happiness_idx (u/happiness_idx)

happiness_idx commented on Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs arxiv.org/abs/2410.21771... · Posted by u/JSeymourATL

ndiddy · 9 months ago

I'm glad our government has introduced the H1B program to help out employers like you who are dealing with a shortage of tech workers (who will work for 2/3 market and will do anything you say because if they get fired they'll be deported).

happiness_idx · 9 months ago

How do we have ghost jobs and simultanously not have enough tech workers that we need to import them?

I am seeing lots of qualified commentors (according to them) say they won't even get a call back...

happiness_idx commented on US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/frans

Rinzler89 · a year ago

> your software engineers make a third of what they make here

Is this topic for discussing health care systems or the SW engineering salary dick measuring Olympics? Because those are two different unrelated topics.

Which country pays its software engineers the most is not some yardstick for measuring national quality of life of its average citizens, and whether SW engineers get paid a lot is totally irelevant to the people who are not working or aspiring to be SW engineers.

I bet the disabled US vets, homeless people or McDonalds workers in the states also don't give a fuck that their SW engineers are the best paid in the world but would probably feel a bit cheated learning that despite living and paying taxes in the richest country in the world, their peers in poorer EU countries get much more benefits and better quality of life.

happiness_idx · a year ago

>I bet the disabled US vets, homeless people or McDonalds workers in the states

Those two groups share interesecting means by which their healthcare is provided. Surprise! Its the government. So when people have doubts about an implementation of "Universal Healthcare" you shouldn't be surprised when you can acknowledge that as you said " but would probably feel a bit cheated learning that despite living and paying taxes in the richest country in the world, their peers in poorer EU countries get much more benefits and better quality of life."

Irrelevent but homeless people don't really pay taxes in any meaningful sense.

happiness_idx commented on Walt Disney Was Right; Our Cities' Problems Are Our Biggest Problems population.fyi/p/walt-dis... · Posted by u/daveland

happiness_idx · a year ago

Check out Forever California project. Tech Billionaires dream walkable, and GreenTM city!

happiness_idx commented on Why is it so hard to go back to the moon? scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/ajd2201

panick21_ · a year ago

And all of these are wrong. NASA budget is bigger then the rest of the world combined.

Low risk tolerance isn't a really problem.

High-tech is actually good and these mythical cheap heavy designs don't actually exist. SpaceX is building Starship and Raptor not SeaDragon. This is just the old 'Soviet tanks are cheaper nonsense repackaged for Space'.

The 4th is a problem, but not actually the biggest problem.

The real issue is that NASA doesn't get a goal and money. Each program is individually controlled by congress, budget is strictly allocated to certain program.

When a former NASA administrator even suggested to do something that would hurt a important program, and make it much cheaper he was instantly threatened with firing and told if he continued to publicly talk about it, he would be removed. He in fact suggested he should just resign.

And this suggested change wasn't even a very hard attack compared to what NASA SHOULD actually have done.

If you spend 30 years and 60 billion $ achieving basically nothing and congress is incredibly happy with the program, you know you have a totally broken system.

Chips are plenty save in space, this isn't that big of a problem and doing all this logic in TTL wouldn't make sense.

happiness_idx · a year ago

You said a whole lot of nothing and no conclusion... What is your point?

happiness_idx commented on Affirmative Action Was Banned. What Happened Next Was Confusing nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us... · Posted by u/Tomte

happiness_idx · a year ago

I am dying to know what happened next, anyone have the content?

happiness_idx commented on What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022) futureforum.com/2022/07/1... · Posted by u/taubek

phoenixy1 · a year ago

These were popular at my workplace maybe seven years ago, and while I was into the idea at first, IMO it was impractical most of the time. Turns out it's a pretty unreasonable burden to place on people that they should read and follow instructions in a document in order to communicate with someone and to personalize their work approach for every person they interact with.

The main context these make sense in is when written by a manager (or maaybe by a direct report for their manager). They can be useful to establish expectations for a team around things like "is it ok to message me on the weekend" and "here's what you should have prepared for our 1:1s".

happiness_idx · a year ago

This is honestly for a subset of the population the needs special catering. I can see things like disabilities, pronouns, and trigger words going into something like this.

I also can see this a hinderence to our general interpersonal communication.

happiness_idx commented on The American West is figuring out how to keep cool bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus

anamexis · a year ago

Is there any evidence that the heat from cars directly contributes meaningfully to temperature in cities? I’m genuinely curious (but skeptical).

Edit: Some back of the envelope math:

Article says cars add 1.2 * 10^6 BTU of heat per day to Manhattan.

Some rough math on my part suggests that Manhattan gets about 5.6 * 10^11 BTU of heat per day from the sun, 5 orders of magnitude more. The heat directly generated by cars is a rounding error.

happiness_idx · a year ago

While the raw numbers might suggest that the heat from cars is negligible compared to solar radiation, that overlooks the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and the synergistic feedback loops that make urban areas hotter. The UHI effect shows that cities are warmer than their rural surroundings because of concentrated heat sources like cars, buildings, and human activities. This local heat really impacts urban microclimates.

Plus, the heat from cars creates feedback loops. More heat means more use of air conditioning, which releases even more heat exhaust, making the area even hotter. This cycle just keeps adding to the overall heat load in the city. So, even if the direct heat from cars seems minor on its own, it actually plays a significant role in making urban areas warmer.

happiness_idx commented on Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero saveflipper.ca/... · Posted by u/pabs3

nulbyte · 2 years ago

> Instead of discussing how car theft is fundamentally an unethical behavior, the discussion is about preventing some thing from being sold or existing, whether that be insecure vehicles or Flipper Zeroes.

There are already laws against theft. They apply to vehicles, secure and insecure alike.

A law mandating a minimum level of security, as GP suggests, seems to me to fit the suggestion, that auto manufacturers have a minimum standard to ethically sell a vehicle which buyers would, presumably, expect to have locking mechanisms suitable to prevent theft.

happiness_idx · 2 years ago

Every car on the market now has a flaw where I can put a air wedge on your door and a coat hanger on the lock button.

happiness_idx commented on Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero saveflipper.ca/... · Posted by u/pabs3

happiness_idx · 2 years ago

All I am reading is, big corporation should be held responsible but not maladjusted individuals whomst purchased a $50 hacking tool online. Seems like BOTH is the solution here.

happiness_idx commented on Amazon joins companies arguing US labor board is unconstitutional reuters.com/technology/am... · Posted by u/WhyUVoteGarbage

judge2020 · 2 years ago

Without the board, employees would not be allowed to exercise their right to negotiate together without actually losing their job, which I'd say is fairly unconstitutional.

happiness_idx · 2 years ago

"rights" are purely metaphysical super natural constructs they're only enforced via might.

Enjoy your corporate overlord fiefdoms