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> without any render at all. That means no DOM, no nothing. Just components and effects (un)mounting and updating.

Don’t we call that the VDOM?

I think the world model is one step towards intelligence or one half of it. I've come to believe that the ability to _change_ your world model as new information comes into play is the other half.

Who should then defer to county/parish, who then defer to city, who then defer to neighborhood

Could we say the same about Africans in the slave trade? I’m not sure because I don’t know history but I would hazard a guess that one could.

Ah, so it’s not about directly a consequence to them for their actions but a way to appease people/clean up where tax payers live? I disagree that’s a good move but it makes sense that we would need to do something similar.

My anecdote is that people that are homeless are not really disincentivized by these things. They’re shitting in the street and sleeping in an underpass. I don’t think three hots and a cot is really an issue they want to avoid with any serious meaning.

Similarly, any fine will not get paid because, how would it?

I think we might disincentivize the “hippies” that are choosing to be homeless and care about these things. For sure that is possible. Do we think that the % of people that are choosing that lifestyle is high enough that it will be cost effective to tax payers? I don’t think so but it’s definitely something to look into more closely.

What is the reasoning for giving them a criminal offense? Not “because they broke the law” but like, what are we hoping to get out of sending them to jail/giving them a fine? That they choose to stop being homeless? That being in jail makes them not homeless anymore?

I think it’s a fools errand to jail homeless people. It seems like a waste of money to me but I don’t have a better solution or idea on how to spend my tax dollars so am really interested in hearing more on the positive side of jailing them.

Location: Tennessee, USA

Remote: Yes, 100%. Only open to remote.

Willing to Relocate: no, not at all. Only open to remote.

Technologies: Full stack JS; react + build chain and Next.JS for off the shelf. Node and express/koa/hapi. REST/GQL/RPC. AWS and GCP.

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G2bL4Q6j4z8kbFXJYzquhvLg...

Email: timroberts@fastmail.org

I’ve been waiting for an ad for turtle necks for over a year doing this experiment. Maybe that’s too specific?

> Neither was it an attempted coup nor much of an assault

I don’t know man, seeing them beat an officer sure seems like it was an assault to me.

> As it is, theyre still trying to figure out who was even there

Except for the hundreds of people that video tapes themselves, I’m assuming?

Oh god I’m not the only one. I tried to host my own personal projects on AWS but could not for the life of me ever get the resources to be turned off.

That makes total sense. I disagree with your takeaway but it seems like a valid one to have.

From my experience coming from homelessness type of poverty to making 6 figures, I have access to many things and don’t have to worry about food anymore. But. I still don’t have enough savings to live off of if I lose my job, am still one serious accident away from bankruptcy, etc. the way I’ve explained it is that I now have something to lose, not that I’ve gained all that much outside of benefits (I now have two front teeth!)

Maybe the point I’m trying to make with my anecdote is that making $$$ isn’t the same as having $$$, high CoL or not.

I don’t see an issue with saying both that $200k is not that much and that the median salary in the US is ABSOLUTELY TOO LOW. Both can be true and not tone deaf. Do you disagree? Or put another way: why did you find the comment tone deaf?

Do you think that it is only through a coercive State that I can have the right to food or housing? Put another way, do you believe the only way to ensure others have things is by coercion?

I totally admit that a State is needed to ensure safety. There’s always a boogie man. Not sure if that’s true for all rights though. What do you think?

100000% this. Sure, I’ll take the title bump because in X months I’ll be able to get a raise from another company using that title.

I thought someone was digging a tunnel next to mine!

Do you think there needs to be the infra to support the self hosting or the “killer app” first to drive the early adopters?

I think an internet that is mostly self-hosted is a healthy one and unlocks a lot of things I’ve been noodling with over the years. I’m hopeful someone smarter than me is close to getting us there.

I think the money is in the aggregator. Everyone creates their own “log” so the noise is crazy. You follow “influencers” or go to aggregate sites that only vet info, not produce it.

You could have the aggregate behind a paywall, you could have donations or ads as well.

I’ve been noodling this idea for a few years. I think it’s a great idea and it being based on Atom/RSS is a great move.

The problem, I have found, is no one wants to pay for hosting. No one wants to self host. And by no one I mean no one that is using Facebook /Twitter / Insta / etc. and for this to really work, I think you need everyone hosting their own “log”.

Interested in seeing more work done in this space and am glad to see others feel the same as I do.

> The largest impact I have ever had was when my manager put some trust in me, gave me autonomy and a huge project.

Full stop, this is the _only_ way I think to allow an engineer the ability to actually affect change.

I think the difference here is the inability for the Manufacture to change their pricing _in real time_ like eBay and other resellers can.

Acme Co has to set up legal frameworks and expectations from its merchants. That gets decided probably long before shipping. Those things are set in stone before the market tells us what they will pay.

From my econ days, the word `inelastic` keeps coming to mind but it's been so long I might be misapplying that word here.

In my experience, those that use Spreadsheets are not building full-fledge applications but instead more Jupyter/Notebook style "I ran these reports for my next meeting" sorta deal.

For that type of "MVP" or "I can throw it away and start over" deal, it seems like a _great_ tool.

This was the first and best step I have taken in getting off Google services. And, as a plus, Fastmail is _freaking awesome_. I cannot believe I allowed myself to have ads in my _email_ client.

> Doesn't everyone?

God I hope not. How empty would we all be if we all wanted to have more money than the next guy.

As someone from the US but worked for many remote/global companies:

I've never noticed if anyone on my teams had a degree or not.

Those that talked about having a degree often lowered the team's velocity and were the weakest members on the team.

Anecdotal but seems to be common among my friends/advisors.

Every org I've worked for that has had a dedicated QA team has had, by far, the shittiest quality of code and the most amount of bugs in the system/outages/issues in production.

I am not sure _why_ this is but I think it has something to do with the "Not my problem" mentality where engineers say "QA will figure out if this works or not" instead of "I'm responsible for figuring out of this works".

It hasn't become a red flag for me _yet_ but it's definitely _a_ flag.

> In my opinion, such people should be fired, not babysat.

I feel this same way at most places I've worked. But as I've gotten older, I've started to think "how can I level these people up?" and that has gotten me much farther towards my personal goals than the prior thoughts.

Not staying you should or that you aren't already. Just a thought to past me.

Wife and I chose to move back to Knoxville a year or two ago for similar reasons. Have looked at moving to NC or GA but the extra taxes don't make it that appealing.

I think if I hadn't known Knoxville before, I'd have chosen Chatt due to the internet and vibe. But I can't complain as I've always loved Knoxville.

Not who you asked but my thoughts:

I usually write notes on paper for _every_ meeting I have in my professional life. Even at meetups or other low-key situations, I will write down things before, during, and after.

However, I hardly ever go back and read them after the event. The point is not to keep a record of what I learned but instead to help me learn _in the moment_.

I have found that by hearing/reading something then creating a new thought/paraphrase of the thing I learned, then writing that new thing down, then reading what I just wrote all help solidify the new knowledge enough in my mind to not go back. I don't remember everything but I have the knowledge associated with other things enough that I can build on top of it, usually.

When I do go back, I hardly know what the notes mean and usually give up and throw the notebook out. The only common exception to this are action items/todos as I've learned to write those very clearly and with clear expectations.

I wonder what the Expected Value is of selling today vs holding and waiting for the rental income to come back. Surely some smart person has figured out an algorithm to plug in numbers to figure out the EV?