But seriously, you have no idea what you're talking about. That's why the bank would laugh at you.

It depends on the situation. At my office, I'm on the main corridor to the cafeteria. People are constantly talking and jabbering by. I have co-workers that want to do water cooler type talk that is simply distracting. I almost exclusively devote in office time to checking emails and coordinating and cross-training type interactions.

Meanwhile at home, I have a private office. Better, ultra-widescreen monitors. And work after hours more because I don't mind jumping upstairs to finish stuff after dinner and then the next thing I know it's midnight. So it's usually better quality work and more hours at that.

But yea if your home setup is bad and you have kids running around in the background bothering you and you have a hard time focusing with household needs/entertainment options, then yea. Working from home is not for you.

Federal funds are used to help poor people nationwide. There's a shit ton of poor people in most of these red states that pull a greater share.

So if we believe in the rich paying for poor people. Then yes, Californians should be paying for these people in red states because there's simply not enough rich money in them to counteract the poor.

I'm not sure how much Californians and New Yorkers realize what passing progressive federal laws means to them when you factor in the destitute fly over states that they essentially have to support.

If you don't like giving money to them, then quit passing federal laws for progressive benefits. Leave it to the individual states to pass those.

This is how stock options work typically. They have stipulations like they aren't vested until 3+ years later. If you leave earlier, you lose them.

If you give them out each year as a major part of their bonus, it is a big carrot on a leash keeping them at the company.

We use our own bigger/washable bags when we go to the store. But when we have our groceries delivered, they insist on using these shitty plastic bags. And one bag per product. We end up with about 30 of them per online order. It's infuriating.

I don't understand how estimations of these large projects is always so horribly wrong. We're not talking 25% over budget. We're at 300% over budget.

It's not like high speed rails haven't been built before. And it's not like it's a custom unique sky scraper. It's just "fancy rail". The estimates are just absurd.

No need to fire him. Just tell him he has to come into work everyday because Amazon isn't willing to cover the expenses. We'll see where he prefers to work.

I think the biggest and easiest market for these would be watches. They're "always on" and have limited space for batteries. Plus, the screen doesn't change often and people aren't expecting 60fps on their watch.

Before lockdowns it had an R0 of around 1.5 - 4. How can it be extremely contagious if (on average) the person who gets it only spreads it to 2-3 other people over a week's time?

Is it worse that a typical flu? Sure. But it's not "that bad" like the measles or chicken pox which have an R0 of 10+

This is true that we don't want it to be solely tech or medical because of salary discrepancies.

However I feel like we could still do the auction method, but just break it out by job sector. So only so many tech H1B. So many medical H1B. So many language/arts H1B. Etc. And in each sector it should be highest salary wins.

This is why I use Vivaldi. TONS of customizations for power users, syncing across desktop and mobile, built in ad blocking on mobile, and uses the fast same engine as Chrome.

I'm curious what you'd think if it were a country that allowed for the possession and distribution of underage pornography. Would you feel like there should be an attempt to stop it technologically? Or just allow it to be out there on the internet because it's that country's right?

I'm not so worried about the number however the "auction" method is horrible. It artificially reduces deflates salaries in the US.

It needs to be an auction method where companies have to pay more to reserve one of these spots. Additionally, they need to be required to pay 1.25x or so more than the national average in pay.

Instead these H1B lottery people are brought in at bargain basement prices and screwed over by contracting companies. They're typically low level college graduates and severely affect US salaries in the IT industry

Dav1d is not a codec. It's an encoder. It encodes video into the AV1 codec. AV1 is the updated codec that will replaced last generations version VP9. Just as HEVC/x265 is replacing last generations x264.

I'm a Software Engineer major and my wife an Actuary in the pensions field (Masters in Math), and i can somewhat agree with what you say. She's taken a ton of tests over the years and basically lives in Excel doing calculations and doing what i would consider "boring work". And yet we make roughly the same amount, (however she does make a bit more not that she's official).

But I will say she loves being an actuary, and frankly i couldn't see her doing anything else. It's been a lot of stress and long hours getting to where she is today, but she thinks it's all worth it. I'm not sure why, but for some people, they really enjoy just crunching numbers.