It sends the message that they would rather you be less effective and productive and visually visible.
It also sends the message they do not care about your health for commuting 1-2 hours per day. It's costly and there is a danger of traffic/accidents... and all that comes with it.
When study after study shows that remote workers produce more, and my personal anecdotal evidence that I'm easily 2-3 times more productive.... it's frankly insulting that an employer would want to treat you like a child and be your baby sitter.
Next point...
- all employees of theirs are in same timezone
This means that they likely have not chosen from the best pool of talent and you will likely face more typical/mediocre developers vs. working with a comoany that draws from many more time zones.
It's important to me to know that they value talent and production over geography and drawing from different time zones is evidence of that.
Obvious no go's
- Unpaid coding assignments (Fuck you pay me)
- Any psychometric tests (no thank you)
- If they promote their "diversity" programs and meanwhile only focusing on the metric of skin-color and ignoring mental qualities (How racist can you be to call it diversity when your diversity program is only skin deep?)
- If they have a pay scale and "have to be equitable"... no thank you. Hire some chump for less and good luck.
- if they want to meet you face to face in person
Why? Are you going to order a limo and buy me dinner?
If not, then I'm not interested. See point above about different timezones and all remote. exception can be made if it is a startup and this will be a top level position or this is an executive level position at a big compant (but they better pay for your trip and act like a good date)
Do you mean the "contraband" or "illegal drug" business biggest problem?
Because last time I checked the alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, psychoactive, and pain killer industry is measured in the 100's of billions and many Trillions per year.... and they do not seem to worry too much of the challenges of paying dividends/disbursements?
If it's illegal drugs, then it's literally not a big deal compared to several orders of magnitude greater money transfers and societal harm relative to "legal drugs".
>My counter is that people might like the concept of anonymity, and they may even hate their bank, but they like a functioning society and (relatively) stable financial markets a lot more. In fact, we’re usually willing to sacrifice some anonymity, or create governance systems (warrants) that impinge on them in exchange for public goods like law and order.
Stable like depreciating USD by 95% in less than 100 years?
Stable like the boom and bust cycle every 6 - 12 years due to inflation and currency manipulation?
Stable like using inflated money to have waged massive wars?
Stopped reading when the author put that lie in there. There is absolutely nothing stable about USD that is worth the risks.
It is a moral imperative to make bitcoin (cash) and deflationary money work for society.
I'm pretty sure from recent research that black neighborhoods are under policed relative to white neighborhoods from some recent work I did.
We looked at a lot of research and came to conclusion that the "racial profiling boogeyman" is actually a convenient cultural myth to perpetuate "oppression stereotypes".
Don't take my word for it, but it is worth looking into.
Since you made a claim and did not substantiate and just took at as given.
Higher health costs matter insofar as the gov't steals at gunpoint your income (via taxation) and redistributes it.
Remove coerced theft (taxes) then the healthcare cost argument is not a problem. In fact, it will be a good thing if people screw up their bodies and die prematurely because it means they will acquire less assets and basically are socializing their future potential into the ones that are not so dumb to ruin their bodies.
Some people like chocolate, some like vanilla flavored ice cream instead.
The fact remains that:
- More people have stable/larger incomes on Canada side fue to tourism
- More choices of foods and cuisines to eat
- More recreational and leisure options
- More cashflow and more working capital to invest
- More income diverted into improved sanitation, infrastructure and utilities
If you want "nice park like setting"... then why not just walk up a couple of miles away from the traffic and all that sweet sweet entertainment and good food and have a picnic further up?
There's nothing wrong with developing urban centers for people to live in and enjoy.
The fact is that 20% of the world's poorest has a smartphone and is in many cases more valuable than running water or sanitation.
Within 10-20 years we will have 50km range wifi, with solar powered batteries and ultra low cost computing power and many more of the poor will be brought into the connected economica world via smartphones, long range power and internet tech and micro transactions with ultra low fees powered by tech like bitcoin (cash).
The last startup I worked at 3 years ago sold Android smartphones for $5 USD.
Unbelievable that I get called out of touch when the author is a couple years behind the curve. Nice vision and imagination, man.
>Now tell me, what institution is going to make a holder of cryptocurrency 'whole' again if something goes wrong with their wallet or the block-chain itself?
There will be crypto lending banks and multi-sig custodial services to fill that use case.
The code and math is open source and has been available for a decade.
Unbelievable how HN has tech dinosaurs that can't be bothered to check all the open source implementations available for the particular problem/use csse they are seeking to solve. That is so 2009.
Tell that to citizens of Greece when the banks took 20% of everyone's life savings a few years ago.
Tell that to the 3B people in the world who live on less than $2/day and banks will not deal with them.
You make claims that traditional payment systems are more efficient.... but did not include an energy calculation to maintain those banks, armoured cars, and infrastructure as compared to bitcoin energy consumption.
My theory is that HN people feel they "missed the bus" which causes cognitive dissonance because "we're techies and edgy startups af".
Combine the feeling of missing out on 10,000% financial gains and you have a case for thr worst kind of disgust and cognitive dissonance.
The truth is that most of the people in this space who "know crypto/blockchain" are clueless and missing the point.
If you refer to cryptocurrency or blockchain as a concept instead of just saying POW or bitcoin (cash), then you missed the point from the beginning and you are blind to what is coming next.
The reason people have no money, is because of the power of their habits and their lack of imagination and discipline.
Money is merely s measurement tool that reflects your captured reciprocal altruism (or piracy of course).
Tons of "poor people" regularly blow $100's/month on drugs such as caffeine, tobacco, beer or even illegal drugs and lottery tickets.
Others will extend themselves with shiny clothes and new cars.
It's frankly hilarious and apalling at the same time.
Primary reason: predatory governments who make you spend 12 years in school and teach little to nothing of finance/value creation.