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Having lived in SE Asia for a while, it's hard to defend the palm oil industry. Cutting down rainforests, burning peat lands which transform into huge wildfires, haze, monocrop plantations as far as the eye can see. That's just the growing side of the business. The milling side is pretty bad too, dumping effluent from the mills.

All that being said, the Malaysians and Indonesians are very nice people. It'd be sad to see them adversely impacted.
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Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29690877 - Dec 2021 (199 comments)
For a fun thought experiment:

If the CEO go on strike and don't come to work for a month, how many cars will not be built, and how money will the company lose?

If the union factory workers go on strike and don't come to work for a month, how many cars will not be built, and how much money will the company lose?

Therefore, who is actually more important to the earnings and success of the company?
From a purely laissez-faire perspective, so long as the union does not call for government interference -- and there is no indication in the article that they have done so -- their strike action (or threat of such) is merely a way to influence the supply side in the question of supply and demand.

Do you feel this to be illegitimate? If so, why?
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>but I don't feel like growing up attending Catholic mass every week did much community-wise. We'd show up, sit down, do the rituals, and head home, without really interacting much (if at all) with fellow parishioners.

I felt the exact same way growing up. But that's the thing: while I hated church my parents/grandparents got really involved. It wasn't unusual for my grandparents to meet up with friends after Church at some buffet and talk, and my grandmother was involved in a few non-sunday service activities. My mother met a few friend in the area through church and sang on the choir.

I don't know if they were outliers, but the key here was 1) meeting people in the area (my mom moved constantly and church was one of the first things she joins) and 2) having an easy excuse to do something after church on Sunday. I struggle to do monthly rituals with friends nearby and meanwhile two generations of family could do weekly luncheons after participation in a place that was fine with bringing kids into.

I should note that this might still be a division of the genders, though. My Grandfather didn't do much more than drop off/pick up my grandmother.
Or, alternatively, one massive company has a bad year, and everyone else comes out smelling like roses.

On average, 50/50 is a pretty decent benchmark here.
It's obviously wrong. NBA teams are a good counter-example. Nobody talks about the team's president/CEO/etc when prognosticating which team will be the best.
Also the tldr is new information not a summary of or even present in the ostensibly too long text!
In other words,

1) "what is not funded in science doesn't exist",

2) "sometimes you obtain the desired result by luck or rogue factors that are unrelated with your desired explanation" Speakers have big magnetos, for example. Other team could repeat exactly the same experiment and conclude that "magnetic forces stunt grow".

3) "sometimes only the 'correct' results can be published, so people repeat the experiment until being convinced of their results"

and 4) "yes some scientists are liars"

I will add a 5) you may favor desirable events and ignore undesirable ones without even realizing it (provide better care to one group, water for a few seconds more each day or have two different people caring for different groups)...

... Because unplanned events and lab accidents happen. I assume that having big speaker boxes near plants may trow a temporary shadow on them each day. If it happens in your lunch hour you could never realize it. And this things happen in science. All the time.

I would suggest to put a couple of turned off speakers of the same size near the quiet group and repeat the experiment.
Do you live in Europe by chance? When people in the USA talk about coffee they are typically not talking about espresso, which is a different beast altogether, and something I have no experience with.
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That only matters if you care about taking leap seconds into account. If you want atomic clock time, not mushy political calendar time, then an integer number of ticks suffices.

Would you prefer if I used the article's term of "precise time"?

At any rate, it's a lot better to use precise time timestamps, as a single integer of seconds/miliseconds/vibrations of a caesium atom>, than a dumb "01/01/99" string of integers that rolls over and breaks at Y2K. (with associated fun parsing bugs)
I’m trying to remember what it’s called…that new system for electronic payments that the federal government is working on.

Anyway, checks are the worst way to transfer money I can imagine. Giving a stranger the “user and password” to your account. Crazy.

Cash dying is something I’m more mixed on. On one hand, I think explicit need to use cash is mostly inconvenient, leaves you with risk of loss and theft, and has the most benefits for illegal and harmful enterprises (e.g., a cash only restaurant avoiding taxes harms the rest of society).

On the other hand, cash is a hedge against privacy violations, being able to make transactions for things that are illegal but shouldn’t be, and the fact that credit card companies are allowed to make far more money on each transaction than they have any business making.

Also, spending cash helps visualize money. Credit card users don’t see their money leaving their hands which encourages excessive consumption.
Then your understanding is misinformed I’m sorry to report. CEOs are generally top level business people and most business people can’t play at their level. There are exceptions but the system cycles poor performers out much like the NBA does to high draft picks that have lower than replacement value.

Businesses compete against each other and the CEO orchestrates the strategy and is accountable for the the execution across a broad spectrum of functions. There is a power law distribution where the very best CEOs are vastly superior to the good who are to the replacement level ones. So like in the NBA you may overpay for a guy in the hopes they are great or you pay handsomely for a good player that is above replacement level or you pay the highest for the best to run your company. Sometimes it pays off and sometimes not.

But the value that great CEOs produce is astronomical. Well more than a basketball player could ever hope to produce.
They get 100 cents on the dollar as long as you ignore:

- Counterfeit money, including when it's passed unintentionally

- Robbery and employee theft

- And/or the costs of preventing/mitigating the above

- The risk/cost of secure storage and transport of large amounts of cash

- Honest mistakes like miscounting or misidentifying bills

- More employees required to sustain the same throughput of customers

I can't speak to specific amounts myself, but anecdotally a family friend who runs a small business ended up going cashless specifically to increase the amount of revenue that actually ended up going to his business rather than to the above (and other, smaller) cash-related nuisances.
Sanctuary is an in-progress game that's heavily inspired by Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. It does use Unity though. Not sure how the recent pricing changes will impact the game's development.

https://shatteredsunrts.com/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1699050/Sanctuary_Shatter...
Ok, I've put the US back in there now.
You're inventing terms that are not discussed in any source I can find. The sources I see show a 4-day work week and a 40% pay increase. If you can find evidence of a second pay increase we can talk, otherwise I'll assume that the 40% is meant to be that increase.

You led out your initial comment warning about propaganda—it might be worth considering if you fell for propaganda on the other side.
Actually I've heard that the best ecological and economic outcome is to manage an old growth forest and log it selectively using patterns that mimic tree loss from non-human activity.

Maximizing ecological advantage also maximizes economic advantage, even in the short-medium term.
Why not insert every drug so it don’t go generic? I’m not getting how this orange book works
Definitely no maintainers. Still can't get the roads around me fixed (they're completely wrong). I've been trying for... 10 years? And this included Googler friends sending internal requests.

I wish openstreetmap did pins better. I don't expect it to be trivial to add traffic and directions to it but they could at least have a pins/popups system.
In banks and financial companies it's relatively common that some rock star trader or quant that has an exceptionally good year might make more than the CEO.
Because when I retire (and people of my age), we're going to want Social Security to pay us. That means that the government has to pay Social Security back, because there's too many of us.
How are they so cheap? Isn't electricity expensive in Germany (which is where there DCs are)?
It sounds like the solution all of us knew Argo needed to solve but didn't. I'm... hopeful? But besides the fact that it's not finished yet, it also sounds like it's going to be tightly integrated into their "Akuity Platform". Tightly integrated solutions are an anti-pattern; we'll end up with cobbled-together scripts again when something we need to do isn't allowed by the "opinionated" platform.
I am a fan of the term- after long naming wars internally we settled on promotion stage to signify the same concept. It is one or more targeted clusters that function as one of several environments. It works both in the sense of stage as venue and stage as phase. Teams promote their config from something like dev to QA to Preprod to Prod. Often there is a need for business logic to happen before advancing to another stage, or multiple environments in different regions that need to be healthy within a stage before promotion can happen.

Job doesn’t really encapsulate this at all. An alternative may be Metaenvironments.
After the abolition of slavery, many formerly enslaved individuals found work in the service industry, including as waitstaff. Tipping became a way for employers to avoid paying a fair wage to these workers, as they were expected to rely on tips for income. This system disproportionately affected Black workers.

I've heard of another story about tipping and freed slaves. It was a way of tacitly demonstrating that the person no longer enslaved, they were paid
> Where did the hiring managers come from? Poofed out of nowhere?

Now you're talking about founders, which is !=== CEO. I have respect for founders - they built something. If the founder happens to still be the CEO, then same. If instead it's just yet another suit, then no, they had nothing to do with the hiring manager.

> How did they know what to hire? Just made up their own direction?

I mean, yeah? Do you think that everyone under the CEO is a helpless infant, incapable of independent thought?

> You even reference Scrum like that means anything in the areas we're discussing.

Because they stem from the same line of thinking - that workers must be managed, lest they wander aimlessly and destroy the company.

> This line of thinking is so typical for a developer.

Two fun facts: I'm not a dev (SRE/DBRE), and tech is not where I gained this line of thinking. I spent a decade as a nuclear reactor operator on a fast-attack submarine. Submariners in general are taught to be independent, and fully capable of taking over someone else's duties when necessary. Nuclear-trained personnel, even more so, and those who actually operate the reactor (me) yet more.

Could a submarine leave port without the Captain? Ideally not (and the Navy would never let it happen if they had a choice), but we are absolutely trained to do so. Hurricane prep during in-port periods mostly consists of making sure the duty section are the good ones, because if it hits, whoever is on the boat is going to start her up _real fast_, take her out, and submerge. A $2 billion warship is entrusted to a skeleton crew of personnel because we know what we're doing.

It's worth noting that Google - who invented SRE - heavily borrowed from the Nuclear Navy [0].

[0]: https://sre.google/sre-book/lessons-learned/
> A stressed-out employee who is at work is going to outperform a well-rested employee who isn't present

Citation needed.

There is no hard evidence for this belief. In fact, and especially for creative jobs, employees that are well rested and happy will contribute more than stressed out plebe barely getting by.
That’s not the point: if there’s a grave flaw in AES, other countries can find it too.
It's not about long-lived branches. It's about defining a solvable problem and having the discipline to finish your work on that problem before merging.
The article is saying that the green Sahara coincides with periods of greater seasonal rainfall and humidity, caused by changes to the procession of the Earth and the effect that has on the seasons. It's possible that current anthropogenic climate change could make the Sahara greener, but it's also possible that it might not. In any case, the greening would probably take hundreds of years or more to happen.
Steve Jobs is practically an example of WHY top CEOs get paid so much. Apple was basically in its death throes when he came back. A few years later they had the iPod. A few years after that the iPhone. When he died in 2011 they were well on their way to being the worlds most valuable publicly listed company.

I do think a lot of CEOs are way overpaid. That said, if a couple hundred million package means the difference between a company folding and firing everyone, or being a multi-billion dollar business with thousands of employees, the math works out.
>What parts of the hard work did you see as most effective in improving outcomes?

I'll answer for me it's a situation where more effort translates to more progress.

Whether it's progress toward success or away from failure, and whether the success or failure are financial or not.

So I like to work to build a situation like that so that further effort pays off the most.
Seems like the claim is they are less effective but not actively harmful. But don’t have access to the full paper.
It frequently doesn't matter how much the CEO makes. It's not why the other employees aren't making more money. It's just a distraction. It boils down to "it's not fair". If what is important is the ratio between CEO pay and employee pay, then the board can cut CEO pay, and call it a day. That doesn't improve employee pay.

If the employees really only care about that ratio, then they should accept that outcome from their strike. That's not why they are on strike, they also want to be paid more, just like the CEO.
Stages are just quality gates. When the quality level is high enough, the gate is released and the next step in the pipeline is performed.
Nobody is complaining about founder pay. The complaint is about publicly traded companies being subjected to elite capture by parasitical execs.
> Refactoring

I personally don't believe refactoring should ever be part of "maintenance".

Maintenance needs to avoid YAGNI and avoid the engineers natural desire for over-engineering and unnecessary perfect polishing and abstruse abstraction.

Refactoring is something that should be driven by new features (or worst case towards rewrite), and few have the skill to do it well.

I'm not arguing the sibling strawman that maintenance be "the fastest, sloppiest, filthiest duct-tape maintenance imaginable."

Excelling at maintenance is highly skillful work and often poorly rewarded.
I'm saying that installing and removing packages is equivalent to not installing them at all, not that if your boyfriend leaves you, uninstalling LibreOffice should undo it.
yes, you're right, if you distributed john's height across his 6 friends, they'd all still be normal height, and nothing would really change for them, except that john would no longer be abnormally tall. you've taken a situation where there's something noteworthy, and made that noteworthiness disappear.

the same logic applies to CEO pay. you can either pay the CEO a lot, or you can pay everybody else an amount so slightly different that it's unnoticeable. there's value in paying a CEO a lot, or you can not pay them a lot, and not pay anybody else any more either. surely you can see how there might be value in offering a high salary for a role that can have a big impact on the company, and how simply not doing that and essentially erasing that money instead would be a bad decision?
Dissemination of information really is that much better now.

It's like, did you ever play a competitive video game with your friends as a kid? Smash bros or starcraft or whatever? And then when you grow up you find out that even the best of you is completely horrible compared to even a low ranked real competitor. It's almost like a totally different game.

Back then so many more things were like that.
That's not an interesting thought experiment at all. The workers in aggregate are clearly more valuable than the CEO alone. That's why their cumulative salary is way higher than the CEO's.
Thanks, I think this is the best answer and really gets at what is going on.

"Star" pay has exploded across all industries (entertainment, sports, and yes, business) and it's not hard to see why. Technology has vastly grown the size of markets, and the "winner take all/most" dynamics of these star-driven occupations means the winners are able to take an outsize chunk of the revenue.

I think there are some other things going on with CEO pay (CEO salaries are basically set by other CEOs, for example), but the parent comment absolutely gets it wrong when they say "the supply of potential CEOs has increased". In the competitive market for CEOs (as well as actors, musicians, sports stars, etc.), people are not interchangeable commodities. Someone who is only slightly better can be responsible for their corporation completely "winning" in some industry, and thus companies are willing to pay top dollar for this chance at getting the brass ring.
There's an irony in your tone when you start off getting basic pertinent facts completely wrong...

Unity's latest quarter had them at about... -$200 million in profit.

They had one (!) profitable quarter in eighteen years of existing.

Now... I'm going to guess you Googled "Unity profit" and a headline from that one quarter... but I mean, did the price action not prompt you to at least spot check?

"Unreal Engine has been cheaper"

And it's been more expensive. My comment covers why it got cheaper and why Unity can't rely on the same playbook.

"This statement is verifiably untrue. Also personally untrue"

That's... a combination of words!

_

Overall I think you need to put down the pitchfork and try reading what I wrote slowly.

It's not "all over the place" but it might be a little too methodical for some readers...

Unity provides a valuable service very cheaply, and the ship is going down for it. They should raise prices, but they should have done it in a way that doesn't turn them into a future case study in poor messaging.
Another angle is moving money overseas. A few developers in Ireland subsidiary managing a mobile app which is licensed back to the parent American company and now every $1.00 in profit they siphon into licensing fees is taxed at 12.5% and not 35%.

Every decade or so they bribe US politicians to have a repatriation tax holiday to bring those dollars back home.

Sounds complicated but another likely reason they want you to use their app.
I didn't say "take 40% of the CEO's pay and divide it up among the workers", I said, "take 40% of the CEOs pay AND give the workers an 80% raise". Take $11.6m from the CEO. Give the $17/hr worker at $13.60/hr raise. Give the $21/hr worker a $16.80 raise. Both.
I was business traveling years ago and at the hotel I came upon a group of guys that were there for a daguerreotype convention. If you ever wanted to know anything about daguerreotype they were more than happy to share. I think after a few they had tried to get me into a starter set.
I have no idea what you mean. The article is mainly about dealing with uncertainty when trying to predict visual information. LLMs have no such problem.
I found this article illuminating on the F-35. Certainly convinced me that the costs have been misrepresented.

https://www.navalgazing.net/The-Case-for-the-F-35
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People are not paid based off difficulty.
>Performance based bonuses exist at virtually all levels of skill in companies

lol. Any data on that? In tech maybe, but I'm fairly confident(also an unsourced opinion) that the vast majority of workers in the US receive zero bonus, skill based or otherwise
Almost none of the energy goes into the air. Air is barely heated by radiation, because it is transparent.

What happens is that the re-entry heating of the falling ejecta produces radiative heating, which directly heats the surface of the earth. And that gets cooked well past oven temperature.
Japan has a 'hometown' tax. Forget exactly how this works but you're tied to the town / area you grew up in for life.
This seems like a bad faith reading of the english sentence here. The phrase "every other company" was not used. Obviously they can depress the value of worker's wages as a whole if they can prevent you from working at the competition - because a worker with a specific skill set will be best utilized at companies which are in the same field, and so generally in competition with one another.
We eat Kimberley Barramundi every week - slighly over two thirds of the protein + omega 3 per unit of wild salmon .. but much cheaper as we catch most of it ourselves and freeze it for later.

Salmon's not a local fish here being the main reason - and catching Barra makes for time well spent outdoors.
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I have to laugh.

First, the j_l button on my _eyboard is not functional so I have to sort out how to words without it.

Second, the characters, when faced with vague questions, will give away pieces of the plot before I discovered them. For example, a doctor let slip the manner of death before I ever saw the body of the deceased. Someone, when questioned vaguely about the "night of the party" first said the deceased died and then when questioned more closely said collapsed.

There's a component of information discovery here that should be rolled out to each character. The doctor should not have information before the discovery of the information.

I'm going to laugh if this is a "Murder on the Orient Express" ending.
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Agreed 100%. The idea of what a corporation is and what their purpose is in society has been badly warped over the years. A correction is in order.
I have to pay my rent every month by check.
Public union leadership is determined by a member vote. Union leadership represents the worker. The external accountability comes from you regardless if your elected official is dealing with a union or a private company
well, the unions pushed for wage requirements in the auto industry within the USMCA (NAFTA2) and required Mexico to (effective) legalize unions alongside lots of other rights enshrining measures. So Mexican workers benefited greatly from the work of these unions.