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Linux doesn't have economics of scale, placement or subsidies... You're paying what Microsoft subsidizes to install windows, office, etc.

https://www.techjunkie.com/why-would-a-linux-laptop-be-more-...

> Bloatware Saves You Money
> Because those companies who make those titles pay fees to have that software pre-installed on your new computer. They see that new desktop as a big billboard, waiting to be populated. And, boy do they load it up!
> This Ubuntu installation doesn’t come with any bloatware, Dell isn’t making the kick-back, hence it increases cost.

> Other Costs
> But, let’s not forget that these companies are USED to Windows. All of their internal processes are based around Windows systems. All their support personel are trained in Windows.
> So, smaller supply and a dedicated demand equals higher cost. Basic economics.
> Not to mention the additional cost of support staff for these laptops, who need to be trained in an entirely different environment
What was the grocery and other essentials shopping situation in the NZ lockdowns?
Sure, Kristeva, famously.[1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/was-the-philosopher-...
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The DeFi space has grown by more than 40x (4,000%) in less than 1 year, now accounting for almost 5% of the whole crypto market.
What? Who said any of that? The person was asking a serious question and got a legit answer.

As a salaried worker you are expected to do a job, if that job takes you 20 hours this week and 45 next week that's fine as long as the job is done.

What is currently happening is most of the time people work 50-60 hours and get paid at basically a 40 hour a week version of their job. So they end up giving the company 10-20 hours free (as it's not every now and then but basically every single week).

There are other motivations that can be added, say if you get a percentage of the company then you working 10-20 hours extra is accounted for by some other benefit.

But as it stands (say you work as a manager at random fastfood) there is no benefit to you working 60 hour weeks. You don't get extra money, you don't get benefits (some long time employees may get stock options but most don't). What's excepted of you does not correlate to the amount you are paid (which for random fastfood is usually what an hourly rate at 40 hours a week would be plus a little extra). If you did the same job as hourly (only difference being termination is easier for hourly than salaried) you would get paid more.

It's a perfectly valid question and one most should be asking.
Online version of what?
I have a few different email accounts.
The premise of the article is incorrect to begin with:

> The way it’s supposed to work is if you’re salaried/exempt, you’re getting paid to do a job, not for a specific number of hours.

No, I'm paid to work 40 hours per week regardless of the workload, as per my employment contract. If I ever have to work over time, then I get one hour of PTO for each hour of OT.

I don't know if it's an American thing to assume that all companies must be predatory toward their employees or if it's just the internet populist bubble that favors such content, but neither I nor anyone I know can relate to these kinds of articles.
I think it's important for people to resist this senseless exercise in imposing conformity, for its own sake.
Philosophy can be thought of as a field of study akin to psuedo science. Think about it. There is a philosophy of aesthetics and religion along with a philosophy of science and logic.

Science and logic attempt to describe something central to the universe while religion and aesthetics are central to only the human experience. To place the two in the same box is a huge category error akin trying to scientifically derive creationism.

Philosophy is essentially just a mish mash of deep thoughts and ponderings of unrelated topics. There is no deeper overarching connection here. Academia came to realize later that certain deep thoughts were “better” then others and formalized those deep thoughts into math and science.

Historically things like science and math and logic comes from “philosophy” but ultimately philosophy is just an old way of thinking in the sense that we as humans now have enough information to understand that aesthetics, religion and science don’t belong in the same category. Philosophy is a outmoded concept that only is still around for the same reason technical debt in software is still around.

The inevitable philosophers response to this is that all experience is technically human in nature. We cannot experience the universe without human bias injected into the observation thus it is not a category error to place Christianity in a field side by side with number theory because it’s all human made up stuff anyway.

To which I respond that all of academia is structured around hypothetical axioms. We can’t prove anything is real but we assume it’s all real. We can’t prove that there is any other way to experience the universe outside of the human experience yet we still assume and structure our science such that the human experience is not central to the universe. Our observations of the universe lead us to believe that the human experience is just a random phenomena in the corner of some galaxy and that is the best available information we have. To discuss anything outside of what we know is like trying to ask someone who is born blind to describe color.
There are lots of examples of countries whose ban on guns work and whose ban on drugs doesn’t work. Therefore it is a bad argument that guns can’t effectively be banned since our ban on drugs hasn’t worked.
Well Fortran was, notably, one of the first languages to have proper source-to-source autodiff (TAPENADE) [1-3], so it’s probably not impossible, though my choice for a fully differentiable climate model would personally be Julia, like the CliMA folks at Caltech [4].

[1] https://doi.org/10.1145/2450153.2450158

[2] http://www-tapenade.inria.fr:8080/tapenade/index.jsp

[3] http://www-sop.inria.fr/ecuador/tapenade/distrib/README.html

[4] https://clima.caltech.edu/
Yeah. City light pollution even more so. Time to deprecate civilization and go back to the caves.
It is all about the nostalgia. I was introduced to this thing called "BASIC" on the 800XL and remember the joy of making the computer beep the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
As someone who lived on contract work for 5 years the "quadrupling of income" isn't a reasonable metric. Invariably your wage gets diluted. At salaried positions you don't have to deal with:

- Clients who pay late

- Clients who don't want to pay

- Clients who disappear with a large, unpaid bill

- Finding clients (ideally ones who don't need cajoling to pay on time)

- Self-employment taxes and managing expenses for deductions

- Providing your own health coverage and managing the benefits one would get at a full-time position

- Being your own safety net during periods of no work

- Legal exposure
I think both isolation and the strict initial lockdown were necessary conditions. Here in BC, Canada, we had a strict initial lockdown that also drove cases to essentially zero. However, even when community spread was wiped out in the summer of 2020, we would have a few cases imported each day, mostly from the US. The border was closed to non-essential traffic, but the economies of the US and Canada are so closely linked that even just essential traffic is many thousands of people each day. Therefore a policy of driving cases to zero and keeping them there just wasn't feasible here, because you'd have to maintain a strict lockdown indefinitely.
In your citation [0], table 3. "No counterparty risk" on bitcoin is listed as "High" and "Moderate" for treasuries. It also lists real estate and gold as having more volatility than bitcoin.

I would question some of those assertions. Especially the ones about counterparty risk.
Correct, but sadly for very good reasons: concrete and rebar isn't used for homes but for attack tunnels etc.
No you can’t. And if you can - bad manager are you if your employees work no better than a team of strangers far far away.

I’d like to clarify that by “outsourcing” I meant dev teams which you as a founder can not either manage, nor influence or actually giude/support/answer questions quickly.

I believe that the magic happens right when someone joins the team - in the best case it motivates better communication and mutual interest in the end result.
The intrinsic value of gold is an answer to whether gold will stay relevant 5000 years from now. It will guarantee that gold will always have some residual value, it doesn't guarantee that its current valuation is correct.

Compare this to Bitcoin which can be replaced by any competitor.

Compare this to the US dollar which is required to pay taxes. You will still see a use case for the dollar in a hundred years.
That is Chavez supporting Chomsky, not Chomsky “unconditionally” supporting Chavez. You offer no support or citation for your claims.
It also excludes Vietnam, a country with 100M bordering China, with the first evidence of community spread outside of China, which has experienced a total of 35 deaths so far in the pandemic. They also credit their success to effective lockdowns and contact tracing (tracing up to 3 degrees of connection, so typically putting more than 100 people in isolation for every case identified).

Edit: fixed geographical mistake :).
it's the same kind of financial intermediation to extract wealth without providing value that underlies ponzi schemes and the derivatives that got us the 2008 crisis. it's a lot of wealth accumulation for its own sake detached from its real basis as a claim on (someone else's) productivity.

in short, it's bullshit, but for the tech crowd rather than wall streeters.
I've tried hiring half-time in the past.

It kind of works if the tasks can be neatly packaged and handed off for totally asynchronous work. It breaks down as soon as you need the part-time person to work with the rest of the team.

You end up forcing the rest of the team to work around one person's schedule. You also end up with someone on your team doubling up on the part-time person's knowledge if you need someone available during normal hours to answer questions or debug something.

It's not really about benefits. ACA doesn't require full benefits for someone working 20 hours a week.

Let's be honest: Many remote work jobs are essentially becoming half-time jobs, with the other half of the work week comprised of simply being available on Slack if someone asks a question.
Haha yes I noticed that. That made me wonder whether the numbers are any good, but those should normally be a little bit harder to exaggerate.
I should clarify. I meant "more accurately than not engaging in that pattern of thought" not "accurately". The latter is an absolute statement, the former a relative one.

And, yes, one can use alternative schools of epistemology if one believes so. This group of people derive theirs significantly from Popper's line of "critical rationalism" which is different from "empiricism" (the names here are the ones that annoyed our cousin comment over there).

This school has certain affordances that permit them to reason as they do but if you disagree the differences between us are likely so large that it is unlikely that I can explain without expending far more effort than I am willing to.
>> "Shadowstats has not changed its $175 per year subscription fee since at least 2006"

>> If there's so much inflation, how come the price of reading about it hasn't gone up?

This is unserious analysis.

You were making a decent point up until you resorted to this type of rhetoric.
For anyone wondering what a multiset is:

A multiset is a set where each element can be present multiple times. In other words, it's like an array or list but you don't care about the order.
Watch out, they're going to ML models that keep track of what apps and websites you have open. Best to sit there and add/remove blank lines to a python file for the remaining 6 hours.
Shooting down any satellites is extremely dangerous due to the orbital debris this would create. The US would take that act very seriously.
So does any fiat currency. This is such an old chestnut.
I wonder how much rare earth material will get incinerated over the next few decades with thousands of these things burning up annually. Hope we figure out space mining quick.
That's the employer's problem. What I find weird is that more people working in high tax-progression countries do not realize that doubling your annual holidays[1] is actually dirt cheap - and require that as a perk instead of the slightly more expensive car or whatever they are spending that marginal income.

[1] or 4 day work week or 6 hour work day or whatever suits your life at the moment
I'm really concerned about the alarms raised by Scientific in regards to "Space Pollution".[0]

Elon Musk has been dodging the question for the past years and never gave a clear answer about it aside of "Umbrella" joke...

Some astronomers are suggesting that with multiple space telecom companies ( US + EU + China ) it would potentially mean we would never be able to see space in plain sight ever. At least not without visual pollution.

[0]https://qz.com/1971751/a-flood-of-spacex-satellites-started-...
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Yes it is, but also not really. Basically, you get what you can with the leverage you have. Tech jobs seem to have gotten themselves in a salaried position, and I think that's just the compromise that tech workers were able to negotiate with companies.

It be really nice to just clock in and clock out. Not care about how much work is remaining, and operate like a barista, I just show up, serve up some lines of code, a few code reviews, hand out a few estimates and suggest a technical approach to business and then on the dot clock out.

If the company feels things aren't going fast enough, they'd need to work harder to not waste my precious clock-in time, keep me busy on the most important things always, or pay me double for extra time.

But instead they started to approach employees with the salaried proposition, and some people said yes. So here we are.

Now it's not that bad, you need to learn to manage your own time, your own work/life balance. It does mean you can decide what hour to show up to work and when to leave (to some extent). It means your launch break can be twice as long if you want it to be sometimes.

It also means that if things aren't going as fast as they need too, it's your responsability to manage your time and commitments better. It's up to you now to make sure you are focused and kept working on the most important thing, that you say no to distractions and make sure the processes favor productivity instead of churn and endless debates. It's up to you to make sure you don't take on work that won't deliver on expectations, and thus up to you to manage those expectations, etc.

But it means sometimes you can take more vacation than you technically have to take as long as your manager and team can work them in, etc.

The biggest downside to me is that it makes the environment more competitive. Basically how much your coworkers will choose to work will set the standards, and it'll be hard for you to do less. If people start responding to emails at night and on weekends, if people make late fridays the norm, or extra Sunday "catch up on todos" a norm, you kind of have too as well now. So when you have a family and outside commitments I think it gets harder to manage, because you can't easily plan around variable hours, you have a more unpredictable schedule, you don't really know if next month will be extra busy and you'll need to push in to the evenings or if it'll be the opposite, etc.
I imagine Satoshi, if not dumb, which I doubt he was, had other bitcoins apart from the publicly held ones.
But as the time goes the more I flex towards doing tiny stuff like MVP etc with outsourcing teams.

Never the less recent years have showed growth of no-code instrumenta which I would personally prefer much more over any outsourcing team if we are talking about super simple projects.
I hope that social distancing entirely disappears, leaving us only with an increased acceptance of working from home and a dramatic increase in the unacceptability of going to the office when sick.

In the future, I don’t want to act as if all my fellow humans might have cooties, as I think that’s more damaging than the slight increase in viral infections.
So it's "everything's better with bacon" for the 2020s? Gross!
Facebook study users’ doubt in vaccines: small group big role push skepticism
I wouldn't call your colleagues lazy, i would say they have other responsibilities and a life. Not everyone has a SO to clean and cook for them and maintaining relationships takes work

Also: you dont have 9 hours of productive work in you a day. Nobody does. You have 4 good hours and then a bunch of wasted time where you are performing being busy because you want everyone to know how smart you are.
I was in the same shoes once with a tiny 11" lenovo ideapad, which didn't have enough storage space for windows updates anymore, even with everything uninstalled.
I tried to install Linux, but was unable to.
A conservative can shrink their amygdala in response to verbal feedback? A conservative can become low-orderliness when they've been high-orderliness since childhood?

This is gay-conversion therapy territory.
> if people are really staying home, pretty much any model of disease spread would predict less spread

That's the point I've also mentioned in a post. If an applied statistics paper yields results that directly contradict good analytical causal models, then you know something is wrong with it. But I was heavily downvoted for that and deleted my post. I believe there are trolls or bots in this thread on HN today.
If you don't allow curation, that's the end of moderated forums like Hacker News, isn't it?
I think I have an opposite PoV .

1. The goal for every outsourcing is to make your product great because only in that case they can upsell you and make more money.

2. Outsourcing company can and do create the detailed specifications, but usually founders don’t want to pay for that, thinking that they can formulate everything theirselves, that in most cases they cannot do because their vision changes rapidly. That’s why having a partner gives you a better flexibility.

Outsourcing works great when you have a clear vision or goal to achieve in that case you can benefit from the fast access to the competencies that you don’t have inside your team.

And of course costs matters, if you’re founder from the region where engineer salary is 3 times less the in SV it’s better to hire the core team then outsourcing it. But for US, Germany, Sweden, etc - outsourcing is more flexible and cost efficient solution.

P.S. find great partner is hard, find great outsourcing partner is also hard
They aren't losing a lot of wealth, they don't have it.
Plenty of people doing it, defi exploded in use last summer mainly driven by collateralized debt positions in combination with lending tokens.

Lock up ethereum -> borrow dai against it -> lend dai out and earn interest on it, withdraw whenever you want.

There are more complex yield farming strategies to get the best rates on your assets, leveraging them through debt positions and lending. There are pools to automate this like yearn.

There are now sites like alchemix where you can lock up your collateral into a lending pool, borrow against it, and the yield on the locked collateral pays off the borrowed debt position. Self-repaying loans!

Multiple times over the past year I have locked eth, taken $s to pay rent/buy stuff. Then come back later paid back the owed $ and get my eth back.

https://defipulse.com tracks the value locked in different protocols, it was less about $0.5 billion this time last year, now over $40 billion.

https://compound.finance/
https://oasis.app
https://yearn.finance
https://aave.com
I agree with that. I was also referring to how much we suck at not killing the wrong people. I imagine systemic racism would still exist, but at least the robots are making decisions consistently.
That's just fine for (software) engineers, but I can't imagine this going well for an employee in a employer's market.
This is true for me, my grandfather had one and it was the first computer I used with any regularity.
Are mandatory, unpaid lunch breaks a scam? 1-2 hour mandatory, unpaid breaks are the norm in my country (Spain). This means even if you WFH (no commute), you will actually spend somewhere between 9 and 10 hours at work every day.

Another custom here is doing a few minutes of unpaid overtime every day. If you add both things, a full time employee who works from home spends somewhere between 45 and 55 hours at work every week.

Is wage theft still wage theft if it's part of a place's culture? My "hot take" is that it 100% is.
by whom? the FCC. i live in switzerland, does USA own LEO?
FORTRAN isn't a formal language though.
Sounds like you might also be starving yourself and your family for no reason? If you have > $100k in the bank, and presumably a much larger multiple of that in investments and other assets - why not spend $1k sometimes on something that you could enjoy or that (in this case) could earn you more money?
I guess the challenge is separating the bullshit from the technology. Right now they’re joined at the hip.
>> If the inflation was really as high as you said then deficit spending wouldn't be necessary at all.

Can you please elaborate on what you mean by this?
The work arrangement you are describing is not that of an exempt salaried employee.
Installing PowerShell on macOS
This uses NFQUEUE to get real-time userspace access to the ability to decide which connections to allow. NFQUEUE users must return a verdict on the packet (skb? I don't recall) before the packet continues to flow through the system. Using seccomp you don't get the opportunity to pass that up to a user to decide which action to take. Using other eBPF consumers are similar (since it represents a risk).
Hopefully no one comes out with nft lube...
> some parallel lalaland universe

Countries with better rights for employees exist in this universe, on this planet.
killing civilians is easy, it's not something newly enabled by modern "robot" technology... I image they could just as well use bombs and bullets
And the employer solves the problem by only hiring developers full time...
Web links can break too. A URL that could previously be used to retrieve the most recent version of a document may no longer do so.

I've already read one bug report where two people were talking at cross-purposes for a considerable time because one of them was reading a stale version of a proposed standard for this reason.

It's hardly the largest cause of «Cool URIs don't change»[1] violations out there, but it's enough to cause some real trouble.

[1] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
Now you are just arguing against yourself as Israel does not use deny those types of goods, proving that they try to allow as much as possible.
How is it amazing? That has been the case for game consoles and other stuff for ages. Same for most mobile phones, for the biggest part of their existance (where they just came with a few OEM supplied apps and that's it).

That said, there is a way to run software that Apple doesn't approve: jailbraking.
Stimulus checks sent to wrong bank accounts. IRS blames “technical error”
Ya. I'd really question how you can get 5%-10% yield in some of these deals. Risk and yield are generally very correlated. How much more counterparty risk are you really taking compared to treasuries which yield nearly 0%?

Lots of times in finance when things are too good to be true it's because they are.
They scrape all of your transaction history.
Do they indeed? The turbines usually have much better exhaust filtration and have higher efficiency than oil refinery+ICE.