AlexTWithBeard

Is there enough homes within walking distance of the office for all the developers?

They (well, we) are not underpaid.

Some time ago I used to work in a large organization on the very bottom of the food chain. I was making, say, $100k a year, which was quite decent money. Sitting there, doing same thing I could've grown to a "senior bottom of the food chain" of $150k. That was the limit. A soft one, but still the limit.

The organization was quite picky in selecting their workforce. Think FAANG. So in every team you have a bunch of quite smart opinionated folks, who somehow have to be steered in the same direction. With that I see it kinda reasonable for the team lead to make at least $200k a year. Give or take.

Now we move one step up. Someone has to pull all these "creme de la creme" cats together and herd them, so that at the very minimum teams don't work against each other. Ideally work together for some common goal. And I can understand team leads who is not willing to go to this snake pit for 30% salary increase. Why would they? 50% - may be. 70% - that sounds interesting and worth consideration.

Bottom line: according to my humble experience in "the organization", the salary roughly doubles each time you get up the ladder. And being on different steps of this ladder I can understand why.

It becomes complicated if the new owner has legitimately bought the bike in a second hand store.

Yeah, the problem here is that leaving syringes on the floor, urinating in flower beds and talking shit is insufficient to arrest the person. But is sufficient to drive a lot of tenants away from the house.

Because as soon as it happens, I will be first in the line with the question: okay, what should I do to get a free house? Do I need to consume drugs? Would weed do, or it has to be some heavier stuff?

IANAL, but I'd think in this case this is prosecutor's job.

Also, the original post is about the traffic ticket. I'm pretty sure if the judge hears a reference to something he had never heard before, he'll be like "huh? wtf?"

I don't see the problem here.

Defendant (as dictated by AI): The Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. Smith in 1978...

Judge: There was no case Johnson v. Smith in 1978. Case closed, here's your fine.

Next time please be more careful picking the lawyer.

Many legal things are evaluated lazily: the law may not specify exactly what the vehicle is, but if such need arises, there are tools, like precedents and analogy, to answer this question.

The way to think about it is like a logical evaluation shortcut:

  if not ADA_EXEMPT and IS_VEHICLE:
    DISALLOW_IN_PARK

Using the IT analogy, it's less like C++, where each statement must pass compiler checks for the application to merely start, but more like a Python, where some illegal stuff may peacefully exist as long as it's never invoked.

EDIT: grammar

Will it stop me getting high on food?

If so, it's a blessing.

Dear pharma, please (please, please!) make something to fight food addiction?

Safety is our number one priority.

Not efficiency.

The most diverse companies outperform their less diverse peers by 36% in profitability.

Did the report imply causation from correlation?

May be yes. May be no. But it looks suspicious enough to appoint a special prosecutor and investigate the allegations.

They will have lots of problems trying to hire the next CEO then.

Sometimes I feel like we're trying to stop the bulldozer by all this privacy regulations and rules. It can be slowed down, but cannot be stopped.

Would a complete openness be an alternative? Everybody knows everything about everyone? You wanna know what did I watch on pornhub yesterday? Be my guest, but I know that you were looking at this information. And you know that I know it. Perfect society, innit?

I once asked a church choir director: how many people in a typical choir do really believe in god. His answer was: zero. As for the priest - he said - it's more like a coin flip: some of them are still religious.

I still fail to understand: is slapping an escape ladder on the side of the house THAT expensive?

Well, the easy part of tax filing is easy: yes, it's a bit tedious in a sense that you have to copy some stuff from your W2 to 1040, but that's it.

Calculating part time rental property depreciation is complicated, but that's because it IS complicated.

people forget about this and continue to fly Southwest

For me it means that most customers would happily accept such a disaster once in a lifetime in exchange for, say, 10% ticket price reduction.

"Every third woman who responded to the survey, sent out by Allbright to employees at the tech companies, reports that she has been discriminated against"

Which - putting my boring hat on - doesn't mean she was discriminated against.

I had never been made to feel like a freak for being a programmer until I moved to Sweden.

Are you saying that Sweden is a sexist society? Do you mind me asking where have you been before?

On the other hand, all the C-suite works with people.

As a software engineer I am working a lot with my computer.

And with ChatGPT coming up we all will have soon to resort to a mixture of arguing, begging and threatening to make computers do what we want.

The question is: on one hand, any sane adult should be able to make whatever decision they want regarding their own health and property (some text in small font goes here).

On the other hand no sane adult will refuse medical insurance: it's an outright suicidal behavior, unless you have a seven-digit sum in your account.

So...?

I'd rather not: BS ordinances suck, but in some sense it's my problem. I know how to solve it.

Syringe center inhabitants, on the other hand, is also a problem for my kids and my dog, who may be not mature enough to handle it properly.

You are right: nobody wants to go in the middle of desert and start building a new brave world there for nothing.

With some proper incentives though it's doable. Nice parks. Low taxes. Decebt transportation infrastructure. Cheap housing. Good schools.

Hey, Google, what can we do for you to move your Googleplex with 50k employees to out newly built Heaven on Earth, Oklahoma?

The irony is that most of YIMBY do not have a backyard.

Once they buy some property and start raising kids, the attitude changes to "yeah, the syringe distribution center is very important... but can we please build it somewhere else?"

NIMBY is exactly the word.

It's MY backyard. I've paid dearly for it. Please keep off.

If you want high density development - pick some unoccupied land and build there whatever you want. It will take some effort to attract tax-paying population there, but it's doable: see Canary Wharf, London as an example.

TL;DR: The growth of Bay Area has stalled, because we don't build enough housing for homeless.

Most of documentation I've seen is either not yet finalized or already outdated. Often both at the same time.