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tl;dr I see no reason to believe body cams have actually resulted in greater transparency or accountability due to offsetting institutional factors.

But I don't think there's a clear answer to the question, other than "they're pretty common".

My bet is that they're more common on the east coast than the west. As for specific industries, that I can't speak to, though companies with strong HR departments sometimes like titles since it makes salaries and promotions a lot easier to manage.

So factor out a huge part of the job market?

SV startups are a small percentage of the overall tech world. Legions of programmers are hired in traditional companies in finance, energy, tech, aerospace... And on and on and on.

And in most of those organizations, titles are common.

Moreover, regional cultural differences greatly affect the value of a title. A person in California or Colorado often sees titles differently than someone in New York or Boston. And many cultures outside the US often view titles as extremely important as an outward measure of success.

I'd buy that if this was a WTO ruling but these are tarrifs adjudicated by Americans, supporting an American company.

The US similarly imposed tarrifs on softwood lumber not that long ago, and they were determined to be illegal once it hit the WTO. There's no reason to believe that won't happen again.

It's still confusing. And programming languages exist to first and foremost aid programmers, not to adhere to some abstract expression of mathematical perfection.

At the time Haskell hit the scene, the term Interface was free and could've been taken. But that's just one thought, I'm not a language designer...

1. It's used by a sovereign government as a means of receiving tax payments.

2. It's a common medium of exchange for products and services.

Neither of these things is true of Bitcoin.

I invite you to try again!

By the time Haskell was first released, OOP was either already available in popular languages (Smalltalk, Object Pascal) or being introduced into existing languages (Objective C, C++, Lisp).

In hindsight it would appear there was no reason not to see that OOP was gaining in popularity, that the term "class" was already in use, and that overloading it would be confusing.

That said, in the end, all my original post was lamenting is that it's a shame that Haskell terminology went the way it did... it's just yet another aspect of the language that creates confusion among newcomers, and it already has enough of that already! :)

I'm saying in the broader context of programming languages, it's confusing. And that that confusion could have been easily foreseen and avoided... after all, Smalltalk had been using the term "class" for almost 20 years before Haskell appeared and introduced their terminology.

Typeclasses have a lot more cognitive similarity to Go-style interfaces or Smalltalk protocols than they do to OOP-style classes, and that fact can be enormously confusing to newcomers (which, at times, seems to be the Haskell raison d'etre).

And that's assuming speculation doesn't continue to inflate the price of those alternative coins.

It's more like a MLM where sellers are buying their own product for resale with the expectation of future returns.

This breaks the normal dynamic of a Ponzi scheme since there's latent inventory lying around that can be bought, sold, or held until another sucker comes along. And that delays the crash.

Of course, the big difference is a normal MLM at least offers a product with some nominal base value, whereas the base value of Bitcoin is precisely zero.

Oh, that's easy.

The prevailing wisdom around here is that management is always, without fail, a bad thing.

Management is either bad because they get in the way by doing anything, or, when a project goes sideways, management is bad because it failed at doing something.

For example, the devs involved in the BMW scandal? Well management told them what to do, so it's management's fault.

And this post? Well, it's management's fault for not stopping this guy.

So from one article and no actual evidence or information, a random Hacker News subscriber managed to determine that a story about a bad dev written by an insider on the project was actually about a poor, amazing, faultless dev who worked at the whim of Bad Management.

Because, as we all know, Management Bad, Dev Good.

I never learned to drive (combination of lack of desire and circumstance) and at 38, I have a much more... shall we say realistic understanding of the responsibility someone takes on by getting behind the wheel, as compared to myself at 16 or 18.

but anyone yelling bubble now really needs to consider how tiny 86 billion actually is.

As a statement that the current price means the bears were wrong and that this isn't a bubble.

I probably misunderstood! I'm still working on my first coffee...

Let's take the American real estate bubble. According to Wikipedia:

"Total home equity in the United States, which was valued at $13 trillion at its peak in 2006, had dropped to $8.8 trillion by mid-2008 and was still falling in late 2008."

Two years, a 5 trillion dollar haircut.

The Bitcoin Bubble? For an asset that taps into capital markets across the entire globe, $86B is adorably small.

IMO, the bubble is still inflating and there is a long way to go, yet. To me, the real test will be when the next major worldwide recession sets in...

That is profoundly faulty reasoning.

For a lot of people, a drop in bitcoin is just a signal to buy because they have an irrational belief that it can never really go down permanently (which, to anyone who remembers 2007, should sound familiar).

A ponzi scheme can go on as long as you can find new market entrants, and what makes Bitcoin remarkable is that it can tap into revenue sources throughout the entire world, and in particular in places where socioeconomics and geopolitics makes something like Bitcoin extremely attractive. That's a lot of fuel for this particular fire to burn before it fizzles out (presuming fundamentals aren't established before then).

The world has never really seen anything quite like this, and it'll be fascinating to see what happens over the next 10-15 years. And, meanwhile, again, there is a lot of wealth being transferred, and I'd love to see where it's going...

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. It's simply an abstract asset with no value other than what someone else is willing to pay for it. And there are no fundamentals that justify its price. So it's just pure wealth transfer from later arrivals to early arrivals. It's a zero sum game.

It'd be fascinating to chart the transfer of wealth in Bitcoin across the globe to identify the big winners and losers.

My crop easily lasts for 3 months in my storage fridge (and I don't take the time to sort them to properly eliminate bruised fruit, etc), but the key is cold and humid, not cold and dry.

As I mentioned in my other comment, the only gotcha is to make sure you set up your syncthing ignore file to ignore the KeePass database lockfile.

Just make sure to configure Syncthing to ignore KeePass lockfiles.