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by Pfhreak 5y ago
There's "really no point" in cashing out returns of 1000%? If I had put 100k in, my coins would be worth 1M. Even if my taxes were 30%, I'd be walking away with 730k. That's an astronomical gain.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
There's a fantastic novel series that starts with Red Mars , by Kim Stanley Robinson. It follows a series of the first colonizers of Mars, and every time it shifts perspective it dives into a new science/technology frame. For a f
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
One thing I tell all my folks and mentees is to understand why they are pushing for promotion. Engineering promotions are different jobs. You'll be taking on different responsibilities and expectations, and blindly chasing a level bump
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
FYI, in case this wasn't your intent (I only mention this because you said you were fairly new up top), while you've provided the source you haven't given anyone a license to edit/duplicate/branch it. Open Source us
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
> techs would stop traffic for a chance to so much as talk to someone from GenZ about the trade. Pay more. Stop asking people to give up their physical health to compete on the job. Give them a career. Construction wages have decreased,
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
I'm sure the HN audience is a diverse set of folks across age ranges, there's just a culture of punching down at things they don't understand that's permitted here.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
The replies to this are emblematic of HN culture -- a whole lot of quick dismissals without engaging with why this might exist, who it might benefit, and who it might turn away. A decade ago everyone was telling me how millennials were lazy
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Of course. I just bristle at the suggestion that they are "unnatural".
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Surprised terms like "excited delerium" and hysteria don't make an appearance here. (But heat stroke does, which is a term I still hear regularly.)
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Except we are seeing a mass movement in food service today of workers closing up shops for better pay. We're seeing businesses say there's a "labor shortage" (there isn't, they are just unwilling to pay a wage labor
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
That's a complicated question. My answer is probably they will get paid less. They are producing something for which there is less demand. However, in today's economy the situation you describe would have the workers being paid le
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
I'm of the opinion that workers should retain 100% of the value they produce. Not for deontological reasons, but because I hold the belief that the outcomes of paying the "leaf nodes" in an organization maximally results in a
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
FAANG companies also underpay their workers. It can simultaneously be the case that they pay their workers best in class wages AND those wages are less than the workers deserve. Apple has immense cash reserves built from the labor of their
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
And furthermore, it's how it compares to the profits of the company. If an engineer is returning $500,000k annually in profit to a company from their work, and getting paid $75k of that, they are being exploited. (Or at the very least
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Hope you aren't talking about Amazon Games Studios, because that place is incredibly toxic from what I understand.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
I also worked in the industry and would agree with your assessment. Many of the senior folks I talked to even agreed that crunch was a 'mandatory, necessary' part of game development.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
I think you misunderstand the parent's post. It's not about critiquing someone's choices, it's about recognizing when you are being exploited. And yeah, maybe the game devs being exploited think the situation is fine. Th
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
There are plenty of games companies that are billion dollar businesses. They absolutely can afford to pay FAANG salaries.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
I've worked in games, I've worked out of games. The workers in games are absolutely being exploited because they think the work environment is unique. And yes, there's something cool to see people at PAX or elsewhere praising
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Levels.fyi exists. There are internal spreadsheets at various tech companies that share their comp. Agreed though, I'd love to see this elsewhere in tech.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
> should NOT be treated as an indicator for what "reasonable" pay looks like across the entire industry. Hard disagree. The comparatively low salaries in other sectors are just that, below what workers should be earning. Things
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Sure, if you want to get into a semantic argument. The point is that the mechanism isn't complex, there is decades of research and multiple studies showing us it's likely safe, and still people are out here saying things like, &qu
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
No? The first mRNA tests were conducted in 1990 in mice -- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1690918/ We figured out the basics in 2005, specifically two scientists Karikó and Weissman. A decade ago there were discussion
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Isn't "the mRNA technology" decades old at this point? Yes, this might be the first wide spread human deployment, but they've been researching the technique in animals for over thirty years. What's the bar for when
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Yes, the problem is "How quickly can we nationalize this company."
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
> I seriously don't understand why the pipeline operators don't have some contingency plan or have simulated scenarios like this which enables them to roll-back systems immediately to some usable state. I would expect that most
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
BTC has value because people exchange it for "real" money. If BTC is heavily regulated or outlawed, a whole lot of folks are going to duck out. It's one thing to try and get in on the ground floor of the latest meme stock, it
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Not to mention sanctions cost real human lives. The people who will be starving aren't the same folks who are mounting highly complex, large scale ransomware attacks.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
I was also an adult, and the fervor over WMD was unreal . And not just WMDs, but stupid shit like "Freedom Fries" and "These colors don't run". The spike in nationalism was awful to behold.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Take a deep breath, you are jumping at shadows and telling everyone that "they" are out to get us. Thieves are thieves, organized crime is organized crime. You think there aren't major criminal organizations in the US committ

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