acituan

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by acituan 6y ago
> This single generation has utterly destroyed the social fabric of America and I have my doubts it can come back. This resentment is legitimate. I believe it is more than just the generation that destroyed the fabric. And it not happeni
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by acituan 6y ago
I know you are relaying the public information accurately, but I wish authorities pushed better names. Like calling the virus "the virus that we know has a corona and causes these symptoms" and the disease "the disease caused
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by acituan 6y ago
It will, because 2020 USA has a GDP per capita in PPP that is at least an order of magnitude higher than any empire in the history. It is the floor of the life experience one can suffer compared to what wealth we have. There are both hist
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by acituan 6y ago
People need bigger houses for other reasons too, including a growing family, having space for gathering with their friends and community, for their hobbies etc. And I’m not talking about a luxurious McMansion, just something bigger than a $
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by acituan 6y ago
I can't help to think how this story might reflect many of us who immigrated to the US for the "gracious way", forgot the way we used to "walk" and now find it difficult to return back home. It is saddening.
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by acituan 6y ago
My main point was, a globally distributed labor pool is already accessible to FAANG and is being utilized despite higher transition costs both for the employer and the employee. The H1B hires for FAANG is the global top talent for which com
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by acituan 6y ago
> Your argument conveniently assumes that H1s are only going to net new employees vs. those that fill the gap too. I also conveniently assumed that global 40k headcount increase was sufficiently representative of the US headcount incre
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by acituan 6y ago
You're right. I double checked the numbers and 22k is H1B only and green card is a separate 6k. Edited the comment to reflect this.
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by acituan 6y ago
I think you are overestimating the size of the eligible labor supply increase. Just for Google, for 2017-2019 the number of H1B workers sponsored was 22k. For the same period the increase in number of full time employees was 40k (couldn’t f
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by acituan 6y ago
It doesn’t have to be the number of choices creating anxiety. Maybe an existing anxiety is pushing you towards seeing more choices to block yourself from committing on one, because you are too internally conflicted. Motivation has an intern
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by acituan 6y ago
> Maybe it will go even further, and normalize folks having a real life. I absolutely love this. I love seeing my colleagues contextualized in their private spaces, that reflects their personal choices, humanity, wholeness. In the offic
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by acituan 6y ago
Here is one way to formulate this. You are an information processing machine with certain throughput. Article says 10 dB worth of energy going into your ear causes an average of 5% decrease in your throughput, in the form of processing co
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by acituan 6y ago
You are right, the individual propensity to go to the office is going to be highly sensitive to the number of people already going to the office. I believe this to have a steep s-curve shape; with little number of people at the office there
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by acituan 6y ago
This will happen just like “unlimited vacation” policies pressure actual vacation taken downwards. It doesn’t have to be an explicit management pressure either, simply the game theoretic implications put WFH people at a disadvantage as a fu
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by acituan 6y ago
I could have been clearer, you are right. I was trying to engage in a thought experiment. In union = failure axiom, there can be contradicting explanations as to why. My OP implied “unions make things fail” (and I assumed due to commonly as
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by acituan 6y ago
> You find it unusual that companies in less competitive markets would collude? They're the only ones who can, because otherwise there are too many entities to coordinate. I agree that it was simply easier to coordinate as a functio
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by acituan 6y ago
> But they also already provide very generous compensation, so what would you expect a union to negotiate for? That assumes everything that is of consideration is already priced into compensation, which is not. Wasn’t it several years ag
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by acituan 6y ago
> They are also hardly exemplars of competitive markets. Yet in 2013 they found the necessity in colluding in no-poach wage suppression. > but then they'd eat that amount in union dues and time value of doing paperwork etc Finlan
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by acituan 6y ago
To give one idea, nursing home room cost is 100k/year. Considering the possibility of chronic conditions, specialized treatments and overall increase in healthcare usage, in the span between 70-90 it is very easy go over >2M.
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by acituan 6y ago
Do you genuinely think if FAANG software engineers were to unionize, those companies would out of business with their huge cash reserves, or move to Mexico or outsource to Bangladesh?
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by acituan 6y ago
That causal chain only works in perfect competition where prices are convergent with marginal cost. In real market conditions perfect competition doesn't exist just as perfect monopolies are rare. Google and Apple are competing on sell
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by acituan 6y ago
That's not my assumption, as I explicitly stated. I wanted to show the possibility of a union-favorable explanation of the OPs premise. In case you are curious about my actual assumption; I think there are a lot of externalities that a
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by acituan 6y ago
Let's assume your premise is correct. Then it could also mean that there hasn't been any working combination of capital and labor that didn't depend on labor being exploited. I don't believe this to be the case, but your
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by acituan 6y ago
As the pandemic demonstrated, quality of education is hardly relevant. It is all about the credentialism. 16 yo kids in Palo Alto didn’t threw themselves in front of the caltrain because they so desired a quality education. It is because th
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by acituan 6y ago
800$ is the nominal price. Real price is the fact that it is not tied to your employer, particularly your employers’ negotiation power with the insurance company. Which in turn increases your negotiation power as an employee. Not only for p
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by acituan 6y ago
But you won’t be 30 and healthy forever. Medical costs skyrocket with old age, at a scale that can easily make your 100k/year savings irrelevant.
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by acituan 6y ago
But your healthcare would be very cheap, if not free, wouldn't be tied to your employment; education cost would be minuscule compared to US; kids would benefit from the first two factors too; minimum annual vacation would be 4 weeks, m
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by acituan 6y ago
How is your productivity now that the rest of the office is also WFH? I imagine there is an asymmetry in perceived productivity if you’re the only one WFH, but it could be a different ballgame when it is more common. This could easily carry
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by acituan 6y ago
That changes wildly from team to team. I worked for one team where there was a set WFH day of the week. I had another team where 11am standup meetings were held everyday, and this was mostly for the benefit of the people manage who was very
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by acituan 6y ago
Hours available is an irrelevant measure, because the hours worked is consumptive of certain facilities that is required to enjoy anything more complicated than television, and spatial dynamics matter as much as temporal dynamics between wo

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