1323portloo (u/1323portloo)

1323portloo commented on Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row breakingdefense.com/2023/... · Posted by u/TurkishPoptart

bluefirebrand · 2 years ago

People on HN are convinced if you don't live in California maximizing your salary, you're not capable of doing so.

Highlighted in the sibling comment: "you will get whatever candidates decided to live in Mississippi"

As if top talent never decides to live in Mississippi and accept 250k/year as their salary ceiling...

1323portloo · 2 years ago

I didn't say that top talent doesn't live in Mississippi, I just said you will get what candidates DO decide to live in Mississippi. If you want top talent, you have to advertise nationally, and be willing to pay the national rate. I live in a city that is quite poor for an employer that is quite large. They pay slightly better than average for the area except for their engineers and upper management, that goes to market rate because they are willing to hire the best available.

1323portloo commented on Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row breakingdefense.com/2023/... · Posted by u/TurkishPoptart

ramilefu · 2 years ago

Depends on where you live. An “experienced engineer” is going to make a lot less if they live in Mississippi than if they were in California. 250k for the former is likely “top dollar”.

1323portloo · 2 years ago

If you are a small shop, sure. If you are a major employer you will either meet market rate and get top candidates (willing to live in your area) or you will get whatever candidates decided to live in Mississippi.

1323portloo commented on 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars theconversation.com/the-w... · Posted by u/rglullis

1323portloo · 2 years ago

The average American is not going to accept an e-bike, moped or motorcycle as a replacement for their SUV/wheeled living room.* Autocycles are starting to become more mainstream thanks to companies like Polaris that focus on performance ATVs and 3-wheeled motorcycles. They would be a good middle ground for the future, either as electric or small-displacement gas engines.

They need better penetration in more states and need to have the same insurance and operator licensing as a regular 4-wheeled automobile. My state allows autocycles where you can use a regular drivers license, but the vehicle is insured as a motorcycle (higher premiums), you must wear a helmet (but my autocycle has an enclosed body?). One of the states that borders mine does not permit autocycles as an automobile, so I wouldn't be able to drive there for any reason.

* For years I have bicycle commuted and picked up groceries year-round in a place with hills that gets real winter snow. It takes a level of commitment that most people just do not have.

1323portloo commented on What Happens When Nurses Are Hired Like Ubers themarkup.org/working-for... · Posted by u/chapulin

Eumenes · 2 years ago

Independent contractor ≠ gig worker

Independent contractors have been doing 1099 work way before the 'gig economy'

1323portloo · 2 years ago

These companies (ShiftKey, Clipboard) are not acting as agents for long term 1099 contractors at a hospital or other health care facility. They are filling shifts for as little as a day at a time at a moment's notic. Quality of care is atrocious because you never know the quality of the health care worker and the health care worker may not have the necessary training to do the job required of them. Bottom line is the problem is not 1099 work or workers, it's that these garbage "gig economy" rent seeking companies are treating the health care profession as if they were picking up day laborers in a Home Depot parking lot.

1323portloo commented on I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took careerfair.io/online-maze... · Posted by u/shsachdev

arccy · 2 years ago

it's long if you don't have the connections to get a job through your network and need to sort of spray and pray to even get to a recruiter screen

1323portloo · 2 years ago

Something you don't want to learn post-graduation: if you don't have the connections to get a job, you simply don't have a prayer.

1323portloo commented on Antidepressants Work Better Than Sugar Pills Only 15 Percent of the Time (2022) newsweek.com/2022/09/30/a... · Posted by u/robtherobber

sithadmin · 2 years ago

This finding seems to account for SSRIs rather than other classes of antidepressant. It’s difficult to believe that classes like NDRIs (which behave similarly to an amphetamine) would show such low superiority to a placebo.

1323portloo · 2 years ago

NDRIs were great at causing me brain zaps. So much so, that I could not meditate for more than a year after stopping the medication without reaching a brain state that caused similar brain zaps. Fortunately, that has long passed.

1323portloo commented on Ultra-wealthy people are working remotely from their superyachts insider.com/billionaires-... · Posted by u/harambae

croes · 2 years ago

So they are all lazy and don't really work?

Because that's what's being said about the not super rich in home office

1323portloo · 2 years ago

Probably. My apartment doesn't have an infinity pool with attached hot tub, a tennis/basketball/whatever court, game room, servants, "servants" or helipad with waiting helicopter.

1323portloo commented on Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source ramatak.com/2023/09/15/un... · Posted by u/TMM2K

intelVISA · 2 years ago

The Unreal thing is that Unity has/had ~8,000 employees last year. Sounds like an awful lot for a mobile game engine.

1323portloo · 2 years ago

That's not their focus at all. They're trying to be an all-things-entertainment company, currently, they are focusing on movie animation and digital character creation.

1323portloo commented on Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source ramatak.com/2023/09/15/un... · Posted by u/TMM2K

gumballindie · 2 years ago

> Unreal has licenses which allow you to use one version of their engine FOREVER

For a 5% cut. Add that on top of taxes and steam and you’re basically an employee.

1323portloo · 2 years ago

Yes, unless you build everything from the game engine to the distribution channel yourself, there is a cost to doing business. IIRC Epic Games Store offers a more reasonable 88%/12% revenue split, while Steam uses the same rapacious split as Apple and GOG at 70%/30%.

1323portloo commented on When did people stop being drunk all the time? lefineder.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/prismatic

BiteCode_dev · 2 years ago

Modern people drunk a lot, event recently. In France, 80 years ago, kids would drink wine at school.

Drink and driving prevention and repression certainly played a big part in it.

But I think other factors came at play:

- Science. We know now better about the effect of alcohol. This drove the public opinion into a certain direction. Having the general acceptance this was a bad idea created policies to prevent things like having wine in schools in 1956: https://expat-in-france.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/wine-...

- Hygiene. If you can drink water safely from the tap, it helps.

- Moving to a service based society. If you don't have to work in a mine, you drink less.

- Other drugs came around. The ones you identify as such. And the one that are more innocent, like sugar, tv shows and social medias.

1323portloo · 2 years ago

I wouldn't say sugar is innocent. It still has the same damaging metabolic effects as alcohol, but without the inebriation.

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