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> a bit of topic, but what is arbitration and why is it bad? We don't have it here in Europe (or at least is not very diffused).

You have plenty of arbitration in the EU. It involves a "third party" (supposedly outside of the control of either party involved) which resolves the dispute between the two parties according to the law en possibly some other set of rules which both parties agreed to before entering into a contract. This avoids going to the judiciary and is usually a lot cheaper for the customer as well as the loser of the proceedings. The disadvantage is, that in some cases the use of such arbitration voids legal (civil) cases to be made (e.g. agree to arbitrage, you cannot sue).

Some arbitration is set up by law (enacted by law), some is set up by special interest groups to avoid differences between companies within the same line of work and some are set up by companies themselves. In the EU it is mostly the first two.

My personal opinion is to avoid them like the plague unless you have no way to go to court (e.g. no money) as they rarely have solid arguments and rule in favor of the companies way more often than not.
As far as I am aware you are always allowed to reject arbitration in the EU and go to court, though that might be more difficult and expensive and not always wise. Contact a lawyer beforehand would be my advise, most EU countries have some form of basic (free/cheap) legal assistance.

See https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/consumers/reso... for instance

edit: list of all commissions is here and https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/main/?event=main.adr.show... and is about 450 items long

edit2: As far as I know, force arbitration is generally considered "unfair" but this differs per country and might not be applicable in all circumstances. Some explanation: https://www.hausfeld.com/news-press/mandatory-arbitration-in...
Hello nobody here, In my world 40plus crew everyone knows the Knack , my bologna first I’ve heard of it. So thanks for that.
On the other hand, new streams of revenue as well as increases in existing revenue streams are emerging as a result of the lockdowns.

The question is, will these increases fully offset the permanent loss of existing revenues + the cascading costs of disruption due to things like job losses.
What do you call it when you expect to be able to screw over your fellow man, and have the state's monopoly on violence protect you for it?
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I'm buying toilet paper about once every five years. Not sure how others manage to go through the stuff so quickly. On the bright side, I bought some last year, so I'm covered for a few years.
Overall social interaction or in-office social interaction or specifically with your coworkers?

As WFH for over a decade:

- overall social interaction is fixed by hobby groups, going out with friends and/or SO (either post-hours or for lunch) etc

- in office social interaction can be fixed by working out of coworking space. Not my cup of tea and I do enjoy silence, but it works for those who want it. Podcast over headphones may be good enough for some too.

- interaction with coworkers over online is fine IMO. Especially if you get to see them IRL once in a while. It may feel weird at first to just talk crap for 10 or 20 minutes before/after conference call. Random calls just to talk both work and life might feel out of place at first. But on the other hand that's what people do at office, eh?
The Economist magazine, they have a paywall but you get to read a handful of articles for free. Many of the Covid-19 relevant articles are publicly viewable and you can access more if you sign up for a newsletter.

https://www.economist.com/
> I'm anticipating that most HNers prompted to comment here will be those thinking this unlikely or wrong or whatever.

On the contrary, this seems like the most honest take on the topic of remote work preferences.

The headline says that 50% of Americans prefer working from home. That suggests that 50% prefer working from the office or aren't sure yet.

In other words: Some people like to work from home. Some people don't. That's the point that many of us have been trying to make all along.

When quarantining started, a lot of the WFH advocates came out of the woodwork and declared an early victory for WFH. There was an influx of hot takes that office spaces would be closed forever once people saw the benefits of WFH. They all ignored half of the population who really does not benefit from working from home.
Therein lies the rub. Determining a representative sample is far more complex than most pollsters would like to admit.
Unfortunately images look like crap, due to them being way too low resolution.

Probably because the images used are dithered and upscaled from small original images.
Wouldn’t this problem be even harder to deal with if you didn’t work remotely? You only need to plan for the radius of one person’s commute rather than limiting your housing options to a balance of two locations.
Let's note that distributed companies almost always clearly make the distinction between "remote work" and "work from home".

Some of them are openly "against" work from home.
We can structure our choice of house around kids, e.g. an attached office with separate entrance. An office complex with facilities and maintenance costs on the order of $600/mo per desk, which is about what a city commute costs.
It's the end of the office as we know it
Also, there's a muppet version of him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfZVNv6w2E
Categories are Algebraic structures, that are related to this hierarchy:

- Monoids are Categories with a single object.

- Algebras (Non-commutative, Associative) are k-linear Categories, with a single object.

- Any object X in a k-linear category comes with an algebra: R = End(X) = Hom(X,X).

- Any other objects comes with an R-module: Hom(R, X)

- In some cases, we can use this to describe the category as a category of R modules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%E2%80%93Popescu_theore...
I decided to look for a new job after our management only very reluctantly let us all work from home (it was very obvious they just don‘t trust their employees to still do their job when not on site). My productivity has gone up due to no more walk-ups distracting me with questions whenever they like and I don‘t have to waste an hour in the subway every day. My next job will for sure be remote, or at least for a company with strong remote support.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Thomas_Binder/status/124906941282...

That was in Switzerland. The doctor [1] has a history of challenging establishment narratives and was previously arrested in conjunction with the chemical attacks in Syria.

I have read second hand accounts that assert that he was arrested, taken to a mental hospital, and has been released.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Binder2
This kind of rebuttal to the Austrian school is often based upon a misguided idea of monetary neutrality. Inflation does not happen everywhere in the economy at the same time - this is called the Cantillon effect and is a central pillar of Austrian Business Cycle Theory.

You are right, there is very little inflation in the consumer price index (at least nominally), but there is a significant amount of inflation in assets and other parts of the economy that are relatively close to the central bank/printing press. Inflated Silicon Valley salaries, maintained by an influx of VC money bidding up the price of labour, are a great example of this.
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The social interaction from working in an office? Not in the least. My work could mostly be categorized as SW development, and I've been doing it 100% remote for ~5 years. My wife has worked freelance editing from home ~15 years.

We don't see much of each other during the day, as we're busy with our jobs. Not commuting frees up time for social stuff like meeting up with neighbors, going for walks or cycling, meetups, practical pistol practice/competition, etc. The stuff involving larger groups is on temporary hiatus, but stuff with another pal or two are still happening.

Several of my friends live in different states and we don't see each other IRL that often. I have a couple one-on-one and group Telegram chats going with them where we discuss a variety of topics, which is a surprisingly good social outlet.
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>On the other hand, new streams of revenue as well as increases in existing revenue streams are emerging as a result of the lockdowns.

For extremely fewer people...

>The question is, will these increases fully offset the permanent loss of existing revenues + the cascading costs of disruption due to things like job losses.

It wont even be close...
FWIW, this is going do depend highly upon the individual companies. Our own is continuing to bring in and work with interns, even though it does cost a bit more in terms of a FT individual’s time.
I just read the blurb and summary on the page you linked to.

It might be an interesting read, but the main thesis seems false? Globalism has done just fine.

> Elsewhere, the world looks for answers to African debt. the AIDS epidemic, the return of fundamentalism and terrorism. all of which perversely refuse to disappear despite the theoretical rise in global prosperity.

Most of these don't look so intractable any more, even if we haven't solved them, yet.
We currently hire our babysitter for 3 days a week to do stuff with the kids while we work and make money. It works out very well for everybody.
Personally, I can definitely do away with my commute (while it's short, it's still a twice a day anxiety event)

I think there is something to be said about the autonomy we're given while at home. No pretend needed when your interactions with coworkers are purely work-event driven and not social for the sake of "team building" or "Culture".

Give me a paycheck to do work, beyond that transaction I shouldn't owe any more of my mind and body to a job.
Don't use it for additional time spent working uncompensated! Your commute wasn't paid for (typically), so don't give that time away to someone else for free now that you're saving it.
Of course. Many businesses that have closed will not reopen.
I'll pass! Thanks though.
One of my touches with greatness; I met Weird Al. He was besties with my college roomie's wife in high school, so I met him at the wedding. I was a sleep deprived grad student, and without his pencil moustache he looks exactly like my pal Tal, who came from a vastly different non wide-bandgap semiconductor social circle, so I had a fairly surreal conversation with him, "Tal? How do you know Mike?"
"I'm not Tal, I'm Al."

He was a pretty cool guy; no pretense about him, and he could have totally trolled me, but was just real nice about it.
Totally, not saying it isn't a problem in that case either, but rather that remote is hailed as this "you can live anywhere, move to the cheapest city you can!" solution when it's not (for most people).
Shame people can't have stocks without actual jobs and salaries to buy them in the first place, and even that after they first need to feed and shelter themselves...
I've been joking with my coworkers that I'm never coming back to the office when this is over...

I'm sorta serious but not sure I'd be allowed to. We were already allowed 2 days per week of remote working but 5 seems like a stretch.

FWIW I have a dedicated office at home and no kids. Commute is not a factor - I live ~7 miles from the office, it takes 10-15 minutes to get there or get home. There's also an alternative ~7 mile route that is almost entirely bike path I can ride to work on.
I'm sad that economic cycles are considered a natural law, rather than something to be mitigated or designed away.

FWIW, Richard D. Wolff doesn't accept crashes as a given. He advocates worker self-directed enterprises as a mitigation. Having done some workplace democracy (am a huge fan), I regard his effort as more aspirational than prescriptive, but it's nice to have people floating new ideas.
In Germany, a lawyer who called for a demonstration against the curfew first had her website taken down and has been put into psychiatry now (no English link, the Welt is decently reputable):

https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article207246011/Heidelberg-...
Use it as a tool to solve problems. So, find some interesting problems to solve.
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Their central bank practically nationalized the entire economy:

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...

As for Australia they are heading into a deep recession as we speak and who knows if it will be a depression or not but given the state of the world, odds are reasonable.
Oh yes he definitely IS funny :) My point is that he didn't make it because he's funny. Lots of funny people aren't successful.
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> Prior to that there was something called the "putting-out" system, where you'd sew some clothes or whatever and put it outside for someone to collect.

Something similar to this exists in rural Germany, at least in Brandenburg, mostly for fresh or preserved produce where you leave a donation in return.
Honestly remote working to save commute time is awesome. But there are a lot of problems with it too for e.g. mentally unstable people or situations where people can't setup a proper work environment at home (as it's to small for it).

So while I like remote work a lot I think it's best "in general" to only have it just part of the week.

Honestly best is still to not work remote but have a way to work of 10-15min walking or similar (e.g. cycling, reliable public transmute). Enough time to clearly separate work from home and think a bit.

Naturally this is very unlikely to happen.

But worst is if cities are seperated in "residential" and "office" areas as this will make transmute times spike. Having a nice intermixing it much much better. Sure it doesn't guarantee short travel times (or else you would need to potentially move every time you change the job). But it allows them.
How about, after working 3-4 hours at the office, you go outside for a walk before you start on the next 4 hours? I know people who do that, and I think it's a great idea.
If the problem is only poor people, maybe they should figure out how to, y'know, stop being poor. Or maybe the answer is for poor people to be pruned. Not sure what the incentives are for keeping poor people alive. If there aren't any, it's just irrational behavior.
It's a choice to work a non-remote job though. My partner could work, but it wouldn't be remote, so she's a stay at home parent while I work remote, enabling us to live somewhere rural (which also happens to be cheaper; one income easily supports a family of four).

Both people in a relationship could work remote jobs to enable geospatial freedom, also a choice! When someone says that working remote isn't a solution though, that's not accurate. They're saying, "I've chosen a work arrangement that is incompatible with remote work".
Having your kids with you is a transitory thing, when school starts back up the problem will decline sharply.

It’s worth remembering that these are not your standard work from home conditions - you’re being kept in due to an emergency, and trying to also get some work done.
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I feel the same. I've found that having a dedicated work environment can help, e.g. a separate office room with a proper desk, chair and monitor, although realistically that's not possible for a lot of people including myself currently.
There's an excellent graphic novel (Economix) which gives a good broad overview of "the economy". It's very accessible.

https://economixcomix.com/
Wow, using the same colours but swapping the meanings is seriously misleading! In the circle graphs, red is No, but in the bar graph red is Yes.
I did when I started working from home. I was lucky to have a manager who knew about habits and patterns to fix that. A lot of this isn't about going to work but about our habits and patterns.

For example, I have a room I go into and close the door. When I am in there I am working. When I am out of there I'm not. It's like a mental switch. I also use some tricks to keep be from being distracted like a pomodoro timer.

Doesn't work for everyone. But, I learned from training my dog that situational training can be important. If we are training ourselves we might need to train ourselves to be productive at home.
I should be asking you that question. Your own conduct so far would qualify as "confusing the issue" and your screed against these "pro CCP" is decidedly "off-track".
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Thanks that helped!
I am on cloud nine right now. No commute and there is an open window 2 feet away from me. For comparison, I normally have a 40 minute commute and work in a basement all day. In the winter, it is dark when I go in and dark when I come out. Real nice.

I am not sure about the productivity aspect. Since I am client facing and most of my clients are on furlough my main work source has dried up. I'm doing other stuff for the team but none of it has KPIs.
How long have you been working from home? It takes a while to adjust and you can definitely develop bad habits if you're not careful.
"The research was conducted by OFFICE SUPPLY COMPANY Viking"
Thank you,
Yes what i meant was thinking was "forced" arbitration, but is not what i wrote.
I read it, but I almost didn't, because I've already read half a dozen "OMG I survived corona" stories from patients. I was (positively) surprised that it was actually the perspective of an ICU doc in Wuhan.

Also, "HN" (who?) hasn't asserted anything like what you're saying. If that piece is propaganda, it's pretty well done.
I've been working from home for the past month, and honestly I'm tired of it. Perhaps I'm just more outgoing than I thought, but this whole forced WFH episode is really proving to me the importance of face to face communication.
What I wouldn't give for a cube. To my left and right in our open office are engineers who are normally quiet. The row in front of are all business strategy people. They never stop talking. They're on the phone, they're having meetings, they're casually chatting. There's nothing at all to block the sound or the sight of them grouping up in 2s and 6s at each others desk. One even has a rare sight in the office, a desktop phone.
Gotta reinflate the bubble at any cost
Why is it ridiculous? Why does it need to be cleaned up? I'm not sure what the problem is (I don't think I would classify you not finding it visually elegant as a problem).

If anything, the Japanese writing system is very elegant in terms of information flow. In a general sense, each script has its use: kanji for content (meaning), hiragana for function (grammar), katakana for foreign words and sounds. Of course, there are many exceptions to that, but the mix of scripts has benefits for parsing text.

Obviously, the Japanese writing system is not a single constructed system like Hangul, but I don't see any reason why it is inefficient (aside from, perhaps, the time required to learn kanji for school children).
"Critique" isn't just a vague "something could be construed as critique if you squint hard enough", there needs to be an actual human critiquing something. I see no human here, nor any critiquing text. This would be more like meta-critique, which has no protection I've ever heard of.

Stretching the definition of "fair use" is a favorite internet past time. People have gotten pretty good at it. It isn't anywhere near as flexible as people seem to think, and I mean, like, by a couple orders of magnitude. This particular example isn't even close, honestly.
Based on Google's earlier testing HTTP/3 excels in poor-performing networks where dropped packets are more likely or more costly. Cloudflare's blog didn't mention this point at all.

> On a well-optimized site like Google Search, connections are often pre-established, so QUIC’s faster connections can only speed up some requests—but QUIC still improves mean page load time by 8% globally, and up to 13% in regions where latency is higher.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Introducing-QUI...

Another summary: https://kinsta.com/blog/http3/

Older Cloudflare blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-the-past-present-and-futur...
I've never seen ads for the higher end/natural/organic brands such as Tom's of Maine, Nature's Gate, Auromere, Neem, Organix, Dr. Bronner's, or Jason.
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> Cooking is more expensive because food delivery is expensive

No, eating out is more expensive. Cooking is just as cheap as before.
Right now, there's not just wfh but also kids from home. Under normal circumstances they'd spend their day in school.
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I encourage you to share your paper when it's finished. This is an interesting discussion that I'd like to see more people joining.

For what it's worth, I don't think "software engineering" should be accorded the same respect as true engineering disciplines. What we do has little resemblance to real engineering in terms of either the systematic, tried and tested approach or the ethical foundation. It is something I think we should aspire to, but we are a long way from reaching that standard today.

That said, I don't think everyone needs to become a full-fledged software engineer to reach the goals set out in the linked piece. If we do ever achieve something like that, I think it will be because the core of the systems is carefully constructed by experts, and because it provides methods for "malleability" also carefully constructed by experts so that non-experts can use them. That recipe has proved successful in the past, in a wide range of applications from game mods to Excel macros, and I see no reason in principle that it couldn't be used much more widely for other types of software if there is some incentive for the experts to build the core and the extensibility framework around it.
>On aggregate people tend to behave a lot more rationally than individuals do.

Just delegating responsibility for resource allocation to groups of people is not a silver bullet.

"Aggregate people" tasked with distributing wealth (or taking wealth and converting it to some resource and distributing that) seems to be highly succeptable to holding onto more and more of that wealth over time for trickle down distribution within it's own organization.

Large nonprofits regularly come under fire for using too much of their income on their leadership and luxury fluff for themselves. Governments routinely spend their income paying themselves and paying for pork for their friends and paying for fluff instead of making people's lives good. Religions tend to amass more and more wealth until some sub-group tells them to shove it and historically this results in violence. You could fill libraries with the volume of work written about all the ways organizations become corrupted and self serving and fail to achieve their goal.
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