A day or two ago, the caffeteria workers were complaining about living in a garage and not being able to bring their children to work. So? The engineers are the ones the provide value to the company. The support staff is there to do just that: support.
The kitchen staff live in the garage, the engineers live in main house, and the president is a multi-billionaire. I don't see what the problem is.
Do we want a pauper in the White House? Programmers in the garage? And the gardener in the 4 bedroom, 3 bath, two story with a view? Seems a little topsy turvy to me.
Once upon a time, those ‘Coffin Cubicles’ would be seen as a sign of effiency, not squalor. I don't see want, I see abundance. Television, pills, cell phones and comraderie. Not everyone can live in a house with a yard. I certainly don't. We simply do not have enough room. We have to make the best of it. If you chose to live in Hong Kong, you make the best of what you've got. I'm sure the benefits outweigh the downsides. The article says they eat out more often than they cook for themselves. Must be nice. I had to make pancakes this morning (took like 20 minutes), but they just roll out of of bed, head downstairs, and pick up some noodles on the way to work? That's the effiency I'm talking about. It doesn't look like much, but they have everything they need, all in one place, ready to go. Minimalism. Simplicity. Efficiency. I'm kind of jealous.
According to Index of Economic Freedom, Hong Kong has had the highest degree of economic freedom in the world since the inception of the Index in 1995.[0]
Hong Kong is the 32nd largest export economy in the world and the 12th most complex economy according to the Economic Complexity Index (ECI).[1]
Hong Kong’s unemployment rate was 3.3% as of January 2017 according to Trading Economics.[2]
There are several things happening here. I make a reference to a (rather famous?) book by Dale Carnegie, called How to win friends an influence people (that's the part after the asterisk).
I personally have no doubt that the above response was not written by bot. At this current moment in history -- mind this was written on 2017-07-25 (ISO, EDT, YMMV, HHGTTG, etc.) -- bot technology had not yet progressed to the stage that all HN comments were being persused by bots that knew that dead prez was written in lowercase, not uppercase.
I'd like to thank my bot for calling this to my attention so that I could answer personally. He only deploys on special occasions -- I doubt that any more than 0.4% of HN comments have been made by him.
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For we are the future, and we are the past. We are not the present -- this is not a gift.
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I would, however, cut the the paragraph as follows. Everything after is just an adversisement for the authors blog.
When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace. Fitted out appropriately, I step inside the venerable courts of the ancients, where, solicitously received by them, I nourish myself on that food that alone is mine and for which I was born; where I am unashamed to converse with them and to question them about the motives for their actions, and they, out of their human kindness, answer me. And for four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death. I absorb myself into them completely. And because Dante says that no one understands anything unless he retains what he has understood, I have jotted down what I have profited from in their conversation and composed a short study..."
• Bill Gates reads 50 books a year.
• Mark Zuckerberg reads at least one book every two weeks.
• Elon Musk grew up reading two books a day.
• Mark Cuban reads for more than three hours every day.
• Arthur Blank, a co-founder of Home Depot, reads two hours a day.
Yup. He didn't get those factoids from reading books. Mayhaps he received these gems of wisdom from:
When I read an online article from the Atlantic or the New Yorker, after a few paragraphs I glance over at the slide bar to judge the article’s length. My mind strays, and I find myself clicking on the sidebars and the underlined links. Soon I’m over at CNN.com reading Donald Trump’s latest tweets and details of the latest terrorist attack, or perhaps checking tomorrow’s weather.
I have 20,000 books to the author's 5,000. I'm not kidding. SQL database provided on demand. # books don't matter so much, it's what you do with them.
Reading is a proxy for thinking. Reading is only useful for those eureka moments (now called "a-ha moments" -- I guess it's shorter?) and for information gain. A walk in the woods, a pithy tweet, an encouter (a dialog -- a communiation -- a discussion -- an interaction -- an intercourse) with another human (fucking) being can also provide that eureka moment.
Stop reading, start learning. The best education is observation and participation. I'm all for books, but if they ain't teaching us about how to solve our own problems, then fuck them books. Get the knowledge, get the power. But be conscious, be aware, pay attention, did you miss it? You missed it. That's okay, I did when I wrote it, but if you hash the previous paragraph (algorithm you'll have to figure out), you'll get 2 bitcoins. I hear they might still be worth something. I read that in a book.
So I did a Google image search for "poisonous mushrooms" and it gave me a picture of "Galerina marginata" from Encyclopeadia Britannica[0].
According to the app:
I think it's: Psilocybe zapotecorum
Or perhaps Psilocybe subtropicalis , Psathyrella piluliformis , Psathyrella longistriata , or Kuehneromyces lignicola or something totally different!
Warning!!! Many mushrooms look alike and many are toxic!
Champignouf makes a lot of mistakes!
Do not eat mushrooms without being sure they are edible, you could die!
Agreed, NewEgg customer service is excellent. Easy returns. I've probably spent more in raw dollars at NewEgg than at Amazon, even though I've made maybe 10x as many Amazon purchases.
Edit: I have NewEgg Premier though, so I get free shipping on certain items and free RMAs. Cheaper than Amazon Prime. I'm always amazed NewEgg doesn't get more love around here.
Interesting. I also find myself picking up tech from NewEgg more often than Amazon. And I recently ordered most of the supplies for a cocktail party I was having at Walmart and Bed Bad and Beyond.
Amazon prices might beat local retail, but they are only sometimes competitive with other (often more specizlized) online retailers at this point.
Also, at least for me, shipping New Egg, Walmart and BBAB was faster than Amazon. I don't have Prime however.
Er, is this not illegal in the USA? It is in Canada:
The Act prohibits false or misleading representations to the public as to the ordinary selling price of a product, in any form whatsoever. Ordinary selling price is validated in one of two ways: either a substantial volume of the product was sold at that price or higher, within a reasonable amount of time (volume test); or the product was offered for sale, in good faith, for a substantial period of time at that price or a higher price (time test).[0]
The signal to noise ratio around my kitchen table is a lot higher than on reddit (or even HN), and there are a lot fewer trolls.
We used to say "Never trust anyone you can't punch in the face."