No need to ban it. Just automaticly award full salary for 2x the noncompete period they put in your contract, payable in full a week after contract termination.
Readit Newspaulus_magnus2 commented on NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice nlrbedge.com/p/in-first-c... · Posted by u/lalaland1125
paulus_magnus2 commented on I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews nelson.cloud/i-am-so-sick... · Posted by u/nelsonfigueroa
How does this look outside coding? Do we know of any other professions where there are whiteboard / leetcode style interviews?
The single biggest opportunity equalizer for the young generations come from 2 unlikely sources: COVID (mandatory WFH) and Musk (ubiquitous internet access).
This opens doors for anyone who is hard working and can follow though a long term plan. No generation wealth needed.
Study hard, get remote work, buy a cheap piece of land in the middle of nowhere, get married, get a mortgate, get kids.
Focus on your own stuff. Avoid politics, avoid social media, avoid HCOL cities, avoid career ladder. Do your 9-5 each day, log off and invest time in a hobby, family, farm etc.
Besides feeding the economy (and by that, I mean buying consumerist stuff from large corps) and providing the army with cannon fodder, I still haven’t haven’t heard a lot of good arguments for having these babies.
Humanity would shrink (I think this is calculated to start after 2050 or so), but besides those two reasons, does that matter? Where is the foundation of the argument that we must have population growth to sustain? Or where is the research that shows if we halve the population, everything will be terrible?
That's not the 1st time I see this thinking fallacy.
please talk to your grandparents about the topic and report back to us.
paulus_magnus2 commented on What makes housing so expensive? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/jseliger
How is housing expensive?? Assuming a 1.2m house (for easy math). You pay 200k down and take a 1m loan which is 6k/mo. After 10y you sell the house for 2.4m. Having paid 720k, ~500k of mortgage is left over. So 200k turns into 2.4m -500k -720k = 1.18m profit.
Rather than renting for 5k (600k over 10y).
How is housing expensive??
paulus_magnus2 commented on Bring back private offices albertcory50.substack.com... · Posted by u/AlbertCory
A few years back I was working in an open office setting at a games studio and I got in a discussion with the branch manager about it. He was convinced that open office was a productivity multiplier. I asked him who he thought the most productive developers were on the team. When he gave me names, I pointed out that every one of them were wearing big noise-canceling headphones to block out the collaboration he thought he was fostering. My solution was different, I usually got in at 6am when almost no one else came in before the 10am standup. I would get most of my work done by then and then circulate and help the kids as needed.
To be fair, it did seem like the artists did get some benefit, but it was definitely a net negative for most of the developers.
I’ve been in private offices, and cubes, and open office, and honestly the most productive environment was when I was in a set of cubicles that had sliding doors, around a bullpen with multiple tables. When you needed to go head-down to get some code down you could, but otherwise you hung out at the tables in the middle.
Please let's not glorify working from 6am (effectively allocating time since 5am for work) unless you also left office at 2pm. Only seeing your children on weekends to make your boss 10% happier is not something to be proud about
paulus_magnus2 commented on Why Don't We Teach People How to Parent? theatlantic.com/family/ar... · Posted by u/loughnane
this is another overreach of collectivism virus creeping upon us to make parenting even harder.
As of 2022, the average cost of raising a child to age 17 is $310605 [1] [2]. That does not include all the unpaid parenting time which is probably another 40h per week between the parents. So we're talking 18+ years worth of unpaid time invested (or sunk) into your child. And when they go to work the government gets to tax them and keep all of it.
Financially speaking we've invested $500k (equiv) into each child and the government gets to keep all the return.
For the government and capitalist system it's much cheaper to import "ready" adults from abroad after someone else bore the cost.
The tax system and incentives need to be re-arranged if we want people to have children. Even the biggest proponent (Musk) isn't doing anything to help out. Surely his employees have no time for parenting after these 60h weeks.
[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/09041... [2] https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-raising-a-child
paulus_magnus2 commented on There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless gizmodo.com/more-proof-th... · Posted by u/rntn
The progressives should really pick up on the benefits of WFH and become active proponents.
WFH is the biggest equalizer of geographic opportunity, decreases physical disability impact, decreases carbon footprint, improves meritocracy, decreases opportinities for bullying and mobbing and other power play. Increases chances of mothers being able to work. You name it, this ticks all boxes.
Why haven't they already??
WFH is an invention equal to washingmachine + dishwasher where 2h each day is not being lost anymore by unproductive activity. With plenty of externalities on top of the lost time.
If (only as a test excercise) for 5 years we mandated the employer to bare the commute cost we would quickly see if RTO / WFH makes more economical sense.
Microsoft was once on the decline and it's now bouncing back. Having billions and captive markets (by network effect) seems to help.
Microsoft has access to ALL corporate data of ALL companies (sharepoint, teams, outlook, office365). Remaining step is to link chatgpt to it and train automated agents.