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> There are some things that are simply untranslatable to English

I've often seen this claim, for all kinds of languages, sometimes even between two standard varieties of a single language. For a particular reason, I like to dig deeper. Invariably, the people making this claim are not very educated in linguistics, so it's not wonder this statement comes out wrong. And it is wrong. I challenge them to disprove me with a single counter example, and they are eager to do so. Typically the conversation goes like this:

Them: "You see, in my language we have ⅏⁝⏏⌸."
Me: "And what does it mean?"
Them: "The pain you feel when you stumble around in the dark in drowsy stupor and step onto a plastic construction toy brick with your bare foot."
Me: "You just translated it perfectly, congratulations."

What they mean is: "there often is not a single corresponding foreign word or phrase for a word or phrase in my language", and that's fine; but very far removed from "untranslatable".
Yeah I hear you, but I've been unable to make it work so far. Sometimes when this happens in the office, I would go exercise, and more often than not the flip would be switched afterwards. Doesn't work at home.

I've noticed the same tends to happen in the office if others are not around (if, say, I swap a holiday for a work day or something and am alone when I go in).
I think it depends on your type of work and personality. I personally was already half WFH, and all WFH is way too much for me. I just need at least a day where I can go into meetings in person. I get a motivation boost from interacting with everyone and getting feedback in person in meetings, but it's not like I need that every day. It's not the same on the phone or web conference, and that might just be something that will evolve.
I suspect this is going to have a pretty profound impact on the commercial real estate world. Aside from workers wanting to WFH, anecdotally I know of a few now cash-strapped start-ups that are very seriously considering breaking their leases and having much more of the work force WFH.

If you live in a city right now, just peer out at all of those sky scrapers. A huge amount of that is currently empty office space that costs a fortune. For many companies the idea that this space was truly optional was absurd, but right now companies everywhere are seeing that they have to be able to do 100% remote to survive.

Within a month an office space has gone from essential to being more and more of a luxury, way more expensive per employee than a automatic espresso machine.

I suspect a small but non-trivial number of companies will break their leases in the coming months. But far more companies will emerge from this crisis no longer believing that every employee needs a desk in an office.
TL;DR: A job search website (Zippia) surveyed 500 people about their work from home preferences during the Coronavirus-related quarantining period.

No mention of the study methodology. Given that this was performed by an online job search website, it's not clear that they invested effort into collecting unbiased samples. Visitors looking for new jobs on a somewhat obscure online job search site aren't exactly an unbiased sample.

Regardless, I think the important takeaway is that work from home preferences vary. Not everyone enjoys working in an office. Not everyone enjoys working from home. And not everyone has made up their mind on the topic yet.

They also asked whether or not people thought they were more productive working from home. 44% said yes. When asked if people thought their companies would move to permanent WFH after this, 17% said yes.
I'm a 26 year old male and I prefer going in office over working from home.
> That's not me. ... So I don't downvote anybody ever

Ok, sorry for false accusations. I, too, never downvote anyone for the same reason.
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Most of the examples are newer words like "internet" or "chat", which are the same or similar in both languages. Spanish does have "proper" equivalents ("la red" and "la charla", respectively), but the loan-words are used pretty often. Because Spanish has fewer loan-words, the examples I gave don't sound like "real Spanish". This is less obvious in English because we have already abandoned any pretense of uniformity.
I currently don't have that, but I did in the past, and it sadly didn't help for me.

It seems to be people related: I've noticed the same tends to happen in the office if others are not around (if, say, I swap a holiday for a work day or something and am alone when I go in).
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I believe this sentiment is mostly a symptom of the extreme prevalence of charlatans who use economics as a marketing tool rather than a social science.

Economics is really just accounting, statistics and psychology. But mostly accounting. I think people get really worked up about the “unknowable” parts and fail to see that accounting can open up tremendous insights if we only take the time to understand it well.

If you want to learn about economics for some specific money-making purpose, you’ll probably end up with an incomplete view that frustratingly fails to describe reality most of the time. On the other hand, if you approach the subject simply with an open mind seeking understanding, you will be richly rewarded with deep insights about the structure of society and the human condition.
Your second rank ordering chart, the one by the upper bound of Rt, is deceptive and misleading. North Dakota and Arkansas only have a high upper bound because there are so few cases that the uncertainty is high. That chart and any analysis associated with it are completely without merit.
As a freelancer, especially in between on-site projects, I made a habit of getting a workplace outside the home, explicitly to avoid all the distractions of the home. For a while, I rented a desk at an office, but I've also worked in the lobby of a work-friendly hotel, I've tried working in the library (but their wifi sucks) and various other places. Anything but home.
Yes and that probably describes most suburbanites of all major US cities. Who wouldn’t want to gain an hour+ of their day they spend traveling.
> Another thing that helped me was researching other careers. I found a couple of things I think I would get a great deal of satisfaction from. I felt very trapped in a career I hated, and looking at another 30+ years of this was like a dark cloud over me.

I sometimes wish I had gone to school, but for something other than CS. I got into software development with no career at all, there arent a ton of other interesting fields open to uneducated people. If I had gone to school for some other subject I was interested in, i could still have the option of a well-padi software career, but also in something else that fascinates me, as well as opening up a new class of "hybrid jobs" using programming in specialized domains
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I'm curious about the effects of all the consolidation. The top 5 retail giants will, for example, absorb more market share.
Thanks for pointing this out! I really wish the blog would explain that better. /3 will really shine where connection has degradation.

For me the most exciting part is the seamless network switching potential of /3 on mobile devices
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adittionally to what others have commented, make sure that the room you're working in has enough sunlight and (I can't stress this enough) is well ventilated. It also helps if you can walk outside 5 minutes every hour or so (lawn, terrace, whatever's available). Somewhere where you have open air and you can focus your sight on things that are more than 5 meters away.

As for the long commutes, I'm from a big european city and I still have almost a one hour commute to work. Granted, it's public transit so I can use the time somewhat (netflix on my phone, ebooks or whatever) but it's still two hours that I could otherwise use at the gym, having beers with friends or watching a movie.
EU can't do much.

Poland (radical right government) and Hungary (far right government) have a pact where they veto any EU actions against one of them.

Members of EU are sovereign states. I think kicking them out of the union is only way to proceed if their system does not fit into the EU anymore.
I think they should also have 1.1 in the benchmark results, because it's still very much in widespread use.

Personally, whenever I've experienced "this site is slow", it's either because the server is really congested or there's something else taking the time (like copious amounts of JS executing on the client); both cases in which the tiny improvements (if any) of a protocol version would have zero effect.

When you consider that there's an additional huge chunk of complexity (= bugs) added by these new protocols, for small or even negative performance improvement, it really seems like there is no value being added --- it's more of a burden on everyone except those working on it.
As someone else mentioned, the real culprit here is probably long commutes. Personally, I've worked remotely for 5+ years and don't like staying at home all day. The perfect setup for me is a small office that I can walk to in 5-10 minutes, preferably with a gym and coffeeshop en route. I get out of the house, interact with people, and have a designated work space, without having to sit in a car or a crowded subway train for an hour+ each day.
do you mean all the entities you listed above publish propaganda according to your definition, e.g. to sell copies, to explicitly push an agenda, although someone prefer to give them other names? do you want to revise your definition of propaganda?
In the last 15 years, I've worked as a developer:

- on site for a non-tech company

- on site for 2-3 small tech companies (10-100 employees) between 20 and 60 minutes away (depending on traffic)

- fully remote for a tech company 5 hours drive away (with on-site visits 2-3 times per year)

- a blend of on-site and remote at my own discretion for a tech company 20-45 minutes away

- fully remote as a contractor with occasional (monthly-ish) on-site visits

What I have learned through the years is that my needs change with the growth of my family and the dynamics of my work. I have by far enjoyed working the remote/on-site blend because it allows me the freedom to make a mature decision about my own work needs each day.

What we especially as thought workers ought to be advocating for as an industry is the freedom to CHOOSE where we work each day, not a fully-remote mandate or an on-site mandate. To me, this is a compromise among many concerns, such as infrastructure costs, accountability, collaboration, a quiet work environment, and generally the ability to break up the monotony of doing the same thing every day.
I've been full-time remote (work from home, with a 3-year stint of work from RV) since 1995. It's always worked well for me, and I've been plenty productive enough to keep employers happy. Raised 4 kids in that time, too, including homeschooling. When it works, it works!
> The headline says that 50% of Americans prefer working from home. That suggests that 50% prefer working from the office.

If you even glance at the article that's just not true. The remaining vote is split between 'Prefers the Office' and 'Unsure'.

If you were to split the 'Unsure' based on the current ratio of 'Prefers Home':'Prefers the office' between the 2, you're looking at closer to 42% 'prefer the office'.
The American Dollar was the world's reserve currency in the 1970s as well. They still managed high inflation.

The subdued American inflation despite QE has a more technical and contingent explanation: the Fed started paying Interest on Excess Reserves (IOER) in 2008. Ie they reward banks for keeping the money they are printing out of the economy.

Most of the time since then, the interest on short term US government bonds hasn't been much higher than the interest on excess reserves. So there hadn't been much aggregate economic impact when the Fed bought government bonds with new money.

The banks slightly preferred excess reserves over government bonds, because they regulators preferred them.

The QE was 'sterilized' by IOER.
People that are different than you, effectively. Some people work better from home, some better from an office, and some work best with a combination of the two (in some days, home others). Some of it is also training, the more you work from home, the better you tend to be at it.
I wouldn't call 18 year transitory. Yes the problems decline, but there are still issues with working from home with kids. Generally space and noise becomes an issue as well.
It's not necessarily about becoming famous.
If you're good enough, you can just work on what you enjoy doing, and it will probably yield something research worthy anyway, and your bosses will be happy, etc.
Otherwise, you might end up simply having fun on dead-end stuff, which are harder to sell, academically.

But that's just my impression… mind sharing your story?
This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks! Other than scrolling it looks really good.

Do you use any framework for the frontend? If so, could you open source it?
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I don't think parent comment means "why don't all these poor people just sell a few of their shares, they'll be fine". They're saying that the stock market value reflects traders' view of the future economy based on current information and that it is not as low as it would be if those traders all agreed with the current headline.

(I'm not saying that I think the stock market is a good indicator of future economic growth and actually even the parent comment didn't explicitly say that.)
It pays for pensions and old people vote a lot. So you can see why it might be a priority for politicians.
Working from home is the norm. Most of civilization has been farm based.
What's the use-case for this? Is it for limited hardware devices or Docker containers?...
I think alot of people will want to go back because they've now associated working remotely with being in an isolated jail cell. Also I'm sure couples and people with kids are ready to jump out their windows.

I wont be going back to the office for a number of reasons, however, and I think everyone should boycott the office as well. Weather you want to work in the office or not should ultimately be the employees choice.

1. Commuting pollutes.

2. Commuting is lost time. Almost a month of lost time every year.

3. Office spaces are expensive. Without them, companies would have lots of extra cash. Ideally that extra cash goes to wages or hiring.

4. VR workplaces can be and will be a sufficient substitute. You can get about the same quality of social interaction + more in VR as you can in meat space. Its a different experience and until you try it you aren't really entitled to an opinion.

5. You can go to the gym whenever you want (assuming businesses open up again).

I'm sure there are other benefits that I'm missing.
If someone has to go without it, why can't it be poor people? Seems crazy to leave money on the table.
First, strong opinions are not knowledge. In the event that one economist forgets that, the other nine will remind him of it. But that's hardly the case right now. There's a lot of discussion on what should be done right now on the part of economists, but it's very clear that nobody is quite sure of what to do. Which is why there is so much discussion in the first place.

Second, knowledge about the economy, specially such that all could become "billionaires", is empirical knowledge and knowledge of particulars such as knowledge of when to time thr markrt. Economists have some conjectural and general knowledge regarding some policies which leads the profession to develop something akin to a consensus on certain issues (10 out of 10 is really a gross exaggeration), such as rent controls. But there has never been a proposition in economics which hasn't found defenders against any supposed consensus, specially nowadays, with the incentives to publish surprising results, and most are conscious of it. The issue with the comparison with any sort of divination is that economists do not claim to be good forecasters.
I do miss my co-workers and am currently working in the most fun team I've ever worked in. Now I wonder if that might be because for once I did get to choose some of my co-workers.
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I've been working from home a minimum of one day a week for 10 years, frequently 2 days a week - and for rare bursts of a month, the whole deal.

The reality is that environment more than makes up for all of it. At home, I completely control my work environment. Sure, there are elements to communication you have to change - amongst other things, but working from home is fantastic if you WORK from home.

I find those days at home are significantly more effective - and the clients, partners, and employees I've worked with have always agreed. There's also a lot to be said for face-to-face time though.
How do the assets lock up money?

The stock market, no matter how enormous it's market cap, doesn't lock up any money. When I pay through the nose for Tesla stock, the other fellow then has some money that he either has to spend or park somewhere.
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This is exactly correct, and half of the population (at least in America) is sitting here and begging the government to take away more of their freedom so they can feel safer.

I am terrified of what the future holds.
True but that only applies to one of the users. The other two got their original price, unaltered.
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The economy is basically a big network of relationships; employee relationships, business relationships, etc. Unfortunately such relationships tend to break quickly and in a self reinforcing cascade but can only be rebuilt slowly as businesses find that there is enough profit margin and demand to bring new people in, one at a time. That’s why recessions happen quickly and recovery time is proportional to how many people lose their jobs. You look at unemployment data for the last 50 years and the pattern is very simple: a rapid increase in unemployment and a steady recovery. The higher the spike, the longer the recovery. That being the case I would guess that the recovery from this shock will take a decade or more.

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Edit: I can’t make new posts. Someone has suggested that people will just be re-hired; historically, that has never happened. Not saying it’s impossible but this would be the first time. You can’t put a broken egg back together; entropy doesn’t go in reverse. The old jobs don’t come back, new ones are created, that’s just the way it works.
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Might be worth checking CO2 levels, or leaving a door and window open.
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> leave the vendor lock-in out of my sacred terminal

Exactly! I don't mind doing vendor-specific things whilst interacting with their websites, because my brain jumps to the right "mode" for each. This is not so within the terminal, though.

The phrase I've quoted is a brilliant expression of something I've never quite realized. Thank you.
>They're saying that the stock market value reflects traders' view of the future economy based on current information and that it is not as low as it would be if those traders all agreed with the current headline.

I'd say the stock market value reflects traders' short term opportunistic view of what they can make in the stock market - especially with a huge stimulus package landing. So basically a bet on companies, not on working people income.

Whether millions will be added to the jobless and new poor, is not much of a concern for such a bet.
They really manage to strip it off to the problem-solving and optimization, with a clearly defined scope. No architecture, very small design choices, no compatibility, build errors, package versions, Stackoverflow, compiler issues, "am-i-solving-the-right-problem" etc.
Good luck trying to delete hundreds of messages in one go. Quite often it will just glitch out half way through and display generic Google errors for the next 10 minutes when I try to reload the page.
I'm in the latter right now, and am anticipating losing my job over it. I'm just not that motivated by doing somewhat arbitrary programming tasks, and at a certain point, the thing that was previously novel starts being insurmountably boring.
I miss going out and drinking with friends, I miss going on dates, I miss hanging out at the card game bar. I don't really miss work.
> Does anyone feel the same?

The study headline is that half of Americans prefer work from home. The other half either prefer working from an office or haven't made their minds up yet.

In my experience managing remote teams, including some people who are new to WFH, many people struggle with the isolation of WFH. For others, the honeymoon phase is short-lived as cabin fever sets in.

During normal times, the solution is to make an effort to get out of the house every day. Go to the gym, meet friends for lunch or dinner, and otherwise fill your in-person social needs somehow. The struggle with Coronavirus quarantine is that in-person social events are not allowed, so the typical solutions are much more difficult to apply.

> My productivity has definitely dropped, and it feels like my brain never really fully turns "on".

Now would be a great time to try a new morning exercise routine. Getting out of the house for even a 10-minute morning walk can make all the difference in the trajectory of your day. You can build up to a 30-minute run over time, but it's easier to engrain the habit if you start with a very low bar. Just get dressed, prepare a to-go coffee if you like, and go for a walk around your block. You might be surprised at how this sets a different tone for your day.

Long commutes aren't great, obviously, but they do serve a functional purpose of partitioning your day between home and office. Try to find a replacement activity that performs the same partitioning step at home.
It will be interesting to see what hackers are going to come up with in the future to circumvent these new ways of social control.
My company cancelled its intern program this year. I actually did hire one but I was very proactive in making it happen and barely got it done before shelter-in-place kicked in. It's really challenging for both sides compared to last year due to lack of in person but it's working.