I wish. The US government has been an absolute disgrace in how we've handled support of Israel unflinchingly. I guess we didn't write enough sternly written letters while people were being forcibly starved to death.
Probably because there's a lot of smart people here. Demographics is the one trend that overpowers any other. Technologies, Productivity, GDP, Debt, Religion, Culture, all pale in comparison. Paying attention to that is important. Although I understand your sentiment, in the end we're all dead.
This is why I left embedded unfortunately. The other commenter speaking of specializations as key to a more lucrative career is spot on though. I would have loved to have specialized in a subarea involving DSP but didn’t see much of an opening without even more school. And even then the open positions are few and required a lot of digging, and of course prior experience. Watching my colleagues with much easier software gigs get paid more and not be forced to fly to China on a moments notice made me realize I need to switch focus. I did really enjoy some projects I had the opportunity to work on and have no regrets. But I do miss looking at schematics as part debugging.
I was intrigued until I realized this book is just shilling for Bitcoin from an analyst who sits on the board of Swanbitcoin.com. I realize this is HN and all, but no thanks.
She’s on the board of swanbitcoin? Where can I confirm that information? I didn’t see her mentioned on the page where 6 people affiliated with the company are listed, but I don’t think that is a list of people on the board, so I don’t think it would. How do you know she’s on the board?
That's because having children in SF is not "normal," a huge fraction of new workers are single male tech workers. SF is the city with the fewest children per capita in the country, Daly City is #6.
Well, OK, there are ways for a young tech family to avoid the 2+ hour commute:
- Be extremely well paid, and don't mind buying a $1.5m house that would go for $500K in, say, Pittsburg CA.
- Squeeze into an apartment.
- Buy near one BART station and find a job near another, e.g. if you buy right next to the Pittsburg station and work at Uber HQ it's 1 hour each way. This mostly rules out Apple, Meta, Google, etc.
Another way of course is if your colleagues bought homes at around the time of the market lows, but that was ~15 years ago, so they would not be young families.
It’s reversed. Governments are holding back tax benefits due to companies not forcing their employees to work in their respective cities. Fat chance they’ll have a change of heart.
The mental gymnastics with RTO and the global workforce reality is what pisses me off the most. American corporations have shipped so many jobs overseas and teams are distributed so widely it’s ludicrous to talk about the supposed RTO benefits for many people. I have coworkers forced to go to an office just because HR demands it but work with people overseas and in other states a majority of their day. We get up extra early to have meetings with engineers in low cost countries that replaced local engineers. And the trend continues.
It seems like all they’re doing is pissing people off. They’re acting overly confident once again and acting like the feudal lords they see themselves as in the higher interest rate era, just like they were overconfident in hoarding talent in the lower interest rate era. They just can’t help themselves it seems.
The author also completely lost me with their anti-woke fixation:
“Transfixed, I sat watching the almost hypnotic rumblings of a transgender alt-right, conservative, Republican who was anti-trans rights. It was immaterial whether I agreed with them or not—the simple fact of knowing such outright interesting, transgressive voices even existed”
Outright interesting, transgressive voices. Lol. So outright interesting being yet another alt-right reactionary on the internet. Give me a break. I find this viewpoint forced on me on Youtube by watching gaming videos. I have no idea what they find so refreshing about it.
I absolutely agree with you on this. I definitely feel like the viewpoint is forced on me on all social media and all media with a social component (like youtube!)
To digress a bit about your last sentence: my opinion, though, is that they don't find it refreshing.
I think this is an example of the subtle manipulations of language people who are knowingly reactionary do all the time. Like many, they have an Agenda and they want to get it done, but since they know that they often can not openly discuss what they want the world around them to look like in plain terms they start to adopt the cover of things like "free speech" and "transgressive voices."
It sounds like he stumbled across Blaire White, whose views really do stand out as an oddity amongst both the conservatives and the trans-identifying. I can see why the author found this interesting.
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