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by gen220 4y ago
Snippet from my reply to a similar sibling comment: Sorry, I'm not meaning to say that people aren't getting paid enough. My phrasing choice of "actual problem" was poor. I'll leave it up so this thread makes sense.
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by gen220 4y ago
Sorry, I'm not meaning to say that people aren't getting paid enough. My phrasing choice was poor. I mean to say, it's very difficult to inform policy from data with big inaccuracies. I'd say the grey economy is caused b
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by gen220 4y ago
The issue with these assessments of living wage in NY is that, if you're poor and desperate, there are many ways to "live" that, while not particularly desirable to most people, are certainly available . This is true both on
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by gen220 4y ago
I think my goal would be "maximization of [responsible] production of useful things". Constant job-hopping requires an employer who wants to hire you. If you're a "constant-job-hopper", you'll find few people w
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by gen220 4y ago
1. I think the end-game here is salary-parity, no? If Practice A learns that Practice B is taking their employees for a marginal salary difference, that forces Practice A to improve their compensation package. But I don't think I fully
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by gen220 4y ago
Good points! Let me try to dissect them, let me know what you think. 1. I agree with the themes of not paying disloyal middlemen, but I'm not sure if it applies to the example. > You'd want some evidence that rewarding disloyal
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by gen220 4y ago
That makes sense as to why an employer would want a non-compete. Is there some way that this translates into why "we the people" would want to allow companies to enforce non-competes? From my perspective, if a company's sauce
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by gen220 4y ago
I think we're all pretty familiar with the arguments against non-competes. Does anybody have a compelling argument for them, as practiced in 2023 in the US? While we're at it, does anybody have a compelling justification for a
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by gen220 4y ago
Might the better option be a hybrid truck, which runs on electricity 90% of the time but has the capacity to use fossil fuels in situations such as these? (snow is but one example, I can imagine other exceptional circumstances where such a
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by gen220 4y ago
I think you might be misreading the word "high end"? By "high end", the person you're replying to was (probably?) not referring to "luxury", but rather the "high end" of the affordability spectru
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by gen220 4y ago
Interesting feedback on reddit RSS feeds. I'm only subscribed to a single reddit feed, but it's totally possible that miniflux was spamming requests and that led to a rate limit. It isn't super customizable in terms of how fr
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by gen220 4y ago
I've been self-hosting miniflux [0] for a couple years. Rock solid performance, deployment is easy, upgrades are small but meaningful, and doesn't use anything exotic in the tech stack (mainly Go, some vanilla JS, persists data in
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by gen220 4y ago
It's a tricky idea to implement in a way that doesn't violate the "principle of least surprise". Personally, I "solve" this problem with existing settings by excluding NPR/NYT/New Yorker from my globa
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by gen220 4y ago
I agree this is an important place to start, but it might not be feasible given the situation they're starting from now. It might make sense to take "under-" employment with a company that offers good health benefits, which w
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by gen220 4y ago
Next time you're on an airplane and have nothing to do, but have access to a laptop, consider firing up `vimtutor`. I think you might underestimate how much time it takes to build up muscle memory in a new system. Not saying you'l
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by gen220 4y ago
> As AI's power in the creative fields increase those fields will more and more become a question of who has the most money to throw at AI processing. I think the relevant question that might allay your fear is: why do people make a
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by gen220 4y ago
In life, the existential personal questions are, roughly, "what matters (to me)?" and "what should I do about it?". Our society currently affords ample opportunity to "productively" avoid those questions. You c
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by gen220 4y ago
My guess is that it's intended to be used in the entire State of Connecticut, between the hours of 8AM and 10AM and 4PM and 6PM. i.e. situations where the highway is doing its best impression of a Dunkin' Drive-Thru. Signed, sligh
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by gen220 4y ago
Hey, at least Chauncy wasn't delusional about his true powers or self-aggrandizing in seeking more power! Still, it's a very apt reference these days, maybe all days. The narrative arc feels evergreen, in that the surreal irony
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by gen220 4y ago
Do you have a Yaupon brand you can recommend? I tried some in college and found the taste too bitter (like the leaves had been improperly-stored for way too long, kind of like how basil tastes when poorly-dried). But I'm very into the
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by gen220 4y ago
I started drinking Mate later in life, and definitely recall it sitting weirdly in my stomach at first. You might want to try drinking it in smaller concentrations? i.e. steeping for less time, with a smaller quantity of "tea". A
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by gen220 4y ago
I've done the same for years. I think most of the ill effects of mate come to people because they're "overdosing" inadvertently. If you steep a "tea" quantity of mate, I've found it to produce a remarkably
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by gen220 4y ago
Interestingly, the bill gives a definition of a "social media company", that's fairly specific [1, pages 7-8] and fun to ponder on its own [2]. The flimsiest bullet point in the definition might be that the company "sell
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by gen220 4y ago
People generally need to feel stable in the middle before reaching for self-actualization. For people who grew up on the lower half of the household income or wealth distribution, it takes many years of FAANG comp to feel stable there. It’s
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by gen220 4y ago
You see this at hyper growth startups, where founding team / seed stage hires work nights and weekends, while complaining loudly about the people hired at series A/B who are logging off at 5pm (and who stand to make 1/10 or 1
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by gen220 4y ago
Apparently it's 155 engineers (if LI data is to be believed), and about an equal amount of Sales employees [0]. There's definitely value in the space, but I struggle to imagine how the ends (capturing that value) justifies the mea
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by gen220 4y ago
Might I introduce you to Calendly[1], a $3bn meeting-scheduling app, that employs >500 people. Personally, I see these kinds of things as a failing of the US's macroeconomic policy since 2010 first (ZIRP), and the failing of the boa
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by gen220 4y ago
I'm definitely open to the belief that sentient AI, "left to its own devices", might pose an existential risk. I guess what I'm trying to communicate, is that I don't think one has to buy the idea that we're an
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by gen220 4y ago
I've studied the latest AI techniques academically for a few cumulative years. I didn't perceive AI as an existential threat to human civilization (on the scale of nuclear weapons, climate change, etc.). I thought "AI alignme
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by gen220 4y ago
The gist is: 1. Trace your application, so you know which query is running slowly in production. 2. Using this exact query, run `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` or whatever your RDBMS equivalent is. 3. Read the output, see which step is taking the slowest

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