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> But how to guarantee that nobody hacks in and figures out how to change a few bytes in one paper that is 10years old?

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but this sounds like an actual problem well-suited to a blockchain solution.

A computer, bandwidth, and spare time are all large expenses to large chunks of the population.

Exactly. It's about developer lifetime value, not single customers.

Markets are still going to be separated by time zones.

They have an earnings call tomorrow. Have to show something before the call.

They're not. Most of them are operations.

According to their last earnings call, Uber's rides business was making enough profit paying for all of R&D costs. It's been a long time since the "losing money on every ride" narrative was true.

24 hours isn't optimal, but it gets the job done.

This is usually coordinated. PR talks to a friendly outlet, gives them the exclusive on the story with the caveat that the timing is released a few minutes after employees have been informed. This lets them get correct information out, control the narrative, and gets the friendly news outlet an exclusive story. Generally speaking, it's also done to be respectful to the people who just got laid off.

There's lay-offs and then there's "I got fired this week." Does this document tell the difference? Because those numbers look about right for an industry that does have some involuntary turn-over week to week.

This is missing the point.

The goal is "please write your documentation." What solution has the least friction around that for engineers? Right now, it's overwhelmingly Markdown.

It's not perfect, and often doesn't provide the features a technical writer or other content specialist might want, but it handles most use cases and is something developers are willing to write in.

So please, write your documentation in whatever you feel like. As long as it gets written.

It wasn't going to be happening anyways. Those types of programs need to come from Congress, and there was zero coalition built to make them actually happen.

Isn't this the whole point of a data lake?

Yeah, but this is slightly different. This is about a business owner trying to control who can look through the windows.

Death is not the only measurement of danger.

In the past, the companies formed from a broken up monopoly are competitors. The company isn't broken up just along business lines.

This is the point of government and regulation. We're not going to get far relying on willpower and rational thought in individual decision-making. So we use government as tool to help use out.

I can't stop myself from eating an entire of package of Oreos if they're in the kitchen. So I don't buy them. I don't give myself the choice, because I know I'll make a bad one. Instead, I choose to restrict my choice (and the choice of the rest of my household) for our overall well-being.

This feels pretty bad if you're a 10-year-old and just want some freaking cookies. Sorry you weren't able to make your own choice there. Our overall well-being took priority over your individual liberties. I get why that is unacceptable to some folks, but there has to be some balance, and sometimes that means restricting personal liberties in order to maintain the health of the overall system and community.

This is good problem-solving. Why spend tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars building technology to do a complicated task if you can cut that effort in half or more by having somebody where a funny vest?

Remember, the problem is "I need to know when I don't have two managers on the floor," not "how do I use machine learning to know when I don't have two managers on the floor."

This is the same logic my extended family uses when they tell me that their phones eavesdrop on their conversations to target advertisements. Just because it's possible and fits your narrative doesn't make it true.

No brand or PR team that I've ever been near has the capacity to monitor and then manually downvote this kind of thing, even on major sites, let alone a niche news site like HN. Who has the budget for this?

The problem is that a video through the lenses isn't going to tell you anything about the experience of actually wearing one of these things.

Neither of those things are mandated by laws, afaik.

> Imagine delivering a million dollar feature, working nights and weekends, but somehow it's discounted because of where you live?

Imagine delivering that feature and expecting to get a larger salary because of where you live? COL is either a thing or it isn't. Job markets are localized because of physical presence. Once you take that limitation away, the artificial inflation of Bay area salaries fades a bit.

It's the same reason that people write slide decks instead of documents. Because it works.

Small chunks of information that piece together into a larger whole along a narrative timeline is the go-to document method of pretty much all of tech.

What's the difference between setting your own rate and being offered a rate that you can choose to accept or decline? Is it the marketplace function of Uber (determining a price point between riders and drivers) that makes it different? Does being a contractor really require the ability to set a rate that no one is willing to pay?

Don't confuse the lack of a Senate-approved director with a lack of someone in power at a government agency. There are very much people running the Department of Homeland Security.

As a manager, a big part of our job is to mitigate risk and single points of failure. If enabling someone to work like this increases risk and creates SPOF in our teams, we're screwing up letting them do it.

Most places I've been at don't expect you to ever become a lead. Senior is often a terminal role if you don't want to keep climbing. But there is an expectation that you'll continue to grow to at least a senior level.

I think what you're really seeing is how much people value a good user experience, not how little they value privacy. Killing it on the UX end has always been a thing that OSS projects and software has struggled with and lack of growth there is, IMO, part of what has gotten us to where we are.

Or raise your bar for average. If communication ability is important to your org, hire some folks to mentor and coach your engineers. Measure them on their communication and documentation abilities, and reward them when they meet or exceed the expected level.

I've known more than a few restaurant managers in my day, and I have zero confidence any of them would have been able to keep a secret if they were actively surveilling their customers.