samr71

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by samr71 6y ago
I personally would rather quit than stay remote indefinitely, I can tell you that.
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by samr71 6y ago
Unionizing Tesla would almost certainly not "accelerate the advent of sustainable transport". More likely cause it to wither and stagnate for the gain of a privileged few as we saw with GM et al.
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by samr71 6y ago
Even at megacorps, most work for most people is done with their immediate team. Most do work together in meatspace most of the time.
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by samr71 6y ago
And the students I know all say the teachers are phoning it in... Anecdotes aren't useful here. I suspect once the data starts coming out, we'll see some serious educational deficits in most kids.
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by samr71 6y ago
In the United States, maybe, but this is not true everywhere. In Japan, for instance, houses are treated more as depreciating assets like cars. You can buy a brand new 4 Bedroom house in a nice part of Tokyo for ~$300,000, but don't ex
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by samr71 6y ago
This is a fantastic point I don't think I've ever seen brought up before. I'll need to think on this.
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by samr71 6y ago
I'm sure most of the people working in Tech in the Bay Area could go get a job at some firm in Cincinnati, with substantially lower COL. Of course, they would have a substantially lower salary as well, probably low enough to make the B
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by samr71 6y ago
All of the things you listed are solvable problems, with hundreds of thousands of people working tirelessly to solve them. Fear porn about the impending collapse of everything helps no one, and is the reason why that the 9 year old is havin
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by samr71 6y ago
Such doom and gloom! You really believe the future is gonna be so bad that children would be better off not existing at all? The world has huge issues, sure, but it's still far better to be alive now than any time in human history. The
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by samr71 6y ago
I'd think that's the point behind most push from big business for a higher min wage. For them, it's another form of regulatory capture. Amazon or McDonalds can afford $15 nationally, but small mom-and-pop firms?
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by samr71 6y ago
I feel that's a bit of a strawman. It's generally closer to: "Every time it's been tried it's been either bad or disastrous, clearly we have no reason to learn from it or try again" Which I think is fair! Hell,
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by samr71 6y ago
I can't help but feel that this is going backwards. Cities are effective engines for value generation. Being in a city is valuable due to network effects, density, and overall efficiency that suburbs lack. Increased urbanization has go
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by samr71 6y ago
> Unless we expand beyond this planet, I suppose The asteroid belt has the resources for millions of O'Neil cylinders and Stanford Toruses -- we'll be fine.
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by samr71 6y ago
These all potentially could or could not happen, but I think they're possible given multi-year mass WFT. I'm not guaranteeing these, but I've seen them discussed. For the company: - Lower productivity (burnout, people not ade
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by samr71 6y ago
If a tech company is sourcing engineers in an office work environment, they need to pay salaries competitive for the location of said office. (You can find great engineers in Jakarta, but you have to relocate them to SV and pay SV rates) If
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by samr71 6y ago
Not sure how that refutes the size argument. The variation between California and New Hampshire is much smaller than the variation between California and India. It's not really apples to apples in the latter case.
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by samr71 6y ago
Until they're replaced with a team in Jakarta or Dhaka making 10% of what they made.
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by samr71 6y ago
What does a large GDP prove? It is the largest state after all. A smaller state, that doesn't happen to contain some of the country's best real estate and most productive industries (say, New Hampshire) could be better run, but of
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by samr71 6y ago
This will almost certainly be bad for most everyone but company shareholders, unfortunately.
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by samr71 6y ago
We've only been doing mass WFH for a year. Many companies have been saying things very similar to Coinbase, but I'm not sure if long-term mass WFH will prove to that great (for the company, I'd argue it certainly won't b
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by samr71 6y ago
Assuming this is not sarcasm, this can be taken to any logical extreme of "tolerable". I'm sure there are many other new restrictions we can put in place that would make people's lives (more) miserable, that are neverthe