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While all political parties are sheding alligator tears over this why are they not coming together to Raise the minimum wage?

TFA is written by a guy who took the job to collect anecdotes to write a book to show how miserable life is for low wage earners and now it is time to market the book. Sorry but I am skeptic about this article and think it is an exaggeration. At the same time if it is true why are folks not simply resigning and going to a better job? It is a free country isn’t it? Why is minimum wage still so low and why are all political parties not coming together to raise it?

Yes many people won’t understand this article it but there is a strong and subtle point that Balaji makes. It is the power that technology brings to the common people. Technology will one day make food shelter healthcare clothing ie all the basic necessities so automated and so cheap that everyone can be guranteed free access to these basic needs. Already certain countries have started experimenting with annual basic income. This does not stop people from excelling or working hard to do better but will help us to stop worrying about going homeless or going broke just because one loses ones job. This is where technology can take us and this is what we dream about. Thank you.

Looks like all the hordes of oldies from slashdot is now coming to HN

I don't like the fact that old data will continue to use the old engine after the upgrade.

Yes she is the only one who swears.

I don't know and I don't care. I don't think she cares about caste etc. But she is pretty aggressive like she will come and shout at your face and undermine you.

Millenials are unknowingly signing up for slavery and throwing away all the hard earned labour rights in the name of being more agile.

They have a volume agreement with the postal services. So for example every month they pay 100$ for shipping 100 items. However if some month they have only shipped 90 items they still have room to include another 10 items no matter what they sale it for. The real story is that they are giving things for free and no one can beat them. How do I know this? Just through some rational thinking.

Yeah? Go to a place like China or India where there is no place to park your car. Nowadays almost everyone in the world have a car so we need place to park. If you don't want to own a car it is your problem. The new generation is losing independence FAST....

All new monitoring systems should be named YAMF-X (Yet Another Monitoring Framework)

Jokes aside.. while the stream processing on events seem powerful there was something similar in graphite but probably not as advanced or easy to use. However the push approach brings its own limitations specially on existing setups.

It is sad situation but it is true for all races and nationalities. Low skilled work will be valued less and less. A structure of extended family is important which modern society has forgotten.

What framework did you use to build? Is there a standard framework that you can use for sass product?

Yeah and also some people like to use the f word liberally in office to prove a point or speak some American slang to sound cool. I don't like it and I send memo to HR on each one of them.

Instead of solving the problem or urban overpopulation, high real estate prices we are a new generation foolishly celebrating these kinds of toys that little by little is chipping away our personalities. The new generation is indeed globally slave labour.

yayyy. .. how can candy crush saga be valued more than an elementary school teacher? Something is very wrong and anyone sensible can see it.

yayyyyy really great counter arguments..how can something like candy crush saga be more valuable than a teacher? SV economy will head down in a couple of years.

Committees .... Bleh

Very US centric. There are thousands of tribes outside USA with rich cultural heritage.

The Indian poor people may be poor but they are not fools. A substandard service will not take off just like Tata Nano car for the poor failed miserably so will this Facebook initiative.

Why does google not open source their self driving car software?

Yeah keep doing your exercises and early morning sex while the thousands of new generation workers slave their ways in their cube less stations for the glory of agile and devops and being different.

126k for Silicon Valley upper class rofl rofl rofl

Staying there for a whole year will kill your soul

Anyway that's gonna happen as you grow up

Why would someone delete a existing index without recreating it first? This is common sense for a DBA but not for our full stack engineers who have to know everything about everything g.

I think it would be good if author explained why we cannot use a reliable NTP server.

With all these container talks people forget Solaris zones which were pretty advanced sort of containers in Solaris. However Sun was honest about not mentioning zones as the solution for everything. The most important problem with containerization is that due to dependence of multiple containers on the same kernel of the host or VM OS , any kind of upgrade specially the security patching is virtually impossible to do without taking full downtime.

Awesome

What use is this?