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My prior comment may be dated, or regionally-contextual. I assume then you have a personal policy, that covers when you are driving just you, and Uber's takes over when you have rideshare passengers. When I was looking for personal auto policies recently, I recall being asked (in the US) if you plan to do any rideshare driving.
More than that. They didn't get paid and instead they got a WITHDRAWAL against their account for their paycheck, twice.

Not only did they not get paid, they got the equivalent amount of their paycheck stolen from them twice over. The larcenous criminals should be the ones to pay back the overdraft fees that were the direct result of their larceny of 4 figure dollar amounts stolen from their accounts.
You’d need to live in central Jersey to be able to afford. I doubt you could live on the upper east side for that unless you were living with a partner making 300k$.
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I have a hard time telling the difference between the “bucket shop” described in the lede there and a modern options trading market.

I guess the difference is that in a market third parties eat the spread by market making whereas in a bucket shop the market itself profits off the spread?
It is actually pretty difficult to find the final text of the bill, and the list of exemptions seems to change a lot between versions, so let's look at a quote from one of the authors:

> Lorena González, the San Diego Assembly member who authored AB 5, says she’s working to make sure that is not the case. The point, she says, is to protect workers from exploitation and to classify them as real employees with the power to unionize, not to stifle their independence. “We don’t want to deny somebody the opportunity to, say, submit a story to The New York Times,” she says. “So we are looking at freelancers and working with some of the associations and unions to come up with a definition for what a ‘real’ freelancer is.”

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/ab-5-freelancers-bill/

She acknowledges the fact that this will cause a lot of problems for a lot of people who have nothing to do with the gig economy, and that they are working on a lot of carve-outs because of this. But I guess the software dev's union didn't make it in time to do the proper lobbying, so we're out of luck.

Some laws lay out elegant general principles that can be applied in many scenarios, and some laws fail at this and require people to contort themselves into the limited categories thought of by the politicians and their lobbyists at the time they wrote the law.
it is also possible for a firearm to doublefire.
its most common with un maintained semi auto pistols, but can happen easily enough with large calibre revolvers, due to the recoil.
Clapper and Brennan (the ones who were in charge and bungled the Snowden and Assange cases) being hired on by major networks as pundits is apparently enough to shift the narrative.
I don't think it should be banned, but there's a level of taxation that will drive demand down to near-zero. If states really feel like you can't put a price on human life, and we should think of the children, etc, they could revise their policy and charge taxes at the price that would come extremely close to eliminating all demand.
I bought one of the second batches of the first Fairphone - I love the idea and the phone was great for a proof of concept, but it was disappointing to find it was never going to be upgraded beyond Android 4.4.

It kind of broke the promise of repairable, sustainable hardware if the chipset provider obsoleted the device through lack of updates in less than a year of ownership.

While 4.4 wasn't brilliant, I could have continued on with it - but I was uncomfortable using such an increasingly insecure OS.
In the same vein, corporate surveillers are roughly bound by law; government surveillers... aren't.

For example, EU corporations are required by GDPR to comply with deletion requests, unless they are asked to retain the data by a government.
I wouldn't say Massively improved. But it was definitely noticeable. By not massively improved, I mean photos from iPhone 8 looks fine, but when you gets to compare with X, you immediately notice the difference.

The same goes to X and Xs, although the difference is a little less drastic, but P30 and Pixel were both winning, and when you compare it, it was obvious.
If they're behind all these mass shootings can we as a nation get together and put an end to these goons? Because that is what is being hinted at here--that there are drugs capable of mind controlling susceptible individuals. It is not science fiction is what we're hearing.
It's like the Binary Intersectional Tyrannical Cis-Hetero Slave Lord Anti-woke Patriarchy (BITCHSLAP).
Perhaps I should have been clearer - it's very relevant here, if you are in the EU or do business in the EU.
Bizarre. Maybe it was encouragement to get the employee up to spend as much time as possible to get up to speed? But then again, that's incentivizing burning the candle at both ends when you're the least equipped and familiar with everything to really take advantage of it.
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you've been rightfully skewered by other people but I just want to point that this is what happens when someone reads one article about a controversial thing they don't otherwise know anything about and then goes around presenting that finding as if they're some kind of expert.
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Well, the reason I liked my switch was because it was towards a much more general technology, so it gave me advantages a programmer solely involves in $SOFTWARE would not have. If I had made that switch going to a different small pond I might not have been so happy with it at all.

Now, I wrote at length before realising I'm not at all sure what's your intent behind "more independent Technical Consultant". Does that mean you're open towards switching jobs from programming towards the more business/human side of things? (That can be a very good idea depending on what exactly), or does it mean 'third-party freelance programming' (IMHO, this is very unlikely to give you enough advantage)?
US public would yell an enthusiastic "hell yes!" if you ask them do they want free healthcare forever but then when you ask - ok, so how we pay for all that actually, that's where "hmmmm" comes in. "Government" means taxes, and US public is not super hot on paying more taxes, and not on US government (BTW, which one? there's federal government, state government, local governments... US has literally thousands of governments, which one you go to?), which is not exactly known by its efficiency and friendliness to the hoi polloi, to run their healthcare. If there was magic solution that allowed to keep those nice doctors and hospitals exactly as they are but somehow it would all be paid for by something, it's be super nice and the US public would love it. And some unicorns too. Unfortunately, neither seems to exist - to rebuild US healthcare system to look like Canadian or any of the European ones would not be as easy as just public agreeing on something - something most of them don't even understand how it actually works.
Yeah, you can use the old SIM during porting here too, but you can also use the new one with a temp number.
Profitable to Uber, or to the driver? Uber gets a ~30% cut of what the rider pays (though it varies per ride).
I've been freelancing now for two years and have been in projects 37.5 hours/week without pause except for vacations. There is a lot of demand here. The hourly rate depends. I've been getting 90€/hour except with one client I managed 110 €/hour. I've always made direct contracts with customers, no contracting company in between. But there's a lot of those companies around who would happily help you find projects and sell your time through them so they also get a cut.
I would like to expand on this point because while it is true as stated above, there is more to the picture from my perspective. Day trading and technical analysis are certainly bunk, but the problem I see is people equating day trading with making intelligent stock picks which were NOT driven solely by technical analysis nonsense.

For instance, predicting that a certain company's product will steal market share from a competitor based upon personal experience in the same industry and then purchasing stocks based upon this is an extremely viable strategy. Especially, if your intentions are to hold for the long term (beyond 12 months). You just need to get comfortable with the boundaries of your own understanding and make rational decisions based on this. I always see this black and white discussion (put everything into a broad market EFT vs day trade on technical analysis) without much discussion of intermediate strategies that are based on actual concrete research and understanding of the relevant markets.
The CIA only kills people by extension.
It is a "contractor" that does the wet work.
This is known as CS work [Clandestine Services]

...if you would like to explain yourself [D-voter] rather than hiding, im ready. Here is an opportunity to look around and see how it really works:

https://www.cia.gov/index.html

https://www.cia.gov/offices-of-cia/clandestine-service

feel free to offer your service to your country, if you think you qualify.
Now if only there was a way to create $1.000.000.000.000.000 at the push of a single button ...
Understanding the true meaning and implications of a fiduciary currency should be a mandatory part of education, but I guess then we would have a revolution on our hands.
Why not ban cigarettes if they are more dangerous anyhow?
The carrying capacity of the planet is fixed relative to our current level of technology. Efficiently applying that level of technology can make the difference between shortage and plenty.

Of course so can technological change, but it's not like efficiency is just some dumb irrelevancy.
Well, it's not at all obvious that a line is the naive representation of a limb rather than a particularly intelligent encoding of it.

For example: CNNs, though pretty good at detecting limbs (and miscellaneous other things) have only a very limited ability to encode structural information in this way. An interesting open question in the field is what is the "right way" to encode this sparse, graph-like structural data (hence capsule networks).
I think overall people are right that Apple wants to get in the services game but this specific example I don't think is particularly telling. This is something people have been asking for for a long time since the 2 year policy is super awkward for a device you might keep for 5 years.

It will be telling when the monthly cost is lower than the up-front price.
Hold up, where did you get the idea that Assange has at any time worked for “the Russians”? It seems like he’s stuck to his guns and his convictions on Wikileaks without any misstep. There was never any indication that he had a change in loyalties or that the quality of Wikileak’s content had changed, was there?
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> The way to protect workers is to shift the burden of health care and other costly benefits onto the government, supported by taxes

Yes, it's clear that our prosperity hinges on how quickly we decouple health care from our employers.

Employers don't want to be in the business of providing healthcare to their employees and its painfully obvious.

I just don't understand why smart people think it's a good idea for anyone other than me decide what my healthcare needs are!

I would like to have a separate discussion whether the government is the best party to handle this. If you look for my writing here and on Quora, you will see that I have for over a decade being campaigning the government was the best party, but after having really worked on it (thanks to people getting in touch with me from my writing), I no longer believe the government is the best partner.

Instead, I think the government managed marketplace where people choose private insurance is actually a brilliant solution and ACA already provides that, so we already have that in place.

The value the government brings here is extreme negotiating ability with the private insurance providers that individual citizens lack.

> The US public does not want this

I strongly disagree.

I have spoken with far too many (thousands) of people to know that majority of the U.S. hate their employer provided insurance and are worse off for it. I can give you specific instances where an employee was worse off due to the employer provided insurance and had to declare bankruptcy due to medical bills than if they were unemployed to begin with and were on welfare instead!

I seriously believe:

1. the tax incentives to provide employer provided insurance should be abolished. They made sense at a time that's past us now.

2. employers instead should be required to pay a premium for choosing to provide primary insurance to employees instead of letting employees continue with the coverage they have or get one from the marketplace

3. Employers are free to provide secondary and supplementary care insurance if they chose to, not due to regulation.

This leaves behind only those employers who genuinely care about their employees instead of pretending to do something because someone forces them to.

I support the individual mandate in the ACA because it ensures negative self selection in the marketplace.

This will allow people to gain control of their own healthcare, get a benefit package that's more transparent and gain better control of their own lives.

As software engineers, we are in the top tier of employment. We earn in the top tier of the population and handle levels of complexity in the top tier of the population.

Our personal experiences don't reflect that of the general population.

Even then, the engineer making $180k/yr at Microsoft might have a very different healthcare experience compared to the engineer making $180k/yr at Google depending on the choices that the benefits administrators at Microsoft and Google have made!

That's just insane and a level of complexity that's just unnecessary.
Having personally been through the employee vs contractor maelstrom when, for some unknown reason, the state government got a bug up it's ass, I'd have to say that the state requirements become quite arbitrary.

What you might think is appropriate is sort of besides the point.
> just like they are doing with trans fats

You're implying trans fats are fine and the only reason to ban them is political, despite the heavy link with heart disease and other issues?
LinkedIn I guess, but that's Microsoft already. Redundant.
I meant profitable to Uber.
I'm from Norway, and we do have salaries in the same ballpark - a tad higher.

Even though it's expensive to live here, we're not anywhere near San Francisco, in terms of say housing prices. And there are many other things I also never have to worry about, without getting too political about the issues.
Gatekeeping, trying to separate religions and their impacts of laws and impacts on society, vs a belief in God. Many people attend the churches for shared values and community membership but might not believe in an Afterlife or "God Watching them".

Even the FreeMasons only requirement is you believe in something bigger than yourself, a higher being. And that can be anything, even the universe via the big bang creating everything.

Saying you shouldn't believe in Religion, Believe in yourself, is no morally different than saying, don't program in Perl, only Python. Its a narrow and incomplete viewpoint normally with some agenda behind it.

As for prayer for wanting a resolution to a problem, is no different than "Positive Thinking". It allows the person to cope with a bad situation. Once you look at religion as a building block to action, and how that action can be replicated, you move beyond the religion and study behavior that is being shaped and what reason.

Way to complicated of a subject to be broken down to, religion bad, yourself good. (imho)
There was another dude who was writing about Socrates at the time. It was Xenophon.
You're in the wrong spot.

Here you can find only people who would never find themselves in a position where they have to "freelance" on such a low wage level where the law is really important.

The top comment is some guy whining that his studio has not been cleaned recently while the rest fears for their exploit business ideas...Welcome to the digital bourgeoisie.
One thing that worries me with this is the effects on the otherwise jobless, especially those on government assistance that are effectively otherwise unemployable. Lyft/Uber is a godsend for this demographic.
>and hence my OP comment that current generation is done.

May be it should have worded better, I reread the comment multiple times and I don't get where the current generation is done comes from. It reads to me as Hardware is done, period.

The market is saturated, and of course every company will try to milk it for as long as they could, while trying to figure out the next big thing, if there is any that is the size of current Smartphone market.
True, but then again you probably don't notice so much. Every month there is a new face here and a new face there, and one old face has... Quit? Retired? Been fired? Who knows...
> You can’t set hours and direct particular tasks day to day.

What if this is part of the requirement of doing the contract work?

For example, your job is to pair program with one of their employees and they are only available from 10am to noon.

Technically the person paying you for your time is setting your hours.
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By "gamble on the insurance rider" you mean further externalize the cost that Uber already externalized onto the drivers? Because the people that end up paying when you "gamble on the insurance" are the people that you injure in an accident, or systemically through the need to carry "uninsured coverage" to cover yourself against those gamblers.
Probably waiting to see how the electric trucks pan out before purchasing.
The land of the free, where the government decides what adults can with their own bodies.

I'm all for taking new steps to reduce the troubling increase in teen use of nicotine. Also, cigarettes should not be nearly so cheap: they should carry taxes that fully offset the health impact so smokers are not free riders. (This would add $10 per pack to the price.)

However, freedom means adults should be free to make their own choices—even if they're bad ones—as long as they bear the costs. It's appropriate for government to persuade, but not to choose.
That description makes the NHS sound like a two-tiered system, not a single-payer system. Digging into this on Wikipedia[1][2] and seeing the same health systems referred to as "single-payer" and "two-tier" depending on the context now has me royally confused about what "single-payer" actually means.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-tier_healthcare
Well, I’ve seen a few people blogging about how they make money by blogging about how to make money.
It makes me sick that so many Americans are willing to keep their taxes lower and pay their own healthcare insurance (which are absurdly high, and you still have premiums to pay, etc) instead of having the peace of mind that if they become seriously sick, that it won't ruin them and their close relatives.

Sure, you might be healthy now but do you really want to take a gamble like this and keep more money in your wallet now, and potentially lose everything due to bad luck later? I guess it's the American way?
"a slip of his mouse turned an intended 50% increase to her breast size into a 150% gain."

A slip of the mouse? lol
The difference is whether your company produces software as a product or uses software for a product. In the later case, you are working in a typical IT department which is just supporting the main ship, important but only as essential as other non-IT departments and often strapped of budgets for cost savings. The main ship itself has a very different culture, typically not very ambitious growth or revenue expectations. So comps are not really comparable in these two worlds.
This is the goal of the EOMA68 project, but for laptops.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
I don't think many people know the full extent of the MKULTRA programs, especially the attempts at mind control, brainwashing, dosing people with psychedelics unknowningly, extensive torture with drugs, experimentation on prisoners and stuff. Some of it approaches the Nazi experiments in just the sheer immorality of it all.
I'm thinking partly in terms of paying US health professionals what they make in places like France. A certain amount of hilarity would ensue.
Alternatively, incentivize companies to offer more pay rather than healthcare. For example, by disallowing group bargaining for healthcare by an employer.
Too late to edit, but that should read marginal environmental impact, not marginal economic cost. (Both are true)
You hit the nail on the head. I have written answers on Quora that show numbers to support your thoughts.

I used to paste links to these posts here but people felt I was spamming, so I don't do that anymore.

Feel free to look at my other comments and posts on Quora as well as reach out to me. We need more people like you to bring prosperity.

The status quo will not bring us prosperity.
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>was about $170k base, and pretty sure that was close to VP level

You have to keep in mind that these are salaries for the largest tech companies in the world, it's not just about being in California.

For comparison, being a VP at Google/Facebook equates to salaries with multi-million dollar bonuses and ridiculous equity packages.
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> "I don't know anybody who uses pods."

That probably says more about the company you keep than it does about the industry itself. They're selling the shit, so obviously somebody is buying it.
That's correct. The CIA have actually learned the best form of torture is psychological torture and mastered that.
There are (broadly) similar guarantees in the US. So they will get the money back, at least eventually. The problem is the effect it has when the account has sometimes been debited 2x. If this has made, say your rent or car payment bounce, you have an big hassle at minimum.
> relevant state agency

the federal govt as well (the irs has a 20 point checklist to help make the determination)

every contract i've ever gotten in the last 10 years has required that i indemnify the company against being classified as a worker, and then given instructions that violate that checklist, and been upset when i pushed back

started looking for a w2 on tuesday :(

https://galachoruses.org/sites/default/files/IRS-20-question...
Most of the time I vary the speed of the book as I read it. I think thats quite common (?) The last book I read had over a thousand pages, and some chapters which were not really interesting could just be skimmed without a huge loss of plot/story/detail.

Also, I can see how if you have multiple hobbies/kids/etc you'd want to speed up your reading because you have limited time.
If they're banning flavored cigarettes, why not ban sugary/flavored alcoholic drinks (alcopops) as well? As others have said, this seems like a shakedown and/or a bit of an overreach.
$170k is top-end for base salary at most tech companies, though--past that point the increases in total comp are all from stocks and bonuses, which are tied to your performance review.

And yeah, a $200K house in Michigan is probably about a $2M house in the Bay Area.