https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
I can anecdotally say you didn't add to the conversation with this link, so maybe you are one of the folks who do not have anything to say to another, as Mr. Krugman so eloquently put it.
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leakycap commented on China Has Overtaken America paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Please let's not dip into the cosmic hashtable. It's boring and offtopic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9722096 (June 2015)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622773 (March 2020)
Whatever you say, boss! I'll never mention it again, my apologies.
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I've never really understood people spending hours on a phone. I get fed up and move to a computer. At the very least, it's got a bigger screen and a keyboard, making it easier to respond to a post than the phone does.
I recognize that it's a problem for a lot of people, and I'm sure that OP does too. Because it seems like they're arguing for purposefully using a phone less. They're describing a different way to choose to be.
> I get fed up and move to a computer.
Big screens can be addicting, too - but not being portable helps it be less available 24x7 and makes the problem less visible to those around you.
Do you track your screen time using an accurate/unbiased method like an app? Big screen wasted time may be much higher than you assume.
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leakycap commented on · Posted by u/GitPopTarts
While reading this yarn about the Varangians, the Mongols, and the "Finno-Ugric substrate," a modern, unhinged empire is writing its current bloody chapter in real time.
We aren't living through an intellectual exercise about "The Third Rome," and it feels like distraction or misdirection to waxing poetic abut five-century-old antecedents while blood runs down the streets of Kyiv and Kharkiv.
If I was going to give my energy to writing about a murderous empire, I wouldn't shine up their history with gilded theory on why the attacker felt entitled to attack. Turn the lens where the people are dying and being attacked - today, as I write this.
Why bluesky, not Reddit or X?
Career advice from Reddit is funny. Career advice from X tells me way more about you than you probably meant to share. Oof.
The tradesmen in higher COL areas seem to have no problem charging dev hourly rates ($150-200/hr) and also upcharging ridiculous amounts on materials (one of them tried to charge me $75 for a $3 capacitor).
Maybe there is something to that after all.
> (one of them tried to charge me $75 for a $3 capacitor)
How much do you upcharge people for your services and "products" (often virtual)? What is acceptable to you?
If you had to have a physical copy of the apps you work with, in your truck, had to buy them in advance, pay shipping, store them, then take the right copy with you to a client's house. If they paid $3 would you be OK with $30? $60? You seem incensed with $75
I used to work retail. Belkin cables were under $2 each for the store, they sold them for $39-$69 depending on what it was.
If you work in a professional role, your markup on services (almost no costs involved) and products (usually very low costs) is probably many many thousands of times more than the hardworking tradesperson you think ripped you off when they were solving an issue you needed help with and had the expertise, time, and parts to help.
To be fair to the OP, the median (so lower than average) salary for a single person with a bachelor's degree (in USA) is ~$80,000, give or take a few bucks.
The average is likely higher, and then higher again for higher COL areas.
So it's not unreasonable for OP to expect to start at this level, and work their way up to $150k over the next 5-7 years.
> So it's not unreasonable for OP to expect to start at this level, and work their way up to $150k over the next 5-7 years.
So you're actually saying that OP xpecting $150,000 now, given that is what they're expecting (and elsewhere they scoff at $200k), is out of touch.
But you feel compelled to say some people, with years of experience, make more? Yeah. That's sensical - but it doesn't apply now unless you think giving advice 5-7 years in advance is helpful when someone is looking for a job now.