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by luffapi 5y ago
Wouldn’t wfh decrease the cost of living in the city, since currently most high paying jobs make living within commuting distance a requirement? To make an extreme example, cost of living on the Bay Area should go down if wfh becomes widesp
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by luffapi 5y ago
The best code I’ve ever written was when I was only working 10 hours a week. Hours worked has no positive correlation with quality of code written. Good managers know letting their devs watch birds and relax will result in a much higher qua
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by luffapi 5y ago
It’s bad management to drop by people’s desk every day to check in with them, then “nudge” them. I’d say that’s a failure of product vision, strategy, communication and leadership. > my "micromanagement" is their "I am s
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by luffapi 5y ago
> love working from home but it’s easy to get distracted with side projects, feeding birds, germinating seeds etc. For programmers at least “productivity” comes from writing leveragable code, not by working more hours. Watching birds,
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by luffapi 5y ago
The system is absolutely stacked against everyone but those with money. Janitors can start their own business? With what capital? > But by and large people aren't complaining because their life sucks, they're complaining becau
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by luffapi 5y ago
I really don’t think there are many people making $15 /hr stacking shelves. Yes, that is a huge problem. How much are the execs making in this company? That’s money that could go to workers and customers. The system is broken so mill
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by luffapi 5y ago
You said: > That people reject taking on a career and being productive members of society is troubling. It also displays a ton of ignorance. I’m saying it’s not ignorant at all, opting out of a system stacked against you is highly logi
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by luffapi 5y ago
I think it's a false assumption to make that there would be devastating, society stopping labor shortages with UBI. I will contend a lot of jobs today are useless (or worse, actually harmful). Many things can definitely be automated as
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by luffapi 5y ago
The universal nature of UBI is what makes it appealing. That currently only a privileged few are free from a life of labor is a societal problem that UBI helps address. It doesn't make sense to worry about a fictional labor shortage wh
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by luffapi 5y ago
I have no problem with people doing nothing and collecting UBI. There are tons of rich people doing nothing today and they're taking in a lot more money than UBI would provide.
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by luffapi 5y ago
It's completely logical to not want a career when executives capture all of the profits. It's irrational to work when the execs at your company make 10-100X what you do and the non-working investors capture even more value than
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by luffapi 5y ago
If you want to progress your career, networking on the internet is far more effective than trying to grind the way up the chain in an old school IT company via in-office schmoozing. That is a dead end with or without WFH.
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by luffapi 5y ago
For a long time, it’s been true that the internet can help your career far more than whoever works in your office. Open source contributions, emailing people asking for advice, engaging people on social media… all the way up to raising mone
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by luffapi 5y ago
> hmm I experience it every day, where I over hear something in the hallway that another team it working on, that impacts my team. If this is how you are finding out about things that impact your team, then your company’s communication
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by luffapi 5y ago
It sounds like you’re talking to people who have no experience working from home. Information sharing and documentation is far better when everyone is remote. I’ve worked dozens of places, in person and remote and “happenstance innovation
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by luffapi 5y ago
When you go 100% remote, you have a massive potential workforce, orders of magnitude more potential employees than those that happen to live within commuting distance to the office. The reason you go 100% wfh is because then all of the sy
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by luffapi 5y ago
It’s not a blindspot for many people. It’s open source and open protocols vs closed source spyware. SCP is far better than Dropbox if you value privacy for instance. A lot of resistance to things like Dropbox come from the experience of b
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by luffapi 5y ago
Remote work was definitely a trend, the pandemic just accelerated it. Edit: for those downvoting, here’s the data: https://slidemodel.com/remote-work-key-trends/
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by luffapi 5y ago
Alternative take, people didn’t like Dropbox because it was the repackaging and close sourcing of existing solutions. It was more polished and financially successful but that doesn’t mean it was good for tech. It’s corporate software, yes i
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by luffapi 5y ago
I think it’s more that many of the “leaders” of this community are investors and entrepreneurs who have vested interests and use this site and community for promotion or strategic purposes. This site’s contents and commentary are mostly a
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by luffapi 5y ago
I don’t think that’s clear at all. > As for the risk of new mutations: if we were truly worried about that then perhaps the priority should be vaccinating the populations of poorer countries instead? Vaccinate everyone, there’s no shor
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by luffapi 5y ago
I agree that the whole globe will not be vaccinated and that will continue to be a problem. That doesn’t negate what I said though, unvaccinated children are a huge part of that problem. > And not given the low effectiveness of the vacc
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by luffapi 5y ago
I hesitate to feed the trolls, but this is a well documented worldwide phenomenon. Hardly just my personal experience.
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by luffapi 5y ago
There are risks to all of us when we let millions of children act as a breeding and mutation substrate for the virus. I would think that would be blinding obvious to anyone with even a basic grasp of biology. It’s also completely unknown
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by luffapi 5y ago
> Many companies have not returned to the office. We are not back to normal. This is the new normal (thankfully). Government regulations or not, management will not be able to force people back in the office. Office culture was a quirk
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by luffapi 5y ago
Both your personas are oddly constructed and not really representative of a political quadrant with state-individual empowerment on the vertical access and state backed private property on the horizontal. Free speech, reduction of private p
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by luffapi 5y ago
Humans are built to progress technologically and socially. It would be weird and unnatural if people didn’t want things to improve. It doesn’t matter how bad things were in the past. Your argument is a bit like saying we shouldn’t work on n
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by luffapi 5y ago
That’s not the “dominant narrative”, it’s historical fact. Slavery, segregation and genocide of Native Americans aren’t fabricated stories, they actually happened. Patriotism is for fools. Civil spirit starts with not rejecting citizenship
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by luffapi 5y ago
They will continue to cash in from the systems of exploration they’ve already created.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Eric Schmidt is definitely ultra-wealthy.

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