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Unpopular opinion:

For big companies, if you take all of the exec pay (C suits) and give it out to rest of the employees, the average employee income only rises by 3-5%. While CXX packages are extra-ordinary, one has to understand that its often drop in the bucket for big balance sheets and even less relevant when you have couple of hundreds of thousand employees around.

So the metric of disparity we should use is not max/min salary but rather avg % increase if CXX salaries were all given to employees.
You don't have to think about it. Just get an IoT refrigerator.
> Delta is already a dominant player

Slightly off-topic, but...

They get additional bonus points from me for stringent enforcement of mask wearing policy.

If you don't wear a mask you don't board the plane. If you take it off during taxiing or during the flight and refuse to wear it they kick you off the plane and ban you from flying with them.

If I would have to fly any US carrier I would chose theme whenever possible.

Edited to add: They kick you off while still on the ground.
I was legally in every country I’ve been in, including several where I became temporarily resident. In every case as a non-citizen I was obligated to pay and was not covered under the social medicine scheme. I know the rules on non-citizen permanent residents are different in most countries however.

I would believe it’s more financially sensible in the larger scheme of things to cover the cost of healthcare for illegal residents, but I haven’t seen any evidence that demonstrates that, and even with such evidence its still politically untenable.

My point is that such a scheme is so politically untenable that even existing Western universal healthcare countries do not have such a scheme. It’s far more radical than what is typically advocated in the US.
Yeah, access to cheap fast bandwidth certainly changed my internet habits when I was in countries like Singapore and Taiwan.
My grandfathers 53 Chevy truck has them high beams or low beams, no one will be blinded by them
They are currently trying to address parts of this: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-core-budget-meeting-re... . The TextEdit and LineEdit classes are also undergoing a complete rewrite.

That said, complete and robust i18n support may take a while, given the small size of the core development team (< 30 regular contributors) and the fact that text display is probably not the highest priority for a game development tool and engine.
Simple, people will just choose airlines that don't have too many max aircraft
Even intelligent and self aware people will fall for this given a bad environment. You can be aware of how harmful something is while doing it yet won't stop because it feels better on short term.

That's what addiction is and soft drinks definitely fall into that.
Yeah, I agree. The people that don't hop put in minimal effort. Like me a lot of the time. My minimal is still better than any other engineer's average usually, but still. I haven't been motivated by anything other than the tech itself in awhile and it's gotten to the point where I no longer care what the best decision is for the company but only for myself. Hey, that's what they're paying for. Due to inflation and new policies, I make less money, have half the vacation, and much shittier health insurance than when I started over half a decade ago. So overall, I have decreased my time, dedication, passion, and performance to compensate. If that's the only way I can get a raise, that's how I'll get it.

I wish more managers/executives would understand what you just explained and how badly it hurts their business to constantly have employee turnaround. I have yet to meet a manager or executive who consistently understands motivation and rewards it properly in the way you describe. There are other handcuffs though, especially in the software industry: tech stack, pay available in the area, remote work, flexibility, and now corona.
I'm 100% sure that Ubunutu has qt in its repos. Just download the *-dev package and you should be good to go.
Gorging on soft drinks is a choice. Trying to pass off people as victims is counterproductive but the easy thing to do politically.

Of course, 'some' people will always do something. This is not an argument because if we go that way we ought to ban everything.
How would one go about proving or disproving this?
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That exact topic actually comes up in the story I linked.

SPOILERS BELOW (though knowing doesn't really detract from the story)

In the story, one of the central discussions is the debate to make the procedure mandatory for students at a college campus. The procedure is non-invasive and reversible, similar tot an MRI or something.

Fearing that this sort of public debate will spread, a cosmetics lobbying firm (who wants to maintain the status quo) publishes a video with a persuasive counter-argument.

It is later revealed that the video had been manipulated by software "capable of fine-tuning paralinguistic cues in order to maximize the emotional
response evoked in viewers. This dramatically increases the effectiveness of recorded
presentations."

Some people get a further brain tweak to mitigate this effect.
You make it sound like, since it's a private business, they can impose any rule they want.

I don't think I agree with that.
It's nor really about what people do. Is about what society can do.

Society can and should impose costs and penalties for the behavior that is costing everyone. Coca cola is not lobbying for individuals not realizing sugar is bad and stop buying their products, they're lobbying against a sugar tax, or if you don't like taxes, against the insurance companies having justification to implement a coca cola clause.
It's basic economics. Everyone acts in their rational self interest, including your boss. Your boss doesn't get in trouble if you decide to leave. Your boss gets in trouble if his budget gets way out of control by giving promotions and raises left and right.

On the converse, your boss doesn't pay the cost of hiring new people. It doesn't come out of his pocket. But giving 20% raises to everyone he has the suspicion of leaving will get him canned real quick, imposing a real and sizeable cost on him.

The tippy top dogs of the company aren't completely stupid for running things this way. Budgets would get out of control in a hurry if they let managers do whatever they want with wages. Nepotism would run rampant without costly oversight and surveillance. Employees would learn to take advantage of easy raises.

So the company bears a smaller cost (employee turnover) rather than the bigger and unpredictable costs of frequent and decentralized wage raises.

There's not a great solution to this. It's an example of market failure. Everyone acting in rationally on an individual scale does not lead to group rationality.
I'm definitely a collectivist when it comes to many things, and this is one of them. I just explained myself poorly. I think we should have legislation that prevents this kind of data vacuuming, or at least makes it more transparent to lay people. I'm from Australia too, not the US and we definitely are more collectivist in general than the US is.

The comment about personal responsibility is more representative of why I don't especially feel sympathy about this stuff on an emotional level anymore. We've had multiple, huge, public data breaches in years and the average citizen does not care. Hell in Australia we have some of the worst data privacy laws in the world. I wrote my member about it and only know one other person who did. The "personal responsibility" thing isn't a comment on people not reading the T&Cs, it is a comment on them letting the entire industry get away with this shit time and again.

The fact that people on the whole don't seem to care makes it hard for me to feel a good deal of emotional sympathy when it bites them at this point, even if I do feel they shouldn't have been bitten.
I think this is in comparison with 200M+ Electron executable, which is nowadays bundled with almost every 'native' app.

Do you want to flash image to USB drive? There is Electron app (balenaEtcher) for that.

Do you want to control your mouse/keyboard? There is Electron app for that (Logitech GHub), which also includes many Qt libraries.

Do you want a terminal emulator? There is an Electron based app for that.

...
MS Butters Up Trump
"Microsoft fully appreciates the importance of addressing the President’s concerns…

Microsoft looks forward to continuing dialogue with the United States Government, including with the President…

Microsoft appreciates the U.S. Government’s and President Trump’s personal involvement…"

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/08/02/microsoft-to-continue-discussions-on-potential-tiktok-purchase-in-the-united-states/
> That doesn't mean that a woman at height X is more likely to be a CEO than a man at height X, which was the original claim.

It basically does.

Suppose the average height for a female CEO is also 6'. (I can't find the actual number anywhere, Google seems to be useless for this sort of thing these days.) In that case women ~6' are over-represented as CEOs, even more than the men of the same height, QED.

Suppose it's less than that, e.g. 5'9". In that case women ~5'9" are over-represented, or less under-represented, as CEOs compared to men of the same height, otherwise the overall average wouldn't be 6'.

Having more data would tell you some interesting things like whether and to what extent it's true at any given height, but it implies that it's true for at least some heights and possibly all of them.
I'm curious how long this work took. Did you encountered many negative results before you got good results? What inspired you for the main insight?
This exactly. Most companies have a time limited program to bring in new grads. Remember to take advantage of your status, wherever you are attempting to apply in the world. Some highly desirable positions are only available to grads like you because they are looking for a smart trainee to grow into an eventual role. This is also why it is easier to land a non-cs job, because their only expectation for you is to be bright and committed.

I would recommend for you to apply to all positions available through these new grad programs. Quickly learn something about the key words from the job descriptions (within the week) to pad your resume. Your work history won't matter as much as how you present the narrative on your resume.
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>>A hobo who hasn't showered in a decade should be able to argue his case, be heard and receive justice. Anything less, you're using rules to enforce a social order, the legal system has no relationship with justice if this is acceptable.

Should is they keyword and maybe one day we'll reach that point. Meanwhile, looks and appearance can make a huge difference, so why take the chance?
Statistically women ask for raises just as much and as aggressively as men, but they’re less likely to be granted. The idea that aggression is a skill recurved the same between men and women is very much false...
There is also a problem of marketing junk to kids, and parents buying that junk for their kids who cant know better.
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Dramatically evaluate the user experience? It removes inconveniences while adding downsides.

It has been understand that wireless charging causes the battery to heat more, which potentially can decrease the battery lifespan.

People are also constrained in what cases they buy lest it blocks wireless charging.

People cannot use it on the desk when battery is empty.

It is also less efficient when charging, taking more time compared to wired charging.
I actually did a POC project in Godot, it was a pretty good experience overall.

There's lots of superfluous stuff if you're making tools instead of games, but it doesn't really get in the way.

Edit: It was in the editor, just realized I didn't explicitly mention that.
Coca-Cola just engineers the environment to maximally exploit human weaknesses. But it is ultimately the people's fault for not being iron-willed über-mensch and resisting temptation.

Whatever the people do to fight this, they should do it individually, and not consider any pesky freedom-infringing legislation (such as banning vending machines in schools, or soft drinks in school cafeterias, or a tax on soft drinks). Act alone - there's one of you, and one Coca-Cola. One versus one - fair, right?
Tons of buildings worldwide named after the Sacklers as well.
Sorry, I'm also a picky consumer when it comes to appliances. I want my fridge to be just a simple heat pump controlled by a thermostat.
A Google Pixel is one of the easiest flashable devices, and one of the few devices you can securely use GrapheneOS with.
All the things the OP listed are real merits. It's not even a game, but being a professional.

Perception = you are good at communicating your work to others

Connections = you have a strong network and stay informed and know who to talk to for different tasks

Face time = you are easy to get along with

Ability to handle office issues = you are a lubricant that make the group dynamic work

If you don't do those things, then you could write fantastic code, but: no one will know about it, know to ask you about it, be aware you're doing it, and find you somewhat of a drag on the office atmosphere. Basically, your work is not useful to the company that is paying you, and you should be paid less because of this.
There is an interesting podcast by the bbc on this subject : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l7q1/episodes/downloads
That's OK if you have a reverse camera but will make driving or parking in reverse absolutely impossible if you don't. Clever suggestion, otherwise.
Sounds like a lot of hellish outcomes to me: Planned obsolescence, selling my data, privacy invasion. Did I miss any?
I recall seeing an experiment shown on a news program with 2 different teachers in a young (like 1st grade or so) class. One of the teachers (they were actually both actors) was conventionally very attractive, the other very plain (I always thought "How's that for an acting job: yay, I got the role of ugly teacher.")

The thing is, with kids that young, they were very transparent about their feelings toward the attractive teacher "She's so pretty! She's so nice! I really liked her." It was classic halo effect stuff.
When you shower are you aware whether the water was heated an hour ago or a day ago?
Are you suggesting that advertising doesn’t work?
Ever wonder why diversity matters in engineering?
Personal responsibility doesn't work in aggregate.
I wonder if stuff like this has an outsized effect on the anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, or the general “anti-science” crowd.

I know many of these people, and they’re not actually against science at all — they just believe that the “science” being preached at them is simply political fodder or, at the very least, is intentionally biased to fit a narrative.

Ideally, they’d be able to mentally allow for different authorities / scientific foundations to exist, and 1 bad Apple shouldn’t ruin the whole bunch. Unfortunately, “scientists == corrupt” is an easier (and more provocative) conclusion when stuff like this happens.
> I wonder if such a legal mechanism exists which automatically triggers FOSS licensing upon acquisition

I can't imagine a VC funding a company with a poison-pill clause like this. Such a clause would discourage acquisition, and don't most VCs (if not most founders) hope for acquisition as a very desirable exit strategy?
When was that? I don't live in the US, but just the other day I finished 'The Emperor of All Maladies' that someone recommended here. If I understood the book correctly, the link between tobacco usage and lung cancer was established pretty rapidly, but it took a very long time (and decisive political action resulting in massive propaganda campaign) to convince the public.
I thought it was about improving education so professionals formed in the US could be more competitive.
Alternative perspective: World of Coke sucks. It’s one of those one-way guided museums like the creationist museum in Kentucky, and contains nothing you couldn’t get out of a Wikipedia article or two.
I wear a shirt one/two days a month, but my default dress has been jeans+t-shirt for 20+ years working in the UK, and now Finland.

I'd "dress up" for an interview, but that's really what I think of it as. I think I average wearing a suit once a year, and that's usually for a wedding, funeral, or similar formal occasion.
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Surprise! People have different definitions of what "fair" means in any given situation. It's completely arbitrary and subjective. The only thing that could be less interesting is describing one's dreams.
I'm curious if I can short-circuit it somehow - by maybe wearing a really fancy watch or something.
How any anything that has the word "woke" right there in the title be taken seriously?
It's all a bit too Sea Liony.
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Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware. Is this something I should flag to my vet? I have a herding breed dog but afaik the vet never did an ACB1 test. My dog has been taking the medicine for a long time though.
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The decline started when Vivendi (the owners) drove off the Blizzard North (ex-Condor) devs. The Blizzard North leaders were ignored to the point that they submitted their resignations in protest. Rather than actually give the team a voice, Vivendi decided to accept the resignations. They shut down the studio entirely a year or two later because it couldn't perform. They would have made a lot more money if they had listened to their proven leaders.

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> would anyone choose to book a trip on one of these new Boeing aircraft rather than anything else?

I would - and I'm a former Boeing flight controls engineer, so my opinion is not limited to whatever I read from journalists who get about 75% of things wrong whenever they write about aviation.
Yes, You May Need a Blockchain
So were his statements accurate or not? The article doesn't bother to say.
If you know who is senior, who is junior etc you can identify their values
This seems like a mode of comparison that's disconnected from actual utility. The distance comparison lets me consider a scenario like "I live in Washington, DC. I want to go to New York. I can choose to either get there by plane or car, and I want to know which is safer." This seems like a real, sensible thing to contemplate.

The time comparison is "I live in Washington, DC and want to go... to wherever it is that happens to be an hour away from me by whatever mode of transport I happen to be using (so, either New York or someplace outside of Baltimore) and I want to know which is safer"... but I can't for the life of me fathom why the second is a tradeoff anyone would actually be forced to consider. People generally travel with the objective of getting from some specific place to some other specific place.
You don't count the slips of paper in the hat. Instead you count the number of people who put in slips of paper.
Here's the other other thing, though: lawsuits are expensive. Employers settle them routinely. I've seen frivolous suits settled for real money, just to get them out of the way. Legal expense probably scares most employers a lot more than it scares former employees.

Getting fired for sharing salary information is not high up on my list of concerns, in part for that reason.
You know what's crazy? I worked at Blizzard last around 2000 and I made more than 150K in base salary as a programmer, so it looks like salaries haven't increased without inflation adjustment for 20 years.
Back when I worked there, they had something called "Blizzard Bucks" to "supplement" your salary. Basically "Blizzard Bucks" was Monopoly money we could use to buy their microtransactions and WoW game-time. In reality, you made approx. $30-40k sans OT, but they would always calculate your "salary" at $50-60k because of all the "Blizzard Bucks" and claim your salary was industry best.

The best part was, and they would emphasize this at every meeting, "that the company would pay the taxes for us" as if it were a big deal. People never believe me when I tell them this is how the non-devs got treated.
If the first person doesn’t add their number, then the 3rd person has the same “visibility” into the second person’s number, based on the minimum rand.

The solution can be to include negative numbers in the RNG range, or keep the RNG range a secret (except to person 1).
He is right to blame the org and “paint them with the same brush” as errant employee if they do not own up to their mistakes; especially if it concerns something that is part of their main product. Can you imagine some tech company having a data breach because an employee was careless and NOT admitting to the breach? People lose their jobs for that kind of mistakes, not get a pat on back.
Ask HN: Who's happy where they are and doesn't want to be hired?
And what's so great about your current situation?

Would be nice change to the sea of desperateness
That's not the problem. Ads may influence consumption but (over-)consumption is a choice.

It's a fallacy to conflate both.