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Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:36PM (#23199993)
Please explain as I am curious
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:33PM (#23199981)
If they screw it up then I'll personally host some service that scrapes all the text and only dumps a few kbs to you :)
Re:Jeff Bezos could become world's first trillionaire on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:30PM (#23199963)
Oooo neato I never knew there was a tiering of rates like this-- probably because I haven't had a reason to find out XD thanks for the info
Re:Jeff Bezos could become world's first trillionaire on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:29PM (#23199958)
Oooo hey wow I have no idea why that character was entered, guess I typoed something on mobile with a long press. Weird :)
Re:Jeff Bezos could become world's first trillionaire on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:50PM (#23187186)
The tax rate is also low enough that if he does pay, it's not much. 15% total instead of the 30-40‰ I currently pay.
Re:Jeff Bezos could become world's first trillionaire on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:48PM (#23187177)
6 months of unemployment payments (if you have worked for at least 6 months and live in a state that doesn't play games with unemployment) is a somewhat cilivized safety net.

While finding a job in a bad economy can certainly be hard, at least you will be able to pay your rent and buy food and plan for the event that you are not able to maintain your current lifestyle.

However our medical insurance situation, unless you are able to qualify for a free/less than $30 per month plan, is really horrific and cannot be justified. If someone is healthy and becomes unemployed, it is not terrible but definitely not good. If you have routine medicines and you are unemployed.... death sentence.

Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:40PM (#23172148)
I'm not entirely sure, but I at least have observed that meetings are a lot less "charged" and backdoor rumors aren't as "present" in a remote situation.

When people are physically in a room, you can focus on body language, you can focus on emotions. On a voice call or email, its a little bit easier to focus on data and not who has the fancy watch on.

Re:AWS EC2 General Price Cut on Sunday May 10, 2020 @12:20AM (#23130252)
Write once, read never!
Implying that these dev shops simply won't just hire any college grad with a pulse and pay them 40k to do the same job the Ukrainian did, or worse.

The real problem is the incentive structure, and of course, difficulty of the job that is programming.