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REST and JSON because arbitrary querying is a huge YAGNI.

That said, the presence of GraphQL is a great signal that a team is infested with architecture astronauts, so I suppose it has its uses.

I would definitely encourage all of my competitors to use GraphQL. Nothing like getting a free six-month lead.

That's two months they spend learning GraphQL, two months introducing a mystery-meat binding layer and learning that, and two months debugging it all and pulling their hair out.

And no, using a giant third-party lock-in toolkit like Hasura or Apollo is not a response.

Gold investors (like myself) assume that The Fed can only stimulate further in order to stave off deflation...but (crucially) with no hope of raising rates later, even in the face of the inevitable resulting inflation.

A rise in rates would simply crater everyone who has come along with The Fed so far - virtually all consumers and corporations holding high levels of debt. In such an environment of obvious inflation and Fed paralysis, gold could go much, much higher.

Mozilla's support model was left too weird, too long. Baker is to blame, this should have been rectified years ago.

What does Mozilla really bring to the table with this new focus? The world is full of VPN vendors.

UBI combines your paymaster with your legislator.

That sounds like a great idea until UBI is treated like a driver's license...something that can be taken away...if you, for example, are seen at a "riot", or "interfere" with law enforcement, or stay out past 10pm.

> Then let it die in maturity

That can be achieved right now for anyone who is interested: download Perl5.32 and never update it. No one will ever force you to upgrade to Perl7 if you don't want to. Why hold everyone else back when remaining in a static state can be done in isolation?

> I think the reason is probably what you mentioned - very few people are starting large Perl projects nowadays.

And that won't change unless Perl is allowed to change.

Periodically you will find a "harumph!" post challenged instead of blindly upvoted, please do your homework

Starlink will provide an immediate benefit to humanity, the astronomy performed otherwise, won't. Looking for exoplanets isn't a practical concern for humanity any time soon.

Some very weird choices. No internal ducting for AC? Crazy, its a LOT cheaper to include that when building. Now in some heat-death future you end up with ACs hanging out the windows. Wood heating? Wow, thats incredibly polluting. Indeed, they may find it outlawed eventually, its already illegal in many places. Heating with wood also means making the room with the stove an inferno just to make the rest of the house acceptable. No closets? If that's what you're into...but its going to be hard to sell.

Average home ownership duration is ten years. So yeah, you kinda have to make some considerations for the next person. No AC and wood heating are going to be a hard sell.

All competent deck installers grade down from the house. All competent home builders will make sure water drains instead of entering the garage.

Per-unit costs are now lower than the F16

You might find it more challenging when they will eventually consider you "rich".

There's no way there's enough money in the top 1% to fund the programs and plans she wants. The only way will be through the upper middle class. YOU.

the 1950s in the US were a unique blip in all of modern history.

at no other time before or since did a working class population have it so good.

The banks were not bailed out because people cared if the corporation of the bank prospered. The banks were bailed out to prevent millions of mortgages being put into jeopardy.

The banks coexist with Federal agencies that underwrite, protect and regulate savings and mortgages. They aren't food delivery startups. This is why many nations have the notion of "chartered" banks - to recognize that the banks aren't just yet-another corporation.

Once the banks accepted bailouts, they accepted a new mission. Same with GM - it effectively became a temporary jobs program once the government started underwriting it.

If the rioters were protesting racism or homophobia, no one in the media (or HN) would challenge them.

Since the rioters are protesting a Green Tax, the media (and HN) concludes that Facebook, Russia, or a general lack of cognitive ability among the French working class must be the cause.

Look no further than the discussion yesterday re: "Is France losing its first information war?" to see all the "enlightened" HN posters discuss how free expression should be limited if it runs contrary to their worldview (characterized as "restricting the public's potential to be misinformed")...the same posters of course are constantly aghast at censorship in China

Its really scary to see hackers become advocates for censorship

investing should always be based on your age, not market conditions

over 60? lower risk...it may take longer for riskier assets to recover than you have to live

under 30? higher risk...the markets have always done well over a multi-decade timeframe

Even if you were to get the veritable Golden Ticket and land one of the hundred or so CCWs in SF, using your firearm in California, even in self defense, would result in your life being ruined.

Move to a SHALL ISSUE state. I did.

No one reading HN today will ever experience it

Your friend is right. Mad Max world isn't in your immediate future. Not even the most pessimistic forecast comes anywhere close

Exactly. Even worse, most people, even here, mostly just talk about what other people should do.

Well, you are right about one thing - you know nothing of the State politics

Democrats have had a virtual lock on this State for at least five years. So much so that their primary nemesis was their own moderate Governor, Jerry Brown. Think about that - conservatives had been so utterly decimated that the only thing standing in the way of the State legislature was a Governor from their own party.

They have a pliant Governor now but it is irrelevant - he can't even veto their bills anymore. He's a hood ornament and he knows it.

And astoundingly, outrageously, you actually think State Republicans, who have basically been an endangered species for years...are actually to blame. Wow. As it stands the last Republican Governor of the State was basically a Democrat anyway. But sure, maybe its all Pete Wilson's fault.

A little trollish, but now that Democrats have a veto-proof majority (meaning Gavin Newsom is really just a spokesperson, his opinion is irrelevant, he cannot veto legislation), Californians only have one party to ask why the State is the way it is....the #1 poverty State.

Not only can Californians no longer blame Republicans (there basically aren't any left in the State), they can't even blame the Governor...he is truly pointless as he can no longer even veto legislation.

They're trapped - probably unable to even scrape together the money to move. Moving is expensive! You need the money not only to relocate, but also to tide you over until you find work. Casual mobility is for the wealthy.

LGBC also went under in Los Gatos, it was an awful restaurant that also had crappy "microbrew"

If you go to Austin you will see that it has a much more vibrant downtown than San Jose.

...and downtown San Jose is actually a lot more vibrant now than it was ten-fifteen years ago

"No career advancement" is actually just fine for a lot of people, particularly older workers.

People should not underestimate the value of getting an "urban" salary in the sticks, it can be the equivalent of a huge relative pay increase.

One day someone will figure out how to be a salary calculator for remotes and this benefit will go away as employers will try to tailor the salary for local cost-of-living.

Furthermore, in companies that offer actual paid vacation, you are typically obligated to use some each year, which means when you book your time off, it is almost unheard of for a manager to claim you are actually needed in the office due to "crunch time" etc....which could very well screw up the company's tax accounting.

Meanwhile, in the scam world of "unlimited PTO", I have found it is common for managers to ask that employees delay or reschedule vacation.

Anyway this whole subthread illustrates that many HN readers lack basic financial literacy...they don't even understand their own compensation

Unlimited PTO is just one more way the Suits outsmarted the nerds

I'm happy for you but increasingly your experience is the exception.

Even tier-one companies offering me positions with "top of market" pay have offered me health insurance that requires a monthly contribution...with a family these contributions are often meaningful. These are a stealth pay cut. If you are being paid $200k but have to contribute $1k a month for your health insurance contribution...

Paid vacation is becoming as rare as a white rhino. Even big companies are moving to the "unlimited PTO" model because they know full well no one actually exploits the "unlimited" time off; if they do, they put their jobs at risk. Companies are increasingly out of the business of accounting for your vacation time. Amazingly, there are some rubes out there that think "unlimited PTO" is a perk. if you don't see vacation days accrued on your paystub, the IRS says you are getting none.

Once again, when I entered the industry, you didn't even have to ask about these benefits, they were assumed. Indeed, lots of companies did 2:1 matching of 401k. Try finding that now.

No, "Personal"

Responder "flerchin" below, please tell me what employer offers "unlimited PAID vacation"....do you even know what "paid" vacation is?

Here is what it is. If you accrue four weeks of vacation and leave the company, they give you a check for four weeks of pay.

When I left a job in 2009, I had six weeks accrued. I walked out with a check big enough to buy a car. They HAVE to give you the money when they are accounting for PAID time off. This is also why employers that offer PAID vacation will cap it or require that you use a certain number of days per year...they need to actually account for these as days they are obliged to pay you for - its TAX LAW. In the public sector, there have been a lucky few that have negotiated away this cap. When my father retired from the fire dept he had THREE YEARS of sick time accrued...they had to pay him for it! It wasn't 100% pay, but it was still a huge check.

"unlimited PTO" is NOT PAID vacation. It just isn't. Unlimited PTO is the company telling you it will look the other way if you decide not to come into work on a certain day if you have followed company guidelines for scheduling the day off. By accounting rules, they are actually giving you ZERO actual paid vacation days. Yes, zero. Ask your accountant. Amazingly they convinced a generation of workers that the new model was a perk.

If you do not see vacation day accrual on your paystub, you are not getting paid vacation. So says the IRS, so I don't really care if you downvote me.