sershe

4 ms·

1.
by sershe 11d ago
Tech workers in the US are probably around 90-99 percentile wage. Take something where the quality is well known and measurable, and can be purchased for extra money. How often do you fly first class, or even pay 10-20% extra to have more l
2.
by sershe 15d ago
Heh I was thinking for a while about a similar pet project but I would remove the political/mainstream news rage bait, especially the stuff that is more or less unrelated to technology. AI news are still tech news
3.
by sershe 21d ago
Should we also have separate posts for every individual case when camera helped catch someone? What's the point of continuously posting what amounts to single anecdotes without any statistical context? Should we ban every technology an
4.
by sershe 23d ago
I was given a very large number of very low value shares. The company was about 60 people iirc and I think the hr guy said well we won't IPO soon but when we do, these shares might be worth a lot! Companies often aim for shares to be
5.
by sershe 23d ago
Why is that a scam? Nobody ever promises you any specific valuation or fraction of the company. When I joined a company relatively late but well before IPO, some funny number of shares at 12 cents or whatever each did not even enter my calc
6.
by sershe 28d ago
Large part of the reason is stock compensation and pass thru https://everywheremillionaire.substack.com/p/why-the-labor-s... https://everywheremillionaire.substack.com/p/another-reason-...
7.
Data Centers and the Open Access Order(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by sershe 1mo ago|0 comments
8.
by sershe 1mo ago
The first premise of the case is that it's to protect the children, so this doesn't make any sense - it's not people with self-regulation improving their own environment. Parents are the ones who are supposed to make sure the
9.
by sershe 1mo ago
Facebook has a "feeds" (or something like that) view, that is exactly your subscriptions in chronological order. As for restricting nighttime usage and imposing daily limits, somehow my mom managed to do that (for video games) wit
10.
by sershe 1mo ago
It's very easy to look up what the govt spends money on. All of these things are rounding errors that make good rage bait. The biggest, and some of the fastest growing, outlays are medicare and social security - money transfers from ev
11.
by sershe 2mo ago
It's really understandable that this is posted on hacker news, where innovators from public healthcare startup hotspots like the UK and France gather to look with pity at their stagnating counterparts stuck with more private systems li
12.
by sershe 2mo ago
If you look at the immigration numbers across the board, apparently most people disagree :) just purely by numbers other than vibes or rare scary scenarios, the living standards in the US make most other OECD countries look poor. Not even
13.
by sershe 3mo ago
How often do you need to replace foam? Our 10 years + 2 moves old couch (that cost iirc $700-800 then) is basically good as new. I guess we don't have kids or dogs, the worst thing that happened to it is a gerbil briefly finding a way
14.
by sershe 3mo ago
I always wondered how my coworkers in tech (imply to) spent so much money (even without kids) and then I hear things like "you can't buy a car for less than 50k these days" or read these posts. Then you test drive a 20k used
15.
by sershe 3mo ago
So if you follow the logic of this administration (which I don't) you can construe the illegal immigrants as an invasion. You would assume that if there was an invading army that got dispersed and the stragglers were hiding out for yea
16.
by sershe 3mo ago
I wish there was! Remember that the alternative is that the bozos officially in charge, worldwide, are actually in charge! A scary thing to imagine.
17.
by sershe 3mo ago
Seems too easy compared to the other tests like that I I've taken (my wife and I have a mini thing about this cause as in immigrant I'm not legally allowed to win at Scrabble but I do occasionally), I got 3 wrong and guessed maybe
18.
by sershe 3mo ago
Why does it usually imply extraction and externalities? What are those for Taylor Swift and Michael Jordan? The actual "usual" things in common between these and e.g. Amazon are massive value creation for consumers, economies of s
19.
by sershe 4mo ago
Yeah because collective ownership worked out so well for everything from Soviet cars to Venezuelan oil. Anyone speaking for "the people" is either an evil scumbag or a useful idiot for future ones. "People" are composed
20.
by sershe 4mo ago
So I used to hand code async http request based UIs when this feature first appeared, write cross browser css, etc. before moving to work on distributed systems backend. These days I think a blanket ban on browser scripting would be a lesse
21.
by sershe 5mo ago
I dunno, I think maybe that is a big part of why these countries are so safe? It is a form of meritocratic classism if you will. You are expected to be a certain kind of (law-abiding among other things) person. If you behave like you might
22.
by sershe 6mo ago
Heh, I remember using my first machine, a 486 for a long time after it was obsolete and reading system requirements like, what do you mean pentium recommended and why the hell do you need 16Mb of RAM. It's interesting to reflect that t
23.
by sershe 6mo ago
At least my comment is not completely content free. How is it different? First, the gp comment says the data center is not good for existing residents - obviously true for housing too, which you didn't refute. Then it assumes statewide
24.
by sershe 6mo ago
Doesn't this also apply to new housing? Strain on services per job created is probably even higher. The benefits are for someone currently not living here, just like data centers used for remote users. And if cheaper housing is availab
25.
by sershe 6mo ago
That doesn't appear to be a common story. I now have to schedule phone calls with my retired mother because between my sister and her partner who both work, and her, with 2 kids - one small but active that needs constant minding and on
26.
by sershe 7mo ago
One positive consequence of AI is for people working on old, constantly updated codebases. Especially the stuff created in a data scientist development paradigm (my adhoc python script produces good results, let me clean up a bit and merge
27.
by sershe 7mo ago
Fidonet was really big in Russia when the internet was too expensive for many people, and some made it tongue in cheek matter of principle that Fidonet is anyway superior. I remember (in the late 90ies/early aughts) standing around wit
28.
A16Z: The Power Brokers(notboring.co)
1 points by sershe 7mo ago|0 comments
29.
by sershe 7mo ago
I'm not the kind of person to wear those, but if I was and someone tried to slap them off me I might feel really threatened if you catch my drift. And since I won't be able to see too well, it will take some extra effort... Was th
30.
by sershe 7mo ago
So? That is exactly how every other lever like this applies, by both parties. It has absolutely nothing in common with Russian arbitrary draconian speech repression and to suggest that it is insulting. It's like, technically wage tax i

More ›