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Deutsche Bank is effectively calling remote workers leeches on the economy. The irony is staggering.

I mostly agree with your sentiment, except on hiring. I've gotten several offers from French companies for Sr. Engineer roles and the problem isn't that your developers are lazy - it's that software companies in France don't pay anywhere near market wages compared to the rest of the globe. Last year I was offered the equivalent of US 70K to take on an ambitious Sr. Eng. Role. That's less than half what I'd expect in the states.

Seriously. If you're going to sell out, at least make it worth your while.

> There needs to be a national mandate and actual enforcement of mask wearing to stop the spread.

That assumes that the masks are as effective as claimed, that mass enforcement is even feasible, and that the Federal govt. has the right to create such a mandate. I don't believe we have enough data to know the efficacy of masks, especially handmade masks out in the field. Mass enforcement of mask wearing, even if it was somehow cost affordable to task law enforcement with, would likely be met with heavy protest or open revolt in the United States by various civil rights groups.

There's nothing wrong with being concerned about safety, especially these days. However, it's not so simple as 'pass a mask law', and if you really think about it ... there's a silver lining there. Do you want to be ruled by a government who can tell you what to wear, when to wear it, how to wear it — even if you dissent? Once there is a precedent for a national mask law, the Federal government can use that to push for further loss of freedoms for individuals and states. I'm not saying the mask law concept is intentionally being pushed to erode freedoms, rather, that it has the potential to do so.

Businesses can already refuse service for any reason not protected by Federal/State law. That's plenty of grounds to kick out a non mask wearer. I don't see the need for additional laws, enforcement, or government spending. Let businesses and employees decide the level of risk they are willing to take.

For Oakland, that's marijuana decriminalization only though. Portugal's decriminalization affected all major street narcotics.

Full disclosure, I know next to nothing about solar markets. What about putting panels on vehicles? Couldn't the market for cells on vehicles overtake the existing solar market?

> 6. RDB files are now faster to load. You can expect a 20/30% improvement, depending on the file actual composition (larger or smaller values). INFO is also faster now when there are many clients connected, this was a long time problem that now is finally gone.

Talk about humble bragging.

One of these days the chickens are gonna come home to roost.

I get that people want to stop the spread of Nazi propaganda, but making it so that people can't purchase Mein Kampf just because of the ideas that it contains is reminiscent of a dystopian novel. Where are independent researchers supposed to get access to these books in their printed form? The internet is already subjected to massive censorship and historical revisionism. It's a bit troubling to think of a world where Amazon determines what information is and is not available to the public.

> how come this very well-organized, lead by world-class professionals and covered up by incredibly influential people (both on the "offending" and "blackmailed" sides) operation gets "cleaned up" in a way such that every fucking couch potato in the internet (HN included) sees that this is obviously staged? Mossad cannot silently get rid of people?

It's classic spycraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout

What do you mean last 30 days of events? I use Stripe's API's daily and you can go back much further than that.

> “And if your orientation is just about making money, I don’t think you’re going to hang out very long as a CEO or a founder of a company.”

If you're a competent CEO, don't expect to be a CEO for very long...what a time to be alive.

So for nearly two decades take a pay cut of tens of thousands of dollars just to catch up at age 40?

Even if there were any citations to back up the claims in this article, it wouldn't make any sense!

Seriously. Wake me up when it hits $250 a share again.

Came here to say this. As an added bonus you can set up Forestry to connect to your page if you use a static site generator. Its unbeatable.

$9.1M fine, while Comcast makes profits upward of $35B/year. This is like getting a speeding ticket for them.

That's not a privacy violation. Her data wasn't collected, a series of numbers was tagged. The person tagging the number could be entering the tag as anything they want.

Why do you think small business loan fraud is so high? What could be done to prevent it?

> America is, at its core, a nasty, venal, selfish and racist culture.

No bias to see here folks. Move along.

Trump voters and conservatives rarely care about pissing off liberals. Remember the internet is a crazy place where those who shout the loudest get the most attention. The vast majority of people are relatively sane and aren't out to hurt anybody. I'd encourage you to have an honest conversation with a few Trump voters before making blanket accusations.

People seem to think that all Trump voters care about is the economy. In reality, most of the ones I've met care deeply about their families and their country. They tend to see left wing policies as a threat to their future and the future of their children.

That's en masse though. There are plenty of folks who went from >1M net worth into the negative.

The currently missing number is 3T and growing. An extra 300B is 1/10 of the needed funds assuming the debt cycle stopped now.

How long so you think you can charge an individual or company an "extra 100M"? Realistically would you stay in a country that suddenly added an extra 100M to your tax bill?

> ...the fact is, hate speech is profitable. It’s killing our society and our planet...

Source? Hate speech has been part of every major society since at least the time of the Egyptians. The opposite could easily be true. Hate speech might be an integral part of society. Its also not very profitable. That's why companies police their own content. No reasonable company wants their advertisement associated with the Klan. As for hate speech's effect on the planet -- I don't think the Earth cares who hates who.

> The gender wage gap is mostly a penalty for bearing children.

> Men also worked, on average, a few more weekly hours and had a bit more prior experience as they entered the workforce.

> Childless women have earnings that are quite similar to men’s salaries, while mothers experience a significant wage gap.

Hard-hitting stuff Vox. I've got some ideas for the next article in this series, feel free to use any of them:

- Shocking study shows micro-transactions prey on children

- Groundbreaking research shows businesses don't trust ex-convicts

- Scientists prove that Captain Crunch damages the roof of your mouth

One thing to remember is that these numbers are typically for Bay Area or Seattle -- places where commuting isn't a feasible option unless you don't mind 2+ hours on the road every day. For San Francisco, making $300k/year you're looking at $185,464 take-home pay.

> In San Francisco and nearby San Mateo and Marin Counties it said $117,400 for a family of four was "low income", while $73,300 (£54,900) was "very low income" - the highest figures anywhere in the country. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44725026)

The cost of living in these areas is high and is still growing rapidly. At the end of the day, working in a tech hub is still a middle class to upper middle class job. You can achieve similar or better results in states like Utah and Texas, with a much better work/life balance.

I'm an ex-Californian and moved to a saner state. Total comp for me is roughly ~$150K, with almost all the bells and whistles you'd expect from Silicon Valley (still waiting for 401K matching). My commute is 20 mins and soon to be 5 mins. Property values for a large home where I live are still floating in the $500K range, with only 0.5% property tax. I haven't even topped out the market here either -- I know people making $170K salary + benefits out here.

Automated lending approval. As digital financial systems evolve and conglomerate into a connected ecosystem businesses/people will no longer seek loans -- instead lenders will automatically approve and offer credit that will be instantly available to worthy applicants. This already occurs, but in the future the process will occur in a fraction of the time behind the scenes.

I think you may be underestimating how much value conservatives place on improving the economy. Legalizing the marijuana market on the federal level will create a gold rush in the financial markets. New tax sources, new jobs, stacks of hidden money being deposited in banking institutions, marijuana securities, licensing fees -- all brought in by a relatively safe drug. I wouldn't be surprised if the bill gets passed.

give this man an internet

Same. The part of Markdown applications that sucks is that they use Electron. Markdown is supposed to be lightweight, free, and universal. If I wanted a heavy editor and file format I'd use Word or Google Docs.

Give this man an internet.

Oracle is living on borrowed time. They secured vendor lock-in by selling custom solutions to big name industries -- hotels, finance, etc. Now its common knowledge that buying Oracle is selling your soul. There's no way out once you're in. I haven't seen a single startup running on Oracle -- because their pricing is so out of whack when compared with the alternatives that no one in their right mind would launch with Oracle as a dependency. Oracle has been selling the same old stuff for decades with hardly a blip on the innovation radar. Meanwhile open source database engines are being ran in production at scale without a hitch.

Cloud providers are making money not off the database software -- but from managing the infrastructure needed to scale, backup, and secure those databases. They are providing actual value to their customers, rather than asking for a pound of flesh.

If Oracle wants to keep their golden spot in the sun its time they stopped resting on their laurels and started giving their customers a fair shake.