citizenpaul

99% of the legislation changes are made by 20 something interns, on behalf of someone.

Yeah, I think a lot of people on HN have been sheltered from the swath of truly bad software. Software where the legit operation procedure is bizarre stuff like wait for it to crash then restart and begin work and its been running like that for 20+years.

I think there is a real world space separating people in work experience.

I've never worked a job where 40hrs was even enough, so any efficiency is instantly absorbed. That is the work world as I see it.

However I've run into in people online and in real life whom's entire work life seems to be on the opposite side. It seems to be a rather large swath of people as well. They have never worked anywhere where they even have 40hrs of work a week to be done.

Even last year I ran into a guy who gets paid 140k to by his own admission(12+yrs), to basically update a handful of websites a few times a week(shockingly...he is concerned about ai taking his job). Those jobs are not coming back and those that exist are rapidly drying up. Thats the disconnect. There are in a national sense a large number of people that have literally never worked an actual job even though they went into an office their whole working life, and everything about their life outside all reflect that they have worked a job despite never having done so. Those people are in for some tough times.

>suppose this is the result of a hundred years of democracy, aka having to keep everyone happy all the time.

Yeah how awful that a government system works for its people....

I lost somone to a rare cancer with almost zero chance of survival. A treatment with 65% success was available 30 days after they died. Ill always wonder if things could have been different. Maybe if we looked harder for trials but like you we thought it a hopeless waste of the limited time left.

Well i guess with the price of drives right now I learned one thing the drives i got in the last 5 years will probably hold out for a while longer. Maybe there is some hope of waiting out this supply shortage.

I personally think it's a form of tunnel vision to think that any sort of extensive space travel is anything other than a complete fantasy.The very laws of physics as we know them, say that it is essentially impossible.

We don't even know if it's possible for actual life just simply life itself, to exist anywhere except on Earth for any length of time. We have exactly one example. Earth. All tests to the contrary in space show that life dies for all kinds of non-obvious reasons when removed from Earth for any extended period of time.

I personally hope it's not true and I do enthusiastically watch the progress. However, math is really, really bad.

You would wear an oxygen mask for your entire visit to stay alive? along with the climb, that even with modern technology and accessibility, only a few thousand people have ever done?

because flying helicopter up there is incredibly dangerous and nobody would be willing to do regularly for a job. In fact, only one person has ever done it just to prove that it could be done.

I mean, I don't know you, but I feel like most people are not truly considering the level of discomfort, such a visit would entail. Much less being on the Moon or mars for any extended period of time.

You would essentially be paying tens of thousands of dollars to be an agony for several days. I've done such things just to say i did in my 20's but not for that cost.

We need to start thinking more like the average evil C-suite. We live in the golden age of fraud. Not my words. There's probably some sort of circular deal where the people that enacted this data sharing personally benefit in some massive financial way. The low financial benefit from the parent company side is probably to avoid regulatory eyeballs.

something around 50% of Uber's profits now come from their "private" owned insurance Company. That, of course, does not have to disclose how they are making money. Even though Uber is their only customer.

There is probably some sort of similar deal happening here.

No one has aspirations or desire to live on Everest. They just want to go there plant a flag and say they did it before rushing back to.Civilization. Hmmm kinda like the moon.

>bootstrapping a textiles business

Exactly what I came to say. This 100% is hippy dippy head in the clouds stuff. Sure if your product is 100% digital you can "be generous" in so far as it costs you nothing. Real products, real services. Hell no. You will get robbed blind if you give people too much slack or come off as willing to easily pay out.

I learned this the hard way early on doing contract work. Multimillionaires would actively try to take advantages of my naivety and inexperience to coerce free work out of me. Also I highly suspect many of them get a sick sense of pleasure out of it. Good luck being "generous" to those types.

Take a look at those donate for pain videos on tiktok if you don't believe there is significant population of sadists out there.

The most horrible part this crime is I read somewhere That the amount the car companies get for spying on your locations is some pathetic paltry amount like $1-$5 one time. These car companies sell you out to insurance companies and such so they can collect data and use it AGAINST you. Ghouls everywhere now.

Random Public data:

Honda sold data on roughly 97,000 cars to Verisk for $25,920—amounting to about 26 cents per car.

Hyundai sold data on about 1.7 million vehicles for roughly $1 million—about 61 cents per car

Im really concerned about what big tech is going to do the nezt few years. They have historically been on a good day mediocre stuarts of trust. This was when they had no competition and a money only flows in business model.

Now they are facing near unlimited CAPex expenses and possibly existential threat to their product. I think we will be astounded at how vile they become.

>The best case is no complaints and that the system is correct. It can never excel. There's no 10x RBAC system people rave about on Twitter. Access controls are a box a product checks, but not a killer feature.

This reminded me of the tine i said something similar to teammate whom asked why our work always felt so bad. They Lost thier mind went off on some 20m rant and refused to talk to me for weeks and we were never on good terms again. I broke something in them i guess. They ultimately left thr tech industry.

It was the first of a number of incidents in my life that I learned that there really are a certian set of people that cannot be told the truth.

not really relevant but whatever it was a weird incident maybe that will entertain someobe

I've met a few Ph.D Mathematicians in Academia socially. My unfortunate experience was that they were insufferable,borderline hostile people. I tried to genuinely engage with them too. I've met one Ph.D Mathematician that left the industry whom was very enjoyable to talk to. I have a feeling that my experience was not unique and the Math world is mostly a bunch of too good for everyone on their high horse a-holes that are now being knocked down a peg. They don't like it obviously.

I'm not a fan of knocking down things that work, however I also find it hard to be against death of the gatekeeping old guard of any industry.

I think math is just gonna have to suck it up like every other industry now. Math productivity is longer out of reach of the average grad student. Like every other industry they are no longer untouchable and are gonna have to adjust to the new way of things or market forces will do what they always do which is refuse to fund ineffectiveness.

I've had to accept that tech/IT will never be the same. Just how it is. You can thrash against it all you want.