My productivity has skyrocketed after our company moved remote, I think in large part because my home monitor is good and my office monitor was garbage. Staring at blurry text all day messes with your brain a lot more than you realize.
This is sad but also extremely true. At my company, Zoom was suddenly rolled out en masse to everyone, despite the fact that we are a technology company and should know better.
Definitely agree with the latter part here about execs, but I feel like anxiety around compensation doesn't tie back to material needs as much as to the extent to which people measure their self-worth by compensation.
Years ago, these studies were going around saying that people are happier when they make more money up to about $70k, at which point more money doesn't make you happier anymore. I'm sure that has to be adjusted for inflation etc by now, but very few devs make less money than they need to live comfortably by most people's standards.
It's not like Amazon is bad at AI. The problem they're solving for is legitimately hard, which is why it's so frustrating that it's been put in production in a way that can really harm people.
no one denies that voter fraud is possible. the more important question is whether voter fraud is a serious threat to the voting process, and there's no evidence of this.
collecting ballots from the mailboxes of dead people is not exactly a scalable enough way to rig an election for the democrats to warrant serious concern — especially considering how the hardest-struck communities vote democratic anyway. and besides, if you wanted to request a ballot for your sick roommate to perpetuate voter fraud, you could already pull that off in most states.
mail-in-ballot fraud concern-trolling is a long-established propaganda effort that doesn't have to be addressed on a case-by-case basis
truly wild that the fight over whether social media platforms should be held liable for speech happens the one time they actually do make a feeble attempt at moderation.
Considering the market share of iPhone in this demographic, it's inexcusable not to correct for this — even if you disagree with Apple's decision on this.
I've definitely spent a lot of time in standups that are effectively pure micromanage-y accountability plays — what are you working on today. Those were a huge waste of time. In the instances where people could actually help me out, though, they've been very helpful.
yeah, it doesn't necessarily seem like a lot for those affected. that said, an upper band of $50k for damages feels like it could be enough to motivate content moderation orgs to take this stuff more seriously?
one interesting, counterintuitive argument i've seen on how to prevent this is in lawrence lessig's book, "republic, lost" about the us congress.
his take is that public servants actually don't make enough money, when compared to their peers in the public sector, and that an important step to preventing regulatory capture is to pay them better. that way, people don't spend their careers in public service trying to avoid pissing off lobbyists they're hoping to work for later.
not sure if it'd work or not, or if making moves like this illegal is better, but it's definitely an interesting idea.
"Although hackers need physical access to a Windows or Linux computer to exploit the flaws, they could theoretically gain access to all data in about five minutes even if the laptop is locked, password protected, and has an encrypted hard drive. The entire process can reportedly be completed with a series of off-the-shelf components costing just a few hundred dollars."
yikes. this reminds me of when i used a thumb drive with my mac in college, plugged it into a windows computer, and discovered that all my deleted files were still there.
although i'm a home owner as of fairly recently, this feels like a bit of a necessary correction. people owning multiple homes drives up prices for everyone else.