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Are you implying that registering firearms and background checks don't benefit anyone and only undermine republicans?

Zachtronics leaving game development is such a blow to the industry. Zach is directly and indirectly responsible for a lot of games we see today. His game Infiniminer was a major inspiration for Minecraft, he published a game that was also a book explaining his philosophy on puzzle design, and his games were genuinely fun with no BS.

Headline seems unnecessarily inflammatory. Putting aside the decision of whether or not they should've paid, what else were they going to pay with?

Is it? I see one side blaming Biden and the other side blaming corporations but neither side is saying we need better public transit.

> You can tax air travel to encourage travel by other means where applicable.

This would never happen in America because it would require Americans addressing their views on transit and addressing their pitiful consumer rail or even consumer bus industries.

Wonder how this affects MozillaVPN subscriptions.

I think a better way to phrase what the parent is saying is that Leetcode is not software engineering. You can be awful at solving leetcodes and still be a great software engineer.

Now, do I think algorithms and data structures make people better programmers? Absolutely. But I feel like most people work on in an area like web development where the usefulness of it is severely reduced when you are working at such a high level of abstraction.

You can't just make a claim without any evidence and then say "well it doesn't matter if they actually do it or not"

You're gonna have to explain this to me because I don't get this quote.

As someone considering starting a casual blog, I would not use an editor and defintiely not editors. Seems like a weird gate to keep.

https://commodore.inc/ This is the company and I do not see them selling any retro PCs. They sell an Android tablet that is almost certaintly a chinese knock off and some "retro-inspired" games.

> Network directly with engineers where they spend time online

Where would that be? I wouldn't recommend HN for networking purposes.

I'm not big in the audio community but I thought LV2 was the open standard for plugins that people are pushing for? That being said if Cockos adopts it into Reaper I'm absolutely willing to try it.

I mean of the current tech monopolies(Amazon, Google, etc), Amazon should take priority as the first company among them that needs antitrust lawsuits filed against them and broken up.

This is the big one here. Amazon has a completely unrelated market dominate business that lets them enter new markets at a loss until they crush everyone currently in that market. Amazon is honestly the first company that needs to be broken up. Split up AWS and Amazon market and this becomes a whole new ballgame.

This is a well meaning law but it is very important to know that defamation is very broad in Japan unlike the US and can essentially mean "anything that can cause negative reputation." If a CEO cheats on his wife and I publicly out his affair, I can be sued for defamation in Japan.

I've kicked around the idea of starting a blog. It would be for me and me alone. Just a way to help myself work through some thoughts. There is always some sort of anxiety that stops me from doing it though. The idea of putting thoughts out into the world is scary. The author says my ideas can help people and I'm selfish to not share them but what if I don't want to my ideas to have a wide reach? What if I accidentally make the front page of Hacker News? God knows people here aren't any sort of kind or gracious. There is a comment in thread that sums it up, it's a single player game until you publish and are on display for everyone.

I want to believe this is some kind of dry sarcasm but cars don't subsidize pedestrians. If anything, urban walkable, bikable neighborhoods subsidize cars and suburban areas.

> Huge part of his riches came from investing in a company that poisons people with sugar water.

This and that are 2 different things. You may disagree with where he invest his money or his morales but that has nothing to do with his intelligence and his ability to invest which is what the parent comment is saying Dalio does not have.

Honestly sounds like an issue with the company. I onboarded remotely and the experience was buttery smooth.

I have this book and have never read it. I may just wait for the second edition to release at this point

Vermillion is absolutely "Big Oil." They are an oil and gas company that make several billion a year. If you don't consider that "big" I don't know what is.

I worked a 4 day work week at one point. My counterargument to this is that most people aren't productive as they think they are. I feel like most people only actually work half the time they say they do.

When I was working 4 days I got more done. This isn't speculation. My hours were tracked and my billable hours went up. My deadlines remained the same but I had less "fuck around" time.

Having worked in marketing, they absolutely worked with a data broker. You don't blindly send out mailers. You use data brokers to zone in on a target market. "This zip code is more like to buy X while this zip code is more like to buy Y."

This statement seems to be in conflict with everything I've read about ranked choice voting. If I can put my preferred independent candidate as rank 1 and a safe choice at rank 2 then this is objectively better than just voting for the safe choice out of fear of stealing votes away and giving it to the opposition.

What systems would you prefer?

Do you have any examples of companies currently structured like this? Employee contracted but work whenever they please?

The internet back and forth on this topic is interesting because I find it completely removed from how Uber drivers feel. Speaking from an American perspective, I take Uber and Lyft pretty frequently and I ask every single driver I ride with how they feel and almost unaminously they say they prefer being contract because they can just take rides whenever they please.

Most people, including myself, seem to be under the impression that if they are employees then Uber dictates how much they have to drive which drivers seem to not want. At least drivers I've spoken to in the states.

I was selected for jury duty once and got out of it as quickly as I could. I was working a nothing minimum wage job to get by and they would've given me $15 dollars a day for jury duty.

You want people to stop trying to get out of jury duty? Then make sure their job has to pay them while they are serving on a jury.

> What would be a legitimate reason that he can't publicly say why?

I have no idea. Don't have a clue. However, given that I don't have any idea, I'm not going to go around making bold definitive claims like 'they do it because they want more money."

It's already been said several times over but I'm going to throw it out anyway. I'd love to work at a university as a research software engineer. I find things like bioinformatics fascinating and even interviewed at a research university on the east coast. But, you will get paid SIGNIFICANTLY less than you would doing almost anything else, have zero autonomy, and get no respect. Those 3 things are basically what most people look for in a job.