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Post by Forge36 »

ericlewis wrote: post #711
Forge36 wrote: post #684

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Mine is returning part time on July 19th. When asked if we're more productive in the office vs at home we were told flat out "we don't have that data". My commute is 5 miles. 30 minutes by bike (on a few sketchy roads) or 15 minutes by car. I need to time out which is actually faster end-to-end. I setup an office in my house pre-pandemic (It's gaming room with dual monitors on a desktop PC I built in college) 3x the…

don't give it up, is the simple answer.

As in just stay remote? Not sure how to execute on that

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Post by dreen »

paulcole wrote: post #137
hutzlibu wrote: post #40

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I recommend traveling. See all the places, you want to see, with no pressure of having to go back to work by a fixed date, soon. Meet people, make new connections, chances are, you will find new opportunities to work, along the way. Bonus points, if you have all your stuff packed somewhere and not have to pay any rent. But it depends what you want, if you like your home, keep it. Have projects in your home ... There…

I took 3 years off, didn’t do anything other than read, watch tv, go to the movies, and walk/ride my bicycle. Never traveled once. Loved every minute of it. Doing nothing doesn’t get boring for everyone. And it’s my time not yours so who’s to say what a waste is? My biggest advice is to do what you want and don’t feel like you have to live up to some HN-gap-year fantasy. You might regret sitting in your apartment sur…

OP here. This is the best advice. Although I do intend to do some travelling, I always detest when people put some sort of life-worth qualifier onto it, as if you havent lived your life if you havent done some milage. Thats just bullshit, or probably marketing effect.

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Post by vmception »

MrKristopher wrote: post #967
vmception wrote: post #906

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But they shouldn't be reporting stocks going up or refreshers to Levels They should be reporting offer letters that get verified by Levels admins So its $1,000,000

At https://www.levels.fyi/addcomp.html I see someone could upload an offer letter, or a W2.

I see

So its likely heavily factoring in stock price appreciation as the RSUs vest and have a portion withheld for taxes based on current value.

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Post by dimgl »

elevenoh wrote: post #886
jonfw wrote: post #128

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Open finance sounds cool until you realize it means crypto, which is not very useful

hmmm, i can loan stablecoins via crypto & receive interest with zero intermediary. or i can sell digital assets (e.g. art or IP) directly as an artist anywhere in the world, uncensorably & without revealing my identity (e.g. if in China). pretty useful.

I have no idea what any of that means.

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Post by sigstoat »

aphextron wrote: post #110
ahelwer wrote: post #62

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Beyond the distasteful idea that we should always act in a way demonstrating obedience to potential employers, the solution to this is extremely easy. Gap year? No! I am merely doing independent consulting. Do I actually have any contracts? So many questions! Plus if you actually use the time to work on OSS instead of traveling or whatever I have no idea how an employer (that you'd want to work at) could fault you fo…

>Gap year? No! I am merely doing independent consulting. Do I actually have any contracts? So many questions! People aren't stupid. They'll have questions. And lies are extremely hard to keep straight in the long term. The sad fact of the matter is that you are not a person to them in the initial hiring process. You are a piece of paper. And unless you are some rock star 10x top level candidate with impressive creden…

> People aren't stupid. They'll have questions

i interview and i've never looked at the dates of employment on someone's resume. i don't care one whit when you did what in the past, just what you're capable of right now.

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Post by smolder »

vaidhy wrote: post #932
BobbyJo wrote: post #925

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Post-scarcity just refers to a time after scarcity, which is defined as limited resources. In a world that is post-scarcity, everyone can have everything they want (materially) without infringing on anyone else's ability to have the same. The reason it gets brought up is because the moment one person's needs or wants infringe on another's, there needs to be a way to decide who gets what. Generally, this is what peopl…

By definition, this is impossible to achieve. Assume that some person says I want what everyone else has. There is no post scarcity. It is better to think of it as meeting a set of pre-defined needs. These needs can change over time. for e.g., internet access. But framing it as wanting everything I could possibly imagine is a straw-man.

Yeah, I've always maintained that there are too many people with unbounded greed for a "complete" post-scarcity to be achievable. There's a "greed is good" crowd, and then beyond that, there are those who aren't even concerned with whether it's good to be greedy, they just want to win at others' expense, spitefully. A world where they can't take from other people is not desirable. The first time I got to know someone with this attitude, I started out thinking it was a front, or a joke, but it wasn't.

The idea of post-scarcity brushes over that dark part of human nature, and assumes we can figure out how to cooperate, even absent antisocial misanthropes. In Star Trek, they have "figured it out", but the transition to post-scarcity is understandably only vaguely described.

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Post by brtkdotse »

jhrozek wrote: post #458
admissionsguy wrote: post #286

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You are not getting health insurance in most European countries unless you are working or registered as unemployed and remain at disposal of the local job centre. And the whole meme that a 65% tax rate +25% vat on most products on top of it (I am in Sweden) is somehow worth it financially because "fReE HeAlThCaRe" is laughable.

Even worse: Unless you pay private insurance yourself, the quality of the free insurance (at your nearest vårdcentralen) is absolutely laughable. My family of 4 pays about 1800 SEK/month for private insurance to actually have a chance to see a competent doctor.

While I agree that vårdcentralen-level health care is hit or miss, the point is that _everyone_ has a basic level of health care and getting sick won’t bankrupt you.

This has the second-order effect that _I_ won’t have to worry about _someone dear to me_ will be personally bankrupted by a medical condition. It saves me having to decide whether or not I should indebt myself to pay for their treatment.

Not having to raise fundraisers for my family members cancer treatment is worth a whole lot of disposable income for me.

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Post by westcort »

ineptech wrote: post #788
maybelsyrup wrote: post #743

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> for those who no longer wish to work > to those who don't wish to work > those who choose not to work at all > the same for working and for doing nothing, that people choose the latter You're making my point for me with the arbeit macht frei dog-whistles here. So let me be clear: if "work" is defined as "millions of white and blue collar professional lives before Covid, lives replete with Kafka-esque meaninglessnes…

> those who no longer wish to work This reminded me of an old political cartoon I saw at the Abraham Lincoln museum: https://www.loc.gov/resource/pga.04994/ It shows Lincoln with his (supposed) supporters and their requests, one of whom is depicted as saying, "I want a hotel established by government, where people that ain't inclined to work can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco."

You might enjoy my digital catalog of the Library of Congress: www.locserendipity.com

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Post by goodpoint »

notdarkyet wrote: post #224
goodpoint wrote: post #196

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> At least crypto is a slightly-less-obnoxious industry than ads and tracking And way more environmentally destructive than countless other things.

Maybe we quantity the privacy and emotional manipulation/destruction of the ad industry? If we want to talk energy, maybe we look at what mindless streaming services consume?

Cherry-picking much?

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Post by daddylongstroke »

maybelsyrup wrote: post #843
mywittyname wrote: post #838

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The businesses who won't figure out how to raise wages will go out of business and be replaced by new companies who figured out how to have their employees work more efficiently. It sounds like maybelsyrup has it right, and it's these business owners who are in for the rude awakening. There's a rootbeer stand near me that has a message on their menu saying, "if minimum wage is raised to $15, our prices will go up 10%…

> There's a rootbeer stand near me Yes! I keep seeing stuff like this, and I think "wait a minute, you're telling me that you want to slightly raise the price of this great product or service, and in exchange, your employees will be paid a living wage, or get decent health insurance, or another half day off, or a vacation? Please take my fucking money ."

Ahhh, something tells me, you're not their core customer.
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