a_imho

On a related note, what are some of the best places/ways to discuss startup ideas or even get collaborators?

Add toddlers to the list as well.

I witnessed someone setting up such a business as a side gig. It was pretty straightforward, but they had a background in printing and already had access to printing and cutting machinery. They shut it down in a couple of months. Their takeaway was it is much smaller market one would imagine with plenty of competition. Many players are much more integrated with other kind of custom printing offerings as well (mugs, calendars, t-shirts etc.). Without a unique selling point it was not worth pursuing.

I have to admit I'm guilty of this, so much so that I'm tending towards discussing programming language features is moot without discussing the available tooling. In fact, I'm starting to think tooling is (slightly) more important.

What kind of books are we talking here? Could be survivorship bias, but my experience (in Europe) is nothing like this, plenty of old books in every household and second hand shops are buying them en masse as well.

The plane refers to the plane of complex numbers (a+b*i), the right half is where the real part (a) is positive. If the zeros of your feedback loop are on the right hand side that means it is a unstable feedback loop, if they are on the left side it is stable feedback loop (this happens because the zeros eventually end up in exponents which either tend to infinity or to zero with time).

If you squint a little bit most systems looks like a feedback loop and my not very confident interpretation is, judging from the last picture, that the author thinks we have a runaway inflation problem (zeros on the right hand side of the plane) and we might or might not have the controls to move them to the left hand side to tame it.

Absolutely.

Some people (especially the ones profiting from the current system) do not want to change the fundamentals though. In those cases shortening the feedback loop by cutting the cycles could also mitigate the problem. Also reducing the obscene amounts of power we put in a selected few hands could help.

Do you think pay gaps exist in general or all compensation is fair and square because of supply and demand fixes everything?

Discrimination is not a function of supply and demand, it is a function of lack of legal protection. One can argue underleveraged groups does not deserve equal treatment unless they can overpower their situation, but personally I disagree with that opinion. I also totally understand if someone feels their salary is under threat and does not want to treat others fairly due to that. To be completely honest, there is a nonzero chance I would do the same if I was on the good end of the deal as well.

I'm not holding my breath over the situation changing in the near future, but 2 years of remote work do make people reconsider things.

You are assuming remote people are OK with being second or third class employees. I'm not sure how long this is going to be true in the post covid world.

https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...

Hard disagree. If we increase the delay in a control loop it will affect its stability. In fact, it is very hard to argue against the opposite, namely (arbitrarily) short terms from a theoretical pov. How legit is a government which does not have the support of the population at any given time?

Or intuitively as t tends to infinity the system would be tending to some form of dictatorship.

Well, the first point of Agile Manifesto says

>Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

and I would argue Scrum is a process and a rather heavyweight one. Thinking in terms of Scrum instead of your team/members and their preferences is getting it backwards.

I'm not even convinced deleting (and especially deactivating) your account does anything besides handing over control to Facebook and others. Perhaps it is better to obfuscate the data in your account and just not log in, even if emotionally less appealing than deleting.

not agreeing with the parent, but if that is not the main use case of free speech then what is? Stating things others might consider inconvenient, disrespectful or outright unacceptable. Indeed, if one is serious about freedom of speech they will find themselves defending the rights of all kinds of extremists, it is inevitable.

Imo this is more like the case where the market/money reflects the opinion of the 1%.

I'm not sure whether you are implying Microsoft has changed or their PR?

"I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself" - Winston S. Churchill

I have to admit I subscribe to this line of thinking, but I also have to admit it is just conspiracy theory advanced classes. However I do believe it is useful to talk about conspiracy theories in a more fine grained way, after all even the most rationale people who flat out renounce them have at least some opinion which do not 100% align with the official narratives.

Wishful thinking at best, anchoring the narrative at worst. It is always about compensation (which money is one big part of). Sure, there is some overhead to changing jobs, but if it is all covered people will switch. It is pretty easy to see if one looks in the other direction. Would people who supposedly passionate about their jobs do it for free? If yes, they are either lying or it is not strictly a job. It is always a function of compensation with a capital C, even if it is expected to not be frank about it.

Google does the same with phone numbers. They ask for a number as a way of verification you never gave them in the first place. It does not make any sense.

Imo if one can log into an account they should have the right to request a delete/download for all associated data. Considering PII could very much be involved self service would even be better.

This frequently happens with GDPR data/delete requests. They will ask you to verify all the shadow data they collected about you is indeed correct before giving you a summary or promise to delete it.

In Hungary we have this table top game, iiuc this has the same mechanics just with colors. It was (maybe still is) popular in primary school aged 8-12.

https://okosjatek.cdn.shoprenter.hu/custom/okosjatek/image/d...

Indeed and the context is vaccination for high school kids. I mean, if they are observing some outliers maybe that should be investigated first rather than brushed aside?

How is 1:25000 4x higher than 1:10000? Isn't it 2.5x less likely? I guess the parent is referring to this piece of data: 8-12 cases per 100,000 doses.

Isn't Chrome supposed to be based on Chromium? Why does one need to ungoogle it?

So why not just use a username instead?

Congrats, could you give a ballpark figure what is considered rich enough nowadays?

At 27 maybe you should look into spending more time with / starting a family?

I clicked a couple of comparisons and they say the opposite.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-4800H-vs-Ap...

The rest is not strictly about M1/Apple, but I found technically superior hardware can be quite sluggish depending on your software stack.

Totally not my experience in Europe. We had reliable taxis back then as well. Uber looks and quacks like a taxi, I get that it is in their game to differentiate themselves and try not to be called a taxi or get treated as a taxi, but they are a taxi company at the end of the day.

This is my experience as well. Also the majority of 'remote' ads are only considering the US really, which is pretty tiresome to shift through. Then there are the ads where in theory it is possible to hire someone remotely but they would rather have someone from nearby (I totally get this sentiment, but there should be a more useful term for this instead of remote), and last but not least the remote-as-in-cost-cutting (contractors, outsourcing) where the final offer will be considered not on the skills or value add you would bring to the table, but rather where on the map you are located at. There are still only a handful of companies looking for remote employees.

tldr; the revolution is still a bit further down the road