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With the advent of the space force, pretty much every space company is targeting military contracts (at least partially) since that is a huge source of government funding

I was including some of the 34-65 crowd in "elderly"

I think the relevant table is on page 13 "COVID-19 hospitalizations in unvaccinated and fully vaccinated individuals in Washington state by age group, February - December, 2021"

It shows that 79% of hospitalizations in the state are unvaccinated people and that of those, 3,000 are under 34, 11,000 are between 34-65, 7,000 are over 65.

So it is indeed largely elderly unvaccinated in the hospital.

I live in a very old studio apartment (built in 1909) and it has a separate kitchen that is the size of the kitchen in most of my friends' single family homes. It is probably ~1/3rd the square footage of the entire apartment. Obviously that's just anecdotal but I do think that the kitchen used to be prioritized much more, at least in apartments.

A new programming language which hides the fact that your code is running across multiple machines from you. Similar to OOP, you'll define some level of structure and the compiler will figure out how to best distribute it across the resources given to it.

Anyone else skeptical of their claim that the benefits of the plug in and the hybrid are the same? It assumes that electricity production remains the same as it is right now, whereas in reality it will likely become much more green (and electric car charging is a candidate to be even more green than general production since you can charge at peak solar hours very easily).

we could have easily doubled our income if we were both working

How would the world work such that this was not the case? I suppose the government could pay one parent to stay at home with their children, but it seems like there will always be a sacrifice required if you want to be in a couple where only one person is working full time (particularly at a specialized career).

Ah yes well known unbiased news source "tri state livestock news"

I also don't understand why there's no lock that integrates with the app. Getting into Airbnbs is consistently inconsistent and confusing.

it’s really impossible to go anywhere and enjoy it in peace

This is only true for a very limited definition of "anywhere". You can go to Yosemite in the peak season and easily find places where you can't even see another person.

ORM?

This hasn't been my experience at all. There are almost always e-bikes at the Ford stations (per the other comment maybe this was a one off issue) and the Jump bikes work just as well in SF as Seattle in my experience (no shortage of glitches in Seattle).

Is this due to some special technology or implementation details they used, or just the current going rate of getting your bitcoin transactions confirmed?

Personal anecdote: I had a job offer from Facebook and a couple other big tech companies. The Facebook offer was substantially better fiscally than the other ones and it was clear to me that they were having trouble hiring. Their initial equity grant has no cliff and the signing bonus was massive for somebody two years out of school: $75,000 cash in first paycheck.

However I ultimately turned it down because of ethical concerns about working there combined with a sense that people would not approve of my job choice. I.e. even if I don't find what they're doing ethically questionable (and I do, although I don't think they're so bad), I didn't want to have to explain myself or defend them to everybody when I mentioned where I worked. Just my two cents as somebody who was one of the 50% of candidates who turned down the job.

Thanks. Your points are all great as well! #2 is particularly interesting to me, and it's very true. If you're doing well interviewers may often make the questions harder, so struggling to answer questions completely does not necessarily indicate that you are doing poorly in the interview.

1000s of people dying every year from drug overdoses in the US would disagree with you. In fact heroin and meth, both deadly and dangerous drugs, are used far more often than psychedelics I would bet.

I mean he was ordinary in the sense that running wasn't his full time profession and he didn't dedicate his life to it. In order to achieve "greatness" in most any popular sport today you have to be totally dedicated.

Those aren't legal in California

1. Frankly, no, but I think it might enable me to be better at and have access to work that I would like to do in the future.

2. Work life balance seems good.

3. Tough to say.

Sorry I assumed the pay would be equivalent between the regions for the same job at the same company. The 5% raise would just be a result of no state income tax.

Thanks! I definitely feel like I'm learning stuff, but I also could probably learn at a big company as well. Most of the engineers at my current company are very inexperienced, for most of them this is the only company they've ever worked for, so all of my learning is very self directed.

Current job is in the Bay, but Microsoft would be in Washington (which I prefer, and is essentially a free 5% raise on top of whatever else due to taxes).

At what point do you start to value options above that? Uber isn't public yet but I think it's safe to assume their options are worth something.

All the teams I'd be working on at microsoft are working on at least partially open source products now. But I do have some ethical qualms about the big corporations, although I've essentially setting those aside for the early part of my career until I've established myself more.

As far as money goes, I was just using that as a reference to what could be expected at a big company like Microsoft. I already make more $$ than I could spend, and my COL wouldn't change with job. Extra money is just more financial freedom for my future

My point in the first paragraph is more that Amazon is only able to pay that amount because the government steps in. If there were no government aid, then they would need to pay more or not hire people. I'm skeptical that the jobs are worth less than $7.25 an hour to them. It's just in their interest to extract as much value as possible from the employees. If they couldn't find people to do it for 7.25, I suspect they would pay more, not that they would cut the jobs.

The issue is not that the employee is being underpaid (although that is a problem), it's that the underpayment is only possible because the government (i.e. taxpayers) is also giving money to that employee. If that safety net weren't in place then Amazon wouldn't be able to employee these people at these rates since it wouldn't be enough for people to survive on. Essentially, the government is subsidizing Amazon.

Also I'm not sure that someone accepting a specific salary or hourly wage is evidence that they thought it was fair. Employers (especially ones as large as Amazon) can afford to wait far longer for employees than most employees can afford to wait for an employer. I certainly don't think getting paid $20k a year to be a programmer would be fair, but if there no other jobs available to me at that rate then I would be forced to accept it, since I wouldn't survive otherwise.

And if I made $7.25 an hour, I highly doubt I would be able to build up a financial cushion large enough to allow me to quit a job because it didn't pay enough. Even a couple weeks without working probably isn't feasible for somebody trying to support children on $7.25. Leaving a job because it's underpaid and taking the time to find a better one is feasible for professionals, but almost definitely not for many service workers.

Some of these roads are likely extremely remote logging or dirt roads though. Some of them might not see a car for weeks at a time I would imagine.

Git is already open source. What does this do differently than Git?

Where did you generate the directions from?

Seems like a terrible design choice to make lots of basic adjustments use the touch screen. Adjusting the mirror and AC vents with a touch screen is almost guaranteed to be a terrible experience, especially since people do those often while they're driving.

Ah so all the x86 bytes that the actual text generates are basically just filler for the actually relevant sections of the paper (i.e. the jumble of bytes that appears)? They're never actually read or executed by the CPU?

I must be missing something, but I don't see how the actual text of the paper originates from the source code. Those C instructions actually compile into the sentences of the paper as well?