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I agree, this aspect absolutely sucks. I really feel, the people that have already been here for a long time should be eligible for citizenship to give them stability.

But, for the long term, this country really needs to start preventing "new" immigrants from coming because the US can't house enough people. Enough housing is not allowed to be built, so it doesn't make sense to keep having an expanding population in that type of situation.

I can understand how this might seem unfair to immigrants.

this part is completely wrong: "If they have more workforce they can do more".

The demand for labor is not determined by the supply of labor, it's determined by the demand for those products. When companies higher engineers for example, they don't just go, "hey, we just had two brilliant engineers interview, so instead of highering 1, we'll higher 2." It never works that way. Companies need the amount of labor they need, and not one person more.

The reality is there's a vast oversupply of labor right now in most fields. Wages have been stagnant for a long time. And even in the bay area, average engineering salaries lag behind the local COL.

Furthermore, the US simply won't allow for enough housing to be built. Even with the population we currently have, there's no where near enough housing. this problem is only getting worse. Sure, it's just politics, it's a choice voters have made, but we're stuck with that choice. And, having more immigrants/increasing population makes it worse.

Absolutely. This.

I've worked for about 7 different companies over 15 years and at each of those places I've seen a ton of engineers come and go. Most of the time, the reason they leave is one of three things: got fired, got laid off, or was pushed out. So, if you want your engineers to stick around, you gotta find out why so many of them are being laid off or pushed out and prevent that from happening. That's where you'll get the most bang for your buck.

Engineers don't just leave for no reason. They leave because they're either forced out or there's something that really sucks about the company: most of the time it's the work life balance that really sucks.

So dramatic, and yet not a single example of facebook is doing wrong or what they're talking about.

I for one, will not miss hertz. They charged me 100$ for a baby seat, without even listing the price. Then, when I confronted them about it, they tried to deny responsibility by saying it was the billing vendor's fault even though they're the ones who received the money.

I have a digital alarm clock from about 20 years ago. i think it's JVC. it still works, even though I stepped on it about 5 years ago, once.

Amazingly, it's still on the original battery!!!!

I've been looking at data on movoto.com, looking at their inventory snapshot. For the past few months, you can see Housing inventory (SF) has increased very slightly and when you take into account the seasonality (inventory usually increases a little up until sept), it doesn't look unusual at all. There's NO unusually large increase in inventory. It's just super super low inventory, the same as it has been for the last 5 years, with no major difference in the last 3 months of covid-19.

In absolute terms, it's pretty crazy that there's only 252 houses in inventory, in a city of almost 900,000.

I think it's awesome that HackerNews exists. Sadly, every other platform on the internet seems to criticize and discourage new products (except product hunt).

Over time, he's right in principle. But maybe, there just hasn't been enough time yet for it to play out. if we're seeing price declines, then it's already playing out.

The fallacy is thinking that you need GMOs to address malnutrition and it just isn't so.

There's so many whole grain foods and whole plant foods that have more than enough nutrients. And, I don't just mean a couple. There's dozens even hundreds of super high nutrient dense natural foods out there. heck, even the weeds that grow in your sidewalk are literally packed with extremely high nutrient density: for example: Purslane. Purslane contains well over 200% of your DRI of Iron in just 200 calories. I could list hundreds more, and i've ranked them according to each nutrient here: https://kale.world/c. Just set the bar to Iron and you'll see what i mean. And it's not just Iron, it's pretty much every nutrient you could possibly need.

Even your standard Potatoes are really high in Iron (as long as you don't strip them of their skin which is the first thing everybody does). It's no wonder people end up with iron deficiency when you strip the skin off potatoes and fruits and eat processed rice (which once again strips off all the nutrients).

And for grains, there's so many things to choose from: Teff, Whole wheat, wild rice, oat flour, oats, cornmeal, farro, brown rice. You could literally pick almost any grain that hasn't been processed to death, and you'd find that it's pretty nutrient dense. It's the processing (and unsustainable agriculture practices) which reduces the nutrient density so much. the processing and the adding of sugar and oil which contains no nutrients.

Nature provides us which foods that are naturally high in minerals and vitamins without the constant need for humans to muck with it. I think we should focus less on trying to change things we don't understand and spend more time and effort actually just growing the foods sustainably in the first place.

i think the boeing executives are better equiped to measure future demand. i'm sure they wouldn't be cutting costs unless they knew there would be future decline in demand.

I've been to college and by far, the most valuable thing i got a little piece of paper that says I'm cool: the bachelors degree in computer science, and roughly 10% of what I learned is useful. nothing else mattered, at all.

Anywhere but CA. The COL here is ridiculous.

What I'm about to tell you is of a highly controversial topic, I'll go ahead give you the source first:

Source: 100 and Healthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb--QxUnEv0&t=1338s The speaker is Dr. Oliverira.

Rosane Oliveira, DVM, PhD, is Founding Director of Integrative Medicine at the University of California Davis School of Medicine with over 20 years of experience as a molecular geneticist and has a special interest in nutritional genetics and genomics

This condition is called Essential Tremors, and it is one of the impacts of increased mTOR and IGF-1 levels that so many of us have from eating too much meat. According to Dr. Oliverirea, as an example, in her presentation she showed that eating 1.5 ounces of chicken per day, increases your chances of getting Essential Tremors by x21!! Wow. Eating meat and diary in excess has consequences and there's a lot of research to back that up.

Unfortunately, it maybe to late for your mother. But, this is for all the other mothers and fathers out there.

People look at "modern frameworks" and they're so easily impressed by what it can do. But, it's very short sighted. If you're project expects you to implement a feature that doesn't work in that framework, all the sudden you're going to have a huge productivity disadvantage.

It's better to learn actual web development: HTML/CSS, javascript, jQuery. Learn how to manipulate the DOM and not expect a library to do everything for you. In the long term, it's much more productive.

People are a lot more capable than you think. There's a pretty vast oversupply of talent and not enough jobs to fill them. As a result, you have people who are capable of becoming so much more ending up in menial, low end jobs.

Start selling anything and everything that has any monetary value on platforms like: Craigslist, Ebay, Facebook marketplace, nextDoor, close5 (if they're still around), letgo, etc. I mean, literally, just go through every last item in your house. If you haven't used it in the last 3 months, what's the point of holding on to it?

It's labor intensive, but at when you're done, you'll have a much cleaner house and a little bit of money too. I do this on the weekends.

1850$ for day care is still somewhat high. In TX, you can find daycare for 600$ or so.

The first 10K or so units would be for the homeless. But, after that you can rent them out for some small amount to anyone that needs it.

Just imagine, if you're homeless and it's raining. What would you prefer? live in the streets or live in a small micro apartment? Sure, not everyone wants one, but why not give people more choices? Right now, your only choices are this: 2 million dollar condo or 20$ tent under a bridge. Let's give people more options?

You can add toilets, corridors, walls, common ammenitities and make it nice. Those are less than 30% of the total area. I was just making an example.

I know this will be downvoted because people aren't really interested in solving the real problem.

We could fix the whole SF homeless population problem in the space of one parking lot. Just build micro apartments of 10'x10' feet. Make it 150' wide at the base: 15x15 = 225 x 40 stories = 9000 inhabitants. 100' feet might not be much, but it's a hella of a lot more space to live in than hong kong, where people barely get one bed.

And, with SF's enormous homeless budget of over 300 million, combined almost over 500m? there'd be more then enough funds to build as many of these buildings as we need.

The thing that stops these types of solution is rules, rules and more rules. We choose not to solve the homeless situation: it's a political choice.

If you have a family with kids in daycare at 3000$+ each! and paying 6000$ a month for a crappy 2bd apartment, you'll happily move to the midwest for half the salary. You'd be better off, in terms of standard of living in a midwest town/city at half the SF salary.

Now if you're a single person in SF, that's a different story.

>> "heaps of 20$ bills lying all over the place" This isn't the case from my experience. I've networked with and interviewed dozens of people. It's incredibly difficult to find worthwhile problems that can be automated and aren't already automated. And, even here in the bay area, people tend to react pretty negatively the moment you even mention "repetitive processes". No one likes automation: they associate it with getting fired. So, if you ask people about this, they tend to clam up and stop talking pretty quickly.

And when you get right down to it, and start having the type of deep dive talks need to have with potential customers, you'll quickly discover there's already solutions to almost every conceivable problem out there, even in the some of the most esoteric fields you can imagine.

but how do you find these small businesses that need these types of things?

the types of opportunities that lead to SaaS businesses, are extroadinarily hard to find. I've gone to dozens of dozens of networking events and talked to dozens of people from a variety of industries. I've done informational interviews, etc. It's very difficult to find problems that don't have good enough solutions. Most of the time people are pretty happy to continue dealign with the problem the way they have been.

the fact that organizations don't want software "they need" shows that those industry's companies are not competing against each other. If they were and the software really did make a big difference in their bottom line, then the ones that used the software would be stealing market share from those that don't use it. unfortunately, with a burgeoning govt and ever more companies that have monopolies, there's getting to be less and less competition and efficiency in the world

leaving the BA after 5-7 yrs working is a good plan.

Be careful you don't meet anyone. Because, leaving someplace becomes much harder once you've met someone or you have family in the area. moving 2 jobs/ moving 2 social life's is harder than 1. just keep it in mind

here is my own breakdown ranking cities based on software engineering pay and cost of living: (the data is about 4 months old, as I haven't updated it in a while) https://skilldime.com/blog/see-which-cities-pay-the-highest-...

I did something somewhat similar, except you can break it down by skillsets, city, remote/non-remote, etc: https://skilldime.com/app.php

this part is key: "Research shows that humans tend to do whatever it takes to keep busy, even if the activity feels meaningless to them. Dr Brené Brown from the University of Houston describes being “crazy busy” as a numbing strategy we use to avoid facing the truth of our lives."