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Hey guys, I built roads.fyi.

The goal is to give a transparent view on which roads need work, which are well maintained and the common issues. This will be help us allocate resources more efficiently.

Features:

1) Submit a a road report near you with details. Report can be positive, mixed or negative.

2) View recently submitted reports.

3) View a country wide or area wise leaderboard of roads. Hall of Fame shows the best roads, Hall of Shame shows the worst roads.

4) View details and frequency of specific issues (e.g., "Potholes", "Blocked footpath")

Please check it out and submit a report. Thoughts, feedback and bug reports welcome!

What does a green username indicate? New user?

Who's pg?

I agree with the risks, the overall theme being it's much easier to potentially manipulate a million internet votes than physical. In other worlds, internet vote manipulation scales significantly more than physical.

But I could make the argument with any high trust internet system.

Let's take another high trust activity we do on the internet - banking. Internet banking gives a hacker the ability to steal millions while sitting across the world. This is the same argument the authors make about changing a million votes.

So it really comes down to the pros vs cons. That's the more important discussion imo.

Do the benefits of internet voting outweigh the cons?

Flawed? Sure, although every language has its flaws, some more than others. Deeply flawed? Not really. Obsolete? Lol, what. It's top 3 most popular languages.

Theoretically possible, but (super super super) unlikely. I'd also think that when a user "permanently" deletes their data, it would still be on Google servers for a specified time (maybe a week?).

Again, all guesses. But if someone offered me a bet, I'd wager 1:10,000 that the data is permanently deleted. Extremely unlikely.

My guess would be they have multiple backups. I obviously can't say for sure since I don't work there, but it's very very good guess.

What / who do mean by "Sunny"?

I think OP means they used AI to create/code the app, instead of AI being used in the app.

I thought it was funny. Is this is no fun zone?

I don't understand your point. Yes, electricity is virtually all the TCO of the device (other than the upfront cost). Isn't that the case for any consumer electronic part - processor, memory, hdd, etc? That fact doesn't change any of what I'm trying to say.

My point is that this cost (of electricity) is negligible relative to two other costs - cost of time (in other words, cost of human capital), and the upfront cost of the device itself.

This is a response to your comment "Wait, why? Is it more important to organizations to wait a little less time, or to spend less money (on electricity)?"

Moreover, considering the cost of the card itself at $1,600, the electricity expenses become relatively minor. In fact, for the price of the card, you could operate it non-stop for two years. This highlights how the cost of electricity is a small factor in the overall picture.

The cost of electricity for running a single RTX 4090 a year: $800 (calculation below). Cost to the company of the median developer: $200,000.

Assume a 20 cent cost of 1 kWh, then a RTX 4090 with a 450W power draw for a year costs: 0.45 * 24 * 365 * 0.20 = $788.4

The cost of power (electricity) is much lesser than the cost of time.

Just curious, why are you still sending physical tax forms? Have you been filing 1040NR? Those were recently digitalized, while the standard 1040 has been digital since a while.

Their comment was not targeted at you. It's not even worth the effort for you to install YouTube Vanced, etc since you watch 6 videos a month.

Their comment was to people who watch a lot of YouTube, but still whine about the $14 cost.

Aggregate for Google is $181k, $272k, $44k, $77k. So between 3.5 and 4.1 times.

Aggregate for Google is $181k, $272k, $44k, $77k. So between 3.5 and 4.1 times.

Fair points, 1/5th is a good estimate.

The difference is much lesser 7-10x in big tech (Google, Amazon, Msft, etc). Big tech's Indian offices pays about 1/3 to 1/4 of what they would earn in the company's USA office. Levels.fyi will corroborate this.

Yes, while the average software engineer in India might earn 7-10x less than in the US, this isn't the case within major tech companies.

Thank you for this. I'll make sure to request a best of 350,757 next time I'm deciding anything by coin toss.

What is the $80B industry you're talking about?

What is the point of making the user click the box? Can't that be skipped altogether?

It worked out for you because USA - Australia visa requirements are pretty lax. Generally speaking, developed countries have relaxed (or no) visa requirements for each other. Had you been traveling to say China, India, or basically any global south country, it wouldn't have worked out.

How do they work around visa requirements for visiting engineers? Wouldn't that lead to few days worth of delay at least? They mention New Delhi in the article - Americans require visas to visit India.

How so? If it was, most novelist should be great software engineers. They are not.

"but the written interview part (the part people seem to protest the most) I actually find quite useful."

Yeah, not taking advice from this fellow. Good writing doesn't necessarily make you a good software engineer (and vice versa). Save this garbage for college applications.

A big pet peeve of mine are articles that mention salary in US dollars without any context. It's common sense that $2 in Kenya goes much further than $2 in the US.

Doing some cursory googling - Kenya's median salary is around $900 monthly, while USA's is a little more than $4000. So the $2 figure in the Time article is actually $8+ for a Kenyan, which is higher than USA's federal minimum wage.

Alternatively, we could also normalise by Purchasing Power Parity between USA and Kenya, which is around 3.12, so $2 becomes $6+

Are these figures low? Sure. But exploitative? Don't think so.

I'm confused why that troubles you. Does every article concerning Buddha have to mention his birthplace? Or to generalize, does every article about any significant historical figure have to mention their birthplace?

Well written articles will provide only relevant details. Exhaustive details can be found in encyclopaedias.