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astrognomyon Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing

> noble

Telling that you'd use that term.

Not all founders work hard. Not all founders are revolutionary. They are not lords and do not deserve worship. Altruism deserves praise. Employment deserves payment.

astrognomyon Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'

Totally legit question. I know for Boise "scale pay for the area" already has a wildly different meaning depending on the employer.

I've had employers who hired in Boise for cheaper talent than in SoCal (50-80% the pay,) I've had others who pay the same as Salt Lake City -- closest metro area with data, and another who took the Seattle office averages -40-75k and called it fair. Tech wages here are extremely variable and have little to do with local cost of living.

astrognomyon Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'

For the record, there are now huge sections of Boise now where 600k is considered a steal. Boiseans are among those other markets and they moving to other parts of the state as part of this housing shortage.

Anecdotally, just as you've seen unregistered/expired tags, I've had two coworkers use the new remote work freedom to move to CdA/Sandpoint area.

astrognomyon Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'

Your right to be skeptical as it's not the case. It's being driven by individuals within Idaho moving to more urban parts of Idaho.

Locals say it's all "Californians," but that is just short hand for folks out of state but surveys and data from ITD (Idaho Transportation Department, i.e. DMV) show it's urbanization at work.

Granted there are folks moving to Idaho from outside of the state but they are the minority causing the influx to CDA and Boise.

Source: Local news, resident of Boise, and someone who is dismayed at the lack of housing in the area.

astrognomyon British regulator cites 41 more blood clot reports following AstraZeneca shots

Hi throwawayboise, Boise resident and native myself for the record, the idea these bypassed needed studies is a complete fabrication. Please stop harming both of the communities we seem to share by spreading this nonsense.

astrognomyon Ask HN: What are some good strategy games?

Age of Empires II. After 20 years, and a few rereleases, the entire series is currently seeing a renaissance. Lots of strategy, developed meta, and still evolving balance.

astrognomyon Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

> How does anyone think nautilus is good?

I think it's great. If I had to pick between Finder, Windows File Explorer, Nautilus, or Dolphin. I'd honestly choose Nautilus. It's visually simple, has previews, built in support for Google Drive, easy to find how to show hidden files, if I double click an archived file; it decompresses it, and it has an "Open Terminal" right click prompt. If I had to walk someone through performing a file system action, say over a phone, I feel confident that I could do so with the least confusion using Nautilus. I simply never have understood the arguments against Nautilus and am extremely thankful to the developers who have chosen to make the hard decision to reduce features to make the application maintainable.