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Democrats had filibuster proof senators when Obama was president. They had way more than 50%.

Why did this not happen then?

The president can simply order IRS to give taxpayers itemized list of taxes and income information they have and the taxes for the year.

If the taxpayer agrees, they can just sign and get refund or pay additional taxes.

If taxpayer disagrees, they can submit additional information.

The Democratic president can do this right now, for this tax year.

Democrats have the entire government now, President, senate and the house. Democrats had filibuster proof majority when Obama was president.

Why are you just blaming Republicans?

Google hired these researchers to give them some basic facade of having concerns about AI ethics. They were supposed to write some nonsense papers and just act as shields when questions about AI ethics were raised.

When these people bit Google on the hand, Google got rid of them. Simple story.

Google is a monopoly and needs to be broken up under anti trust rules.

Speaking as a senior software engineer, where I develop software to bring food to my table, Amazon is a monopoly and should be broken up under anti trust rules.

Amazon as a business is about rent seeking and taxing internet commerce and engages in predatory monopoly behavior. They are actively suppressing tech competition and free market activity in e-commerce space.

The Amazon workers union should expand to cover he entire country.

Anyone that thinks this is about free market and Amazon is just a private company doesn’t have a clue. Amazon is quasi government actor now, where they are the only game in some small company towns. Jeff Bezos owns Washington Post and exerts undue influence on many politicians. Amazon has contracts with CIA and military.

As a software engineer, do you want a future where Amazon is the only employer and can undercut the salary to their liking?

Basically, the legacy establishment media is complaining about the new establishment social media.

Same thing as the the obsolete horse and buggy industry complaining about the automobiles taking up all the street space and causing traffic.

The establishment media got big, fat and lazy with their monopoly and selling limited ad space.

When the ads space became infinite in the web, they didn’t innovate and pivot to web technologies.

Google and Facebook innovated web technologies and leveraged their tools to filter and target valuable audience attention space.

The establishment media is obsolete and no amount of complaining is going to change the dynamic of the web. All they can do is talk about their high school glory days of scoring 5 touchdowns in high school championship game.

It’s easy to be armchair sql injection expert and point fingers.

I can guarantee that any system that you’ve worked on has numerous OWASP security bugs. You’ve probably looked at the bugs countless times and never noticed it.

Every software engineer of all levels has overlooked obvious sql injection bugs in their code base. Most likely you’ve added to the bug list.

Software bugs are simple part of any development effort. All major companies, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. has very simple bugs like this in their systems.

That’s why they pay out bug bounties, it’s cheaper for them to add the bug and have some random security researcher find the bugs for them.

Go ahead and try to implement a fix to sql injection bug in any of your systems. I can guarantee there’s a sql injection issue somewhere.

The reason it’s so prevalent is because it’s not a rookie issue and very difficult to fix properly, without impacting significant changes.

That’s why OWASP has it as huge part of security analysis and resolution.

Look up gell-mann amnesia effect. The article doesn’t know much about OWASP practices.

SQL injection bugs are not rookie mistakes, it’s prevalent in many current and future applications. Look into Vtech sql injection hack, a large company with lots of resources had similar bug.

Look at previous hacks, solar winds hack, Sony hack, were all preventable common hacks.

Olympics added beach volleyball because they needed ratings and advertisers.

Curling was added because it’s ok winter sport that draw enough viewers and advertisers.

Science is about describing reality. You may be describing scientism, or some other psuedo scientific charade, which conflates actual science with hand waving mumbo jumbo, like people try to conflate astro physics with astrology.

Gold has always existed, as far as we know. People have known about gold and it’s properties, long before classic science described gold. There’s no model or testing hypothesis for gold needed. Gold exists because people use them regularly.

Science just described gold and other elements, because they exist in reality.

Engineers and people didnt need science to describe gold to use gold. Science is convenient way to describe reality for what it is.

Typescript is more popular now because projects are migrating more and more business logic layer to front end. Thus the need for type safety and static analysis.

I’m agnostic about Typescript. Bare JavaScript is very efficient and optimized language, well suited for smaller projects.

However, when project scope balloons up, then Typescript becomes more useful. It’s way of enforcing descriptive comments a code, than trying to be a type safe language.

Which people are using it inappropriately and corrupting it?

Why are they doing it? Why are they using silly phrases like, trust the science? Which is basically the same thing religious people do, when they say have faith.

Also, science, the classical definition, has no meaning on its own. It’s simply way to describe reality. It’s usually up to engineers and people to put into practice.

The science may describe gravity, although they still can’t answer why the gravitational constant is a constant.

But, engineers and people can test effects of gravity everyday, and act accordingly.

Science is politicized by the establishment elites to further their narratives. It doesn’t matter what the science says or is even true or not.

Science is just euphemism to hide their agenda and further their goals.

It’s mostly normal people freely associating with other normal people, without fascist establishment elite government control, like Twitter, Facebook, elite media, and most other social media.

Did you ever wonder why you are calling others far right or far left? Why are you referring to other American citizens with those terms? Who is pushing those terms that divide the vast majority of normal Americans? Who stands to gain?

The fascist establishment elite are getting richer by the second, while the lower classes are calling each other insulting names and fighting amongst themselves.

There’s an old movie called They Live. When you watch it now, you can call it time shifted documentary.

It’s your company and you’ll learn the same lessons every other companies have learned in the past.

People are usually passionate about fun, interesting things. People are not passionate about boring, tedious things. Customers pay big bucks to have people do the boring, tedious things correctly.

Who is going to sanitize inputs to prevent basic sql injection hacks? Who is going to write basic unit tests to get at least 50% code coverage? Who is going to code review for basic functionality and quality standards?

Most companies ignore all the tech debt, and hope they exit before the debt comes due. Most companies fail.

Good luck.

Many people mistake passion for other qualities, perseverance, determination, drive, etc.

Successful people do things because they need to get it done to move forward. It’s part of process and must be accomplished.

Fleeting emotions like passion doesn’t lead to success.

Determination, drive, perseverance, and any process that make one work towards achievement usually leads to success.

As senior engineer, I always advise people to avoid companies that put any emphasis on intangible things like passion as hiring criteria.

It’s highly subjective and leads to in group thinking and monoculture dependencies. Passion is usually fleeting.

My advice is to demonstrate perseverance. Show the drive for professional solutions, analytics on metrics to discern what works and doesn’t work.

Engineers like Ben are unicorns, one out of Billions of people.

For most engineers, competition are non existent. Just simply keeping up with tech stack and delivering solutions is enough to place in top 1% of engineers.

Yes, 1x engineers are just as valuable and rare as 10x or 100x engineers. Because vast majority of engineers, including engineers in FAANG companies, are negative producers.

Simply being in it for paycheck and being 1x engineers will have long lucrative career.

Passion doesn’t pay out for most people. Companies pay you to come in and do things everyone else didn’t want to do or couldn’t do.

How much salary would you give up for passion?

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-07-20

There are lots of amazing, passionate YouTube, tik tok performers. Only very few make any money.

Look at current society. Who wants to spend decades studying STEM and working for average salary these days?

Tik Tok stars and Twitch bros and ethots are making multi million dollars playing games.

This country can’t build a functioning high speed rail system, that other countries built 30 years ago. How can we build an airplane now?

Public school teachers and teachers unions are opposed to opening schools. They never cared about kids and education.

US is at bread and circuses stage of decline. Time to accept reality and deal with it appropriately.

The US public school system is money graft operation to pump money to teachers unions and education industry.

It’s not about kids and education anymore. Just look at how all teachers unions and most teachers are opposed to opening schools. They know the joke in the system and just want to ride out the COVID plan forever.

Teaching kids about anything, especially difficult STEM subjects, are very difficult and requires excellent teachers. The teachers unions don’t care about that, they just run the kids through the system. That’s why good education is lacking in US.

This is simple conspiracy theory run amok about Russian fear mongering. There’s no proof about anything stated in the article, just some guy spreading rumors around.

China communist party has actual people spying on all levels of government, business, tech, academia, etc on a large scale. Documented cases of China communist spies caught red handed. Those are just outright criminal spying on US.

There are also mass disinformation and propaganda campaign run by China communist party state run media and tech companies. They run bot operations in all US social media. They run pro China communist party opeds in Establishment media.

Where are the non stop outrage about uighars, Hong Kong, Tibet, Tiananmen Square, Chinese slaves making Apple iPhones, China colonizing Africa? The active suppression campaign is on full force to suppress discussion of any negative stories on China behavior.

There are companies that need senior level software engineers to lead in updating legacy enterprise applications to latest tech stack. Development and integration into existing systems are extremely difficult and time consuming. These companies have attempted several updates and most have failed over the years.

These are mission critical systems that process and generates millions and billions in revenue. They have already spent millions of dollars and years of effort in failed attempts.

These are the companies that will pay to get their systems back on the roadmap schedule. There are big names and small names.

Simply ask for the highest rate within reason.

$200 per hour is about $400K per year, which is around senior engineer total comp rates, https://www.levels.fyi/.

You have to ask for the rate and demonstrate that you can deliver solutions and deliver solutions.

Two parties are both controlled by the same establishment elite cabal. They also control Big Business, Big Labor, Big Media, Big Tech, etc. It’s all in the open and there’s no question about it anymore.

My current hourly rate breaks down like this. I make adjustments every 6 months.

15 years professional experience + 5 years experience in latest specialized tech stack + 1 hour = $200 dollars/hour for contracts longer than 6 months. Hourly rate is higher for shorter term contracts.

My rate is more cost effective than not delivering the solution.

Humans can already create intelligence. Called human babies.

Human babies are already nurtured, educated and developed into intelligent beings.

AI is like alchemy, trying to create something of value from nothing. People pontificating about AI is like medieval monks pontificating about how many angels can fit on pin head.

What is AI? What are boundary conditions of AI? Calling faster computers AI doesn’t make it sound more interesting.

The “pretends” comment is light hearted joke (or is it?) about keeping Redux UI library agnostic. When we all know React is the 8000 pound gorilla pulling on Redux.

The default assumption for any production React application is that it will need Redux at some point. It’s much more efficient to start the React project with Redux, than trying to bolt on Redux after React project is underway after a while. Redux Toolkit does make things bit easier.

It’s like how React pretends that JSX is optional, when we all know JSX is requirement in React projects.

Thanks for all the work on Redux and Redux Toolkit.

Have you tried redux toolkit? createSlices?

Redux has greatly improved workflow for integrating with React. The main issue with Redux is that it pretends to be generalized state management engine, with all the overhead, while it’s in a shotgun wedding with React.

Will React team attempts another state management, aka Flux, when Redux does 95% of features and is slowly being absorbed into React eco system anyway?

Gatsby/nextjs will likely merge into a single React static site generator. Similar to React router and Reach router merger.

React is like jquery, it’s going to be around forever. React is almost at the core web infrastructure tech level, just by consensus alone.