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>How to get higher wages? How to get lower costs?

Gee I wonder...

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/

>CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
Typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that time

>What this report finds: The increased focus on growing inequality has led to an increased focus on CEO pay. Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages. Average pay of CEOs at the top 350 firms in 2018 was $17.2 million—or $14.0 million using a more conservative measure. (Stock options make up a big part of CEO pay packages, and the conservative measure values the options when granted, versus when cashed in, or “realized.”)

>CEO compensation is very high relative to typical worker compensation (by a ratio of 278-to-1 or 221-to-1). In contrast, the CEO-to-typical-worker compensation ratio (options realized) was 20-to-1 in 1965 and 58-to-1 in 1989. CEOs are even making a lot more—about five times as much—as other earners in the top 0.1%.

>From 1978 to 2018, CEO compensation grew by 1,007.5% (940.3% under the options-realized measure), far outstripping S&P stock market growth (706.7%) and the wage growth of very high earners (339.2%). In contrast, wages for the typical worker grew by just 11.9%.
It probably would be healthier for a lot of adults. They even find that because of set work start times, the average adult in the western edge of a time zone ends up sleeping less than the one in the eastern edge.
Indeed, school hours are tied to work hours. Now and forever.
Thanks for posting this!

I'm Guyanese, and a lot of the information in the article was new to me — schools here teach extensively the historical linkages to Britain (who we gained independence from) and to a lesser extent France and the Netherlands, but never Scotland.
Because there was absolutely nothing to be gained from testifying. Conservatives were going to go after her regardless of what she said, so why talk at all?

It's the ultimate "don't talk to cops", nothing you can say can ever help you and everything you say can hurt you, except Congressional Republicans don't even have to adhere to the very low standards that cops do. They can literally just say whatever, so there is flatly no upside in talking to them at all.
Computer scientist who pioneered 'copy' and 'paste' has died
Anything is possible if you are desperate enough :)

I played (and finished) the first Witcher game on a x201.
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> I believe his argument is more around how we're calculating inflation, i.e. that prices have actually gone up more than economists claim through inflation.

Right. But @dvt is correct that the Dodge Caravan example undermines that point. The author's premise is that economists' measures of inflation understate the true amount of inflation--the prices of goods grew faster than you would expect using accepted inflation measures. But the Dodge Caravan's price grew slower than economists' inflation measures would predict. It should cost $28,647 today, but costs only $26,300.
Here in NL the tide is slowly turning in favor of adding more nuclear to the mix. It's getting increasingly clear that wind and solar alone are not going to cut it, after the low hanging fruit has been picked. There's simply no space for the required overcapacity if we want to be self sufficient.

Currently, we're getting so much of our base load from coal, it's embarrassing. We'll probably have a mix of wind, rooftop solar, natural gas and nuclear in the future. Dumping excess energy as hydrogen -> methane in our huge natural gas grid.
Just not putting all my cards on the table for them to see yet, but I will eventually. The tone drew attention to the case from press and local authorities, which resulted in the right people reaching out to me. It's unconventional, but there's a method in my madness.
Large portions of the US populations arguably already live in shantytowns; run down inner cities inhabited by great migration blacks, sprawling exurbs in the south and south west inhabited by recent hispanic immigrants, many illegal, and trailer parks in the rust belt where white factory workers layed off by globalization are dying from opioids.

Its only in a few well insulated big cities that the true effects of globalization are kept far enough away to not be immediately obvious.
Alcoholic liver disease rates soar among younger people
Sure, each reliability nine increases the cost 10x. However, this doesn't even look like 90%...
> a DBA should not be a gatekeeper of what gets put into a database. Storing 200 bytes of extra data per row costs you absolutely nothing.

To be fair, isn't it the DBA's job to gatekeep the database? The application programmers and business managers don't have the in-depth understanding to know how every individual change will effect the database. Of course they should follow best practices, but it's not really their job to know it inside and out - that's what the DBA does.

You don't know that 200 bytes per row would cost nothing - that's the DBA's job to understand it's cost. And we aren't talking about the amount of data, but without an in-depth understanding of what tables they were adding it to, how they're indexed, cached, etc, then you don't know the real cost. That 200 bytes might mean less can be stored in memory, if this is a frequently fetched table then that could be bad.

That's not to say the DBA made the right call, but that we don't have enough information to know if it was.
Because in the past we hired some programmers that were really good at BS-ing during interview and really crappy at programming.

So now we make sure we hire people who know what "a &= b" does in C and what a #define statement achieves.
> (did Romans really do that?)

There's a Catullus poem that suggested they did, but clearly it wasn't all Romans, and some of the others even derided them for it.

http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/e39.htm
That is Sameer Al-Sakran, CEO of https://www.metabase.com.

And here is a recently show-hn'd OSS metabase alternative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22347516

You might also like reading a recent news.yc discussion on BI tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21513566
I don’t really believe that; it’s also weird how many people argue in favor of a larger population. And anyhow the resources I want most are space, peace, and silence - all of which increase with a smaller population.
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It's fascinating that aside from being Latin, most of that ancient graffiti could have just as easily been scribbled on a modern toilet stall. Dick jokes are fundamental to what it means to be human.
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It may be 9 miles but at the wrong time of day (e.g. when the sun is out) it could take you hours. I hate driving in LA.
About two years after my company was bought by a larger one, I was the first person at the office one morning, only to find someone waiting outside the doors. Before I could ask, he introduced himself as an employee from an out-of-town office, and produced a company ID, so I let him in with me.

We had been told to expect some visitors from that office, but I was almost hoping he was not legit, since most of us at my location still do not have a company ID, so I couldn't really say if his was real or not.
Is your question intended to establish or imply that there is an error of fact in my previous post? It is not clear to me that there is any necessary relationship between the two.
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Well the debt really acts like a line of credit, in that we are using it for hardware which is then immediately put into service and generating revenue, so the available debt and the drawn down debt are different terms and really there is no need to draw additional down additional debt if the company stopped growing tomorrow.

That aside on the equity side we only raised $123MM. Assuming that the acquiring entity sees the debt as a line of credit that is backed by a revenue generating asset (servers with customers on them) then the company would need to be acquired for $123MM for common shareholders to end up with nothing.

Given that we are already over $250MM in revenue that seems very unlikely.

PS> I hope this comment ages well =]
This is a function of how schools are funded in the US.

Not just schools. A lot of government-related sectors.

Transit is a big one. Back when I used to follow this sort fo thing, I would see a lot of municipalities turning down federal grants because the money could only be spent on buses, trains, an related infrastructure; and the towns and cities didn't have the money to pay for the people involved.

Maybe when self-driving vehicles become common, this won't be so much of a problem anymore.
Amazing, going to give it a try. How are you going to monetize? Like Metabase?

Edit: Nevermind, just read your last paragraph :-)
Here is the Unreal Engine tech they are using: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spotlights/unreal-engine-... . This is a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bErPsq5kPzE&feature=emb_logo .
There is no guarantee after a few months this wouldn't go back to the way it was. Too often people think the change will affect permanent behaviour, when change itself affects behaviour.
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I agree that many live in sub-average and sub-human living standards.

What I'm trying to point out is that some home might be an upgrade from _no home_
This is great! What about adding some multiples?
Sleep.
Sleep, Data.
How did we arrive at the situation where roads are public, but internet isn't? I'd argue many more people use the internet than own a car.
Real estate data, and companies like compstak are exactly the kind of niche markets I'm talking about. Agents are willing to spend large sums to get access to this data and it can be resold multiple times. Unfortunately it is also a market full of existing competition with some established players.

What other markets for data are similar? In general, data that leads to prospect generation is desirable because sales agents are willing to spend money to make money. Are there any other markets like that?
- We had a good view of what to do product-wise - the key thing that is different for us is the open source model.

- I'd stress how important it was feeling inspired by the idea. Ian from Mattermost was really helpful, as were Dalton and the YC partners. Enjoying what we were working on probably tripled our speed.

- I'm meh technically, so we focussed on making sure Tim (CTO) could focus on exclusively the development. We split it up pretty clearly to create the right environment. I did the design, product, website (Elementor/WP) and docs, Aaron focussed on getting user feedback.

- We spent $1k on marketing, to speed up user engagement early on, so that helped get some bugs out.

Will do a blog post if there's more interest in the journey.
The anti-cheat argument is an interesting one. It's not merely an obstacle to Linux adoption (it's also not special in that regard; just another first-party-support problem). It's a cultural problem that we cannot fix with technology.

Intrusive anti-cheat exists for a very simple reason. Many game developers will neither grant users the ability to moderate their own spaces (as they once could) nor dedicate the appropriate resources to do so themselves. If they did, server-side heuristics would largely suffice.

Furthermore: evangelism is good. Without it, Linux would be nowhere near what it is today. Even if the platform somehow magic'd itself into getting both end users and manufacturers to give a damn without the other one already having done so, and it could in this manner achieve feature and accessibility parity with Windows, people still wouldn't jump ship. Without some kind of major technical argument in favor of Linux (which is not likely to happen as all 3 major x86 OSes are pretty much always cutting-edge), the ideological angle is the best one we have.
I mean, the business cares how much profits they make. If it was cost effective, it is easier to justify moving it to other stores.
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When I was working at Amazon a few years ago, PowerPoint was banned for most employees (at least for engineers and their immediate management). It was refreshing to see that the presenters had to be prepared to communicate a well thought-out topic, instead of relying on the slides (or worse, reading out the slides verbatim). Any dense form of communication had to be done in writing beforehand.

In my opinion, slides should only be used to visualize information; charts, digrams, illustrations, etc. They should also, sparingly, demonstrate the structure of the presentation; think of it as a serialized version of your mind map. Any more information should come from the presenter otherwise.
I like to jump in the air when I think of that song and try to visualise how far I actually traveled (wrt centre of the galaxy) in that 1 second or so. One day I'll actually do the math...

But back on topic, I've been looking for a small data set of stars for a little project that I've had in the back on my mind for the last 10 years or so, and this article has one: awesome.
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How do you recommend we go about telling someone they cannot earn what they can convince someone to pay them, or that a company/board cannot pay the CEO as much as they're willing to?
It's all in the definition of "succeed".

Can they establish a strong enough market position to participate in the game of skimming 30% off the price all app sales for yet another walled-garden platform? Definitely not, but that's not the goal.

Can they provide a useful system for technical users, like KDE and Linux on the desktop? Seems like they have a good shot at it.
Languages are API too, right? In a way.

This might limit someone else's to reimplement the language's own specs? Something like LLVM will be forbidden in this case?

And Web is a complete mess, if CSS also an API? Are different JS engines will be allowed to be implemented later?
For the VFX industry, the tracking had already been solved for ages, with those reflective little balls on suits etc. in a mocap system.
The Wii sensor bar's thing was that it was really cheap.

But yes, damn close to a holodeck. But you can't see depth in this setup, right?
You make a good argument why synthesized methane is a great alternative to natural gas.

Also, electric cars are way cleaner than ICE vehicles over their life-time. I don't think there's any dispute about that.
The anti-nuclear hysteria is truly bizarre. France has been doing an amazing job in terms of emissions targets for a decade now thanks to nuclear, and yet they somehow still decided to roll it off in favour of PV+wind which have no advantages over what they already had.
I got pretty mediocre grades in middle school. I always stayed up way too late on my computer. However I noticed looking back there was one exceptional quarter: when my first class was PE.

I think running a mile at the start of every day did something to my brain. I advocate PE as the first class for all students.
Not really, put it in the bin, collect outside later. And how is that any different to other stores? Does costco not sell chocolate or tampons or things that are easy to steal? Even if in big packages, break it open, it goes out the back.
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I agree it is expensive to gather but is it something that can be sold at high cost to 1000s of customers? It seems the market for purchasers of that data might be limited to a small number of companies, probably hoping to build ML models.
> Start treating them reasonably

This is stupid though. Is $3 more treating them reasonably? Where is that definition?
Find ceos with some integrity for a change.

http://newsinflight.com/2018/12/03/japan-airlines-ceo-took-a...
I apologize. I'm confused - is the point that we should have raised less debt? Or not used debt?

Linode was founded in 2003 and grew to $100MM in revenue in 16 years.

DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 and launched in 2012 and grew to $250MM in revenue in 7 years.

Stands to reason we would need more money over a shorter period of time to achieve that.

The $3MM seed round wasn't used to buy equipment but to fund the business. It improved our balance sheet which allowed us to obtain more leases from vendors which were getting worried about how much exposure they had to us without much of a financial history.

Secondly, we went from signing up 5 customers a day to 250 customers a day after product market fit. When we signed up 5 customers a day I could do most of the customer support myself along with one employee and some backstop from our original company. But at 250 customers signing up every day we obviously needed a dedicated support team, so there were immediate necessities to hiring more people as we went from an "idea/product" to a complete company. We didn't need to hire one more support person, we needed to hire an entire support team over night so that we could have 24/7/365 coverage. Again hard to do that if you don't have capital available to pay salaries. And that's just one team/function of the company that underwent tremendous stress pre and post product market fit.

As for the financial health of the business:

The debt terms require repayment as you yourself know. Whether you use leases or have a single larger structure like debt, either way this isn't "burn" money. You need to repay it with interest.

With an equity raise you can "burn" the money because you never have to repay it, as investors received stock in exchange for the funds.

When you look at the equity side of the business we have raised a total of $123MM to date and the last raise was in July 2015. We haven't raised any outside equity capital to fund the business since then.

Meaning that we are capital efficient and not losing $50MM/yr or some outrageous amount. Otherwise we would have been forced to raise an additional round of funding.
I think I meant more in terms of use cases. So it sounds like one of your use cases is logging scientific results...?
It's an entertaining book, and I like some of the things that it is trying to do, but it has some issues that it really shouldn't have.

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Or a pan-tilt camera with a long focal length. I see this as much more viable than a wide angle ultra-high-res one, because it's sort of how the eye works anyway: one really high-res patch, then the rest low-res.
Testing cars you can't afford is awesome

I can see the value in test driving a car a class above your level so you can see what you're missing. When I was looking for a car, I tried out a low-end Acura in addition to a high-end Honda, but those are $35K and $45K cars.

I could probably justify the $10K jump in price if the Acura was spectacular, but no matter how much I love an $80K car, I could never justify buying one.
We ask schools to be all things for all people, so it is, of course, both and neither.
I live in a rainy area and I drive a Model 3. The other day it got into a high risk situation on autopilot, because it doesn't have any ability to consider rain intensity, big puddles, or rain-filled ruts. It is far more dangerous than an average driver.

And don't even get me started on the "automatic" windshield wipers.
how about a culture that understands people are just different, and all of them will likely wake up at different times
I am polite to all people because it is the right thing to do, I don't even worry about whether they have a horrid office or no.
Realistically it's too late for that. Industries that want to be apolitical need to actually behave apolitically, one look at the circus of blatantly political employee activism at google and other big companies demonstrates that tech can't be trusted to be adult enough to accomplish that goal.
Wrong. Tiger in particular was seriously into fitness.

Tiger Woods on his old workout routine: “Well, I used to get up in the morning, run four miles,” Woods said. “Then I’d go to the gym, do my lift. Then I’d hit balls for two to three hours. I’d go play, come back, work on my short game. I’d go run another four more miles, and then if anyone wanted to play basketball or tennis, I would go play basketball or tennis. That was a daily routine.

https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/tiger-woods-revea...
I've had an Ikea foam mattress for a few years, and I really like it. I think it cost around $900 for a queen size (?)
Same one, confirmed on his twitter https://twitter.com/LaszloBock/status/1230520252384993285
Looks cool :)

Curious as to how deep you plan to go on the peripherals to product analytics - attaching additional attributes to users to group them (eg. Subscription level), getting a view into attribution channels for marketing strategy etc.
I hope this comment ages well also! People deserve compensation for the value they've created.

I appreciate that you took the time to reply; you might have Crunchbase update their info, as my comments are based off them showing >$300MM in equity funding. Your numbers make the scenario look much better.
> At an earlier stage in litigation, the Obama administration took a similar position, urging the Supreme Court not to accept Google's appeal.

Both parties don't seem to understand the issue, for what it's worth.
I feel like this is ultimately not the motivating factor and that anti-trust is more-so the reason. Apple wants to keep regulators just happy enough.

"Apple Music now has more paid subscribers in the United States than Spotify, according to a new report by Reuters. A “person familiar with the matter” told Reuters that Apple now has 28 million paid subscribers, while Spotify has 26 million. However, thanks to Spotify’s free tier, the Swedish streaming company reportedly still holds more overall users than Apple Music in the U.S."

https://pitchfork.com/news/apple-music-now-has-more-paid-us-...
>we're supposed to believe that some nobody henchmen are solely responsible for this and ignore the fact that the Saudis own a third of the company

Without proof for your second part... yes.
It appears they've got an open source licence on Dolt, which is a CLI tool to be used in tandem with DoltHub?
Failure in opsec does not prove that telling people to encrypt create worse security than explicitly telling people to not encrypt.

I do not see any extraordinary evidence that support your claim. It still sounds more like you are advocating for plain text, and since the encryption wars has been on going for the last 40 years it is worrying to see a new front being formed.

There are two requirements: Plain text should be banned from the network and sensitive data at rest in the hands of third parties should always be encrypted. Advancement in email security has gone forward enough that if both sides of a communication are running their own email server than the need for PGP has been made redundant. If however an untrusted third party is used by either side then the second requirement is not unfulfilled and sensitive data is leaked.

People can pretend that they don't have sensitive data and a single look at the company CRM, HR, customer registers and so on will show that it is really hard to operate a company without handling sensitive data which under GDPR has some real legal ramifications. A single email attachment and now a third party has a copy of that, and a data breach later at the service provider and a law suit happens. With that threat model and enough cases ending up in the news the cost of running unencrypted email goes up.
+ if they are making money out of the published content. The reasoning, that they fall under "Publisher" category is logical and valid.
"You can pay your CEO whatever amount you want so long as it isn't 50 times more than the lowest hourly wage times 2080 that you pay any employee of yours."
...
Queue the gig economy...