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>It feels you are seeking validation on a compensation scheme that's at least equal that most corporations and bring nothing new to plate, nor is any more fair than what everyone else is doing.

I think this is a great point, because exec's are not included in this pricing calculator. I think they totally should be.

From the article and some other links I think the company is doing a great marketing campaign during a time where salaries and pay is a hot topic.

I do not think salaries should be paid based on location, especially if the team is remote. Everyone is in the room (zoom room) and they should be paid on their skillset and value they bring to the team. Using location allows the company to focus on cost. This points to the fact they will be located in LOW cost of living locations, using fair calculator is the justification for lower salaries. Which links back to

> If we start giving crazy high US salaries by default in remote, I'm personally afraid we're going to replicate the San Francisco phenomenon over and over, to cities elsewhere in the world.

We should be giving employees higher salary based on the value they bring to the company. If the engineer from Argentina is more productive and bringing more value to the team but they are paid much lower than a team member in the US, this will cause internal conflict but the only person gaining is the company from the margin they will make from that employees contribution to their overall cost.
> I grew up in the 80's, and was told by everyone "don't worry about money, do what you love." It was ingrained by parents, educators, media.

The Boomers fucked up American culture in so many different ways.
Anyone Know of a LegV8 Emulator?
The phrase "declare martial law" is 100% misinformation and I wish Americans and/or other interested worldwide observers that do not understand our Emergencies Act that was invoked would stop treating it like so.
Theyre using public resources in a way that disrupts the community and for no reason since they will likely go out of business.
Only thing I notice is that the collapse button isn't a button and is the entire [-] thing, vs. just the - or + being an actual button.

Very great work! I love destroying the notion that you have to use some esoteric hyper-optimized tech to get quality performance.
This one creeped me out more. Taken from my LinkedIn feed from someone starting at Meta:

https://imgur.com/a/LOD7wMC

Socks? Okay, cute. Socks for the rest of your family, and they already know enough about the ages of your children to send those sizes as well? Holy shit.
While there's a powerful inclination to take Reddit recommendations, it's also increasingly dangerous. Just from normal usage, it's increasingly apparent that a disturbing proportion of comments are astroturf. There's a flood of accounts that have generic names in the form of word-word-number or word_word_number, usually are only a few days or weeks old with little karma, and run around threads responding to everything until they're banned or cycled out for a new account.

This happens not just on political topics, but things related to brands. It's very clear that paid actors are out there attempting to manage public opinion about brands or advertise products.

IIRC, part of the original supposition was that produce related search results were flooded with spam sites promoting products...but the bar is far lower to do the same with Reddit accounts. You don't even need an email to create one, let alone a domain name or hosting.

There's a very real spam problem, but spam-fighting is stuck in the past.
I think slashdot went down with users when they introduced the massively unpopular "web 2.0" redesign. It was unusable in that layout and they never reverted it back. I think the only users there are the ones using the old layout and know how to turn it on.

Shame really as it it was the best automoderated system I've ever seen.
I had heard that the concern was that there are services very early in boot that rely on /dev/urandom never blocking. I’m not sure how true that is, or why it is no longer a concern now.
It reminds me of the BS that the shopify app puts me through every time I make an order. I'm already paying for the service--there should be an easy way to opt out of ALL ratings/reviews/feedback/telemetry if I don't want to be bothered.
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One massive difference: Property taxes are state and local taxes, which are not barred by the Constitution in the way that federal property/wealth taxes very likely are (absent an amendment, of course).

(There is debate on this point; I personally find the side arguing that such a tax would not be barred as needing to use fairly tortured lines of reasoning to arrive at their conclusion.) If you can’t pass a wealth tax federally, then whatever state wanted to compete on having a low/zero wealth tax would find plenty of wealthy takers as residents.
A nice implementation, I really enjoy the practice tab. As many suggested already, it plays poorly on desktops/laptops, I have to scroll to see all four words, would be nice to see horizontally arranged windows.
One-line comments are great, when they're substantial. Omit needless words. But also, omit needless comments.
thanks for the good wishes! definitely hit me up if you're in the area :)
This is true and i am inclined to try and ask questions about them. My last company had a “no jerks” policy and i was floored when they actually followed through in firing a (talented) PM who was kind of a jerk. One warning, then he was gone as fast as he came.

I’m not sure i could ask smart and direct enough questions to really assess this but hope i can at least sniff out the bs.
> And this wealth inequality is mostly caused by people making dumb choices.

For what it's worth, people have studied this a lot. While it's true that bad choices can get you in financial trouble, it doesn't seem to be true that most people who are are financial difficultly got there due to poor choices.

It contributes, but on the whole a) it's way more complicated than that and (b) the general narrative around this stuff has very poor SNR.

In general "I did [path dependent thing] and so did my friends, so anyone should be able to" isn't a very good argument for nearly anything. It works as a solid existence proof, but has little to no value for anything else - too much selection bias and path dependence".

Note that previous works regardless of the negative/positive aspects of what you are claiming. Literally none of us have a good idea of how things work in general based only on observation of our own lives and those we know. To get anywhere real on this you have to go vastly broader (i.e. study real data, but first fight the uphill battle to figure out if you can get any that isn't fatally compromised). It's hard work.

Another point is that in general, unless you know someone incredibly well and intimately, your observations of them are by nature pretty weak. Drawing strong conclusions from any of it a dicey proposition.
Two doses of measles vaccine are 97% effective and do not need any further boosters, while we don't know if 4 doses of today's SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are effective against next month's variant.

As I understand, with measles vaccines an outbreak can be prevented, while SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are not stopping the virus even in fully vaccinated populations.

We also need to look at risks. Covid risks are spread unevenly over a population and it does not look to me like the threat is existential for humanity.

Especially younger people are looking at worse risk/benefit ratios than older people.

Since the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are not good at preventing transmission, I don't think that a mandate is needed, suitable or adequate.

There are no mandates to quit drinking, smoking, potato chips and extreme sports or to do yoga, to eat healthy and to take proper supplements.
Introducing such mandates may technically be possible, but it would leave us with a system like the social credit score where we need to prove our smoking, drinking or yoga status in order to be allowed to just be.
Being required to prove our vaccination status already introduces a little bit of this and vaccinations could be done without this, by just not mandating them.

I think it is fair to protest against this.
I consider myself a generalist, and if I had to choose, it would be backend. It's more low level and fun, and honestly, I'm not a great designer. The point of being a generalist is that you can adapt to more places.
I guess they're engraved into my brain like a wax recording by now.

I have keyboard shortcuts to bring up the most common ones, but otherwise I just go find them in HN Search.
Or a “hard mode” where the four words are multiplexed. :)
I think what I meant is with no magnetosphere we would all die of radiation exposure regardless if there was a terraformed atmosphere or not. Without a magnetosphere we'd all be living underground anyway, no point in terraforming.
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>Well, this does look like a straight Wordle copy.

Did you not read the article? It's in Swedish, so not actually a straight copy. That right there should be more than enough to allow it, as presumably there are plenty of Swedes who would like to play the game in their native language.
You're saying that as if only Chrome can do that. At least Firefox has had the same for ages, and Edge has it too. Press Ctrl-Shift-D.
> r cannot possibly be greater than g over the long term

With government intervention, this can last for as long as the government lasts.
It's implied. Clearly the comment above is suggesting corporate greed is partly contributing to cost pressures. I countered this thinking with my own set of thinking.

And if my comment is vapid, yours seems a tier below. You've said nothing other than a personal attack.

In the 70s they tried price controls to curb "corporate greed" and it led to mass shortages.

How about use some brainpower to refute something I've said rather than insult? Do you have any critical thought?
Great on Caleb for this accomplishment!

>No door is ever closed. You can do anything! I am a thirteen-year-old kid, and I can do this—if I can do it, anyone can!

Although he may have similar opportunities to his peers, he (understandably) doesn't yet realize that he has a "spark" that not everyone is fortunate enough to cultivate. Age is not strictly the limiting factor to being capable of reaching a high potential.
That's a meaningful difference. I'd have only have expected a couple of percentage points. Are there any downsides you hear in user feedback from doing them within an app? Another commenter mentioned privacy concerns. What sort of stack are you using and could you ever see offering a self-hosted version (like say PostHog with analytics) to address that?
Unless these wallets have their private keys exclusively held by firm(s) that answer to Canadian law, sanctioning a few dozen crypto wallets is about the only thing less effective than thoughts and prayers.
Go 1.18 Release Candidate 1, with generics, is released
Why hasn't the same thing happened in Japan, which has tripled its money supply since 1990? House prices (and the price of everything else) has remained dead-ass flat. The difference is the have federal zoning rules that allow the supply of houses to meet the demand of houses.
Do you need to be a prodigy to wire up sensors and controllers? More pressure to learn how modern technology works? That should be a great thing.

This exactly is the issue: not all kids are geniuses and not all kids are morons, but you'll NEVER know if you treat them like you think they deserve to be treated. If you believe that kids can't understand complex things, they of course won't because you won't explain it to them.
> It’s awesome to go to a thread and see helpful links or comments that enhance the conversation.

Without fail :) Thanks @dang!
>This forced Trudeau's hand to declare martial law, but any and all peaceful protesters whose rights are infringed will be receiving compensation as per the emergency act.

He wasn't forced to do anything, it was his choice, against the wishes of many premiers.

Trudeau should have done what he did with the 2020 train blockade protests. Met with the protestors, had a dialogue about the issues (mandates) and come to a compromise conclusion.
>No. Just like the student loan crisis, when you make borrowing money really easy it drives prices up.

Of course it does. However, the net result of lowering interest rates is just that the middle class pays through the nose for assets (housing) instead of for money (debt service).

The parasite sucks the same money from a different location.

Wealth inequality with high interest rates and with low interest rates are two sides of a very similar coin.

The only real fix is to tax the rich.
It is ridiculous, and I think people latch onto the per kg cost as we can all visualize what a kilogram is. But you can't just say "mass is cheaper now" and then put 100 customers on one launch. If any one of them fails, it affects everyone, just as it does now. It takes 2 years minimum to develop anything new for space now, and in joint missions everyone delays everyone else constantly. It takes at least a year to get a license to communicate to a spacecraft. SpaceX has hundreds of requirements for its customers and has a 2 year schedule from discussing those requirements to launch, just like every other provider. Longer of course, for multiple customers on one launch.

Making something lightweight but stiff is one of the easier problems to overcome. And yes, you can use a raspberry pi in space, but even SpaceX won't let you connect a raspberry pi to an antenna actuator (for the radio you don't have a license to operate) and a simple battery, in a mission with a hundred other customers and let you say "well the launch cost is cheap so I don't care if it fails".

Sure, things can be made better through standardized carriers, AWS ground stations, etc, but Starship will not be a gamechanger overnight, at least not for any small player.
Congrats on the launch.

Actually the bottom-drawer UI is now the default for Android in-app store review API:

https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-review
/Perry Mason/ always struck me as a rather subversive inversion of the usual police procedural for this reason. Since the protagonist is a defense lawyer, every episode that I know about is one where the cops and DA accuse a totally innocent person of a capital crime. They are then exposed and humiliated when Perry gets the real guilty party to confess in open court, usually under oath on the witness stand.
> if anything sticking to IPV4 will lead to more "selective" use.

That's a scarcity mindset and isn't useful in this case.

Who cares if "low" value things use the internet? Imagine a network in rural Africa. It can't pay market rates for IP addresses but would be extremely valuable for its users.

IP addresses aren't a negative externality like pollution or traffic, they're an artificial construct. So restricting them doesn't actually help people, and making them abundant is a huge benefit to literally everyone.
Doesn't Apple REQUIRE a subscription on most apps? Like haven't there been multiple devs talking about how Apple rejects "free" apps if they "don't seem to have a unique purpose" or whatever, and you need to have either an up-front cost or a subscription model for Apple to accept it?
And they're going to get burned. Each and every one of them. And when they do, they'll make excuses. Other companies that burn them, they won't make excuses for. Apple, they will.
This is a good list.

2) Unfuck building codes.

I think it could be greatly simplified by holding the building owner/manager criminally liable for defects that lead to major injury or death, and civilly liable for smaller defects.

There's no reason for the government to have an opinion about what type of concrete you're using or how many feet of wire you're using. They should be policing outcomes, not hiring and sending inspectors all over. If a building collapses, the people who own it and the people who built it should go to jail.

And insurance companies can come after the owners for the smaller problems.
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A higher salary for a bit more boring role is actually great for some people. You can master that boring job if you want, and the higher income combined with less stress allows for fun hobbies to scratch that generalist itch.
I'm not here to defend apple, but if you have a desktop and you don't want to lose data then get a UPS. Proper write handling on the disk wont help if you haven't saved your doc in ten minutes.
I like having a section in a project document titled approaches tried and why we're not doing that.
It sounds like this maybe whole projects/products that have died. Maybe large titles that say canceled, discontinued, or whatever.

On the other hand if you have good version control over the wiki, and a way to search the version history as well, kill the zombies.

Just like killing zombies in your code, killing zombies in documentation sounds good.
https://www.bitnative.com/2012/10/22/kill-the-zombies-in-you...
Presumably because there's no delay for financing or the possibility of having to exercise a loan contigency if it falls through.
Finally someone who gets it. It isn't impossible to do but you have to take into accoutn that it isn't realized. Imo the best way to do that is actually aggressive consumption taxes on the things that the wealthy primarily consume (vacation properties, yachts, private schools, etc). Taxing loans directly is difficult to do because I imagine you don't want to be taxing student loans or mortgages. I guess you could tax all collateralized loans above a certain collateral value but that can be gamed. So personally I prefer consumption taxes.
I like how a lot of the discussions on this site are about hating capitalist economic incentives in tech but almost no one acknowledges the underlying framework of capitalism and what is at its center: exploitation.
I haven't really seen much written on this (maybe I'm just not looking) but what does the future look like when only the top 10-20% can afford a home? Do 80% of families rent forever with no real possibility of being able to buy a home near an economic center? What does that look like for the broader society when so much of the American dream and self-worth is built on being a homeowner?

I live in LA and I think about this a lot when I see the only homes for sale here going for $3-4+ million. How much longer can this continue?
I work on a team the computes bills, shoot me a slack invite and perhaps I can offer insight.
If the latest FOMC minutes are still relevant given the subsequent data drops showing even hotter inflation, then it looks like the FED will be scaling back mortgage purchases soon while continuing to support a lower federal funds rate. I don't know, but this seems like it screws individual home owners/buyers, where most middle class folks store their wealth, while continuing to support elevated commodity and equity prices where the rich store the majority of their wealth.

Hopefully the recent data will force the rich bastards who run the fed to stop putting themselves and their elite compatriots first and finally slow down inflation and asset prices but given their history that seems like wishful thinking.
This is very important for us to hear. We are planning a feature for people to opt in / out of user research in order to address this. Our goal is to build a research tool that both software makers and their users will love, and this is an obvious next step we need to take!
The browser plugins can filter to different accounts. So if you have a work profile and and a work 1password account - you can set the plugin to match. You can then set the plugin on your personal chrome profile to match your personal account.

I used to work across multiple customers. One chrome profile for each (so gmail or o365 didn't collide), one 1password account for each. Works really well.
> mars is nothing more than a further, more annoying version of the Moon.

This is simply wrong. Mars has had the geological processes necessary for ore formation. Whereas the Moon largely lacked those processes. Furthermore, Mars is rich in volatiles. It is likely Mars has everything needed to sustain human civilization. The issue is developing the extraction technologies and proving mineral reserves on Mars.
>Interesting. This is the first I've heard of that.

Gotta remember, Trudeau's father declared martial law during the october crisis. There were literally bombs going off, people dying, and I will say there was an emergency then. However, after that because of human rights abuses during that martial law. They scrapped it and replaced it with the emergency act which explicitly requires the government to maintain human rights.

Moreover, in the act, anything the government seizes must be returned to the people. The government doesn't get to just take your things.

The politicians writing the emergency act knew that future governments exercising the emergency act will infringe upon rights. So compensation is to be expected.

Now you have a problem. Any peaceful protesters can stick around and when they get arrested and removed from the area. They get nice retirement fund boosts from the government. So why would you even consider leaving if you want to leave?
IMO it's strange that people use cloud-based password managers. Companies like 1Password have all your passwords in their cloud. So they are an enormous target.

I use enpass, and am in charge of my own syncing and storing in the datastore of my choice. I personally prefer this model.
Single family home are poor long term investments for institutions, outside of maybe California. Prices tend to follow inflation while property taxes and maintenance eat growth. States without income taxes tends to make up revenue through higher property taxes.

Because of these facts, I don't see this trend of investors gobbling up SFHs to be sustainable. I suspect most of them are in this for a quick buck, and will quickly dump these homes the minute it becomes obvious that this was a dumb idea.
Why wouldn't profit margins be rising in a time of scarcity? Fundamentally, prices are how we choose to allocate scarce resources, and if demand outstrips supply prices have to go up until it doesn't - if the companies don't increase prices, scalpers will gladly take the extra profit instead. Also, there seem to be a bunch of key manufactured products like commodity ICs which are only viable at the current price due to the equipment to produce them having been bought long ago, which means that it's only viable to make the investments needed to increase production if prices and profits go up in a substantial and sustained way.
Doe plans to turn fossil fuel waste into rare materials for tech components
How we made PlanetScale's background jobs self-healing
I think the important part is to understand that the primary goal here is not to advance science. We have lots of adult scientists with better education, time, equipment doing that.

It's to improve the pipeline of kids excited to go into science by making science accessible, rewarding, and prestigious.
I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread, but a much easier place to colonize is the atmosphere of Venus. There's a band of altitude in Venus's atmosphere where it's equal pressure to earth and you'd be able to get out and walk around with a simple oxygen mask. Huge blimps could suspend colonies in this zone (think Bespin from Star Wars).

Interesting stuff, more info: https://bigthink.com/hard-science/how-to-colonize-venus/
That makes sense I think, thanks for the detailed explanation!

I sure hope I don't "mysteriously" go missing in a few days...