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The puzzle solver obsession in SV has always confused me. Seems to me that you would only need a handful of those type of personalities at any software company. The majority of the work is just shoveling so to speak.

I'm no expert but I know a logistics company that has the 30 workers 1 puzzle guy setup. He maybe writes 20 lines of code a week but its on stuff other people cant figure out. However if he was the only type there literally nothing would ever get done.

In a word sorta, but if you are on HN you are probably overthinking it. A guy I work with looks for bad small business sites on the side then he tries to convince them to let him "redesign" the site. He then moves their site to WIX and loads a default template that they like. He charges $3000 USD for this. 99% of the work is non technical.

If you can't see this is 100% politically motivated I have little faith in the HN community anymore.

All that does is give you an invalid certificate warning when you go to the site. How does that warrant shutting it down. If you can't see that this is 100% politically motivated. Well... there is one born every minute...a <blank> and his money are soon parted....

Comments like this make me sigh at the gulf of brilliance and borderline mental disability of HN.

Literally every single person contemplating suicide has access to means. Every single one. No matter how much regulation is imposed which is why it is stupid to attempt to regulate to begin with and usually used as a means to push a secondary agenda. Even someone strapped to a bed and force fed will eventually die from the process.

The only cure for suicide it access to mental health assistance and reasonable living conditions. Even that won't "cure" someone who truly wants to die.

If there was ever absolute proof that non-competes are nothing but a way to exercise absolute power over someone weaker. Now we have it.

Yeah. I worked in banking during the crash. Upper mgmt literally told us to pretend we were XXX small bank (on a list of banks) if someone called and asked about it. Even though we were just large bank 1-4 that bought them.

You're not wrong. A Princeton study found the average voters have almost no impact on policy anymore. However corporations have taken over that position of influence.

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

I personally believe it is because politicians have to listen to voter blocks. Since American families and homeowners have fallen to record lows they have no consistent voter base from individuals anymore. Homeowners and Familiy's used to be the two biggest voting blocks. They no longer are; businesses are the only voters that will be guaranteed to stick around until the next election.

You legally need something like $10 Million in reserve capital to start a bank. Pretty much any business is profitable if you can afford to start with 10 million in savings plus have enough money to run the business.

>No one will ever refer me to any job because no one likes me

This may be true however. It is more likely they are not sure of your capabilities. A recommendation for a programming job is basically a sure thing job placement now days. However if someone recommends you and you are a screw up it affects their professional reputation. I would focus more on finding a technology you are genuinely interested in so you can "shop talk" with some other people in the industry while proving you know what you are talking about.

In programming almost no one cares about your personality (unless volatile). I have a programmer my team that I sat next to for 3 years and I think we have had maybe 5 minutes of non work related conversation during that time. He just hates talking to people period.

Dont forget one of their biggest failures. Fire Phone.

IANAL

If the prosecutor can claim conspiracy and they almost always can. they can reset the clock essentially forever on the limitation statute. As I stated in my post you are essentally commited to variations on money laundering for the rest of your life unless you can make a "Retirement Level" lump sum of money usable for legal purposes.

It is and it is (sorta). I worked in the bank industry for many years and I could have stolen money a hundred different ways without getting caught.

The problem is that in the end the money has to go somewhere or be spent (why else steal it?). Also to live a legal life (house,car,boat) you have to have a source of income/spending that does not set off red flags. If you are a high paid bank employee why even bother? Many (most?) financial type crimes have no statue of limitations so to get away you literally have to get away with it for the rest of your life. The other side is even if you get away you will spend the rest of your life wondering if today is the day you get caught. To be honest I think that is why so many white collar crimes are so brazen looking. I think they would rather go to jail for a few years be done with it and live the rest of their lives with the money they have "lost".

Unless you live in a country like Russia where stealing money from the US is basically legal. Then go for it.

I've noticed one thing about this feature. If a person can be responded to using this feature they don't matter. They are just some time waster bureaucrat,salesman,ect. Its actually a good feature for those of us doing real(ish?) work.

Most people on HN are very quick to dismiss the role luck plays in their life.

I realize many are very accomplished so they don't want to devalue/dismiss their own efforts.

Not true at all.

The main reason that people get off their ass is to improve their life. People that have everything are constantly offered amazing opportunities just for existing. You may not have ever seen this because you don't fall in the category but it happens all the time.

Who considers 55-60k "high paying" especially when the job contains potential life threatening risks and other health issues.

I wouldn't do much of that dangerous and exhausting work for double that pay range and I would still make less money than I do sitting at a desk now. I can put in <35 hrs a week, run errands during the day, work from home in my underwear, meet friends for long lunches.

I do think there are downsides to the office life though. The politics and games of course. There are also the issues of needing to make sure you take time for your physical fitness. Its easy to forget or slack off on that one.

I think the reality here is that those jobs are still majorly underpaid for the work involved when there are alternatives around every corner.

I've hired and it is astounding the number of people with CS degrees and years of experience that can barely program. Until there is some sort of professional IT association like the BAR for lawyers this type of treatment will continue.

Unfortunately there are about 1000 competing bodies trying to be this association. It seems that the tech crowd would rather in-fight than work together to be treated seriously.

Perhaps it has something to do with the individualistic culture that that exists in the US leads to people making risky decisions for personal benefit?

The reason prison exists and has existed for all of human society and history is that it works. How arrogant of you to think you have some revolutionary new way to punish societal defectors.

The main issue with these types of programs. Once someone is on the "jail track" they have already failed and been failed by society. The real solution is to keep as many people on the right path as possible before they go wrong.

This feel good crap also doesn't account for the fact that a huge percent of people are opportunistic pieces of garbage that will break the law for a small personal benefit when the penalty is low. Many people already out there will at the prospect of lesser penalties start to defect from the social contract they are currently adhering to.

Mechanisms legal or otherwise already exist. The problem is they "have no teeth" meaning the punishment is worth taking to get the benefit of the illegal action.

ie. Its illegal but worst case is we get fined 10% of what we will make anyway. Best case is we get away with it.

The other part is that they are not enforced due to the lack of resources to enforce them. Which again leads to the "have no teeth" since the laws are so broadly "interpreted" it can take years to pursue one case. This part is the hard part since it really is the crux of the problem and no one is working on it nor has any monetary incentive to do so.

There is not logically, morally, or non-exploitative business reason to have a non-compete for a minimum wage employee. Yet this case will probably drag out for at least 6 months if it is handled "expediently"

I know people consider it condescending if they are actually a competent programmer. However as a person that has done hiring I can't tell you how many people have a CS degree that they supposedly attended school and passed(as in their credentials check out) but can't even do the FizzBuzz test.

Once time for fun I used one of those online code collaboration tools. I had a couple of "programmers" that were still actively working on the Fizzbuzz question 4 hours later. I went to lunch and forgot about it after I came back until the end of the day and realized there were still people working....

In the southern US I have atteneded rich old southern parties where it is traditional to have a toast to "the confederacy/south rising again"

Yeah the old pre-civil war government who's main ideological difference was that slavery should be legal. People are just nutcases in general.

I once got a call(or email to call them I don't remember which) from my bank about a check I had hastily scrawled out. They said it was suspicious looking and they wanted to verify that I had actually written and authorized the check. I'm guessing that means they have some sort of handwriting AI flagging checks that don't match the usual style.

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