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I’m highlighting that a minimum wage hike is not the answer.
And depending on your constitution chronic stress is quite compatible with a high QoL. Ask any new parents for example.
I hear you but you are looking at it from a very skewed perspective.
Look at college - you don’t need it to gain a high level of education anymore. It’s still very useful to get into better jobs - but those jobs are paying way more than $10/hr.
Likewise where I’m from rents have been fairly stable for the past decade. The major cities with ever increasing rent have average jobs paying a lot higher than $10/hr.
On healthcare - it’s already been covered better by others here but it’s not a big concern.
I had a good quality of life on around that as a single man.
Of course if you live in SF where a coffee can set you back $5 or $6 and you eat out for half your meals it’s hard to really understand.
The biggest downside was not the pay but the stability which was a constant source of stress.
Over the long term it will help drive automation which will lower the cost of cars and bring jobs to the countries with high levels of education and training.
Were there riots along with the protests? Because there are now.
> I posted a link to a reputable news source. The right wing militias are well known, and the “boogaloo” has been well documented.
Can you show me a reputable news source with an exposé on them before 2019? I can for example with other far right groups like the proud boys.
> I’m on their side, 100%. You?
I’m not on Antifas side - I don’t condone political violence.
Do they consider them stupid before they learn about their flat earth beliefs or after?
I found a few of my work colleagues are into it - and they are high performing engineers at a top tech firm.
If it’s the “people” kind then what you have to realize is actual conspiracies happen all the time - there are many interwoven plots, ulterior motives, and hidden agendas going on all around you.
People are generally good at noticing that something doesn’t add up - much worse at working out what might have actually happened.
They have also been lied to and mislead by our institutions often enough that they are unlikely to trust your sources or corrections.
The only long term solution I can think of is to clean up our institutions - but that won’t happen overnight.
If it’s the “flat earth” kind - overall these people are higher than average intelligence and fairly well versed in the topics they are discussing - and so unless you yourself understand the subject matter they will run circles around you.
This second group are actually really interesting to talk to and ask interesting questions - for example why do pilots fly without adjusting for the curvature of the earth? Why do many long distance snipers not adjust for the curvature of the earth? Etc etc.
I’m sure there are great scientific explanations - and I’m also sure that many in the flat earth crowd would listen.
To foster solidarity amongst the working class.
Organizations change.
In the same way that just because the democratic party has a horribly racist history doesn’t make the current party horribly racist.
> By the by, a lot of the “left wing” violence recently was caused by right wing militia “boogaloo” people.
The “boogaloo” are a conspiracy theory.
Which is more believable:
1) A far-left wing group that has been around for decades and part of many violent protests across Europe and has branches in the US is involved in another set of left wing violent protests.
Or
2) A right wing group that nobody has heard of and doesn’t seem to be associated with any of the exisiting far-right movements has deeply infiltrated left wing protests and is causing trouble.
Since I’m partial to conspiracy theories (2) might be possible if it’s actually the feds.
How many times do you think this happens to white people? It’s incredibly common.
I keep a “to poach” list of developers who aren’t being given the respect, challenge, title, pay etc that they deserve and at this point it’s close to 20% of the developers Ive worked with.
Do they? HN seems small compared to 4chan and tiny compared to Facebook.
I’d say more than three quarters of my tech friends have never been on HN whereas they have all been on Facebook at one point.
What happens to the “experts” when they are wrong?
> Also I can’t believe you “know” something is “important enough to interrupt them”
> “junior” dev is worth a quarter of a million dollars a year
So the objectives of what you are working on are very clear and yet your very highly paid colleagues aren’t responsible or sensible enough to understand when it’s appropriate to interrupt you?
I’m not understanding how you can possibly understand and prioritise your colleagues requests for help in 5 seconds.
I’d say it takes me 2-3 minutes to understand the average request I get. And it’s 2-3 minutes of deep thought.
What facts? What alt-right fringe?
Trump was voted in by tens of millions of Americans and still has tens of millions of supporters.
> At the top management level, they are probably weighing the possibility that he never leaves office (a plausible scenario at this point)
Trump is in his 70s...
> since you don’t have the courage to write down and justify your true beliefs
What true beliefs are you hinting at here and why would they take courage to write down?
You can’t talk about nuance when we aren’t even reading the same book.
ISPs have a tiny fraction of the power of big tech.
There is plenty of grey area - but as soon as you start pushing politics with your platform you have well and truly crossed the line.
The tech giants get special protection because most people see the grey.
If what he said was a lie then all the tweets about the gender pay gap are lies (as an example).
Where are the fact checks on those tweets?
Choosing who to fact check based on political alignment certainly seems to push twitter into publisher territory.
Because at the end of the day most managers aren’t really concerned with productivity - it’s far easier and less emotionally draining to just proscribe blanket bans.
That’s one of the main reasons remote working hasn’t taken off more.
Most of the time the communication is within the team and we do know the other team members situations (work wise).
And we have decided it is important enough to interrupt them.
And we are mostly knowledge workers who understand the cost of interruptions.
Yes, there are bad eggs who waste everyone’s time, but they are in the small minority.
What I find happens a lot is devs focus on their personal productivity ahead of the teams productivity.
I think that’s how the vast majority of office communication works.
If you are properly evaluating the request then you are already knocked out of the zone.
It originally sounded like you were saying you would say the equivalent of “Mate, if the buildings not on fire then send me an email and I’ll get back to you”.
Because that’s how remote staff often get treated - with calls etc just not answered.
If I’m coming to talk to you then I think it’s important enough to interrupt you.
You are in effect gimping local communication.
So the right answer is to answer calls etc from remote colleagues promptly - not to ignore local coworkers who walk over.
It’s not to make local communication less effective to prop up remote work.
Unlikely. Once the constant negative media coverage dies down the hate will fade as well.
Why?
Compared to what?
From my perspective the tech censors are already on thin ice - I actually don’t see how they could ramp up efforts much more without facing serious opposition.
It is too soon to argue any of those measures.
You can’t take a single moment in time in the middle of a crisis to judge.
That’s probably a bad metric because his supporters love him.
It’s the swing voters making those kinds of comments because they want to vote for him but he’s done some dodgy things.
Perhaps you are judging him by the wrong metrics?
Trump has always wanted to be a “great man” of history while being able to live a life of excess.
Despite huge deplatforming efforts over the last decade fringe views have grown to become mainstream and there is less trust between people than ever.