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> Only privileged person wouldn't value that.

Living in California and getting paid a high salary to work with smart people is great, but it’s not the ultimate goal for many people. Calling people who value those things differently than you privileged is unfair.

Yes they have it good, and many people would love to be on their shoes, but that doesn’t mean they need to stop advocating for themselves. I’m sure someone would love to trade places with you, and I’m guessing that doesn’t stop you from trying to improve your working conditions.
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I think you are confounding a few things.

In Switzerland you have 4 referendums a year where the demos, the people, make decisions in concert.

In most republics, all you get to do is elect a representative. Some US states do hold referendums like California. This means that some republics do have representatives and the people share decision making power. This however does not happen at the level of the American Federal government. So far as I know, you can only vote on having someone speak for you and you are not part of the decision. These representatives are much more susceptible to capture than the entire demos.

It would be nice if the etymology of Rep in Republic came from Representation because that is all you get for sure. Sadly, that is not the case.

As to the stability of governments—I would also agree that a Republic is more robust and long lived than a tyranny. However, I still hold that a Republic is likely to end in tyranny because the incentive and the likelihood to capture becomes enticing and likely.

We do not disagree here. Would like to know if the distinction between the decision making power of a Swiss citizen and the decision making power of an American citizen seem meaningfully different to you as they do to me. The difference becomes even more stark if you compare the Dominican Republic and Switzerland as the Dominican Republic has even less democratic aspects than the US Federal Government (which incidentally has fewer Democratic characteristics than US states)
Dunno if the "mobile home industry" is actually useful to compare against anymore; they seem to be dedicated to selling the cheapest possible crap as an excuse to rope people into horrible financial schemes. "no down payment with land" is pushing some deals that'd make payday lenders feel moral qualms.

Not that mobile homes were ever a place to find quality construction, but now it feels like outright fraud.
I have dealt with this directly, so I'll share a bit of perspective from experience rather than just saying "deal with it".

I was teaching high school math and science in the late 2000s, and I wanted to start teaching some introductory programming classes. But at that point in time we had an aging fleet of 10-year-old Windows machines. There were 30 of them sitting on the edges of our classrooms, and about 3 of them worked reliably. In one semester, I taught students how to install Linux on these machines, and then I taught an introductory programming class. It worked because I had 8-12 students to work with, and they were eager to learn about how computers work; they weren't focused on programming in particular. Our whole school (~30 students in a small alternative school) ended up using Linux for two years until our district reinvested in new machines, and in ongoing maintenance.

This is a nice story and everyone feels good hearing about it. But the reality is, there was about a 50/50 split between time spent focused on programming and time spent focused on fixing old hardware and maintaining Linux on that older hardware.

This kind of solution is not as scalable as many people like to think. Sure, random people can take an old machine and choose to run with it. And you can do this with groups on occasion. But if you're mixing people with new machines and people with 10 year old machines, you're almost certainly going to lose many of the people on the older machines. Things will take 2-4 times as long for them, and if you're slowing down to support them you're going to lose the people who are on the newer machines and ready to focus more on the content of the course.

There are other solutions. For a coding school, I would want to identify the lowest-spec new or recent machine that will work well for the given curriculum, and find a way to get enough of those machines to loan to students.
Looks like you're arguing at the same time that:

- vaccines are unsafe

- vaccines are inefficient

- vaccines are efficient but we shouldn't take them to let the virus mutate so that we can engineer better vaccines for future hypothetical viruses (but I guess you wouldn't take these anyways for the same reasons you already mentioned)

> Why to run in a front of a train?

Everything indicates that the vaccines are safer than covid on literally every single metric available. You don't want to be a "test subject" for the vaccine but you're OK being a test subject for the virus? Feel free to do so but again, the logic seems very weak
Sorry I don't want my friend's taxes, who has a small business doing blue collar work and didn't go to college, to fund (useless) degrees in majors with little to no job prospects.
I've started developing this web app as a side project and would love to open it up to folks to start testing it out.

Essentially, instead of sending emails to many people requesting warm intros, you fill out a very simple form and the app coordinates emails to the person you're trying to reach and the mutual contact you specify. The mutual and target contacts can accept or reject your request, and you'll be notified by email whenever they do so. You can also view all your sent requests on the home dashboard. I figure this could be a nice productivity tool for people who need to do a lot of networking and reaching out to people.

Feel free to sign in with Google and start sending requests! It's a very rough yet functional prototype. If you do use it, please let me know if the user experience is intuitive and if you encounter any issues using the app. Also, feel free to suggest improvements and future potential features.
At the risk of being accused of "privilege"...California isn't exactly a utopia and there are plenty other places in the country (and world) that employ some of the brightest minds.
> Who cares about WFH when you get to live in California and work with some of the brightest minds?

There's a lot to unpack in this question. It's not guaranteed that FAANG = California, as campuses sprout up in cheaper places and there's an active shift among some of those companies towards hiring explicitly outside of California. California comes with its own sets of problems that you may not appreciate until you move here (huge drought, wildfire season is getting worse, climate change making heat waves more frequent, housing/commute crisis, etc). And if the "brightest minds" are the ones refusing to go back on site, then will you actually be working with the brightest minds?

We all do better when we all do better. It's hard when you have the "grass is greener" feeling, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't support each other as we strive for a more just work environment. WFH allows that. Just because you'd give your left toe to work at Apple doesn't mean you (or anybody else) should.
They haven't said why, but the reason seems commercial and not technical.

Unless a service is bringing in millions or maybe tens of millions of $$ in revenue, a big company like IBM would not find it to be attractive enough. And some big manager one day is gonna cut it down as part of 'house cleaning'.

Whereas for a smaller startup, that same 'millions of dollars' in potential revenue might be a VERY attractive opportunity.

To paraphrase Bezos, big company's need for scale is the startup's opportunity.
So? Should they bring in the people that they have in Israel to California because they spent 3B on an office?
Apple hired and is paying salaries at levels for in person work.

Don't like it leave. Or consider doing a trade - reduced salary to be able to live in a low cost of living area and no commute.
What is the purpose of a Klein bottle for those of us not in the know? Can you store food in it or is it just the geometrical shape that fascinates children?
so, uh, disneyland?
I looked at it a few weeks back and it's really strange. It has really weird restrictions that don't make any sense regarding the license - I'm not even sure if they even are legal. The author claims he is sharing the source but that nobody else can fork it, unless they fork it on GitHub?!

I don't know if the wording is legalease enough to be enforced, but of course a license like this is legal. Just because you can see the source code doesn't automatically grant you any privileges with it. He is saying he is only allowing unmodified redistribution. With an exception that you are allowed to distribute a modified version of the source code for the sole purpose of submitting a pull request.

One problem he might get into is if accepts non-trivial pull requests, then the contributors copyright would come into play, and things could get hairy.
Some love the desert, some love the ocean, some love mountains, some love canyons, some love caves, some love volcanos, some love cities. Not everyone always wants to be in the rainforest or a coral reef or some pastoralist backdrop.

Whenever this comes up, it’s weird to me that people seem to not understand that different people have a wide variety of interests and tastes. Also, some people like making the barren into a lush garden.

“Why do people want nothingness” is a sort of earth-centrists’ strawman of what space inhabitation enthusiasts are passionate about, and also super factually incorrect about what space contains.
was totally expecting a gif of linus shitting on the community whilst academia open their mouths wide expectantly...
I'd love to give you an answer on that, but I can't. Additionally, I don't know how helpful it would be since the corruption here is endemic.

Edit: What I mean is, you can look over at a place like Switzerland and say "we should really run our elections like they do". But to do that you'd have to get the city officials, bureaucrats, and the party machine to relinquish power and have a change of heart... which I doubt will happen without some outside policing.
I was with you for the first half, but it is not true that there is any reasonable chance of death or significant complications after vaccination. At that point, the risk is no greater than a fire starting in your own home.

The rest of what you said, I agree with. The more salient point is people who are immunocompromised and cannot get the vaccine.
Depends on how much you make and cost of living is tangible while quality of life due to weather and proximity to the kind of nature SF has is intangible. Because everyone’s value of the latter is different, it will always make sense on paper to leave California and the Bay Area.
Great for people who work in Human Resources.
While this would probably work, it seems insane to me that this would be the only thing to protect his listing from a completely different category of product being merged with another.
Google never announced anything like that. The moment they started talking about return to office there was talk of flexibility, lower capacities, and WFH. And in reality WFH at least 1 or 2 days a week was always a possibility, at least in my Google office.
Take your entire statement and apply it to the employees who actually build the products instead of just the management.
It often resolves to “we want someone that is supposed to be 100% efficient from day one”

When that assumption is explicitly discussed and dropped, the job postings can be backed to realistic levels of expectations and interviewers get more leeway on choosing profiles that could be interesting down the line instead of just playing Tetris with the listed qualifications.
This is an expected effect of climate change. It's not evidence of climate change, and I wasn't claiming it as such, but it is a possible result of climate change.
Why? 15 min is a bit of an artistic stretch, but otherwise the statement above is correct. 35C at 80% humidity means wet bulb temperature of 32 degrees, which is not survivable by most humans. 38C at 80% humidity means TW of 35 degrees, which is not survivable by anyone.
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And a number of people have had rather scathing takes on Gruber's take. See Charlie Warzel's Substack for example:

https://warzel.substack.com/p/this-is-the-awful-voice-inside...
In a competition to report the highest, most sensational number, expect these misleading media comparisons to continue.

BTW, today's high at my house was 350F for 11-13 mins.

Reporting surface temps makes just about as much sense.
That's what amuses me - what, it requires a few additional characters on the stock barcode?

Of course the real problem is the counterfeiters have no problem starting a new vendor every few weeks or even days, so the damage may already be done by the time the reports come back.
Space, at least anywhere nearby, is brighter than on Earth.
Yikes! Good stuff! (Just last week I was about to bump up my Cloudflare account. This seals it!)

And that Kepler's talk? Happy memories, indeed. They "paid" me for my talk by saying that I could have a copy of any book in the store. I chose the Times World Atlas (a way-big book of maps). The manager's face suddenly dropped -- and then I told 'em that I'd pay full list price if all of their employees sound sign the book. Result: I now have a terrific atlas of maps, with a dozen signatures of book people. (two of them visited me last year and I showed them their signatures from decades ago -- very sweet!)

Meanwhile, I gotta send out some of the tsunami of Klein bottle orders. But Cloudflare tunnel? Here I come!
It's probably lucky you were rejected. Almost certainly, that's not the same company you left. Large corporations attract cost-cutting groupthinking bureaucrats and heavyweight processes governed by straightjacket apps like SAP or Office 365. In that world, everyone is a replaceable cog in the machine.
Yeah, it's definitely different if you're working on a contract basis. At least with internal stakeholders, whether you're building product, doing enterprise integrations, or building internal tooling, you just need to make sure that you have exec backup (or you are the exec). If you have buy-in then you can basically just set your team's policy and be done with it.

For contract work you have to do the process over and over. Frankly, if I was doing contract dev, I'd state it as an upfront policy and move to quickly fire any customers that didn't buy in.
Yep, a blatant and botched attempt at manufactured consent right there.

If you want to stick it to them you should put out an informal poll with all employees and publish those results separate, show everyone how the company is lying to you.
My beef is that a lot of ignorant people are going to cargo cult this nonsense and create a toxic work environment for everyone. I also have an issue with hero worship, I didn’t become a technologist to prop up billionaires.
Interestingly, yesterday I had a conversation with someone who works in HR at a tech company and they said that it's been incredibly difficult to lure candidates away from existing jobs because most are afraid of jumping ship in current economic climate. I know it's anecdotal, but this is currently how I feel myself as well. I realize that there are numbers and stats behind the so-called "Great Resignation" but it does make me question if this is a micro event when looked at on a larger scale.
no, it's just you.
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Yes, and I eagerly await the day governments around the world impose hefty CO2 taxes. Until that day comes, again - why would we be absolved of our moral duties?

Is it really necessary for everyone to eat meat every day? (30% of Western Europeans already say no [1].) Is it really necessary for everyone to buy a new smartphone every year?

[1] https://veganz.com/blog/veganz-nutrition-study-2020/
I don't think that's true. 1B is a big office but it's only a couple days of revenue
Having read the whole thing, it seems partially good, martially misguided, and partially terrible.

The overall bent is a hand-wringing about link rot, which I thought we mostly got over a decade ago. The Internet is fundamentally ephemeral. If you see something you like, save it so you can repost it later. If you rely on someone else to keep in up indefinitely, you're being foolish.

Around the edges of that main discussion, the Atlantic also touches on censorship in all the wrong ways, re-iterating the too-common view that censorship is good as long as the good guys do it. They at least argue that this censorship should be transparent and censored works still accessible in some way, but they seem to not understand the nature of what they're talking about.

Censored works aren't censored to protect the public. They're censored to protect the rich and powerful. That's why "right to be forgotten" really exists. That's why Google and Youtube and Twitter and Facebook quash anything that goes against the accepted narrative in any given field. They aren't protecting the public from dangerous misinformation. No one gives a shit about the public. They're protecting the financial and political interests of some very powerful people.

Given this, talk of a "poison cabinet" only illustrates ignorance of the issue. The Memory Hole cannot be divorced from the censorship process, it's a core part of it. If people can still find the information in some form, it's not censored enough to make the people it threatened happy.

And this leads to the final point, which is that the real reason the web is "rotting" isn't link rot, it's censorship on the part of tech monopolies, due to their joined-at-the-hip relationship with every large corporation and industry imaginable due to advertising and other deals. The fact that links die doesn't matter much: you can just repost the material. The fact that links ARE ACTIVELY KILLED to suppress their information is a much more serious problem, and one that doesn't have an easy solution besides full breakup of the tech monopolies.
It feels like buying stuff on Amazon gets worse and worse every year.
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I don't think anyone would mind that (even the scammers) - because what the scammers want is "Five/four star" and "400 reviews" to show - they don't care what the actual reviews even say.
There's so many more costs than you listed as well(CA living), agree with all your points though :)

- Gas is the most expensive in the nation, right now a gallon in my town is $4.60 for 87.

- State taxes are highest in the nation, for most professional incomes taxes are above 10%.

- Sales tax is also very high, around 9% for most purchases, some states have no sales tax.

- Food is extremely expensive, I recently traveled to Arizona and food was about 30-40% cheaper than CA.

- Professional services are also very expensive, think doctor, eye exam, etc.

- Construction costs are about 50% higher than most areas of the country.

- As for housing, I would say say CA and the bay area in particular are extremely expensive. A typical house in the bay area is around $1.4M now, in a good area look to spend $2M., An average house in California now costs $850k, the highest its ever been. Contrast that to the average cost of a house in the US as being $350k.
According to Lancet, extreme cold kills 20x more people than extreme heat every year. As summers get hotter and winters become milder, fewer humans will die on account of extreme temperatures.
> Who cares about WFH

I care about wfh more than pretty much anything, even slightly more than compensation.

> when you get to live in California

you'd have to pay me to live in California

> work with some of the brightest minds?

couldn't care less who I work with, I just want an easy job with a good paycheck where I can work remotely until I retire early.

> Only privileged person wouldn't value that.

Not everybody likes California or cares about programming. For many of us it's just a job
I was turned down in screening interviews last week for not enough experience in tools - hr thought were critical but they clearly weren’t. Why use non technical hr?
Unfortunately I think it is you who misunderstands the scope of the problem. It's a massive systemic issue that touches pretty much all elements of our systems. Too difficult to explain to people over a comment thread on HN but if you are a systemic thinker then you likely understand this.

Fast counter examples:

Our infrastructure isn't prepared for the changing climates (examples: electricity Texas, ocean barriers many places across planet, increased flooding).

Crop failures: (non California example: Monsoon's in India are becoming increasingly erratic.). California - continuous droughts and killing off crops due to lack of water. Yes it is going back to drier times, however the climate is changed - our forests can't manage (See redwoods in distress - FWIW they been around throughout the drier times > 1000s of years). I'm not saying that were going to lose all our crops right now (insurance models the climate heavily right now - example see climatecorp) - over time its going to get worse. Likelihood will be worse in countries that have limited ability to handle this stuff (i.e. india, china, etc).

Wether or not either of us are right or wrong about this one incident doesn't matter. The world is becoming a hotter and harder place to live for humans and the frequency of adverse events keeps increasing and as humans we are not doing enough to manage our future.
I would restate it as “how underfunded the rest of higher Ed is.”
You can still get free shipping with orders over $25. I cancelled prime years ago. I try to avoid Amazon as much as I can but I still use them sometimes like when someone gets me a giftcard that I can't regift.
There's a bias towards tech company and startups here. Those are concentrated in places like the Bay Area, NYC Metro, Boston Metro, Atlanta Metro, DC Metro, etc.

Those places are all commuting hellscapes, so there's almost no scenario where you wouldn't do WFH if you could. My dad did the Queens-Manhattan bus/subway/express subway/walk treadmill for most of his career -- not fun.

I live in a small city with a 6 minute commute, my preference for WFH varies by weather (I mostly work outside) and whether my wife blocks my car in the driveway. Overall, I like both -- WFH has advantages for focused tasks, but I tend to work longer hours. Interacting with colleagues in person is much more productive in an office setting, and it's easier on my family. It's tough for my 8 year old to not be able to talk to dad when he gets home from school.
Do you still have access to the data? Can you do me a favour? Can you plot (actual time / estimate) and see if the result is a lognormal distribution with a median very close to 1? In my experience, it always is.
Just because something makes money, that doesn’t make it great. MS is a perfect example. Made a ton of money with products and predatory business practices so bad they held back innovation for years until Linux gave people an alternative and created the foundation for the modern internet. That was great tech from the time period.
And if what the economists needed to do could be programmed trivially with the help of AI then their job is probably also replaceable by AI.
Practice, competence, and probably more funding. I doubt members of the DOE are highly paid in NYC compared to market rates. The original comment still stands though. RCV is more complicated and therefore prone to error.

It's still worth doing though.

Getting the election on even years would also help :-/