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It feels like its even worse for those of us with home media servers.

I rip all my Blu-rays to MKV files complete with all audio tracks and subtitles. The only solutions - literally the only solutions I have - for direct play through Plex Media Server from my server across my network is NVIDIA Shield Pro or an Xbox Series X because they support 4K Direct Play.

I have been a fan of Roku devices since 2013 or so. To be forced to switch all the Rokus in my home to NVIDIA Shield Pros over the past year (the timeframe by which I built my media server) has been frustrating to say the least. $200 per device for a total of three devices.

I know $600 doesn't sound like much, and in truth, it isn't, but the fact I have to do this in order to enjoy the 4K Blu-rays I have purchased, at any time, in any room in my home, on multiple devices, is bothersome and feels like an unnecessary expense.
RSUs are ordinary income, not capital gains.
There is absolutely a political aspect to work. It is entirely relevant to discuss it. It is also entirely legitimate for an employer to say "talk about politics after the whistle blows, I am paying money for your attention right now."

Work is a third of your life, but it's the third of your life that is about doing what somebody else wants you to do in exchange for funding the other two thirds. That's not true for everybody, but it's a rule of thumb.

The other week I moved houses. I hired some movers who charged by the hour. If, instead of moving my furniture, they'd stood around talking about politics, and said "how can you tell us to get back to work instead of talking politics, when labor is an inherently political subject!" I would have been angry. Most people would, I think.
The Nissan automatics and especially manuals(cd009) are fairly strong. It's their CVT that's the issues. I don't know why Nissan insist on using them with their V6's.
I had this concern until I realized teenagers have to go to school so there’s a huge chunk of the day that they cannot work. Adults have to take those shifts.

This realization also led me to determine that these jobs aren’t purely for teenagers despite hearing all my life burger-flipping was for teens.
It makes zero sense for McDonalds (or Starbucks or anyone else) to operate a money loosing restaurant.

Furthermore, 82% of McDonald restaurants are franchises i.e. not owned by McDonald. https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/03/what-perce...
Indeed, which is why they took $48bn in revenue for iPhone sales this quarter.

Their argument that they are responsible for Spotify’s iPhone-originating revenue to the tune of a 30% cut is a complete farce. If the iPhone didn’t have third party apps, no-one would buy them.
What does it mean to support a family? Is getting them sheltered, clothed and well fed good enough? I think it is way easier to achieve today than in almost any other time in a human history, even for the low earners.

Restaurants are a part of the service sector. A service job does not imply that it is attractive. And they differ in requirements. The well paid ones get more and more complicated and hence, proportionally to the whole population, less and less people will be able to qualify for them.
The person you linked to said they are taking time off before looking for new opportunities, so they don't seem concerned about not having enough time to find something new.
Was there an actual argument in any of that? It seems like you're just back to ad homs, albeit wordier ones. Given that, I think we're done here. I have better ways to spend my time, and surely you must have other people to attempt to suppress so you can avoid thinking about anything that makes you uncomfortable.
In the specific case of Washington, they have an excise tax on the sale of real estate up to (IIRC) 3% of property value, which is substantial. Taxing the gain and the sale would put quite a significant tax burden on people moving house, particularly in very expensive markets like Seattle where most home sales will be subject to capital gains.
>> Also getting a new job is a pain. I don't like doing it

Agreed. A pain, and also a risk. A huge part of job satisfaction is working for a manager that you respect, and you can't really know that until you've been through some shit.
PoW is not a plutocracy because miners cannot dictate the protocol rules. Not even a 51% miner could do that, a common misconception. They at most can refuse to process transactions.

Users have prevailed agaist miners and large business in Bitcon forkwors, which failed to force their agenda on the users. This is at least some empirical proof in support that Bitcoin is not a plutocracy.

Miners have large farms that can be bankrupted by users simply deciding to change the hashing algo. No such option in PoS.

In PoS, largest wallets dictate changes. Liquidity begets more liquidity, aka the rich get richer, and such effect has a centralizing effect on PoS. All PoS project to date have failed.
I've never used Basecamp, I don't have an opinion this way or that on DHH or the Jason (they are Parve to me - not meat nor dairy). But that list of changes doesn't sound too radical to make me believe people left because of those changes. The changes are actually reasonable. People more likely left because they were given a hefty lump sum of cash but didn't want to admit it.
You do know that businesses can also raise prices, right?
We don't explore it from every angle. I try to speed them up by saying things like "first 3 months have 31/28/31 days, and use '...' for the remaining days so you don't have to write it out.

A few candidates have finished in under 5 minutes.
This pretty much nails it. The "politics" angle has been revealed to be a red herring by the subsequent accounts of everyone involved. The same contentious discussions would have happened had this policy already existed! I guess you could say the policy gives the founders a ban hammer to swing to end discussions they don't like.

Separated from their justification, the 6 policies represent an assertion that Basecamp leadership are the sole arbiters of all things Basecamp. I don't think that's an awful thing in itself, but the way it was announced was clearly felt to be completely demoralizing for employees who assumed their judgment on the direction of the company was valued.

And the result seems likely to be catastrophic. Basecamp has had their pick of the litter for talent for years. Sure, they'll hire new folks who are aligned with their new way of running the company, but you don't go back to being a beacon of the industry when you lose 1/3 of your staff in a week over an ego trip.
You can read the twitter thread from Casey.

One of the issues was that one of the activist employees tried to link "making fun of customers' names" to "genocide".

That was a big yike. And definitely a convo I wouldn't want to have.
> Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government

s/Government/Company/
Cancer rates in medieval Britain around ten times higher than previously thought
Except there's nothing to 'put up with' other than policy which is going to be effectively the same almost anywhere, or possibly worse.

If you try to form an 'issue group' at an arbitrary company, to take on the executive team, and make demands with excessive intellectualizations that 'making fun of names' lead to 'genocide' - you're not going to get offered severance, you're going to get fired immediately.

The kind of leverage that people here on HN seem to think they have is a little bit bizarre.

People deserve to be treated with dignity, of course, people should not be making fun of people's names, it was stopped, and for the most part, that should have been it. Antagonizing almost any further is going to be seen as lacking in legitimacy and probably not acting good faith.

I think 90% of companies would be 'much less open' than Basecamp even with their new policies, 9.5% would be about the same. The rest, a grab-bag of different views, mostly at smaller companies. The bigger the company, the more the actions will be based purely around legality, caution, and the companies will to maintain some semblance of positive image.
Yeah, money is fungible. Earmarking for a specific cause X just means less of X's funding comes from the general fund.
A "leader" makes a decision and the people under him decide whether to listen to that decision, to push back against that decision, or leave. So in reality, the company's direction is influenced by people both at the top and at the bottom of the totem pole.

True leaders realize the importance of cultivating those underneath them, and adapting their direction to pushback or input.
Everyone has laughed at these kinds of jokes.

Also, if someone had a funny name and they went against progressive politics, then they would be laughing about it. How about all the Donald Drumpf stuff from Oliver.

It puzzles me what progressives actually do laugh at when so much is forbidden and everything is somehow insensitive.

Most likely is that they are all just hypocrites.
I left GOOG a year ago to join MSFT, both have excellent work-life balance.

I also spent 5 years at a well known startup that went public - I think I averaged nearly 12 hours a day over the 5 years there.

In my experience and from a lot of people I talk to, work-life balance is much better at a large Corp than a startup.
Do you always do exactly what your boss first tells you to do? You never negotiate a delivery date?

Leaders make decisions but good leaders take account of the views of their teams.
> The trans person is “dictating other people’s words” in one, very limited context: when referring directly to that person.

Which, to be fair, everyone with names and/or pronoun preferences (including a preference for the pronoun that is associated with the gender one is assigned based on the appearance of one’s genitalia at birth) tends to do, its just that when either the name or pronoun preference conflicts with someone else’s ideological view of the world, then the person who is trying to impose their ideology over other’s identity projects the other person’s identity as a “political position” and an imposition on liberty.
For one, usually, you wouldn't be able to get those running in 60 seconds. This is really what we're striving for, not just a tagline. No long-ass .yamls, .configs. Ready, set, go - that's the goal.

You can think of it as Heroku vs AWS EC2. Most notably, we take care of packaging and deploying python dependencies, set up the needed web endpoints and automatically map HTTP requests to the function's arguments. And great logs for debugging - we got that covered too.

There is nothing you couldn't do with AWS Lambda and an intricate set up; we're just aiming for a much better dev experience.
That's where it starts, 'biases.' Then 'recognizing biases' turns into 'defeating white supremacy' and 'silence is violence' and 'everything is political, so we have to talk about this.'
The simplest filter to avoid hiring these Woke cult people in the first place is to check for pronouns in their Twitter bio. You can see it in the tweets from people leaving Basecamp. I'm not against using preferred pronouns in the workplace, but when it's in their bio that says a lot about how far down the Woke rabbithole they've gone.
E-sport
If the wealthy can rig the game in the favour and fleece the rest - they'll do it.

We've seen this throughout history.

That's what PoS will do to small holders. They will be nothing but tiny shareholders with no anti-dilutive protections and zero legal recourse.

I'd much rather deal with a centralized entity where at least I have a some body of law I can rely on.
Most all configuration specifications have a limit unless they are turing complete. Complex systems evolve beyond static configurations easily but the question is can you leverage configuration generation to minimize logic inside your CI?

Orchestration ought not be the province of your build scripts, that should be the role of CI. If the configuration isn't capable of variadic functionality but is capable of orchestration... what do you do?
‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ Is a Sci-Fi Classic
If businesses didn’t have to pay for health plans, would that free up enough to pay higher wages?
Companies ain’t democracies.
The engine used in the Ferrari Enzo and Maserati MC12 is a notable example:

https://36.media.tumblr.com/8a928fcccf1b41e82be0273ccbe2005a...
Digiventures – Disrupting fintech customer acquisition in Latam
I've gotten some candidates who come from backgrounds with non gregorian calendars. In those cases we spend a minute talking about their calendar and then I ask them to write it for their calendar.
You could make the argument that features like Touch ID and Face ID were significant R&D investments by Apple with the benefits accruing to the companies with the most in-app purchases via lowering purchasing friction. Therefore, those apps should face a higher cost burden. Another way Apple could do it though is charge for each API interaction. For instance, each time a user accessed their camera through an app, it would cost the developer X cents. New features could have more expensive API's and older features perhaps would be free for developers.
> The random ID has a fixed suffix in the spec, so you can infer that it’s the same AirTag if you see the same suffix across multiple rotations.

So if that suffix is 8 or more bits, as soon as you have an airtag on your keys, wallet, and bag, you've become a nice easy to track person.

If the suffix is less than 8 bits, then the 200 airtags around me in a classroom setting will always be falsely setting off the alert - at least one of those 256 possible suffixes will remain always in use for hours with every rotation.

Privacy 100% broken. Great.
It's certainly not the same risk. If a business goes bust the owners lose capital, the employees lose opportunity cost at worst.
Educate yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day#United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_young_people%27s_r...

https://www.timesizing.com/history-of-the-american-workweek/
>but this made it untenable for them.

I'd say "I've been here too long, let's shop around since IT is a buyers' market, and take advantage of this one-time buyout offer" is a far more probable explanation than "no political discussions at work rule makes this untenable for me"...

Without the buyout or in a worse job market, we'd see much closer to 0 "principled" exits...
This. Anyone who says "teenagers shouldn't have jobs" comes from a place of privilege.
Except it is much easier to participate in best days than avoid worst ones.

Participating in best days requires you to just have your money invested all the time.

If you know how to avoid worst ones, let me know. We are managing risk for one of the biggest banks in the world and would like to buy this intel for a bunch of billions of dollars.
If by "industry leaders" you mean unionized workers, then sure.
There will always be businesses on the margin that barely survive, and you want as many of those as possible always to increase employment and wages, even if your world vision is only pro-worker.
Management took a stance against the employees. Management cancelled their employees, removing their platform to talk about internal politics.

Framing this as 'these people' vs Basecamp is ludicrous. It's 1/3 or more of Basecamp vs. Basecamp's management. Important people in important roles, entire teams. They are this company. Or were.
https://dark.fail

Pretty easy to remember for whistleblowers.
100% terrible jobs.
> Prior to April 2020 I had 100% of my 401K in cash/equivalents.

I am not a financial advisor, but that sounds like an unusual strategy regardless of your age.

> It's easy to forget what it was like at the time, and that it could have easily gone down even further.

The only thing that matters is where it will come back, and when. Eg, once Facebook dipped below 50%, you were quite likely to make a profit on that buy in the next 2 years no matter how much further it was going to go in that time frame.
why? because companies engineering the software cut corners to save costs, or their engineering talent isn't competent or talented enough to produce products that don't have majors vulns.

You can better believe software running an aircraft carrier has been hardened 12 ways til sunday. Prosumer operating systems - not so much.
Google and privacy don't go together... unless you are talking about their CEO's privacy.
No.

People have different needs that are at odds with one another. Compromising on what's bad for me but good for you (and vice versa) while doing what's good for both is how the world functions.

There aren't universal 'bad things' of varying sizes that we just need to get rid of. That's the sort of thinking that gets you Nazi Germany cleansing the earth of 'bad' people to bring about paradise - be very careful.
Great, I take everything back. Ask the warmup, and the warmup alone, as that seems to yield precisely the desired subset in five minutes time, and you can go back to your real work.
If there are a dozen people in line to take the job who will have to return to a third world country if they dont get it, no amount of worker solidarity with other Americans will increase your wage because every single job will be filled by a foreign worker for whom minimum wage is still many times higher than what they get in their home country. There is no way around the immigration issue. Covid wont last forever.
Small/personal talk is best done in small, personal social settings. If two co-workers who know each other well are enjoying a conversation between themselves, great! I mean that. I have friends at work, too.

But personal talk absolutely does not belong in larger meetings or workplace discussions where you're trying solve work issues. It's a distraction at best, and unprofessional in general.
José Bechara: Rust as an Art Form
The funny thing about leadership is that those under you hold more power than you, because it is up to them to accept your decision.
> I don't think that should be up to 'us' (non-pedophiles) to decide.

I meant, specifically, if society will punish you severely for behaving a certain way, and if behaving that way also causes severe negative outcomes for others, then something that causes people to develop desire for and possibly actual behavior in that way is purely negative for everyone involved, including society, the person that develops the desire and/or behavior, and the people that behavior affects.

As a simple extreme theoretical variation, if looking at specific shade of color that was not natural or common caused people that viewed it to enter a trance-like state where they murdered others, we would say "holy shit, get rid of that color everywhere. People are being murdered, and the murderers are victims too!"

And I'm not saying I believe the statement about material creating pedophiles either, but given the importance of the outcome, it's definitely something we should pay attention to and try to find the truth about. That truth might be that it's easily proven false, or that it's obviously true, or that it's some weird complicated combination thereof, but the I think it's obvious that the correct case is not to say "naw, it's the same as videogame violence, and we've all come to the conclusion that that's bunk, so this is bunk, case closed." There are real reasons why it might be different than violence, or that the statistics that make one acceptable don't work out the same way for the other.

> The best tactic to prevent child sexual abuse is to stop assuming all pedophiles are potential rapists

And I'm not assuming that. But I am working under that assumption that the same person will have more problems with pedophile leanings/preferences than one without, because as a society we've decided to make that so. Looking at fictional images can get you arrested. Having a desire to look at images like this is a negative outcome for that person in a societal and legally sense (and possibly in a mental health sense as being told that you have something wrong with you can be debilitating, I'm sure), compared to not having that desire, and this is about creating that desire in an individual.
Amazon Is Never Going Back to Normal
10% profit is not necessarily very modest. 10% of $50M is a lot of money. 10% of $50K is not a lot of money. 10% only sounds 'modest' in relation to SaaS/software margins which are ridiculous. Walmart's gross margin is only ~28%. Many manufacturing companies compete across 3-5% margins. If the base number is big enough, that's a ton of money still!

%'s are a bad way to measure this, for that reason. Labor isn't even the majority of cost for restaurants (avg is apparently around 34% fully loaded [1]).

[1]https://totalfood.com/busting-restaurant-labor-cost-myth/
> The end result of getting rid of "terrible" jobs, is that everything at the restaurant costs 2-3x as much, and so on at the many other businesses (agriculture?) which rely on cheap labor. Which means all those people in professional class jobs (e.g. programmers) will find that their salary doesn't go nearly as far as it used to.

Not 2-3x, more like 0.36% for every 10% increase[1]:

> Many business leaders fear that any increase in the minimum wage will be passed on to consumers through price increases thereby slowing spending and economic growth, but that may not be the case. New research shows that the pass-through effect on prices is fleeting and much smaller than previously thought.

> By looking at changes in restaurant food pricing during the period of 1978–2015, MacDonald and Nilsson find that prices rose by just 0.36 percent for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, which is only about half the size reported in previous studies. They also observe that small minimum wage increases do not lead to higher prices and may actually reduce prices. Furthermore, it is also possible that small minimum wage increases could lead to increased employment in low-wage labor market.

[1] https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/does-increasing-m...
Easy on that accusatory tone mate. They didn't claim that as their own opinion, but merely gave an alternative viewpoint: "One concern is that...".
There are on-record accounts from both DHH and employees of what the actual disagreements were, and they were not political discussions. They were discussions about the list of "funny" customer names.
The fact the wealthy can change anything in a system - is already a red flag.

A system like that is definitely not decentralized.
Psychological Profile of Rescuers During the Holocaust (2018)
Because the Balkanisation of newsfeeds in the rest of the world has proved such a success
We use the same public version of Borg, so those limitations apply. It’s still quite workable. Just prune from a different machine or once a year when the repo gets too large.

We may move to reject destructive commands from append-only repos in the future, but this will break existing workflows. Discussion on this here: https://feedback.borgbase.com/posts/28/reject-delete-and-pru...
The scary thing is that there are so many companies willing to hire these types of employees leaving basecamp.

Those who have the expectation of talking progressive politics at work and getting what they want or they leave.

I wouldn’t touch any of them.
Question: How relevant are these for the average person? I know these matter for things like shared hosting, but I've yet to hear of an actual exploit in the wild that ordinary people have been attacked by, even with Spectre defenses turned off. Should normal people be worried about this?
Florida bill to fine social media for banning politicians