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by sokoloff 1y ago
I'm talking about the financial realities of starting a company from scratch, which impacts how many companies get started in what form and might be a significant part of the explanation why you aren't seeing as many worker-owned
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Be the change you want to see in the world? As you find reasons to object to that, many of those reasons are likely the same shared by others and make this a vastly less common arrangement, because someone has to take on the massive initial
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Highly editorialized submission. Original title: Building resilient multi-tenant systems with Amazon SQS fair queues
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Great/agreed that they could offer choice. I wish them and the employees who choose to work at them well.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I believe that employees and employers both make choices that they think are in their best interests. Employees might want to receive the most cash they can right now (and therefore prefer 100 units of cash over 90 units of cash and 10 of e
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Employees are often not in a position (financially or sometimes legally) to take a reduction in cash in order to take an increased proportion of their value in equity.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Because first past the post voting has entrenched a two-party system and both major parties enjoy massive inflows of money from the wealthy. Then “he who pays the piper calls the tune” and here we are...
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Their life effectively stopped since they are locked out of everything What?! Google locked them out of Google . I'm sure they can still get search, email, and cloud services from many other providers. The government can lock you
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think I missed the part where Google imprisoned someone. The government forces me to do business with them; if I don't pay them tens (and others hundreds) of thousands of dollars every year they will send people with guns to imprison
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> those developers are not well paid (usually around 30/40 USD hour, no benefits) $40/hour for a full time would put you just over the median household income for the US. I suspect this provides quite a good living for their
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The government has the direct power to imprison me or seize my property if cross them. It seems strange to not be able to grasp the difference in kind here.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It’s true that Synology boxes don’t spend anywhere near as much time taking security updates. That’s not always for good reasons, though.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=MEPAINUSA672N also supports the upthread claim.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Take a look at a chart of real median income. Which while it is admittedly somewhat different from salary, is a hell of lot more than “nuh-uh” https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’ve been driving a Nissan LEAF for the last decade. It’s exactly what you describe (and has been great as a city car for a two-car, two-driver household).
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by sokoloff 1y ago
There aren't two "girl-girl" states, because of the stated assumption in the problem: > Assume the family is selected at random because they have at least one girl. Given that plus "a family has two children" and
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by sokoloff 1y ago
infinitely ?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’m sorry for your friend’s job loss, but reading a page of fairly generic eulogy written by someone who knew nothing of grandma beyond what the family said and basic obituary facts doesn’t seem massively different from a page of fairly gen
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think the common vernacular for that cutoff is “director” rather than “manager”. Directors direct (including opening hiring reqs without higher-level approval). Managers manage (which doesn’t include unreviewed role openings). Both do us
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by sokoloff 1y ago
My argument is limited to “we don’t know and one study with significant limitations with regards to participant adaptation doesn’t settle anything definitively for the long-term”. Your argument seems to project significantly more certainty
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Imagine if you’d worked for a decade as a dev using Notepad as your code editor (in a world where that was the best editor somehow). You’d developed your whole career in Notepad and knew very well how to work with it Then, someone did a two
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Power structures exist in any group of size. Companies can choose how formal to make them, but they can’t avoid them. Imagine instead of having to convince the Director, VP, or CTO to support your good idea, that instead you had to convince
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by sokoloff 1y ago
GP made the point that early in your career, your boss should absolutely know more than you do about your technical work, but at some point (fairly early), that inverts and your leader unavoidably knows less than you do about your technical
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Do you have a source for this? At the time of the original pay package award (3/21/2018), with primary performance conditions being the growth of Tesla market cap (making money for Tesla shareholders), Tesla had a market cap
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by sokoloff 1y ago
1 + 1 = 2 is common sense, but it’s also math.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’m not the biggest Elon fan, but “man sues to receive the thing he earned over several years of accomplishment that made a lot of people a lot more money than they originally agreed to pay him” is something a lot of people are understandab
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by sokoloff 1y ago
No, the easiest solution is to avoid doing anything that would qualify as a “public job posting” until you’re absolutely out of other options, which is probably worse than the status quo.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
We tax things we want people to do all the time . We want people to buy things, yet we have sales taxes. We want people to work productive jobs and earn money, yet we have income taxes.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> because they have no other choice People clearly have other choices here: develop for Android, develop for the web, create a telephony-based or text-response system, operate in bricks-n-mortar format, etc.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Is that a better business proposition for a prospective app developer ? GP was arguing that the alternatives to the App Store commission were far worse. Under a 90% commission scheme, they're probably both unviable.

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