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The boss who put everyone on 70K

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Post by buzzkillington »

nathanvanfleet wrote: post #201
buzzkillington wrote: post #163

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What upper class tripe. The only freedom sons of Athenian slaves had was to die in the Athenian silver mines. >Shafts were driven down into the ground and galleries opened where slaves, chained, naked, and branded, worked the seams illuminated only by guttering oil lamps. An unrecorded number were children. It was a miserable, dangerous, and brief life. [0] It is always the most comfortable that consume the most vivi…

What about Christians? They seem to like persecution porn.

Along with muslims, billionaires, homosexuals, communists, jews, vegans, nazis and libertarians.

Pretty much the only people who are persecuted in the west are whistle blowers, zoophiles and pedophiles.

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Post by tstrimple »

eru wrote: post #41
WalterBright wrote: post #34

Since it's working for Dan and his company, great! > in Seattle that wasn't enough to afford a decent home. Because the population in Seattle has grown by leaps and bounds, if everyone could afford one of the supply of homes, the prices would go up until demand equals supply.

Well, they could also build more homes. But Seattle has somehow decided they don't want that.

I think you're going to see this everywhere. Many of these homeowners saw the value of their home go from $100k to $500k. Do we honestly expect them to support a plan which will drop the value back to $150k? You're asking the homeowners to give up literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity to help people they don't know. I agree that it needs to happen, but it shouldn't surprise anyone that there is a significant push back against it. This is especially true for those who bought their house at the upper end of the market, and now aren't just losing equity but actual money that they put into the property.

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

ivankolev wrote: post #206
52-6F-62 wrote: post #189

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Replace Berlin with Toronto and you'd be just as correct. It's a concern that spans decades. https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-last-days-of-toronto-s-low-r... — This article dates to the 80's and its tone is the very same. (Canada's lost sweetheart PM hopeful is interviewed in one of the videos when he was a Toronto city councilor. Such a loss. He really had his finger on the pulse)

I came in TO in the middle oughts and there were patches of the city still having that artsy, edgy and unkempt vibe, and even the commercial Yonge strip from Bloor down to Queen was atmospheric. All got lost to the glass condo towers, and the faux hipster hoods are souless and uninteresting. I feel Toronto became a victim of its own success, great economic progress does not equal vibrant and livable city!

Absolutely. I came here in 2006 for a few years and there were still plenty of spaces, though the old ones were lost. Came back in 2010 and things had moved a little further west again. Found a bit of a haven in and around Bloor/Dufferin to Lansdowne and up to Dupont, but all of my old spots there have nearly shut down and further extraordinarily large developments are planned. Used to play semi-regularly at The Silver Dollar (RIP). Grimey, but fun.

Parkdale still has its moments but even it is being hit now and Little Tibet is feeling that sting.

There's constant [sad/angry] joking about every block consisting of Shopper's Drug Mart, Rexall, Starbucks, and bubble tea. It's not at all that bad yet, but it's also not as much of a satire as it sounds, sadly.

These days my partner and I have been strongly considering a move to Hamilton if we can sort it out with our work.

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Post by Xylakant »

uk_programmer wrote: post #191
kqr wrote: post #137

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That probably costs more, though. Software engineering is mainly knowledge work. This means the majority of work consists not of building stuff, but acquiring and organising knowledge. I've read somewhere that about 50% of the job is gathering information. When a person leaves after having spent two years at a company, it might look like you get to keep everything they've been working on, but this is far from true. I…

This is exactly what I am talking about. You are overestimating how important it is. The code is there and (presumably) in source control. It really isn't that difficult for someone to get the source, compile it and fire up the debugger and carry on where the previous person left off.

I’ve seen very few projects of more than moderate complexity where “check out code and compile it” is the complex part.

Who’s consuming the code? Who are the stakeholders? How does this component integrate into the full picture of the application? How do I need to talk to that person that I really need to change something?

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Post by alharith »

fallingfrog wrote: post #198

I’m very impressed by the generosity of this business owner- I don’t know if I would have that kind of moral compass in his position. However- it still needs to be said that we really ought to fight to create an economic system in which everyone has the means to have a comfortable life, even if individuals that make it up are not virtuous. Because this kind of story is a rarity, and the market will certainly punish h…

> in which everyone has the means to have a comfortable life,

Why do you think everyone should have the means to have a "comfortable" life? Perhaps you mean means to meet necessities? If not, what does "comfortable" mean to you? Additionally, why do you think that the means are not there today?

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Post by ianlevesque »

fallingfrog wrote: post #198

I’m very impressed by the generosity of this business owner- I don’t know if I would have that kind of moral compass in his position. However- it still needs to be said that we really ought to fight to create an economic system in which everyone has the means to have a comfortable life, even if individuals that make it up are not virtuous. Because this kind of story is a rarity, and the market will certainly punish h…

Isn’t the point that the market hasn’t punished him? For five years?

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Post by thrownblown »

52-6F-62 wrote: post #189
marcus_holmes wrote: post #178

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I live in Berlin, which has a history of being both poor and having an extremely creative subculture. It's interesting but sad watching that creativity vanish as the rents rise. There's more money here now, but less creativity. I think this apparent contradiction is resolved by asking "who had the time to be creative?". When rents were low, artists could make ends meet and still have time to create. As rents are risi…

Replace Berlin with Toronto and you'd be just as correct. It's a concern that spans decades. https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-last-days-of-toronto-s-low-r... — This article dates to the 80's and its tone is the very same. (Canada's lost sweetheart PM hopeful is interviewed in one of the videos when he was a Toronto city councilor. Such a loss. He really had his finger on the pulse)

replace toronto with Manhattan's lower east side, or brooklyn's williamsburg or sf's mission district, or all of oakland

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Post by ghaff »

thebean11 wrote: post #169
ghaff wrote: post #112

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I mostly agree. >cars need much less maintenance these days. And, especially if you lived somewhere with snow and salt on the roads, they mostly lasted about 50K miles before they rusted out. Growing up, it was an unusual car that made it to 100K. That said, minor repairs of otherwise functional gear can make sense. I'm generally in agreement on electronics. But I fairly commonly repair or have repaired hiking or cam…

There still seems to be a market for repairing high end stuff. Shoe repair and clothing alteration stores haven't really gone anywhere

I suspect it's declined pretty significantly--in fact, because people wear fewer shoes that can be repaired and wear less tailored clothing. But of course there are still tailors and cobblers (who are often a good place to get backpacks and the like repaired) are still around. Many laundry places will do minor repairs as well.

In the anecdata department, the last time I took something into REI to be repaired they told me they didn't do that any longer and to send it to Rainy Pass in Seattle.

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