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by doublement 7y ago
I agree with much of what you said but the religious ideology attribution is a non-sequitur. The Bay Area and Los Angeles are pretty much the opposite of hotbeds for piety, yet they have the most severe homelessness problems.
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by doublement 7y ago
The first sentence of the piece says that "Any point source which spreads its influence equally in all directions without a limit to its range will obey the inverse square law." A laser beam has a direction, as such doesn't s
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by doublement 7y ago
There's a huge difference between an average person in a random place investing $10K left over after their bills are paid, and an SF tech employee working with at 5-10 times that amount.
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by doublement 7y ago
You are moving the goalposts. A moment ago you were saying it wasn't happening in SF, now you're saying it happens everywhere.
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by doublement 7y ago
I would estimate that the typical software developer working over that 10-year period and putting the money into either S&P 500 or a house saw an increase of $1M in their net worth.
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by doublement 7y ago
> Prices changing alongside supply and demand is not inhumane. It is. It is inhumane. I agree with you that policies which artificially constrain the supply bear much of the blame, but an outcome can be inhumane in and of itself, even i
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by doublement 7y ago
At least we're not getting evicted. To me the evictions dwarf every other concern. It's a result that's straightforwardly inhumane, and I don't think any reasonable person would disagree. Personally, I'm inclined t
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by doublement 7y ago
If I'm reading it correctly, it's introducing a possibility that Crick hadn't considered: that materialism might be correct (as he thought), but the generation of consciousness isn't specifically located anywhere.
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by doublement 7y ago
I know that was the intent, but the reality is that eschewing Twitter gains a politician nothing, and costs them an audience.
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by doublement 7y ago
I think they all do now. You have to engage with people where the people are.
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by doublement 7y ago
> ...no one in their right mind would look there for job postings I'm not sure if it's quite the same thing, but 6-7 years ago I saw an employment ad from a well-known tech company in the local Craigslist, with only a postal ad
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by doublement 7y ago
Agreed. These days it's impossible to select a site and begin demolishing the neighborhood within the same month. > [T]he Sausalito site selected on 3 March... construction began on 28 March.... Construction start was delayed two w
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by doublement 7y ago
Or how about just letting your data vanish, except for items you've made a specific effort to save (e.g. your own original writing or musical compositions)? Technologists seem preoccupied with creating perfect recollection, seemingly w
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by doublement 7y ago
I guess the pen was not mightier than the sword in this case.
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by doublement 7y ago
A short period of renewal would mitigate the problem where every employee on the notification list has become a former employee / invalid email by the time the actual expiry occurs.
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by doublement 7y ago
Disappearing content is a blessing, not a curse. Let it all be replaced by new people doing the same things slightly differently, instead of constantly having to confront prior art.
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by doublement 7y ago
In my professional work all of this is someone else's job, but I've experimented with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Digital Ocean, and only with Digital Ocean did I feel confident I wasn't going to make some
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by doublement 7y ago
Indeed. I generally agree with Greenwald in who he targets for attack, but what he chooses to defend is too broad, to the point where I wonder if some self-deception is involved. If I recall correctly he was also defending Wikileaks agains
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by doublement 7y ago
I don't see any NIMBY-ism in that statement. His goal is reducing evictions, and if there's less money providing an incentive for landlords to evict their tenants, then that reduction is more likely to happen. Whether or not it&#x
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by doublement 7y ago
I work with JS as a low percentage of my total work, and recently tried to bring a 2-year-old Vue-based project up to date with the latest versions of everything. I failed in my task. With these frameworks, given enough time, there ends up
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by doublement 7y ago
You can't move your bitcoins if your electricity is off or if a totalitarian system physically has you and your possessions. You can only vote with your feet so many times, and if the choice is always to flee instead of demanding accou
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by doublement 7y ago
To me it seems mired in contradiction. The use case for cryptocurrencies is motivated by (though perhaps doesn't require) the assumption that accountable government is a lost cause; yet it also assumes that society provides enough sta
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by doublement 7y ago
> Writing a complex architecture without prototyping. Often your prototype will tell you what you need. One million times yes. In my experience using a prototype as an input to a specification works much better than the other way around
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by doublement 7y ago
Every company should question the businesses they're in periodically. But having that discussion leak to the public is disastrous. Trust in executive decisions at Google must be extremely low if all their internal business keeps beco
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by doublement 7y ago
Commutes to SF via BART train are fine from the denser, inner-ring suburbs. Commutes from the sprawl area in Contra Costa County are horrendous.
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by doublement 7y ago
San Francisco isn't even as dense as Queens, and isn't anywhere close to Paris or Barcelona. Its problems aren't a result of density, but rather economic stress. Moreover leaving a few trees up in a lower-density developmen
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by doublement 7y ago
Cities intended to be big cities from the start, we do need. The trouble with small cities is that no one wants to see their character changed. In New York they built the subway ahead of development, making high density possible immediatel
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by doublement 7y ago
I don't know why it's falling away from the front page, but as far as skepticism goes, numbers that surprising raise more questions than answers. Your anecdotes have been very informative by the way.
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by doublement 7y ago
Considering that the overall category is "software engineering compensation", many people will be senior/staff engineers, unless people are constantly washing out in less than 5 years time.
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by doublement 7y ago
It would probably be an interesting article to delve into what accounts for the difference between the Bay Area's $227,000 median (which sounds about right) and the $400K-$500K that 5 years of experience gets at the top of your list.

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