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AlexTWithBeard commented on Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Job postings data suggest so   fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2... · Posted by u/kieto
wootland · 2 years ago
> They (well, we) are not underpaid.

Can a family of 4 purchase a home within walking distance of the office? Is the CEO of the company making 1000X more than those at the bottom? How much equity do the execs have and how much is it worth?

Devs are very underpaid, it's just so much value is captured by those at the top that we're all used to fighting for the scraps that happen to fall off the real dinner table.

AlexTWithBeard · 2 years ago
Is there enough homes within walking distance of the office for all the developers?
AlexTWithBeard commented on Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Job postings data suggest so   fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2... · Posted by u/kieto
wootland · 2 years ago
Developers are dramatically underpaid, just like all non-exec labor. It's ridiculous to complain about devs making 300k-500k a year when execs are pulling in millions or tens of millions a year with 10M-100B worth of equity under their belt. Focusing on anything other than that is a complete distraction and counterproductive. Devs should be getting 10X their current salary and execs should be getting 1/100th theirs.

I'll add that if you can't easily afford a family house next to your office, you're not overpaid.

AlexTWithBeard · 2 years ago
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.

AlexTWithBeard commented on Where do stolen bikes go?   news.mit.edu/2023/where-d... · Posted by u/bikenaga
adastra22 · 3 years ago
How is taking your own property back being a bad citizen?
AlexTWithBeard · 3 years ago
It becomes complicated if the new owner has legitimately bought the bike in a second hand store.
AlexTWithBeard commented on We can reduce homelessness if we follow the science on what works   newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/roseway4
Gigachad · 3 years ago
Iirc the Victorian government in Australia decided to buy individual apartments in high rises to put drug addicts in resulting in the buildings becoming so unsafe that the original occupants had to sell and move somewhere else. Turning them in to radical anti public housing activists so they don’t have to move and lose a load of money again.

Imagine saving up for ages to buy a nice 3 bedroom apt to move in with your family with and then a few years later your kids are being threatened by an unstable meth head in the elevator forcing you to move and lose most of your wealth in the process.

AlexTWithBeard · 3 years ago
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.
AlexTWithBeard commented on We can reduce homelessness if we follow the science on what works   newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/roseway4
chizhik-pyzhik · 3 years ago
This article is a good overview of the research about treatment-first vs housing-first approaches.

The last paragraph is pretty clear on the real difficulty:

>The major obstacles to resolving homelessness remain ideological. It is politically hard to sell the idea that people who take drugs or are disruptive should get free housing – even when the evidence shows that is actually what works.

AlexTWithBeard · 3 years ago
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?
AlexTWithBeard commented on An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down   npr.org/2023/01/25/115143... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
barbazoo · 3 years ago
Do judges know about all prior cases or do they check when they hear one referenced? It feels like this could easily slip through, no?
AlexTWithBeard · 3 years ago
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?"

AlexTWithBeard commented on An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down   npr.org/2023/01/25/115143... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
lolinder · 3 years ago
This company is either run by someone who doesn't understand the tech or is willfully fraudulent. ChatGPT and company are far from good enough to be entrusted with law. Having interacted extensively with modern LLMs, I absolutely know something like this would happen:

> 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.

LLMs hallucinate, and there is absolutely no space for hallucination in a court of law. The legal profession is perhaps the closest one to computer programming, and absolute precision is required, not a just-barely-good-enough statistical machine.

AlexTWithBeard · 3 years ago
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.

AlexTWithBeard commented on An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down   npr.org/2023/01/25/115143... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
rhino369 · 3 years ago
>One wonders why we have not developed something explicit like mathematical notations for legal stuff.

Because you have to apply the law to fact and facts lack mathematical precision.

"No vehicles in the park" would require someone to categorize everything in the world into vehicle or !vehicle. Does a wheel chair count?

It's easier to lay out the principle and let judges determine edge cases as they play out.

AlexTWithBeard · 3 years ago
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
Since wheelchairs are ADA exempt, a question of whether it's a vehicle will probably never be risen.

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

AlexTWithBeard commented on Fentanyl vaccine tested in rats   uh.edu/news-events/storie... · Posted by u/ca98am79
1attice · 3 years ago
Wegovy?
AlexTWithBeard · 3 years ago
Will it stop me getting high on food?

If so, it's a blessing.

u/AlexTWithBeard

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