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I'm saying that if today there is one caretaker for one retiree, but tomorrow there's one caretaker for 3 retirees then caretaker tomorrow can easily demand a lot higher pay than today - he'll work for the highest bidder. Compound interest gains can be offset by this inflation. Similar localized inflationary pressures can be seen in SV where there is limited supply of houses and there are many highly paid specialists who generate demand for those houses.

Now translate demand for housing to demand for services, and low supply of houses into low supply of workers providing those services. Everyone around you is using compound interest, so relative to each other you have similar purchasing power to them. Now you compete with the same people for those services. It's the relative power that really decides whether you can afford the services or not. If the workers don't have to compete with each other then you'll spend all that nice compound interest chasing them.
Uh huh. Because I'm a moron.

Freedom Speeches™ is just like weaponizing the 14th amendment (equal protection clause) to protect corporations. I have to tolerate racists, pedophiles, rapists, thieves because corporatists have feelings too.

When we have to tolerate intolerance, everything falls apart.

"So, like, welcome to the legal arguments used by "whites only" restaurants and hotels in the south under segregation."

Uh huh.

Punching up vs punching down. It's about the power imbalance. These specious false equivalence arguments always ignore the context.

When Freedom Markets™ zealots (like Ron Paul) weaponize the Bill of Rights, it's in the service of corporations, not people.

Lastly, you're equating intrinsic traits (gender, ethnicity) with learned behavior (hate, intolerance). Nice.

PS- WTF is "deplatforming"? The SJWs definitely don't have a monopoly on learned victimhood.
I've got one: OF, BY, AND FOR THE HANGED MAN.

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I find it interesting where we as makers put our optimism and our pessimism. We post about space exploration and gene editing. We say "just wait for what humankind can do with this! Soon no one will have to have any disease, and space will be ours for the colonizing before some terrible massive event happens. It's inevitable with our abilities!" But when the suggestion arises that we slow down and imagine working with who and what we have, and trying to solution around our human and spiritual problems we have in the present, the tone flips. That's impossible, you'll never get people to do that. The masses are by nature lazy and combative and we might as well ignore it.

I think it comes from a competitive philosophy of life. Only some people are good enough to gift the world with their novelty and technology. Most people are fine in menial, alienating service jobs, they're just not good enough. This is inevitably how society works everywhere, and it has made people and life calm, fitter, healthier, more productive...
> Or maybe give the driver cash?

"Gross. Who carries cash anymore?" Future headline: Millenials are killing physical cash.

Jokes aside (as a millennial) this is not something I usually have readily available. I try to keep all my transactions digital but I may take money out just for tipping purposes.
This is a great example in my opinion of the apathy we need to combat as technologists.

Why did NO ONE in any meetings when designing this "feature" or process say anything?

"This is wrong/greedy/will have blowback."

No one voiced concerns? Or, more specifically, if they did, no one listened? They didn't think this would leak out, with all the hatred regarding wage stagnation, income inequality, corporate greed?

A marketing pro, PR specialist, or frankly anyone in touch with culture and human beings would have throw up a flare that this is a terrible idea.

What is going on with culture at these companies?
Always tip cash to service people.

http://tipthepizzaguy.com/
In a perfect world your fridge and vacuum would use BLDC motors and be happy with whatever dc or ac voltage you give them. As my washing machine already does.
In the US you can drop off burned out CFLs in recycling bins at Home Depot and Lowes.

However yes, most people don't know about that and just landfill them.
Nice write up.

At Thread we did a similar thing. Admittedly our codebase is ~10% as big, but incrementally adding linters for incompatible code, and keeping the CI green, helped loads. We only had about 2-3 days of engineering time to ship the final version, the rest was done in 10% time.
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The answer to that question is, "Yes, if your SMT solver has strategies that provide good results for the problem in question."

Unless you're implementing solvers or caught up on the particulars of a solver's implementation, the best way to gauge this is to try it.
This is my go to defense for "social justice reform" when pulling at the heartstrings doesn't work. There are a couple of truisms when it comes to the global economy for the next 100 years (barring major catastrophe):

1. The US will not be able to compete w/ India or China when it comes to population.
2. As low-hanging fruit in the economy is gobbled up, advanced economies will need to rely on highly skilled workers to continue growth.

Basically, America is going to have to get MUCH better at realizing the full potential of it's population in order to keep growing. That means investing in poor neighborhoods and undeserved communities, providing equal access and opportunity and removing as many barriers as possible to those who have been traditionally marginalized.

While many companies use "woke as a business strategy" the underlying economics behind the recent diversity push of major tech companies is backed by these facts.
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We are looking at the problem all wrong.

College Board, a for-profit private corporation, is the company responsible for administering the SAT/ACT which is essentially a college entrance exam. Its cost is non-negligible for a low income student and it can be prepared for with classes that once again have a cost that is non-negligible.

As the article states, colleges also have a profit motive and want to maximize their revenue. They are not incentivized to admit high-performing, low income students when they have a low probability of having their families donate prior to admission and just as likely have a low probability to donate after graduation. Remember that upward mobility is not just a factor of alma mater but also your network of high worth individuals that allows you to have the disposable income to donate.

So it's money all the way down. We can keep kicking the can further down the road and blame the next party. However I think it's worth stopping this issue with the employer. Outside of credit risk, the income of a potential employee is irrelevant if that individual is capable of handling the responsibilities of the position.

Yes, alma mater is a strong indicator of success and capability. However so is self-directed learning, examples of big fish in the small pond, etc. We need to further democratize free/low-cost education by investing in that infrastructure and content at the community level. Most importantly, we need to remove the stigma of not having a shiny diploma.

Employers need to also invest beyond the current employee and into communities to get these potential stars out of the vicious cycle of inequality.
Trust or not, you have to be insanely vigilant not to lose it to bad exchanges, extortionists, theft, automatic software like malware, losing a password, or media that destroys itself.

Those are widespread problems I even had bitcoin destroyed on a failed thumb drive.

Decentralization is a solution without a legally acceptable problem.
Theoretically if this guerillaclick@gmail gets popular, I'm sure services can just specifically block guerillaclick+anything@gmail right?
I’m from the South so Sir and Ma’am were ingrained in me since I learned to speak.

If OP was female they could easily correct the other poster. Thanks for you compliment I’m a female so it would be ma’am.

Edit: I removed a potion of my comment. Your post history gives me the feeling you are pushing your own agenda here.
So, the celebrities put their password in a post-it on their iPhone?
I'd say the vast majority of the global population is in the orange man bad category.
I don't hear as much about anything these days. I feel like it started with Rails, we had a run of years where new languages, frameworks, databases, platforms were coming out every day.

The last couple years have been much more ... boring in that respect. Things have consolidated into whatever the big cloud vendors want to support, and even their pace of innovation seems to be slowing dramatically, not too unlike cellphone tech.

k8s is probably the buzziest thing, but even that, I have trouble getting very excited about something primarily oriented around ops.
Drivers in New York are not poor or middle class. A majority of households in New York don't even own a car.
Because this rule is necessary for businesses to be able to invest on long term goals.
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As an end user, I'm happy that curators exist. Not talking about this "Fuck Jerry" individual in particular, but I follow many meme accounts that just repost stuff, and they are great value for me, because I don't want to, instead, follow thousands of creators and have to scroll through thousands of posts that aren't really that good.
Smarter people, perhaps?
This is just anecdotal nonsense, what factual sources do you have for this as it is completely contrary to my experience.
I have a simple answer: I will never use Instacart or Doordash again, ever. Even if they change their policy, they are dead to me as companies, and any company that acquires them is similarly dead to me.

If you're out there, upstart disruptors, know that pulling stuff like this will cost you at least one customer for life. I'm sure that there are more people like me.
A few other advantages of working remotely, at least in my view:

- less office politics

- no forced socialization, sorry but I have absolutely no interest in your private life while I'm working, I want to get work done and be done at 5, not pretend to be a busy body for the sake of it while having chats all throughout the day

- re. saving money, tax breaks are also a good incentive

- less personal but in my view as important: road decongestion/less pollution/etc.

As the author notes however, working remotely is not for everybody. Routine and self-discipline are extremely important, and a lot of people can't do that without being on site.
It's terrible, but really it fits what these businesses do fundamentally.

They provide a service, and and push as much risk off of the copany and onto their contractors as possible.

Slow sales? Contractor just doesn't get paid.

Injury? Contractor's problem, he's gone, who is next?

The idea that they'd dip into the pot further to ensure more money for the company isn't much different than the rest of the risk they put onto the contractors.

It's not right, but it is how these companies operate fundamentally.
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Corruption my friend.

Direct from a deployed friend's mouth:

"When laser printers would run out of toner on base in Iraq, we wouldn't order more toner (we couldn't) - we'd order another entire printer and use the toner cartridge in the new one, and shoot at the printer on the range."

Your tax dollars at work.
> Going from a Class A to an A+++ washing machine would save ~500Wh/cycle.

The major energy cost for clothes washing is heating the water. A rooftop solar water heater dramatically reduces energy use, often more than one would get from using the same space to install solar panels.

A front loading washing machine uses less water than a top loading one and will also use less energy for water heating.
Horrific, not surprising, but horrific. It’s a little slice of Niven-esque sci-fi hell, here and now. Still, while a crackdown on the groups that based their research on these organs is a must, I’m not sure that retracting the research is the way to do it. Suspend their licenses to practice, cut their funding and subject them to scrutiny, but if the research is good it should be agnostic as to the source.

It should be possible both to set an example which discourages this practice in the future, without the loss of the research itself.
It's surprising to me how much power enterprises have over every aspect of a business relationship. Our company was acquired by a Large Consultancy. The first thing they did was tell our (corporate) landlord, "We pay everything 90 days late, and we will not pay late fees. Period." And that was that. Anyone else trying to violate the terms of a contract would be told where to go but the landlord swallowed it without a second thought.
> But you should consider not trying so hard. Just doing your hours, dont volunteer to do extra, and figure out what you enjoy that makes you happy.

For me, my EGO sometimes gets in the way of what is best for me.

For example, mostly when I was younger, if I saw someone implement something or solve a problem that I thought I had a better solution for, I'd tell everybody. And then get stuck solving it myself.

I still fall into this trap even now that I know to look out for it.

Really this was me just attempting to appear clever, and in the process making more work for myself.

Not trying so hard is the rational choice. During the time that managers are getting together to stack rank us and decide on our bonuses, or even whether to lay us off, they are making cold rational decisions.

To me, workers should approach their job the same way. Think of yourself as a business of 1 doing business with your employer. If you work unpaid overtime, you are losing money. If you always go the extra mile and do all sorts of extra stuff, you are losing money.

A job should be an economic arrangement.

It's ok to be friendly and to do a little extra to retain their business, but going way beyond, that's like sharecropping.

Sharecropping is growing your crops on rented land. Sometimes it's inevitable, but in the end it's not your land you are working, but the employer's.
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That’s where property, gas, car, taxes etc come in.

All of the tax avoidance would be reduced by the company that had the lowest corporate income tax.
where is the lol emoji on here. I feel the same way. too many things in the house.
I replaced around 25 bulbs in my house with cheap Walmart "Great Value" LEDs just under 3 years ago and they've all been fine. Previously, I had replaced around 4 bulbs with Cree LEDs from Home Depot, and half of those were dead within a few months.

The Walmart bulbs without any special pricing were way cheaper than the Cree bulbs from Home Depot, but even better, there was some sort of automatic rebate or something like that in cooperation with the local electric company that made the Walmart bulbs $0.17. By "automatic rebate", I mean that the bulbs rang up on checkout at $0.17. No rebate forms to send in or anything like that.
Compared to the S&P 500 going back to 1996, Berkshire Hathaway is up 845% vs 257% for S&P 500. Is this not a statistically significant result? (Or is there another average I should be looking at?)
This is, however, not a valid way to treat email addresses in general. At a company the size of Netflix, maybe it’s reasonable - but not generally.

It might be better to look at solutions that actually fix the underlying issue - like requiring a login.
Malcolm Gladwell has a great set of Revisionist History podcasts on this subject.

Here's the first one:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-reme...
Sorry, but this article is junk science, at best.

Who is this curious voice in the field of nutritional science that singlehandedly dismisses decades of epidemiological science on nutrition and diet putting her at odds with virtually the entire scientific field, such as Harvard, (e.g., Framingham Study, Harvard Nurses study and the L-Carnitine Study), Oxford (dozens of longitudinal studies, such as the Epic Oxford Study led by Professor Tim Keys) as well as the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environmental Program, Lancet of course and many, many others.

”I became interested in nutrition after discovering a new way of eating that completely reversed a number of perplexing health problems I had developed in my early 40′s, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and IBS. This experience led me on a quest to understand why the unorthodox diet that restored my own health is so different from the low-fat, high-fiber, plant-based diet we are taught is healthy. It turns out that nutrition is not rocket science; if you understand how food works, it all makes sense.”

From the author's biography. Sounds solid.
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Making a simple link shortener with AWS and MySQL
New account + gratuitous namedrop of the product whose corporate blog is linked in the submission.
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For companies like Netflix that don't pay dividends, none of it is going to shareholders.
> Why did NO ONE in any meetings when designing this "feature" or process say anything?

Who's to say someone didn't? All we know is they decided to steal tips, not that everyone thought it was a great idea.
Does trenchers in this context mean that its a 'slice' of bread, from the French, une tranche?
In Germany, if you have less taxable income than tax deductions, you can carry that loss forward, too. It's a rare case, though, but it can save you several thousand when pursuing a second degree.
Why does the desktop client have one million lines of code?
So, solution to the halting problem: just kill anything that doesn't halt and return true?
Ah yes, that is a more relevant analogy.
This is how it works in America as well.
Instacart workers have urged customers not to boycott the company, which would cut even further into their earnings.
You should check out the tax havens in the US before complaining about EU. Wyoming, Nevada etc https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world...
Just tip $0 in the app and tip in cash, just like Uber / Lyft
I address that later in my comment...

Is this a function of schooling? MBA programs? Corporatism?
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That is an incredible amount of energy and I agree that it is worth trying to reduce, but I’m skeptical of adding numerous DC-DC converters to the chain. In the current state, it’s all passive devices between the turbine at the power plant and the smoke detector on the ceiling. I wouldn’t trade that reliability for power savings lightly.
Better yet, accept that these business models are a cancer, and refuse to support them with your custom.
Good. I don't understand why the federal government was subsidizing New York and California's insane tax rates.
If the average worker has any stock or index fund investments, that worker absolutely can take advantage of this (in the U.S.). It's called tax-loss harvesting - worth reading about here [1].

[1] https://www.madfientist.com/tax-loss-harvesting/
I'll offer a different take: Clojure is settled. It found its niche: a small/medium group of experienced professionals who like its practicality and power. There's a comment somewhere else in this section that Clojure devs are more experienced on average than JVM devs. I'd like to add another stat from the State of JS survey[0] that went out a while back. Developers who used ClojureScript had the highest salaries and most years of experience when compared to other compile-to-js languages.

This narrative makes intuitive sense to me. Clojure is not the most beginner friendly language. It goes harder on functional programming concepts than the popular scripting languages, which is a bit of a learning curve. The cultural tendency to prefer smaller scoped libraries to broader frameworks means puts more cognitive load on the developer, who has to decide which libraries to use and how to wire them up. But this is a positive attribute for a more experienced developer, who might have strong opinions on how an application should be structured.

[0] https://2018.stateofjs.com/
Individual workers are allowed to do this. In the form of deductions for various types of expenses such as medical and various other deductions.

But it means something different to make a wage and to make a profit. There are definitely loopholes to close in our busted tax system, I agree with that 100%. While we are at it we should eliminate all subsidies for various types of carved out businesses from oil to corn. But Characterizing loss calculations as a loophole I don't think is correct. If I'm not mistaken most corporate tax schemes in the rest of the world use similar concepts, it's a fairly basic accounting concept.
> This doesn't fully explain why humans don't want to have a lot of kids

Humans in (actual or perceived) stable social and economic environments with strong extrafamilial support systems adopt low-number, high-investment K-strategy, humans in (actual or perceived) unstable social and economic environments with weak extrafamilial support systems adopt high-number, low-investment r-strategy.

> kids are very costly in today's society,

Kids aren't (generally) nearly as costly for the people having lots of them in our society as they are for those having fewer, as a direct result of different child-bearing approaches.

> The answer to me is simple: we need to outsource child-rearing to the State, as shown in the novel "Brave New World" where children were made in factories and then raised by trained professionals.

In the short term, immigration works. If the whole world is ever developed to the point where K-strategy dominates to the point where maintaining population is a real concern, then, after the giant global celebration we should have for that accomplishment, setting economic incentives so that people with means to raise multiple children at the level society as a whole considered appropriate investment levels also have a rational incentive to do so isn't particularly hard. It's a problem we haven't solved today because we aren't anywhere close to having it, not because it's even a little difficult or requires some kind of drastic reform like you describe.