s73v3r

84 ms·

841.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Because right now, people are forced to work in order to survive. Meaning they have to take the shitty jobs for shitty pay because that's what they can get. If you remove the forced to work part, then they can be more selective.
842.
by s73v3r 11y ago
You don't think they have hobbies and interests?
843.
by s73v3r 11y ago
I dunno, what happens if your job stops giving you money?
844.
by s73v3r 11y ago
"I think that if you are able to do deep research in nuclear fusion or a cure for cancer you should also be able to find the way of earning a good salary under any circumstances and at the same time finding a way of allocating time for
845.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Set up a robot fighting league. Lots of people would want to participate.
846.
by s73v3r 11y ago
And your opinion would be wrong. In my opinion, not having something like this would be forcing people to stay in shitty, abusive jobs because they have no alternative, due to needing to buy food and keep a roof over their heads. Alleviatin
847.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Not everywhere. There are still plenty of state run prisons in the country.
848.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Are they even going to know who else is participating in the study, and who else is applying for their jobs? When you go apply for a job, do you find out who else applied, and decide if any of them "need" the job more than you?
849.
by s73v3r 11y ago
" All else equal, hiring a poor worker is probably perferable to hiring a wealthy one, as the poor worker has more incentives to work really hard." Read from the other side, hiring a poor worker is preferable because they'll
850.
by s73v3r 11y ago
"or it will reduce capital stocks that can be used for investment." Doubtful. Lots of cash is sitting idle.
851.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Wouldn't that be similar to startup culture, though?
852.
by s73v3r 11y ago
The more I read your posts, the more I imagine you're just someone who's scared that they won't be able to have a bunch of employees paid minimum wage at his beck and call, that he can treat however he wants because they&#x27
853.
by s73v3r 11y ago
That's a lie and you know it. Isn't the refrain parroted here all the time something about bootstrapping your own company? Self funding and all that? While a couple people like you might throw a tantrum and decide not to participa
854.
by s73v3r 11y ago
No it's not. That's what they do to try and escape the stress from having a shitty job. Which they have to do in order to have a roof over their heads.
855.
by s73v3r 11y ago
"People starting companies are driven, determined people who want to create things." Most of them are also extremely lucky in that they either don't need things like healthcare, or don't have families. "This is abou
856.
by s73v3r 11y ago
But we're not going from very poor to very rich. We're going from very poor to not that poor.
857.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Depends on how elastic the demand for the good is. Not everything can handle a large price hike like that. McDonald's, for instance, wouldn't be able to jack up their prices a whole lot, because then people simply wouldn't go
858.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Why should they bother?
859.
by s73v3r 11y ago
ART still uses dalvik bytecode.
860.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Depends. If he gets bored/unhappy at his current positing, then his options for leaving might be narrowed.
861.
by s73v3r 11y ago
But you also have five years more experience in designing software, organizing code, debugging, etc. All things that are largely tool agnostic.
862.
by s73v3r 11y ago
For the employer, sure. But it'd have to be pretty high, as in much higher than the raise for me to consider the possibility of that over just getting a raise.
863.
by s73v3r 11y ago
The money comes from different pools for those, though.
864.
by s73v3r 11y ago
"It seems that in the negotiation you have to take a pessimistic view regarding company outcome." No you don't. You just have to know that cash today is always better than the potential of cash later. Also, you can't pay
865.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Step One: Go find a job at a competing firm, because that's the only way you'll get a meaningful raise.
866.
by s73v3r 11y ago
There's a lot of shit to learn.
867.
by s73v3r 11y ago
You'd still need a license to actually put the car on the road
868.
by s73v3r 11y ago
Would there be a risk? Wouldn't this app just be a scheduling assistant type thing?
869.
by s73v3r 11y ago
I know I don't get haircuts anywhere near as often as I should.
870.
by s73v3r 11y ago
There are benefits for a large organization to standardize on a technology.

More ›