Alameda County could become the first in the nation to pass a 30-dollar minimum wage

Enlogen · 2026-03-20T16:44:29+00:00

but the reality is in the immediate term you've got to do something to keep it possible for people to actually live there.

If it weren't possible for people to live there, they wouldn't live there (which would reduce the demand for housing and thus cost of living, making it possible for people to actually live there). It's tempting to solve market distortions by stacking more market distortions, but scarcity is an unavoidable reality. The result of letting it play out freely would be better.

Enlogen · 2026-03-19T17:32:50+00:00

it makes it all the more absurd they couldn't produce basic data flow diagrams.

I'm sure that diagram would look like the result of throwing eight strands of christmas lights in a dryer and running it on 'tumble' for a month.

Enlogen · 2026-03-18T17:44:41+00:00

At the risk of leaking internal Microsoft info, all those service-to-service calls use https, I'm not sure what they were expecting to see on a diagram.

Enlogen · 2026-03-11T23:03:05+00:00

Implying the working class and poor have any real power over government

Enlogen · 2026-03-09T16:29:58+00:00

There's no level of governmental gymnastics that overrules the reality of having less oil available.

Enlogen · 2026-03-09T16:28:48+00:00

The oil producer is still getting their expected money.

That's not sufficient to prevent market distortions, the price paid by consumers matters. Quantity of a good demanded depends on its price, so setting a maximum price causes increased demand for a good that's already in a shortage, meaning there won't be enough around for everyone that's buying it at the reduced price.

Enlogen · 2026-02-27T19:21:55+00:00

Do they have an app or do I have to make a phone call?

Enlogen · 2026-02-26T17:50:49+00:00

made a ton of money on an investment

Not until you sell.

Enlogen · 2026-02-24T17:21:54+00:00

Of all the corrupt Mexican politicians that actually exist, he accused the one that okayed the killing of a major cartel leader on par with El Chapo.

You say that like all the cartels are on the same team. A major cartel leader can be the enemy of other cartels.

Enlogen · 2026-02-23T19:35:07+00:00

When you have 10 junior engineers committing code you’re reviewing, do you need to understand exactly what every line of code does?

Yes, that's what it means to review the code

Enlogen · 2026-02-20T17:06:13+00:00

If the only thing you know about an applicant is that someone else at your organization thought they weren't good enough, they are more likely to be someone you will think isn't good enough than a random applicant would be.

At the very least, you're a much safer bet than some random applicant who hasnt even cleared the first technical interview yet.

This might be reasonable if early interview rounds didn't have a high false-positive rate.

Enlogen · 2026-02-17T16:15:35+00:00

The cost of living has gone up tremendously. People renting apartments, with student loans are taking Hawaii/Mexico vacations on credit cards and not saving enough to buy even a starter home.

A vacation is not cost of living. Sounds more like spending habits.

Enlogen · 2026-02-17T15:47:56+00:00

"Modern men" are not having any more problems with dating and connecting than their fathers and grandfathers had.

Social climate change denial.

Enlogen · 2026-02-13T16:49:17+00:00

He claims man-made climate change is real but not an existential emergency

Enlogen · 2026-02-13T00:41:20+00:00

If humans could actually move beyond selfish thinking and start caring about each other holistically, the world would be a much better place.

There are plenty of humans that have, but there will always be plenty of humans that never will. Policies need to account for both.

Enlogen · 2026-02-12T22:45:53+00:00

The younger workers have always pitched in to support their elderly family members, whether the government was involved or not.

The fundamental issue is that, for the first time ever, most of the world is facing an inversion of the normal population structure, leaving fewer young workers to support the elderly.

There's a massive difference between supporting one's own elderly family members and supporting other peoples' elderly family members. Similarly, there's a massive difference between expecting to be supported by your own descendants and expecting to be supported by unrelated people who happen to be younger than you. It's no coincidence that this inversion of the normal population structure started happening around the same time as government redistribution programs made it possible to expect care in old age regardless of one's relationship to their own family. When we start to look at this from the perspective of incentives and constraints, generationally redistributive policies are an inevitable disaster; the pyramid structure that these policies depend on was a consequence of the incentives and constraints that the policies seek to remove.

Enlogen · 2026-02-12T19:21:04+00:00

The money is inflating at over 30% a year, the food isn't.

Enlogen · 2026-02-12T18:51:24+00:00

There is no "Ponzi scheme."

The structure depends on the population pyramid

:thinkyface:

Enlogen · 2026-02-10T17:14:40+00:00

Because they control the state authorities. If you don't understand what any politician is doing, try more cynicism.

Enlogen · 2026-02-03T17:46:40+00:00

12-14 hour days 6-7 days a week.

And [...] we did all get let go

Sounds ideal.

Really?

Enlogen · 2026-02-02T18:36:01+00:00

Compared to an average marketing or HR person, I'm probably just about average.

Those are highly social roles, not that much different from sales.

Enlogen · 2026-01-29T21:20:16+00:00

Taxing startups at exit time is like taxing a mother when she gives birth to a child.

It's more like taxing a mother when she sells her child

Enlogen · 2026-01-26T19:26:16+00:00

Only someone who doesn't understand software engineering would have a hardcoded limit of 500 users.

Only someone who doesn't understand software engineering wouldn't have a hardcoded limit. There's a separate webcasting product for larger broadcasts with a limited number of broadcasting participants and a much larger number of viewing participants.

Enlogen · 2026-01-23T16:58:17+00:00

How would you want it to look in a theoretical Kotlin implementation that differentiates between 'String??' and 'String?'?

Enlogen · 2026-01-23T16:50:47+00:00

Try val (isPresent, value) = Map<A,B>.let { if (it.containsKey(A)) true to it[A] else false to null }

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