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captain_perl commented on 67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months   cnbc.com/2018/10/19/67per... · Posted by u/DoreenMichele
captain_perl · 7 years ago
"The reason people are quitting today is because the labor market is so competitive that the only way they can get a significant increase in income is by quitting and going to another job."

Well, no, the opposite is true. Employees have to quit because companies stubbornly refuse to be competitive on salary.

The reason for that is mismanagement - managers and HR would be personally criticized for "being soft" if they offered raises, regardless of the benefits to the company of doing so.

captain_perl commented on Massachusetts gas fires: Another technological tragedy   bit-player.org/2018/anoth... · Posted by u/greeneggs
wyattpeak · 7 years ago
I don't know much about the specifics of gas distribution, but I came across a comment on an entirely different discussion recently which I think is apropos:

> you should be very suspicious of any conclusion that requires you to assume that all the world’s experts have missed something extremely basic.

It seems to me most likely that the answer is simply that releasing natural gas into the air is an even more dangerous failure mode than overpressure - natgas is not air in a compressor. But regardless I'd bet you dollars to doughnuts that, for one reason or another, blow-off valves are a bad idea in the context.

captain_perl · 7 years ago
> you should be very suspicious of any conclusion that requires you to assume that all the world’s experts have missed something extremely basic.

This is hugely mistaken. If you're an expert in compliance in one field, often your insights are valid in another field.

For example, anybody who has certified a data center knows that Fukushima was both in the wrong location and had wonky power distribution.

Anybody in aviation knows the Tyndall F-22s were in the wrong location after Kermit Weeks' collection was destroyed in Florida in 1990.

Expertise and common sense are always in short supply. It's 2018 - we've collected enough hindsight for the next 100 years.

captain_perl commented on An algorithm kicks businesses out of food stamp program on dubious fraud charges   newfoodeconomy.org/usda-a... · Posted by u/Futurebot
captain_perl · 7 years ago
For those confused by the use of the word "fraud" here, the US government today considers fraud to cover both financial misdeeds, as well as (their) rules violations where no money is involved.

If you follow the news, you'll see the word "fraud" increasingly thrown around as it gives the government a bigger hammer to use on its citizens.

Meanwhile, actual fraud like civil asset forfeiture rolls along with full government endorsement.

captain_perl commented on Will Tech Leave Detroit in the Dust?   wsj.com/articles/can-detr... · Posted by u/RestlessMind
jdhn · 7 years ago
Here's a selection of homes from East English Village, which has won the Detroit Curbed Cup competition 2 years in a row (for what that's worth):

3 bd / 1 bth / 2 car garage: $90k [0]

4 bd / 2 bth / 2 car garage: $190k [1]

3 bd / 2 bth / Garage status not mentioned: $120k [2]

[0]https://www.trulia.com/p/mi/detroit/5257-cadieux-rd-detroit-...

[1]https://www.trulia.com/p/mi/detroit/4800-bishop-st-detroit-m...

[2]https://www.trulia.com/p/mi/detroit/5042-grayton-st-detroit-...

captain_perl · 7 years ago
Well, those are inflated prices from being listed on Trulia.

You can buy thousands of houses in Detroit at auction for $5,000 plus back taxes. They all will need rebuilding.

However, the soil is contaminated with heavy metals (I would check where the foundries and prevailing winds were) and the water supply has issues.

And if you want to raise a family, you will need to find an area with a credible school and police force.

captain_perl commented on High-end house rents in Vancouver plunge up to 20% as inventory spikes: experts   vancourier.com/real-estat... · Posted by u/krausejj
mistermann · 7 years ago
And yet we're told by the MSM that foreign ownership is 5%, makes one wonder if situations like this are even statistically detectable.

If this article is remotely true and this is the start of a trend set off by having no rules whatsoever and then suddenly a whole bunch of not terribly well thought out rules, it's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out, especially when good old "fear is stronger than greed" investor psychology kicks in, all in an environment of steadily increasing interest rates.

captain_perl · 7 years ago
> And yet we're told by the MSM that foreign ownership is 5%

When non-residents own 5% of a market that typically only has 1-2% listed at any time, prices quadruple like in Vancouver.

captain_perl commented on Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness   triplebyte.com/blog/inter... · Posted by u/aacook
username3 · 7 years ago
Anyone have videos of someone programming fast or a video of a 10x engineer working or a comparison output of a 10x vs above average?
captain_perl · 7 years ago
As far as being able to visualize what it's like to be a 10x developer, such a person can continuously type whatever is needed to get to the next step, whether it's code or sql or whatever, while maintaining adequate performance and quality.

They don't have to type fast, but they're also not relying on Stackoverflow for learning concepts.

Most web applications start as prototypes written by one guy in 90 days or less, then just re-labelled as "production."

captain_perl commented on PostgreSQL 11 Released   postgresql.org/about/news... · Posted by u/MarkusWinand
enraged_camel · 7 years ago
Serious question: when you need a relational database, are there any technical reasons why you would use anything other than Postgres these days?
captain_perl · 7 years ago
MySQL with Innodb is easier to manage in large replication clusters, doesn't require connection pooling, and doesn't have write amplification problems.

MySQL out of the box is more secure and easier to configure than Postgresql because of pg's public and the legacy config files.

It's also much easier to hire DBAs.

captain_perl commented on How Manhattan became a rich ghost town   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/joubert
captain_perl · 7 years ago
I read the article, but they missed an important point.

A lot of landlords are only choosing well-known brand chains because the value of their property increases - ie. the brand attaches to their portfolio, aside from the fact that chains may pay less because they have staff negotiators.

One landlord I read about said his property is worth 5% more if signs a Starbucks, for example.

Often they don't even want to talk to mom and pop stores anymore.

captain_perl commented on Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/bcOpus
wahern · 7 years ago
They're different ways to describe the same phenomenon. "[B]oth 'Bernoulli' and 'Newton' are correct." https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/bernnew.html
captain_perl · 7 years ago
> They're different ways to describe the same phenomenon.

Well ... they're actually different ways to incorrectly describe the same phenomenon.

Wind tunnels are still used for aircraft design because we can't accurately model aerodynamics.

captain_perl commented on Funds Back Proposal to Remove Zuckerberg as Facebook Chairman   wsj.com/articles/funds-ba... · Posted by u/sus_007
mwfunk · 7 years ago
I always thought it was weird that it was possible for someone to be both an executive at a company and have a seat on the board. I know this is a common thing in the tech industry, it just seems weird to me. In theory the board exists to provide oversight of the executives on behalf of the shareholders, so having the CEO on the board is a natural conflict of interest.
captain_perl · 7 years ago
If you think that's weird ... I've done some reading of the Facebook public legal documents.

Facebook control passes to his heir from what I read ... like a feudal monarchy. Let the games begin!

u/captain_perl

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