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There is really not much there with Monument Valley.

Isn't that the modern hiring system that everyone hates on? Do leetcode -> get prestigious job -> quit after 18 months -> do more leetcode -> make more money.

That's such a weird way to represent the +, wouldn't it be better to say 'One or more of' or 'At least one of' instead of 'One of' with the loop? I don't see the value of the loops in that expression.

I believe he made the edit that he did because it is easier to do a knockdown than a functional edit, and he wanted to minimize the risk of anything going wrong.

I live in a 3k sqft house in Salt Lake City with a wife (who doesn't work) and a kid. I commute about 25 minutes to work, but my house is a 0.7 mile walk down a nice, sidewalked suburban street from a software engineering company with about 100 employees, good salaries, and a good reputation.

In SLC it's easy for a software engineer to make 100K and support a family in a large home on a single income. We moved out here from California for this very reason.

Maybe you don't consider SLC to be a 'major city', but you will probably find similar lifestyles for engineers outside of California, Boston, and New York.

I think Tech Support: Error Unknown is the perfect title.

They changed it to 'KFC' because the state of Kentucky was trying to get royalties from their use of the name.

The USA. He's saying the USA already has enough tech cities.

You are being downvoted because Amazon is a bad example. They are intentionally not profitable so that they can lower prices to drive others out of the market and reinvest all revenue into R&D and horizontal expansion. They could net way more than $3B if they wanted to.

Of course it shouldn't be literally illegal to call this man Booger McBoogerson. This should help you realize how harmful C-16 is.

This is just a guy with a cult. It's similar to a startup/technology company in only the most superficial ways. The guy who runs this cult plays ping pong and wears sunglasses indoors? Oh what a scathing indictment of Silicon Valley culture.

I know you're being rhetorical but you didn't read the article:

In the new study, Dr. Posthuma and her colleagues limited their research to people of European descent because that raised the odds of finding common genetic variants linked to intelligence.

You're right, the US can improve. 56% is low. I just dislike the entire metric of mobility out of the bottom quintile.

It isn't fair. My only point is that everything a parent does, from the food they feed their children to the books they read them will affect the way that child grows and develops. These small changes have huge effects later in life. This is well documented. And of course humans will always tend to raise their children the way they were raised. And those postitive traits that can be instilled in a child will always reduce economic mobility. So what can be done about it? Can we prevent a person in the upper quintile (your typical HN reader) from feeding their child a balanced diet? Would that be fair? Can we assume that a person in the lowest quintile won't feed their child properly, and take away their ability to do so prematurely a la Minority Report?* That wouldn't be fair either. That's because nothing is fair.

So we are not going to reach 80% mobility out of a quintile. We can't, without producing some sci-fi dystopia. 66% might be ok, I don't really know. But I think the article's presentation of 66% as a problem without much further elaboration is troublesome. Also, I assume (without looking it up) that the author probably selected mobility out of the bottom 20% instead of 10% or 25% or whatever because it probably produced the best "stats" to bolster the claim that mobility is stagnant in the US.

*We can provide them financial support, but we can't make them do anything.

Do you mean intrinsic human worth or innate genetic potential to become highly skilled?

I thought merit typically meant a person's ambition and skill set, regardless if it comes from nature or nurture.

edit: Merit can't mean 'innate human worth'. If it did, then all humans on earth would have equal merit, and terms like 'merit-based scholarship' and 'meritocracy' would be meaningless.

I agree with this. The movement to and from the very top percentile is much more important that this talk of quintiles.

But I don't think my original statement is anti-merit. If I teach my five year old to use VI and write C, and she becomes some sort of genius due to the training I have given her, doesn't she therefore have more 'merit'? Certainly being in a higher quintile would make me more likely to teach her those things.

The average person in the lowest quintile in the US is more likely to move up a quintile then remain. That's currently the case. If this were increased even more, that would result in more people from upper quintiles moving down to the lowest one.

Shouldn't we focus more on making life better for the lowest quintile than moving people into a higher quintile? Someone has to be in the lowest quintile, I'm sorry to say. Literally 20% of people.

"Of the children born in the bottom income quintile, 44 percent are still there as adults."

Is this actually a problem? I would expect this number to be above 30% at the very least. I'm glad it's below 50. What is the desired number? 40%? Serious question.

If this number was actually 20% that would mean that you would have almost no influence on your child's economic outcomes in life- how could that possibly be?

It can be difficult for an outsider to contribute to open source projects. Very large projects don't have simple, easy-to-fix, outstanding issues. 'Outsiders' are generally not aware of smaller projects that would welcome their contributions. And these smaller projects generally have a very niche use. For this reason the majority of open source contributions I've made have been to roguelike games, and generally those that I'm extremely familiar with.

To be honest, a PR from someone who doesn't use your software, who is unfamiliar with its structure and only wants her PR merged so that she can say 'I am an open source contributor' is a hassle.

I also think it's unfortunate that the author thinks her feelings might be due to impostor syndrome, when she is quite clearly an impostor to some degree.

My best advice would be to stop looking for a repository to contribute to. Just keep using software that you find helpful, and eventually you will find yourself using a small library with some missing features that you can add. Or, just host all of the software you write on GitHub. Create nice readmes. Create issues and releases. Talk about your project in a forum of likely users. Maybe someone will contribute to your code. Boom. Now you are part of the open source community.

Can someone confirm what chess pieces are on the board? It looks like black has knight, rook, king and white has rook and queen?

I think a lot of people here are missing why these labor changes will be so harmful.

Yes, when agriculture, industrialization, etc, emerged, old jobs were replaced with new jobs that people could not have previously predicted.

But these new jobs are terrible. They are degrading, dehumanizing, and absurd. We have 63% labor participation, and about half* the people working do nothing. They make Power Point slides, they send emails, they form working groups, they schedule conference calls to schedule other conference calls. Apple hires a bunch of lawyers to sue Samsung. Samsung hires a bunch of lawyers to defend itself. Nothing is accomplished. They all feel like shit, they're addicted to the internet and they are on prescription anti-depressants.

These jobs are rituals, they are not productive in any sense.

When ancient Egyptians developed agriculture, they did not go on to live lives of luxury. Workers who would previously have spent their days hunting and gathering instead spent their days pushing limestone blocks up to the top of the pyramid.

*bullshit on my part, but look at these statistics (https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm) and come up with an industry-by-industry estimate for yourself, it is depressingly high