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Depends which index. S&P isn't giving them anything special. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-fac...

Using types that encode the units, as suggested in OP, is strictly better.

> anything you buy for $5 in a supermarket is neither rare nor luxurious

When it's sitting next to a $0.89 box of Kraft macaroni, the $5.00 box definitely feels like a luxury.

> Thank you for continuing to adhere to Twitter policies that prohibit you from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.

Ha.

> Twitter said in the email that its offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended in order "to help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data."

Is this normal during mass layoffs?

> Also, are the wells well curved/deep

The keyboard is flat, but the caps are sculpted

For me, the most important thing by far is to not have to extend my pinkies to another column. A good thumb cluster and mod-tap implementation dwarf any of what you listed for my needs.

If the link in this comment is accurate, part of it could be that Americans eat terrible food. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33297849

> Can enter any building? Can I make a hole in the ground? Can I cut trees? Can I kiss NPCs? Can I demolish any building?

I'd really prefer for the developer to focus on the gameplay and plot rather than make a perfect simulation of earth. What you describe sounds like a cool sandbox, like Flight Simulator, but isn't appropriate for most games.

> Why use the same language as drunken sailors and criminals?

Aside from hate speech, I honestly don't care what kind of language my kid uses. But I'd be pretty disappointed if they reduced groups of people into negative stereotypes like this.

> never use profanity (even saying 'crap' was very infrequent)

Why does this matter?

When you have 100k+ employees, there's obviously going to be somebody complaining about every decision.

Most people don't know what those words mean, and they shouldn't have to as a prerequisite for using a browser.

> Don't know if it can be used as a proper Docker replacement

The readme says "I can make no guarantees that it won't trash your system", so yeah clearly not intended for real use.

Yeah for sure try stuff out. But if it turns out to be hard, be willing to stop without feeling bad about it.

Absolutely this. You need to make sure they're clean, fed, safe (physically and emotionally), and are able to play (learn). Beyond that, choosing to parent on hard mode just gives you more stress for no benefit.

> There are always tasks that can be done without having to think too much about it

As you tack more of these on to the end of the day, you get less rest, and tomorrow's window of opportunity for doing difficult work shortens.

Great, so replace all the ICE parking lanes with electric bus rapid transit lanes. It will do much more for climate change than car chargers.

Edit: Should have mentioned the climate change is one of the biggest components of the cost of free parking. Without all the government-mandated parking spaces for the past 60 years, there would be far fewer cars today. It's not too late to reverse that.

> Put the chargers where the cars are parking.

That would really be doubling down on the high cost of free parking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking

> few drive more than ~25 miles/day

I hope a lot of these people (assuming they're not willing to go car-free, which would be ideal) will switch to low-speed electric vehicles. They're much cheaper than standard cars, take up less space, and are far less dangerous to other road users. This one from Polaris is $15k, and there are off brands for much less. https://gem.polaris.com/en-us/e4/

You can get a brand new perfectly functional smartphone for under $200. If electric cars drop to even $30k they're still way out of reach for most people, and we'll be waiting a long time from them to hit the used car market.

> Chargers at work. At the grocery store. At your doctors appointment.

This doesn't work in cities. None of those places have parking lots.

And don't say "chargers on all the curbs" because we can't afford to further entrench car supremacy and make it harder to reallocate space to bus lanes and pedestrians.

> If we're only concerned with fairness in compensation, cost of living must be a factor.

No. The most fair thing a for-profit company can do is pay people proportional to how much value they add to the company. If it's a lot of value you can choose to live in an expensive city. If not, you have to live somewhere cheaper.

> if they can find a replacement at a lower cost, they will

If that was easy for them, they wouldn't have SF-based employees in that role.

> Your pay is based on the cost to hire your replacement.

That's not necessarily true. Many fully remote companies hire from anywhere and pay location-adjusted wages. So it's a roll of the dice whether the replacement makes more or less than you.

> You can't expect an employer to pay way above the local market rate for a position.

This would certainly be true for a business where all the employees and clients are local, but doesn't have to true for a global company with fully remote jobs. If I'm providing as much value as an SF-based employee and demand a raise to 80% of SF pay, the company would be foolish to let me leave.

You should be able to make a decent income and be treated fairly without having to take the risk and stress of business ownership.

> Is there some role at a FAANG where generalists would thrive?

In my personal experience everything except infrastructure and mobile UI favors generalists. The people I worked with were constantly jumping around between backends, protocols, business logic, web UI, test suites, architecture, data analysis, small-scale UI design. This was on public-facing products. I'd expect internal tool teams have even greater need for generalists.

I don't know about doing it on your own, but you could certainly join a consulting firm and do that role alongside a team of more junior people.

Have you tried asking for more? If you're actually good at everything you say, you could be making the same amount of cash plus benefits at a FANG, so I'd expect the contracting rate to be much higher.