Kalium

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by Kalium 6y ago
Honestly, that would be amazing . It would enable a golden age of technological development. I think it's just a bit more far-fetched a near-term future than a single economic sector leaving a particular area, and not really directly
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by Kalium 6y ago
I can see I have been unclear. Detroit's problem was that automotive production was and is a single sector. This is not true of "tech", as shown by a random sampling of companies being in wildly different economic sectors. I
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by Kalium 6y ago
Sometimes medical devices and similar come with a computer as part of a whole certified system. The regulatory framework does not tell you which computer you can buy, precisely, but it does tell you what certifications your system must have
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think your first scenario is a good illustration of undervaluing IT, with attendant eventual disaster. Perhaps your second is IT being over valued? You've described a situation where technologies are being deployed inappropriately b
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by Kalium 6y ago
This has all the hallmarks of an organization that views IT as a cost center rather than an enabler. Such an organization will tend to resent any spending on IT, so it's unfortunately not a surprise that it has likely scrimped and save
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're absolutely right! The companies I mentioned do hire many people with similar skills. Do you think it's possible that this might not be quite the same as being in the same market and thus being a direct commercial competit
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by Kalium 6y ago
It's also been my experience that non-technical companies sometimes strongly undervalue IT or programming expertise. Few who have a choice ways to take a job at a rate well under market using outdated technologies with an employer who
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're absolutely correct. You can do that! There may be some room to question the general technical expertise and competence of a shop that runs a bunch of Windows 7 systems, though. IT running beyond the limit of their competency may
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by Kalium 6y ago
Only to the extent that San Francisco is over-dependent on tourism. "Tech" is both not really a single industry in the way that auto mfg is and far less dominant than one might guess. Though if you can convince me that Salesforce
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Over-dependency on a single industry, unwillingness to diversify, and an arrogant assumption that the same work could never be done elsewhere. Add in highways, commuting, and an infrastructure maintenance death spiral as domestic car produc
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're right. The IRS emphatically does not have everything. Please accept my deepest and humblest apologies for implying in any way, shape, or form that they do. In addition to hundreds of millions of W-2s, the also IRS has 1099s and
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by Kalium 6y ago
The IRS already has a web portal that lets you retrieve your data. This could be executed by adding more info to that. The higher cost of administration on that shouldn't make anyone bug-eyed, no matter how wonderful your idea of aut
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by Kalium 6y ago
The IRS already has most of your income information and much of your deduction information. They already use this to validate if your return makes sense. In effect, the IRS already does most of a taxpayer's paperwork. Since they do thi
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by Kalium 6y ago
> It's only in an instance where you would otherwise just hire a tax accountant that they charge you. This is false. It's plenty possible to be in neither scenario, and every year millions of Americans are. Further, the 1040EZ
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Some states (California and Oregon come to mind) place limits about the terms of rent control that may be imposed by cities.
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by Kalium 6y ago
SF famously has a black market in rent controlled sublets. In theory the amount a master tenant can charge for a room is a question of proportionate space and overall rent. In practice, they charge a lot more, and it's exceptionally ra
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by Kalium 6y ago
In the US, rent control is regulated by states and enacted by cities. Each state and city is free to do so differently. As such, it can and does vary quite significantly place to place. This means it's impossible to offer an informed c
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Yup, that's the core of it. The future has no constituency. The past has.
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The political complication is that it's very easy for people to be convinced that the short-term answer is the only one that will ever be needed. Addressing long-term problems often involves painful choices that people would rather not
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by Kalium 6y ago
> You can either increase total happiness, or concentrate it to the powerful. The nasty, invisible catch with price caps is that this outcome you've described is an idealized one. It's possible to get neither as you make what
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Overall I agree with you, yeah. But also no. Of course the code should be as simple to understand as possible, but if the junior or medior doesn't understand matrices, nothing I do will make them understand them. There is a differ
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by Kalium 6y ago
I'm skeptical that there's any amount of investing in children that can make up the gap between those with engaged and invested parents and those without. Adding in raw ability does not make closing any gaps easier. And, obviousl
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by Kalium 6y ago
> I also want to say that I tied home ownership (or at least living in a house) to having children - I don't want the stress of bothering my neighbors on top of child stress. So I haven't started a family, and I don't see
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by Kalium 6y ago
The old saw about computers is that they're designed to allow humans to make millions of mistakes, very quickly and very accurately.
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You can always just accept the risk. Or you can not, and work to control your supply chain. Host the artifacts yourself and choose carefully which ones you use. There is no magic bullet, just boring and painful risk-control processes. But t
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Discoverability, familiarity, and usability are good reasons that many find convincing. I understand that some people might disagree. Personal insults aren't called for. Please stop.
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It's worth remembering that many of these places were settled before electricity was even an option. The Tennessee River Valley was not settled in the 1960s. Many places prone to occasional flooding have compelling reasons to be settle
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Why does it need your phone number? Great question! It's a good way to make it easy for general-purpose users with limited technical expertise to adopt, use, and find one another. > Seems pretty weird for a “secure” program. Yo
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Good execs understand that security is risk management. I've found that this is better understood outside startups trying to hockey-stick. Finance in particular is a place where reasoning about risk often comes naturally to leaders.
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by Kalium 6y ago
Anywhere users can put feedback that they think might get to devs, they will.

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