Traffic is terrible in the area. Even with taking an Apple bus to work, you can face a five hour commute to go 30 miles. And you have to swipe your access card to get in the bus.

Yes, you see, when the real-estate agent tries to show you a house with an HOA contract, you say "no thanks". If you're renting, you just don't consider houses in an HOA. HOA's are less than 27% of houses.

If you're living with your parents, move out.

I honestly have no idea what your point is. You’ve completely lost me.

Have to agree to disagree. I have friends whose houses were built on options from Amazon and Tesla. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest that Jeff and Elon got Billions out of the same rise in share price. Envy is a poor substitute for actual material benefit.

The email came after a meeting fwiw

Labor fighting against labor is why we keep fucking losing. This is pure distraction.

Labor needs to all be on the same side regardless of race, religion, sex, etc. These idiotic minor differences do nothing to change the fact that you and I have a lot more common interests than either of us do with Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. The fact that I write code for a living does nothing to change that.

Currently job hunting. Do you have any recommendations other than LinkedIn and Indeed?

Oh they tried.. They added features to instagram that they plucked directly from tiktok. People just weren't interested.

Probably making unpopular decisions in the hope people quit instead

Did you not see the immense wealth generated by technology for the last 30 years. You can argue about the share that went to employees but at this scale you’re quibbling about how to fairly slice a pie when 10 new ones are being cranked out of the oven.

It’s similar to how the Soviet Union fell. They were equally miserable standing in line for bread but they literally abandoned their decades-old way of life when it was impossible to censor images of overflowing Western supermarkets.

It’s almost like a 40 year campaign to make sure the population is uneducated, docile, and easily influenced by propaganda did exactly as it was intended to do.🤬🤯🤬

>. If you're going to ban tiktok, ban anyone who engages in this practice

Agreed. So this is a good start.

Yes, and I have for a long while. Why?

No joke. There's two big reasons why these companies are obsessed with returning to the office.

1 - The managers are dinosaurs. They do not understand and do not want to understand the potential of emerging technologies for enhancing WFH efficiency, such as Augmented Reality. They barely understand Zoom.
2 - They invested a lot into office real estate and if working from home becomes the new normal, it has no resale value.

This has nothing to do with productivity and everything to do with stubbornness, incompetency, and greed.

Soon enough new emerging companies will be started by younger generations that will embrace new technology and WFH will be the normal. Older companies that choose to not adapt will lose their talent, and either change their thinking or slowly fade into financial obscurity.

Do you actually work in the tech industry?

Or they can’t afford to live anywhere within a 2 hour commute to the office

A significant portion of the voting population will vote against their own interests as long as their preferred politician caters to their identity politics.

Rent on a shitty studio apartment in Cupertino is like 2200/mo at the low end, you can double or even triple that if you want multiple bedrooms for a family, and that’s not counting utilities or necessitates.

200 grand is not a poverty wage by any definition but there are many places in the US where it is also not a lot, especially when rent can easily be more than half your take home

So why not let these people move to towns that are cheaper to live in if they can completely and efficiently do their jobs from home with an occasional commute

here's an example of statistics that use the term "average" when they are reporting the median:

>Average Income by State

>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median household income for 2019 was $65,712. M

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-income-by-state

Layoffs are short term stock gain, long term losses. You lose talent, have to pay tons of severance, and lots of efficiency loses due to distractions.

I'd argue 1/3 are harder than ever before, you're basically banking on grabbing the selection of good engineers that like being in the office and that does seem to be a minority of engineers as a whole. That isn't to say there aren't some, the best engineer I've ever met loves going into the office BUT in my experience it is the minority for sure.

Like the article suggests, it could be used to track people to locations they don't to be known, such as abortion clinics, especially in the wake of the incredibly moronic and repressive laws recently enacted in some states.

It could also be misused in the same way by falsefying records to make people appear where they were not or being purely convicted by association.

Say there was a drug bust in a neigborhood and someone that had a criminal record was keeping clean, ends up being recorded his car just passing through. People have gone to jail for less.

Not so ‘trash’ is it?

>Mean is less likely to be misunderstood for another meaning than average,

this is just insane to me. fucking nuts of an assertion, i have no idea where you're getting this idea.

So?