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I also think my point was about companies/organizations as a whole rather than individuals. Remote might be optimal for lots of individuals, maybe even the majority, but my guess is that the conditions it creates will cause an organizational problem. I don't think incentives between employees and companies are necessarily aligned here.

Totally reasonable and I'm glad for parents that there will be options now

I've been back in my company's office in person (medium-sized tech company) for the last week with a small subset of employees before we all go back, and I've become pretty convinced that these hybrid models will not go well. Even while wearing masks and social distancing, I feel far more connected to the others that work in the office, and whether it's fair or not, personal connection and trust play a huge role in collaborating effectively and deciding who gets what work, who gets promoted, etc. If everyone can choose whatever combination of remote and in-person they want, it seems impossible to me that there won't be extremely strong in-group/out-group effects that will cause big organizational problems for companies. But I'm saying this as a young person excited to work in person, so maybe others (parents, those with long commutes) feel it's still worth it.

I clicked on this really hoping it was related to the Fermi Paradox.

This reminds me a lot of Freakonomics podcast episode (https://freakonomics.com/2010/02/06/the-dangers-of-safety-fu...) where they discuss different cases where increased safety measures just encouraged people to take more risk, resulting in the same or even increased numbers of accidents happening. A good example is that as football helmets have gotten more protective, players have started hitting harder and leading with their head more.

Devs have been given better baseline performance for free based on internet speeds, and adjust their thinking around writing software quickly vs. performantly accordingly, so we stay in one place from an overall performance standpoint.

This is super helpful! I posted an article here a few weeks about trying to build my own minimal alternative to GA, but I had no idea all of these existed and would happily have used one of these instead of doing it myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23351323

Does anyone know what is wrong with HN timestamps? I saw that there was a lot of traffic to that article in the last few hours (using my own analytics service of course), and the article is back on the HN homepage with a timestamp that says 4 hours ago, but I posted it yesterday. Comments from below also have incorrect timestamps.

This is fair criticism — Captcha is more of a stopgap measure to fix input field spam until I can get around to finding a better way