david38

Except they didn’t. A proper municipality decision would have been discussed publicly with advance notice. This is like the board of directors of Toyota deciding to stop selling to the US without advance notice without input from the shareholders, the US, or advance notice.

It is 100% disingenuous. In no municipality in America is the source of water not considered a long term source where change comes with months of notice. In no municipality is said change executed in a meeting without prior notice to the public with public commenting allowed.

No doubt you mean well. In some cases it’s obvious- low memory machine can’t handle some docket setup, etc.

In reality, you can’t even predict time to project completion accurately. Rarely is a fast computer a “time saver”.

Either it’s a binary “can this run that” or a work environment thing “will the dev get frustrated knowing he has to wait an extra 10 minutes a day when a measly $1k would make this go away”

You can do both, in that you can have a system where if you make less than X, you don’t pay VAT on certain things, or less.

California is now doing this for electric car rebates. Only works for items pinned to a person.

This can easily be compensated for by simply giving the poor more rebate on income tax.

LinkedIn is not a place to air grievances. It’s a place to post your job history, post jobs, and “like” when others have been promoted

Food control is easy but we don’t actually want it.

1. Prohibit large companies from using their size to negotiate prices, like how it used to be

2. Stop farm subsidies for all but the most critical areas. If you want to make food available to the poor, give them food stamp cards, but further restrict junk food. Supply side subsidies just create excess crops which lead to everyone trying to use cheap corn in some way. This cheap corn is then used to destroy local farmers in Latin America, further increasing illegal immigration and the power of cartels over a newly destitute population.

I haven’t seen this. There are more smaller companies than larger ones. At my company, as a manager, I encourage the use of AI because it appears to make developers about 10% more efficient, helps kickstart new projects, and improves job satisfaction by automating away some of the boring parts of development.

Perhaps at call centers and such you are correct, but your comment is as disingenuous as saying the compiler is about getting a stronger position over labor, or the expansion of included libraries, or faster microprocessors, or modern IDEs before AI. The march towards automation, efficiency, and automation in engineering never stops.

Every so often there is a massive leap which results in significant job losses, but that doesn’t mean it’s about labor. Was the release of AWS about labor? It destroyed many Silicon Valley companies as you could now do with $5k what previously took $200k.

When an employer demands the composition of the engineering team must match the composition of the nation in sex and race, with an exception allowed to favor anyone who is not a white or Asian male, that’s equality of outcome.

When white and Asian males are eliminated if they didn’t attend a top-20 computer science program, but the existence of a degree doesn’t matter for anyone else, that’s equality of outcome.

When the stated goal of HR during an all-hands is literally to facilitate equality of outcomes.

Wow. This whole comment section is full of armchair CEOs saying how the iPhone, ARM laptops. tablets, and AirPods are just inevitable outcomes.

Yet nobody else was able to do it. Microsoft, for all its power and money, couldn’t make it happen. Samsung+Google have come closest, but even then, Apple dominates the profits.

I can understand the benchmark issue. It often happens when someone benchmarks something, it’s biased or wrong in some way.

I don’t believe it should be legal, but I see why they would be butt-hurt

Oh they do, but the democrats are so hated but a significant percentage of the population for their recent actions, people had to make a choice, and they did.

I’ve heard it described as “I know I’m being robbed, but I was already being robbed. I know this is a poor environmental choice, but the dems acted like we’re all children, thinking we have no choice but to support them. When they try to force through new social norms like they’ve been doing, it doesn’t even feel like my country anymore.”

I have to agree, they definitely encouraged the attitude of “either you agree with this new thing or you’re a Nazi”. Well, they certainly found out.

Of course this backlash is so bad it’s going to trigger another.

How is an expected tip different from a commission other than who pays?

This is rather brilliant. * make it look like the government is stealing “gifted” money * stop taxing it * turn as many jobs as possible into tipped jobs supposedly for the person’s benefit * really the employer wins since they’ll pay less and claim “tips”

This.

Two things are rarely mentioned

When you compare apples to apples, male vs female engineering manager with similar backgrounds, the pay is the same. In the Bay Area it favors the woman.

Desire has a large part. It’s no coincidence that the countries with the most women in programming are places like India and China, where they are given little choice. If you can do the job, you do it because otherwise poverty.

When women don’t have to, they don’t.

His stupid idea to buy in a place that has gotten more expensive than almost anywhere in the country.

I can cry that my dream flat in London is more expensive than I expected 30 years ago but that just shows how stupid I’ve been the last 30 years

So why are we taking care of them? They can go get their own jobs, housing, manage food, health, etc.

Being happy doesn’t mean you ok. They require extensive care throughout their lives

A parking lot is an excellent use of self driving.

First, I want to summon my car. Then, when leaving, if I’m in a dense area with lots of shopping, the roads can be a pain. You have to exit right, immediately get into the left lane, three lanes over, the second of the right turn only lanes, etc

Why the hell would anyone do this instead of using any one of dozens of purpose written tools that accept configuration files?

They take less than a second to run, can run on every save, and are free

Your ability to be creative is a distant second to being able to take care of yourself.

You are not the only consideration, there is also the rest of the population. It’s not like we have some endless “West” you can go to and be by yourself.

When problematic people get put away, historically, it’s jail. Psychiatric institutions were considered an alternative that was better. Yes, way back in the day they quickly became really bad places, but if done better, are a far better alternative than what we do today.

I used to live near one. I remember they had extensive gardens because gardening was therapeutic for some of the patients, low cost, time consuming, had a reward, etc.

It’s not. There are lots of “rights” people have to live untreated on the street

This is reactionary, elitist, and false.

I know many of “those people” and not a single one of them religious.

American leftist insults always go like this - X is bad, but only if it originated from us. The self loathing is amazing.

* Religion is bad, but only if it’s Christianity. * Men are bad, unless they’re trans * Gender is a social construct, but race is real * culture is important, unless it’s associated with whites, because they don’t have culture

Right wing is a semi balancing act * religion is good, unless Muslim * men aren’t necessarily good or bad. They can be heros or villains * boys naturally fight with sticks, it’s not taught * American culture is just as valid as any other

Not exactly a mirror image, but enough team loyalty and justification goes on so people can pat themselves on the back as smart while the other team is delusional

It was. I remember taking road trips with the assumption that our destination location would be a very different place. Different accent, styles, restaurants, overall feel.

Today, it’s almost the same everywhere I go

You’re kidding?

You clearly think in small terms then. Trillion dollar fish eat billion dollar fish

I don’t think you understand what’s being said. He’s not talking about the ability to refund

So someone is anointed with the right to decide what cultural facts should be revealed or not?

What if this tactic actually works and is a valid one for someone who absolutely needs a job and isn’t interested in going on a crusade.

Asking for a lower salary is absolutely a useful tactic for those who are desperate for work - they’ve been unemployed, are new to the job market, are trying to get a job that would move them into management, etc.

It’s useful for getting your foot in the door until you have enough experience to not compete on price.

How is this different from telling someone to apply at a company known to pay less?

I’ve done this myself, and it worked - I got the job.

What you’re demonstrating is known as a luxury belief.

Rather confused. 225 solar masses isn’t gigantic by any means

Impossible. Even the Nazis had some academics.

Yea, and like you just proved, it was very difficult. Hence the choice to do it in large groups.

It’s fantastic but it’s a columnar store. It’s not a Postgres replacement.

Wow. Full circle

Little, but largely impactful in certain circumstances * money for health care * education * money to walk away from a bad job + money to hold you over for extended periods during hard times