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I would go further and even say 'most' applications never grow that much.

If you need to even consider the difference between a one-time $200 cost to setup an LLC vs a $20 cost to setup an LLC, then you are going to have a really hard time being an entrepreneur and starting a business.

>>We need to instead have a culture of responsible drug use, like we already do for alcohol.

140,000 deaths per year in, just in the USA, from alcohol use and abuse - not sure I would call that a responsible culture of use and certainly not a worthy goal to mimic for drugs.

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...

Do you suggest when you have a employee that is failing at the projects you have already given them, to load 2 or 3 more projects on top of that and somehow hope that will make things better?

I doubt it - many schools can't even get 50% of the students proficient in math and english - I sure as heck don't want those schools teaching parenting skills as well.

and the hits just keep on coming...

The difference is, the 5% interest rates in the 90's seemed low, because we had been on a steady slide for 10-15 years from rates much higher, so they seemed low at the time.

Now a 5% interest rate seems high, since people were used to the ZIRP.

It is definitely true in my experience, and for those seeking 100% remote or with only 0-3 years of real experience (not school) it is even worse.

I have posted this comment before on HN, but ~8-9 months ago we posted a job for a lead engineer at my company - we got 3 applicants (this was for a fortune 50 company, and comp, while not FAANG, was very respectable with good benefits and decent bonus and stock options to boot).

~5-6 months after that we added another exact same position, and advertised it in the exact same places and got over 300 applicants - many ex-FAANG which we never used to get.

So based on my personal experience, there are a lot more people looking and applying for jobs and a lot less jobs to choose from - and like I said, if you are dead-set on being remote, it is even harder - my most recent employer (100k+ employees) will no longer allow hiring managers to interview people who state they are only looking for remote (they don't have to, plenty of people are willing to show up at the office because they have rent/mortgage and bills to pay).

Absolutely - I did my best business during and after the big 2008 meltdown -companies threw out the good with the bad in order to save money (on payroll) and then realized they still needed stuff done - but many departments in many companies weren't (yet) allowed to start hiring back FT employees - it was a golden opp. for consultants, especially if you didn't charge obscene rates (good rates, just not obscene), i.e. rates high enough to make real money, but not so high they needed special approval by several layers of management.

selling illegal drugs is not free speech.

Will not be enforceable imo, not sure if it is even constitutional - like it or not, output of AI engines is a type of free-speech. (and no, not that 'AI' has free speech rights, the creators of the AI do)

I agree - I predict an awful lot of rent-seekers in this space that promise to make things more efficient/easier in the HC space - but really just end up adding additional costs that the founders can skim off the top without providing any real value to patients of providers.

Thats a lot of jobs

you mean basically the exact same information that you can get by going to an assessors website or office (in the USA anyway), and looking at the property record card they publish when setting your tax rates? Not to mention when you apply for a building permit, with plans - that all becomes public information.

Maybe because the country took/got the name almost 800-900 years before the state of Georgia existed.

how were you able to permanently move from the states to Finland - were you already a citizen there? (I assume you mean Boston Mass, unless you are talking about another Boston already in the EU)

they don't have to stop the hordes, they just need to make sure the hordes know that their are easier places to forage than yours.

of course not - you are not an 'insider' if all you are as a customer with a bad experience - no different than you buying puts on restaurant where you think the food is terrible or even made you sick.

Is it though? It seems many countries are too busy surveilling their own citizens facebook postings, emails and iphones than actually preventing bad things from happening around the world - one failure after another.

Yep, as much as everyone wants to assume that everyone in the C-Suite is an idiot - I am quite certain they also know that a lot of the work that is being done in big companies, doesn't actually need to be done - but when times are good, those projects get funded anyway.

Advice to younger folks, try to get on a project in your company that is critical to its success if you are worried about job stability - still not a guarantee, but better than being on some VP's vanity project that doesn't move the needle for the company at all and is likely to get shutdown on a whim.

Well no kidding. Much easier to layoff people you never see - plus with the push to get folks to RTO, a few well placed layoffs of remote folks puts the fear into the rest, so they will fall in line.

At my last job, which I left just a few months ago when I saw the writing on the wall, your career is now considered DOA if you are a FT remote employee - they may let you stay in your position, but good luck getting promoted and the message pretty much is 'if you are not in office 2-3 days a week, your days are numbered'

I saw the writing on the wall and left - most of the folks I left behind have been scared back into the office as they still have mortgages, car payments and kids they want to put thru college someday.

>>Is there a name for this type of question,

Yes, it is called trolling - please don't feed the trolls.

From the article:

"Working in a retail environment, when things are busy, managers will step in and cover a desk while someone goes to a bathroom—things that, if you wanted to be a stickler about it, should be done by union labor, ..."

Started out making sure you didn't have to work 7 days a week, 14 hours a day with dangerous equipment - now has become, if you work in a bookstore and you need to use a bathroom for 10 minutes, the only person 'allowed' to cover for you is another union member...good grief.

Highlights perfectly why an ever increasing number of folks are anti-union and union enrollment continues to fall in this country.

don't kid yourself - there is plenty of money to be made on both sides of the climate misinformation industry.

Car theft is unbelievable in parts of Canada - been up there a few times in the last few months for work (near Montreal), and the hotel I stay at gave me one of the steering-wheel lock bars when you arrive - I have never seen that before anywhere else I have traveled - they also suggested I run out and put it in, even before I finished the check-in paperwork - they said cars sometimes disappear minutes after guests arrive.

...and this wasn't even a bad area, felt completely safe walking around there day and night without even a hint of worry.

correct, now they are - but OpenAI got a pretty good head start and foothold before Microsoft made an investment, and inarguably, were smaller and nimbler than google at the time - but I am not talking just about openAI, google has many, many products and services - they need to defend them all from lots of different startups and smaller players simultaneously who only need to be good at that one thing to start making dents in googles armour.

...and in this case provably wrong - there have been (in the USA) just 2 deaths, in all of commercial aviation, since the 737-max was introduced in 2015 - thats 2 deaths in 9 years.

In the 9 years before (2014 back to 2006) that there were ~100 deaths, so 5000% higher deaths in the 9 years before the 737Max was introduced - and even that is very, very low historically.

(and for the record, not claiming the 737Max is directly responsible for those lower deaths, just that in general - and across the board - aviation has never been safer than it is now).

I agree, google has been coasting way to long on past successes - they are ripe for smaller/nimbler/newer companies to start chipping away at their revenues.

>>I’m starting to treat general aviation as though it was 50 years ago: Very unsafe and expensive

50 years ago civilian aircraft deaths were, on average, 400% higher per year than now. You might want to rethink your comparison; it has never been safer to fly commercial airlines.

IIRC, less than 5 people have died in the USA in commercial airline crashes since 2010.

Just for the record, the 2nd amendment is not a 'law' - it is a right guaranteed by the constitution.

while it is a simple process to change a law - rights guaranteed by the constitution necessarily and by design, have a much higher bar that must be crossed in order to change - and there is currently not even close to enough people in favor in enough states to revoke the 2nd amendment.