Not everyone would buy it, for sure. But the amount who would is absolutely non-zero.
I remember when I was in school, before piracy was huge. When a new big console game would come out, a bunch of my friends who go crazy distributing newspapers and mowing lawns or other ways to make small amounts of money just to be able to afford the game. You could rent it, but for big games you want to play a lot, that got expensive too. Pirate copies existed, but they were not free and often didn't work well.
These days? No one would ever do that. They'd just pirate it instead.
If all mainstream movies were impossible to pirate, what would happen? Some people would just go read a book instead. Some would borrow them. Some would buy them used. Maybe the indie industry would grow bigger.
But you can bet your butt that a non-trivial amount of people would find a way to buy it that don't right now. Heck, most people I know who pirate stuff are software engineers with 6 figure salaries who are just used to it from when they were poor college students and don't feel the need to change how they do things. But man do they NEED to see THAT movie.
For sure, there's way too many factors and there's always going to be inequality. The problem is that unless our moral values change to "round up the "lessers" and gas them all" (which most people seem to not be okay with), we have to do something, otherwise the people who got the short end get unhappy and when they're unhappy in large enough numbers it causes issues.
Right now, the solution is to have hundreds of programs that don't really work. Foodstamp, "affordable housing" (lol, more like yet another inequality generating lottery scam), tax deductions, and all around a shitload of complexity to try to steer people on the track we want and usually fail. People who quality or not bend the rules, etc.
It's a hell of a lot easier to just say "Everyone qualities if they want to, you get the bare minimum if you feel like it, if you want more than that you'll have to get up and do something for it". There's still some edge cases (eg: people with mental disorder) that will need stronger nets than that, but for the common case, that would work better than what we have now.
The remaining issue though is that then we just raise what people consider the minimum from "begging in the street" to "living on just enough for a tiny apartment and basic food", and then given a generation or two, they'll be unhappy with -that- and we'll be screwed again.
We got hit really hard at work by this. 2 of these emails went around, and they appeared to be sent from 2 of our engineers who routinely DO send google docs. The app was setup reasonably convincingly, and because oauth and so called "single sign-on" are really more like "a million sign on" because they never work quite right or ask you for credentials way too often, people are just used to having to approve everything all the time.
So hundreds of people clicked the damn thing. Including a lot of pretty accomplished engineers. I probably would have to, except my teammate got hit first and warned me before I saw the email.
The problem is compound by how free speech is quite dead. Say what you just said openly in a workplace of a semi-famous company. You will get fired faster than you can finish your sentence.
And yeah, it's basically impossible to control for all factors here. It could be a genuine gender difference (after all, people keep trying to drill in our head that things need to be done differently to attract female engineers, so they have to be different somehow), and it's not even necessarily negative either. It could be that men are more likely to just bypass the peer review process altogether. Or that women are more receptive to feedback. It could be that the schooling level is not the same at hire (after all, one of the big tenets of diversity hiring is to hire through different channels, including bootcamps, more, which would lead to different ratios). And it COULD be sexism. But it's simply too hard to figure out like this.
However, I could just post a "My guts feeling tells me females are getting screwed at company XYZ" and it would be headline news worthy and taken as truth.
I was recently reading an article that said "Women feel they are being passed up for promotion more often than men". While I'm pretty sure it IS true that they get screwed on promotions, what kind of stupid metric is that? EVERYONE feel they get screwed on promotions, ESPECIALLY people who don't deserve promotions. Wash, rince, repeat with every possible topic.
Yup. My current employer, while pushing hard for diversity, is doing pretty good at pushing to improve the company to attract said diversity, instead of just widening the net and bringing whatever they catch.
We have a pretty high ratio of female engineers (and even better ratio at the lead/director/vp level) for the kind of company we are. Not 50/50, but higher than the Google and Facebook of the world.
Pretty much all of the female engineers I've interacted with, including our junior ones, were top notch. High quality code, super hard workers, cares about the craft. Good stuff.
On the other hand, my previous employer had put a diversity activist in charge of hiring female engineers. Not only did we only have a handful, while half of them were really good, the other half were hired through shitty coding bootcamps, or were self "taught" (as in, they had read a book on coding and that was about it). Terrible. We had to lay off a couple within a few months, some were burning a crazy amount of hours in training (a lot more than a junior engineer should). In the end, we ended up with 2 in a team of 100+ Not cool.
You mean as opposed to living next door to the houses in practically every suburban neighborhood where the kids have a garage band 'rehearsing' after school?
The thing is those are not mutually exclusive. There's a certain level of things we tolerate as a society. And those things add up. I have a few neighbors with noisy kids. Not all my neighbors have noisy kids, because statistics. If I have neighbors with noisy kids AND neighbors with noisy AirBNB, that's just twice as bad.
It seems to me that a private homeowner should be given the maximum amount of freedom to do with his property as he pleases
Yup. As long as it doesn't prevent other people from enjoying their properties.
It's so much more complicated than that. We don't have many laws to handle things people don't generally do. Laws are almost always drafted as a reaction to things.
There's no law stopping llarge amount of strangers coming in an out of a peaceful neighborhood at any hour of the night. Because in a residential, high owner ratio neighborhood, that just doesn't happen.
Until AirBNB comes in and changes everything in a few years. AirBNB itself is often breaking municipal zoning rules (using a residential zoned area as mix use), which are a pain in the ass to enforce...because we usually don't need to enforce them.
It's not just people doing parties. The mere act of existing changes the character of neighbors semi-randomly (the same way renters do at a much, MUCH slower pace).
In a world where AirBNB itself is not doing anything illegal, hosts are almost constantly in the "fucking annoying, but not illegal" territory. The kind of thing that can ruin people's peace of mind and quality of life in a way they can't do shit about it.
As long as its kept out of purely residential zoned areas, follow all municipal rules, condo rules and rental lease rules, it's really not that bad. But I'd be surprised if even 5% of AirBNBs did.
AirBNB is pretty good for the customers, no real argument there.. It just forces the neighbors who signed up to live in a residential area to live like they were next to a hotel.
Fair enough:) Thus the n00b trap (I'm a noob), where it's pretty hard to figure out what it will actually do.
When I was looking at benchmark for DDR4 RAM, most showed no real improvement in most games, but some drastic improvement in certain high end photoshop or 3d rendering tasks::shrugs::
Either way, you really have to know what you're doing if you're buying something above 3200~
I recently built a new computer, something I don't do very often (every 5 years~ and I got lazy last time and got a prebuilt, so it's been a while).
First, RAM speed barely makes a difference for most people since not everyone is editing videos all day (and in games it barely does anything).
Then, these kits only reach these speeds with the timings properly setup, on the right motherboards/cpu combo (even if all your hardware is advertised as being compatible with the speeds). Often only if you only use 2 chips (at 4 its a coin toss if it will reach it or not). And even with all that, it's still a lottery if the ones you got will reach it and then you have to decide if you care enough to play the RMA lottery.
No, not getting people to install Flash, that's just stupid.
But the "design at home" small business or individual printing market. If you don't want to have people install shit, you need to make a WYSIWYG in-browser editor that can produce pixel perfect, color accurate content using stuff such as arbitrary custom fonts.
Doable? Yes. But the compromises are interesting. I used to work for a big company where we did this. Our competitors were using stuff like Flash, limited templates, sticking to built in fonts, would not garentee what you saw on the screen is what you would get (and just have a good return policity), etc. Our team handling this did stuff such as rendering the fonts server side and re-implementing all of the text handling in javascript, abusing canvas to hell and back, etc.
But yeah, you can use Flash to make things easier.
Bingo. These are the kind of things where people are incredibly short sighted.
"Omg, college is too expensive. We must help EVERYONE afford it!!".
Except that like anything else, if you give 100% of the population X amount of money for a specific resource, the price of that resource now goes up by X.
Then afterward we get the "omg, people are in do much debt, we should bail them out!". It's like, you caused this.
I refuse to think politicians did not know it would go that way. This was just a result of the US political system. Since "free college" was not going to swing (because lol US), they just did "college via loans", followed by "think of our indebted graduates!", which is essentially the same thing, but more underhanded (and expensive).
With that said, I also don't want to live near commercial hotels. There's a reason zoning is a thing, and contrary to popular belief, not every rule under the sun is purely for some evil corp's monetary gain. Some rules actually exist so people can sleep at night.
Even regular renting is a pain: people staying for a year or two, then a new neighbor comes in and you're gambling again if they're going to be nice or not. If not, you have to again reach out to them, make compromises, talk problems out, etc. The faster the turnaround, the higher the odds and frequency of these things. There's a reason high owner occupancy (even beyond the minimum to get an easy mortgage) is a selling point.
Now, bring it to the AirBNB frequency and it's a total nightmare. Even if the vast majority of visitors are fine, the frequency of bad ones are drastically increased, and they're not there long enough to solve any problems.
My downstairs neighbors always joke that I'm not allowed to move, ever, because we bought the property from someone who was AirBNBing it, and it was a nightmare to them. Cops had to be involved multiple times over a decade (they were doing short term leases even before AirBNB was a thing, it just got worse afterward).
Again, regular rentals have the same problems (or even owner occupancy in areas where flipping properties is common), but at a much slower pace. It's also a compromise we as a society made long ago. AirBNB just pushes it from a compromise to being a total shit show.
the main issues with consoles is that game publishers absolutely look at piracy numbers when picking what platforms to target.
This is (if i remember well...who reads the article?) just a userland bug right now, but once you can run pirated games, it gets noticed, and sometimes publishers will chose to skip the console for their next big game if it gets too bad (the DS ease of piracy was totally one of the factors that kept the PSP on the map back then).
So for a console that is already under heavy scrutiny from game developers, something like this happening this early (and for amateurish reasons) will absolutely make some think twice. And that's a shame for people like me who absolutely love the console's features (portable/dockable console is by far the most useful form factor for me)
Sorry for your sensibilities, but this isn't a safe space.
With that said, I was answering a comment about -skilled- trade labor. Plumbers, electricians, master carpenters. Jobs you get from apprenticeships and trade schools. The countries in the world that have the lowest unemployment rates are generally the ones that push apprenticeship based jobs.
The carpenter I'm working with right now charges $100/hour. It's not all gravy for him for sure: he's commuting an hour at 7 in the morning after going to his supplier to pick up materials. He has to pay for his truck, and tens of thousands of dollars worth of tools. And $100/hour isn't the same as being salaried since he's running a business and has overheads.
Still, it's more money than the poor shmock who got a random degree because they were coerced into thinking everyone should have a bachelor degree, even if its in Frog Reproduction Systems is better than risking having plaster on your pants.
This. Everyone is told to go to college. That "any degree" is better than no degree. So you have saturation of graduates (many not even really all that good, between shitty colleges lowering standards, cheating, etc). And people are told that anything but a desk job means you failed at life.
Ive recently went through a bunch of major renovation projects. Finding good trades people is impossible. Anyone available sucks. Anyone with good recommendation is booked for months and charge whatever they want.
Also, please for god's sake let me see what I type. I have 99% of my passwords in a password manager, but not all of them, and sometimes i'm on a different device where I don't feel like logging into it if i actually know the password. Sometimes its the login of the machine itself, so unless I'm using a dongle for loging in, I'll have to type the password.
if I can't see it, and god forbid we're on mobile, I'll have to make it significantly simpler to ensure I don't fat finger shit 19 times.
That's especially true with devices. I already mentionned mobile, but game consoles, smart thermostat, and all the IoT bullshit (some are actually useful). They force me to type my password blindfolded on unfamiliar input devices. If my password is 25 characters, I'm going to make mistakes. Let me see them please.
Data I had from HR department at various companies I looked into as part of recruitment initiatives looked more like 12-18 months in SF, 20-24 elsewhere, so that actually looks long to me. Part of it is all of the tiny VC based startups and ycombinator things messing with the average as people keep jumping around hoping to make it big.
That said, in the current world of MVPs where the V is borderline at best, 29 months is enough time to push several products to market, heh.
And as there's been somewhat more women in tech in the last couple of years, there's going to be more and more DINK couples where both people are high earners. And once your base needs are met (food, transportation, health, basic entertainment), everything else can go to housing if you so wish (and the bank lets you, heh)
In a tight market, those kind of couples are going to be who you're competing with. So if you're talking 200k obviously for 2 * 100 (I iz gud at math!).
In tech hubs like SF, Seattle, Boston, NYC, etc, you're quickly looking at people making that right out of school or more (not likely to buy real estate yet), and 2 experienced engineers (much more likely) will quickly hit 300-500k household income or more. So that brings you in the 7 figure housing right there.
When i hunted for my place, everyone at open houses were couples, and frequently both people were wearing tech company swag (the amount of white guy + asian woman couples was noticeably high too, as a funny anecdote)
America is saturated with unskilled labor. Those people need to live somehow. Until we have some kind of guaranteed base income or some such system, they need a job.
Aside refugees from extreme conditions, it's difficult to me, morally, to "help" massive amounts of semi-skilled foreigners when our neighbors might be wondering where their next meal will come. They should come first. The whole "you can't help others if you can't help yourself".
We can't save the world. We just can't.
Now that doesn't mean these work visas should not exist. There is totally a need and large benefits for having visa programs for high skill immigrants where there's real needs. And stuff like H1B should be exclusively used for that.
Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows lap-tops to no longer be shitty (eg: trackpad), and they're pushing Linux on Windows (until these updates are released its not really useful: it's missing important stuff such as file watching, etc).
Once this is all in, it's going to be in pretty good shape. Just missing a few things like an Alfred alternative that doesn't suck, but that's not as important.
The cost isn't so much an issue as the fact that these things are always underscoped, even though you can do 5 minutes of research and get a more accurate estimate by tossing a random ballpark.
My hometown in Canada had the same issue with a subway project. It was delayed years and years and cost 4x more than estimate.
But when people started bitching, the officials pointed out it was still the cheapest project of its category in the world.
Its like, if you knew that...why did you scope it as 1/4th of the cheapest project in its category? Obviously that wouldn't work?
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Not everyone would buy it, for sure. But the amount who would is absolutely non-zero.
I remember when I was in school, before piracy was huge. When a new big console game would come out, a bunch of my friends who go crazy distributing newspapers and mowing lawns or other ways to make small amounts of money just to be able to afford the game. You could rent it, but for big games you want to play a lot, that got expensive too. Pirate copies existed, but they were not free and often didn't work well.
These days? No one would ever do that. They'd just pirate it instead.
If all mainstream movies were impossible to pirate, what would happen? Some people would just go read a book instead. Some would borrow them. Some would buy them used. Maybe the indie industry would grow bigger.
But you can bet your butt that a non-trivial amount of people would find a way to buy it that don't right now. Heck, most people I know who pirate stuff are software engineers with 6 figure salaries who are just used to it from when they were poor college students and don't feel the need to change how they do things. But man do they NEED to see THAT movie.
For sure, there's way too many factors and there's always going to be inequality. The problem is that unless our moral values change to "round up the "lessers" and gas them all" (which most people seem to not be okay with), we have to do something, otherwise the people who got the short end get unhappy and when they're unhappy in large enough numbers it causes issues.
Right now, the solution is to have hundreds of programs that don't really work. Foodstamp, "affordable housing" (lol, more like yet another inequality generating lottery scam), tax deductions, and all around a shitload of complexity to try to steer people on the track we want and usually fail. People who quality or not bend the rules, etc.
It's a hell of a lot easier to just say "Everyone qualities if they want to, you get the bare minimum if you feel like it, if you want more than that you'll have to get up and do something for it". There's still some edge cases (eg: people with mental disorder) that will need stronger nets than that, but for the common case, that would work better than what we have now.
The remaining issue though is that then we just raise what people consider the minimum from "begging in the street" to "living on just enough for a tiny apartment and basic food", and then given a generation or two, they'll be unhappy with -that- and we'll be screwed again.
Humans are hard.
Gross generalization: Software Engineer arrogance is infinite and even the most junior one thinks they know everything.
It's nearly impossible to get people to agree on stuff within a company. Never mind beyond that.
We got hit really hard at work by this. 2 of these emails went around, and they appeared to be sent from 2 of our engineers who routinely DO send google docs. The app was setup reasonably convincingly, and because oauth and so called "single sign-on" are really more like "a million sign on" because they never work quite right or ask you for credentials way too often, people are just used to having to approve everything all the time.
So hundreds of people clicked the damn thing. Including a lot of pretty accomplished engineers. I probably would have to, except my teammate got hit first and warned me before I saw the email.
The problem is compound by how free speech is quite dead. Say what you just said openly in a workplace of a semi-famous company. You will get fired faster than you can finish your sentence.
And yeah, it's basically impossible to control for all factors here. It could be a genuine gender difference (after all, people keep trying to drill in our head that things need to be done differently to attract female engineers, so they have to be different somehow), and it's not even necessarily negative either. It could be that men are more likely to just bypass the peer review process altogether. Or that women are more receptive to feedback. It could be that the schooling level is not the same at hire (after all, one of the big tenets of diversity hiring is to hire through different channels, including bootcamps, more, which would lead to different ratios). And it COULD be sexism. But it's simply too hard to figure out like this.
However, I could just post a "My guts feeling tells me females are getting screwed at company XYZ" and it would be headline news worthy and taken as truth.
I was recently reading an article that said "Women feel they are being passed up for promotion more often than men". While I'm pretty sure it IS true that they get screwed on promotions, what kind of stupid metric is that? EVERYONE feel they get screwed on promotions, ESPECIALLY people who don't deserve promotions. Wash, rince, repeat with every possible topic.
Yup. My current employer, while pushing hard for diversity, is doing pretty good at pushing to improve the company to attract said diversity, instead of just widening the net and bringing whatever they catch.
We have a pretty high ratio of female engineers (and even better ratio at the lead/director/vp level) for the kind of company we are. Not 50/50, but higher than the Google and Facebook of the world.
Pretty much all of the female engineers I've interacted with, including our junior ones, were top notch. High quality code, super hard workers, cares about the craft. Good stuff.
On the other hand, my previous employer had put a diversity activist in charge of hiring female engineers. Not only did we only have a handful, while half of them were really good, the other half were hired through shitty coding bootcamps, or were self "taught" (as in, they had read a book on coding and that was about it). Terrible. We had to lay off a couple within a few months, some were burning a crazy amount of hours in training (a lot more than a junior engineer should). In the end, we ended up with 2 in a team of 100+ Not cool.
It's "up to 17-24" (seems like it might go up to 30k if you have a disability)
The thing is those are not mutually exclusive. There's a certain level of things we tolerate as a society. And those things add up. I have a few neighbors with noisy kids. Not all my neighbors have noisy kids, because statistics. If I have neighbors with noisy kids AND neighbors with noisy AirBNB, that's just twice as bad.
Yup. As long as it doesn't prevent other people from enjoying their properties.
It's so much more complicated than that. We don't have many laws to handle things people don't generally do. Laws are almost always drafted as a reaction to things.
There's no law stopping llarge amount of strangers coming in an out of a peaceful neighborhood at any hour of the night. Because in a residential, high owner ratio neighborhood, that just doesn't happen.
Until AirBNB comes in and changes everything in a few years. AirBNB itself is often breaking municipal zoning rules (using a residential zoned area as mix use), which are a pain in the ass to enforce...because we usually don't need to enforce them.
It's not just people doing parties. The mere act of existing changes the character of neighbors semi-randomly (the same way renters do at a much, MUCH slower pace).
In a world where AirBNB itself is not doing anything illegal, hosts are almost constantly in the "fucking annoying, but not illegal" territory. The kind of thing that can ruin people's peace of mind and quality of life in a way they can't do shit about it.
As long as its kept out of purely residential zoned areas, follow all municipal rules, condo rules and rental lease rules, it's really not that bad. But I'd be surprised if even 5% of AirBNBs did.
AirBNB is pretty good for the customers, no real argument there.. It just forces the neighbors who signed up to live in a residential area to live like they were next to a hotel.
Fair enough :) Thus the n00b trap (I'm a noob), where it's pretty hard to figure out what it will actually do.
When I was looking at benchmark for DDR4 RAM, most showed no real improvement in most games, but some drastic improvement in certain high end photoshop or 3d rendering tasks ::shrugs::
Either way, you really have to know what you're doing if you're buying something above 3200~
Yup, I was mostly talking about 4000+ RAM.
I recently built a new computer, something I don't do very often (every 5 years~ and I got lazy last time and got a prebuilt, so it's been a while).
First, RAM speed barely makes a difference for most people since not everyone is editing videos all day (and in games it barely does anything).
Then, these kits only reach these speeds with the timings properly setup, on the right motherboards/cpu combo (even if all your hardware is advertised as being compatible with the speeds). Often only if you only use 2 chips (at 4 its a coin toss if it will reach it or not). And even with all that, it's still a lottery if the ones you got will reach it and then you have to decide if you care enough to play the RMA lottery.
No, not getting people to install Flash, that's just stupid.
But the "design at home" small business or individual printing market. If you don't want to have people install shit, you need to make a WYSIWYG in-browser editor that can produce pixel perfect, color accurate content using stuff such as arbitrary custom fonts.
Doable? Yes. But the compromises are interesting. I used to work for a big company where we did this. Our competitors were using stuff like Flash, limited templates, sticking to built in fonts, would not garentee what you saw on the screen is what you would get (and just have a good return policity), etc. Our team handling this did stuff such as rendering the fonts server side and re-implementing all of the text handling in javascript, abusing canvas to hell and back, etc.
But yeah, you can use Flash to make things easier.
Bingo. These are the kind of things where people are incredibly short sighted.
"Omg, college is too expensive. We must help EVERYONE afford it!!".
Except that like anything else, if you give 100% of the population X amount of money for a specific resource, the price of that resource now goes up by X.
Then afterward we get the "omg, people are in do much debt, we should bail them out!". It's like, you caused this.
I refuse to think politicians did not know it would go that way. This was just a result of the US political system. Since "free college" was not going to swing (because lol US), they just did "college via loans", followed by "think of our indebted graduates!", which is essentially the same thing, but more underhanded (and expensive).
I don't give a shit about the hotel industry.
With that said, I also don't want to live near commercial hotels. There's a reason zoning is a thing, and contrary to popular belief, not every rule under the sun is purely for some evil corp's monetary gain. Some rules actually exist so people can sleep at night.
Even regular renting is a pain: people staying for a year or two, then a new neighbor comes in and you're gambling again if they're going to be nice or not. If not, you have to again reach out to them, make compromises, talk problems out, etc. The faster the turnaround, the higher the odds and frequency of these things. There's a reason high owner occupancy (even beyond the minimum to get an easy mortgage) is a selling point.
Now, bring it to the AirBNB frequency and it's a total nightmare. Even if the vast majority of visitors are fine, the frequency of bad ones are drastically increased, and they're not there long enough to solve any problems.
My downstairs neighbors always joke that I'm not allowed to move, ever, because we bought the property from someone who was AirBNBing it, and it was a nightmare to them. Cops had to be involved multiple times over a decade (they were doing short term leases even before AirBNB was a thing, it just got worse afterward).
Again, regular rentals have the same problems (or even owner occupancy in areas where flipping properties is common), but at a much slower pace. It's also a compromise we as a society made long ago. AirBNB just pushes it from a compromise to being a total shit show.
the main issues with consoles is that game publishers absolutely look at piracy numbers when picking what platforms to target.
This is (if i remember well...who reads the article?) just a userland bug right now, but once you can run pirated games, it gets noticed, and sometimes publishers will chose to skip the console for their next big game if it gets too bad (the DS ease of piracy was totally one of the factors that kept the PSP on the map back then).
So for a console that is already under heavy scrutiny from game developers, something like this happening this early (and for amateurish reasons) will absolutely make some think twice. And that's a shame for people like me who absolutely love the console's features (portable/dockable console is by far the most useful form factor for me)
Sorry for your sensibilities, but this isn't a safe space.
With that said, I was answering a comment about -skilled- trade labor. Plumbers, electricians, master carpenters. Jobs you get from apprenticeships and trade schools. The countries in the world that have the lowest unemployment rates are generally the ones that push apprenticeship based jobs.
The carpenter I'm working with right now charges $100/hour. It's not all gravy for him for sure: he's commuting an hour at 7 in the morning after going to his supplier to pick up materials. He has to pay for his truck, and tens of thousands of dollars worth of tools. And $100/hour isn't the same as being salaried since he's running a business and has overheads.
Still, it's more money than the poor shmock who got a random degree because they were coerced into thinking everyone should have a bachelor degree, even if its in Frog Reproduction Systems is better than risking having plaster on your pants.
This. Everyone is told to go to college. That "any degree" is better than no degree. So you have saturation of graduates (many not even really all that good, between shitty colleges lowering standards, cheating, etc). And people are told that anything but a desk job means you failed at life.
Ive recently went through a bunch of major renovation projects. Finding good trades people is impossible. Anyone available sucks. Anyone with good recommendation is booked for months and charge whatever they want.
Also, please for god's sake let me see what I type. I have 99% of my passwords in a password manager, but not all of them, and sometimes i'm on a different device where I don't feel like logging into it if i actually know the password. Sometimes its the login of the machine itself, so unless I'm using a dongle for loging in, I'll have to type the password.
if I can't see it, and god forbid we're on mobile, I'll have to make it significantly simpler to ensure I don't fat finger shit 19 times.
That's especially true with devices. I already mentionned mobile, but game consoles, smart thermostat, and all the IoT bullshit (some are actually useful). They force me to type my password blindfolded on unfamiliar input devices. If my password is 25 characters, I'm going to make mistakes. Let me see them please.
Data I had from HR department at various companies I looked into as part of recruitment initiatives looked more like 12-18 months in SF, 20-24 elsewhere, so that actually looks long to me. Part of it is all of the tiny VC based startups and ycombinator things messing with the average as people keep jumping around hoping to make it big.
That said, in the current world of MVPs where the V is borderline at best, 29 months is enough time to push several products to market, heh.
Thats all you can do 100k -household income-.
And as there's been somewhat more women in tech in the last couple of years, there's going to be more and more DINK couples where both people are high earners. And once your base needs are met (food, transportation, health, basic entertainment), everything else can go to housing if you so wish (and the bank lets you, heh)
In a tight market, those kind of couples are going to be who you're competing with. So if you're talking 200k obviously for 2 * 100 (I iz gud at math!).
In tech hubs like SF, Seattle, Boston, NYC, etc, you're quickly looking at people making that right out of school or more (not likely to buy real estate yet), and 2 experienced engineers (much more likely) will quickly hit 300-500k household income or more. So that brings you in the 7 figure housing right there.
When i hunted for my place, everyone at open houses were couples, and frequently both people were wearing tech company swag (the amount of white guy + asian woman couples was noticeably high too, as a funny anecdote)
Your title does say it all.
America is saturated with unskilled labor. Those people need to live somehow. Until we have some kind of guaranteed base income or some such system, they need a job.
Aside refugees from extreme conditions, it's difficult to me, morally, to "help" massive amounts of semi-skilled foreigners when our neighbors might be wondering where their next meal will come. They should come first. The whole "you can't help others if you can't help yourself".
We can't save the world. We just can't.
Now that doesn't mean these work visas should not exist. There is totally a need and large benefits for having visa programs for high skill immigrants where there's real needs. And stuff like H1B should be exclusively used for that.
Bingo. We have a winner.
Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows lap-tops to no longer be shitty (eg: trackpad), and they're pushing Linux on Windows (until these updates are released its not really useful: it's missing important stuff such as file watching, etc).
Once this is all in, it's going to be in pretty good shape. Just missing a few things like an Alfred alternative that doesn't suck, but that's not as important.
The cost isn't so much an issue as the fact that these things are always underscoped, even though you can do 5 minutes of research and get a more accurate estimate by tossing a random ballpark.
My hometown in Canada had the same issue with a subway project. It was delayed years and years and cost 4x more than estimate.
But when people started bitching, the officials pointed out it was still the cheapest project of its category in the world.
Its like, if you knew that...why did you scope it as 1/4th of the cheapest project in its category? Obviously that wouldn't work?
Politicians will politic.