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Yes and yes is what I got out of your answer.

>When we hire people as we've been doing, we can either fit them into the existing space somehow, or... move the entire office?

Yes. Exactly.

My office did it with 0 days down time combining 3 separate locations spread out around a city downtown. We labeled our stuff on Friday, a company was contracted to make sure on Monday our stuff would be in a new office, and it was.

It's a money issue through and through, until the lost productivity is greater than the cost to move, more people get crammed in. Simple as that.
I don't think the magnitude is remotely close, but perhaps I'm off here? What airline bailouts are you thinking of?
> But you're also missing lots of destructive bandwidth (interruptions, gossip, etc.)

These things are a component of being around others though. Gossip never goes away, it just migrates.

> People socialize outside of offices all the time. There's nothing stopping remote coworkers from meeting in the same place every day, going out to lunch, etc.

True that, but arguably the best benefit of remote work is to.. well.. live remotely. If you're all states or countries apart (as remote teams tend to be) then this is obviously not an option.

> If you start with onsite-by-default and try to transition to remote, the people who stay onsite become resentful of the remote workers, and everyone assumes the remote workers are lazier, distracted, etc.

If it's optional and actually sponsored by top execs into the company culture, why would this resentment exist?

Obviously this is just my opinion, but I'd really hate to live and work in the same place. It's the same for me with side projects: if you get burned out of uncomfortable in your space, that doesn't go away when work's over. You risk disliking your own place.

Personally I just prefer a strict division between work/life and remote heavily fragments that relationship.
Are you willing to move "anywhere on earth" to find a job? It doesn't matter whether anyone will hire you, what matters is if anyone will hire you in a place that you are willing to move or allow you to work remotely and at the pay you want.

Also how old are you? I've seen too many people in their mid 40s who couldn't get a job because they called themselves "generalists" when a company could just as easily hire someone cheaply that could hit the ground running. Also there is a difference between the "right job" and the "right now" job. The "right job" for me would be architect, consultant, team lead, or consultant. But those jobs aren't as abundant. If I have three or four months to plan and look, I can get the "right job". If circumstances dictate that I need to get the "right now" job or contract (and get on my wife's insurance), I need to find a job quickly and be marketable.
I worked in the states (Michigan) briefly in 2010, and I was shocked at the state of discourse among regular folks back then. As someone from outside the US political system, I was amazed at the simmering discontent (anecdotal experience, of course) - and even got caught in the crossfire a couple times myself.

That simmer is now boiling over (certainly in some circles), and the polarization/black and white thinking appears to be going global. It's a tough time to try to hold nuance and accommodate ambiguity. Especially when those yelling the loudest seem to be rewarded by our dysfunctional controversy-chasing media outlets.

There's certainly been times in history where discourse has been at similar levels, but I think we're going to need some strong course corrections here. Not sure how that's going to work, given the financial incentives to keep people angry at each other.
U is unconditional, yes. It's not clear to me what they are or want exactly.
More likely so the workers had some recreation while on assignment!
I was about to recommend skateboard shoes to the comment above for the same reason.

It has been years since I've skated, but I've always liked the simple style of some skate shoes. After experiencing the same wear-out with running/walking/training shoes I went back to skate shoes. The last pair I bought five years ago and the soles are just now wearing out.

It occurred to me that most are designed to be durable against constant contact with sandpaper. While they aren't _as_ comfortable as running shoes, I found a pair that I really like. Being both simple in look, lightweight, and comfortable.
I think for an outdoors apparel company, being visibly concerned about conservation and global warming is very on-brand. Part of why people choose Patagonia is their politics. Most companies you're not quite sure where to find those politics listed - because the front page is all products. I think it's brilliant for Patagonia to do the opposite here. It's not like people can't find the jackets after hitting the landing page.
School is grossly overrated, especially in the information age. Ensuring your generation still has a future is measurably more important.
Does a 3 button suit look dated and unfashionable? White shirt? White t shirt? Merino wool jumper, unpatterned? Bog standard pair of levis?

Fashion can be timeless, even if its only a subset.
The earth can be important to him, and he can "put his money where his mouth is" without placing politics on his webstore's home page.

Like I said - if it was some issue that wasn't your kind of politics, it would be a turnoff to see this when you're just trying to do some shopping.

It's a turnoff even if it is your kind of politics - I was interested in their clothing. Now I'll shop someplace else.
Ten years' durability* for non-underwear garments is what I shoot for as well. It's possible to get considerably more than that with a little extra care [for example, line drying rather than putting in the dryer machine]

-- I've pretty much always dressed the same -- it is more difficult to find quality clothes these days, even from mail-order places that used to be reliable in that regard.

What I look for is :
- practicality
- durable + comfortable fabric
- quality fittings e.g., zippers / snaps
- solid workmanship
- thrifty price for value
- where it's a reasonable option, I go for stuff made in the USA

Since certain makes of clothing are already under discussion here, I'll add a few of my go-tos -- n.b. I have zero affiliation with these or any clothing companies:

~ Flannel shirts : Codet / Big Bill

~Rugby shirts and similar : Columbiaknit

~T-shirts, turtlenecks, sweatshirts : Union Shirt Supply

~Jeans : Roundhouse, Texas Jeans

~Khakis : Bill's

~Polyester "dress jeans" [? right] : Wrangler 'wrancher'
[made in Mexico, last forever]
~Cycling bibs : TheBlackBibs [great, made overseas]

~Mountain bike shorts : Zoic [reasonably OK, made overseas]

~Dress shirts : WhiteDressShirts [when absolutely necessary]

~Belts : Bison Designs

Socks and underwear - there used to be good options in this category, but getting verrrrrry hard to find, so I've regrettably started treating them as one-or-two-season-then-toss

- When I can find the time [rarely], I also look for stuff at thrift stores, mainly for the environmental benefit [though the low price doesn't hurt!] -- mostly oxford shirts for everyday wear

I have a hard time focusing if I'm not comfortable, so for me, clothing like the above is a worthwhile investment

*I used to get this much wear and more out of shoes [buy quality boots and shoes, get resoled as needed], but since I've moved to sneakers [due to leg and foot injury], generally I only get a season out of sneaks even with a multi-pair rotation.
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I don't share ideas with many people anymore. Even ideas, and especially not goals. Any negative people are out, which unfortunately is too many.

The few that are trusted and have an analytical mindset are helpful for sound boarding, even if you don't exactly get them to immediately quit their jobs and join you at exciting-new-startup-here.tld.

Finally, I try to spend more time in general with those directly contributing to achieve my goals, usually in the activity itself (e.g. work, training, study). Work can be harder to navigate because, well, I'm not responsible for firing ;-) but it is possible to at least move the needle.
So? That is true for either client side option, which is why you need server side validation as well.
> Again I'm going to ask: why are we forcing everyone into one style of office?

I addressed that in my reply:
"That said, you suggestion (about having both types) might work in ideal world. In real world you wouldn't really have a choice most of the time, because if your team mostly works in open office, you will miss* out on a lot if working in closed office. And if majority of people work in closed offices, then you loose all the benefits that open offices bring anyway.

So you would end up in whatever team lead decided that its best.

* And likely be considered antisocial.
"

> My entire career has been a test showing that I can't get much done in isolation. Open offices work great for me, and at this point, I will not take a job that requires me to work in isolation.

Well if the rest of the team, is in their own offices and you are alone or with people from other groups/teams how exactly will that work for you, you might as well be in coffee shop across the street.

I am not trying to say that you should like individual offices, but you can't really mix both of them together, unless your teams are huge (which I personally dislike).

Edit: Not sure if I explained myself correctly (I am not trying to say that some people don't work better in open offices), and I come of across as a bit of a jerk, which was unintentional.

Edit2: and its a moot point mostly anyway, because open offices are cheaper, so there will always be plenty of companies with open offices, whatever studies show.
You sort of answered your own question. Yes, there are people who are smart but poor. But they are significantly outnumbered by those who are poor but don't have great financial/investment sense. Since there isn't really a good way to differentiate between the two, you have to choose between letting many people be scammed to enable the few to invest or prevent the few from investing to protect the majority.
Why would you want to throw away "nuclear waste" - we should be burning it! It's only viewed as waste because of politics and ignorance. Instead of stupidly burying it we should be building the various reactors that will easily burn our existing waste - dramatically reducing the overall radioactivity and producing energy at the same time!

All the fear mongering around nuclear power is beyond hysterical at this point :(
With all these buy-it-for-life garments, there needs to be some kind of control to demonstrate the advantage of the BIFL version. Some heavy, $100 wool hoody might last 10+ years, but so has my $20 cotton one from Americal Apparel (and I don't need the additional warmth from wool, I'd wear my Pata Nano-Air if I did). A $300 GoRuck pack is bomber, but my $50 North Face backpack from college has lasted 12 years through snowy winters, international traveling, hiking etc. Sometimes "overbuilt" is just that and not really needed, unless you really treat your belongings roughly (you're an actual soldier or thru-hiker).
The Echo Loop might be a dud or it might be a winner we don't expect but I am glad they are trying it. We have no idea what form factor of wearable will end up winning and being in the set of things people use and like.

Good for Amazon for trying something new and having the resources to experiment with a new form factor. I have no idea of a ring with a voice interface will stand the test of time but I would like to know if it has any merit.
Most "accelerationists" these days are right-accelerationists, because it turns out it only seems like a good idea if you don't actually care about human suffering.
anecdotally - non-homogenised milk (that is, milk with the cream at the top still present) is a nice treat when I can find it.
>I'd probably wouldn't be able to afford a car at all anymore

If you have purchased a Tesla before that point, others will be paying you for rides in your self-driving car as part of a ride-hailing fleet. Just a thought, might not pan out, as with any investment.

It's not so much about what you support... the tax will come down from above with or without your support. It's more about what investments are you willing to make personally, because that part is really up to you. There are risks, to be sure, but in the meantime it's a fun, safe car that doesn't cost as much as people think.
Satire or not, I spent all day debugging very similar FCM issues, but under React Native. What looks like rate limiting can also be attributable to a wonky application lifecycle integration between RN/Android. What times we live in!
Heck a fraction of the salary in Atlanta, can get you the nice big house in the burbs, with the good school system, and the white picket fence.
Not an anti-vaxxer either, but it is absolutely not true that there is no potential harm from vaccination.

For one thing there's a risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome.

There's also an inherent risk with introducing anything at all into your body via needle -- where/how was it stored; what other quality controls were practiced?
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Thanks for sharing the link! I remember watching that presentation ... I really liked how thorough it was. I'll include the links in the article as an additional reference!

> Upping the MTU is "easy" on Android (you can do it, but I've had mixed results)

hehe, yeah, I've definitely run into some interesting issues when changing the MTU on android. There's a class of older devices that seem to only support the default MTU size but will happily negotiate a 512 byte MTU and then drop the data for you :)
I've never seen that abbreviation and I don't like them but if you like, use it. Multiplicities!

I would say that you need Inventing the future, that while being limited in many things, is a necessary read.

Then proceed with Capitalist Realism and if you like it, Fanged Noumena.
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Zero litter at the event, but yeah, some people are hella irresponsible w/ disposing of the trash after they've left the event. They're not just throwing it on the ground (that I've seen, anyway), but they're leaving it in any random trash can they can find, rather than paying to dump it (which there is ample opportunity to do -- a cottage industry springs up of people taking trash for $5 a bag post BM).

Probably burning man should just include end-of-event trash disposal in the ticket price, and have an official collection area people can dump their trash. (Probably some reluctance on BM part to do this 'cuz of the somewhat-inaccurate "radical self-reliance" principle.)
[Premature sense of completeness]
Sums it all. I'd also add that such negative behavior is encouraged in our society to the point where praise is given for anything said, which is not even done yet. Premature achievers as well indeed take the idea of making the first step further down the perdition road and assume it's indeed even better to announce it publicly. I've always felt that speaking of what I plan to achieve is worthless because I knew I was seeking some gratification behind it, which sucked because why would you seek praise for what you haven't done yet?
Yes I agree, going to the extreme in either direction is not healthy
It's a ridiculous law that will have to change once deepfakes become more prevalent. Some type of real identity on the web I believe will need to take hold.

The Internet is a public forum would do and say the same things in public you do online?
criminals and politicians, mainly
That's actually a very good point. That's kinda why Housing will always return 0 (real return - not including all the costs, like property taxes, repairs, HOA, insurance, etc) in the long run. And if we're actually making progress on housing, it'll return negative returns.

Now as for other stuff, returns can be greater than 0 because there's more stuff to buy, later on, hence greater than what there is today. There are two components to long term returns above 0: population growth and productivity growth. In the past century we've done quite well on both fronts. Productivity has expanded at 2% per year and populations have increased by a massive 1.6% per year, add to that the 4% dividend and 3.5% for inflation and that gives you the 10% return on equities everyone is quoting.

but the future returns are expected to be much much lower. labor force size in the US is projected to grow 0.4% and per capita increase in productivity is now at about 1% for the last 20 years. and dividends are roughtly 1.8%. So, in the longer term, not including a contraction in PEs, we can see roughly 3% increase in equities on average/yearly
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Welcome to never. You might as well fly to Vegas with all your money and lay it all on black at roulette. Save you some time.
Again, can you provide data measured by "tons of outlets", SQ, not NC. As I said my $10 earmuffs beat Bose at NC. :-D
> Many people, including the author of the article, go the extra step to say that open offices are bad.

So would I. Suggesting they're bad for most people means that they're likely "bad" (i.e. not the best available workspace).

> I don't think you can argue against the fact that a significant portion of the population works well in open offices

If you're defining "works well" as "gets their work done", then I won't dispute it.

That's not the issue though. Do they do their best work? Do they lose productivity to the open office? Do they try to find jobs without open offices?

Yes to all of those questions[1][2][3][4].

> Instead, we should be focusing on finding office situations that work for each of us, and letting others choose office situations that work for them.

That's the thing, though. Remote-only companies are exactly that. You can opt into an office if you want to -- just gather some coworkers or go to a coworking space.

The oppressive decision-making you're referring to is inherent to open-office-only companies, where they say, "If you want to work here, you'll work in a large, loud room full of distractions."

1. https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/new-harvard-study-you-o...

2. https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/harvard-research-op...

3. https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/success/tca-the-open...

4. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateharrison/2018/11/07/new-stu...
Right but in real practical terms the cost for an individual and businesses to have goods in hand is going up. The second order effect is that the cost of goods from local businesses are also going up since that they were taking advantage of cheap shipping too.

In vague hand wavy tickle down from a government that isn't going to lower taxes nor reduce total expenditure there might be a benefit in increased funding available for other things but the visible net effect is less money in individual Americans' pockets.
Ryan was a fantastic mentor to me and a lot of people in the jailbreak community. His work set a high bar for what tweaks could be, and Activator in particular spawned a small ecosystem of quick actions. I’m honored by the comparison :)

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How the hell does that get past QC?

Also heartily agree with other comments about Google's update processes in general.

Trust is still a house of cards in computing :(
Incidentally a nice talk on the topic is about to begin: https://m.twitch.tv/trust_support/profile?desktop-redirect=o...
Programmers developed containers and kubernetes to cover this space, but we haven't created a consumer OS with programs each in their own container.
Interesting! I would have never guessed that starting from Earth, getting to Mars is harder (by about 5%) than escaping the Solar system.
7:15 - wake up

7:45 - stop cuddling my cat and reading reddit and attempt to get up

8:15 - actually get up

8:20 - shower/brush teeth, try to decide if I messed up my beard lines

8:30 - leave for work

Now, I want to change that to something more productive and add some solo jiu-jitsu and mobility work in the morning.
Do you think there is more potential harm, both to an individual and to the people they come in contact with, from getting vaccinated or not getting vaccinated?
I'm not entirely sure the best solution is to educate people on buying quality clothes. While that is important, I suspect that consumption isn't just due to shitty clothes wearing out too soon. It's probably due to our culture of fashion trends and constant consumption and the "keeping up with the Joneses". If you go on fashion subreddits, you'll hear people talk about how you need to buy long lasting clothes, inevitably quoting that tired Terry Pratchett segment on boots^[1]. Except these same people have 10 pairs of long lasting boots!

I don't know the answer because honestly, I do like buying new clothes. I do like changing how I look. I do like looking good. And I'm far from alone in this regard. Maybe instead of blaming the consumer, there should be some regulation on manufacturing clothing? Or some sort of carbon/pollution tax? A cynical take on this is that fast fashion companies are attempting to foist the blame onto the consumer, when really they're preying off a universal desire to look pretty and polluting the environment in the process. We should of course educate people on the impact of their choices. But telling people to stop buying stuff to make them look pretty is going against a very basic, very fundamental desire.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...
This happens to me too, and it's doubly worse when I've made a little progress on a project in addition to telling/showing someone.

For example, a couple of days ago, I implemented a 'MVP' for a sweet (my opinion ;) IntelliJ plugin[1], but since telling/showing co-workers I lost the motivation that got me started on it.

[1]: https://github.com/nndi-oss/intellij-gensett
> I think for an outdoors apparel company, being visibly concerned about conservation and global warming is very on-brand

Except "Extinction" is pretty radical, extreme, and alarmist. Even for someone that supports doing something about global warming.
That's not true, just yesterday there was trending article[1] about journalist who was forced to take down the article.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21047308
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I'm surprised everyone has such black and white views on this. Some things are in the public's interest to record permanently. Some aren't. Laws that respect that distinction are great.

Recording everything forever is good in the same way that a total lack of privacy is good. Many things should be transparent, and they should be recorded. But there's room for nuance.
Been wanting this for a while. How else can one communicate the power of ciso8601 over step time?
I found that after leaving Twitter, and most social media for that matter, I wouldn't see this anymore.

I am considered very left even in my country (France), and I had several discussion with people with various political opinion. If it got pretty heated sometimes, it was always respectful and never insulting.

Political discussion can get pretty heated, and thats normal. We could even argue that in a working democracy it should happen.
But what I see on social media is people not listening to each other, constently insulting the other side, competing to be the most "left", "right" or whatever. Simplifying complex problem also and generally reacting with very little information.
>However I don't buy EROEI as being a good measure in a discussion about long term climate change and the wholistic picture of an energy source.

You're right, it's not (climate wise), as it hides the externalities.

But it's my understanding that the parent meant "efficient" in the way EROEI is.