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There might be more to it, but it sure seems like not. There’s been a boom in EV demand every time gas has gone up, and it’s fallen off when prices drop. This used to happen with hybrids too, same cadence.

If you look at the specs, of the 3 of them the id.4 is generally the smallest. There are some metrics where it comes middle (more front headroom than the ford but less than the Tesla) but in general if you think the Tesla is small you’ll think the VW is small.

Sure, but that’s the answer to “can poor people more or less be alright “. Which while interesting is orthogonal to the question of “can a society exist with no poor people”.

All that proves is that farming olives in Portugal is hard. Is farming coffee analogous to farming coffee? According to the actual former coffee grower in this thread, no. Is selling green coffee in Madagascar hard? None of us knows.

> When you're used to the kind of income that software can generate farming anything seems like very hard work, even when it works well.

Even if that’s true, so what? They didn’t ask, is this a better path to getting rich than working at a FAANG. They asked if anyone knew how to do it. The only correct answer for the people in this thread would be “nope, no idea”. Thus my point that they’re not being “realistic”, they’re just well-actuallying someone without having any relevant knowledge.

Seek to understand, don’t just be a wet-blanket.

I did, did you? I’ll ask again, if that wasn’t your point then what point were you trying to make?

Don’t cherry pick words to change the meaning of people’s sentences, it makes you seem disingenuous.

Edit: see also the top-level comment from the former actual coffee farmer who said that there’s not that much to do outside the harvesting season. This goes to my actual point, which is that your experience in a totally different field doesn’t translate. Now that’s hilarious.

Omwani coffee in the UK has recently released a Madagascar origin specialty coffee, and they claim to be trying to work with local producers, it might be worth reaching out to them. You might also want to reach out to other boutique coffee producers, many of them have farmer education programs (counter culture and square mile are the first two that come to mind).

Meta-advice, find people who actually understand the business and get their opinions. This forum is great for CS startups, but it’s full of people who think their success in one field means they are experts in everything they’ve read an article about. Be skeptical.

> I'm not being discouraging, I am being realistic

Hardly, you don’t know anything about how difficult it is to do what they’re trying to do. For all you know it’s a crop that essentially grows itself and has a huge market demand so selling is easy. Your experience in unrelated small businesses in another country has very little bearing.

According to the Asia Development Bank 8.2% of the population lives below the poverty line, was your point that this is a low percentage?

https://www.adb.org/countries/bhutan/poverty

> It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.

Is that actually true? I’m very curious if there’s any theoretical evidence that a society where everyone is at minimum “middle class” can exist.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

That’s the point the comment you’re replying to is making, just with more words.

Then I hate to break it to you but that’s totally not true. It might have PMs or engineers shitting themselves, but the lawyers don’t really care. It’s just not a big deal.

You don’t feel being useful to society had meaning? I think you might be putting meaning on quite a pedestal.

Sounds like a hidden bonus; encouraging people not to be lawyers!

So a 4 year degree is on the order of 30k, aka what a lot of people pay for one year on campus. That’s pretty easily achievable on entry level salary (I know, work while you’re in school, le horror). Even if you have to take loans the whole way that’s a car note.

Are there people who this is out of reach of? Yes. Would it be cool if it were free? Of course. Is it crippling debt that makes a comfortable life impossible? Don’t be absurd.

Everyone uses those words differently and no two groups agree. Event is often used since it’s the most generic. Also, many companies have requirements around their use of certain words and this might not meet their lawyers definition of incident.

State schools, not living on campus, and community college though. You are going to college to learn, not to party, right?

As others on the thread have alluded to, it’s not a difficult thing to reason through. The code is right there, feel free to go take a look.

Now look at the double digit interest rates they paid on those mortgages. You pay the monthly payment, the top line number is largely irrelevant.

https://www.atlanticbay.com/knowledge-center/history-of-mort....

I graduated then, from a smallish state school, with a degree in CS. Everyone in my graduating class got a decent to great job right out of school. You might be able to find individual examples of failures to launch but in the vast majority of cases it’s simply not true that CS majors went to Geek Squad.

You can start a business that you get an dopamine hit from telling people about, or you can start a business that makes real money. Pick one.

It literally says, all over the documentation, requires Spotify premium. Spotify’s docs say that things like this require Spotify premium. They also very clearly enumerate features that are only included with the premium tier, which this provides. Without saying too much, the modification is very clearly to remove a “did you play us, if not die” check which is quite intentional.

You should be aware that this thing where you pretend to be confused because you don’t like the answer is a pretty weak defense. You might be impressed with your mental gymnastics, but I assure you that the court will not be.

You might get them if there were more than about 4 customers on Linux who would want them.

People following instructions to dodge paying by commenting out the payment check code are hardly “hapless geeks”. Nobody does this by accident.

I’m what sense is that, exactly? I can sell my discs, play them however often and in whatever device I want. I can also rip as many times as I want onto as many computers as I want.

A lot of music streaming providers get to pay less for radio plays than for user-directed plays, which in turn drives a lot of that behavior.

I entirely disagree both with this point and with it’s apparent subtext that being an engineer is better and being a manager is worse. I take it that you are one who takes great pride in “being an engineer”. That’s a separate topic (for instance, one can be an engineer in a management job).

We have the abstraction of job titles or categories to help us reason about what a job is. We do this for a variety of reasons, but in this case the reason to do it is to help people understand whether this advice might apply to them. Ultimately, a job is whatever it’s primary goal is, and you said yours is to empower junior staff who report to you. That makes you very different from many (most?) senior/staff engineers I have met, who are primarily metric’d on their engineering work. Since your primary job is a management function and you write a lot of code, that makes you a manager with some (or many, pick whatever modifier seems appropriate to you) engineering responsibilities.

Bringing it home, if a reader is an engineer (or IC if you prefer to avoid the fraught term) and not a manager, this advice doesn’t apply to them very strongly. Yes they should care about junior colleagues, and they should absolutely make time for deliberate peering and mentoring, but they should focus on doing engineering (which can include docs writing etc) primarily.

> Don’t get caught up in semantics

What does that mean?

If you have people who report to you and your main job is enabling them, you’re a manager not an engineer. Which is fine, but also it’s an important distinction to make.