With desktop Linux cresting 5% market share and SOCs that offer unified memory to built-in GPUs, could developers and enthusiasts finally drive enough enterprises over to desktop Linux to decimate the market shares of Windows and MacOS?
There is no such thing as a living wage in a housing market like this. The recent bill in WA to control rents limited rental increases to the rate of inflation plus 7% (or a flat 10%, whichever is lower). So when inflation is at 3% every year, and rents rise 10% every year, how long before someone who gets a 5% annual raise (40% higher than the rate of inflation) can't afford rent?
As long as the rental market cannot meet rental demand, raising wages just bids up rents. No more people get housed or are able to create savings to weather emergencies. All that money just gets transferred from business owners to landlords, using minimum wage workers as mules to transport the money.
Your bias is demonstrated by the fact that you seem to think this is all about greedy business owners and you put ZERO responsibility on the landowners and politicians who have perpetuated this housing crisis.
Meanwhile, in states without property tax caps, overheated housing markets raise the property taxes of seniors until they can no longer afford their homes, even if they're paid off. My property taxes are still just a fraction of my mortgage but they've more than doubled in the past 8 years and in another 8 years I'll be 64 and likely pay more annually in property taxes than in mortgage payments.
So seniors and digital nomads sell their ridiculously overpriced homes in superheated markets and take those profits to cooler markets, increasing property values and property taxes, which may seem like a benefit until it heats up the local housing market too much.
But we saw Marc Andreessen and his wife demonstrate their nasty NIMBY values trying to stop a measure increasing housing density in Atherton, California a few years back. The same hero of VC who invested 9 figures in Adam Neumann's housing startup doesn't want any of the plebes it would serve within a bike ride of his home.
Have you actually looked at what Walmart pays? Even in areas where the minimum wage is still $7.25, they're paying nearly double as a starting wage. They raised their starting wage over $10 in 2017 and have consistently raised it even where they're not legally obligated.
Meanwhile, all raising wages in the current market does is implement a wealth transfer from businesses to landlords with minimum wage workers as the mules transporting the money.
If you let the housing supply remain this tight and just increase wages, you just bid up rents and make the most economically vulnerable fight over the insufficient supply of affordable units.
EXACTLY. I've been saying the same thing for so long. As long as the imbalance of supply and demand exists the way it has, giving the lowest wage earners more money only bids up rents. There is no such thing as a living wage in a system of scarcity where buyers compete for necessities instead of necessity owners/producers competing for buyers.
I don't "like" a hammer, but I appreciate what I can do with it.
I think of money as more like a love/hate/appreciate relationship. I hate what I have to do to obtain money, but I love living indoors, so I appreciate the benefits having money provides.
A question I asked 14 years ago on ways to sanitize database queries in JavaScript was moderated two weeks ago as violating rules. I lost reputation points for the moderation and more for having the points from the question deducted.
First, why aren't they simply archiving anything over X years old? The fact that this question from 14 years ago was open for moderation is crazy. Second, who has so little to do that they're hunting down ancient questions to moderate?
I edited it to ask, instead of for the best way, some ways. The edit was rejected. I gave up and have no interest in ever asking or answering questions there again. It's just too random.
FWIW, I haven't been active there since 2021. When I was on the Amazon Alexa Developer Education team during lockdown, I used to answer Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) questions between breakfast and morning stand-up. But since I left the team, I haven't worked on a product with that kind of question volume there.
This was inspired by seeing a job description that said "no job hoppers." I thought "tell me you have employee retention issues without actually saying it."
There's a "Pictures in Boxes" comic about the internet stealing content on his page. It doesn't name the author or link his site on the image or in text.
But since the use is not for the page author to comment on the comic itself, but the comic is used to support his discussion of another misuse of IP, does it constitute fair use?
The page author is going deep on the content misappropriation theme and on what constitutes fair use, so it seems oddly ironic he'd be so seemingly cavalier about using someone else's content on that page.
