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Why do people continue to push this myth?

“ Kirsty Allsopp led the anti-remote work charge on Twitter, suggesting that if your job can be done from home, it can be done from anywhere in the world. Who would have thought that a couple of months of working in shorts and a T-Shirt has made us more susceptible to being replaced by less expensive folk in India, Myanmar and China?”

It doesn’t matter if they are American or live halfway across the world. If you want amazing talent, you are going to have to pay them well. Talented people are usually well aware of the salary differences between American vs local companies of their region.

The people that tend to take the low offer are usually not in the best position to do the best work compared to their counterpart.

I have met and worked with amazing talent from all across the world. At the same time I have also worked with people that should have never been in the business and were the root cause of project delays caused by buggy features and constant rework. Whether they are American or not, the people in the latter group tended to be in a group that was not happy largely due to their pay. In the cases I probed for more information, I discovered amongst the contracting companies that placed bids, the company took the lowest bid that was offered. No fucking surprise that 8-12 months later that the project is behind by at least half a year.

Moral of the story companies need to pay well - regardless of the location of the person - in order to get a quality product that is pushed to the masses in time and remain competitive.
I think that viewpoint definitely does have some validity, but in this case I think rests quite heavily on the idea that post-covid will closely resemble the current way people do things.

Clearly there will be some significant change, but I'm sure it will be a balance between what we had and how things are now.

Once that happens, we don't really want to have lots of businesses to have gone bankrupt. At least not the ones we will still want when things have reached that balance.
e-transfer is not always free; it's often included in your monthly plan or capped or fee per use. Banks / plans vary wildly
Your comment is grey, but I think you’re right.
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The problem is that many marketing managers see it exactly like that. "What's your marketing budget? We can help you spend it!".
Why go to the Moon? (John F. Kennedy at Rice University, Sep 12th 1962)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon
My question to those stuck two to a studio - are you doing that in a large, expensive city?

Would you not be happier able to be completely unchained from an office location, and able to choose to live anywhere? Then you could likely have a bigger place too.
That's more than a 'bit' unique, that's very uncommon. Nice situation though.
This is a hugely important point. Having the right data is most of the battle in the typical project. I'm fortunate to run the data science department at a company with an amazing and supportive team of devs. We work together to make sure that all data is recorded in the most useful way and we talk regularly. Without their support, my models wouldn't be very useful.
Even in countries where heroin possession and use has been decriminalized (for the compassionate reasons you mention), heroin is still illegal in that there are still prohibitions against its production and sale. It would be a fringe position indeed to say that all laws relating to hard drugs be taken off the books.
You can support a company for some of its actions while also condemning it for others. It's totally legitimate to be on Epic's side in the Apple vs Epic lawsuit while also supporting Apple's privacy measures.
There is a certain mindset - turns up all the time in economic discussions too - where if a change is made and doesn't lead to a metric-observable consequence in 6 months then that is the end of the discussion.

Working from home is crippling for forming new social connections. Promotions are done based, primarily, on social connections. Hiring too. There is very strong pressure for ambitious people who know how the world works to get back into the office.

And the social aspect of a supervisor understanding what their reports are doing is also easy to underestimate. Offices will be back as soon as it is practicable.
Not OP, but many reasons. I miss socializing with colleagues, I also like sitting in a room surrounded by other people also working and finally my office has better ergonomics.
> "third world nation" would probably be a bit strong

Or a bit weak. Not sure any nation has phased out cash entirely, but I'd assume many developing economies have phased out general use of checks if they ever had it.

("third-world" is very much a misnomer as it meant countries not aligned with either the US — the first world — or the USSR — the second world — so the US can't be a third-world nation by definition)
I don't have a webcam on my work setup, no one uses video, it hasn't bothered me at all.
However, comments like "SSH runs in port 22 and my credentials are utku:123456. What is the likelihood of being compromised?"

You have any idea what kind of RAM and computing power an average user have access now days. Think of better obscurity abstractions than that.

Try bcrypt/scrypt hash your shadow password on linux.
I think what this is taught me is that we need both.

It is too much to be in the office all of the time because sometimes "life" happens or you need the ability to have some silence and concentrate.

It is too much to be remote all of the time because software is a team sport and to function optimally, we need to have great human relationships and communication, and those are better done face to face.

We need to find the "happy midpoint" between these two extremes as a working culture.
Thank you for stating what should be obvious: most of the psuedo-green beliefs are the result of direct misinformation from the producers of human-harming pollution. It should make people more rabid to tear them apart, not less.
Sounds like the drivers aren't.
It’s gonna be a shift from mostly office to a lot more hybrid office-remote. Most can’t just go fully remote.
PayPal gets a list of banned strings from the Office of Foreign Asset controls.

If any match those strings it's flagged for a review.

This is more or less legally required for any company that moves money in the United States of America. You will probably find the same issues with the same terms on any other banking for financial body.

Technically, these aren't being blocked. They're being audited. The payments will still go through. The way this is taking place is following very specific legally "known good" pathways - so that when paypal does accidentally let a payment through to a sanctioned entity they are able to argue that they took every available precaution and should not have to pay the $250k per transaction fine.

The last time PayPal had to pay these fines - for example - it was ~$7m. That's not including legal fees. https://fcpablog.com/2015/03/27/ofac-fines-paypal-77-million...
Question: What month do you think you'll be back in the office, if you had to guess?
I wish people didn't see it as a binary option. "The office" vs "Remote". And no I'm not talking about suggesting alternatives like "work from home". I'm talking more about let's look at it through the lens of "employer control" and "individual empowerment".

The article points to some statistics about the benefits of remote work. But I think those benefits are more derived from enabling individuals to decide what is best for them and their company. Alot of what is described in "Bullshit Jobs" was reversed overnight, and we're seeing the benefits of that. Location has nothing to do with it.
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> Goodreads was better at helping users find new books they wanted than amazon themselves and so it made sense for amazon to buy them.

I still don’t get it - people were already finding books on Goodreads and buying them on Amazon... so why did Amazon need to buy them? Why pay for it if it’s already working for you? And why pay a referral fee if people already want to ignore other options and go to Amazon to buy after finding on Goodreads?
They’re missing a real trick: turn the plane into a casino, brothel, or disco. It would be the air equivalent of a party-bus. I bet they’d make a killing.
Is this restricted to first line managers? Or do second line managers micromanager first, directors second, etc. Thankfully have managed to avoid this sort of manager so no first hand experience.
> IMO the challenge with marketing is the very high budget and lack of (visible) returns .

Modern digital marketing is focused on measurability and ROI. Even traditional marketing can be measured, it's just a bit harder.

When you hire your first head of marketing, make sure they are ROI and results focused. A quick look at their resume or LinkedIn should tell you everything you need to know... is it full of numbers/data, or is it a list of tasks & buzzword bingo?
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>I'm not from the US and to me PayPal was always only a way to avoid filling in credit cards details on (random) websites.

And this is the answer.

Paypal's existence comes down to the fact that they are the sole "legitimate" vector into the US financial system for a vast majority of the rest of the world. Because that's such a massive financial incentive, they can basically treat users however they wish and get away with it.
Yeah if anything this pandemic made that abundantly clear. Those in favor of control ran out of any scapegoats. The remote work debate was never about location.
I get the want for distinct physical spaces to change contexts, though considering we're 20+ years into a world of employer issued laptop and mobile phones, making the delineation between work and non-work is very much up to each of us as individuals. This is as a small as not checking work email outside of work hours and as large as finding a space that you yourself work best in even if that means not home or your employer's office.
I'll toss my account into one of those being in favor if offices. Feel free to check the account creation an karma.

Different people have different preferences.
Incidentally, XBMC has since rebranded as "Kodi" a fee years back.
Just tried it on iPadOS 14, and yes, "Messages pasted from Safari."
I assume they mean cash, in the sense of typically a bank withdrawal via check. In which case, they can almost certainly also set up a recurring check payment via their bank online. I actually send quite a few "checks" but with the exception of my housekeeper and some service people I rarely actually write out a check.
> Well the assertion is just a mathematical fact,

It really isn't. You're somehow assuming that the law of supply and demand doesn't exist. As the premise is blatantly wrong then this mistake renders all subsequent assertions mute.

> Maybe the company isn’t targeting anyone

Irrelevant. The initial assertion was that higher prices somehow had no inpact in demand and thus revenue would be proportional. This assertion is blatantly wrong. The fact is that lower prices increase demand, and increased demand enables economies of scale, which lead to higher revenue. Conversely, higher prices lower demand, etc etc. Market segmentation is tangential to this point.
Everything in moderation, including moderation
Edit: accidentially replied to wrong post
I think people that believe in and run lifestyle businesses like the fact that it’s a bit counter-culture. Not sure we need to do anything about that and if we do, will it lead to ruining what’s great about it by popularizing it?
> It's completely justified in context.

Personal abuse like this is never justified. We should always challenge it when we see it.
But do you really need that from a company? I get that from coworking spaces. And if anything I'd argue it's more innovative.

Instead of a bunch of programmers spouting group think, I get to interact with writers, artists, indie game devs, etc. Way more innovative than any programmer group I've been in.
Are you sure the word is dispossessed here? Were those farmers working on their own land, and then had it taken away from them by force without payment?
I don't see what the risk is. I hate this stuff and don't have any of it in my home, but what exactly is the unique risk in this tenancy situation?
It could be something as "simple" as shifting public opinion.

And these days, it's a lot - because it's not just Indian public opinion and Chinese public opinion, it has global reach.

It also undermines China enterprises, when a big part of tech business models is economies of scale, such actions basically cut massive slices of the global market.

Even if all of this is a nudge, it's still a nudge in a certain direction.

Because the reality is that India is struggling dealing with China, and all the help they can get in the direction of slowing down China is good for them.

You see news about the conflicts in the Himalayas for small "patches of land", but a lot of the advents in the Indian Ocean are going unnoticed - China is literally expanding their territory aggressively and India doesn't have enough navy resources to stop it.
I love remote work—some of the time. I also love offices—some of the time. I fear that in ditching offices completely, we might lose out on some society-level benefits, like knowledge spillovers. Specifically, remote-work (to me) makes it more difficult to learn from others, to hear about what else is happening in the organization, to discuss interesting new ideas that could potentially be spun into new products or companies. A team can also more easily and quickly learn to collaborate while in-person.

This doesn't even touch on all the economic spillovers of having people in the same area, such as restaurants and other services catering to the concentration of office workers (as mentioned by the author), but also things like specialized lawyers, financiers, and other professional services that concentrate around Silicon Valley and other agglomerative clusters.

Ultimately, I hope we can come to a compromise, something like 50/50 remote/office, with smaller offices that cater more towards the explicitly social functions of the organization.
Amazing work there. I have looked at your code and it is very nice.

Fun thing, I am currently building a similar ledger in clojure. The task is much harder then expected. My goals are very different then yours; I would like to implement a video game around a fictional financial system. Consequently, It is very important to me to implement the concept of "interest rates".

My solution is over engineered power 25. Nevertheless, you might be interested into it. It is based on datomic. https://gitlab.com/didiercrunch/skirmish/-/tree/master/src/c...
I went from an environment of blaring led lights, friends repeats playing on the tv all day that I had to muffle with headphones because people could stand to work “in a library” and commuting 30+ min each way in stressful crawling traffic, to sleeping in an hour longer, natural lighting and a quiet environment with better hardware than what the office has.

This has made me insanely productive and I don’t know if I have ever had such a great streak before. Going back to the office ruins all of that.

So I say, boo-hoo to the real estate investors.
I would think the weirdness is because there are constitutional Due Process requirements to being able to arrest somebody, charge them with a crime, or take away their gun rights. But the Feds can easily lean on the airlines to not let people they don't like board a commercial airliner. That'll maybe make us question a few things.

But then I think another part of the reason is that most of the international terrorist types that were originally expected to be blocked by the No Fly List were generally not in the US, and so not subjects to US Gov charges or even gathering evidence.
It is a big if. My choice of words was very deliberate as I didn't wish to convey that our knowledge is sufficient. But the question here doesn't hinge on real knowledge(our ability to ever gain it is in itself a huge question) but rather on belief in possessing the said knowledge. Otherwise every real world calculation of probability is meaningless as physical systems can't have proofs but rather more and more tested models acting as the prior in our calculations.

I don't nominate any best. I don't have an idea either. I merely used a word used by a parent. Best could be minima, maxima or any other criteria of the function they choose to refer here.

My point is if you have a belief that your model is good enough, you don't need a large number of trials to calculate a probability on whatever characteristic you choose.

The accuracy of this result is a question but the question would remain similar to the scenario where you calculate the probability from a larger number of trials.
I think, the second level management is the unluckiest of them all. It's impossible to micromanage several lower level managers at the same time. Whoever tries, fails or burns out.
Worth noting that Civilization 6 now embeds Lua instead.
Deaths dropped to ~zero months ago in much of Europe. There are still many PCR positives occurring, quite why this is the case is unclear as almost none of these people are unwell. Defined using the WHO pre-2009 definition (before they changed it so they could declare swine flu an epidemic), the epidemic is over. What's left is a 'ghost epidemic' of tests set to hair-trigger margins flagging a huge number of false positives where the virus is either not present or not doing anything, but that doesn't matter.
Apple cares about their bottom line, they're privacy focused only because it works for their business model.

If they stopped being anti right to repair then maybe i'd be interested.
I have no interest in being in the office. The commute is horrid and a waste of time. The socialising is insignificant. The water cooler never has more than one visitor at a time, so the idea of it being an idea exchange is myth. Everyone communicates via chat in office, with headphones on. Being able to separate work and private life is a matter of self discipline, the other matters are not. The only thing I want is for coffee shops to return to normal.
Lets do it right, then. Climates are not designed to burn. Is impossible in fact. Temperatures can't burn itselves. Are an abstract concept. Frost can't burn, neither can humidity, hours of sun or rain. So lets start by the most basic thing that is not mistaking an animal with a cloud, please.

I'll repeat again here. Some Mediterranean biocenoses are shaped by fire. Not all. Other NOT.

And shaped by fire means that they can stand fire, they can even promote it, and are frozen in its current state by fire. This does not mean that this is the better, or only possible outcome for that place. Ecosystems are always trying to reach the most higher level of organization possible. And those are very humid, even in Mediterranean climates.
So, you think this is more of a prop 65 scenario?
> I think ideally it should be up to the employee to return when they feel safe.

agree, but not as an explicit company policy. what I mean is, if the company officially says something like "the office is open, but you don't have to come back until you feel safe", this can put pressure on employees to agree that they feel safe. if you're one of the last people to return, maybe you start feeling pressure to give some sort of concrete reason why. I think it would result in a lot of people returning when they don't actually feel safe.

imo there are three reasonable positions: a) office is closed, only essential staff allowed on premises; b) office is open, but physical attendance is strictly optional (without any caveats about "feeling safe"); or c) office is open and you have to come back.

edit to address the article you linked: I do feel for those people who do office support work and suddenly have no customers. but doesn't it suggest that a lot of that work wasn't really necessary in the first place? I just can't see how it can be a net harm for remote workers to cook themselves hot lunches every day (or just spend less for a similar cold cut sandwich).
What seems to often happen in cases like my town is that they've farmed out online payment to some third party processor. I'm guessing they do this for free or a reduced charge in exchange for a fairly hefty processing fee. As a result, it's cheaper for me to pay town bills via check even if they're usually online check via my bank.
I don't really think that you're cogent here; it seems like you just wanted to say things which stand in opposition.

While it's true that there's no empirical evidence within humans for the question of p-zombies, Occam's Razor neatly shows that the world without souls is the simpler one; both worlds look just like ours, but one of them requires all of these additional unfalsifiable unverifiable claims about souls and consciousness and inner experiences and etc.

The Dodo Bird's strength comes from the multitude of different models of therapy which have existed over the decades. We know, from history, that the memes of psychotherapists leaked out into popular culture and slowly altered how we talk about thinking. Nonetheless people are more neurotic (more diagnosed with mental disorders) than ever before! So the memes of psychotherapy do not on their own decrease mental disorders. People will look back on our current decade and think how silly we were to focus on "medications", "hormones", "chemical imbalances", "neurotransmitters", etc. just like we now think it's silly to focus on "repressed memories", "dream interpretation", "hysteria", "oedipal urges", etc.

Humans cannot imagine anything completely novel. Every thought which a human ever has is unoriginal and hopelessly tied to the human experience. This is known as the anthropic bias and has been known about for millennia. If you believe in souls, you have an uphill battle in terms of evidence, including here.

Please stop believing in souls. There's no evidence for it and it turns your arguments to mush.
So much this. I hate that closed app stores are currently the best way to achieve it, but Apple is fighting malware for its users plain and simple... at least when it comes to the socials.

The loot boxes issue is new to me though. Citation?
What do you think it is about Elixir that leads to beautiful/maintainable code? I keep thinking about giving it a try.
My company was a few months away from an office move when Covid hit. Most leadership was fiercely anti-wfh. Fast forward to today, and the new office buildout has been converted into a “hotel” model with no permanent desks and the expectation is when it’s safe, you will have option to do come in a few days a week.
That's a great reason. You like to set boundaries between work and private life.

But I'm not convinced a corporate office is the only, let alone, best option. Have you considered alternatives?
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