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Have you even seen the returns on bonds and cash equivalents lately?

It doesn't matter whether the market stays up over 30 years. If it crashes at the wrong time (especially if that's after you've retired) and you have 100K left, you have only 3 yea…

Payroll and legal complexities is the big one. I've also run into challenges around mismatches in cultural expectations of how employer/employee or manager/report relationships sho…

Some of us would if there were still US stuff to buy, or if finding it weren't near-impossible.

This is not exactly revolutionary. I have multiple pairs of bike shorts with slim elastic pockets in that spot. (Actually, a few inches higher, which is easier to reach without ben…

I wish I'd looked for more opportunities to work with and learn from more experienced developers instead of being so overwhelmed by imposter syndrome that I was terrified to take a…

I suspect the chemistry of it requires as much energy put into sequestering as is captured by releasing it. But... I could be wrong.

Reserved instances? Instant 20-40% savings.

What percentage of current investment is speculation for share price growth vs for dividends?

Randomness and chaos.

1) mask compliance 2) they opened up restaurants only 4 days ago — not nearly enough time for a resurgence to appear. Wtf is this article even about?

What additional complications do you anticipate? In my experience, taxes are based on your home address and your employer’s address of record, regardless of where you physically go…

Can’t comment on that as I don’t generally use IDEs.

Well, you can download it for desktop from the store, so presumably?

Python, JavaScript mostly. Not sure the processor (it’s a 2019 model year, tho). 16GB memory. Snappier/more responsive UI-wise than the 16” MB Pro I got from work, fwiw.

AFAIK, every other method requires massive electricity input; and we’re still not getting enough energy from renewables for that not to mean spewing more additional carbon than we …

Using a MacBook Air for web dev, and it’s plenty. For photoshop I’d probably want something with a faster CPU and better GPU, tho.

They’re called trees.

How about asking each time whether they’d be interested in your input?

Yes. Slack is one, and it’s on the App Store.

And yet more than half of Americans don’t have $400 to cover an emergency. I wonder how the US would stack up in 25th percentile wealth against European countries? Also, there are …

Requiring developers to spend money up front for memberships to distribute software. Obstacles to distribution of FOSS and community driven software projects.

Being able to look stuff up on the go. (Turns out this laundromat is closed because COVID; where’s the next nearest one? What time does that plane land, again? And what color was t…

Yeah, looking at GDP per capita rather than median income totally disregards the inequality that makes $54k/person ludicrous to describe as typical in the US.

Start by finding out why their morale is low. This is likely to be unique to each person. Deal with their unique situations and needs.