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And a lot of them also just didn't have the opportunity to learn it but are easily smart enough to pick it up when their ability to make a living depends on it.

Let's say 10% of these working class people just need a push to discover they're actually decent at coding/devops/admin/etc. 3,500,000 truck drivers means an additional 350,000 people competing for IT jobs. Now factor in all the other people employed in these sorts of jobs. There's going to be a huge glut of incoming "cheap" labor when these sectors become more automated. I don't expect them to be competing with people like Linus but they're sure as hell going to be competing with the neighbors kid that went to a public 4 year school for a CS degree because the job prospects were good.

Do PL players wear those tracker bra looking things like players in the MLS do? If so, could you combine that data to determine who's who?

That may be the case but don't pretty much all coins have this potential issue?

I feel like the recent 51% attack against Etherium shows that seizure and censorship proof isn't strictly true.

Can you explain why that is to me? I would think that if the expected return on college loans drops significantly, fewer large loans would be given out that can be passed on to universities which would see less demand for their product and would need to lower their prices accordingly.

Why not both? Seems like my data should be protected from anyone that isn't me until I decide to allow those in either the public or private sector to access it.

As a follow up to this I wanted to give some additional thoughts on how to make your site more valuable for getting hired as a software dev at the kind of SMBs that I've worked for.

1) Keep your personal items separate from your technical. If I'm looking to hire you to do something technical I really don't care about your kids t-ball game, the latest recipe you made, or pretty much anything that doesn't have to do with technology. Non-software related tech is fine as long as it's not most of the content. 2) There needs to be more than just code in your software related posts. If the post is 90% code I have no way to know if you actually know what it does or if you wrote it. 3) Provide links to working demos of the concepts if possible. Public repos with instructions for setting up and running it are almost as good. 4) Please no videocasts. Text is so much easier to consume and scan through. I'm not going to watch a bunch of 30min videos of you explaining a concept. I will read an in-depth article from beginning to end. 5) If you have side projects you work on in your spare time, please make it a prominent part of your site. Even more than in-depth articles, this is what shows me you can build working software which is the single most important thing I care about when hiring to fill software positions.

Just a few items that might help you out depending on what sort of company you're looking to land a job with.

At least in the states near me that have tried (unsuccessfully ) to pass at will laws, no part of the law that I saw would have taken away employees rights to resign at anytime they wanted for any reason. Is this actually part of at will laws else where?

I can't speak for the "big names" but as someone who has done tech hiring for multiple SMBs, having a website that shows off your abilities absolutely makes a difference. I don't care if you hand coded the website or it's a bunch of articles on Medium. Showing that you know what you're talking about and can explain it well in English (or the company's language of choice), puts you at the top of my list of people I want to bring in to talk to. It's also likely to make me skip the stupid first steps that most companies take to filter out candidates that have no business applying like fizzbuzz tests when I'm talking to you.

>> Yet again, research and breakthrough are not made by profitable companies.

I'm pretty confident that this is flat out wrong. Just within the tech sphere you have Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Google, IBM, Samsung, and Baidu that have all historically put out large amounts of research. Outside of the tech sphere look at Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, GM, Toyota.

Here's a slightly dated summary of research spending by large (profitable) companies https://www.recode.net/2017/9/1/16236506/tech-amazon-apple-g....

I'm doing something similar for a project I inherited from an outsourced company. Did you end up just giving it to your employer? Did you ask for compensation for all the non-work time you spent building it?

Seems to me that this was a job put together with a specific person in mind and somehow that didn't work out and they just didn't know what to do after that. Seen this same scenario play out before at multiple companies.

You're doing a disservice to those 99% or at least those of us that do vote by assuming this is the only issue that people vote on. There's a wide range of priorities between the 0% and 99.9% on the economic scale and what goes into most peoples' decision to vote for someone is almost always nuanced even if the newspapers and tv interviews try to make it look like everyone that voted for the "wrong" candidate only voted for them because of X issue.

I'm curious what you see as a better mechanism for exchanging services.

Of course that only works if you're making widgets. More time working doesn't actually correlate to a successful business. At some point exhaustion sets in and you start making mistakes or making flat out wrong decisions and this leads to failed companies. Failed companies don't tend to provide returns to investors.

> the power lies with the producer (they can just stop producing).

It's not that easy. This presupposes that there isn't another producer that is capable of creating a comparable product. There's many studios that can deliver high quality movies. If Disney stops producing new content, they can continue to coast on the old content but those other studios will step in and take a growing amount of Disney's share of the market. As long as the new studios are willing to make a deal with the intermediaries, those intermediaries won't be the ultimate loser in this scenario. Disney will be.

Now if all the producers of high quality content decide not to deal with an intermediary then the story plays out a bit differently. In that scenario everyone is a loser and we go back to piracy being the best solution for most consumers.

Also in a pretty LoC area.

2007: $35k (First job out of school. I didn't know to negotiate better. Also my favorite job I've had) 2008: $60k 2012-2015: $80-$115k 2016-2017: $117.5k 2018: $100k + quarterly bonus based on company profits

It's not crazy FAANG level income but the cost of living out here is low enough that I'm pretty sure I make out decently well in comparison.

I may not understand how these cameras work but how does cutting the power to these prevent those people from being injured/dying? Sure people aren't going to get tickets from them but the yellow light is still going to be shortened. So even if they take the cameras out, unless they put the yellow light back to 5 seconds, the injury/fatality rate is still going to be elevated.

Do you support tracking non-sex crime criminals that have been released given they have a higher rate of reconviction than sex offenders?

"Recidivism rates for sex offenders are lower than for the general criminal population. For example, a Bureau of Justice Statistics study of 108,580 non-sex criminals released from prisons in 11 states in 1983 found that nearly 63 percent were rearrested for a non-sexual felony or serious misdemeanor within three years of their release from incarceration; 47 percent were reconvicted; and 41 percent were ultimately returned to prison or jail."[1]

[1] - https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90200&page=1

> If they want to go without, that's their choice

and then later

> I do hope, however, that the state and federal authorities will keep an eye on things

So they get to choose to go without paying taxes for local policing but we need to tax everyone to police them? Seems like we're only letting them choose if they want to pay into the keep everybody safe fund. They're going to get the service regardless of which way they vote.

I haven't used it personally but I'm pretty sure the library with the garden that's near me actually uses the garden for classes to teach children about things like how insects pollinate plants and how to grow stuff. I think it's mostly an educational tool as opposed to a way to feed the neighborhood on the tax payers' dime.

Maybe community garden is the wrong term for it. I would also be a bit unhappy if my taxes were paying for a library to feed the neighborhood. There's other/better ways for the government to give food to people from collected taxes.

I don't know about these libraries specifically but all of the libraries by where I live serve many more purposes than just a warehouse for physical books. Free internet access, community gardens, 3d printers, audio books, some even run classes for kids on various topics like personal finance and how to put together a resume.

I have a hard time reconciling the common meaning of passion with "don't mind doing". An entire generation was told that they should only work at something they love. Turns out not enough people love being a garbage man or cleaning up vomit for minimum wage for that to be an effective strategy at the societal level.

Any particular reasons you think this? Does it apply to or exclude specific industries?

I don't have an answer. I'm' not a tax expert and certainly not one in the UK. My earlier comment was just reiterating what part of the gp stated that seems to have been missed.

That's exactly what his tax guy said he'd have to do. He couldn't avoid the tax unless he lived abroad or does business with unsavory types.

Mainly because once you get more than a few arguments, it gets tedious to start newing them all up and all of their dependencies and on down the stack. So some people built frameworks to do it for you but each of these frameworks requires their own configuration/documentation and suddenly instead of 50 lines of news, you have annotations in twenty different files that effect the way your code runs without actually being code. Each step to get from A to Z seems perfectly logical but the end result is a difficult place to start.

Honest question, do those raises amount to anything? Or is it akin to the $0.25/hr that many retail employees see that doesn't even provide them with the equivalent of an additional paycheck over the course of a year?

Just going off of the AAA game market your statement is obviously incorrect. That doesn't get into productivity software, engineering applications (CAD, 3D modelling, etc), or the very large variety of enterprise desktop software to name just a few markets.

Not everything is a web app these days and many people still prefer to own their software instead of being a recurring revenue source for the same functionality month after month.

I'm sure the sale of marijuana for use in the study would probably run afoul of the good old commerce clause that lets the federal government regulate sale of just about everything.