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About 75% according to this: https://www.essilorusa.com/newsroom/vision-impact-institute-...

I noticed this "getting to yes" attitude with my lawyer , and realized after a while it was because all the back and forth communication, discovery, on and on... it all took forever, and at pretty much any point the other side could choose to throw a wrench in the works. It's something I really tried to internalize after my divorce finally ended after two years and many thousands of dollars in legal fees, finally settling for near what the ex and I had discussed before we brought lawyers into the picture.

I have to ask if you are speaking from experience here or just dislike lawyers based on tropes in our culture?

Having been through a 2 year legal battle myself, I can tell you that the complexity is there for a reason, and that reason is lawyers arguing a client's case, the court reconsidering their previous opinion, and hopefully a more fair outcome going forward. The world is far more complex than we can imagine, otherwise we'd be able to write perfect, simple laws.

Let me give you a challenge: Say my wife and I are getting a divorce, and we are splitting up community property. I have options and RSUs (any equity asset on a vesting schedule really) that I was awarded before we were married, some that were awarded after, some awarded before that vested after our date of separation. These all have different vesting schedules, strike prices, and hypothetical future value (stock might tank, might leave before it all vests, etc). What is a simple law to determine what dollar value I owe my ex for her interest in this community property?

While I don't disagree with much of what you said, I think it misses the point of the article, which is that the legal industry has a hard time using new tech, because they don't trust anything not created in-house. Breaking into the market is difficult, even if the gains the tech would bring are enormous.

I've seen this first hand, as I had a brutal two year long divorce case, and in spending time with my attorney, got to see many opportunities for technology to improve their jobs. I actually wrote some Python to calculate something called the Hug/Nelson formula to figure out community property interest in options/RSUs. I was really surprised that nothing existed to do this for me, and even played with the idea of making an app to sell to lawyers, because they are seeing more and more divorce cases with these types of assets being split. But where to start? How do you "certify" something to the degree that a lawyer will trust it? It's a huge market potential I think, but the status quo seems pretty entrenched.

Anecdata, but I spent about $30K in attorney and court fees during my divorce, and I got a reduced hourly rate and retainer because I was buddies with a guy that clerked for him.

It definitely didn't feel like a bargain, but so much of what you are paying for is the knowledge of what needs to be filled, when, maintaining the case docket, serving discovery, filing motions, etc. and all of these can be incredibly puzzling for someone not familiar with proceedings of the court.

I understand that. I wasn't asking for an explanation of what it was, just asking for data since I found it surprising.

Homestar Runner reference?

Interesting stat on employee theft being bigger than shoplifting, can you link to some support for that?

I feel like the first time you see a vim/emacs power user is one of those eye-opening moments in your learning.

Also, the top earner, besides being self-taught only claims 5 years experience. I wonder what the story is.

Great article and data, thanks for doing this.

Small note: you have a typo, "long tale" should be "long tail".

An interesting data point is that the highest salary ($206,000) also reports as"self-taught".

My questions were based in the video I linked above, which it sounds like may be incorrect in the way it presents the topic?

I just realized I was replying to the wrong parent comment! So sorry. I was talking about a PBS Space Time episode on YouTube I saw in (or came across via) a different comment.

https://youtu.be/KePNhUJ2reI

Thanks for the detailed reply!

One point that was made in the video was that inside a black hole, space is collapsing faster than light. This seems like more than a change to coordinate system? Doesn't this mean that time is also moving faster than light? Could time effectively become "solid" at the singularity, with all events within the black hole's light cone at a single point in time, but in infinite space(ignoring Hawking Radiation)?

Thanks for linking to the video, it was the most informative handling of the subject I have seen.

After watching, I have a question, please forgive if it is ridiculous or displays some fundamental problem with my layman's understanding of the subject.

If time becomes space-like, and space becomes time-like, can we think of black holes as "time stars"? Would every black hole within our observable universe contain information from all light cones within the observable universe? In other words, would different black holes contain different information?

Does my question make sense?

>Fabric in the sense that you cannot travel across space without also traveling across time.

* Unless you happen to be a photon.

The scooters and bikes are a complete nuisance in my city. The companies littered almost every intersection with 4-8 scooters. I don't see the bikes as much anymore, other than stolen ones that every homeless person seems to have now. I have seen a total of 3 people riding the scooters ever. They are often tipped over into the sidewalk or into the bike lane or roadway. You can go into certain parts of town and it literally looks like all sidewalk space has been surrended to parking lots for these bikes and scooters.

The old Sans Serif font trick! Haven't seen that since the AOL days.

That's how we do it also. You need to integrate a new process that is triggered on base image rebuild that redeploys your container with the new base image (which has security fixes, etc). This pipeline needs to start in Dev and be applied in all your environments, so that you know you are promoting a good base image once you get to production.

We use Kubernetes to trigger rolling restarts with new images when we release a change to the base image, and so far it's been painless, but a lot of work went into it. We use Gitlab, but any CI/CD should allow you to do it.

Yeah, I think I have an understanding now. We use tagged Docker base images with the app dependencies baked in so you can just use a FROM your Dockerfile and know you have the dependencies in the image and you just add and run your app code.

I'm not sure if I understand correctly. Are you saying that you run venv commands as part of the build step for your containers (i.e. a RUN line in you Dockerfile) and then pip installing modules in another build step?

Just a note - palm trees are part of the grass family, and have more in common with bamboo and turf grass than they do with trees. It doesn't surprise me that they would be different.

That's even more confusing! :)

*If by some chance you haven't seen the BG reboot by now, this is a bit of a spoiler. :)

There's a reason it reminds you of it...

My apologies is I misread what you said, it looked like your reply was to "anyone running their own cluster is insane" in the previous comment. And as I said, to me that means "on their own bare metal servers".

I'm talking about getting a Kubernetes cluster (of any kind really, but specifically on-prem) _integrated_ and doing useful things with existing legacy workflows inside your company using an existing infrastructure is a larger task than I see it made out to be.

Are you using GKE for your production environment? Kubernetes has lots of great features, and definitely imposes some good operational patterns, but it's no panacea, and for those of us who can't put their applications in the cloud (or don't want to) Kubernetes can be a complex beast to integrate.

Are you running databases in Kubernetes? Do you have any existing on-prem infrastructure that you want to utilize (or are required to, because sunk costs) to integrate with Kubernetes?

Is you company a startup with no existing legacy application that you need to figure out how to containerize before you can even think about getting it into Kubernetes? We've seen benefits from running it, for sure, but I'm honestly not sure if the amount of work it took (and still takes) to make it work for us was worth the ROI.

Sometimes I feel like Kubernetes is a play by Google to get everyone using their methodology, but only they can provide the seamless experience of GKE.

I really think that all Kubernetes related posts and articles need a footnote -

"Kubernetes allows you to scale simply!"*

"Kubernetes takes minutes to set up!"*

*When using GKE or another managed service.

I guess it depends on your definition of "small projects". I agree with the article that if you are interested in getting something out there for people to use and see what kind of interest you get, then adding Kubernetes to the mix doesn't really get you there faster. If anything, I think it would slow you down, unless we are talking about a very trivial app.

I was responding more to the comments I had been reading, not the premise of the article.