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I have worked with 50% remote people for decades. There are all sorts of ways this can be productive. The most obvious, which may or may not appeal to the majority of HN’s demographic, is people with families.

If you’re 50% WFH, you can structure your parental life around the remote days. It’s not that you work less on those days, but the time you would otherwise spend commuting is time you can spend on weekday family things.

Another scenario I’ve seen is people who want a "remote home.” Fed up with the prices for living in a major metropolitan area, or perhaps because they prefer a smaller town and/or living in a rural area, they buy a place with double their usual commute.

That can be brutal, but if you only do that a couple of days of the week, and can structure your F2F work on those days, the total number of hours commuting isn’t so bad.
This reads like an April Fools joke, and I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt on that one as the author's company literally works in the cryptocurrency space, except they apparently refer to themselves as a cryptoledger. So it seems like a troll post... Otherwise this makes for some terrible irony.

Or the other case could be that they feel they've lost out on investment, due to the fact that openness and decentralization is leading the charge in blockchain/cryptocurrency technologies, while he's trying to come up with a privatized solution... and why accept private when there's better and more established open alternatives already leaving their marks, no pun intended.
If you are strictly thinking about economical choices, there are two options that would cost less:

1 - Medicare for all, so those patients would receive treatment on early stages, which would cost less.

2 - No Medicare at all. Save money on treatment AND paying them retirement.

I think 2 is kinda bad though
There's plenty of other ways of figuring out if something is good. When you go to a restaurant do you just look at the star rating? Or do you read reviews, look at the menu, ask ppl etc
I’d really hesitate before depending on that to any extent health wise. Water is an amazing solvent, and you get huge benefit from washing things away in it after oils and similar hydrophobic substances have been de-hydrophobic’d
If you're only coming in a few days a week, you don't need to live as close to the office. Like the difference between a 30 minute commute twice a day five days a week versus a 90 minute commute twice a day once a week.
The cold reality is that most users won't care.
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> I came here to say this exact same thing. There is seriously interesting and useful real work being done under the umbrella term "decentralized finance" or DeFi. It is hard to cut through the noise of get rich quick schemes, but at the core, the DeFi stuff, built on top of green cryptocurrency (proof of stake), along with quickly improving zero-knowledge proof tech, is actually useful and groundbreaking.

The truth is that no one uses cryptocurrency for anything. Ethereum is just as much a speculative store of value as Bitcoin is, if not moreso given the numerous competitors it has to contend with — Bitcoin arguably has none.

In a way, “speculative store of value” has merely been whitelabeled under the terms “digital gold” and “defi”. The people who claim increduously they’re buying ETH to do transactions are misrepresenting the situation to an extreme degree.

> Bitcoin and proof of work should totally be banned.

Where is your disclosure statement?
Disclaimer: What follows is not pontification, but a few questions I ask myself as well when dealing with this...

>Hi, I'm preparing to reach out to companies to sell an API-based product.

You mean a money-saving-or-money-making-based product? Can you post a link? It could interest people here.

>If I were to send cold-emails to a bunch of companies, what should I include in that short email that are the most important to close a sale?

Do these companies have the problem your product solves? Is it important for them? There are many companies sending us emails about their solutions to problems we either don't have, or that we do have but simply don't care about. It's either not urgent, or doesn't cost that much, or we have a way of dealing with that, or we simply do not trust the product, or we're not required to do it a certain way, or a combination of these.

It helps if you have that problem yourself and you're dogfooding and it's saving you or making you something.

What kind of pricing? What kind of products can be built on top of this API, and who would either create these products or use them? Can we imagine a product you build on top of that that you distribute, maybe open-source, which hits your API?
Super introvert as well, I like my solo time in the office, but some times to make new connections, learn about a new part of the business these small distractions are a good break from the regular.
Alternatively, clearly we can afford to lower the age of Medicare eligibility to 64, because 64-year-olds never get sick, it won't cost very much at all.

Actually, I think we should decrease the age of eligibility over time to gradually get towards Medicare for all; I would lower the eligibility age by 6 months every year for 10 years to get to age 60, then 1 year per year for 5 to get down to age 55, then 2 years per year until you're done; maybe speed up again later. That would give Medicare time to increase capacity, and everyone else time to plan accordingly.

At some point you need to also deal with eligibility for people without work history and whatnot.
Holy stream of consciousness Batman!
sorry, couldn't help myself.

courtesy of youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwcJNsoY50E
When everyone has something, we don't feel as special for having that thing.

This should be reserved for expensive sneakers, cars, and luxuries, but some apply this perspective to health-care, and are disturbed that someone of less means should have access to the same hospitals and doctors as them.

That's not the only reason of course, but it's often the unstated motivation behind the stated reasons for opposition to universal healthcare, like government rationing of care.
I would say votes aren't a signal at all. You can be voted in either direction for anything. You don't know who's voting or why.

All that article shows is that the votes are manipulated by users too, there's no signal in down vote brigading like that
> If employees want to work from home beyond Sept. 1, they will need to formally apply for a max of 14 days annually

Somehow this sounds to me like:
"Oh, and remember: next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans."
Sure, considering I was a frantic proponent of universal healthcare before I observed the US Gov's handling of the COVID crisis and the responses of Americans to it, I changed my mind. Here are some of my reasons:

* I want to be able to be an informed participant in my healthcare. When the US Gov lied about mask efficacy so that there would be enough masks for healthcare professionals and when many Americans considered this acceptable, I lost faith in the government's ability to meet this need of mine. Either they were incompetent or malicious and neither trait is one I desire in someone treating me.

* My life involves a wide variety of risk taking: I use drugs, motorcycle, bicycle, jump off bridges, etc. During the COVID crisis, many Americans stated a desire to allocate healthcare according to behaviour. I would prefer to pay to offset my risk rather than alter my behaviour. I fear the puritan streak in American politics will push me to the back of the line in healthcare despite my ability to offset any risk with money.

* I am a software engineer. I am high income, relatively wealthy, and overall fairly comfortable. I am also in a profession that does not provide me a social cachet. During the COVID crisis, many Americans stated a desire to allocate healthcare according to a notion of value to society that elevates those with high social cachet. These are generally people who can be argued for: teachers ("they are taking care of our next generation"), medical professionals ("you don't think we should treat our healthcare heroes first?"), soldiers, firefighters, police, god knows what. I fear that people's dislike of my profession will push me to the back of the line.

So now, no universal healthcare, thank you. And yes, I am quite familiar with the NHS. I've paid enough into it and have many family members who work for it. The existence of other successful systems does not mean that the US can replicate them. There is a path problem, a second system effect, and differing social norms.

Well, there you have it, an actual statement of reasons from someone who actually opposes UHC.
Generally, Samsung's bluetooth implementation has worked better than any other Android I've used. On top of that, Bluetooth seems to work better if both devices are from the same vendor
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It still allows employees to work uninterrupted while managing their own time on the other days, and allows the company to save roughly half the office space (unless everyone comes in at the same days). It also spares you a lot of commute.

Sure, it doesn't allow other things like working from a beach somewhere in Spain. But it's a compromise that keeps many benefits from both solutions.
On google it seems like this "school" is a regular home
I keep relearning this lesson:

First it was with competitive gaming. In tournaments, competition machines have their configs reset after each match. You have a limited amount of time to setup before game time because admins also have to check your config. I learned to have a fairly simple config (i.e. close to defaults) so I wouldn't run out of time.

Second time round it was with vim and Ruby. I spent nearly 2 months trying to get the right combination of plugins to get something close to a decent IDE experience. I ended up packing it in for RubyMine which gave me what I wanted right out the box.
If only the democrats had had a little courage and ran a candidate that embraced Medicare for All. I think with Biden not embracing it they have lost a great opportunity for many years. It would be the most straightforward way to universal health care. The systems are all there, it has shown that it works and people want it. Now Biden is talking about a nebulous “public option” which won’t go anywhere. What a waste.
Youtube is trying to sit on two chairs: it needs dislikes to feed its ML algorithms, but it wants to keep users in the dark. I doubt users will bother to send likes and dislikes into the void, so youtube will have to give at least something back. I bet that the final solution will be to show users convincing fake data, so they would feel the urge to contribute by clicking that like it dislike button.
Get professional help. You are mentally unwell.

Fuck you, and fuck your anti-semitism.
REITs that buy properties with cash, without taking a mortgage.
Raising money is not a success indicator at all. We agree. Having your first paying customer is typically a much more important one :).
Don't know if you noticed, but it's mentioned in the first paragraph of the article :)
To the above commenters, Git is also used in enterprise scenarios with private, semi-private repos that enforce corporate user auth.

My initial comment was dumb and deserved downvotes, but all git usage isn't the git usage you know of.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but when traversing the Suez canal, isn't control of the vessel transferred to a "canal pilot"?
And the supply is based on expectation of future inflation.
Let's consider them as market forces. Likes are internet currency. In that context dislikes are a secondary currency that doesn't have a clear value. Dislikes tend to depend on the content and current cultural norms to determine why the dislike was added. Their value is not easily determined. For a controversial creator a dislike may actually be a badge of honor. For a DIY creator it's a major negative. Due to this apparent ambiguity in the value of dislikes and what they mean I don't find them worth while.
I think people are waiting too long. And hospitals are probably not unhappy with that. I bet there is way more money in late stage cancer treatments vs early stage.
More people are in favor of universal healthcare than against it.

No one fully understands the problem space, those that do only understand the parts they care about. However, the current system just doesn’t make economic sense for 90% of current and future Americans.

Therefore, we should change the system, and given the success of universal healthcare schemes throughout the developed world, we ought to try it ourselves.
Wonder what it would take to get my company to go green in this way.
# 2 is what gets me. There seems to be some rather odd idea here that having any portion of ones taxes go to supporting people who can't afford health insurance otherwise, even if it means that people would pay less overall for healthcare, is somehow more unfair than having each person take the personal risk of bankruptcy due to an expensive illness. There also seems to be some thinking along the lines of not having a "choice in the market" if we're all covered by the same system as if the market really provides much of a choice now.
Democrats get tons of campaign donations from pharma and health insurance companies.

They don't want to turn off the spigot.
Work out and lift weights.

But ergonomically speaking I use a Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard and a Logitech MX Vertical mouse.

You may also need a long break to heal, which might not be an option if you're American. An engineer from Germany I know had something like 4 or 6 weeks off work when diagnosed with RSI and nobody batted an eye.
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How about someone creates a network of users that are vetted in some way to basically be 'honest' actors and not bots, then they use a browser extension that lets you view and input likes and dislikes for content across the internet independently of what the site provides. Will stop bot-ing/gaming of system if it works. Also if network is small enough even a couple of plus votes could be enough for you to 'trust' that it has a genuine positive review from a reasonable person.
My 5 year old often tells me to like and subscribe to his channel.

He doesn't have one.
How do you balance being a manager, a position that requires heavily dealing and engaging with people, with being an introvert?
I'd actually say the typical Googler is a 30 or 40-something married person with a kid or two.
I'm one of the report authors, and was elected to the OpenStreetMap Foundation board one year later.

One candidate thought that the OSMF shouldn't ever choose who gets to be a member. We respectfully agreed to disagree.

The other candidate, despite being shown all the evidence, thought that there was nothing nefarious, and that asking the OSMF board to investigate was a "witch hunt".

The previous OSMF board chairperson and secretary are no longer active in the OpenStreetMap project.
That... Doesn't make sense to me. If "We" (the company) suddenly pay 10% in taxes instead of 20% and we gift 35% of the difference to our execs, the government is now collecting 0.1 + 0.1x0.35x0.3 instead of 0.2. Righ? I mean, even if it was all gifted to execs, it would be at most 0.1 + 0.1x0.3, which is still definitely less than 0.2.
I work on AR/VR in the pharma field. It's not super close to downrange applications, but I may be able to handle some questions.

To your concerns, I think they are very valid. Weight, as always, is a primary concern for the infantry. The Hololens2 is not a light system to just wear, let alone with a helmet. Additional issues like battery, signal, and other unforeseens are likely large concerns too.

That said, I think that the ability to quickly and seamlessly integrate all the data that is coming in may have some advantages. Giving warfighters a way to view all the data in real-time is a goal worth spending some money on. The recent Nagorno-Karabakh war has shown that the digital/cyber aspect of war has a likelihood of being a vital factor in future conflicts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict
> I'm often asked a question like, "How are you able to award a diploma on the basis of nothing other than an essay and a letter of support?" The answer to this very reasonable question has two parts. First, I'm in a legal position to offer a diploma on this basis simply because there are no mandated requirements, in California law or anywhere else, for graduation from a private high school. (California law sets many subject matter graduation requirements for public high schools.)

A co-worker of mine formed her own private high school — while in public high school — and then graduated herself from it. She was running a successful business already, so it made sense to her at the time.

I was pretty shocked to learn this because I had no idea something like that was possible, and might have considered that route as well (although who's to say it would have turned out better?). For self-motivated, intellectual kids, I think it would be a dream come true — at least myself and several folks I went to high school with would have chosen to enroll in college classes much earlier, or do self-directed study, if we had the choice.
That doesn’t work for medical treatments. If tooth extractions or colonoscopies were free people wouldn’t get more of them unless they were necessary. The current state of health care in the US causes people to not seek necessary care which results in much more expensive treatment later.
Come on, I'm trying not to dismiss your perspective just because it sounds a bit conspiratorial, but this is not convincing. Are you saying the YouTube execs (or whoever is leaning on them) are just acting emotionally with no strategy?
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The worst time I had was when I got to manage a team of 5 at a remote location. All 5 guys were sitting together. There was only one conference room equipped with videoconference gear. I tried maintaining at least one meeting a week but it had to be booked a lot in advance and I was frequently preempted by higher management because this was the only one room. Usually at the last moment (and I had once been evicted in the middle of the meeting).

There was no budget for me to visit them at the office so all in all I saw them in person twice. Not twice a month or even twice a year. Twice. Total.
Quick tip: You can find a lot of places selling really solid new power tools at 50-75% off because of the name change. They will usually be sold now as "HPT", Hitachi Power Tools and they have to move the stock before they can sell the newly rebranded tools thus the discount.
I have a permanently impaired immune system and had a corporate job for five years. There are things that can be done to help make offices less of a health hazard even in the face of something like covid and most people don't cope well with remote work.

It takes a lot of practice to get good at effective emails in place of face to face conversations.

I actually tended to email my immediate boss my questions. With my eyesight issues or whatever, I seemed incapable of figuring out how to show up at her cubicle with good timing like other people routinely did.

When I and two other people on my team were moved to a newly created troubleshooting team but kept the same technical lead, my work life hardly changed. I continued mostly emailing my questions and getting what I needed.

My two coworkers who had been dependent on being able to talk with her face to face were blowing a gasket now that their desks were too far from hers to conveniently slip into her cubicle like they were used to doing.

I can handle remote work. I've spent a lot of time doing things online for a lot of years.

But I'm not surprised that it's been a tough work year for most people and productivity seems to have generally been down. Working remotely takes a different skill set and many people simply don't have it, even people who work at a computer all day.
There is an argument that this sentiment explains a lot of America’s strange choices as it relates to publicly funded everything.

It certainly seems like a lot of our divestment in community resources followed the end of Jim Crow. It would explain the strange bedfellows that are wealthy elites and white supremacists (who lean Republican; obviously not all Republicans are racist). The elite gets the benefit of lower taxes and new business revenue from privatization of former government services; the racist gets knowledge that people they dislike are being hurt more than them. It’s a win-win.
I used to wonder about the same thing then I saw my toddler accidentally hit the downvote button.
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I could throw in "glorious regulatory capture" making healthcare for all a cash bonanza for some companies as our taxes spiral ever upward.
I'm making a tool for exploring word etymologies.

I'm fascinated by the hidden connections in our language—like "galaxy" being connected to "galactose" because of the Milky Way.

I used NLP to convert written etymology paragraphs from wiktionary into a database of words and connections.

Also interesting are the Proto-Indo-European roots, like "h₂enh₁", which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning "breath", that has about 1k modern day descendants ranging from "animate" and "unanimous" to "anemone".

https://www.etymologyexplorer.com
Back in the day there was a way to replay to a video with another video. It felt very democratic and subversive to the "consensus" you describe.
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A hybrid model with a maximum of 14 days a year is not a hybrid model at all.

That’s the real news for me. After the pandemic is over Google will go back to a full-onsite team.
> In all the time I’ve been tracking virtually everything that AWS says about virtually everything, I’ve never once caught them lying to me.

Doesn't AWS have notorious under-reporting on their status pages? In a "when it matters" case, being able to brag about reliability and not having to refund users is kinda a big matter. Weird for it to be unmentioned.

> The only path I see forward is for Amazon to identify the executive who made the tweet and publicly fire him (let’s be clear: we all know it’s a “him”).

Why? Are shy men not worthy of being treated as men? Are outspoken women not worthy of being treated as women?