a2xd94 · HackerTrans

Hey loyal Mazda fan,

That money you could be making, yeah we don't like you getting it instead of us, so cough it up! Also, while we're at it, cool idea...thanks for the work! Here's nice thankful lawsuit for your hard work. We'll go ahead and privately fork that repo and totally not rip your functionality off and somehow manage to mess it up while overcharging for it! :)

Worst regards, thx for the moneys and screw you,

Mazda

a2xd94

3 年前議論

I'm sure the various autocratic, dystopian states around the world that would love to see functioning democracies be smouldering piles of rubble are hoping that we think this way...because they certainly aren't thinking that way.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Most of the most important innovations in history (especially in the hardware and electronics space) were motivated by increasing defense capabilities, so although its great to pretend that humans can coexist peacefully, that is not the reality...and this also ignores the fact that many of these technologies can have positive impact on the world outside of the defense space, once they mature.

Examples : ARPANET, semiconductors, radar, GPS, etc, etc, etc

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Winnie the Pooh taking a page out of old Joe Stalin's book - make everyone fear you so much that they don't even trust their own family members.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

> "In its complaint, X Corp. argued that AB 587 violates the First Amendment..."

How in the hell can a corporation claim that it has free speech?

While we're at it, maybe we should also find corporations liable for damages done on the communities they serve, with the chief executives being the proxy humans for those damages, including murder (ahem chemical, oil companies)? That would be highly satisfactory.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

I think the last several years have clearly proven that SF's polarized politics are absolutely no good at solving any problems and quite good at creating countless new ones, so it would be ridiculous for the rest of the Bay Area to follow them.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Greater San Francisco would mean that San Franciscans would have to give up their beloved polarized politics in favor of more moderate (for the Bay Area) and functional takes. I don't think this will ever happen - some people take too much pride in calling themselves a San Francisco Progressive to allow real progress for the greater metro area to take place.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Cool data. Now for the real-life implication and meaning of those nice numbers, for the SW industry :

- low unemployment + high employer demand for new positions + high wage growth = hot job market

  - where the market was in 2016-2021

- low unemployment + low employer demand for new positions + low wage growth = lukewarm job market

  - where the market was in 2022

- low unemployment + medium employer demand for new positions + low wage growth = warm job market

  - where the market is currently

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Clearly you've not been in a job search and can compare the software job market in 2016-2021 vs now. The market is not 'hot'. Warm, maybe. Lukewarm, definitely.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Feeling bad for the the folks? That's high-grade levels of naivete. The definition of crocodile tears.

He's been on the board during his whole 'leave from the company' (read : very long vacation) and had pull to make sure this doesn't happen. But he made sure that he did nothing. It's just a convenient narrative to pull now that he's 'back' as CEO (although he never really left the company).

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Or, imagine smart, young Americans trying to make a living in a high cost of living area like the Bay Area, having their life FUBAR'd by a selfish exec. Most likely as they just told their previous employer that they're leaving that company.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

I'm convinced that the main reasoning behind this is that it implicitly keeps employee retention higher than with WFH, where employees are free to learn skills that are beneficial to THEM in their free time, and interview much more easily for new/better roles.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Idea : the executives who paid for this article could instead choose to organically grow profits instead of using the cover-up of 'inflation' to price gouge and put money in their own pockets, instead of blaming the folks who are making the profits for the company.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Agreed, the lack of respect for yet another thing that we all pay into (Community Colleges) is appalling. I remember that in high school, if you said you were going to Community College, you would be looked at as some kind of failure when in reality it was a great way to sober up and ease into adult life after high school, at a tiny fraction of the price of 4-year university...truly shameful that the majority of us willingly ignore one of the solutions to the whole issue with college degrees sometimes being viewed as not being useful, as well as the issue with excessive student loans.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

The thing that gets me is that nearly every single podcast or article that talks about admissions and how fair/unfair they are focuses almost solely on Ivy League schools and leaves out the state and local colleges/universities that actually churn out 99% of college graduates in the US. Maybe we tax payers need to do better about steering the conversation towards those institutions that we fund as opposed to those that function almost solely in a closed legacy-admissions environment (regardless of what pretty/diverse narratives those schools would like to have us 'normies' believe).

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Everything is completely and totally under control, comrades, no need for panic!

These sort of statements by the Russian government truly invoke Chernobyl-like images in my mind ; deception piled upon lies piled upon misinformation with a cherry of whataboutism on top.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

Let's take a moment to appreciate some excellent minimalist UI of this site and especially the slides on this topic.

Simple.

Clean.

To the point.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

I'm still unclear on how that could be accomplished. Its pretty obvious that most companies larger than startups are unwilling to fully embrace remote work and need to make themselves feel good about the money they invest into their leases/real estate and so force their employees into at least 2/3 days in office.

Are you proposing that the government just give money to businesses so long as they keep their workers at home? This would have a pretty big impact on peripheral businesses near office parks (coffee shops, restaurants, etc). SF is the perfect example - the city's tax revenue is down big time from pre-COVID and continuing to worsen, primarily because of the work-from-home trend.

BTW - I'm NOT advocating for return to office, at least not for software engineers.

a2xd94

3 年前議論

How are tax dollars supposed to help prevent the need for commutes? By subsidizing remote work? I truly cannot follow the logic, curious to hear what you mean.

Public transport has been proven time and time again by numerous studies to be one of the best investments of tax money around. Just take a look at the absolute mess of a traffic situation that basically the entire Los Angeles metro area experiences, a direct result of no useful public transport system.

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