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"some of the Uber drivers I meet are incredibly gritty."

That's exactly the point. There's a huge number of people bringing a hell of a lot of hustle to just keeping their head above water.

There was a brilliant blog post a couple years ago pointing out that perfect competition - from the perspective of the gig worker on the ground - is fundamentally dystopian. When you're providing a commoditized service (like driving a car) in perfect competition, you've got nowhere to go but working harder or smarter. Which quickly means that everyone in the market is working just as hard and smart, bringing maximum hustle (or, if you prefer, grit) just to hang on.
A lot of garden variety corruption such as this is actually illegal in the US.

However, you can also form a conspiracy to commit a legal act if it’s got some negative stigma your trying to avoid. For example students may conspire to lower the bar when graded on a bell curve.
I think this is great podcast episode on how political views aren’t really as newly polarized or extreme as people think:

https://m.soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-112-how-pol...
Rowing is only slightly better for your knees than running. If you are worried about knees, swimming is the best cardio, because it puts almost no strain on your joints.
hmm, possibly, seems more likely that an unnamed superhero has been working behind the scenes in a decades long battle against his arch nemesis, the Comic Thief, and has finally tuned the tide discovering a trove of comic collections and worked around the clock under extreme circumstances to reunite the collections with their rightful owner, no?
> Politicians should just do it.

Read the whole article, they did.

> Instead, they (Dems mostly) parade around publicly shaming companies who reduces tax in a legal way.

I'm not aware if google specifically has done this, but the associated problem here is that typically massive companies pay lobbyists to get the government to create (and keep) these loopholes.
I would expect the people to make an evaluation on which treadmill would be most appropriate for their household. I blame the parents twice.
Nice post. 366 MHz office hardware in 1996...yeah that would have been pretty awesome.

The story also made me wonder about bonuses in European countries where private employee salary numbers are publicly available (or so I've heard). Is the same true for bonuses, if they are offered?
It's supportAaS all the way down!
We got early access to them at WPI back in '91 or so. They were amazing for the time.
I've been in the position of managing this person. After a lot of effort and too much time I realised I really couldn't do anything for him.

I am not in the business of fixing gaping personality issues. And any work related coaching was impossible due to his victim mentality and inability to accept feedback.

Some people asked if your engineer was technically gifted. For me the answer is it doesn't matter. The toxic attitude always undermines any technical contributions they makes. Even a talented asshole just ends up taking on more and more critical projects, which widens their sphere of negative influence.
"So if the Rust compiler causes hidden allocations that cannot be
caught and returned as errors, then I seriously think that this whole
approach needs to be entirely NAK'ed, and the Rust infrastructure -
whether at the compiler level or in the kernel wrappers - needs more
work."

So Linus is worried about nothing?
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If you are launching a game where players compete, you may want to concentrate ad dollars into shorter timeframes so that there are enough players simultaneously to "get things going". They can't play if there is no one to play against, type thing.

Logicially, there are various ways of approaching this. You could, for example, spend the year's ad budget in one month. Or concentrate every day's budget at a specific hour of the day. Etc.

Mechanically, it doesn't look that straightforward to do with Google Ads. Their ad platform is structured around continuous monthly spend and not discrete time frames (from my extremely limited study). Seems like you would have to build a custom solution. I'm not sure about other networks.

What are some recommendations/tools/insights/wisdom for maximizing the simultaneity of ad spend?
>If I ever find myself dealing with depression, I'll ....

I genuinely without sarcasm are glad you haven’t had to deal with this type of debilitating depression. The idea that you’ll do anything much less anything healthy and proactive is absurd to me, due to my lived experience of both depression and losing someone close to me to suicide.

So many suicide attempt survivors tell how they instantly regretted their attempt as it happened. So many bloody fingers from ropes with claw marks as they try to pull themselves up.

Or worse. Miss. Quadriplegic. I know one of them too.

Anything that can break into the impulsive loop is worth considering. You’d be surprised how little inconvenience it takes to put it off.

I wish my friend Michael had had an ice lock. He was a beautiful, talented, crazy, tortured motherfucker and I miss him every day.
A VSCode extension can just run code in a host context anyway. It doesn't really matter there.
Building goodwill or other intangibles.
Literally nobody wears those.
Don't business analysts figure out what would solve the applications problems and the engineers code it?
As a seven year old I was a member of my schools philately club. I could buy mixed bags for 20p each, the local police superintendent was a very knowledgeable member as well. I would talk about stamps and countries with my fellow members, it was wonderful.

After leaving primary school I kept collecting, but slowed down as a teenager.

Then as an adult I got serious again. I visited a few philately shops to buy the missing pieces in my UK and Ireland stamp collections. The owners were totally disinterested. They were more interested in knowing about what I had. I did have some very rare stamps, worth about 4-figures. I didn't want to part with them because family members gave them to me. But the way those dealers were obsessed with money over simple enjoyment bothered me.

Some people care about the enjoyment more than the money.
You are paying for what you use. You think it’s ethical to use something and someone else should pay for it??

Or don’t you use roads, police, education, services, etc..,
The jokes things is something I realized too. Not because I ever tell off-color jokes, but because I realized certain people felt compelled to laugh. And others would then quietly roll their eyes, not at me, but at the exaggerated reactions. It was causing small divisions on the team.

When I just had peers and made a stupid pun, my friends/coworkers would just groan and tell me not to quit my day job. But when people's annual reviews are in your hands, it's a different story. I think it's perfectly fine to open a meeting by lightening the mood with humor, but I feel compelled to generally reign it in.
Or maybe companies shouldn't be allowed to release designs that don't include industry-standard safety features? A pool is a giant body of water, it can't help but be dangerous. Missing that safety guard causes this treadmill to unnecessarily pose a huge risk that most other treadmills have mitigated by fairly simple means.
And the tools they’re listing, Milwaukee Hammer Drill, for example, offers no warranty at all and wouldn’t be what I would consider to be “high end” either. Just seems like a purposely placed product rather than a legitimate BIFL item.
Companies should contribute to society, they benefit off the public and legal infrastructure.
It is worth noting that what is "reasonable" and who owes it is one of the largest pieces of the work of a government.
A worst nightmare for normal people would be something like a foreign country hacking all the US nuclear missiles and launching them against themselves. You know, an actual war caused by it, not just some minor intelligence advantage with no particular direct effect on normal people.
It's very poorly worded. And if not wrong, then certainly very unclear.

The math... depends.

Not all publishers offer advances, and those that do offer advances with different strategies.

Here is one strategy: a commissioning editor uses a sales modelling system to estimate the maximum possible advance against likely sales.

At larger publishers, you can be sure the editor has a very good idea what the likely sales will be. Because that's what publishers do, and they have years, sometimes decades of data and experience to draw on.

The editor will set the advance so the book never earns out.

This gives you more money than you might expect for an advance. And you can usually haggle upwards from the initial offer.

But of course you've just signed what is really a work for hire contract. You will not see any more money than the initial offer.

Would you earn more self-pub? Possibly. That depends entirely on your ability to reach an audience and sell your book to them. Parking a title on Amazon isn't nearly enough.

If you have good marketing skills and if you hit a desirable niche you can do very well - much better than trad pub.

But if you miss - you've wasted maybe a few months, with not much to show for it.

So it's a risk/reward calculation. If you know you can write the book, an advance is money in the bank. It's a known quantity. You don't have to do marketing too.

Sometimes that's a workable deal, especially if you have a day job and marketing is not a strong competence. You won't early nearly as much as you would in dev, but - it's a book. With your name on it. And some cash.

If you have the time to spare and either know or hope you can build an audience, and are sure the title really does fit a niche, by all means self-pub.

But you should only do this if you've done the groundwork. Like any other business you have to think about product/market fit, and marketing, and finding your audience, and all of the usual hurdles.

And unfortunately, marketing is a skillset in its own right. Of course you can learn it, but starting cold is challenging.

Personally having been through this cycle a few times I wouldn't trad pub now. But I also wouldn't assume that all I have to do is write a book and it will automatically sell in reassuring quantities.

I know it won't. There's more work to do, and I wouldn't want anyone to underestimate how hard it is.
Should households with children have treadmills if they cannot put them in a seperate exercise room?

All treadmills are dangerous. I do not own one at all. I'm not going to tell someone that they are wrong because their level of acceptable risk is different than mine. I only ask that they accept the consequences of their decision.
> encapsulated as JSON structs, adds so much complexity to the process

Or XML, you need to have written a parser (or pay Splunk to do it for you), you have to know how deeply nested your param of interest is. AFAIU Splunk has problems with too-deeply nested JSON, it was written at the time of unstructured logs. I can say this with confidence, for most of my problem cases, a good start to finding the culprit was a good tail -f and grep. I doubt myself and frequently ask if I'm one of those idiots who'd rather have faster horses. I mean, those are brilliant people making money hand over fist with their log analytics and event management tools, they know what they're doing, right? Right?
Nah, who does that, that's too easy. It's more likely that the GP's comic book collection was the key to unlocking a portal to an alternate universe where the heroes had not been defeated, so the remaining heroes could go there, learn the secret of their victory and come back to rewind time and never have lost to their nemesis in the first place, which explains how the GP's comics were in the closet this whole time after having been stolen.
Try assembling a document that covers how outside teams should interact with yours during project planning. Build some red tape into the process like requiring they write their own documents, go through a review process, get approval from a department head, present a demo of what they want done, etc. No good deed goes unpunished with some people. It's so unfortunate because we're all in this together.
As a counter point though, different suicide methods have different fatality probabilities. Handgun to the head has a really high fatality probability, rope to the neck less so. Removing a high fatality suicide method could cause people to turn to a less fatal method.
You're right, most murders in the U.S. are committed with handguns. About 63% in the U.S., but probably more since there's an "unreported" category[0].

That said, gun laws in the U.S. preserve the right to bear arms specifically for the purpose of killing people: the right to bear arms is one of the checks and balances on government power. There are people who make the argument that the ownership of non-military weapons is not protected by the second amendment.

0: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
I think many would make assumptions about the state of the instance and their application, which are likely to be wrong.
Do they also advertise it with children playing nearby?
Most families in the world don't have a spare room that can keep locked all the time. It's nice for you that you apparently do, but are you seriously suggesting that treadmills should be restricted to people who can afford to have a dedicated exercise room?
They don’t really get to complain that the machine didn’t stop when they fell if they didn’t wear the clip specifically made to stop that event. You can’t sue the bike company because you didn’t wear your helmet.
Lots of Post Purchase Rationalization ITT.

Microsoft could do something identical but people would moan.

Apple does it and "It's not that bad."

I wish everyone has a chance to take a marketing class purely for defense.
But the employees pay taxes on their salaries. And Google’s corporate profit is taxed through taxes on dividends imposed on shareholders. The only tax that Google can evade is the double taxation on profits that will be taxed again when distributed. Although it is true that this tax rate is lower than income tax.
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You know, in the end "de gustibus non est disputandum". I'm not sure whether having discovered Cary Grant recently plays such a big role in whether you like a movie or not. It's probably more important what type of movie speaks to you.

You could try Notorious, and the Holiday - two very different specimen - and see which side you're leaning towards more, for instance.
Anyone tries to do that to me and I'm out. Thats the road to a competitive and shitty management culture.

You can try and create a bubble of goodness in your own team, but you still exist in a sea of shit. Eventually that sea will drown you.
So I searched for Alienware and arrived at: https://www.dell.com/en-us/gaming/alienware-desktops

It proudly shows two desktops, one at the left, another at the right. The left one is Intel, the right one is AMD. Sure, some of the fine prints may suggest Intel is better (like saying "Up to RTX 3090" instead of 3080), but other fine prints suggest AMD is better (16 vs 8 cores).

If Dell actually doesn't want me to buy AMD, they sure have a really roundabout way of saying it.
Younger in my career, I used to think managers had it easy.

Now I realize I don't want that job for any amount of money.
Thanks for the advice - are there certain topics I can learn about or some way you think I can work on making my resume stand out in any way after acquiring those skills?
I actually think bonuses and equity grants are terrible for comapany morale. I've seen it many times, and heard many more stories.

On top of the issue in this story, there are others too.

For example, if someone wants to leave, but the bonus or vesting is coming up, they will stay, and you don't want people on a project who don't want to be there.

As another example I know people who work at companies that are going to IPO, and nobody at the company is working at all. They just spend all day thinking about the IPO, and afterwards, checking the stock price.

I don't expect this to be a popular opinion here, but anything outside of a salary for compensation is just a bad idea.
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I've given up social media, it's been fantastic.
This is why the UK ended up with a General Anti-Avoidance Rule (in the UK this rule is named the "Anti-Abuse Rule" but it's a General Anti-Avoidance Rule just with a different name)

The way a general anti-avoidance rule works is it says you can't do things that are just to avoid paying tax.

The tricky part, obviously, is figuring out how a jury can decide if it was really just to avoid paying tax.

The UK's approach is a Double Reasonableness test. The jurors are asked to consider not merely what they, personally might think would be reasonable, but anything any conceivable reasonable person might think is reasonable. So maybe you can't personally imagine why anybody would want multiple sports cars, but you can imagine somebody else who might think it's reasonable to buy them, so the person who avoided tax by purchasing sixty sports cars passes the Double Reasonableness test.

On the other hand, you may be unable to conceive of any person who could think that it was reasonable to open over 4000 bank accounts and then deposit £99999 into each account, if not for the fact that it avoided a tax on larger deposits and so that fails the Double Reasonableness test.

[These examples are hypotheticals, feel free to go dig up actual schemes which have passed or failed the test]

This provides appropriate latitude. And even if your strategy fails the Double Reasonableness test, you don't go to jail or anything, you just don't avoid taxes, you owe taxes exactly as if your behaviour didn't result in a favourable tax outcome. Which, if you really didn't do it just to avoid taxes as you've claimed, should surely be fine...

The other trick which was introduced at the same time imposes a duty on tax avoidance lawyers. If you help people plan to avoid taxes, that's cool but you have to explain how your scheme works to the taxman. You likely charge for your help, that's legal, and you keep that money even if the scheme doesn't actually work (that's legal and it's just smart business) but your duty ensures that the taxman already knows about the scheme before it's used, and can decide if they want government to legislate to close it next year, if they want to go to court to claim it doesn't work (because of GAAR), or if they just let it carry on.
Yes, this is a hard one and I've thought a lot about it. I think our reasons for wanting to prevent suicides come down to evolution: it's bad for us if people around us are killing themselves. We will do anything and everything to ensure that unhappy people keep on livin'.

I think the more humane approach is to damp suicides to some extent, but to have a respectful mechanism that allows people who have thought it through to check out when they please.
> "$25,000 was not enough money to retire on for sure, even in 1996."

$25,000 in 1996 is $42,000 in 2021.

Seems like a modest incentive for top tech talent, even back then.

* To respond to the comment below, the author had been working as a hardware systems engineer at headquarters for 10 years by 1996.
> But the issue of consent also doesn't quite explain why we're comfortable with some types of uninformed research on us, but not others. Like almost every major tech firm, Facebook practices A/B testing

Are "we" actually comfortable with that practice? (And who is "we" in the first place? The general public? Tech people? Journalists?)

It seems to me, this is simply something the industry does because it can get away with it - and most users don't object because they don't even know it's happening.

Why tech journalists see the Facebook thing as objectionable but A/B tests without consent as perfectly fine might be a question worth discussing.
My career is young. I'm only (just about) 32 but own a small agency with a partner.

This election cycle was tough.

We tried to grow in 2019 with more staff than we'd ever had.

We've always had a leadership problem of trying to transfer skills from the top down to help lift up employees that don't already 'have it' - especially (braggart time) me and my partners skills as I think our uniqueness as a firm is tied to my work in particular (which my parter is very good at picking up) especially tech & a certain unique vertical of advertising.

It's hard to find employees with multi-skillsets and experience to run things themselves using our tools. especially in politics not a lot of people come in from the outside, and there is low tech skill from the inside.

With larger staff we tried to do more training, tried to build stronger team mindset.

That I think that's our biggest weakness and leadership challenge. Still is.

An example from this cycle of it not going well:

A big problem is mistakes. Our work is hard, long hours, stressful clients making last minute decisions.

One staff member in particular made a large amount of mistakes - and big ones. More importantly didn't seem to learn from them. Lost us important clients and reputation.

So come end of cycle we usually have to downsize payroll.

Choosing who is tough. This year had to decide do we prioritize team cohesion and moral at the cost of mistakes (and our reputation is a big potential issue)? Or do we try to go with more skilled employees who are also more likely to leave, especially without the larger team bonding. Or i guess third option do we take a larger risk than usual in having larger cash loss during down period.

We went with higher skill. Well I think it just bit us, losing a key employee to another agency - the same agency the mistake employee landed at. It's not a coincidence. though to be fair in our business we usually lose people after 2/3 years anyways so maybe just stings more than a disaster of decisions.

Hiring is also a leadership challenge for everyone it seems. It's almost random given the few we hire which all look promising which ones end up excelling.

We need to improve learning skills to be more bottom up if we want to grow. But another leadership challenge: I'm also not sure it's our best path forward. we might be more profitable and successful staying smaller and being top heavy.
From what I read on this it is surprising to me that the Russian involvement has not been uncovered earlier.

The two operatives were official visitors to the warehouse at around the time of the incident. Scans of their fake passports have been on file ever since. It seems they could have easily been recognized as GRU operatives at the latest when their faces became public knowledge in 2018.
“It's been a gigantic annoyance for the people at Microsoft”

Maybe they should provide better tools. Last I tried to deal with MSI I quickly went back to NSIS and got it done in a fraction of the time.
What a crazy project. I love that you went all the way with it using the actual guitar. I would think you could have just reverse engineered the guitar signals but then it wouldn't be a robot.
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I think that's why parent advocated for closing the loopholes.

And I tend to agree. Would be great if we could just rely on companies to pay as much tax as they can to 'contribute', but why leave it to the honor system? Close the loopholes and codify it. It's the only sustainable, efficient way.