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Federal minimum wage should be increased BUT probably not to something like $15, simply because the economies and costs of living of rural Kentucky are nothing like the economies of urban Seattle. Raise the Federal minimum wage in an amount that the poorest state can manage, but then give States room to implement any further increases to what best fits their circumstances. Edit: Or some formula that takes into account costs of living and size of economy.

I also think UBI is a good solution. For example Andrew Yang "Freedom Dividend" $1k per month UBI plan is like getting paid for working an additional 67 hours a month at $15/hour.
the bay is not lower end is it
To my eye, "I would if I could" implies "I don't because I can't."
It compeletely destroyed every bit of enjoyment I took from playing and finishing the game. Yes, I would have not played the game and actually do that regularly when it comes up, to tell people to not play (and to not buy!) ME3. It was that bad.
I think yours is a very reasonable argument. I guess in the end it comes down to preference: do we prefer a world with wolves in the forests, where farmers have to keep guard dogs an maybe loose some animals, or do we prefer one where there a no predators in the wild, intensive farming is unhindered, and we cull herbivore population through established quotas to maintain some equilibrium?
Universal Music Group is one of the most regressive and antisocial media organizations in our country. Please only consume their content with adblock or via piracy - any funds you give them will fuel their lobbyists work to make our nation's IP laws even more draconian.
Bizspark changed and is no longer available. I was in the last round when they shut down early.
Do you have an example of an improvement?

I mean if you use ad iv or img instead of a button how will the reader know that is a button?

Do you use the reader mode in Firefox or similar extensions? Have you seen webpages where it does not work or instead of grabbing only the content it grabs a lot of the advertising and other garbage? Accessible webpage would help people that use reader mode too.
Why do you think a company should be allowed to not pay a livable wage?
What does this have to do with SPAs specifically? Any of the usual suspects for versioning APIs (URL paths, headers, etc) should suffice, right? The SPA is just another client.
> Unfortunately I can't comment on legit shared hosts (e.g. Bluehost, Godaddy, etc.) because I generally try to avoid them.

Yeah, that's actually what I wanted to hear about. Heroku's $7/month adds up to $84/year pre-tax. Way too steep for my project. I also don't want to go near AWS since that's overkill for my project.

I did see DreamHost mentioned somewhere on HN today for $2.50/month. I'll have to check that out.
Studios, or with multiple minimum wage salaries? Or a lower end one bedroom home (turns out there's a range).

Other options include overtime or getting multiple jobs. And while it shouldn't be an option, unreported tips and under the table pay is also a thing and its likely impacting purchasing power of some of the people in the statistics. My parents were "minimum wage workers" for a really long time and made more than I made as a software engineer for the first half of my career in practice.
As with most collectibles, it's value is its distinctive.

Rare but otherwise correct coins or bills likewise carry a markup -- wheat pennies, buffalo nickels, etc.

Mistakes are usually scarce enough that their rarity is exceptional. Were currency errors commonplace, they would not be seen as valuable.

In 2007, the U.S. accidentally minted some Presidential dollars that lacked "In God we trust" [1] [2]. In good condition, one is worth a few hundred dollars.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/godless-dollar-coins-slip-throu...

[2] https://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/godless-dollars/
Lol!!!
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...and that's the economy working, where you can be run out of the city because a rich person wants your house?
In the worst case the same place other bootcamp graduates get their jobs.
$3.50/month sounds good. I'll have to look them up.
If you read the report, they define the rent prices for housing wages as 40th percentile of standard quality homes. Not bottom of the barrel but definitely lower than median across all homes. I think it’s a fair measure.
Do we need to handle those edge cases by mandating what employers have to pay ALL employees? Maybe there is a better way to help people in needy situations without distorting the labor market for everyone.
Minimum wage should provide a minimal lifestyle. Not penury, but perhaps a room in a shared accommodation. Why would the legally minimal wage support housing an entire family?
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Why do we need 50 year olds to work in the first place? We're automating more jobs than ever, and I don't even think I've ever held a job that actually had 40 hours of work to do per 40 hour work week.

We seem to be maintaining the idea that full time employment is necessary for life long after that's no longer been the case. We've arrived at a point and time where the productivity of every able bodied person is not needed to sustain us, so when do we start reaping the rewards of that?
> but look around next time you go out there are cameras _everywhere_

> You may not think those cameras matter, but let's be honest, many people have access to the data feed through those cameras. From the near-minimum-wage "security" guard (or loss prevention) employee to the corporate security teams storing the backed up footage.

yeah, this is a thought that has crossed my mind a lot the last couple years, and i find it really unnerving. i now consciously try to keep my typing out of the sight line of cameras, though i don't always remember to do that, and i'm sure there are tons of cameras i don't notice.
they also exaggerate by omission the number of people earning these wages, their ages, and the income of other family members.

the housing cost problem is wholly created by government and instead of working to fix it too many cities keep doubling down on making it harder to create new housing, affordable or not. combine the housing cost with the high costs of government services, licensing fees, and other regulatory fees, and the lower class is further in the hole.

one issue is there is no reason for politicians to fix this issue, it is too hot button to have a true remedy and worse is a fantastic source of income for patrons and relatives through various special interest groups which exist to absorb funding from programs supposedly working to solve the issue. instead end up raising legal challenges in exchange for pay outs either in direct settlement or advisement roles all of which end up pushing costs of solutions too high to implement.

Seattle only recently upzoned many areas of the city to permit building denser housing however they may end up sabotaging it through rent controls which have been shown to be another method of limiting new housing
The article starts out talking about median rents, but the data they use is based on something called Fair Market Rent. There’s a link in there explain it.
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Walmart's starting pay is $11 now, so they aren't even at minimum wage anymore.
Yes?

Supply and demand is basically the fundamental law of economics.
They aren't saying that --they state the minimum wage worker would have to work 122 hours to afford that. Which is three jobs.

I have first hand experience with this crisis. I live in a reasonably priced area and make (with my spouse) about three times the minimum wage and I can barely afford to live anywhere. Basically one large unexpected cost could sink us into homelessness.
Every problem has a solution that is neat, simple, and wrong.
unless there is a denomination...
All of those (except for the gluten) are already covered by the ADA though?
The problem is that people hold vaccines and "herd immunity" so dearly to themselves that they're afraid to accept that they have side effects just like any other medication. Gardasil (HPV Vaccine) for example is responsible for a slew of well-documented side effects (paralysis, GBS, etc) causing countries like Japan to stop recommending them. Add in it's inefficiencies at actually vaccinating against HPV and that the big risk of catching HPV is through an elective behavior and it's clear it shouldn't be mandatory.

Individual vaccines can be argued against their own merits, but unfortunately as you say the "Overton Window" is rife with people who are swallowing down opioids like candy and believe anything that comes in the form of a pharmaceutical is gold. The reality is most medications have extensive side effects, and vaccines are no exception. Unfortunately nobody can have an honest conversation on which ones are worth it and which ones aren't because of the uneducated stigma associated with the average anti-vax beliefs.

I'd cater that the same thing is the case with climate change. I read some comments today from people who unironically believe that humanity will be wiped out within 12 years. Al Gore said that 20 years ago and here we still are.

I'd advise people to be more open minded and try and convert the anti-vaxxers to the correct side. Of course you can admit that measles isn't so bad of a disease while still promoting it's vaccines, and surely that will garner more support than advocating strapping anti-vaxxers to a table and shoving a needle in their arm.
No, that's NIMBYist government regulation preventing the economy from working by building high density housing in a city that needs it.
People probably think this because they've given it more than the 30 seconds of thought that you have.
No. You don't make a building accessible by putting a sign on the front saying "wheelchairs not welcome", and you shouldn't make a web site "accessible" by gutting it of all content and functionality that isn't already accidentally accessible. This is at best a case of malicious compliance.
The obvious response to this is that the minimum wage is simply not supposed to be a sole source of income for a person living on their own.

The bigger problem with this particular article is qualifying affordable as less than 30 percent of income. That is a great rule in most situations. However, if you are on a limited income the percentage housing will be expected to be higher. It is one of the least elastic expenses, while things like a car or entertainment can be cut back or substituted for alternatives like public transportation. I don't know what the percentage should be, but 30% is unrealistic.

If you think about it, the opposite will also be true in many situations. If my income doubled from 100k to 200k overnight, I would consider upgrading apartments but from 1k a month to 1.3k a month. My food and entertainment costs would scale much quicker as a percentage of income.
They aren't. The article is about renting a 2-bedroom home. And nowhere do they limit the definition of "home" to "free standing, detached dwelling" - I believe their figures include 2-bedroom apartments as well.
One or more of the following:

- Living in units where the rent is far below the median rent.

- Working multiple jobs.

- Living in a multiple-income family.

- Living with roommates and pooling rent money.

- Payday loans.

- Behind on rent.

- Living in a house and not directly responsible for mortgage payments.

- Living with others in an informal arrangement and not legally responsible for payments.

- Homeless
> a livable wage

If someone can live in a 2/3 BR with roommates, that sounds pretty livable to me.

I used to live in a house with 6 other people during college. I lived just fine.
Do said economic experts take into account the societal costs of that position? The economically "correct" position isn't always the absolute best thing for society when the people have access to both the voting booth and weapons to effect changes.

I think that sometimes some people forget that actual people with families are impacted by their decisions.
A few years ago I wrote out the specs for the vendors who do our ebook conversions. This is a somewhat more limited domain than most web sites, but still, from the beginning I insisted on proper semantic markup, aria tags, etc. It was clear then that the reckoning would be coming. In fact, our vendor recently added DAISY validation, and we were the only client who didn't have to change specs. Now the university is handing down mandates, and how much do I have to do now? Nothing.
I get roughly $1,500 for a couple per month, at 30 hours a week, post tax, but before government assistance programs. There's no place in Oklahoma where you can't find a 2 bedroom for $700/month. I'd bet that most of the surrounding states are similarly priced. In my city you can find single bedrooms, with all utilities plus washer and dryer included, for $350/month.
Walmart actually pays considerably more than minimum wage, so I'm not sure what point you are making here.
There's a point where long boilerplate becomes unmaintainable by humans.

Approaches like this remove boilerplate in intuitive ways; look at the amount of code in the `Left` and `Right` implementations. They make code more understandable. C needs not to be the idiom for Javascript, despite syntactic borrowings made in 1994.
There is a Portuguese company that does most of their products in Common Lisp, they have been in business for a couple of decades now.

https://www.siscog.pt/en/

https://franz.com/success/customer_apps/scheduling/siscog.lh...
I’ve found exceptions fairly cumbersome to work with in ‘enterprise class’ software. Although I wonder if enterprise class software is cumbersome in and of itself, no matter how you write it.

Even in Ruby, handling the correct exception basically requires you to know that one is thrown, and then to know what kind of exception is thrown. So you sort of have to TDD your way through it. Or you just rescue every exception ever and hope for the best. You can still make it quite nice but I don’t think our modern brand of OOP has the intuitive approach here:

Haskell’s Either, Rust’s Result, Go’s facsimile of that with multiple return values, and Erlang’s approach to just letting things blow up are far easier for me to build a mental model around. There’s no guesswork: you don’t acknowledge the possibility of an error (let alone handle it), your build fails.

Even without them, you also have Maybe or Option to get rid of the accidental null values floating up the stack.
The problem with Mozilla's C++ code is that it was developed in a time where memory-safety was an afterthought and they're still paying for that. Rewriting it in anything will offer a great opportunity of improving it.

For example, the real fix for their vulnerable code example is using automatic bounds checking, just as Rust does. Replacing [] with at, eliminates the vulnerability. Most C++ programmers are allergic to at, so Mozilla could have created some container wrappers that do this by default. GCC and I think also clang have a macro which adds automatic bounds-checking to the STL containers.
If I'm skimming this properly, it seems that:

1. Minimum wage increase results in basically insignificant price increases, except for...

2. Businesses with high labor costs like daycares are affected and have to either increase prices or reduce staff.

In my opinion, the businesses in #2 are instances where the customer isn't paying the true cost of the service. Rather, the service is being subsidized by providing inadequate wages for its employees based on the fact that the labor is in much higher supply than demand.
Currently at WGU. These people actually give a damn about what they are teaching.
> some semblance of a decent life

Having roommates is fine and not a big deal.
This is spot-on. Worked with enterprisy java devs .. seen their code. They couldn’t give a shit about code quality
Yes, it's what they're saying. They quote $377/mo as the maximum affordable rent for a minimum wage earner.

There are many counties across America where a low-end two bedroom can be found for substantially less than that $377. These claims only make sense if they refer to median prices.

For example:

https://joplin.craigslist.org/apa/d/joplin-2br-1bath-apartme...

https://seks.craigslist.org/apa/d/pittsburg-1913-elm-complex...

The claim 'there is not one U.S. state, metropolitan area, or county in which a minimum wage worker who clocks 40 hours a week can afford a two-bedroom apartment' is simply incorrect.
This. I've seen him being invited to otherwise technically well positioned events/conferences. Sad.
That’s why I prefer negative income tax as a solution that disproportionately supports the lower class without universally raising the cost of living by the exact amount of UBI nationwide.
In China I think that we should be more concerned with the fact that rich men are building steal buildings to store their capital in. That’s such a waste of resources. How dare you waste our resources investing in steal infra that sits around like empty ghost villages.
How long is a month? How long is a year? How long is a minute? How are you going to do your subtraction?
FB is going up against governments. I'm not sure they will win. Currency is one of a few key tools a government needs to control it's economy in many different ways. What I am loving about this though is that all of these experiments are forcing us to have a discussion about what a currency is and maybe even redefine money. Bitcoin didn't quite succeed in the way the creator imagined (at least what "he" publicly said was "his" goal). But it has succeeded as competitor to precious metals, and really made markets think about what a cryptocurrency means. Maybe this FB currency will eventually force us to have the hard conversation about what an electronic world wide currency truly means in practice and that's good.
Several co-related factors affecting this:

Worker productivity increases cannot be legislated. Such productivity increases can only come from workers improving their skills or technology that increases their productive output (as simple as an electric drill to as advanced as an exoskelleton with a HUD).
Minimum wage laws are effectively bans on low-productivity workers. By making labor artificially expensive through legislation, demand for it drops, total economic output decreases, production costs increase. There's no reason to believe that the home-production industry would be able to reduce costs / increase output with minimum wage increases; in fact that opposite is the case.

Legislation can only reduce the permitting costs of housing production IFF it becomes more permissive. In the regions of the US that I'm familiar with, all the areas that have high housing costs pass legislation that increases permitting costs or transactional costs to bring housing to market. This can only result in a price increase globally with some politically-connected group receiving a benefit.

Legislation and corporate-bank policies artificially increase the money supply to the greatest degree with housing loans. Typically these workers are not minimum wage and in addition to the above effects, the Cantillon effect gives an undue subsidy to these higher wage workers https://www.aier.org/article/sound-money-project/cantillon-e...
For comparison in the same time period (2009-2019) the UK minimum wage for over 25s has increased from £5.80 to £8.21. This roughly tracks UK inflation (CPI) and changes to the average wage over the same time period.
Do you know what companies are making them? I'd love to take a closer look as I've also been looking for a risc-v rpi alternative.
like... i get that this is technically true, but you see how the addition of an infrared camera to the mix makes things much more cumbersome? or rather, do you see how obviating the need for an infrared camera makes discovering the password much easier (because you don't have to acquire and place an infrared camera, you're just handed the info via the visible spectrum)?

clever trick with the infra cam, but i don't think you've showed the equivalence of the situations in any practical sense. maybe that wasn't your point, and you were just offering a sorta-similar-but-not-really detection technique?
any experience with newtagtime.com ?
New Hampshire is even worse since it doesn't even have many good paying jobs to drive that cost up. Any area that's within a reasonable one day drive with a family of the Boston area (i.e the max distance many people will consider for their "vacation cabin") is just solid navy. The people of NH and ME always complain about MA money driving up the cost of land. It looks like they're not wrong.
Whether or not they can afford a bottom quartile home is a different question than whether it's reasonable to expect them to afford a median home (and I don't think we have any evidence regarding that question here). They certainly aren't expected to be able to afford a top quartile home, for example, so I agree that the headline is a bit fishy.

The whole situation is being drastically oversimplified, though. Whether or not we expect minimum wage to support a family depends on whether there are other alternatives, like higher (and adequate) wage jobs that individuals can reasonably obtain when they do have to support a family. Is that happening? My sense is no -- we have a big step function where you're either mostly screwed (working several jobs, driving Uber, etc. barely making it if at all), or you're making 6 figures after getting a 4 year degree in some technical or professional field.
Not "median," but they do use "average":

> In 2019, the affordability crisis has plunged to new depths. Last year, the average worker making the federal wage minimum of $7.25 per hour had to work 122 hours a week, every single week, to afford an average two-bedroom apartment.

The point being made earlier in the thread is the comparison is between the middle and the tail, not the tail earners and the tail quality 2-bed room apartment.
Ok. Where's the proof that finite state machines are safer? Or that expressing structures in a certain way is safer?
Did China ever block Google? Or did google refuse to serve the Chinese market themselves due to the requirement to censor search results. While censorship is bad, it is a legal requirement in China. Even the US wouldn't allow companies violating US sanctions on Iran to do business in the US. Case in point, Bing still works in China and complies with the demands of the Chinese Government.
The simplest answer is "don't make breaking API schema changes".

For a more complete answer, this is a great blog post from someone at Stripe about API versioning: https://stripe.com/en-ca/blog/api-versioning
Buy two; use one to sniff the other?
Do you mean that you'd get low unemployment, but most workers get paid starvation wages, but t a few most valuable workers get much larger salaries?

Poverty was absolutely horrible before minimum wage for most workers. I can't help but think that such policies you are proposing are historical revisionism at its worst.
Gaming does have the particularity of being as expensive as you want it to be, or as cheap as you want it to be. I don't think there are many other markets where you can get hundreds of hours of genuine heartfelt value for $15.
I have yet to see any UBI proposal that would wholly replace someone's income, so no, I don't think low skill workers would be any more likely to just up and quit. People often live to the extent of their means, so they'll still need a job.
Not many people get the hang of Promise style programming. People prefer async/await.