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There's another way out which seems to be popular recently - move out of the city and get prices closer to $200k median for an ok house. You can see available houses in Victorian towns disappearing off the market over the last year as people move out enabled by remote work.

I get that not everyone can do it, but it's a possibility for more sanity in house ownership for a groups. Unfortunately that also allows Melbourne market to not crash for longer...
What profession are you in?

I'm in IT, and IIRC IT is one of the professions where salaried FTEs are not entitled to overtime in Ontario, but all of the salaried FTE contracts I've ever signed since the mid 90s had a specified number (usually 40) of working hours.
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Germans and Swiss are renting the most and do not have a dread of homelessness. The dread comes in when you can't find work that will pay for rent. Not when you don't own a house.
How would this play out if you were a baker?
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I myself am an example, so is everyone in my social circle.

edit: Also Myth 5 in the following article.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-explains/six-my...

Edit 2: An 1800 sft, duplex house, built in a 150 square yard property, cost about Rs. 13 million. And that is in a city like Hyderabad. Costs about double that in Bangalore, the top IT city in India and probably more in a city like Mumbai & New Delhi.

An average salary of an IT employee, with about 10 years of experience is about Rs. 3 million per year. Banks give a loan of about Rs. 10 million on that house, and employees usually source the remaining amount from further loans or high interest borrowings. Cumulatively, with current interest rates (have been stable for a decade now), EMI on a 13 million loan is about 0.13 million per month, meaning more than half of an employees salary, 1.56 million, goes to EMI payments.

Average rental value for that property is about Rs. 25000 per month, or Rs. 0.3 million per year. So hardly enough for covering EMI. Tenure on the loan is usually 20 to 30 years.

So, for most families, with wife and husband working, owning one house is within reach, but two is beyond capacity. With so much of income going to EMI, most choose to stay in the house rather than rent it out.
The legal perspective/doctrine here is that people who produce IP as a core part of their work are "always on." They're not paid for hourly labor, they're paid for an intellectual product which only loosely relates to hours worked.

Note that I'm not necessarily endorsing that view, but stating what it is.
Sounds like an overzealous manager "respect my authoritah." I often find such people tend to be narcissistic trying to get control of other people because their own lack of internal sense of control.

Edit: It isn't helpful for morale and makes employees want to leave whenever autonomy, purpose, social cohesion/community, and/or meaningfulness are threatened with, or actually, eliminated. I worked at a Big Name university academic dept where an insecure/inexperienced new manager postdoc came in and told the developers they're going to do X his way and they all immediately quit. And that classic video about motivation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWD2HdoZ7k
This is just public therapy. He should be talking to his therapist about this (which he can probably no longer afford due to losing his health insurance).
This is a more complex problem than it is in many other regions of the country.

For the most obvious - Once you're off a municipal water supply (which of course, has to have an adequate source of water in the region), available water resources/aquifers are often very limited and minimum lot sizes have to be large because the land can't support higher density housing.

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If you build anything even approaching "normal" suburban SFH housing, you're just going to have all the wells you'll have to sink run dry in a few months and the properties will be uninhabitable. Seeing a 2 acre minimum lot size isn't necessarily a "keep the poor people out" thing.

To be clear, I am mostly not referring to the cities mentioned in this article, but housing development in smaller mountain towns and the rural/semi-rural areas up in the mountains.
Can you describe how a formal specification system with namespacing would work?
> I think the more apt phrase is "I lack the discipline".

OK.

> Mentally healthy people make bad choices all the time, knowing they will pay for it later, but wanting to enjoy "the now".

Of course they do. But they do it although the choice is bad, not because it is.
I would not call it a battlefield.
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The purpose of increased prices is to incentivize more supply to come into the market. If prices do not rise with demand (and static supply), then you’re left with a market where certain buyers are lucky (or connected) and some don’t get anything.
Hahahaha. xD

But are they still IP and branding slaves?
I was going to write a post saying I was glad a "later" wipeout game had the effect as the original had on me, then I looked into it and saw that Wipeout 2097 was called Wipeout XL in North American, and was the exact game I played :D So, I'll just echo what you said: the soundtrack was foundational in my adult music tastes :)
No but he bought it when others did not. Envy is rarely going to yield better results
It would work fine, bakers are allowed to cook at home.
In Australia I’ve had a lot of success negotiating that part of the contract out, or reducing its scope significantly. I’ve only ever had one contract where they really didn’t even want to discuss it let alone work with me on negotiating a satisfactory clause (I walked away from the offer instead)
80 year cycle won’t last much longer.
CostmostDB is not sanely priced IMO!
One acceptable way I've seen this implemented is: Anything you create, that could be sort of work related belongs to your employer. The employer will be required to compensate you for the time you spends, if they want the whatever you built.

There's a variation that says the employer has to buy it from you, and if they don't want the thing, then you can sell it to someone else, or give it away.
I meant a purpose in life, not necessarily paid. I mean, just something like helping people. I guess it would be totally fine to do what the OP suggested i:e as little as possible at work, if you had a lot of family committments, friends you were helping, or your own projects, were trying to be a musician or something. But... if you skyved at work and didn't do much else either, you might get unhappy. Does seem to me that it ought to be possible to be fulfilled at work if you find the right job...
I didn't (and still don't) interpret the comment as saying that their kids have to be the best at everything. I think you're preaching to the choir.
Sure, people beaten, imprisoned and murdered trying to improve working rights, eight hour work etc but let's trivialize all that to childish terminology (cringe) and argument (bad apple).
How would you connect raw traffic to events they are interested in?

Go where they hang with ads: ex. wwII podcasts, r/ww2 subreddit. Where did you see the Guy Walters talk? Advertise there! Start with your most trafficked topics. Analytics are your friend. Same goes for curated content.
Hey, working in DevOps, went from working in a small 110 people company to 12,000. You will be fine. Actually you might be better than most of them.

What I have discovered is that in small companies you wear many hats. Maybe you do DevOps, but you probably also control database administration, maybe you owned physical servers so you have experience working with racks. In a small company you are pretty much IT, you might even reset passwords, setup networks etc.

In bigger companies everything is controlled. There is a VM team, that doesn't have access to the OS, it's a different team. The networking team is split, they might even have different managers or executives controlling them. It's actually my biggest frustration, working in a PoC and not being able to access some logs in a machine because I don't have access to it.

Also I find that a lot of times, no one knows the answers to obvious questions because the larger the company the less visibility you have on who is doing what.

At the same time, occasionally it's nice to be able to say, I don't have admin access to this, ping XYZ team. The pay is noticeably better as well.

So, treat it like any new job. Take notes, learn how things works, ignore politics for a while, figure out who the mover and shakers are and go from there.
I ran some storj nodes a few years ago but gave up because the ratio of what I needed to share to the amount I could store was too poor.

I see their pricing [0] has improved but does anyone have a good comparison of the true costs of various storage systems? I feel like I’m dealing with comparing Roblox to hearthstone gems when trying to figure out the cost of S3 vs Storj vs Filecoin vs whatever.

It seems like there should be some p2p system where I can share 100GB on my storage array in return for 10GB that’s reliable enough that it will always be there if my house burns down.

Currently I use S3 Glacier because S3 is too expensive.

[0] https://www.storj.io/pricing
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skin in the game. there is something incredibly honorable about it.

Can anyone picture BoJo, Trump or Biden jumping off a chopper in Overtheristan killing locals?

In the West we use the term "who live by the sword shall die by the sword" (Matthew) but only as a warning. I think it illustrates the disconnect between these worlds. What is warning in one place/religion is a _promise_ in the other.

My wife (Japanese) would laugh "at the cowardice" displayed by somebody who questions the right to revenge (an eye for an eye) or hesitates taking their life to save the honor of their family, etc ...

This sounds alien to Westerners if not terrifying to those in power to have an honor based system. It is why media in all German speaking countries use the word "clan" only in a racist sense reserved for specific minorities and aimed to criminalize those who live in these older forms of social groups (with perhaps hundreds of people)[0]

While most are quick to denounce an evangelical missionary[1] hopping of the boat in the Andaman sea to "convert the local heathens", it's much easier to turn a blind eye at every-day injustice against alternative forms of social groups (Roma in Europe come to mind, refugees, or indeed very large families of South Easter European decent that would automatically be labelled terrorists or criminals, Bosnians, Kosovo-Albanias, etc).

[0] a clan in Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna etc is never somebody "good" e.g. the strong family bond here is caricaturized as an organized criminal and only mentioned in relation to drug or human trafficking.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-usa-murder-idUSKCN1...
Of course you can. But why would you? You're replacing something that is simple, easy to understand and works perfectly well with a nebulous something that invites user error and security nightmares.

For example, my (modest) home LAN is five routers, a NAS/media server, a media player, two "smart TVs" and dozens of notebooks and phones connected via Wi-Fi.

What do you propose? Manage a firewall on each of those devices?

I suppose you mean setting up a firewall on the WAN link to block all incoming traffic? How is that different from a NAT? Merely a lack of 'masquerade' setting on the firewall rule? What's the benefit to me and why should I care?

Or do you propose some sort of hybrid scheme to intelligently block traffic while making all my countless devices pingable from the Internet? Not in this timeline, sorry.
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I understand it's legal but I was always wondering how this could be morally acceptable and why developers don't lobby against this. I understand the view of the employer: if you work on a project A at work, and on a n open-source project B that is direct competition to project A, you might be acting against the interests of the company. So to save everybody's time, they claim the right to everything and it's done.

However, this is hurting you as developer when you work on unrelated projects. Your work for the community is impeded (e.g. in the case of Google you need to go through a lot of bureaucracy) or completely impossible. In theory you can write some code for yourself, but what motivation do you have, knowing that your employer will be its owner anyway? You will have less motivation to explore new areas of interest for the same reason. It's terrible for personal development.
It should be mandatory for all Presidents to be on the battle field. It should also be mandatory for all members of congress and the senate to rotate in and out of the battle field.
> Often yes

Then it should say so in the comment. Preferably adding their thoughts about it, whether it's enforced in their company, etc.

Debating whether you're technically an employee 100% of your time is both true and needlessly pedantic.
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Who said anything about Communism? I’m talking about the people who do the work for a business owning and managing the business themselves, and competing in a free marketplace.

Having a class of workers and a class of capital owners is central to capitalism.
If you burn yourself and go to the emergency room is it worker's comp?
This isn't slavery at all, this is what absolute freedom and democracy looks like. (sarcasm)
As a matter of general Anglo-American contract law it’s true that a contract needs to have consideration (i.e. something for each side) but each clause in a contract doesn’t. So if you are being paid to work then that’s sufficient consideration for all the employment terms. There doesn’t need to be identified additional compensation for each requirement the employer imposes.
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It's really quite different, and I don't think I can fully do it justice in a comment. I will give my favourite example though: it certainly helped me get the "aha" moment.

Let's say you have a collection of cities, and a collection of roads between them. And you want to answer the question: "is there a route from City A to City E?"

A solution in prolog would look something like this:

/* First, the roads */

road("A", "B").
road("B", "C").
road("C", "D").
road ("D","E").

/* Now the algoritm */

route(From, To) :-
road(From, To).

route(From, To) :-
road(From,Intermediate), route(Intermediate,To).

That's it. There's no need to loop/iterate/check conditions. Simply state the facts, ask the question, and the prolog interpreter will search for an answer:

?- route("A", "E").

yes.
I get why people want machine-aided composition. But I'd love to see a project like this go in the opposite direction.

Maybe put a row of buttons at the top: "I am [Loving it] [Grooving] [Fine] [A Bit Bored] [About to Quit]". Then use that (plus browser data and window-close data) to train ML models to maximize engagement. Or perhaps to hook it up to facial expression recognition.

When I watch friends DJ, there's this great feedback loop between how the crowd's behaving and what they're putting on. They're clearly using the music to achieve certain mental states among listeners. I'd love to see how well that can be done algorithmically.
I believe the use of a contract and signatures in fact does literally make it legal, since that is the point of a contract. Everything depends on what you signed.
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I don't see how that is enforceable except in circumstances where the creative content of your work is in some way related to what the company is involved in (which can be expensive for a large for a multinational corp., admittedly)

For example, the photographs of your family taken by yourself. Would you expect your employer to retain copyright?
America's ubiquitous but "invisible" "caste system" controls the poor and middle-classes with expectations of consumption, debt, "hard work is your duty," and meeting unreasonable demands.
My wife and I have had a fanless PC hooked up to our TV since 2011.

Firefox is the only browser we use and we watch Youtube every day. If it broke, I'd know about it or hear about it.

It never breaks.
It calls into question who the enemy on the battlefield might have been.
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My biggest problem with modern infrastructure is how much resources they use for simple things. They scale upwards, but they don't scale down.

I tried OpenFAAS in Kubernetes, to see if I could run simple lambda like loads. Default setup took north of 8 Gb of memory!

I just want efficient and simple microservices infrastructure, that doesn't hog 8 Gb of memory to run a simple functions or small microservices.
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You're missing that they added their personnal email in the maintainer file by using their ibm email, in the commit where they were supposed to remove themselves.

Employees giving themselves personnal privileges using company resources, while being specifically asked to remove themselves from those that they had has employee, is vastly different context than "he was there as a hobby and ibm cracked down on him".
I never posited a false dichotomy, I just said there’s a spectrum of conveniency and that it is related to density. The more density the more things closer, by definition, though; and the bigger the demand for real estate, so people end up with less space due to physics and pricing.
Earlier discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26869877
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Not forever. I've seen it said on reddit that you can email the dev or pm him on reddit and he will remove all of your data. Of course since these archives have been up for download, your data will never truly be gone but it does remove you from the source of these downloads and all future downloads.
I wonder if IBM also have a clause forbidding use of IBM email and computer systems for non-work communication.
Georgism has interesting extensions. I see the core point as things that were originally allocated arbitrarily/with force should be taxed highly. If your ancestor was a knight who seized some land by force you should have to compensate the rest of society to keep it.

You can extend it to pollution. Polluting is taking some of a common resource (the environment) from everyone else, so polluters should compensate society proportionately.

You could even extend it to network effects in tech. If you have users just because you were first and made it hard to leave, that's something unearned you took from society that you should compensate us for. I think this one is more of a stretch and sadly probably wrong.
In the United Status, the tax break on mortgage interest was effectively eliminated during the previous administration (by the Republicans, ironically enough).

When you file taxes, you can take the "standard deduction" that everyone gets. A downward adjustment to the amount of your income that is taxable. Or you can "itemize" your various tax breaks, if they add up to a total greater than the standard deduction.

Historically, home ownership has been "subsidized" in the sense that the interest one pays on mortgage loans is one of the things that can be itemized. And historically, that was usually enough to push you above the standard deduction amount.

But now, the standard deduction amount has been raised to such a high level that only the wealthy and very upper-middle class have any reason to itemize anymore. Typical mortgages now are no longer enough to get you any special treatment on taxes, beyond a renter who also takes the standard deduction.

Of course, this outdated talking point will probably stick around for years, though...
It’s a reason, and the same reason that everything happens in nature when there is inadequate supply of something compared to demand. Might makes right.
The rebels claimed to have wounded him during the fights so this is more of an admission than a cover-up.
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Much of it is. Property taxes never end and in my experience only go up. Land owners are also bound to the area and assume all the risks associated with that. Renters can just get up and leave with no financial risk.
> We must increase the density of our cities.

We could also try to make a few new cities, instead of ten thousand new suburbs
If I were to move somewhere in the Mountain West to work remotely, Santa Fe would be fairly high on my list. One downside is that, while Santa Fe (and Los Alamos) are pretty great, the nearest relatively big city of any size (Albuquerque) is less so.
In Spain your employee must pay for “after business hours” exclusivity in the monthly payroll. It must clearly state that every month the company pays for the exclusivity. It’s not enough with a contract saying you cannot work after your business hours, they must pay for it and they must proof they are paying it in the monthly payroll.

Not sure in other countries, but probably in Western Europe and 100% sure in Spain even large corporations know it’s really hard to enforce contractual and post-contractual exclusivity, unless the employee breaks some IP of the employer.

Still, it is always a good idea to tell your new employer that you are “moonlighting”.
According to the linked opinion [1], not sure if it is worse. The old guard may have been the equivalent of a bad military council, and the new may have less military resources, may be a better leader, or may be more afraid of the populace.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/14/p...
That's exactly what was explained to me when I joined IBM in the 1980s: "It doesn't matter if you're on the moon... if you have an idea, IBM owns it".
All this is saying is you can't compose behaviors because we insist on having only one whole state, and only one concept of what 'next' state is.

If you can have state with sub-states and 'next' operator that is respective to what sub-state we want to address then this example is easily composable.

But then of course you might want to have substates interact with each other so it complicates further. It just looks like multithreaded programming.
By far the part I like the most is ‘You are not allowed to use your personal email account as a "hobby".’
In Europe, extremely unlikely. I've never even been verbally abused by police in the UK, Spain, France, or Italy. I have been stopped a few times, fined a couple times, even searched once. But not once did I feel to be in any sort of danger, since at worst I had only committed a minor traffic violation.

In the US, I've had a SWAT team break into my office, pointing automatic rifles to my head, slamming me to the ground and cuffing me in front of my colleagues. My crime? When going back to the office from lunch, I ran across the street to make the light. Apparently they thought I was "evading the police".

Or the time my 3 year old ran off into a neighbor's yard (no fences), so I go running off behind him. I'm walking back to my friend's yard with my toddler in my arms, and there's this cop barking orders at me, pointing his gun at us.

What a bunch of fucking assholes, seriously. It's one of the reasons I don't live in the US anymore.
>but at the end of the day I'm optimizing for my own quality of life.

Have you considered that this is the mentality that people take issue with? It's the root of many of today's ills.
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I really hope someone here that has an open position in a saner company will offer a job to that person.