Money presumably. The fact that it's comically expensive in per mile costs, in some cases nearly $1 billion/mile[1] in LA, in addition to maintenance costs would just nuke the ideas.
Agreed. I don't know what they did but having to consistently re-categorize rent payments from whatever nonsense they were auto-categorized as killed it. Automation is great when it doesn't get things comically wrong.
Thankfully things can be factually accurate and still misleading. Kids mow lawns for a trivial cost when compared to professional landscapers. As such rampant child labor is undercutting and driving down wages for working professionals.
This isn't just unpopular, it's ignorantly wrong. I've done blue collar work and CS work. Also the whole romanticizing of busting one's ass pisses me off to no end.
> IMO blue collar work is a better option because it's easier work and more stable, and lets you have a life outside work. In software the hours are increasing to no real benefit, and free time is burnt just keeping with the times.
This is all but objectively false for journeyman level. As the new guy on site you better believe you aren't taking it easy. Hauling shingles, hauling siding, digging ditches, doing whatever the older guys don't/physically can't do anymore. Wanna know why they can't do it anymore? Because that's what they spent their 20s doing.
Sure when you get home you're not thinking about your trade, most of the time, but it's not like you're free and clear. You didn't just spend 8 hours sitting in a chair thinking about problems. You just spent 8 hours on your feet doing work. Now after work you're covered in dirty/sweat/paint/etc. Gotta clean up before you can relax. Granted you don't have to study the new JS framework in vogue, but then again neither do I. Though on the flip side my job doesn't leave me worn out physically and unable to enjoy free time.
>The evolution of tools, best practices and high availability of quality knowledge has made it trivial to spin up new hires which makes everyone highly expendable; not to mention that there are now millions of unwashed masses happy to accept lower wages just for their chance.
I... what? Are you suggesting knowledge work is somehow easier to teach to people than a trade? That the tens of thousands of home-repair, car repair, plumbing, siding, painting, etc, etc videos for blue collar work don't exist? That somehow these are inaccessible to the aforementioned 'unwashed masses'?
> There was a HN post a while back where some guy was begging to pay for a code job. What does that tell you?
That there was an outlier?
> Software workers are also now pitted against a global market with outsourcing and programs like H-1B which has raised the bar by increasing the pool of highly educated candidates and people who commit resume fraud.
This is literally the "they're taking our jobs" line with different vocabulary. And based on what OP says about their credentials most blue collar work wouldn't take them due to over qualification.
> They're likely also more willing to work long hours for less pay just to be in the US. Software wages have also stagnated for ten years.
Whee dog whistles. I hate everything about this post.
I may be off base here but this sounds an awful lot like perfect being the enemy of the good. Or, framed another way, idealism being the enemy of the pragmatic.
Waxing poetic about everyday tragedy is all well and good as a rhetorical device. However, it doesn't really do anything except to sow the seeds of division now does it? Especially when you cap the whole bit with the idea that it is thought that is wrong and not action.
And your proposed solution to this is effectively a paradigm shift in the perception of human value?
Given the kind of burn rate those people have at government agencies I would guess that they have some form of partnership with aforementioned agencies. I glanced through their FAQ and site but didn't see anything specifying that however.
Other than that I have no idea how you would even be able to have the images to classify in the first place without running into problems.
> To the point where the IRS had to define specific exceptions for family chores lest they be deemed as barter and requiring the payment of payroll taxes.
Hold on a minute here, can you point me to where this is actually codified? I found "Publication 926 (2019), Household Employer's Tax Guide" but that doesn't seem to be quite right. Or I just didn't read enough of that rather lengthy document.
> my 1st amendment right to post here should override the interest of the State in establishing minimum wage requirements
I'm not sure I've ever run into a situation where constitutional law was used to continue doing a thing for free. Genuinely interesting POV there.
Considering the sheer volume of mobile devices in asia, and China in particular, this wouldn't surprise me. However, I was under the impression that "5g" doesn't actually mean anything. As in there is no technical definition or standard that Huawei could be ahead of. Are we just talking about general mobile technologies or have things changed wrt 5G?
>You are naive. Did you work at world class companies that dominate their own market?
Seeing as I'm currently sitting in my office at Adobe I would say yes. There are plenty of code jockeys like you churning out low-quality Java/Python/PHP/C/C#/JS/whatever. You, despite what you may think, are not special.
> Not your typical half-baked developer quickly churning low-quality code in JS that breaks down after 5 seconds of load you get headaches from as a QA.
Cute. I get headaches from the guys who think they're great. From the ones who think that not documenting what they do is time wasted because clearly what this does is obvious. I get headaches from the people who have NO IDEA how their code actually performs and if there's any kind of slowdown well just throw more money at the hardware.
I can practically hear you and the others like you cry out, "But it works on my machine!" Oh the headaches that has caused.
People like you are the reason people like me are QA/SETs. Your velocity, in my view, is some slapdash worked-15-hour-days-because-they-thought-they-could nonsense that is more likely to crumble under load and/or the first edge case that pops to mind. The only one capping their capabilities here is you mate.
I currently live in Utah which, for those who don't know, is predominately of Mormon faith. While those rates aren't published for some pretty clear reasons the overwhelming majority of individuals I've spoken to within the industry tithe at or above 10%. Granted this is the tech industry so middle class and above is common but it is pretty much a requirement to be an active member of the church.
Because a 10% tithe is definitely something the shrinking middle class and the hopeless lower class can afford.
But putting that aside this sentiment of "look how bad things seem for people, religion can help" reeks of predatory behavior. If none turn towards whatever god you preach in times of plenty then what is left? To strike in a moment of weakness? To shift blame from whatever problems could be solved to instead attribute success and failure to the nebulous concept of faith? It's disgusting.
>That person's duty is to his family, and children (if he has any). His duty to society is to raise children with values that are compatible with the society
You can make a Faraday cage out of a lot of stuff but I doubt you could get much in the way of power out of it. Granted you can't get much out of this either but it's measurable.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but wouldn't tech like this also sap signal strength like nothing else?
This seems like it would be a potentially nice to have first layer in a secured room/building. Recoup some energy then actually go about blocking unwanted signal leakage.
From a wild speculation side: if a tour bus of the elderly with pacemakers powered by this goes by are they just a traveling dead zone?
[1]https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-ex...