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Not at all -- I have no degree with ~8 YOE. Recruiters and hiring managers don't even inquire about my education anymore.

I assume your worries come from the leetcode trend in interviews.

Personally, I let recruiters that are knocking down my door via LinkedIn or email my expectations up front. Salary & no leetcode (algorithmic problems), I have found a lot of success. There are many companies willing to give sane interviews with real world SWE problems.

Experience is highly valued in this field. Someone with 10 YOE isn't really competing with someone with 5 YOE. If you talk to anyone involved in hiring nowadays it's extremely difficult to find experienced devs. Experience will always trump education.
This is a 'clever' solution to property taxes. But a land value tax specifically just taxes based on the value of the land. This is supposed to incentivize people to use their land as productively as possible -- with a property tax, any improvements you make increases your tax bill, with a land value tax, it doesn't.

A moral argument for it is, if you own an empty lot which is gaining in value as the community grows around it, you are essentially leeching extra value from the community through no work of your own. This sort of behavior is punished heavily with an LVT, as your taxes go up but you don't get any extra revenue from your empty lot.
By effectively guaranteeing the market, the Fed made stock and bond markets more "money like" and so it didn't even have to overtly print money to create a money -printing-like effect ("the wealth effect") even though they also did print money to prove they were serious. So effectively we've had inflation for a while but most of it was inflation of asset values.

If the Fed talks the market down and people sell, it will have destroyed money without other harsh measures. That doesn't mean there won't be more pain other ways also.
Seems quite biased, considering they call for "Congress [to] significantly reduce the number of people subject to deportation by—for example—creating a pathway to citizenship for undocumented people, dramatically [reduce] the grounds of removability that are based on criminal legal involvement, and [enact] a statute of limitations on deportations"

Some people might argue that we should be dedicating our scarce housing resources towards expanding the number of legal immigrants with high value skills, not uneducated illegal immigrants, and that illegal immigrants deserve to be deported for entering the country illegally.
Truly, it’s not. Many industries have single companies making the majority of profits. It’s really not uncommon.
Slack grew their workforce too quickly.

Actually the Slack I remember from when it first came out is more or less the same product they have now. I'm not really sure what all of those people were doing for all of those years.
Exactly. When I went camping 20 years ago it was easy to just pull in to a nice park when we got tired of pulling the trailer. We would almost always get a campsite.

No more. Nowadays there seems to be 10x the number of RVs in use and advance reservations are mandatory. We never even try to camp in places that are "first come/first served" today because it's completely hopeless. The only places where fc/fs works today are commercial RV parks where you'll pay $50-$100 per night for a camping spot packed in like sardines with everybody else.
Oh, so now the problem is that NATO stopped the wrong genocide? :-D
In the typical scenario, I could have sold my stocks and incurred a 20-39% tax on the gains.

The other option was to instead take a margin loan out at a hair over 1% blended which is tax deductible and incur no tax bill.

There was a bit of risk in this yes, but I came out way ahead despite there being a pretty sharp pullback right after I closed on my house. I wasn't leveraged to the hilt at all, I think I had a loan equivalent to about 25,maybe 30% of my portfolio when the market pulled back.

If you have significant assets this is something you should be considering. This is imho one of those "rich guy" things that's available at a relatively low level of wealth, and the risk associated with it is well worth it in most cases.
Personally, I don't get the hate over people using e-bikes on bike trails. While I am still fully pedal powered I have no problem with other people using e-bikes. Especially if the alternative is for that person to drive somewhere in a car.

Maybe in other areas people are doing 60kph on bike trails or something, but that's not what I see around me. They seem to top out around 20kph or so, which makes them basically just bikes as far as traffic flow is concerned. Sure they will zoom past you on the uphills, but who cares? It's not hurting me or anybody else.
The problem is current speculation on land is relatively easy. Having to lobby for a change in zoning one-way when you buy the land and having to take on the risk of not being able to get the change of zoning back the other way when you sell it is a significant risk. I'd also argue because LVT rates are much higher as percentages than property tax rates, holding the land would still be more expensive than the solution.

I agree there are also significant issues with zoning, but zoning alone won't solve the problem. A bunch of people capture a bunch of economic rents unearned, and it would be much better for government to capture these economic rents as part of the system and charge us less tax on things that actually are earned.
He / she likely means the IRS or other government regulatory bodies.
This has been bugging me. I was absolutely confident a (non-super) nova was an expected event in the evolution of sun-mass stars. Currently, though, the scientific term "nova" (excluding supernovae) clearly is applied only to a situation with binary stars, where a white dwarf siphons off matter from a less dense but heavier companion star. There are other specific things that happen to solar-mass red giant stars, such as helium shell flash, a rapid but short-lived change in brightness that can also leave a planetary nebula. Such an event could sound like it meets the definition of a "nova" but it doesn't meet today's technical definition of it.

It seems like the assignment of "nova" to a common stage of solitary low-mass stellar development is outmoded, so a change in nomenclature could help explain my confusion. For instance, this 1986 book https://archive.org/details/privatelivesofst00gall/page/68/m... states "Stars called novae explode and grow much brighter over a period of days or weeks, then return to normal again, usually over several years. Although we have ideas about nova stars, we have a lot more to learn about them. [...] When a red giant collapses and is well on its way to white dwarfhood, it may go through one or more periods of being unstable. At such times the star may erupt as a nova. This may be especially so of the more massive stars."
That's awesome! What about yt ads? I'm using a pihole but I can't seem to cover the google ad servers in the region (northern Europe).
Who cares if they can do the job.

Someone who has a resume with accomplishments means that person has a proven record of getting the job done. Not being able to do a FAANG FizzBuzz has no relationship to their ability to get the job done.

You never hired these people so you have no idea how they would do either.

Have you ever heard of someone hiring a surgeon by giving them an over ripe orange and a plastic knife and asking them to cut out every 2nd segment without getting any juice on the table?
There’s a lot more money to confiscate from Russia.
At both price points on the link the Tesla vehicle metrics are dominant over the Mercedes vehicle metrics. In fact, the $110k cost Tesla has better metrics than the $130k cost Mercedes: it is faster, accelerates faster, has higher horsepower, and has higher range. If the average Jane has $140k and wants the best value for money it is really hard to see why they would choose the objectively inferior car according to most metrics. They could save $30k and still have a better car.

I really don't understand, at all, how you can conclude that it is a no brainier to get a Mercedes? It seems like a really ridiculous conclusion?

Just clicking around on the site and trying to do the order shows you are wrong that Mercedes is far superior on non-car related things. The dealership model is famous for its failings. Car salesmen have a notorious reputation. The website for Tesla lets you put in a purchase order within three clicks, no interaction with a dealership. The Mercedes purchase workflow had more like seven clicks and it resulted in getting an interstitial telling me to talk to a dealer about how the car wasn't going to have all the features because of chip shortages, that the price would change as a consequence of that, and directed me to talk with a dealership.

How is that better? How is not giving me the listed price but making me go through a high pressure sales channel superior to just letting me buy car the now? I don't understand at all how you can say that dealership model is far superior. Is it right in your eyes that someone poor at negotiating should have to pay more than someone who is better at it? I don't get it. I don't understand at all how you can think Mercedes is providing the better experience.
That was back when it was much easier to make contributions to the sciences. Now you need 50+ page paper with 2-4 authors full of stats and regression to get maybe published in a mid tier journal.
> Everybody is complicit just by living

Have you read The Rebel by Camus? He basically says the same thing. One solution is suicide. Really good book.
> I realized I hated blood and needles

Comes before the headlined quote. He wasn’t going to make it anyway.
I looked for a source other than a tweet from Musk, who like many entrepreneurs is known to stretch the truth. Couldn’t find a definitive source, but it’s mentioned going as far back as the 90s according to Google, with not enough detail to say the exact timing but suggesting that it was crucial at the time. Of course, that’s also a hallmark of startup stories.
What did Bill Gates signal when he diverted his Microsoft stock into the Bill Gates Foundation back when he was forced to step down as CEO after the antitrust lawsuit?

Not all sales are equal. Here you have a guy who essentially arrived at the end of the road and brought Microsoft where only Standard Oil arrived before.

Both had extinguished all their natural competitiors and had to be essentially stopped by the US Federal Govt.

Stark contrast with the CEO of a luxury automaker who inflated a financial bubble to enrich himself who is now selling to buy a social media platform.
> compensation is a result of cost of living, inflation, rising cost of everything etc etc. so what you are saying makes no sense.
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If that were true, everyone's compensation would've doubled or so in the last decade, but that phenomenon is mostly restricted to big/SV tech.
Housing is scarce because of investors buying it and then effectively wasting it, not because there are too many people.
This is a fairly well known issue Peter Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle)

> The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.[
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Since all taxes are ultimately borne by land (specifically, by resources in fixed supply), it's not at all clear that compensation is required for a neutral tax shift.
Well, only if you ignore how we got there. Housing output took far too long to recover after 2008, and on top of that, many homeowners felt entitled to the gains they lost during the recession because that is what the American Dream promised.

We could also pull on the demographic weirdness of the moment as Baby Boomers only finally cede political power, skipping a generation. What have all are priorities concerned since they came of voting age? Should we be surprised our recent policies continued to favor older people who owned homes over young people deciding the shape of our next generation? And to be clear, I'm not blaming any motives. I'm saying much of this can be explained by an "accident" (or maybe "conclusion") of demographics.

The worst is if our incentives are for lazy capital returns (like rapidly rising residential real estate) for retirees the people who benefit in the younger generations are not going to be the people taking risks like starting businesses.
Seriously, if Californian coastal cities are not predominantly featured, there's something wrong with the methodology.

Whether you like chilly Eureka, temperate San Francisco, moderate San Diego, or warm Los Angeles, you can't get more consistent weather than out here in California.
If you don't want to sign up or pay for this particular source, you can use your favorite search engine, enter in the title from the papers, and find all of them online for free.

I'd also wager that, like the book these come from, the PDFs linked here are edited (some for conforming to modern notation, others for fitting into the book itself) versions of the papers. If you use a search engine and find the actual papers, you can find the unedited versions.
It was the intent of the subsidies to give some level of energy independence in the wake of the OPEC oil crisis, right? Is your stance that is no longer needed because of fracking, etc.?

Unfortunately, subsidies have a habit of sticking around past their usefulness. My favorite is alpaca subsidies enacted to ensure cold-weather gear was available during the Korean War. It stuck around until the 1990s I believe.
with the market taking a nose dive, elon musk probably doesn't have the money he thought he had.
Or repealed those laws.
Plenty of people manage to pay the rent without needing to completely compromise their sense of "moral clarity" or "ideological purity".

Just because there's no ethical consumption under capitalism doesn't mean that helping Amazon union-busters agitate against bathroom breaks or smoothing the way for dozens of gigantic corporations to "headquarter" themselves in a single building in the Caymans, is somehow equivalent to working at an urbanist NGO despite owning a car or owning a computer whose assembly or constituent resources depended on child slavery (this is all of them, by the way).

It's true that none of us are "innocent", but one doesn't have to be part of the problem to make any money. Many of the conceivable blameworthy activities most of us engage in aren't really personally mediated -- I have to drive a car occasionally, but I've lived in places sporting thoughtful infrastructure that supported lifestyles in which cars were unnecessary. Having to choose to use one, and burn gas -- gasp! -- isn't a "personal choice" for most people, it's a structural consequence of the world in which they find themselves. British Petroleum invented the concept of the carbon footprint, in part to help prevent people from realizing this.
The man be keepin us down.
Keeping with ancient Solomonic tradition, I say we deport some top ICE officials until they knock it off.
It has always been conspicuous to me how vocal most Americans are about wanting personal privacy AND about wanting “smaller” government but at the same time not doing much of anything when things like this, the Snowden leaks, and etc come out. We spend very, very large amounts of money on this and if you listen to pundits it’s not doing anything because the “crisis” of “illegal” immigration is always getting worse.

It reminds me very much of backscatter machines at the airport and the insistence that we don’t bring bottles larger than 3 or 4 oz on a flight.
Will and this article use "staff" in a completely different sense. The author of the post even acknowledges this difference in his HN comment at the top of this post.

Will uses "Staff Software Engineer" as the rank of Staff (I.e. one above Senior).

This article uses "staff engineer" not as the rank, but as the type of engineer (Line vs staff).
I believed it. Amazon tried to make me do the same thing. I stopped the interview.
This entire conversation is about how those entities don't seem to be doing a particularly good job.
Because forth is an exercise in minimalism, its answer to most features is YAGNI. The coolest thing about it is how easy something as weird as forth maps to the quite different different underlying (register-based) hardware, so you can use a forth to bootstrap something with more sugar.
> I would be shocked if they were able to maintain those margins.

I wouldn't be. They have fundamental and very broad patents on important things like:

* Pre-heating the battery on the way to a charging stop (enables the battery to accept faster charging without damage on road trips)

* Using motor waste heat for battery heating (increases range while use the above strategy)

* Dynamically adjusting charge rates due to real-time battery conditions (enables charging faster)

Those patents don't expire until the mid/late 2030's. That allows Tesla to force competitors to either pay a licensing fee or use more-expensive workarounds, like different battery chemistries, to match the battery range and charging rate. Either way, it means Tesla is likely to have larger margins than competitors.
Also "nickel and cobalt" for the car batteries, except those are being phased out.

We need to get a lot busier building out electrolysers for hydrogen and ammonia, and tropical solar farms to drive them, whence it can be shipped to upper latitudes in winter.
Any plans to be available in Canada? I was just thinking my finances are a mess.
This is a false dichotomy, how we allocate housing is the wrong framing. The problem is that that housing is in any way a scarce resource. Solve that problem instead.
How? Dynamic linker hacks don't count.
> I mean what questions are you getting that you freeze up on but could otherwise solve in ~1h?

You're thinking that the difficulty of the question matters, but it doesn't. The difficulty is the situation. You freeze up in an interview, but then immediately after the interview you go back and solve the same problem quickly, because the anxiety is gone, and nobody is standing over you watching. But you don't get a second chance after you're rejected.

If you're not anxious, you can solve very hard problems. If you are anxious, you can't solve very easy problems. Many interviewers are astonished that candidates can't do FizzBuzz or whatever, but it's often because these interviewers don't understand fundamental human psychology, and expect everyone to be a robot with no emotions.
They participate in the operation of concentration camps at the southern border so I believe they are deserving of more harsh judgement.
Guess the creator was a big Slint fan :)
How so? Visa overstays have accounted for the majority of illegal immigration for over a decade now (62% vs 38% for border crossing as of 2019).
hardly anyone actually crosses a border illegally, almost all illegal immigrants came via legal means and stayed beyond the time limits. By almost all I mean literally almost all.

The real solution is to hit employers that employ them, as how many people are in this counry illegally has very little to do with actual border control(meaning watching the border).
You didn't attempt to answer the question about how long it takes to actually tip and what the process is. So I'm going to assume it's a cumbersome as it sounds.

"difference between a QR code and a tip jar isn't going to change whether people think the service was deserving of a tip."

Yes, technically true. But seen from the wrong perspective. You won't be successful selling a product that doesn't care about it's customer.

If I live off tips, I need to convert those tips. People are almost ALWAYS going to be in agreement on what does and doesn't deserve a tip.

But that will have little bearing on whether I get tipped or not!

The goal is to make it easy. Look at the new mobile food delivery machines. You agree to the food amount and then they ask you if you want to tip 15%, 20%, 25%, or other!!!

Then it's up to you to fight through the menus to leave just a $5 tip! Lmao! It's brilliant.

And to be honest, if I QR scanned the thing, and then had to make an account, provide an email, I'm already out.
Those are two separate issues which both can be solved independently. We can simultaneously overturn SFH zoning and also aggressively deport illegal immigrants.
> Most markets that have many individual consumers require regulation to be even close to efficient.

That is not true from what I see (modulo contract enforcement and policing of anti-social elements). There are many examples of smoothly functioning markets. With my economics geek hat on the things required for a market include:

* All participants must have choice, be able to enter and leave in the medium term.

* There must be clear information available about the properties of the goods and/or services

* There must be clear information about the prices.

The first condition (choice) can be rough on suppliers. The "choice" for a coffee shop is closing or bankruptcy. But for the supplier of electricity from a hydroelectric dam the choice is different. There are no clear boundaries.

For the consumer they can substitute potatoes for kumera but there is no substitute for food. Everybody must eat.

So: Reticulated water and electricity are bad things for markets. Vegetables (except during famine) and entertainment services are good
> Once you educate yourself more you can make more sophisticated investments.

There are countless well-capitalized and mostly underperforming hedge funds that were built on this premise.
Interestingly because the supply of land is inelastic its supply curve is a straight vertical line. If you charge the tax directly to tenants they lose say $20,000 in LVT tax. This lowers their demand for land by $20,000. Because the supply curve is a straight vertical line the intersection of the supply and demand curve is now $20,000 lower. They literally pay $20,000 less for land rent. This doesn't work with anything that has elastic supply like buildings where the tax would lower the supply and the new intersection of the supply and demand curves would result in the tenant and owner sharing the tax. But it's well understood and accepted in the economic literature that landlords end up paying the tax not tenants.
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I was in a computers themed "Explorer Scout" program in the mid-80s (it had some affiliation to the BSA but I'm not sure how) when I was going to high school. One of the benefits of that program was getting your own account on Honeywell's Multics timeshare system.
The notion that anything Gates has spoken about has scary implications. For example “massive landholder”, so?

Wants the world to be fed synthetic beef. So?

Wants a centrally managed pandemic. So?

Connection to Epstein. Orly?

The answers to my questions above (ie. so what) are the batshit crazy conspiracy theories.
Ty Sebastian! Yeah, Cerebrum was an awesome school.

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What a sad thing to believe.
You don't want the future you're advocating for.
I think OP is talking about people who literally can't code, yet list a track record of 10 years successfully writing C++ code on their resume. And you need someone who can write code--not someone who can write about their coding accomplishments. We've all had that experience of reading someone's resume full of accomplishments that would have required the candidate to write code, then sitting down with them and they can't even come up with a for loop.