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What an unbelievably biased article.

Knowing it's from Forbes, it's propaganda for the C-class...

Quoting James Clarke, CEO of digital marketing firm Clearlink, without disclosing that he has recently come under fire for praising an employee for selling their family dog to return to the office on his orders is outright negligent of the author Steve Mollman.

Doubly bad that the quote is about how remote might be working multiple jobs, while James Clarke himself sits on multiple boards and charities. Disgusting propaganda all around and pretty gross to see it here on HN.

Easy fix is to bracket by age. 18-25, 25-35, 35-45, etc. Self select into an older or younger bracket based on your interests.

If WeWork wasn't so bonkers, I'd consider giving it a try.

As weird as it sounds I had this exact thought.

I signed my parents up for Storyworth, which emails them once a week writing prompts about their life.

I'm still weighing the ethical implications of using the entire dataset 20 years from now to generate a facsimile.

Partly I just feel sad about the future, forever chasing digital ghosts of our past loved ones...

Sorry to say this, but everyone in this thread should be aware of ghost job openings.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/fake-jobs-hide-cooler-...

It's sometimes incompetent HR process and sometimes intentional market signalling, but these companies may just be stockpiling resumes for future use without any intention of hiring right now.

His name is third on the signatories...

This is pretty narrow minded.

I like playing basketball. I will never be as good as Lebron James. It's fun to watch someone else play at the edge of what is possible. I might even learn something I can use myself.

I like software development. I'll never be as good as John Carmack. It's fun to watch someone else talk and think about what I like. I might even learn something.

Don't steal other people's joy just because you don't understand it.

I had that thought too. What will these robo-voices sound like 2 iterations from now? We've entered new territory.

Yes! I very much was thinking Malkovich too!

The quality of the voices here is striking.

If I wasn't clued in, I probably wouldn't know these weren't human. At least the male voice sounds slightly more natural to me.

In my opinion, there's too much real estate value locked up in Florida's coastline to allow rising sea levels. Flood control in the Netherlands goes back to at least 325 BCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the_Netherlan...

I'm not saying that Miami will last for thousands of years from now, but I would bet money that they have a few generations at least.

If it's that horrible a place, why do you think the name has cachet?

Honest question.

It is definitely about tracking SPECIFICALLY YOU.

Target, one of the largest retailers in the US, has already abused tracking to increase targeted advertising to expecting mothers. https://bit.ly/3S3hlrA

A free person shouldn't have to articulate why they need privacy.

Privacy should be the default in free societies.

I can play this game though: you are pregnant, but have not shared that information yet with your family because it's early term and there might be complications. The grocery store accurately predicts you are pregnant from your shopping habits (change in diet, per-natal vitamins, "New Mommy Magazine"). The grocery store snail mails you a New Mommy coupon book as a "thank you." Your family sees this and confronts you, forcing you to reveal your medical status against your wishes.

This is a scary outcome WHICH HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. https://bit.ly/3S3hlrA

It's easy to interest people in maintenance if you pay them.

A quick search shows Bank of America turned a net profit in '23 of $6.9B. It would be trivial for them to pay a fleet of engineers $250k/yr+ for Java maintenance.

Ignoring maintenance is always a company choice, not a personal one.

Imagine the millions of dollars of destroyed property value in the area around the site.

At a minimum the rail company should have to buy out all the land at the day-before market value. You broke it, you buy it.

It's a lucky thing, for sure, but many upper-middle class people in the West take a few years off of work for various reasons now already. Sabbaticals, child care, travel, etc.

If human lifespans increase to many centuries, it would be reasonable to assume a productive person could take a five to ten year break every so often without losing too much ground to their peers.

Somehow, more human than human CEOs.

Please, show a little respect for Jobs here. /s

It may very well be the case that deep gravity wells are a necessary precursor to life!

Are there other known natural systems that push and mix pre-life molecules together?

HSPP spending this kind of money and time to improve security is just a reputation protective measure.

I'd expect any casino, card room, or bank to do this regularly before I'd trust six figures with them.

For now.

Funny, this website struck me as profoundly ugly.

Ugly beige and muted browns and grays.

Misaligned header and side columns.

Don't get me started on the "ugliness" of the homepage... :/

What a joke of a question!

I would be very tempted to ask the same of this VP: "What assurances are you going to offer that I won't be laid off, fired, or 'let go' in a few years?"

I'd never accept a job offer that required a multi-year commitment without some kind of contract and a large pay package too!

I'm a paid subscriber. Thanks so much for making this!

I've used Anki extensively in the past but had the same issues with it's clunkiness with edits and tagging, etc.

Mochi is a serious killer app for me, since I use it daily to remember everything that's important to me.

There's a growing body of evidence that Earth has already been visited numerous times by something other than humans.

Certain classes of UAPs demonstrate flight characteristics that are not possible given our current understanding of gravity and aerodynamics.

Dozens of credible eye witnesses from multiple countries; fighter pilots, commercial pilots, nuclear physicists, and high ranking government officials.

Source "In Plain Sight", US Navy fighter pilots David Fravor and Ryan Graves, etc.

People are quick to dismiss these stories as hoaxes or bad memory, but scientific discovery almost always starts with an unusual or unexplained observation.

Uranium was discovered in 1785 and ionizing radiation wasn't discovered for another 110 years in 1895. True scientific understanding of new observations takes quite a while.

The US definitely needs iron clad data privacy laws.

The authors of the Constitution absolutely understood how critical privacy was with respect to personal information. "Papers" is the keyword here, the OG Americans were 100% harassed by the British Gov.

4th Amendment:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

You, my friend, are grossly underpaid.

Time to start job shopping.

I got a recruitment email this morning that said "unlimited sick leave!" then in fine print at the bottom:

"If applicant lives in CO, they will receive paid sick days."

Labor laws in this country are nutty.

I agree with the sentiment of Open Salaries.

> If this generates resentment, it means the company is poorly managed.

You can't honestly hand wave away human nature like this though.

"You are paid 20% less than Bob because you are 20% less valuable to us."

Even if that was 100% true, and it was obvious to everyone, there would still be envy and resentment to contend with.

Still I'd rather have it that way, than how it is today where I have to have private text messages with my coworkers to figure out who is getting screwed by management...

I've seen this comment many times before, in Colorado and more recently in New York City.

Laws can be passed to make this painful for companies.

Department of Labor, either at the state or federal level, can enforce companies trying to play a game with their numbers.

Also the collective pressure of the market would have a mitigating effect. Game theory comes to mind, would you apply to a job listing like that? Would you apply if every other job listing has a more "honest" range posted, or would you spend your time applying to companies that are cooperating with the state government?