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by davemp 4y ago
I don’t see how you are getting that from OP’s comment. OP seems to be claiming that ADHD is often over diagnosed and/or treated improperly. A viewpoint shared by people I know in the field.
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by davemp 4y ago
Well considering the culture on most job sites includes ridiculing people for wearing safety glasses and dust masks, there’s definitely room for improvement.
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by davemp 4y ago
Low wage. Not low charge out rate. In my area basically any skill labor is billed at $120/hr and the actual laborers might see $30-40 of that.
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by davemp 4y ago
In forests it’s usually when an invasive species is introduced and results in a less efficient use of energy in the ecosystem.
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by davemp 5y ago
I’ve been searching for a lot of info on a game recently (Eldenring). There’s actually a good wiki with well organized entries, but the results on bing/google are all stolen blog spam. I have to manually specify the wiki in the search
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by davemp 5y ago
You’re over estimating the quality of applebee’s ingredients. Also restaurants generally have higher profit margin items such as appetizers/drinks/deserts to offset entrees.
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by davemp 5y ago
That’s the charge out rate. The people actually doing the labor (overwhelmingly immigrants) are only seeing a tiny fraction of that money (~1/10th or less).
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by davemp 5y ago
> It's not possible to hire Americans to do this kind of work without getting screwed. It’s worse than that. Even when you try to hire Americans, it’ll turn out that only the salesman/owner are legally working. The actual work
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by davemp 5y ago
Home improvement is pretty cancerous right now. I get quotes with ~$5k in labor for work that would take me a week to do in the worst case. That’s literally double my rate without considering that working for yourself is tax free. It baffle
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by davemp 5y ago
The problem for outdoor work is that your hours change and no one else’s does, so effectively you’re forced to work 10-6 for safety reasons. So blue collar folks get disproportionately less family time.
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by davemp 5y ago
Yup, though you’ll probably notice your fans spin up (or coil whine if it’s my PC).
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by davemp 5y ago
> That means all source code reformatting actions which do not change the meaning of the source code also do not appear in the diff. The method I described does exactly that. Most modern formatting tools parse code into an AST then rewri
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by davemp 5y ago
Having a strictly (formatter) enforced style is actually how you allow people the freedom to use their preferred style. Everyone can just set up a pre-commit hook to automatically format the code back into the official style, then everyone
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by davemp 5y ago
Most software positions have a never ending backlog of work that can easily fill 40hrs of any week. Meaning a salary set at 40hrs/wk is pure downside to the work as your actual job expectations have a floor of 40hr weeks but sometimes
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by davemp 5y ago
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. A lot of `Agile` material is just doublespeak meant to sell consulting hours and training.
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by davemp 5y ago
The CS:GO and dota2 (developed by valve) item market places were probably some of the earlier and more influential loot box / gambling games.
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by davemp 5y ago
Oil and gas companies could easily do better right now (likely cheaper than the method in the OP). I know someone who worked at a fluid analysis modeling company and they claimed that pipelines could easily detect and fix leaks. Pipelines j
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by davemp 5y ago
That may be a legal/valid strategy, but it seems pathological. Instead of spending money on unproductive employees, these companies could just pass their excesses down to share holders. If a specific company is out competed fairly, oh
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by davemp 5y ago
Very well put, your comment resonates with my frustrations at a BigCorp. > These BigCorps are hiring like mad and paying big $$ to fill seats more for the purpose of starving their competition of brains than actually using the brains th
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by davemp 5y ago
You're being disingenuous. The difference is how directly you depend on the whims on strangers and whether those whims include breaking a contract.
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by davemp 5y ago
What you're talking about is scaling pay with customer satisfaction correct? The issue with depending on customer satisfaction is that human beings only have agency over themselves. No matter how polite and courteous an employee is the
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by davemp 5y ago
This shows a disturbing lack of empathy. > I want a server who will entertain me while I'm waiting. Not everyone does--people are fickle. There's also a reason theaters don't use a pay-what-you-want model. Having your live
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by davemp 5y ago
> The thinking was that it created too much of a relationship of subservience rather than equals participating in commerce, to be compatible with American ideals of freedom. That's my feelings about tipping. The custom feels very cl
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by davemp 5y ago
I think it’s kind of beautiful that we all have our limited times to make an impact. We bring our perspectives and use our context to try to move civilization to a more optimal place. Then once we’ve spent all our ideas our perspectives can
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by davemp 5y ago
> At this stage, I could spend time optimizing the code. Ideas include (thanks to Andrey Petrov) isolating int-to-byte conversions, using bitmaps to determine leading zero bytes, and reducing allocations by using arrays. Another easy spe
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by davemp 5y ago
Most peoples’ intuition is that the host wouldn’t always offer the choice unless it’s more likely that you’ve selected the correct door.
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by davemp 5y ago
I live in a place were I could easily order / go out for every meal as well. If I cook ~2-3 times a week for myself and box up the leftovers, I get high quality meals for $2-5/meal vs $10-30/meal. This can save ~$8k per perso
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by davemp 5y ago
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. You committed the very same sin. []: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by davemp 5y ago
> The one reason you don't see more of them is that they cost more up front. But the longer life span means it's really a better long term value. A really unfortunate truth. Planning for more than 20 years in a house is a rare
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by davemp 5y ago
You can get out of 2nd and 3rd story windows relatively safely.

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