cannonedhamster

As someone who has been in that lower income bracket and is now comfortably upper-middle/lower-upper class, yeah its' definitely way easier now than when I was working a factory job. It's certainly not easy. I can't buy a Tesla and don't make 200K, but we're not worrying most months about putting food on the table like we were when we had nothing. I don't know that I would call anyone who still has to work to make ends meet rich, we'd lose everything with a few months of me being unemployed because we still haven't made enough to pay off our pre-existing debt. Is that still rich in your eyes? I've never made 200k myself, but I do pretty well for the area I'm in.

It's really odd that you don't factor cost of living into your calculator especially since it's used in every other determination of wealth. If I make $250K US in India for example you're generally way better off than $250k US in the Bay area. The ability to move is arbitrage which a lot of people don't have.

Don't get me wrong I actually mostly agree with your point, I say that as a guy literally dying of cancer, but lucky enough to be in the best place in the world to have a chance. It's just that cost of living should factor into any estimation of class status. If you throw that out literally every American has a moral failing, even those living below the poverty line, which isn't a sensible way to look at it. Class needs to be defined as the purchasing power relative to the area that the person is in. Taxation status/rates doesn't need to take that into account.

Freedom of speech should only apply to humans. Corporations are not humans they are made up of humans who have that right. There is no reason non living entities rights should exceed those of living humans the rights were intended to protect.

Without going into specifics there are multiple attack vectors for breaking DRM or simply bypassing DRM. Many are unfortunately for content providers trivially easy. The only real limits are for naked, original files which are best possible quality available outside of the content provider networks themselves. Every single transaction point from creation, transmit, transcode/transmux, distribution to CDNs, and finally transmission to the end user is an attack vector. If you're assuming that attacking the DRM directly is the only option or even the best option available, I'm sad to say for content providers, you're unfortunately misinformed.

I stand corrected, you have proven that it is impossible for some people to grasp even basic concepts when determined to do so. I yield that my front line support for end users of over 13 years provides me no insights into the average, or even below average user and that your experience setting up a website at 17 trumps everything. There's just no possible way with good support some people could set up their own website, blog, or otherwise despite the fact that so many actually do it every single day. Congratulations on winning.

I think your response to my comment is fair. Interpretation being required is why I disagree with a simple count function of gender pronouns. In rereading I did see what you were talking about with the make manager being discussed. I personally agree with your conclusion and could have worded my initial comment better to be clearer, it was early morning for me which is not when I'm at my peak mental faculties, so I apologise for my lack of clarity.

If you can't point and click then you cannot use a computer and you're not hosting a blog, you're probably not using a computer. There's no one who can post to Facebook that doesn't have the capability to host their own website.

None of what you're saying is more than point and click in WordPress. No one you're describing is doing anything as complicated as you're describing because they don't know to even ask for it. They are going to be perfectly happy with what they are offered stock. Paying someone to host your site means things like site builders with auto resize and point and click interfaces exist. It's like half my comment was ignored.

I am abundantly aware of the skills of most people. I even addressed exactly what you said in my response numerous times. I specifically said you can pay someone to host your site using site builders, templates, etc. None of that prevents someone from hosting their own site. You seem to be conflating hosting your own site from building a site from scratch. Chances are if someone doesn't have the ability to even pay someone to host their site, they aren't the target for this conversation and your point is essential moot.

Nope, just re-read the entire article. Your using the search function doesn't seem to have been appropriate to the task nor does it address the entire context of my comment.

I'll break down my points to make myself simpler to understand as my points seems to have been misunderstood which is a lack of clarity on my part.

1. The author isn't a writer by trade. Just as coders develop best practices, writers do as well. It's not fair to judge the author for bias based on his writing style if he's not someone who's been trained on this.

2. It's entirely possible that this particular COO was one of many, however they were so odious as to cause a more emotional reaction, which isn't related to gender. As far as gender specific comments there aren't many one about a man and to about one particular woman. We may be more sensitive to this now as this article was written before the MeToo movement really gained stride, so it's possible we're seeing this through our current understanding without taking into account that we've shifted as a culture since then.

3. The third possibly is that there's an inherent bias. It's a possibility, but it's not a definite, and certainly even if there is a bias it didn't reflect terribly on the author as it's really minor. I have biases, you have biases, they were/are an important function in quick decision making that can save lives or not. The book "Thinking Fast and Slow" goes into this really well if you're interested.

Hopefully this clarifies better what I was attempting to address.

Cloudfunding? It's like Kickstarter but for projects that are nearly guaranteed to die. Kind of like how patrons supported art. Most of the stuff was just workday or average, but every more and then there were gems.

So for most people that are in the situation you describe I'd say they would probably just spin up a WordPress instance, pick a theme they like, and start posting.

A static html site? Even easier. There are tons of services out there that will let you host your own content for very little money or even free.

You can set up a static site on a platform like 1mb.com for next to nothing and edit the html, css, etc. To your hearts content. JavaScript mostly runs in the browser unless you're doing something more complicated than hosting your blog.

I taught myself HTML by reading source code when I was around 12 (I'm not a coder by trade). It's not a super complicated language. Nor is CSS. And there's sites like CSS Zen Garden, w3schools, and template sites all over the internet that ease that transition.

You talk about that general public, but this is a site mostly of techies, so it's natural that topics like this would be present here, far more natural than politics or posts on gossip at least. For the general public it's still pretty easy with numerous site builders, hosted solutions, etc. that will do all the heavy lifting for you. If you're not willing to take the time to learn, there's always someone who will charge you for their experience and make sure you're set up well enough to do what you need to. It can't be that hard to do with the proliferation of crackpots, marketers, and homemakers who are able to set up their own sites effectively.

While I can certainly sympathize and empathize with the idea that as a community we sometimes don't realize the difficulty in some things, on this particular topic, I think that between the market and open solutions there's a wide array of options available for someone to host their own blog with a number of entry ramps of differing difficulty.

Keep in mind the author is a coder, not necessarily a writer. In re-reading the article though he only seems to specify gender when it's a woman. Perhaps he really disliked this woman or he has some bias he isn't aware of.

H1B is the dumbest worker permit. It's stupid for the holder, stupid for American workers, and stupid in design. If people are needed enough to come here from another country, then they are needed enough to come here without being sponsored by some company. Regardless of who they are, if they were good enough to import, then there will be a business that needs them. Give the power of the permit to the worker and not the company and nearly all problems with the H1B go away. I've had the privilege of working with some amazing H1B workers and some truly terrible ones. It's very obvious which companies are using H1Bs to lower wages and which ones are bringing in workers you truly can't find here. If you can replace an entire department with H1Bs then you're not using H1B as intended.

This seems reckless to release names without a causal relationship defined. The only thing they seem to be able to determine is that in some breeds, some dog foods that are really common, might possibly be related to the disease. That's kind of like saying that because nearly every human eats vegetables on a regular basis, vegetables must cause cancer and heart disease since those are the two major causes of deaths in humans. I've had numerous dogs on one of the listed brands, not a single one has died of this disease.

You should check out Dorco for razors. You can order directly from the manufacturer of the razors and the customer service has always been superb.

I've definitely noticed a huge drop in quality over the years. Depending upon what you order it's safer to go through AliExpress. I wouldn't buy anything that I value my life or my data for from Amazon.

eBay is a flea market. It's what that sell themselves as. You are knowingly purchasing used items and there's almost always a picture of the exact item you're getting and where it's being shipped from. Amazon by comparison is a black box of magic, only the magic smoke is toxic and you have no idea who to go to for redress. Amazon has gotten a free ride for years, screwingb both their sellers and buyers, making knock off products when it sees profit motive, it's time to pay the Piper.

He flat out lied about the Sandy Hook massacre and slandered victims of murder. He absolutely encouraged people to "take action on their own by looking into it". You can't claim satire on flat out repeated lies. Lies are not protected speech. This wasn't about the free exchange of ideas, this isn't a disagreement on policy, it was about propogating lies to people in order to make money.

If you only use Plex infrequently it can be a bit of a power waster for a standalone server. But one of the really cool things about Plex is photo backups from your mobile devices. If you'd rather not have them up in a third party, then it's a really great solution. Also Plex has streaming audio options, though it could be better with audiobooks. My storage array for Plex is in the same place as my home back up so it's never really wasted for me since I store all my files in one location and just open them at whatever computer I'm at.

There's valid criticisms that can be made of any book and any author. The question isn't whether the reader gets benefit or not in my eyes. We read books from Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Marcus Aurelius, and all sorts of historical people who have advocated or committed actual atrocities. Many of our heroes are warriors with imperfect lives that history has white washed. General Patton for example was a brilliant general who knew what it took to win a war, but was harsh on his troops often to the point of cruel. General Sherman burned civilian cities to the ground and let slaves drown in his mission to end the civil war. Rev. Martin Luther King was a womanizer. To take the important lessons one can learn from a person who has failed in one way but succeeded to find the positive aspects of life and shared them is what allows for all human advancement. We don't succeed because we are without fault, but because we overcome that fault.

This is a great book. It have me a lot to think about and sincerely improved my decision making skills.

Meditations is great. Seneca's letters are better I think.

Books on interacting with people.

How to Win Friends and Influence People. - Dale Carnegie

Influence - Robert Cialdini

Books on understanding how to push through adversity

The Obstacle Is The Way - Ryan Holiday

Man's Search For Meaning - Victor Frankly

Books on process improvement

The Phoenix Project

The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss (ignore the outsourcing bit, listen to his podcast)

Books on breaking out of your thought bubble.

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

Ishmael - David Quinn

Books for understanding how sales works

Ultimate Sales Machine - Chet Holmes

Negotiate As If Your Life Depended on It - Chris Voss

Any of these books are great starts. If the leadership big bites you there's way more I can suggest. Most of these are a mix of classics and new stuff. I've read them all and they want have their own style and provide their own insight. The trick is to find out what parts work with how you do and incorporate them into your flow. The learning process never ends.

It's really funny how many of the things I disliked are being fixed now. There are definitely advantages to the right person using iOS. I really enjoyed their MacBooks for a while, and the iPhone wasn't garbage, I'm just not the target audience because my use cases didn't match up with what they were providing. I'm really not sold on Safari bedding a good browser though. It was universally a bad experience every time I used it. I probably installed one of the Swype style keyboards for myself, just was something I disliked and mentioned and I'm surprised Apple hasn't built naively yet.

I really want to like Apple. I'd love to simplify my life. My wife refuses to get a MacBook because there's no touchscreen and I really can't justify the expense of an iPad with the cost for value.

Can't test family purchases on Google as my wife is still in her iPhone as is my daughter and they are both very happy with their phones as they got the type of people who like decisions made for them. Also same issue with the screen lock though it's not just the lock but having to keep the app open in the foreground, which is a boon for battery life just sucks uploading 1k pictures. It's definitely an idea to check but her security practices are already poor and I don't want to encourage further erosion.

Android may not have had a system wide dark mode but I could change the launcher to one that had one literally in Jellybean or earlier.

Inverted mode is not dark mode I tried it. Even at the lowest possible brightness with nightshift on iOS was still too bright for my eyes at night. Either way my switch happened before dark mode was implemented and I admitted as such. It's also a preference so I'm not sure what exactly you're defending here.

Simple statistics, not class, wealthy people are just as likely to be terrible neighbors, more people means more chances for terrible neighbors regardless of class. I've also been a renter numerous times. Nearly no one in a rental property wants to invest the hundreds of dollars into heavy landscaping when they could be evicted and most rental property owners won't see a return on investment so don't do it.

The neighbors I had were terrible neighbors but they were home owners that were close to my house. The fire department in question literally writes the rules for fires, despite more than one fire where children were killed in town they still never had a problem with burning roofing tiles, bonfires large enough to burn 30 foot trees, etc. While I agree with you that enforcing sensible rules is a way to make better neighbors it is still more likely that higher numbers of neighbors leads to higher possibility of poor neighbors.

I've lived in multiple cities in multiple states, nearly all in fairly nice apartment or shared spaces so I'm definitely not limiting my dislike to poor areas. I grew up relatively poorer than my area and have been fortunate to get where I am by a lot of hard work and good luck, I also spend much of my free time working to help disadvantaged people within my community. So while I can see how you might have mistook my writing as classiest it was definitely not intended as such, noise complaints with neighbors are super common, as are smoke leaking through walls and floors, animals not being properly trained (my wife was attacked by such a dog), property and shared expenses disputes are all more likely in shared property. Now much of this can be handled by a good landlord, however the term slumlord exists for a reason. While this doesn't bother some people it bothers me a lot.

I worked 60-100 hours weeks for a year with constantly working over 40 a year prior with numerous data above 20 hours. I ended up getting cancer, light sensitivity, and my sleep schedule was difficult to get back into sync. I was also trying to get my team to work less hours because my whole team was being burned out however I wasn't getting support from my management team at the time. I ended up with a new director, a new team as most of my prior team left, a promotion, and proper time to recover from the burnout. It took a few months but I was able to work my way back from it.

I'm now approaching a different kind of malaise as with numerous management changes our work has appeared to become unimportant to our upper management and I suspect they will be handing it over to a team openly hostile to what we do and completely unequipped for the job. As much as I need healthcare to live I'm not willing to spend what are most likely my final years in a place that I don't think cares about our customers.

All this is to say that there are most definitely different kinds of burnout. One is more physical, the other is emotional. Both impact your mental facilities and ability to get work done. Both directly work on morale, which is why the solution to burnout in employees is to discover what's crushing their morale. If people are passionate and care personally about what they do because they know they are performing important work as part of a unified vision then extra work won't result in burnout. This isn't to say that you should allow your employees to be constantly overworked, just that if occasional extra work is needed, if you've done your job appropriately as a manager the impact is severely less and the cancer if negative thinking doesn't start to creep in. Once that does it's nearly impossible to rectify unless you're very good at rebuilding empowerment.

So the author's street doesn't properly have off street parking for everyone meaning if it snows you can't plow. Kids can't play in the street anywhere and you're more likely to get terrible neighbors. I'll pass. My last neighbors used to burn their garbage in their lawn leaving ash to drift onto our cars and the fire department told them to claim it was a cooking fire if anyone complained. I get why people who enjoy cities wouldn't be opposed to this but I'm okay with my property value not going down because the types of people renters brings tend to care less about the neighborhood and having my neighbors far away from my house so they can do their thing and we can do ours without forcing our life choices on each other.