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qxga commented on Saving books by keeping them expensive (2011) themillions.com/2011/09/t... · Posted by u/TheTrotters

loonster · 5 years ago

Sandhogs made an average of $45/hr in NYC. National average appears to be $22. That's high but not crazy. It's a dangerous job that can easy kill your coworkers or ruin millions of dollars worth of work. I personally would not to work with some fucktard making 10/hr if my life will depend on him.

Cranes can also kill coworkers and cause millions of dollars in damages. The operators should get a premium.... https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303936704576399...

$82/hr with 56 hours of overtime a week. Okay that's just excessive union bullshit.

qxga · 5 years ago

> $82/hr with 56 hours of overtime a week. Okay that's just excessive union bullshit.

If the company can afford it and still make a profit (which would mean their labor is generating >$82hr in value!), then it's not "bullshit." It's smart moves by the union, and evidence that the higher-ups who don't do dangerous work are/were the ones being absurdly overpaid.

qxga commented on How to track users for analytics in a privacy-first, cookie-less future narrator.ai/blog/how-to-t... · Posted by u/mattjstar

wanderindev · 5 years ago

How is a company supposed to determine what 'good' prices are though? Should they just be covering their costs? Should they just be covering their costs + x%? Sure they could base it off what the rest of the market is doing but where is the market establishing their prices?

I don't disagree that price gouging occurs in many markets - and I agree that an international GDPR would be beneficial to people - but good pricing also doesn't just occur naturally it's a product of experimentation.

qxga · 5 years ago

Good prices are what consumers determine are good prices.

Sometimes that's razor-thin margins. Sometimes it lets you get away with high margins.

qxga commented on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/harambae

BeFlatXIII · 5 years ago

> despite having marketable and useful skillsets that would provide them gainful employment. Without exception, every person I know like this suffers from mental health issues, predominantly anxiety

Alternate hypothesis to low T: it’s the rituals of job interviews that keep them unemployable. As you said, these guys have skills to do the work: the problem is in connecting these men to the jobs in the first place.

qxga · 5 years ago

This is it. This is the answer. It's shameful that nobody else here gets it.

Many of these people are autistic and/or ADHD. Autism, ADHD, and job interviews do not mix. The prejudice against these groups that's baked into the process (for no real gain) is unbelievable.

qxga commented on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/harambae

lumost · 5 years ago

The result of this work ethic is to remove one’s self from the workforce. It’s a reasonable question as to why a lifetimes ambition for these hard workers is to be able to do nothing.

qxga · 5 years ago

I think "retirement = doing nothing" is an incredibly strange assumption to make.

qxga commented on Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility dispatch.com/story/news/p... · Posted by u/infodocket

epigen · 5 years ago

The cost-per-search is negligible even if every user had to pay. Instead of running the search the government could implement policies that make search advertising illegal and thus forcing another business model.

Pay-per-search would be cheap enough for municipalities to negotiate subscriptions for their entire broadband network as a part of broadband service.

qxga · 5 years ago

> Pay-per-search

Yeah, the last thing I would want my search history to be tied to is my payment information.

qxga commented on CodePerfect 95 – A fast IDE for Go codeperfect95.com... · Posted by u/brhsagain

hulug · 5 years ago

Not to be a prick but I doubt Go users will like this, they tend to prefer simple things to more complex things. Maybe retargeting this for Java/C++ users would be better.

Jokes (not really) aside, why does an IDE need to be designed for a language anyway?

qxga · 5 years ago

It's a self-contained application using the Dear ImGUI library rather than a bloated framework, and is designed for a single language. It's not simple compared to the likes of vi, sure, but it's almost certainly many less lines of code and much more architecturally simple than just about any other (popular, in-use) IDE out there.

qxga commented on CodePerfect 95 – A fast IDE for Go codeperfect95.com... · Posted by u/brhsagain

fermentation · 5 years ago

The page says the editor is "designed to run at 144hz". That's actually a pretty cool feature, as vscode seems locked to 60hz. I have to wonder, what is stopping it from going further? I have a 240hz monitor, are there any IDEs or text editors that can render that fast?

qxga · 5 years ago

Nothing is stopping it from going faster, unless the framerate is forcibly capped by the developer. It renders the same way a framerate-independent 3D game does.

qxga commented on Helix: a post-modern modal text editor helix-editor.com/... · Posted by u/bpierre

msoad · 5 years ago

I never really felt faster eliminating mouse from my coding workflow. Point and click to navigate things is pretty powerful. Why some devs try to avoid the mouse?

qxga · 5 years ago

For most people, it isn't; using the mouse only feels slower. https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/mouse_vs._keyboard/index.html

In Plan 9's Acme, the mouse is your edit mode, the keyboard is your insert mode. I find I'm about as fast for most tasks in Acme as I was in Vim (after using it for years).

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