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There isn't a deterministic formula that you can code, but the market generally does this.

A good backend python developer working for a London company here can get 80-100k GBP, if company X wont pay this, then company Y will. The developer goes to company Y.

If the job can be done remotely, and everyone is happy, then who the hell cares that this developer lives in an area with low cost of living? He's fulfilling the contract (quality work in exchange for money) and where they are physically located is irrelevant in determining their compensation.
Fun fact: Gauss is said to have commented on this equation that "if this was not immediately apparent to you upon being told it, you would never be a first-class mathematician".
Btw, if you measure the time as experienced by the traveller, the classic equation will give you exactly the right answer:

Pouring more energy into acceleration won't make you move faster (even subjectively) but it will shorten the way. (From the outside, it looks like time dilation.)
The owners started the business, took the risk, etc. If an employee isnt happy with the salary, he can always ask for more, change employer, or start his own business. It is a fair game IMO.
Because if he’s right we really, really want to pay attention to this problem so we don’t all die.

I’m sure Bostrom abstracts away an enormous amount of the difficulty in implementation but that’s quite defensible. Moore’s Law isn’t the only curve that works well to explain technological trends for decades. We can see in broad outlines what’s coming decades from now.
It was just a joke, but we're talking about a manager who "makes drive-by commits of py2-only code, months after you all agreed that all new code should be py3-compatible, and then leaves town for a multi-week vacation..."
Well lets assume there's probes somewhat equally distributed in the galaxy, and that there's many tiny probes and fewer larger probes. Assuming enough technology for replicating probes the number of probes in the galaxy is limited only by time and materials.

Presumably if you are watching a galaxy you are quite patient and a few 100,000 years is no big deal. With that kind of experience you've likely figured out what signature events are related to the rise of intelligence.

It's hard to speculate on the technology, sensors, and intelligence of the probe makers. Maybe the signature even to watch for is plankton, oxygen, and being in the Goldilocks zone (billions of years ago)? Changes in atmospheric chemistry related to clearing forests and cooking? (1000-10,000 years ago)? Emissions of radio waves (75 years)?

Whatever that threshold was, it might have been triggered in the past and a slow moving smaller ship was first (Oumuamua), now a few years later a somewhat faster (15%) larger ship is coming for a look.

Fun to think about anyways... at least we saw this one coming so anyone that wants a closer look will have the chance.
There's a lot that can be written about the differences between remove vs on site work. Sure, remote does tend to feel more lonely. Sure, you are missing the whole water cooler effect (as I've seen it called) of running into a coworker at the office and just having a chat, and so forth. But I don't really see how that makes the job of a product manager any harder or how it makes managing remote workers harder.

Companies with offices still use work methodologies. They still use SCRUM, kanban boards, retrospectives, meetings, wikis/documentation, and above all tickets/issues/stories or whatever is the term your company prefers. And I'm sure they aren't writing their stories on pieces of paper, or their documentation in binders. Everything is done through a tool that saves everything online to make it available to everyone.

Your PM running into you at the office while you are taking a break and asking how the work is proceeding doesn't really add any value to neither the work you are doing nor the information they already have about it. Scheduling a weekly catch up meeting to discuss progress (depending on the size of the story of course and yadda yadda, just making an example here) makes more sense. And you can easily do that with a video call.
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If you need AC, then your EV range will also suffer.
For those who are interested in this type of subject matter, I can highly recommend Eric Goldman's blog (the primary source for this article), at https://blog.ericgoldman.org/

Goldman was one of the first "internet lawyers" in Silicon Valley in the 90s, and his blog is a treasure trove of interesting recent court cases on marketing and the internet.
> I think, I can generate 100 Watts.

> Over an 8-hour work shift, an average, healthy, well-fed and motivated manual laborer may sustain an output of around 75 watts of work.

That's before conversion & transmission losses (especially as the converter will need to handle wildly varying inputs)

And even if we ignore these, according to 10.1109/MSPEC.2011.5910449:

> Let’s assume that the average piece of exercise equipment is in use 5 hours a day, 365 days a year. If each patron generates 100 watts while using it, that machine creates some 183 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. Commercial power costs about 10 cents per kilowatt-hour on average in the United States, so the electricity produced in a year from one machine is worth about US $18 dollars.
> remember that the yellow vest movement started over a fuel price raise

Slightly off topic but: it runs much deeper than that, the gas price was just the last straw. The whole thing was a shit show because none of them were able to articulate a real political discourse, they were upset (and rightly so) but had no idea why. They even rejected to meet political leaders or have spokespersons for months and that's what eventually killed the movement. In the end it was a mix of low pension, low min wage, tax evasion (amazon, google, &c.), macron's politics of prioritising companies (tax--) over people (tax++), europe stance on immigration, &c. aka: no matter why you were upset you could fit in the yellow vest movement.

That's a very french thing to do: notice something might be wrong/you're getting fucked over by the government, complain a lot, break/burn things, secure nice social advances most of the rest of the world take X0 years to get, it's been happening since 1789 so we're kind of used to it by now.
Where do you think profits come from? Profit is the difference between what you pay your workers and the value of their work.

I don't think the OP is refuting that. Paying someone 50% of the value they generate is fine. That's how businesses work. Paying someone 2% of the value they generate because they live in <place with a low cost of living> is much less easy to justify.
It depends which ideas. Gandhi, and Hitler, might've felt the same thing. Are the 'ideas' making the world a better place, or not? Are they attached to some worthwhile goal? A goal needn't be attainable to be worthwhile; the greatest ones aren't. (I wonder why you didn't mention actually what they are, at all.)
They talk about Solar Range up to 34 km/day. Just 10km a day extra and going 50 every day that extends your range(250km) by another day. Maybe for people who don't go very far and not every day it can even work out to be mostly self sufficient? Im glad someone is trying to make it work and we will see how it works out in the long run.
It ranked 2013: 55th, 2014: 24th, 2015: 18th, 2016: 11th, 2017: 11th, 2018: 21st and presently, in 2019, is at 10th spot.

That's quite a shot to stardom, and yet, judging from the replies, I don't seem to be the only one who's never heard of it.

Still, I'd be interested to know, how Deepin is doing in China, is it comparable to Ubuntu in the Western world?
It brings value in the long run and makes retention easier. If I work for a company who pays differently based on location, I'll soon be searching for a company that pays the same based on level of seniority or other internal criteria.
They affect car users too, but those seem to view these problems as a force of nature, e.g., "the parking is so bad here" vs. "there are too many people like me who consciously decided to try to park here".
I think that one of the greatest structural deficiencies of our economy is that high salaries are tied to onsite jobs in a few cities and that, therefore, real estate owners in those cities get to participate in that wealth creation that they are not actually a part of. So they reap where they didn't sow, and that's just unfair.

By working remotely, companies and workers are working together in cutting those landlords out of the equation, and that leaves a huge pile of money on the table that landlords are now not taking away from companies or workers (depending on how you look at it).

The question is: Should it be the worker or the company getting that pile of money?

My feeling is: It should be shared as companies and workers have to work together to make it happen.

If the whole pile of money goes to the workers, then companies are not incentivized to do anything to drive forward the remote work revolution.

If the whole pile of money goes to the companies, then workers will have an incentive to continue to play the old game whereby, if they want to earn more, they have to move to the valley and take an onsite job.

If the pile of money is shared somehow, then both sides have the right incentives to drive forward a real change for the better, and it's a win-win situation for everybody involved (except the landlords).

I'm not saying the split has to be 50/50. Realistically, the split will be determined by market forces like supply and demand around the particular job role. We're already seeing this play out: For job roles that have low barriers of entry and for highly commoditized types of work, a greater proportion will go to the company, like what we are seeing on Upwork where everybody gets paid what an Indonesian freelancer gets paid. For jobs where it really matters to get the best people and where these people are hard to get, a greater proportion will go to the worker and you will see everybody around the world doing that kind of work earning as much as they would earn if they were doing that job onsite in the valley.
> At the larger estimate, that's about as big as Oxford or Slough, smaller than Swindon.

Wikipedia says even the Oxford metro area is only 244,000 people vs about 700k people for Krakow city alone.
If you want to get a handle on Heidegger, I recommend working through Being and Time while listening to Prof Hubert Dreyfus's UC Berkeley lecture series, 'Philosophy 185 - Heidegger'. I heard them on ITunes U long ago, but they are also available on archive.org [0].

Dreyfus wrote a critique of AI, "What Computers Can't Do" in the 70s, and talks a bit about a Heideggerian approach to AI in his lectures which may be of interest to a few people here.

[0] https://archive.org/details/Philosophy_185_Fall_2007_UC_Berk...
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> people are either (1) forced to use something inferior, or (2) don't know any better

Here's another fallacy for you: false dilemma.
With so many forms of native advertising out there, I now can't tell whether this is actual news or just P-TECH purchasing ad space in the form of a news report.
You are talking about ongoing market rate, not the value output. Sometimes even skilled developer can produce negative value because of accident or smth.

Why would I pay remote worker the same as for local developer, if I can find remote developers willing to work for much less?
If the people of Hong Kong don't want to be extradicted to China is that racist?

> a convenient but not completely honest way to deflect claims of racism

And sometimes claims of racism can be a convenient but not quite honest way to deflect criticism of policy.
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Fortunately, not in Singapore. Our rents have come down in the last few years.

(Still at a very high absolute level.)
Repeal prop13 and landlords will just pass the additional taxes on to their tenants. You'll only succeed in displacing a different group of people. And you won't be the one buying those homes at a sweet discount. Assuming some real estate mogul, rich kid, tech bro doesn't out bid you, you'll be paying all those mega property taxes every year too.

The real issue is that there is no central authority at the CA State or even Bay Area level planning growth holistically.

A company can hire 5,000 people tomorrow and they'll all just move here and look for a place to live, regardless of whether the city their employer is based in has any housing or not. That drives up rent. It creates the absurd traffic that we now get to enjoy every day of the week. It drives up the costs of goods and services.

Bay Area leadership and California leadership need to sit down and have a discussion with employers and cities about how to effectively and responsibly grow, and then move towards developing new infrastructure to support the plan that comes out of those discussions.
In Belgium it's almost impossible to fire elected members of the union. On one hand it makes sense, but on the other it brings all kinds of new problems.
That is an excellent point - if you have a house. It might make more sense for people who have to live with streetside parking?
So how are they achieving these great results in school leaving exams? Very high dropout rates? If the programme is as good as the article paints it you should see the middle classes taking advantage soon. High school plus an Associate’s degree and job training is a pretty great deal. You can go straight to work or go to university after.
It still doesn't make sense, because the remote worker pool is global. If that were supposed to make sense then we would all be getting paid third world rates and cost of living would still have nothing to do with it.
From what I've read, the WeWork locations in their mature markets are profitable, but they've been investing heavily in new/immature markets. Despite We's bizarre straddle between being a real estate company and trying to be a tech company, it's a fairly standard growth play: burn money now in order to gain more market share over time.

If they wanted to, they could slow down on new purchases/rentals/construction and likely become profitable without too much trouble. But that would of course be at the expense of growth.

Not saying they're a great company or that they deserve a crazy high valuation, but suggesting that they're unprofitable because they have a bad business model is missing the whole picture.
Yeah, they're really weird an uncomfortable until you get used to them, so people just see them as worse treadmills.

All I really want is a stationary bike that powers a fan pointing at you to cool you down because I'm a sweaty bastard.
They're horribly expensive.

Cheap, properly portable, properly rideable: choose two.
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There actually were some concerns regarding an analytics service (CNZZ) used in Deepin's website and appstore, which were eventually debunked.

https://www.deepin.org/en/2018/04/14/linux-deepin-is-not-spy...
It's trivial to justify. Companies exist to maximize profit. You make more profit by paying your employees less.

Also, plenty of people in my responses are denying that this is what profit is.
This chap (patio11 on hn) has a lot to say about it - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ - and there are other good blog posts by him.
> Undecidability requires infinities

Not in any reasonably modern system. The state in this case is the exact sequence of bits contained in RAM and on your hard drive, which might as well be infinite (lets ignore for a moment that your computer is connected to the Internet and to real entropy sources, which really do make things infinite).

Some napkin math: if you've got a terabyte hard drive and 32 gigs of RAM, then there are approximately 2^(1,032 * 1024 * 1024) states your computer might be in, which is about 1.79 * 10 ^ 325,753,719. It can be hard to conceptualize numbers at that scale, but a fun illustration is that it is so big that the number itself would not fit on many laptops. It is infinite for any useful sense.

For comparison, there are an estimated 10^86 atoms in the observable universe -- if each atom in the universe was in fact its own universe, and each atom in all of those universes was its own universe, and so on... you'd have to go four layers deep to start talking comparable numbers here.
So is considered american software in many places, e.g. https://www.zdnet.com/article/dutch-government-report-says-m... , https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/germa... , etc...
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> So, an algorithm isn't patentable. But a particular encoding of that algorithm might be patentable by your logic? However, copyright, not patent rights, protect encoded algorithms!

No, an algorithm is very much patentable (and not copyrightable, while a program is copyrightable but not patentable), it's just that the patent does not protect the notion or knowledge or mathematical fact of the algorithm -- in fact, it very much makes it public -- it's just gives a monopoly for exploiting the algorithm for some business benefit.

> Laws written before the advent of information theory are missing fundamental truths of mathematics. In this case, given that patent law already knows about mathematics, surely patent law is prepared to yield.

As I said, this reasoning is irrelevant. Every patent is some "truth" of physics, chemistry or mathematics, but the truth is not what's being granted a monopoly. Everyone is free to know it or teach it. Rather, it is its implementation for profit that's protected. Moreover, because I believe that in the US patents apply to physical inventions, the language of software always describes some computing device computing an algorithm. It seems that technically everyone is allowed to perform the algorithm by hand, even to exploit it for profit.

Software patents are therefore not different in principle than any other kind of patent, but they are different in practice, simply because of how they've come to be used.
It must be nice to live in a world where geopolitical issues don't exist. The threat of the Chinese government is very real, and their influence and power over every Chinese citizen and company makes any Chinese actor suspect, yes. It has nothing to do with disliking Chinese, and everything to do with the CCP using its power to influence and control everything in their reach.

Edit: I'd like to add. There are so many conflicts and animosities and distrust that have zero to do with racism. Our troubles with Russia are entirely ideological, for example. And especially in geopolitics, the issues that cause conflict usually revolve around pragmatic things like resources, economic/military power, spheres of influence, etc.
GP is talking colloquially, they're talking about "large calories" (food calories, Calorie, …) aka 5000kcal. FDA recommendations is 2600kcal RDI for a healthy lightly active adult male.

The "extra energy needs" is 2400kcal, olive oil is 884kcal/100g, that's 270g of olive oil, about 300ml.

That's pounding down half a standard bottle every day, and at least a buck or two. Aside from getting cheap as hell olive oils, you seem to use ladles for spoons.
Unless somebody is doing in-depth security audits of every change, I don't see how Deepin can be trusted. The whole trusting trust thing.
> But as an employer, why I should strive for honestness?

In an ideal world, you would because you would care for people. If not everybody, at least the people around you. As an employer, you are hiring people who will spend the majority of their waking hours working for you, with you, at your company. In theory, you would care if they are happy or not, motivated or not, paid fairly or not. You would care if they can afford that visit to the doctor they need, if they are taking enough breaks, enough time off. Ideally, you would keep an eye on your employees to make sure nobody is overdoing, to watch out for for employees whose performance is going down and figure out if they are getting burnt out or what's actually going on. All those things would pay back in the end. Happy employees do better works. Burnt out employees don't. Recovering from that is hard, and even though you can say "who cares, I'll fire them and hire someone else", there's still the fact that the hiring process is expensive.

In an idea world though. But I guess I do understand that for many people the only thing that matters is squeezing as much money for their business out of society as they can get away with. Though, this becomes a somewhat philosophical discussion at this point, and I think that's beside the point.
Not necessary. If you can sell more stuff, then you can make the same profit with lower profit margin per item.
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Depends on how you frame it.
There is 80 of difference when you think about "how many users say yes for each No"

So, what do you want to know, "yes for every 100" or "yes for every no" ?
It matters.
Tallinn (bigger city than Dunkirk) has free public transport since 2013, and since 2018 it expanded to the whole Estonia
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So he can start his own business, with no capital of their own, so at an inherent disadvantage, or sell their work under value to someone else. This world view only works if you only see people as atomized units and have no sense of a concept of class. And even then it barely works.
> then the implication is that everything of Chinese origin is untrustworthy.

That's entirely the case. Just because you keep trying to spin it as racist doesn't make it so.
Compiègne, since 1975. Not sure it's the first, but it's the oldest I know of.
While that paper singles out cats, any introduced mammal species (rats, foxes, dogs etc.) on an island with ground-nesting and/or flightless birds is a huge problem...
Hi Joel.

I'm your landlord, and I'm selling the house. You know, cause like, it's mine. I want you out next month.

Yeah, I'll take the stability of buying, thanks.

The server comparison is disingenuous because migrating data is essentially trivial and has almost no emotional impact compared to moving home.

I mean, it'd be brilliant if I could rsync my cabinets.
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I think that's fine, as long as it's your own decision from your own experience. On the other hand if you're struggling with anything in particular then we tend to be friendly and helpful over at https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/. The monthly Hask Anything threads might be useful for you.
I really enjoy your videos. I wish I had the space and time to make stuff out of wood. Software and servers isn't just the same since you can't touch it.
> If the people of Hong Kong don't want to be extradicted to China is that racist?

Could we avoid straw man arguments?

There is an element of racism on issues related to China. There is no point denying it.

There is certainly less of it (or at least it is much less obvious) than during the anti-China campaign in the West/US during the 50s and 60s but it is still there.

As I wrote, some people just complain too much... It's quite obvious in this thread.
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That just makes it an incorrect name but not necessarily not a cool one.

The Death Star isn't a star but the name is cool.
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