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slapon Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy

>>Generally the same applies to poverty though which is probably a more direct indicator than race.

Not the case in the US, poverty is a bad indicator, race is a good one.

Poorest white crime rates are lower than the richest blacks.

slapon Ask HN: How do you avoid video game addiction?

Which game is it?

slapon Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?

For reference, Dan Abramov's tweet regarding his salary in London :

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1228454264915271683

slapon Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?

The whole IT contractor bonanza at £650/day is being killed off by the government in April 2021.

Also perm developer jobs in London are at around £100k at the 90th percentile, nowhere near £160k

See https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/london/developer.do

slapon 3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists

It seems that none of the 6 scientists passed the notability criteria of Wikipedia? I can't seem to find their Wikipedia page.

I would have made more sense to pick famous female scientists maybe?

slapon Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams

Carly Fiorina (HP)

slapon Mozilla sending political ads via Firefox push notification

Today I learned that Mozilla was pro-censorship, and using their install base to promote this message.

We're living in an intesting time.

slapon Lego Helicopter Kit Cancelled 10 Days Before Release

The mob makes the rules, not LEGO's internal policies. That's cancel culture.

slapon Lego Helicopter Kit Cancelled 10 Days Before Release

The "cancel culture"'s new victim : LEGO helicopters. Well done everyone.

slapon How CFEngine stays ahead of the pack

hibbelig, you're exactly right.

Chef/Puppet/Ansible are all enforcing a state which is usually defined by a package being installed, a file present, a service/process running.

Nothing groundbreaking.

slapon How CFEngine stays ahead of the pack

>> I will go over a few of the items that lead to CFEngine’s excellence, longevity in the market, and current strong position.

CFEngine isn't in a strong position, it has been completely replaced by Chef/Ansible everywhere. It's barely used with some legacy systems.

slapon We’ve decided to rename Riot

The change has nothing to do with BLM, or the US police.

slapon FreeBSD Renames “Master Boot Record” to “Main Boot Record”

The MBR isn't racist, nor your Master's Degree or your master bedroom.

Keep your "woke" attitude outside of IT please

slapon A step-by-step guide for your company's Git master to main migration

I'm so glad that US police brutality is now sorted out. Thanks Adam.

slapon ‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: Records police interaction, sends location

8 years of Obama didn't do much for police brutality.

slapon GitHub to Remove 'Master' Terminology

That's the point of view of the silent majority, but the mob makes the rules at the moment.

slapon GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'

Masterdegrees and master bedrooms are next on the list.

The virtue signalling can't stop right now.

slapon A Canadian runs 21 pages dedicated to African countries on Reddit

All these subreddits are more or less dead.

800 subscribers for the most popular one? Barely a blip on Reddit.

slapon RuboCop: Is it time to change the name?

There's a very strong feeling of virtue signalling in these github comments. "Woke" developers which have never heard of RuboCop before.

slapon My First Year as a Freelance AI Engineer

Definitely not in London

slapon When can we test everyone?

I knew it would be US-specific by the website name...

slapon Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus

Are you thinking about the documentary Amazon Empire?

slapon The hard part of the economics of Covid-19

Everything is still open in the UK

slapon The hard part of the economics of Covid-19

"social distancing" recommendation...but everything is still open

slapon The hard part of the economics of Covid-19

There's still no lockdown in the UK, as of now

slapon The hard part of the economics of Covid-19

Boris asked nicely for people to think about maybe not going to the pub.

But they're crammed as usual.

And businesses can't claim insurance money if they close, as they're not required to close by law.

slapon The hard part of the economics of Covid-19

you must have missed that in the UK, unlike the rest of Europe :

- schools/nurseries open

- theatres/bars/restaurants open

- stadiums open

- large gatherings allowed

The Mayor of London was still organising mass events a few days ago ( https://www.facebook.com/sadiqforlondon/posts/30260791107781... )

slapon Family turned a former Freemason temple in Indiana into a home

This is the family blog, about the renovation : https://freemasontomansion.wordpress.com/

slapon The End of the Bonus Culture Is Coming to Wall Street?

FAANG pay in London is far lower than in the Bay Area.