JamesBarney

Unions probably have better severance packages but how many times is a typical worker laid off in their life?

There are costs to increasing the cost of a layoff. It means corporations will rely on credentialism more, and take fewer risks. I'd rather live in a world where you can jump into software without a college degree, but maybe have to save a little money at your very well paying job than one that only hires college grads with a 3.5 GPA but you get a generous severance package.

> So someone working more hours at a legit job is less likely to commit a crime? I think that's likely. For one, more hours worked probably means somewhat less need for money. But I would also imagine that it's indicative of some personal traits which correlate negatively with criminality.

Agreed

> I think you forgot to link the study, but I believe the results.

I definitely did forget to link the study. I'd try to find it again if it was a point of contention but it doesn't sound like it is.

> I just think that impulse control may be impacted by environmental circumstances such as poverty and a lack of quality education.

I think peer group and culture have a large impact. I'm not aware of any studies showing you can train self-control in any meaningful sense (if we could we wouldn't need to put so many people on adderall). And I'd be surprised if we can't train self-control when we try to train it, but are very successful at training it at school where we aren't specifically trying to train it.

Also just from personal experience I've seen a few poor->rich and rich->poor transitions and it didn't seem to meaningfully affect their personality. But if you have studies or anecdotes that tell a different story, I'd love to hear them.

I would bet money the correlation between number of hours worked and criminality is inverse. (Here's some evidence that increasing the minimum wage increases crimes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004727272...)

In terms of impulse control, here's a study that shows people commit less crimes on Adderall than off of it, which in addition to all the correlational studies is pretty strong evidence that improving impulse control reduces criminality. Also in my personal life I know people who are poor and rich and too a man everyone I know who's committed the types of crimes we care about had some combination of poor impulse control or psychopathy.

There is a strong link between poverty and crime within a society but that strong link starts to weaken when you look across different societies, especially in the same region. And in a society as rich as the US, most are stealing because of a want, not stealing to fulfill a biological need like housing, medication, or food.

There are many traits that increase both your risk of poverty and criminality, such as poor impulse control.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-vs-gdp-pc

Of course they'll have a much larger effect on hotel price than rental price. Hotels have more elastic demand (people can visit other places) and less elastic supply (building new hotels is effectively banned under NYC law).

In a well functioning city you just build more buildings so you can have tourists and locals.

Hotels will get more expensive, competition does not limit the effects of supply and demand. But rents will become less expensive.

Regions do not support tourism for the sake of the tourist. They support tourism, because tourists spend lots of money which flows into the pockets of the people that work there. Tourists spend around 48 billion on the NYC economy.

Sorry I'm not arguing the content is bad, there are lots of very intellectually satisfying and societally important topics that need to be debated and settled that are all culture war related.

But hacker news has just decided that it's going to try stay away from most of the culture war topics because a lot of the debate (on the site) starts to devolve into flame wars and unproductive conversations.

Because it's a culture way topic, which tend to end in flame wars which is what hacker news is trying to avoid.

On his twitter Coleman says that his youtube views were what he was expecting, it's the view directly from the TED Talk website that seemed surprisingly low.

If you are actively going through bankruptcy there are usually restrictions on payment.

You can get in trouble if your company has a lot of debts and you "pay" your uncle a million dollars for a bs job or you gives yourself a bonus.

But paying devs that built something for you in the ordinary course of business is not really going to get you in trouble in any but the most extreme circumstances.

IANAL but I think it depends on the break up. If you resigned from the company then that means you don't have any legal control of the funds. If you are still a valid officer of the company than paying debts you owe shouldn't be an issue.

Not paying the offshore devs could also theoretically lead to a lawsuit. A lawsuit for not being paid is an easier lawsuit to win than suing a business partner for paying valid expenses the company had accrued.

But you should definitely talk to a lawyer.

I am also not a lawyer, but the worst problems a startup can have are not ones that break your startup immediately. They are ones that break your project or startup after years of work.

Standard of living increases are made 1 job loss at a time. It sucks, we should supports people's transitions, but I don't think we should hold back progress.

The amount they spend on server costs should be an eye opener to most enterprises who are spending 10x more and have 100x fewer users.

If the boss said "put that we pen tested" couldn't op argue that he was answering to the best of his knowledge given the information the director gave him. As long as he had the email receipts, or would there be an argument that he should have known differently and shouldn't have replied on the other directors assertion that it had been pen tested.

And using a game engine lets you take those risks because you can iterate and release faster.

Studios will take more risk on a $3m game than a $6m game.

C#/.NET Core

This might backfire.

Large scale landlords and would be tenants are both pretty familiar with the market. The only people not familiar with the market are mom and pop landlords who tend to not update rent with changing market conditions. This increased transparency might cause them to raise rents because it'd be easier to do comps, and they wouldn't previously undercharging a tenant to make it harder to find a new tenant at a higher price.

Per interaction they are more likely to experience violence per police office but per interaction black Americans are all about equally likely to die to law enforcement as the average.

Are you not getting interviews or not getting passed the interviews?

Yes I'm also against cartels who coordinate their purchasing of labor.

But the people who donated that money to the non-profit can't receive any profits? And the expected tax benefits of donating a dollar are always less than a dollar, so that doesn't make any sense.

Sure. This is based on US unions, I don't know if they operate differently in other countries. Germany seems to have better unions but I not very familiar with them.

I had some limited business dealings with them that were super shady. Weird nepotism rules where people get their sons/nephews hired. Generally pay based on seniority not skill. Makes it really hard to fire bad actors or people bad at their job. (see teacher's union/police union) Leads to incredibly weird inefficiencies about who can do what. If unions were in software a dev couldn't update a Jira ticket except under very specific circumstances. Generally makes it harder to get a job.

If it just increased pay that'd be awesome, but it tends to have a lot of knock on effects. If the U.S. was completely unionized I think we'd all be poorer for it. I think there are better tools in the policy toolkit to make sure people who are struggling in the economy are taken care of.

This article takes a story about some creators getting screwed out of their company by a crooked CEO and makes it about unions.

Whether or not creative artists should unionize (I'm generally anti-union but the game industry working conditions seemed so screwed up I think it's needed) this wasn't a dispute between employees and owners, but a dispute between two owners. One of which was a sophisticated unethical CEO and the unsophisticated creatives owners who built the game.

The Open AI corporation is owned by a non-profit.

San Francisco and the Midwest probably have wildly different base rates of creationist beliefs.

The Great CEO Within is great for learning how to operate a company.

100% agree. A company that is trying to hit a billion in ARR is not 1000x less like to fail than one that is trying to make a million in ARR.

I just meant there are people trying to achieve his goal (of building a small SaaS), but they are unable to do it in the same way that he wants to achieve his goal (raising 600k on an idea).