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Does anyone know if there are any active organizations/agencies/startups working on solution to match empty nester with young renters?

I have an uneducated hunch that due to houses becoming more of an retirement investment, older people with no dependants are not downsizing, causing downward pressure and not allowing younger people to move into larger houses to raise families.

It's incredible how "fast" US is moving on this vs neighbor directly north.

Canada is truely and increasingly falling backwards into the stone ages in areas were fed regulation comes before technology.

There's no other way BUT bring politics into this since if we want to move forward on federal regulated payment infrustruction, change must come from the government.

the current Liberal government want to keep chasing feel good leftwing policies than enable more business of all sizes to compete in a global stage.

Sad times.

Oh come off it. Lots of professions like journalism are supported by ad dollars and work for a company who makes money via ads. Influencers are no different than working for a news corp as a journalist, just without the "noble" fakery

Low code allows "less" sunken cost when the inevitable misalignment of requirements happen.

It's same reason why design starts on napkins, then wireframes, and then low def, high def and eventually a fully interactive prototype.

In software we dive into code way to eagerly and way too early in the product process.

Equating no/low code tools to full on dev is impossible. Just as you wouldn't/shouldn't equate a design prototype to napkin scribbles.

market forces and inflation will force corporations to look for domestic productions. short term pain for long term gain.

That's correct. I don't know their scope. But there could be many ways to expand it.

For example FB has an sdk that you can install in your app and then follow your user across the internet and serve ads to them.

Apple could do the same.

Not sure how privacy would come in.

- marketplaces has demand and supply

- demand are the buyers (people who spend the money)

- supply are the sellers (people who has the goods)

- online digital ads are typically sold and bought in a marketplace style system

- demand are the advertisers

- supply are people with the "goods", in this case, ad placement slots such as websites, newsletters, apps, app stores.. anywhere the advertiser can find audience and put an ad.

- demand side platform is a platform for the advertisers to connect with the supply.

I actually think it's the opposite. We put TOO much emphasis on epiphanic breakthroughs and often incorrectly attribute major discoveries to seemingly moments of epiphany. Einstein's biggest discovery took him decades to formalize, and definitely was not a eureka moment.

Hey David, late last year my cofounder convinced me to try out Retool so we can rapidly spin up a prototype for a potential customer.

We spun up the prototype in a couple of weeks without much hassle. It was a huge success. so much so that the customer who we created the prototype for decided to invest 6 figures into our business.

it's 6 months later, albeit we've outgrown the prototype, I've learnt valuable lesson in prototyping fast, like as fast as you can and get it out the door.

looking forward in seeing what retool can become next. more stability, or ability to write/perform some automated testing would be amazing.

values of NFT is derived on the eagerness for the buyer to signal virtue. It's the same reason a gamer would spend $20,000 in purchases in game items/loot boxes.

SHOP has $8B cash on hand. is a profitable business. how is that anywhere close to the definition of a failed business??

> One explanation might be that it’s an expected effect of the blurring of social boundaries today. In the past, if the size of your community was finitely bounded (like a village, or an aristocratic social class), people didn’t enter or exit these communities as frequently. Under these conditions, sanctions are probably still effective, because members of the community want to be liked and accepted.

This is the center thesis of the article, we haven't evolved beyond our evolutionary physical bounds. We look at likes of Kardashians/Paris Hilton/Kanye and react with knee jerk reactions rooted deep in our biology. But it doesn't matter. Tribes exist in ways we can't see or touch, and the "shameless" understands how to harness that power.

It's because in corporate, people managers are promoted from excellent ICs. However, not all good ICs are good people managers.

Software is lucky that we can go Architecure route for promotion instead of a Engineering Manager route. This is not the case for most other professions.

The problem is fed has been artificially dampening the interest rate for so long that housing is the only non stock alternative inflation matching way to invest your money.

I would be more than happy to park my downpayment in a US government bond if it matches/beats inflation every single year.

What the heck really?

I had the complete exact opposite experience. I actually do wish we are still on jira.

it's slow. It's filters make no sense. It's entire flow make no sense.

Hard to say. Warranty covers "normal usage", maybe defined by mild californian weather.

Severe heat or cold wrecks havoc on battery life. Even in southern Canada I am certain you won't get anywhere near the 8 full years, now imaging you live anywhere that gets down to -30C frequently during the winter.

That's my biggest concern right now, heating an electric car uses the battery as heat is NOT a byproduct of an electric engine. Very impractical in the winter.

the job of the Fed is a proven impossible one. Their job is to nudge the entirety of the economy towards one or two of the Fixed Exchange Rate, Free Capital Flow, and Independent Monetary Policy at any given time, but never all three at once.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity

Here's a thought, if Reddit fixes their terrible search engine, they would steal a large chunk of my search.

I've been attaching url:reddit.com to my Google searches to bypass all the blog spam thats taking over Google.

Wait until you hear what we do in Canada.

We got European/UK roots but since US is next door, in real Canadian fashion we just simple do both. Arbitrarily.

- driving distance and speed is measured in KM and KM/h

- but height, home construction and day to day distance we use imperial. So I'm 5'9" not 175cm. and McDonald's is 100 feet from the intercection, but the next offramp (speedway) is in 3km

- food is all in imperial, so grocery is in pounds, we buy a 12.7oz pint. But liquor stores/bottles are in ML. but if your talk to friends about what to bring to a party, it's back to pint or a "Mickey" or "26er"

- science is all taught in metric.

- But unless you talk cars and motor output, it's back to horsepower (this one is actually pretty common still everywhere in the world).

- And we use centigrade instead of farenheit. So small talk with Americans at work is a constant math excercise.

- Dates are complete utter toss up in the air. My driver license is YYYY/MM/DD, but i know for a fact I've filled out forms that goes MM/DD/YYYY (at the doctors office), and i'm just conditioned to go MM/DD/YYYY when typing dates online because that's how I say it. I don't say 25th of March, I say March 25, 2022.

no one needs this except maybe google. even then if they started today with git maybe they wouldn't have used a monorepo.

same as pointing to netflix and arguing you need 100+ microservices. no one needs this, maybe except netflix

Yes.

but are you going to pay me less?

Then no.

Been traveling in Mexico/Latin Am since the pandemic and this is so much more painful than I expected. I work on multiple projects as a consultant and so I often create a new browser profile for new clients (keep sessions, sign-ins etc separate). Every time i boot up a new profile, everything gets switched to Spanish, mexican results.

Please Google, stahp.

Quantum entanglement has not been able to show any usable information can be passed faster than speed of light.

So for example, if two bits are entangled, you flip one bit, the other bit flips at a completely unpredictable way.

Hence, no rule is technically broken.

Yes. it's 0.5% per payment* on top of 0.4% per "invoice". Quite hefty fees considering credit card fee is 2.9%

Asians (East and South) have been silently dealing with this ever since we started playing the game.

It's interesting to see that we're now grouped along with the "Whites". We've played the game so well, that we're no longer in the "Others" category.

i think that's unfair. companies like Braintrust is actually doing legit work

Years of experience may not be a direct indicator of how you work as an individual contributor, but it is a very good indicator of softer skills such as handling workplace conflicts and mentoring junior devs.

As a senior dev it's on you to communicate and voice what you want out of the job. 6 month is the perfect time to pull aside your manager and ask/talk about your path of success.

Of course, leaving isn't a bad solution, but you should also realize there are other solutions. And being a senior dev means being able to weigh the tradeoffs and figure out the best path forward. However, the author failed to mention or reflect on the alternative solutions in the post.

They're pitching the entire human existence will be nothing more than perpetual "waiting for the next sneaker drop"

You can approach things like this in two ways:

- academic, like the author. Look for the facts and numbers and derive your understanding of the events from it, and only it.

- investigative, like the events of Spotlight. Pull on a thread and see how deep it goes.

You need bit of both to discover the whole truth.