I think some of the advice here is quite good, but especially given the title of your question, someone has to point out that there's literally a book on the subject called "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living," by Dale Carnegie.
It's a good book. It probably won't solve all your problems without you needing to do some inner work, and I generally recommend meditation as a way to find peace, but also you should read the book since it directly answers your question :)
"Clean" is definitely not a word I'd use to describe this finding:
“Although the N. fowleri was not detected in the Surf Resort, Lazy River, or the Royal Flush, the presence of fecal indicator organisms, high turbidity, low free chlorine levels, and other amoeba that occur along with N. fowleri indicate conditions favorable for N. fowleri growth”
They're being charitable in their interpretation of the CDC's findings, to say the least.
The other thing that I think would be great if YCombinator threw their weight behind would be lobbying for universal healthcare.
I (and many others, I presume) would be much less risk-averse and more likely to start a startup or work at a startup if healthcare wasn't so expensive. One of the biggest benefits of working at a big company is their good health insurance, which many startups are lacking. So not only do you get paid less at startups, but your costs are higher if you or anyone in your family gets sick.
I see a lot of talk about comp, and that is 100% an issue (particularly considering the time-value of money, that every year that you're earning more money you can earn ~10% long-term on that in your IRA/401k).
But, considering there is only so much money that startups have access to, and most early employees are not primarily motivated by money (I would hope, or else they are likely quite naive), the biggest let-down I've experienced as an early employee, that would have made up for the lower comp, would be actual access to the founders' networks and learning opportunities.
If being an early employee meant getting to meet with investors and help the founder raise money (and make an impression on those investors), if it meant being actively involved in the struggles of the founders involved in running a startup, then I suspect those of us who wish to start our own startup some day would consider that a reasonably attractive opportunity to really learn those skills and build their network.
Anyone have thoughts on how to go about learning mainframe programming and COBOL? Honestly seems like a useful skill given its existence everywhere but I don't think very many engineers (myself included) know where to start in learning it.
There are a lot of interesting ideas to unpack here:
- As the initial meritocrats (does that pass as a word?) benefit from the meritocracy and accumulate wealth, they use that wealth to increase the odds for their children, resulting in a future where the "meritocracy" is made up of people whose merits in education were largely paid for, and so it ceases to be a meritocracy and ends up resembling an oligarchy.
- People outside the meritocracy can't stand the smugness of elites, who have better opportunities and thus better outcomes.
- This results in the breakdown of democratic function over time, because hating elites results in fact-denying when those elites are factually correct. An example is how the uneducated largely voted for Brexit, and won't change their minds in the face of evidence that it was a bad vote, because they don't want to admit that they were wrong and the elites were right.
For me this presents some of the issues brought about by large inequality, whether brought about by traditional feudalism, oligarchy, or new-fangled "meritocracy." It causes unrest such that inevitably results in revolution.
I also question the value of a meritocracy on its basic premise. It seems unfair in a society with so much wealth that "lazy" people or "dumb" people get such a short end of the stick when it is not their fault that they were born that way. Many of us want to build cool things and make money and contribute to the world, and capitalism makes sure we're rewarded for it, but for those of us who don't I see no reason they should be condemned to poverty while there is the means to feed them.
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RaiseMe | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, Full-time
RaiseMe is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges (https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/29/raise-me-grabs-12-million-...). We just closed a Series A from top investors like Redpoint and First Round Capital, and are growing our team rapidly.
If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React/Redux frontend
I'm from Florida. Born and raised. I'm not sure what they have been succeeding at. Opioid crisis is rampant, inequality is insane, the education system got worse and worse throughout my education and seems to have gotten worse since I graduated high school and left. Miami is partially underwater every king tide because of rising sea levels and yet under Rick Scott's government the phrase "climate change" is forbidden in emails and correspondence, so people are hamstringed into doing nothing about it. Charter schools have been given tons of leeway and there are tons of accounts of them discriminating against students who are less likely to be academic achievers on the one end of the spectrum (so that their stats look better), and on the other end of the spectrum they neglect and abuse the children in the classrooms.
As an individual it seems great to go work there as opposed to here in CA because there is no state income tax, yet I still make way more money here in CA because there is practically no industry in FL unless you're a lawyer or a doctor.
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RaiseMe is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges (https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/29/raise-me-grabs-12-million-...). We just closed a Series A from top investors like Redpoint and First Round Capital, and are growing our team rapidly. If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React/Redux frontend
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Raise.me is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges (https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/29/raise-me-grabs-12-million-...). We just closed a Series A from top investors like Redpoint and First Round Capital, and and are growing our team rapidly. If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend
Raise.me | Lead iOS Engineer, Product Manager | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-time
Raise.me is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges (https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/29/raise-me-grabs-12-million-...). We just closed a Series A from top investors like Redpoint and First Round Capital, and and are growing our team rapidly. If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend
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Raise.me is expanding access to college by reinventing how scholarships are awarded (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/got-an-a-in-al...). We're a Series A funded startup backed by top investors such as First Round Capital. We're looking for engineers and offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend
This is a really difficult situation, in that lowering regulatory overhead would mean getting automated solutions to the public faster, and even if they weren't optimally safe they'd likely be vastly better than human drivers and the sooner we could reap that benefit the better. However, there is a substantial long-term risk to the viability of self-driving cars if any high-profile accidents do happen, because outside of Silicon Valley people generally trust themselves more than technology. So on the other hand it might be better to continue the dangerous status quo for longer, until regulatory framework can assure safety, so as to make the rollout of autonomous cars actually result in adoption of autonomous cars.
Raise.me | Full time | SF (ONSITE) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Lead iOS Engineer
Raise.me is expanding access to college by reinventing how scholarships are awarded (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/got-an-a-in-al...). We're a Series A funded startup backed by top investors such as First Round Capital. We're looking for engineers and offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend
Raise.me | Full time | SF (ONSITE) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Lead iOS Engineer, Lead Data Scientist
Raise.me is expanding access to college by reinventing how scholarships are awarded (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/got-an-a-in-alg...). We're a Series A funded startup backed by top investors such as First Round Capital. We're looking for engineers and offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend
Raise.me | Full time | SF (ONSITE) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Lead iOS Engineer, Lead Data Scientist
Raise.me is expanding access to college by reinventing how scholarships are awarded (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/got-an-a-in-alg...). We're a Series A funded startup backed by top investors such as First Round Capital. We're looking for engineers and offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend
Raise.me | Full time | SF (ONSITE) | Senior Software Engineer, Lead iOS Engineer, Lead Data Scientist
Raise.me is expanding access to college by reinventing how scholarships are awarded (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/got-an-a-in-alg...). We're a Series A funded startup backed by top investors such as First Round Capital. We're looking for engineers and offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend
Raise.me | Full time | SF (ONSITE) | Senior Software Engineer, Lead iOS Engineer, Lead Data Scientist
Raise.me is expanding access to college by reinventing how scholarships are awarded (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/got-an-a-in-alg...). We're a Series A funded startup backed by top investors such as First Round Capital. We're looking for engineers and offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay, along with the satisfaction that goes along with helping underprivileged kids get to college.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend
It's a good book. It probably won't solve all your problems without you needing to do some inner work, and I generally recommend meditation as a way to find peace, but also you should read the book since it directly answers your question :)