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the bathroom and kitchen both have faucets! You can potentially trek from the bedroom to the living room


Your bedroom doesn’t have a washbasin? How American of you :)


Well our inmates have washbasins in their bedrooms and we have more inmates than some European countries have citizens.


Even more companies are just starting AI/ML initiatives. The tokenmaxxing thing only happened at a handful of tech companies, most companies don't have unlimited money to do this kind of thing.

Once the Pathfinders find out where the real value is there is much more room for growth from companies who have be mindful of budget.


Has anyone's doctor ever not ask them if they exercise during a checkup?

Every checkup for me has started with "what is you diet and exercise like?"


You would pay little to no taxes if you completely removed yourself from society and lived deep in the wilderness, but I but you aren't going to do that. I wonder why that is?


"If you don't like it, why don't you leave the country?" - common denominator who thinks he is not a pig.


More like if you use services that cost money, why would you expect them for free?


The TSA was created because a plane crashed into a building. Private planes can crash into buildings. Why should they be exempt from TSA checks?


Lots of things can crash into buildings. Should they all be screened by TSA? Drones and their operators prior to every launch? 30 minute helicopter tours and high-rise HVAC drop offs? Private satellites?

Or is licensing and registration (of pilots and aircraft and manifest and flight plan) enough?


Governments are reactive. So if any of these other things ever successfully destroy a building then you can absolutely count on new rules and laws that, at a minimum, will include screening.


Commercial drones can't bring down buildings. And they're still subject to an awful lot of regulations.


So it’s complete building destruction that is the protective mission here? Not loss of life or general terrorism or something else? I’m glad we are clarifying

I wasn’t aware that DJI drone with 60lb payload was subject to more regulations than a Citation leaving TEB but I guess I’m open to learning what those are.


Why are you spending so much effort helping the most privileged people on the planet? Makes no sense to be their white knight


Why are you wasting time here? Even a letter to the editor would be more effective than an HN comment.


Looking at the employment report that came out today, tech seems to be doing better then most sectors...

"Other professional, scientific, and technical services" grew month over month and year over year

"Information" took a hit, but the bulk of that was "Motion picture and sound recording industries"

"Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services" modestly shrunk, but "Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information service" is the only area to grow under information.

This seems different then what the post says. They also said worse then 2008, but didn't post any information. I would imagine the total market was much smaller, so the while total jobs lost was probably smaller, percentage was probably larger. When I started in 2012, tech would take any with a science degree.

I don't understand the job titles being propose in the post, are the using different BLS data then me?

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf


"Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information service"

It's a weird employment category that includes both Google SWEs and your local librarian.


Pretty much all companies are created in order to make the owner(s) money.


You cannot make money if there is no one to spend money. Money is meant to move.


Money's just a means to an end, to secure resources for the owner. In a money-less society, jeff bezos would be just as happy if his customers paid him in rocket parts instead.


That would be a quality control nightmare on his part to vet alone. And what's to say people still wouldn't "skim off the top" with or without money in society?


This is too vague. They're to make the owner(s) money by voluntary exchange of value with customers. They're not feudalism where the lord makes money off the serfs, who have no choice. It's not monarchy where..it's basically the same. It's not socialism, where the bureaucracy is enriched by the people it pretends to be a fair parent-surrogate to. It's just free interchange of value. And you can provide more value if your costs are lower.


Really? There's probably a dozen or so well written books in the past year or two calling our current system neo-feudalism.


Drumming up support for a concept isn't evidence of very much, I'd say.


Lol not everything is a coordinated effort to discount your opinion


The issue with hiring many juniors is, when there is another dev boom, all the juniors that were hired, now mids or seniors, are going to jump ship to whoever is going to pay them the most. So, the company can either grow talent and then pay them market rate or hire at market rates from other companies that grew them. Hiring juniors, while good for the industry in the long run, doesn't really benefit an individual company. It is game theory and it is still why senior developers make a lot of money despite there being an oversupply of juniors.


> all the juniors that were hired, now mids or seniors, are going to jump ship to whoever is going to pay them the most

Yeah, that's the point!

> So, the company can either grow talent and then pay them market rate or hire at market rates from other companies that grew them.

It's not a zero sum game. The simple fact you overlooked is not every junior jumps ship.

> Hiring juniors, while good for the industry in the long run, doesn't really benefit an individual company

Things that are good for the industry DO benefit individual companies. Having a large and capable talent pool is good for everyone.


> Hiring juniors, while good for the industry in the long run, doesn't really benefit an individual company

If this is really a concern, require a long-term employment contract from incoming candidates.


Yep, that's how the military solved it. ROTC trains you, but then you're committed for 4 years.


Unethical bullshit, but sure


Nothing unethical about voluntary contracts that you freely enter into.

There are tradeoffs and you'd do well to acknowledge agency in this world.


Sure, for varying values of "freely"


Is someone being forced? Can you call the police?


Also, a lot of companies are not attractive enough for seniors (low job security/ not good environment/ not exciting work/ etc), so they are forced to hire juniors


Are you suggesting that this is the fault of the people who said tariff's are a bad idea?


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