StacyRoberts

Who is at fault when you drink yourself into a coma or fall out of a tree or smoke yourself into cancer?

It's ok to do those things but not try to care for yourself?

I dated someone with an external pump. It came off one day and caused so many problems. Just slid from sitting on the couch to the floor watching tv and the cushion caught the pump and broke it off.

I immediately thought that type of failure should be recoverable without a hospital visit and surgery and tried to figure out why it wasn't.

My mind immediately set to making it so and was held back by the fear I could go to prison for practicing medicine without a license.

"I love you. I wish I could fix you. I could fix you."

"I know you could. I wish you could."

Hypothesis: McDonald's pays brilliant automation or engineering type minds to do difficult to automate work like we are discussing here. Big salaries. Only part time. The other half is spent on the engineering. Make these jobs sought after.

Slowly the org transitions to much higher paid people in these roles across the board.

I think part of it is mgmt types think they save money reducing wages for the most numerous type of employee and it creates a black hole race to the bottom.

High end restaurants have very well paid front of house because they have a financial incentive to perform. Cashiers don't.

We need to allow people to self care so you can hack your own diabetes.

I wish I could buy my own life sustaining hormone that I've been using for 20 years and understand better than most doctors outside endocrinology.

Steel shot is required by law to hunt water fowl in U.S.A. The lead shot falls in the water. It's eaten by fish then eaten by eagles or waterfowl that are then eaten by people, so it's easy to find in any gun sport shop.

Rifle bullets are mostly either lead, which leaves lead residue on the machines parts and causes jams as the tolerances decline. Thus lead coated with copper is superior technology and more reliable but more expensive to boot. It doesn't mushroom as much but the velocities are higher. Plus rifles aren't used around water do they are much less likely to end up in the food supply and this legal for hunting.

Can someone please fix block quote on mobile?

In the mid-twentieth century, when the economy was composed of oligopolies, the only way to the top was by playing their game. But it's not true now.

It is still true. A FAANG job is the easiest path for a engineer to millionaire status in about 5 - 10 years.

The interview process is eminently hackable.

Or perhaps you want to do a startup, get funding. You build a this for that .com. Do some social media, find a few users who love it. Read pg's advice, pitch deck advice, go to some demo days.

Hack the test. Get funding. The incubators, the vc fiends are themselves, oligopolic. A handful of firms with common expectations. Mmr. Hockey stick user growth. It's the team! Here's your A good chap.

Those are the tests here. But there are other ways to get an A+. You don't have to start a business the way software people start a business. You can do it like the cabinet maker, or the electrician, or the store owner.

You can buy one increasingly easier today because the baby boomers who started than decades ago want to retire. Imagine how you can take that business into the future with the software you can use to automate it.

Business brokers abound. Go talk to one.

Stop thinking go big or go home.

Go talk to a business broker. Go ask about owner absent business options. Residual income and you didn't even have to be there. Use automation to make the employees lives better and more prodictive. And your customers' lives.

Package that software you write into a SaaS and sell it to you competitors. Profit more.

You are your own case study.

regulations are increasingly forcing businesses to write at least some parts of their last will and testament.

Human persons do this. What happens to our data? Our hardware that depends on the cloud.

Small software companies have source code escrow because large customers require it. Large companies not so much, even though vc backed startups are more at risk.

We tend to think companies outlive people but today it feels the opposite. Growing jobs for endineers.

We should pay the most for those jobs. Instead those who move money from this account to that account our convince people to spend more money than they need to make the most. Fake work.

I begged to job shadow the future users of my software at my last job and I was told there not enough time.We are all too busy. Keep your head down. Do what you're told.

But I'll be able to understand their job better and what the software really needs to do to make than more efficient and productive. They'll appreciate that and be more likely to buy in and adapt to the product they'll be using.

That's not your job. Your job is to implement the features you're told to implement.

But the users saw those features and said that is not what they asked for.

So? Why do you care if the project fails? It's not on you if it fails. Just do what the BA's said to do.

Boss, they aren't translating the business needs correctly. We have to rebuild features 2 or 3 or 4 times. Is we could see what they do and talk to them it'd only take once. That's happened a couple times during user acceptance. They said that's not what what we asked for. I said what did you ask for? I coded it right there on the spot and they signed off on the user story.

Go back to work. I'm busy. This isn't a productive conversation.

It certainly does. The sun on your skin makes vitamin d which has all kinds of happy effects on us.

I live in the pnw and have lots of really good friends. Only moved here a few years ago but have found more acceptance and deep connections here than the south.

It's taken those years to break through the shells but people repeatedly tell me they like hanging out with me because I listen. I empathize. I'm genuine. I'm authentic.

You have to be real. Be committed to your fellow human beings. There's a dearth of that up here. A lot of judgemental people. Closed minds. Antagonism.

But if you are patient and keep letting people show you who they are and be who they are they'll cine to love you.

We need more people like that up here. They are here. Keep the good ones close and more will collect.

I am so happy I found my place. The weather is gross right now. People are staying inside shivering and will be until May next year. Try the library. Ask people questions.

I hear the same things repeatedly. No one says hi. No one smiles. No one approaches me. Do those things. People long for that.

As much as you want people to do that for you, they want it too. Be kind. reach out. Continue with the responsive ones.

Would you like to get coffee sometime? One on one works well with introverts.

I've never installed chrome unless I had to to test and fix a bug in it. I always use ff except on my android phone. By the second out third click ff crashed on my android phone. It makes me so sad that I can't use it on my phone.

It makes me so happy that people are finally realizing how evil Google is and pushing to end them.

They are so bad.

How it's this not copyright infringement? Can't we fight it on those grounds?

That tech isn't left to them it's just Survivor bias. Those teams fail at hard tech all the time. They're just still here

Why does everyone bash the commenters for using these quotes instead of hn for not fixing it? It's not like it's hard to fix.

Can you imagine that Bill Gates would get wealthy again or Warren Buffett? They would be lauded as heroes! They already are for suggesting something similar, just at death. They give away so much already and are loved for that.

What if they were that person twice our three times! The most productive people will have a new incentive to create tremendous value again!

Very soon I will get a warning from hn that I'm posting too fast. I Don't know when that will be but I will respond when I can. I love the constructive dialog.

I really do believe in this plan.

They do that now in shell companies and off shore accounts.

No I don't agree with that. Someone may have asked the founding fathers that too. You know the monarchy will never go for independent colonies, right?

Political systems change, violently eventually unfortunately and the goal of a new system is to avoid that.

Those are games within with the current system as well. The difference is that once you begin to approach the top your incentive becomes altruistic, because you are thinking about increasing the wealth of other people more than yourself.

That's the key. Capitalism only rewards greed. There is no altruistic component. What I suggest rewards altruism after the game is won. There is currently no end to the increasing gap, except violent revolt, which has always been the solution.

Violent revolt is not a good solution to the wealth gap.

We had a house rule where no trading could happen until all the properties were owned by someone. Created a frenzy and lots of excitement waiting for the last one to be rolled on.

Explanations for the down votes are appreciated. I've put a lot of thought into this.

I read Piketty's capital. It's very long.

My current best solution to the problem of capitalism is this: once a year the richest n people must divest themselves of all assets minus the median annual salary and start over.

I'm curious to learn more about those monopoly strategies and rules against them.

I think there are times for both kind of play. It's annoying when people only play one kind of way. It's like beating you is all that matters to them.

I didn't even know tvs had cameras. I just got A new 4k tv and it was hard to find a dumb one. All the higher quality one's in the store are smart. This one was cheap but the refresh rate is low and the picture stutters.

It's getting harder to escape the surveillance. Quality of life will increasingly diverge from the main stream.

Covering half the screen with a blinky distraction begging for "donations" before I even know your product is, is not the way to get them.

I want to second this. I never had an account and I've seen the deterioration of conversations among my friends from being about reconnecting positive experiences to complaints of what someone says on there all the time. Unfriending their relatives with racist rants. All the cake news.

They don't realize the impact it's having on their lives. Facebook has become a justification to bring hate into our personal conversations. Their crazy aunt says something on there so they believe this makes it a public conversation, but I have no idea about that.

Their debates are personal conversations had in public. Facebook has made the problems of talking about class, religion, race and politics inescapable.

There's a reason we avoid those topics at holiday gatherings and business functions. They divide us and cause psychological injury.

Fb has capitalized on this fury and drives profit from anger, dispute, hate and all these other emotions we don't want to have. These are the conversations that don't end and people want to win. They're live long disagreements where people won't change their mind and find equally violating people to fuel their rage and others to direct it at.

These didn't use to be everyday conversations. Fb makes it easy to intact with those you disagree with violently and often. People you'd choose to avoid in real life but new can't because fb makes more money of pitting those two divergent personalities together and continually antagonizing them.

It's hurting their mental health to be surrounded constantly by dissenting voices trekking then they are wrong for whatever reason.

You're wrong. You're wrong. You're a bad person because you believe that. You're inconsequential. Someone said this thing about you.

It's ruining people and I don't know how to get that awareness through to them. They're telling me more often they wished they'd just never gone on there and I say don't go back. Fb is like the abusive spouse they are addicted to.

How do we save our friends and family from that abuse? How do we help them escape? I'm so sad for them and I feel helpless to save them from the peril that is so obvious from the outside.

You're both incorrect and out of line.

Stuff like this: https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/07/01/bryan-cantrill-has...

I don't know him personally. I've only seen him speak via YouTube videos. My point isn't to damage his reputation further, just add evidence that there may be an egocentric aspect to what is going on with the team heavy focus of the initial marketing push for the company.

There are arguments being made in these few threads today that such a direction is misguided and I believe his history supports that.

He tends to dismiss his impact on the failures and blame others instead. The claims about joyent for example that it was too far advanced for mass adoption or Amazon squashed it, rather than he not focusing on better marketing or the customer.

The products are held back not because he wasn't good enough, but rather because he was too good. I have an intuitive sense this new company is going down that same road.

This is a very urban viewpoint. There are millions of people in rural areas who can't afford to buy a home as well. Cheap mortgages are a huge factor,I agree with that.

I think city policies are a problem but nowhere near 100%. Banks and cheap risk free lending massively dwarf the impact of city policy.

"...the Mass State police is our only public safety-focused relationship to date.

I totally read that first as "mass police state" probably because that's what this is. A robotic mass police state.