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1. How's that the fault of the wealthy? Blame the politicians who are mandating crazy inconsistent policies of keeping big businesses open while closing the small businesses down.

2. A stock price going up is not exactly getting "richer".
So what are your suggestions? Let Mozilla die and enjoy Google monopoly in the web? No, thanks. I prefer a non-profit organization which "failed their users and the ecosystem by not standing up to industry pressure".

By the way, consider donating to Mozilla if you want them to (be able to) listen to you.
Do they have to be better in anything? I'm totally ok if they are just a little worse than Chrome but relatively independant. I don't see the browser space that endangered right now. As a casual user I din't see a problem if there even was a feature freeze for some time. I get that things are moving in some direction always but all this innovation about dumb websites is maybe overengineering
In addition to the benefits listed in the other comments, exhaustive checks in sum types are useful for catching unhandled cases, especially when refactoring.
I promise you that the amount of JS devs who LIKE Rust is not very high. I cannot imagine going from a language like JS or TS to the confusing syntactical monster that is Rust.

I realize this is an unpopular opinion, but JS/TS is WAY more human readable than Rust is. It's almost the equivalent of programming in C for the browser. Plus, literally anything you could ever want to use in already in the JS ecosystem and doesn't have to be reinvented in Rust.
Resource attribution seems to follow the power law. Is there a way to solve around this without creating unintended consequences which are worse?

There probably isn’t even too much difference over the ages either. It’s just in America’s democratic-republic with capitalism the billionaires aren’t royalty.
Granting new options causes tax headaches: If strike price << fair market value, you get taxed immediately on the illiquid gains.
Better idea of course - abolish the TSA. I mean harshly enough the pandemic proves they don't really care about tens of thousands of lives so their justification for existence is even more moot - on top of their ineffectualness.
Yup. All from Flathub.
The Signal project itself has repeatedly explained why they use phone number identifiers, which are the most controversial feature of the platform. I'm not misunderstanding them.
Inertia for one. Last election Dear Leader got 82% so this year he cannot get 53%. Plus he's popular. Everyone loves him, and "everyone" means in the 80's not 50%+1. If his popularity was in the 50's he'd leave by himself and so on...
The NSA also monitors most of the worlds communications in near real time. A building full of hard drives is also completely useless without some sort of reasonably decent search and indexing capability, so I'm pretty sure the NSA built something for the task.
> "Pushing through via sheer force of will isn't possible."
> That's exactly what I'm saying. I'll check out the link.

What I'm saying is that you can't push your way through Navy Seal training by trying harder. But you can significantly increase your output and down regulate the process around "quitting" by using other techniques that will trigger the norepinephrine reset.
I guess "senior engineers" can be up to interpretation. Colloquially, I take it as someone with mid-career experience. For most of the FAANGs, "senior" can be reached in as little as 3 years out of college, with a median somewhere around 4-5. For a 30+ year career, one can safely assume your compensation will continue going up from your "senior" title 5 years in.

To summarize: yeah, I suppose $500K 4-5 years out of school isn't achievable, but within 10 it is.
Wow...there is really really good advice in that post. I was considering making my side project language into a simpler Rust and that post just gave some great suggestions. Especially since I’m writing the compiler in Rust to WASM.
> Do you think you are worth $x?

Yes, actually $x * 20%.
Wealth isn't zero sum.
I addressed this in the third sentence of my comment:

> However the fact that these other bigger issues exist doesn't mean we shouldn't care about or take action on the lesser. If one brings up how we should address issue 'x' and are met with "but what about issue 'y'?" it does give the impression of deflection or of whataboutism.

The point is that we can care about more than one issue at a time.
Yep, it is so refreshing to have shareware and PD back.
That is half of the criteria the IAU decided defined a planet. The problem is that our moon is rounded by its own gravity and would be classified as a planet under that just criterion.

The other half is meant to exclude moons from the 'planet' definition: the body must 'clear' the neighborhood around its orbit. The Earth is in the same solar orbit as our moon but is much more massive, thus our moon doesn't count as a planet. Pluto doesn't meet this criterion because its orbit intersects with Neptune's orbit, and Neptune is much more massive.
Pretty much. It's also quite important to strengthen muscles that work in tandem with the knees, get your vitamins, be smart with your running shoes etc. I've gone through my fair share of injuries to ramp up to 100km/week on pavement and had to a learn a new 'trick' every time to get past it and onto the next limiting injury.

Also, "if you hurt yourself take a break" is interestingly not always true! Some injuries will basically not improve by resting - patellofemoral pain syndrome for example. For some other injuries, you can still keep going while injured as long as the rate of recovery is greater than the damage you are doing by exercising more. Injuries are not so black and white, and some very painful ones can sometimes be suddenly fixed without taking time off.
I use it a lot, because I know it fairly well. Not sure I "like" it; it's like a lot of food - I know what of the food varieties I prefer over others, even when I didn't immediately "like" any of them. More of a "got used to" type of thing.
If that's your analogy, then capitalism is about making a few people happy at the expense of everyone else.

We collectively are not done, yet. We can still make it better for everyone. Let's at least _try_ new ideas.
The same Politicians have been in power for 6 decades and haven't achieved anything they have promised every election. So how exactly did their "political decisions" help?
> I don't see how the actions of India create legal precedence in Belarus?

The person is frustrated and that part of the comment is sarcastic. I think it's understandable given the context.
> I’ve watched over the last 30 years as the “age of capital” has lifted millions out of poverty

Out of curiosity what would you call China's mode of production?
Try us-east-1 :)
oh thank you great landlords, shareholders & private equity for your great blessings of innovation!
I realize the big tech companies aren’t perfect.

But it’s weird to me that when tech is one of the few bright spots of the U.S. economy in our lifetimes, and one of the few industries offering a large swath of employees a path to the middle class and upper-middle class that only previous generations could aspire to, and there are so many people hell bent on capping it at its knees.
Agreed. A rich, independently-wealthy asshole. But there's also a difference between my moral judgements and my preparations. I can hope someone won't be an asshole, but I will prepare for it.
> These people have worked hard and brought innovations to the world to generate their wealth.

The richest three Americans have more money than the poorest 50% of Americans combined. However hard those three worked worked, there is no way that they worked harder than half the country.
As COVID-19 has shown us, you don’t get far without the jobs we value the least. We need supermarkets open, bins taken away, rest homes cleaned etc.
Wealth is further concentrating too, exacerbating the issue.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/11/09/the-3-ric...

https://www.mintpressnews.com/super-rich-see-wealth-rise-282...
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I’m not sure if Wikipedia is a fair comparison but open minded - what I appreciate about this approach is it forces the org to think from first principles about what should be in their knowledge base.

What else do you see causing the problem aside from culture? Are there tools that do this well?
I don't think people are complaining workers are paid too much, but that some markets are distorted by external forces.

Let's say you're a company in a field, competing against other companies in that same field. Everyone is basing wages on how much money they expect to make and so on. Not everyone has the same estimations, but in the end they're all grounded in that market.

Now comes a company with virtually limitless from some other market, who doesn't care about making money but about achieving dominance.
All of the sudden, they're throwing wages around you can't compete with because they're not trying to be profitable.
Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, “social justice." - Thomas Sowell

https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1133792472063258627
> Rust is not a product. And for Mozilla it was a huge distraction, one they could ill afford.

You do realize Rust is a big part of the reason Firefox is more competitive past v57 than it ever was, right?
Political decisions never have rested on understanding economics, they rest on an enforcement of power.
While "mental energy reserve" is not a standard term, "decision fatigue" is, and is basically the same idea.
This general argument only makes sense when there is vibrant market competition. Otherwise, it is just couching authoritarianism in some illusion of choice. There is little difference between a bona fide government and a corporation that has become so entrenched that people are forced to interact with them. Especially when the entrenched companies cooperate to set industry wide policies.
Trace/space width: 100um/125um

Build volume: 200x200x3mm

Accuracy: 1um

Conductor: silver nanoparticle ink (can't find quantitative conductivity, but similar silver inks often reach a very respectable ≈1e-5 ohm-cm after heating)

Insulator (dielectric): polymer, properties similar to FR4 (dielectric constant ≈3)

The system is similar to the very impressive PolyJet 3D printers [2] (which can't print conductors yet, but can do multiple materials and colors). The DragonFly layer thickness isn't mentioned, but by analogy with the PolyJet, is probably variable down to 10um or so.

The information's in the DragonFly system brochure downloadable from [1] with contact information.

[1] https://www.nano-di.com/nano-dimension-papers-ebooks
[2] https://www.stratasys.com/polyjet-technology
Sorry, I should of said stable release
Thank you, that makes things a little more clear for me at least.
Absolutely. If you divided up Bill Gates’ wealth among everyone in India and Bangladesh everyone would get $65. That would be a one-time redistribution. His contributions through the Gates foundation are immensely more valuable in the long run.
Most "over paid" engineers are smart enough not to get in a position where they can become over worked :)
Is there any way to prove that Google isn't/hasn't unfairly penalized this site?

No.
Richer if you put more value on having an addictive piece of electronics in your back pocket rather than a few acres of land to be self sufficient on.

There are definite improvements (a fair amount of medical science), but I'm not sure on balance that the planetary destruction/extinctions/etc outweigh them. So, using made up GDP/capita numbers for justification that the world is "improving" is tenuous.
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This forum would be in uproar if the firm was offering their software devs $30k a year, but offering competitive pay for executives and managers is a sin incapable of restitution for some inconsistent reason.
At the end of the day, money is money, at least to a point. Unless the search deal funding is drying up in the background, this will be nickels and dimes on top of that.

I was at Mozilla for a few years. I'm quite sure there was ideological tension with some around accepting Google's money, but I think the bigger issue was not having a diversification of funding and feeling like that one pillar could bring things down. In theory the changes in the mid-2010s to multiple international search providers should have helped with that, but the American pillar was Yahoo. I don't think that did Mozilla a lot of good after the Verizon buyout.

(All said, seems every time I comment something Mozilla, ex-upper management makes it clear in thread that the view from the ranks or my five-years-gone memory is incomplete, so take with as much salt as you need.)

Thing is, Mozilla's been talking service focus and funding diversification for awhile now. I'm not sure what they expect to change to make it more successful this time. Cutting payroll is an extension, not a solution.
Yeah I think that's the point.
That's just like... your opinion man. I never found Chrome to be vastly superior to Firefox. Sometimes it seemed faster, and other times it was a total hog. It's been back and forth like that ever since it came out.

Here's an anecdote for you. I worked at a computer store when Chrome was released. People would come in all the time, and they had no idea they had installed Chrome on their computer. They had no idea that it had taken over as the default browser. They didn't know they weren't using IE. Chrome had a super basic installer that asked one question, and it was linked right from Google's home page. I interacted with average computer users hundreds of times every month.

That's how I believe it became the dominant browser. Average people don't care that one browser is slightly faster than the other or has an omnibar.
That's an interesting question, and I don't have an answer. But what you can not deny, is that the system that produced those billionaires, is the same one that produced such a rise in wealth and standard of living worldwide. We better be very careful about not throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
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And this scheme gets you a fast path.
See, I always have trouble with 'stock'. I need more details. Is it a stock grant, or an option grant? Because with a publicly traded company, they'll let anyone buy options. The difference is that I don't have to wait 2 years, but I also don't get to wait three years if things aren't great at 2.
When you say don’t share documentation 1:1, do you mean always share broadly? Or do you mean always write it down?
Bitcoin is essentially built with one goal in mind which is a digitalized P2P currency. Ethereum is a platform, not only a coin.

Ethereum is intended to facilitate immutable smart contracts which has has very broad implications and use cases. We've already seen companies like Amazon, IBM, and central banks experimenting with it.
Two words for you. (1) Rust. (2) Thunderbird.

Each represents a huge value to the community.

New and untried consumer products? Well, maybe. You never know which could be a big hit.

Still it's not obvious how to make money on any of these :(
Your mention about hospitals makes me wonder whether we should call the problem "resource allocation". Maybe it's an issue of resource leaks? For example, hospitals get a lot of money, objectively, but there are also whole industries that parasite on that money, by overcharging, vendor-locking, encouraging waste, and doing all the kinds of shady things competitive companies tend to do.
They live in complex environments. Often on the boundary between water and land. And some octopuses, do seem to make good use their intelligence - for example the mimic octopus.
The rich have control of the political system and constantly pass and enforce legislation that benefits them. Weird.
Show me what that math looks like where there is a positive number to the left of the equal sign.
The floor is set by Google or FB or whomever, so there is no real auction. Especially considering the buyer has no other choice if they want to buy that inventory. Its not like you are purchasing a product at market. You're buying from the only supplier.

A true auction would have a zero floor. An open market would have other options.
I don't think you can have people who are wealthy without having people who aren't. Wealth is a relative measure, therefore there are those who aren't.

Let's imagine a scenario where 400 people each have $1, the average wealth is therefore $1 per person. If, however, we have 1% of people (4 in the same scenario) have $2 each, the overall wealth is still $1 per person on average, however the 1% would have $2 per person and the remaining 99% would have $0.99 per person. If we skew that a little more, let's have 50% of the total wealth ($200) in the hands of the 1% (again, just 4 people). The average for the population is still $1 per person, but the 1% now have $50 each and the remaining 99% have just over $0.50 each.

I get that this is an exercise in explaining what zero-sum is, something you don't believe this situation reflects, but it's important to recognize that people build wealth by acquiring it from somewhere else. If there was an infinite supply of money (there isn't), then we could have a conversation about this not being zero-sum. I don't think it's a good faith discussion to start with the assumption that money is infinite.
People often like to say that economy is not a zero sum game. But reality is that economy is not a game and, arguably, can be better modeled as a set of games, some of which are zero sum.
> How's that the fault of the wealthy? Blame the politicians who are mandating crazy inconsistent policies of keeping big businesses open while closing

It's almost like capital ownership awards undue power that can then be used to further entrench power.
I meant quantifying an individual's impact. For i-banking that's easy. The more money an i-banker the raise, the better they are. There isn't a simple metric you can use for software engineering. Some terrible developers write a lot of code. Some amazing developers barely write any code.

Of course there is still meaningful signal you can use to differentiate developers, but it's going to be fuzzy. I-banking and consulting increase wages for their employees by firing everyone who doesn't meet a certain bar. In addition to creating a toxic work environment, this practice isn't possible with only fuzzy signals.
This is exactly the problem with these huge pre-configured "distros" like Spacemacs and Doom. It looks like you spend a lot of time fighting the opinionated setup of the distro. You might as well spend that time starting from vanilla Emacs and craft your own config.
Weird how the people with all the power also have all the wealth. Must be a coincidence.
> Rust is not a product, never was meant to be one either, if you can point to $0.01 of income brought to Mozilla because of someone paying for Rust

That's not the only way to measure it. Rust paid for itself by making Firefox more competitive. Also, I like how the focus is on one of the most useful things Mozilla does outside of Firefox and not the gazillion things that had much, much less use than Rust.
I haven't read Giridharadas's book, and this article was very light on substance.

I do think this is an interesting topic. Effective altruism has lots of ongoing internal discussion about the efficacy of pushing for systemic change.

But I think the claims made in the article would have to be made a lot more substantive. See Scott Alexander's take here (https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...).

Overall, I think parts of this approach might throw the baby out with the bathwater. Even if we do restructure the way that society works, presumably we'll still care about interventions to improve well-being. I think effective altruism (https://www.effectivealtruism.com/) has provided a lot of traction on how to think about these issues. Even if you disagree with their moral stance, I think it's hard to deny that people in the EA community have been very thoughtful about quantifying interventions and thinking about impact.

And I don't think these sorts of questions are going to go away, come a social restructuring. There seems to be a lot that we can salvage from the EA viewpoint, even if we decide systemic change is the way forward, and I think that's worth emphasizing.
One can still go to a radio silence area like on top of a mountain or uninhabited countryside. They would need a very strong sat based jammer.
This system isn't a failure. People's incomes have gone up during the pandemic so the stock market has also gone up.

There is a dire problem around the collapse of small businesses, but rich people usually get rich through capital markets rather than small business.
Billionaires are a byproduct of the market mechanisms that produces that wealth. They don’t “profit from it disproportionately” enough to justify messing with the system. (In the US, billionaires make only about 1.5% of total annual income.)
Or did they accelerate it AND profit disproportionately from it? There are more than two possibilities here.
I run regularly and I, too, enjoy my functional knees.

Oh, wait, you were going with some "running hurts your knees" trope, weren't you? Apologies. But if you're waiting for an athletic endeavor that leaves you perfectly healthy even if you do it wrong, well, enjoy the couch I guess. Or possibly swimming.
The idea that the problem is that some own more than others is itself an idea promoted by those who "own more than others". They set that as the thing to be argued about.

The actual problem is social relations. The heir expropriates the surplus labor time of the worker. That is the real problem.

Wealth redistribution is, in a dialectic sense, a goal of those who own the most wealth. It is a goal set by this elite. Workers controlling our own labor time has been the clear goal of the worker's movement for at least a century and a half, if not longer.
The ad network game is a market. There are many competitors and of course, inventory options. Search keywords are not.
This economic theory depends on the idea that Google is the only well-capitalized software company... In reality there are several.
> “ I prefer to use languages in the domains they were designed for”

So for web development, do you use PHP?

Because neither Python, nor Ruby nor even JavaScript itself was designed for web development.
Academically, this might be true, but in the real world, wealth (like most scarce things: high-quality partners, precious metals, Michelin stars) tends to be zero sum.
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> But by all means please tell us why our motivations for working here are wrong.

I guess among the work offers you had when you made your employment choice, Mozilla's was the best. Would you still work at Mozilla if you were getting paid half of your current salary? How about 10%?

And who is this "us" you keep referring to? Have you been elected representative for a group of Mozillians?
Ironically, the author was talking about all those other elites. Click less, but not before you've added my book to your cart! "If only" I could vote on how you spend your money.
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The Mozilla Manifesto says nothing about web browsers. If you think they should throw it out and focus on making web browsers (and abandon their mission as an organization) you'll have to take it up with them I guess.
> Also, "if you hurt yourself take a break" is interestingly not always true!

Good to know. With COVID shutting down all the gyms I've taken up running to replace my regular workouts, and I'm still learning these things. The difficulty there will be to figure out how to correctly diagnose those injuries.