in the kitchen. But the reality is that today that's exactly what's happening and that's sad because life is complicated for everyone, not just gay people or minorities.
Well, the article is not deliberative, it's polemics. Polemics has a point, it raises awareness, just compare Stallman's attitude to Linus' practicality (it helps if you turn out to be right), but there's sufficient awareness of the libertarian viewpoint already. So I wish they'd just stop, they are tiresome.
This is why the bank where I work developed its own OCR software (and translation and entity recognition, etc.). It simply couldn't afford to have these kind of leaks.
Even a single cable in the sewer can require digging up the street if the cable causes an obstruction in the pipe.
"Consumers wouldn't be spending if they didn't have extra cash in their pocket, and they expect the economy to stagnate/decline"

Debt, leverage, credit cards, loans, home equity lines, etc.

Perhaps 2007 is a great teacher about overleveraged consumers "spending money in their pockets".

It wasn't real, sustainable, and ended terribly.
It's the former; you have to log out or open an incognito window to see the tweets of someone who blocked you.
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Although not mentioned, I'm also seeing a split between startups as defined by YC: VC-funded fast-growth vs. startups who are comfortable with a slower, smaller path resulting in a bootstrapped lifestyle company. If you don't want VC money, then the downsides of SV simply aren't worth the trouble.
exactly what happens in my Changa trips. hundreds of conversations play out, or someone ends up in the mothers womb feeling her love or many other scenarios often relating to memories of the past. afterwards forgiveness or some issue seeming less of an issue, or just being in the moment more happens. cured my stress, ended my years of heavy marijuana abuse. saved a friends marriage. according to his wife.
Well, prepare yourself to be surprised launching in the US as there are also state laws, like in California [0].

And US government is actually working on it too [1]

[0] https://www.cnet.com/news/californias-new-data-privacy-law-t...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-privacy/trum...
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The reason they didn't leave sooner?
The "Beehive Effect".

Paul Graham said it in one of his essays, Steve Jobs in an interview.

Essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html
Interview: https://youtu.be/PinOL79U2bg
An interesting project would be to consult with cultural anthropologists and create a localization library for names. That way once a person selects the appropriate country we can just consult the localization for name formatting and cultural taboos then validate based on that.
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Yeah, but you have to be following the car in front of you at a distance that takes into account your reaction time and the actual braking distance. This time, the guy slammed on his brakes because of a yellow light which is maybe not a good reason... but it could have easily been someone running the red light, some kid running out into the street after a ball, the car's wheel flying off, etc.
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Average rent in SF is $3,442. If you want it a bit fancier we're talking about $4,377 for a two bedroom appartment. [1]

In your 150k example you're using 1/3rd of your salary just for rent (assuming you get 150k, net).

[1] https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/sa...
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>>you mean 'real work' as 'producing something', but 'creating the circumstances in which others can produce something' is also work.

The thing is its always easy to see who 'produces something'. When you start talking about 'creating the circumstances', you trigger of a chain of helpers, who help helpers, who ... and so on. Until you arrive at a point where there is a whole hierarchy of people sitting just to approve things, keep records and pass memos.
>Government mandated social security is an extremely inefficient way of managing health care.

Yeah, just look how efficient the US healthcare system is: https://www.economicshelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tot...
Every time I come across a mention of videotext I'm reminded that marketing-friendly industry buzzwords are nothing new. "Video" was the era's token tech buzzword. Videotape, videotext, Video Hits 1, "video dialtone" (a form of internet-like, cable operator-provided services that never took off), an entire pop song called "Living on Video" and another one called "Video Killed the Radio Star."

Another note: videotext was the product of an era that figured out the future was easily-accessible information, but couldn't quite nail down that it wouldn't be provided in walled gardens at high expense.
yup. but young people in a culture where its quite common to do this every weekend are in a big risk not to follow that advice though.
No one is saying SV is going to evaporate. It's just kind of absurd, really, to think that it can contain the whole industry, or that it should even try. There's still plenty of underutilized space in the country. We don't all have to crowd into the same few cities.

edited for: typing before coffee.
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Always struck me as the sort of place they throw greenhorns into roles far above their pay grade after some cursory "training".
Not sure if that's the case but that's how it smelled.
No that's not, and I'm not playing on semantic. Laws are above any terms of use, regardless of what they might say. And not using the product makes you not bound to the terms of use, unlike laws which you have to obey at all times.
Ah, missed that.
It also depends on your definition of "tech." SV tends to self-referentially define tech as "what we do a lot of in SV" (i.e. web/social/mobile--plus infrastructure tech that comes out of that). There are a lot of other areas like biotech, fintech and even automotive (Tesla, Waymo notwithstanding) that are concentrated elsewhere.
Since at least the early 2000s, every few years, we get the "why companies are leaving SV" or "SV is dying" or "tech center is moving to X, Y, Z". Northern virginia was supposed to depose a while ago. Then it was Austin. And yet, SV is still SV. And the same reasons are given. High cost of living, income tax, etc as if SV hasn't been expensive for a while now and they recently boosted taxes.

You can almost set your clock to SV's downfall and of course the monthly "collapse of china" stories.

As long as tech's most valuable asset is human capital and as long as stanford and the universities in california, oregon, washington, etc produce top talent, SV doesn't have much to worry about. As long as california and its natural wonders and the magnificent pacific ocean is around, it'll keep drawing top talent from around the country.
Would some people watch TV all day? Sure. However, there are tons of people that are trapped at a desk for 8 hours a day browsing the internet and watching Youtube videos anyway. I don't see all that much of a difference outside of freedom. "Busy" in this context just essentially means must keep their butt in their seat for 8 hours. Giving people freedom with their time allows people to write books, make music, paint pictures, learn skills, create products, etc.

Is it all positives? Probably not. I could see issues with people isolating themselves with no requirement to go into an office. But personally, I don't think unemployment is worse than bullshit jobs. Being busy is not a good metric to go by. If I carry buckets of water back from the river all day, I'm busy. But that's incredibly stupid to do if I have running water.
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> Seems to me it comes down to the extend you think your job can be winged. For example a marketing research job. Because you feel your reports are not read by your superiors, you just make up stuff and think its BS. But you could also write very good reports, go up a higher level, ask your boss for better work, etc. The BS is mainly in your mind.

So a litmus test: what's the delta of impact on company performance between you making a lousy, half-assed job and working your ass off to deliver best results? If the answer is "not much", then your job is most likely pointless. The person spending 80% of the time making cat memes is an obvious bullshit-job holder, but so is the "Senior Manager Pizza deliver car inspector" iff his inspections don't have a meaningful impact on health&safety.

(Then there's also an aspect of how people in general are qualified to do a job. Take my favourite pick, social media marketer/analyst - unless you are a good statistician and are working with decent data, your job is most likely pointless regardless of your efforts, by the virtue of you not understanding what you're doing, and taking inferences from random noise. But if you actually know what you're doing, you can probably make your customers a lot of money.)
The premise was not having ads at all, not one company giving up on ads.
That's.... extremely sensible. A lot like not allowing a market for human organs.
> Cyclists can go between 10 to 20 mph. Some faster ones can go 25 to 30 mph. On a city street, you have cars going between 20 to 30 mph. On other roads, they may be going up to 40 mph. Given typical speeds, you have a 0 to 30 mph difference.

Are you talking about cyclists or motorcyclists here? Racing bikes, recumbent bikes or e-bikes? Because regular cyclists do not get anywhere near those speeds.

Average cycle speed is about 15 kph, which is approximately 10 mph. 40 mph is more than 60 kph. Muscle-powered cyclists might reach those speeds if they're professional Tour de France racers going downhill, and even then only the downhill experts.

Also, on highways you've got multiple lanes, allowing for easy overtaking.
Perhaps, as startups begin to solve average business problems in the current startup landgrab, those businesses exist everywhere and such startups can exist regionally.
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They also hire contractors for external validation. Their internal team knows they should do X, but they won't get buy-in from management until an external contractor comes in and tells the company needs to do X.
this reasoning doesn't work. most jobs aren't created by politicians anything like directly, and companies have direct incentive to not be wasteful in their spending. I'm of the opinion that it's just a failing of management, which is hard.
The driving force is selling more everything, by not just tracking how many eyeballs are looking, but also what they're looking at.
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so known so people use additional things to avoid it. personally i'm also very affected by the comedown. whatever makes everything feel great comes as just a big price in the other direction. this is also the reason that perhaps stuff like depression might make it feel even worse.. and only solution would seem is to do it again more regular.
For 50$ I don't really see the point in this, Yubikey already asks this much.

I'll probably wait out for the FIDO2 upgrade on the u2fzero...
> Companies are paying them for the security. Otherwise, there are cheaper alternatives to Slack with somewhat similar features.

> Slack could allow custom clients. But I'm pretty sure all major customers will require their employees not to use un-official clients for security reasons.

Is security really a client side thing? Obviously I understand stuff like key logging and such in a malicious client, but how would somebody using a custom client affect another user's security with an official client? I mean if it would, wouldn't that be a horrible situation anyway from security point of view?
I had to cringe there a while ago, when a customer came back from a conference said he was talking to xyz CEO who told him "it's just a CRUD app" and how could it possibly be so difficult, and then proceeded to hand me his requirements in video presentation format.
Correct, but it's still promoting excessing borrowing, which causes price increases. The "other people" now becomes future-you: "throw away your retirement to pay for overpriced colleges".

Cash subsidies are usually bad, because the cash gets siphoned off by monopolists or near-monopolists. Instead the government should be directly purchasing and distributing in-kind, and using its power to negotiate a good price. This is how Medicaid works and how public colleges work.
> spherical wheels

This is our chance to get ball-wheels on cars. Imagine having 4-wheel 360 degree turning!
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One proposal, developed by American economist Bartley Madden, is "free-to-choose medicine."

Physicians are extremely serious about medical ethics, and lawyers are very conscientious about conflicts of interest. What is wrong with the economic profession, that they talk and talk without any real-world considerations. We saw why Theranos tried to sidestep FDA authority, and with that experience fresh in mind that fellow wants to abolish efficicacy testing. Here, have some homeopathic globuli!
its quite common to buy these things separate and mix it. we call it candy--something
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>The thing with these stories is that they won't happen to you.

> If you're employed by a tech company you have great health insurance.

So it will happen to you if you are laid off and happen to become sick after that?
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interesting, first time I hear that. There are definitely such adapters available on the market. So they are all violating the spec?
That died out in the 1940s, as I recall. It never made it to TV, not even on the Red Skeleton Show.
I did this one time as a joke, the other person hung up immediately. I only figured out weeks later it was a good friend I hadn't seen in ages who had happened to be in town that day and had wanted to get together.

They were ... not very happy when we realized what had happened.
I don't especially see it as declining or it necessarily being a big "cause for concern" in spite of a lot of the dysfunction. As you say, northern California is attractive for a lot of reasons only some of which have to do with the concentration of VC money and companies flowing from it.

That said, I actually think it's healthy that there's an increasing dispersion of tech whether new startups or outposts of existing large tech companies. Even if you don't believe in remote work, once a company gets past a certain level of scale it really doesn't matter if the group focused on X is colocated with the rest of the company.

Speaking personally, I'll also say that among people I know I've never run across so many who have left, are leaving, or are thinking of leaving the Bay area as I have over the past year or so.
Build this into a LineageOS release and it would make targetted software replacement quite a bit harder.
Thought it would be thankless work that mightn't be worth bothering with.
I'm not criticizing competition itself. It's wasteful, but it's also necessary because this is how we solve resource allocation problems - we're too dumb to do it directly, so we use market dynamics to implicitly compute it for us.

I'm criticizing runaway negative-sum games. Like where companies are competing for a fixed-size market - any marginal effort to win more of the market will be cancelled out by equivalent effort of the other party. The end result is the same, only both companies just wasted money fighting.
Look at the patterns in the body. A seasoned engineer can certainly make do with what he's got.
This is cool. I miss when GitHub used to automatically list the open source projects I contributed to without having to pin them manually.
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> I’m arguing against comparing mdma with ecstasy pills

Which is pretty terrible itself, powders and crystals can be just as adulterated as pills. Relying on sight and taste to tell what you've got is very unreliable.
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Would Li-air batteries be advantageous in this regard if they get them working?
This is why I'm always a bit wary of using Markdown for technical documents, Markdown is just too simple and you end up having to add on all these non-standard extensions to make it halfway usable. Add on to that the fact that Markdown isn't formally specified and has a bunch of ambiguities in what is specified, and I just feel like it's more trouble than it's worth.

Maybe I'm being unfair, this project does look very well done (the LaTeX integration in particular looks much better than most Markdown flavour's manage), I just don't really see what it improves on over something like AsciiDoc.
Answering questions from a top down thinking, bordering on the existential, but still tangible:

- What am I doing with my life

- Why am I an employee

- What is the point of this?

- What is my plan?

- What is my strategy?