badfrog

It looks like the number of deaths per day hasn't really been growing in the past ~5 days. That's somewhat comforting.

My read of "I think a severe recession is all but guaranteed" was that OP thinks prices will continue to fall. Am I misinterpreting?

If you think recession is guaranteed, why not sell?

For reference, there have been 3,000 deaths out of 11,000,000 people in Wuhan. That's 0.03% of the population dead and the number of new deaths per day is declining. If the rest of the world comes even close to being as good at quarantine as Wuhan, we'll be way under 2%.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_ou...

Indeed. I've been earning FANG-ish money for the past ~10 years and saving/investing more than half of my take-home pay. That means my expenses are low enough that I'd do fine if I have to take a lower-paying job and that I have enough savings to live for quite a while if I can't find any job.

Facebook usage is > 80% mobile, and they often don't bother adding features to the website. Do you have reason to believe that Twitter is different?

Where's the info on that? I don't see any instance of "effect" in OP.

What's wrong with that?

I think the language is not especially hard to learn, but since it's relatively unpopular it's definitely hard to find good resources.

This book is free online: https://dev.realworldocaml.org/

I like Exercism for coding exercises that have runnable test cases: https://exercism.io/tracks/ocaml

"vote backlog" is an interesting metric. Does anybody know how the vote counting system works?

> I personally don't care about career development

You have zero interest in more money, less boring projects, etc?

> the horror of working in a team where obstacles are not communicated immediately and have to wait for such meetings

I think this depends on the type of obstacle.

If the obstacle is something like "I can't figure out which service my code is supposed to be reading its data from" then yes of course that should be resolved immediately.

On the other hand, if the obstacle is "I'm worried that team X might not meet their promise of giving us deliverable Y in 2 months, and I can't agree with project manager Z on an appropriate backup plan" then you can probably wait for a weekly meeting.

> Was this same role or across roles?

OP said their number is by "job title". Is that not the same as "role"?

Diversity goals don't necessarily imply discrimination against non-minorities. There are many completely reasonable ways to work toward such goals.

A handful of low level employees deliberately violating company policy is very far from your original statement of"several large companies in my area which, due to diversity pressure, blatantly discriminate"

> the point is "he was trying to make non-americans feel bad".

I think it's much more likely that an American simply didn't bother to think that non-Americans would see the post.

That's not fair. NYC-based software developers also like to measure our junk.

> They are proud of it and see it as not only a plus, but a social benefit, which causes people to be very boastfully vocal in social situations

If the companies are proud of it, wouldn't they be boasting in the media? I've never heard about anything like this.

What I have heard of is lowering the bar for minorities to be offered an interview and educational opportunities offered to only minorities.

That would be an understandable objection (though IMO extremely selfish and terrible). What people are actually saying is the exact opposite. Something along the lines of "If these apartments get built, the neighborhood will become more desirable for rich people and my rent will go up."

That and all the usual complaints about "it will be harder to find parking", "the streets will become too congested", etc.

> prices are pretty good right now

How do you define "pretty good"? Sure, prices in some areas are less than their peak, but many people are still struggling to afford housing.

> There is substantial (if also insufficient) housing development going up in NJ

Very much insufficient IMO. People are resisting a proposal to build a residential tower at the site of a current parking lot across the street from Journal Square PATH station. If people can't see the need to prioritize humans over cars at that location, we're in big trouble.

Any tips on how to find such a group? Google is turning up nothing for my city.

> They are the digital equivalent of HAM radio operators

That is really overlooking a lot of time, effort, and money that many people and companies put into their podcasts. A lot of the best journalism and story telling in the world is in podcast form right now. That won't be the case for very long if the creators can't monetize their work.

> A widespread norm of two incomes per household

That is not the only alternative to a male-dominated workforce.

> Society has no legitimate interest in which gender does the work

That's not really true. If all women chose to raise children instead of working, many products would have poorer design due to lack of diversity in ideas. And if 95% of women chose not to work, the 5% who want to work will have a harder time in many respects.

Your framing seems to suggest the entities that established the unequal structure are blameless, which I do not think is the case. The leave policies and overall working environments that most of us have came from the belief that men should be dedicated to work and women should stay at home. Whether the people who established these norms had malicious intent or not, they were incorrect and harmed society.

Indeed. Aside from the labeling, I think this is a very good and important article.

Yes, the author seems to have a very narrow (and incorrect) view of what sexism is.

> Spending time with your children in those crucial fundamental years before pre-school is incredibly important and rewarding.

Yes, and employers should be more flexible to allow parents of all genders to do more of this and keep their jobs.