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Did they shut down at the last moment necessary or did they shut down during what is likely a peak browsing time in the U.S.? Did they need to include messaging about political figures to notify the user of the reason of the ban?

I understand that there was this law. It's a political statement because of the political message being sent out to the user base. The act of shutting down on its own is not a political statement.

What's that saying? The best way to get a promotion is to cause a problem and then fix it?

Political things aside, it's crazy to see so much of a flip-flop so quickly. Has there been any other behavior like this in the past where a company "shut themselves down" to make a big political statement and then almost immediately undid the shut down?

How much of Americans driving to work is because they choose too though? Amazon's 5 day RTO policy is a good example. How many of the people now going to an office 5 days a week would've done so without the mandate? I see the traffic every day, and saw the same area before the mandate, so I can tell you with confidence that there's many more cars on the road as a result of this commute. this all funnels back to the corporate decision to mandate 5 days in office.

The only mortgages that don't require cashflow are the paid off mortgages. Even if someone has a year of savings, or two years, or three, after that amount is drained, they need cash flow again. So how does one buy a house without being dependent on cash flow?

I had a bug squash interview today. I found it nice, but also frustrating.

It was nice because I didn't need to practice and I knew exactly how to debug the thing.

It was frustrating because my personal laptop is from 7 years ago (from college), is slow, and the dependencies and editor don't work out of the box for an a new repo. Additionally, I'd prefer to use IntelliJ like I do at work but again, that's too heavy for my computer to handle so I resort to vscode and have to figure out how to use it. So then the interview becomes debugging my environment instead of debugging the problem. Maybe that's a useful signal, but it's not really bug squashing anymore then.

So overall, it was still requiring learning but there was not a very good way to test in advance (how do you test all possible repo structures?)

Do you do marketing as well? I'd assume not based on the no JS-analytics so I'm curious what your customer acquisition methods are, as in how they find out about your business?

Genuine question: Is fraud actually something that costs Stripe money when it comes to payouts?

The reason credit card fraud for charges costs money to processors is because of charge backs. I believe charge back fees originate from the card networks themselves (Visa, MasterCard, etc). These processors also enforce a variety of limits when it comes to chargebacks for each merchant. This means if you're the layer between the merchant and the network, the merchants generally will rely on you to pre-emptively detect fraud. Those systems all cost money too.

As far as I know when it comes to payout rails such as ACH, real time payments (RTP), Zelle, I don't believe the payment processor holds any liability for fraudulent transactions. In other words, if a fraudulent payout occurs through stripe via RTP then The Clearing House banks aren't going to come after stripe for the money. They'll tell the end user "whoops, should've taken better care of your digital info. Bye!"

source: Worked at a payment processor and worked on payout rails and integrating with banks. Also do work now as an end user of a different payment processor that does charging, payouts, etc.

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How is it for PCI compliance? Which of the PCI DSS requirements outlines this?

Number 8 on the list is "Radix". When you look into levels.fyi, it shows the salary as $25k.

There's definitely some publicly traded tech companies that are missing from the list.

We're not talking about healthcare though. We're talking about advertising. This law doesn't affect the situation you've brought up.

This isn't a ban on companies from collecting personal data. This is a ban for Meta (it's unclear to me if other companies are included) to process user data for the purpose of behavioral advertising.

> We were discussing haircuts in the morning and I showed her some photos online. 15 minutes later she opened Facebook and saw hairdresser commercial with THOSE EXACT haircuts we were discussing.

Genuine question but what's the harm here? Or what's the negative consequence? I understand that this is creepy, people find it uncomfortable or odd, but what about it is harmful or so negative?

> Homebuyers needed a $114,000 salary to afford a typical home in September — assuming a 7.2% mortgage rate with 20% down on a median priced home of $412,001 — according to real estate brokerage Redfin Corp.

Interesting. I wonder what it is for Seattle then.

> The median listing home price in Seattle, WA was $829K in September 2023, trending down -2.5% year-over-year. The median listing home price per square foot was $584. The median home sold price was $799.5K.

Says redfin (https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Seattle_WA...).

Seattle median household income is ~115,000 according to Seattle times (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-media...). This means that one of the highest earning cities in the U.S. isn't able to comfortably afford a home, even at median prices. So then I wonder how many people are moving into Seattle with high incomes in order to buy homes and such.

It's also very surprising to me that the median home sold price in Seattle is more than New York City.

Home rates are closer to 8%. The redfin calculator puts a $490k home near me at just under $3200/mo with 20% down.

So over $36k a year. I'm in Washington, so no income tax. Let's say $100k income, single person. No pre tax deductions and you'll be bringing home $6200/mo. So over 50% of your take home goes to mortgage alone.

In your example, your home prices were roughly 3x-4x your annual income. Compared to your example of prices being 5x.

Conditional breakpoints in IntelliJ were big for me when I discovered them. It's helpful when there's many iterations of the same function so you can stop at specific inputs.

I've never done a language upgrade. I don't know what it takes. I've heard 8->11 is painful and 11->17 is not. So doesn't that mean jumping from 8->17 directly is mostly the same as going from 8->11?

I'm not saying there is no benefit. I'm not saying there is no risk. I agree that going from 8->17 would be worse than 8->11->17.

My point is to list out reasons why a team may not be able to just spend a day upgrading (dependency issues) or why someone might not be given the time to do it.

1) you're assuming every one is on Gradle 6 or higher lol. I can assure you that is not true.

2) Sure, pushing and making the decision are not the same thing. I can complain and persuade as much as possible and it doesn't mean it's going to happen.

3) I agree that you want people who care about improving software. Upgrading language versions isn't always the best route to do that though.

4) I don't think everyone on the team is reading about the latest updates in the world of Java. I think a pretty small portion of engineers are keeping 100% up to date, following Twitter accounts for Java dev, watching YouTube videos on it, etc. All that is educational and that's great to know but for most people, it's not going to help them work better because they know about features they can't use.

5) definitely sounds aggressive but okay. I haven't found a company yet who's complained about working in Java 8 versus 11/17. If a company is hiring for a role that uses Java, they're likely not limiting their candidates to those who've used their version of Java. It's a pretty standard language and if you know any other object oriented language, you'll be fine.

1) dependencies need to be upgraded. for example, not all versions of Gradle support all Java versions. So you need to upgrade Gradle to upgrade Java.

2) other things are deemed to have higher priority.

3) people are satisfied with existing features and don't want to spend energy to upgrade to something that doesn't provide immediate value.

4) folks aren't educated on what the benefit of switching would be so why would it be prioritized? This is a case of "they don't know what they don't know".

I work on a team using Java 8 daily. It's fine. It's got things I wish it didn't (no null in switch statements for example) but I don't care about that so much that I'm going to go through the pain of upgrading 7-9 services in the mono repo, their dependencies, and then test them all to be on a new version of Java.

100%. In general, if you're submitting a PR for a bug fix then an automated test (ideally a unit test) should be included in the PR that tests the bug fix.

Even if all chatgpt did was save you two clicks per search, and maybe saved the time spent highlighting the portion that needs to be copied, isn't that still valuable?

>This is exactly the point. The objective of these laws is not to deter illegal possession of firearms. That's already super, duper, triple, illegal. It's to deter the law abiding from exercising their Constitutional rights.

right. the law is not to deter illegal possession, it's to deter certain kinds of manufacturing.

> There is no situation in which a criminal could be charged with these laws, where the criminal would not already be facing decadess of prison time for illegal possession of a firearm.

Someone manufactures the weapon and then sells it. If you have no proof of possession you have no case. If you have proof of manufacturing firearms, then you have a case.

Saying "law A should not exist because if law A were broken, law B would already be broken" does make sense if that can be guaranteed to be true, however it's not possible to provide that guarantee, therefore that logic doesn't make sense to go with.

Laws exist at deterrents don't they? An extreme example: if we removed all laws, would there be more acts of crime (as judged by the laws that were removed)?

I bet yes. Which means, the laws existence does deter people from doing certain things. It doesn't deter 100% of people, but the percentage is greater than 0.

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I mentioned this in another post but here's my take.

Background: I graduated from school in Spring 2020 and started at my first full time software in Aug 2020. I've began going to the office about 4 days a week since Feb 2023. Prior to that, I had only been in an office twice ever (excluding my 2019 internship).

Here's some points that make in office tough for me to enjoy.

* When I'm in office, stuck on a problem and need to just think, what can I do? I can stare at other people. I can hear other conversations, others typing, etc. When I'm at home, I can do basic home chores like fold laundry.

* When I'm in office, my lunch options are more limited. I either need to buy lunch, bring it, or select from what work has catered. Bringing a lunch limits options and takes time at home to prepare. When I'm at home, I can eat whatever, whenever. No pressure to sit with people I with with. No comments about why am I eating what I'm eating.

* I typically feel more isolated in the office than I do at home. In the office, I can see others walking around having conversations. I don't know anyone outside of my direct team. Even then, collaboration is very low. With no meetings, I'll talk for maybe 15-20 minutes in the day. At home, I am alone, but I'm not watching others actively socialize. This is more of a me problem than anything.

There are also things I don't like about being in the office in general. I don't like that others speak in languages I don't understand. The monitors, chairs and lighting are worse than at home. The office is in a not great area, and I walk so it's not a nice commute.

Overall, I've come to really enjoy and be excited for my work from home days.

They speak Mandarin. I don't know much about other languages, but I've heard that's notoriously difficult to learn.

It's also not just my team. I see other tables at lunch and other teams having conversations in what I assume is the same language. I have a hard time differentiating based on sound.

I graduated from school in Spring 2020 and started working in Aug 2020. In that timeframe, I had not been inside an employers office more than 3 times. Since Mar 2023, we've had a "mandatory" 4 days in office every week. Here's what I've experienced since going the office:

* Occasionally I'll get a good conversation with a teammate or manager about something technical, but the frequency has not gone up. The technical conversations are still scheduled on a calendar and happen at the same frequency. I really haven't experienced many people stopping at my desk and I think I've only stopped at the junior engineers desk to check in.

* Socializing at work has not been my strong suit. I am pretty introverted when it comes to strangers (e.g. anyone who has not been introduced to me). I find the socializing to be more energy draining.

* I walk to work. I like that typically. The walk can be... disturbing to say the least since I walk through downtown Seattle.

* A lot of people in the office prefer to speak to each other in languages other than english. Everyone on my team (my manager + all my coworkers on my team) prefer speaking something other than english and do so unless I'm involved in the conversation. This surprised me and at times I find it frustrating because I wish I could know what they're chatting about when it's technical (certain keywords I can pickup on since they're the name of internal things).

* working in office 4 days a week has given me something to really look forward to each week, and that's the WFH day.

* I don't think my productivity has gone up. Some days it's definitely worse. Now there's an obligation to go sit and eat with others for 30min-1hr a day. Previously, I'd just bring my lunch to my desk and continue to work.

I don't think my experience is the norm. But I certainly miss the pure WFH days.

I think "secure" is the key part that's missing here. There's no incentive for a consumer to use a payment method such as this when paying with a bank. The reason is that credit cards come with consumer protection that this just doesn't offer.

If I am a merchant and want to get started by hooking up to the FedNow service, is that possible to do so with a direct connection?

If I am a service provider, and want to use the FedNow service to power one of my offerings, how can I get started with that?

Can you share some examples hobby projects? I'd like to get into using c++, however I'm having a hard time thinking of things where it makes sense to use it. Most things I'd be interested in have a java/JavaScript/python SDK and C++ is nowhere to be found or mentioned.

Still in a long, you can represent micro "cents" (e.g. 1,000,000 = 1 unit of the currencies smallest unit, for USD thats cents). It's just a matter of scaling things up or down to the level of granularity that you require.