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>I also had some craziness on LinkedIn earlier.

Sounds like a normal day on LinkedIn
To me it's an argument that there isn't enough democracy. Brexit would never had happened if the British political class (including Labour and libdems) were not totally hostile to the interests of the British working class over a period of several decades. When a government isn't responsive to the people, bad stuff happens.
The value to a particular consumer of food and housing can be zero, presuming they have enough and are not in the market for those goods.

That's what it means to say that goods lack intrinsic value.

The exception is of course money, whatever good it is that is winning the Keynesian beauty contest of "good which I think everyone else will want as much of as they can get".
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And if they said it were a unicorn, would that make it true? It's not a currency because you can't use it as a currency.
Recently read both Legacy of Ashes and The Jakarta Method. The declassified documents directly from the CIA should damn them to the grave. The United States in the post WW2 period turned rightful fear and skepticism of the USSR into violent paranoia, subverting democracy anywhere people dared assert control over natural resources or accept participation of socialist/communist political parties.

Whether they did it at the direction of business interests isn't too important. The result of a bloody Cold War in the 3rd World was a cheap non-unionized labor force where organizing for better wages and conditions is dangerous and often illegal.

A better world was possible. The Non-Aligned Movement attempted to thread the needle between the US and the Soviet Union, but the CIA's mission was to make sure there was no 3rd option.
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Pretty shameless Raph :P
Agreed - makes sense.
Spaced-Repetition can make your Retrospectives more efficient
> shitty homes

I mean, that's a bit disparaging. I've seen some beautiful 600 sqft apartments.

But to your general point, I agree. I just don't think a space needs to be shitty in order to be inappropriate for daily work. If its small or the area lacks food outdoor amenities, it's easy to get cabin fever.
By what mechanism will salaries fall? And thus by what mechanism will SWE unions keep salaries high, but gates open?
Ask HN: Two unlabeled downvote buttons rather than one
Hear me out. Regardless of the rules, everyone has their own personal reasons for downvoting a post. With a single bit, there's no way to discover the hidden rules that people use to express their reaction to a post.

Labeling the downvote buttons (e.g. "makes me feel sad|bad|mad") has been suggested in the past, but we all know that the expressed semantics of the buttons will be ignored by the community.

Suppose, however, that HN adds one additional unlabeled downvote button.

Faced with two unlabelled downvote buttons, would you click both? When would you click one but not the other? Would one turn into the quality downvote while the other turned into the feelings downvote?
Well, you aren't just WFH full time, but WFH full time in a pandemic. WFH is much different when you can set up lunches with friends, work from cafes/restaurants/parks from time to time, and actually have face-to-face connections with people easily.
> We don't own the means of production

You're going to have to break that down for a 21st century software developer on a SV messageboard. Aren't the means of production increasingly our own brains? Can't computing resources be rented cheaply enough for the average person to bootstrap their own business ideas if they're worth pursuing? I'm puzzled to see stuff like this in the present day, I thought it had been discredited within Marx's own lifetime.
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This is the first time I've ever had a slow experience with HN, so there is no need to be sorry. A damn fast website can have a few slow downs once in a while in my mind. HN is the opposite of slow software, and even at its slower moments, it still beats the majority of the modern web (looking at you, Reddit redesign).
The statement is factually false, the reason we have judges is to consider individual circumstances and to make the tradeoffs between conflicting rights and laws. Cutting a person open without their consent could be murder or a lifesaving surgery depending on context. Breaking and entering is justified if you did it to save a child out of a burning building, breaking someone's bones is OK if it happens during CPR (varies by country).

Your right to privacy conflicts with the State's desire for surveillance, your right for self-defence can clear your of charges of manslaughter, and depending on exact circumstances the judge will decide if your actions were justified or if you belong in jail.
B) is basically what we have already. Contractually only required to work 40 hour weeks, no [official] pressure from management to work more, but anyone who does will most likely have higher output / receive better performance bonuses and recognition, etc.

The only thing a union brings to the table in this situation is now I'm either explicitly forbidden from working more on a project even if I want to, or I have to hide what I'm doing and go all cloak-and-dagger about it, probably breaking some kind of labor laws in the process. All for 1% of my salary. Doesn't seem like a good trade for me?
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ksec didn't imply hn is a DDoS target. They pointed out that hn is usually rather slow when there are largescale infrastructure issues, because people come debate about them here.

I've noticed it many times in the past year.

E.g. when Google services had the big outage, or when AWS US-EAST-1 was down, or when Facebook SDK broke all the iOS apps, etc.
Your comment inspired me to submit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25636267
Ok, hold on now.

Asset price inflation is such a weird metric to rail on because that's the whole point of investing. Literally the point of assets is they go up in price over time. If you bought AAPL at $50 and it hits $300 is that "asset price inflation"? No! It's a good return on investment.

There's no personal need for affordable AAPL stock is there? Are you going to die if you can't afford AAPL? Of course not.

You know what's gone down though? Housing. Which, by the way, costs exactly the same amount now on an inflation adjusted dollars per square foot basis as it did in the 1970s across the whole of the United States according to the BLS. [1] Certain major metros are of course higher but that's simply because the city councils stopped permitting new construction to benefit existing landowners while demand increased due to the booming economy in and around these metros.

Inflation is literally defined as CPI and it factors in the necessities of life. AAPL stock is not a necessity. It doesn't matter how far up it goes if bread costs the same.

Wanna stop the inequality it leads to? Bring in a wealth tax.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the...

Them pretending this stuff never happened is no fun, I'd like to see them try to justify MKULTRA
One man's "cutting off your nose to spite your face" is another man's "sticking to your ideological guns even when you make less money that way".

If anything being able to occasionally execute on controversial things like this seems like an argument in favor of democracy. How often have we heard of X or Y is easier in a dictatorship because the approximate half of the population that disagree can just be steamrolled and progress can happen without them? To me things like Brexit are proof that democracy can be just as versatile when it wants to.
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I don't think my opinion much changed since I heard about wikileak
Agreed - it's certainly a left-leaning narrative. I don't understand the "why" of any of it anymore.

The far-left folks are pro lockdown but also want to help the underprivileged. No one is hurt worse by lockdowns. They want to defund the police, and yet by now even the hardened ideologue can admit that less police is maybe not a great plan. The left is anti-authoritarian but engages in almost textbook authoritarian behavior. (Cancel culture, democratic governors having emergency powers for 9+ months now etc etc) They hate capitalism but enjoy the byproducts (my most socialist friends can't get enough of Amazon prime - the irony is completely lost on them).

There is just no way to reconcile the platform. It is completely incoherent.
No need for the apology I think. You guys do a great job keeping this place simple and fast for us.
What mistakes? Trusting Facebook?
And now it's fast again.
Jikes. AWS, Google and Azure all spiking.
...and they are worse products because of it.
Honestly, it's not at all clear. The US has exceeded the Stasi on many fronts in the level of tracking at this point, but who knows what they would have done in 2020 if they still existed.
As someone who has to use Zoom Chat to interact with a client on a daily basis, please, do not recommend Zoom Chat to anyone except as an example of how not to do chat software.

--

Though, I do agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment that the Slack team needs all the positive vibes they can get right now.
> This is because those unions are serving a very different purpose to the stereotypical union some engineers seem to fear. [...]

I think there's another purpose of the film industry unions that doesn't get mentioned much in these (tech industry) discussions. Specifically, that the film unions raise wages by limiting the number of people who enter the industry. It's simple supply and demand.

This works via the following mechanisms:

First, the film unions provide useful benefits (like reasonably-priced health insurance), so most professional actors want to be part of the union.

Second, union members are prohibited from working on non-union productions. Additionally, most well-known actors are union members. This gives a strong incentive for a production to be a union production.

Third, union productions are prohibited from hiring more than a token number of non-union actors (unless they pay a fine to the union). This gives a strong incentive for productions to only use union talent (which also gives actors another reason to want to be a union member).

So far so good. But how does one join the union? That's the catch-22: You must work for at least n days on a union production (n=1 for speaking roles, n=3 for extra roles) to be eligible to join SAG/AFTRA. But most union productions won't hire you unless you're a union member (see above).

I don't know whether something like that would work in the software industry, but it seems at least plausible to me that it could benefit everyone who is currently employed in tech (at the expense of future potential tech employees).
100%. If I have a central point it's that no one way of working is right for everyone.

Case in point: My partner works from home, has for years, and has no interest in working from an office. It's worth noting, however, that she also prefers it when I leave every day. (Read into that what you will.)
Please don't harangue another user like this. The site guidelines put it this way: "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Curious conversation requires a certain lightness of touch. You can still make your same point that way; actually it will work better that way.
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> As a rule of thumb, your bed should be dedicated to sleep

CGP Grey had a pretty good video about living in the lockdown titled "Spaceship you".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck

I'd say that a lot of work that isn't really work can be done from bed, but it does mess up your training for "bed == sleep".

I used to work from bed before 2020, but the lockdown has made the "walk downstairs to work, grab a coffee along the way" into a natural thing rather than putting a number of other high attention activities (shaving, driving) between being awake-enough to sitting at my desk.
But he did speak authoritatively, "Facebook decided..."

Facebook didn't decide anything as far as we know, he's presenting his opinions as facts, they aren't.
> someone who worked as an NSA contractor in cryptology related fields

She worked at Meade as a linguist during her time as an airman, and after in an even more detached role as a translator. Neither in a cryptology-related field unless you consider the entirety of SIGINT to be cryptology-related (and her contract job wasn't even SIGINT).

Leaking should not be reserved for those with technical skills; anonymity is one of the aspects real journalists should consider themselves bound to help their sources with.

> her Obama bias

Sure, ok, yeah. Whatever dude.
"We" would do, and frequently have done, just that if it supports "our" agenda. Hence the rise of the use of such broad brushes as "silence is complicity", etc.
that still doesn't make what Assange did "investigative journalism", unlike what Bellingcat does
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You're absolutely right. I look forward to getting the chance to try it out under better circumstances.
Why does the supply need to increase? Bitcoin can be subdivided to 100,000,000 times. If the value of one satoshi gets too high to be a practicable then a change can be introduced to make smaller units possible. This is like a stock split.
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> Anybody buying the 2% inflation number doesn't recognize the actual 15-20% hurdle they have to jump over every (non-covid) year and will inevitably get poorer unless they are directly tied to a "cantillon channel"... in which case they will only stay rich thanks to what amounts to fraud.

You have absolutely no evidence to support this.

The only reason the cost of living goes up in the major metros listed there is because housing went up there, and that's not inflation or the cantillon effect (which I concede exists but is nowhere near as big as you make it out to be) -- that's because city councils aren't permitting new construction.

Your comment is a manifestation of proportionality bias. You think a big change in the affordability of housing in SF has to have a big cause like the global economy string pulling illuminati cantillon magic. The reality is far more banal. It's straight-up simple supply and demand. Strong economy in and around SF creates demand for living in SF. The city council doesn't permit new construction. This limits supply. Low supply, high demand, big prices - which the well paid tech workers can afford. That's it and that's all man.

Naturally when demand fell as a result of the pandemic prices went with it.
> in either case, it will give me profits in the end, which is all I care about. I do not care about the "how"

This is perhaps the most telling aspect of the investment class that explains how people so many are starving, being evicted and dying from COIVD in the World'd richest country while people keep pouring into Airbnb and Doordash IPOs.

It's so absurd to me how oblivious some people are about things that will lead to inevitable consequences to Society as a while while justifying any and all practices (not least of which slave labour) because their fake paper wealth number increases--all while the currency its denominated in loses more and more purchasing power.