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by helen___keller 3y ago
FWIW the population of Hacker News is greater than 1 so your two comments are likely not the same person :) in 2021 when I last changed jobs I specifically only looked for employers offering a workplace in my city(ie hybrid roles, which is
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by helen___keller 3y ago
What I’ve seen work is a two income family where one is self employed and the other works a “boring, stable” job with health insurance. YMMV, as always healthcare and insurance in the US is a load of crap
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by helen___keller 3y ago
On the contrary I know many successful “lifestyle” business owners whose primary motivation for self employment was to remove managers from their lives. Obsession with solving some problem experienced by many is a very specific mindset that
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by helen___keller 3y ago
My 2c: I would feel a lot more free to explore more interesting roles (ie startups, and anything other than “big corporate” roles) if the Housing Sword of Damocles weren’t hanging over my head Rent and housing prices only go up. To work at
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I’m not sure I agree. Depends more on your relationship with the platform. If you spend many hours browsing content, and particularly consuming and engaging with content that affects your mood, that’s a sign of a poor relationship with soci
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by helen___keller 3y ago
As someone who has looked for rust jobs before, I liked this link because in the past most rust jobs I found on the market were for blockchain or blockchain applications. If you’re fine with those, any generic job aggregation site works
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I think the note on classism is basically the entire story. Avoiding phonics probably works great for families who have already taught kids to read by the time they reach school. I could intuitively sound out words by the time I was in grad
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Atleast in residential rents can and do drop because a large number of rental properties are small time homeowners whose mortgages are not contingent on maintaining a high rent
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Terrifying article. I mean, panic attacks suck, but per this article the OP bought 5 properties within 3 years and quit his day job. I don’t know how much leverage is involved but if the RE sector turns south and there’s no six figure job t
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Change is scary. Change for the worse is terrifying. From my observation, most people rightfully assume their incomes aren’t going to rise very fast, if at all. We’re in a world where some people would call a 3% annual raise “generous”. The
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I agree with that, and I think buy box suppression should be stopped. I’m just responding to the opening paragraphs of the link (and some near the end) where the author appears to be arguing against the very conception of free shipping as i
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Thanks! I had misunderstood what “buy box” is As a consumer I definitely avoid products with no buy box. I thought it was only related to Amazon fulfillment (which in turn I use as a proxy for being likely to receive the product on time and
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Does anyone have examples of popular / name brand products that are pushed down in ranking due to this? I would love to see for myself how this looks in practice
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I’m not sure I agree with the opening premise that offering “free shipping” is dangling a free lunch that doesn’t exist. Technically this is true but it makes a lot of sense by creating an analogous experience as with retail. If I walk to t
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Tokyo capped out and is now declining in population because there isn’t a backlog of millions of people who wanted to live there but couldn’t or had to move out because rent is 3x in Tokyo compared to Osaka. Rent is maybe 30% higher in Toky
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> (though often in the wrong place). This is the entirety of the problem. Economic opportunity is here, affordable housing is there. If you want access to the economic opportunity you have to pay the wealthy landowning class. It’s a drai
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Maybe you’re misreading my post. I’m not making a judgment on whether gendered roles are inferior or superior. I’m saying that a number of societal taboos that generally prevented women from accessing economic freedom, no longer exist You w
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I think stopping sharing is possible it’s stopping generation that’s probably incompatible AI is taking off like a rocket. Soon it’s going to be as easy as asking chatGPT to generate the photos/videos/whatever you want - and while
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by helen___keller 3y ago
The pessimism is unwarranted. As you glibly point out, we have survivorship bias in discussing the history of those who survived and reproduced. So shall it be one hundred or thousand years from now, discussing the rise of whatever culture
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I just want to add that some people simply don’t want to have children. This is important to note because “should I have children” is kind of a novel question, especially for women, in the context of human history. If you go back a century
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Agreed. It took most of human history to build the old culture with immense social pressure to marry and have children, immense social pressure for men to provide and women to care for children, and intense taboos around divorce, births out
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Strongly agree. I realized this in 2016 when I introduced my mother in law to YouTube for cooking videos, and within a few months she was excitedly describing how she found videos giving her “secret truths” about the world, then showed me a
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> This is due to poor management. Strong management makes employees feel secure and not-surveillanced. Maybe that’s true, but having trustworthy async workloads is dependent on having really good planning methodology (eg sizing tickets f
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I don’t really agree. I prefer WFH most days but it’s no panacea: WFH has expectations of availability during working hours and expectations of 40 hours ish of time commitment. If I finish work in 2 hours and go do personal stuff for the re
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I prefer being busy while at work, and I prefer working fewer hours but there’s not really an avenue to make that happen except for ambiguous policies like “unlimited vacation” that just make me perpetually anxious.
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Good on them although I feel like including Amazon in the suit is a standard money-hungry lawyer play. Amazon just vends network connectivity via a mesh net, but obviously happens to have deep pockets so they’re an attractive target.
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Their definition of contradicting CDC is based on this table https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jaman... which seems highly reasonable. Care to describe which item on this table changed we
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I thought OP was specifically calling out tech as prone to dementia. Maybe I misunderstood. Every “standard” career track that follows “standard” retirement age should be similar.
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> by the time you retire you will be dementia ridden Why? > working in tech limits your understanding of things around you, essentially making you captive in a job with no life What?
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but yeah sure I had a summer internship in the suburbs of boston and drove out from the city every day in the early 2010s. Practically door to door traffic, stressful unprotected left turns, masshol

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