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The data the author presents spells out that aircraft are still twice as loud as passenger cars at their quietest. The majority of traffic through smaller municipal airports is very loud propeller aircraft. I don't believe it makes anyone a nimby to not want a freaking airport nearby. I don't think anyone should have to live with such disturbances without voting and ample regulations. It should be incredibly difficult to get airports built. The commerce benefits to the town/city come at the direct expense of health and quality living of residents. The article fixates on noise pollution, but what about exposure to cancerous chemicals? Actual pollution from emissions? Traffic consequences?

It's not just some affluent boomer's view or lawn getting impacted. Personally, I never want to live in vicinity of an airport ever again in my life.

I use ff/ublock and the chase site works fine for me.

I hate Id.me. I had an interview with them and their hr reps conducting were the most egregious power tripping fools I've met in my career. In their hubris they demanded several hours of psychology testing for a basic, mid level tech role, paying right below market average. They harrased me for two weeks after I had the audacity to tell them "no thank you, I'm not wasting my time."

Ramps are a needed accomdation for medical necessity. To my knowledge, a phone likely exacerbates the social reclusiveness. I think it's a bad analogy.

I will provide you a brief glimpse into the future. The FCC investigates and opens up the issue to comments. Despite pleas from an overwhelming majority of the population, those comments are ignored or deleted and the FCC resolves the issue as "reviewed." At the very most they hold a closed door vote where 2 of 3 or 3 of 5 of the panel side with the telecoms where they have cushy jobs lined up.

The FCC doesn't just tolerate these cable Crooks, they enable their existance.

Am I reading incorrectly, or the author legitimately believes that low inventory and selling to milenials is going to stop all out recession? High interest rates are going to keep inventory so low that newer generations that should be buying homes and starting new families won't be able to afford it. Homes will only come into the market once there current occupants pass or move and there has been unprecedented amount of holds/hold to rents in this cycle (since the previous recession).

I'm curious too about how Bofa analysts or speculators would evaluate current home building or if there is some primer recently up to date.

I'm in agreement here, I think the poster has an idea of the issue with profits, but typically anything the government can do, we can do infinitely better private.

You may be interested in the addendum the author posted.

https://soatok.blog/2023/10/02/return-to-office-is-bullshit-...

""" Addendum

After I posted this, it made the front page of Hacker News and was subsequently posted in quite a few places. After reading some of the comments, I realize a few subtleties in my word choice didn’t come across, so I’d like to clarify them.

When I say “RTO is bullshit”, I don’t mean “office work is bullshit” or anything negative about people that prefer in-person office work. I mean “the forced relocation implementation of transitioning a whole company to never-remote (a.k.a. RTO) is bullshit”.

If working in an office is better for you, rock on. I don’t have any issue with that. The bullshit is the actions taken by company’s leadership teams in absence of (or often in spite of) hard data on remote work versus in-person work. The bullshit is changing remote worker’s employment agreements without their consent and threatening “voluntary resignation” as the only alternative (even though that’s pretty obviously constructive dismissal).

When I discussed ultimatums above, I’m specifically referring to actual ultimatums, not colloquial understandings of the word. If you can talk with the person and negotiate with them, it’s not a goddamn ultimatum. What I was faced with was an actual ultimatum: Comply or suffer. I chose freedom.

Hope that helps. """

I still agree completely post-addendum. I'm not sure if you've been faced with RTO/RTT, but I have, even though I had exclusively negotiated with my employer for full remote. They've done nothing but coerce compliance to their new RTT/RTO mandates and it's absolutely dehumanizing. The corporate overlords demand full and total capitulation or else you are fired. It doesn't matter I negotiated specifically to be full remote prior, have RSUs vesting part of my compensation, or that I pivoted my entire life and career to be here! In essence, 'capitulation' is the perfect word to use for this nonsensical regression of workplace flexibility because people are being coerced. So what, you had a successful in-office experience prior to covid, its irrelevant here in all honesty. This greater discussion at hand has little to do with workers indifferent to or in favor of returning to office workspaces.

I did not infer any contempt from the author towards everyday people who are forced to capitulate. The author empathized with the hardest hit victims in this target: h1b workers. Those who cannot simply 'play chicken' without risking deportation. There was no contempt or hate in these words or I feel like the sentiment would have been 'they are getting what they deserve... '

I agree completely with this author about the dehumanizing nature of these rto mandates. They completely forbid and outlaw natural human development/growth without risk to your career. Did anything in your life change? Well, I guess you need to start looking for a new career even though you've demonstrated over x years that you can accomplish your work remote.

It's so obvious the majority of these mandates are for dehumanizing purposes to force people to quit, gain tax incentives, impress power upon subordinates, or benefit commercial real estate holders. Hate and contempt towards the selfish leaders here is totally warranted. Disdain towards fickle middle managers lacking backbone would also be understandable in my opinion.

Many Americans have no desire to live in a 6 story hell scapes. The idea is revolting to me personally. IMO Housing issues in America at this time are directly tied to the dominance of the fix and flip industry, corporations holding SFR and Mfr properties, high interest rates, and job inflexibility.

Tax incentives help, but where Americans need federal assistance is in paid time off, college tuition assistance (self and children) , and retirement. I'm not talking about social security when I say retirement. What I mean is there needs to be incentives for companies to do better than just 401ks. Public sectors are still enjoying pensions, perhaps a tax incentive would help, but I do not necessarily have a solution there. Only a very subjective view of the problems from my perspective.

Yes, thank you, it was bothering me I could not remember the label for this. The 'update' and responses all felt like a planned and intentional campaign with the disaster/consequences being completely miscalculated by Unity.

I dont think the Government can do much (that it will do well), but I think it needs to:

1) Curtail companies and LLCs from acquiring Single Family Residences (SFR). 2) Dramatically step up incentives for builders to increase quality control and build quality while increasing punishment severely for fraudsters.

In my opinion flipping, rentals, and "fixer uppers" have gotten out of control. I see the only way of curtailing this as penalizing those types of lenders in interest rates or taxes to push them out of the market. For those unaware, flippers seek out private money lenders aka hard money lenders and pursue crazy high interest rates that balloon after 3, 6, 9, or 12 months. The idea is by taking on loans while they flip properties they can take on risk/liability, but spread their assets out and purchase/flip more properties. It happens for almost all property types, but typically is done for SFR/MFR because commercial has a lot more risk since property prices are much higher. The quality of repairs and renovations these flippers typically perform is well known to be absolute god awful. Flippers make short term investment choices on home improvements needing long term solutions.

To my second point, I've heard of so much fraud from home builders it baffles me they aren't in prison. Full neighborhood developments where builder's sold 30 year roofing, but built roofs with materials known to fail in 10-15, and the building company dissolves into the wind leaving homeowners with little to no recourse other than some couple hundred dollar settlement check whenever some class action suit eventually settles. There are plenty more examples of things like this, but my point is I think the only win to have is promote tax incentives for builders to build using quality processes and pass inspections, but I will admit I'm chasing a solution and am ill equipped to be presenting a solution. I am more focused on calling out the problem.

Needs one more step to transition from meme to reality:

- Open LLC - Take out huge, collateralized SBA loan - ??? - Profit? - ???

The first ??? represents all the steps and actions. The second ??? represents all the consequences.

With quotes it feels like we are living in the 2nd dark age.

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Wait until they see they are still being tracked, only the opted_out column in their profile data shows "true" instead of false.

ISPs collude and have deals on which of them are zoned where. It's not a conspiracy, it's just reality. Go to any area in the US and whoever the major isp is, only has dysfunctional att or a crappy satalite provider as their "competition." if Cox, Comcast, and spectrum (pick three big names) had to compete in every area the consumers would have a lot more options. Yes, you can't force business to sercice areas, but I think the collusion of these companies is what should be regulated. We all know it's happening and when they do, if the regulators treated them as a single entity, we'd have the antitrust violations and breakups consumers are so desperate for.

When Fiber disruptors like frontier, Google, or local metropolitans enter the picture: suddenly the ISPs have a lucrative deals because they finally have to freaking compete. Suddenly the data caps are non issue and consumers can get blazing fast speeds with no infrastructure changes because they are holding out.

Regulators need to prevent this in the USA, but have been captured by the isp lobbies. Cable crooks is what I call them, because that's all ISPs are now, crooks. They'll have techs steal or break your equipment. They'll hide evidence when damage was caused by their techs. They'll lie when outages occur due to their own infrastructure failures despite sending out contractors to repair. They'll say whatever they need to, no matter how fraudulent, to tack fees and monthly charges to your account. They've weaseled their way out of being classified as utilities despite that being exactly what they are.

I loathe the ISPs in USA. Of course they will push bills like this. I see no end to the hell of having them the as tollmen of the internet.

Perhaps, I think there are a couple of things contributing to the declines represented since mid 2022. I believe them to be economic conditions. My outlook is quite the opposite as I think data roles will continue to grow in demand over time for the next 3 years.

The overall economy is not doing well right now, at least in the USA. There is significant amount of extra talent (supply) on the market due to big tech hiring freezes and layoffs, which also contributes to lower demand of new roles. There is the return to office debacles occurring all the while housing is becoming even more unaffordable due to high interest rates (compared to the recent 2 to 3% during covid) and low supply a consequence of the rates where owners aren't going to want to trade a 2 to 4% for 7+ nearly 8% right now. I don't cite rto debacles to have a debate on the specifics of if rto is good/bad, but I would speculate that it's pushing more talent onto the job market to escape working environments forcing any style (rto or forced remote) that an employee disagrees with.

So, in my mind the only thing my speculation doesn't really cover is how that would contribute to lower HN responses to which I don't have an answer, maybe it truly is shrinking. However, my gut says it's the economic factors. I think (and hope) that the shift in conditions occurs in the next 6 months and hiring ramps back up as companies recover and adapt.

This seems like a troll post, but I will bite in the spirit of hn and consider it very serious. The brain drain idea is a fallacy. These aren't doctors who will flee to private practices away from Medicare spot where they can earn more money. These are elected public representatives of the people. More power translates to more corruption and tyranny, and I'd be 100% opposed. Our government would be approaching near complete erosion of trust and values if we further empowered these people to become elected privateers. That may be silly to say given how low trust and value are at the present time, but this notion of empowering them to earn more money feels like it would be a defining catalyst moment in future history books to where it all went wrong for the American Republic.

The entire UFO congress interaction has seemed like a large distraction away from items like the fed raising interest rates again with the reasoning still to tackle inflation. I don't say this to trigger a debate on politics or flamebait , this seems like peak "hey look over here" material.

I wish we had events unfolding to hurl us into a new age of space progress, but the "non human biological" stuff was definitely actual dog shit or someone's lunch.

I hate the framing of this. It's so click bait and sensational. Remote work isn't wiping it out. Decreased demand for office space, with a ton of supply on market, and owners wanting to make antiquated leasing agreements are ignoring the market/reality. They are refusing to adapt to modern needs are seeing easily anticipatable economic outcomes as the consequence. It's not simply "remote did this" when the problem is greedy investors can't cope and refactor. Their target market's core consumer (employees of their renters) have unequivocally made it clear they do not want to go into offices or be bound to failing cities just to please a company that will lay them off or not take care of them (use any of the dozens of reasons employees don't want to rto or be forcibly relocated anywhere). I don't feel a shred of pity for impacted businesses or investors if these offices just as I wouldn't feel sorry for an investment group pouring millions into horse infrastructure in the early days of the automobile.

B, it's my labor and my choice. I don't need an arbitrary mandate to sit in traffic and inconvenience my life to code and attend virtual calls. It frustrates me sitting in traffic, forces unpaid work time on me, and takes me away from my family. I'm more productive in my own comfort zone. If I need help, I've always been able to resolve issues and be coached remotely.

The only ground I'm willing to give on the topic is that it's not for everyone. As mentioned, it's a choice. If I mandate my employees to one way, I'm equally wrong. However, I wouldn't hire a single individual who couldn't be coached remotely or learn remote and that's because I'm not going to bring someone into a situation they can't win.

Monetization and a stubborn refusal for fun. Leadership their opted for "health" and engagement (even if negative) over exciting gameplay and quality of life improvements. Some of the best features of the game were bugs or unintended.

Is there some special features that make Reddit a must for small/niche community building? Or is Reddit's value purely that it has the most users?

I'm failing to see why Alien Blue, RiF, other 3rd parties cannot create a replacement platform. I'm sure there may be some context why (feel free to inform me).

The types of errors seem like they could be more critical, and maybe anecdote for myself, but I've noticed that I've parsed through some incredibly dubious fabricated answers that I missed on my first glance. LLM fan too, but I wouldn't want this going anywhere near Healthcare (even if just scribing) anytime soon.

I concur, the factoid appears to be built upon self linking to other equally reliable articles published by Fortune and then citing they purchased the data, or possibly only insight, from a 3rd party data company. Without demonstrating methodology, equations, and sourcing in my opinion it's meaningless. The boilerplate for all of the articles, the 'this in an opinion piece' disclaimer at the end also inspires no confidence.

This seems like an article created to take advantage of the psychology behind the "we eat x amount of spiders in our sleep" sentiment. Even completely untrue, with no backing, getting the statement out subscribes people to believe it. I have to question why? Are the designs here to minimize H1B suffering from the layoffs? To get people to think, 'oh they are fine, 90% got a job quickly!'?

It just doesn't sit well with me.

Can't agree more. I hate YouTube shorts, hate YouTube monetization despite the constant praise it gets on HN, hate the search results when looking for videos, hate I can't see dislikes, hate that I constantly am suggested videos I've already watched and content I've already flagged I don't want to see, especially content flagged annoying. Maybe an a/b test, but it was bonkers to have a survey prompt "Why is this not interesting?", I flagged "this is annoying" and sure enough that very popular creator was suggested again later.

YouTube is so bloated and Vanced made it tolerable, so of course they killed it.

How leadership has handled rto is more what makes it the peak example. The bureaucracy, the company's stagnation, the crippling slow response to a modern market and digging their head into the sand. Rto is the peak example because it has exposed how when it matters the executives (L10+) abandon LPs, refuse factual discussion, and are choosing paths that aren't good for customers or employees. It's exposed all of their current efforts for employee connection is a farce and pointless. It contradicts Amazon's core company culture that employees are "leaders" and shows how delusional these people are as they have started calling employees who don't want to rto "selfish."

It's a multitude of things. The LPs are the start of it, but the data oriented culture has been ignored by rto mandate and the head of HR's apathetic response to the remote advocates. Amazon is a very heavy document writing company and more often than not if you had to write a doc you faced someone saying "so what?" and then that person or their/your leaders requiring proving points and writing narratives leveraging facts through data to challenge biases. Amazon's leadership pissed the workers (formerly "leaders") off by instead explaining all mandates and changes are based upon their feelings and beliefs. There is no data (at least any they care to share) and it's heavily speculated to be a 4th wave of layoffs due to the only data publicly available was aws employee surveying demonstrating 80+% of workers wanted remote as a choice.

The other thing often referenced is something of a company culture thing known as "day 1." The tldr there is bezos coined the term day 1 culture to pretend Amazon was always imitating being at launch day status (day 1) and that day 2 is ruin. MThe rto mandate is a cookie cutter example of "day 2 behavior" listed by bezos and his high level leaders.

Finally, there is the hypocrisy. Executives have tons of exemptions, reasons to bend the mandates for themselves, and the power to choose how and where they work, or influence policies involved. Meanwhile, workers have faced a brick wall when it's come to things even medical accommodations for remote. Workers have posted demands from HR forcing employees to at length detail private and embarrassing medical conditions only to auto-decline accommodations after. Workers have no ability to transfer locations that would benefit both the and the company due to red tape from the RTO edicts. Some workers, having been hired full remote, or to a location not where their direct manager resides are being mandated to move across the country due to no exemption stance taken by Amazon leadership.

Government funded news wants you to know that our political elite have tired of the Proles not funding their lavish failing city policies. You are to promptly return to office servitude where more taxes can be levied upon you for your frivolous and dangerous driving. What, you do not desire tremendous inconvenience? How selfish you are. All of these under served small business who do fuck all for you will suffer! Think of the chi- economy! Think of the economy!

Big tech workers displaced by corporate ducheys find employment with their local barony.

Tldr; you didn't miss anything