HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on Tired of hearing about “The offshore team” 1 hour ago:
Yeah, but a lot of companies laid out very poor WFH policies at the start of the pandemic.
I’m also expecting that some companies are willing to accept WFH if it means they don’t have to pay as much.
- Comment on Tired of hearing about “The offshore team” 7 hours ago:
It should be “A person’s pay”, but a lot of tech offices are in high cost of living places like the Bay Area. If you don’t have to show up in San Jose consistently, you can hire from wherever and most other places will have a lower cost of living.
So someone in Austin may be willing and able to do the same job as someone from San Jose for 20% cheaper because their lower cost of living still makes it work it. Or maybe someone in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon may be willing and able to do the same job for 60% cheaper.
Suddenly, those high salary tech positions go away because major tech companies are no longer limited on where they can source talent.
- Comment on Tired of hearing about “The offshore team” 10 hours ago:
I figured this would kick off again when work from home got implemented.
If your staff don’t need to report to an office, why pay them for a high cost of living when they can live anywhere? In person pay is going to drop to national or international averages since you don’t need them physically at a site.
- Comment on Tired of hearing about “The offshore team” 10 hours ago:
Probably because the more work that gets sent there, the less work his office gets and therefore the less staff his office needs.
- Comment on What's the point of the "Airport Security" (aka: TSA) in the USA? Does the "Airport Security" ever actually scare away potential terrorists? 15 hours ago:
Three are IATA security minimums and the USA isn’t that far out of line compared to other countries; the biggest difference being the restriction on liquids and taking out electronics for non TSA Pre passengers. Terrorists could still attack the airport, but the flights are considered to be safer.
You also have other things that TSA or their local equivalent are looking for, including various forms of smuggling.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
US universities engage in price discrimination between different students.
For public schools, there is different tuition between in state and out of state students. There are also some state government programs based on merit and financial considerations.
For well endowed private schools, the universities will provide scholarships based on a variety of reasons. For students from rich families, those families are generally paying full price and there generally is the implication of additional donations.
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 3 days ago:
There were attempts at trying to create a label specific streaming site that failed miserably. If no one was going to sign up for Tidal, they weren’t going to sign up for a Sony site.
- Comment on Is it ethical for a parent to distribute inheritance based on the child(ren)'s mental capacity (aka refusing to give an inheritance to child(ren) with reduced mental capacity)? 3 days ago:
I think a lot of it depends on the asset.
Cash and stock is easy to split amongst children, but a lot of families with generational wealth usually have wealth generated from ownership of a company.
I can see some parents choosing to keep the company together under streamlined ownership rather than breaking it up across several children. If you are choosing inheritance based on who would be the best person to run a company, you’re going to self select for certain personality traits.
- Comment on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far 4 days ago:
Outside of Gemini, Google has done a decent job at packaging AI features that have a tangible benefit to users. However, they seem to be more purpose built instead of LLM’s.
- Comment on I have read through this job ad multiple times and I still have no idea who they are looking for. 4 days ago:
It would be who a project manager reports to.
- Comment on I have read through this job ad multiple times and I still have no idea who they are looking for. 4 days ago:
They are looking for someone to run a department that develops digital tools for the company. Senior leadership has no fucking clue what digital tools they want, but they want something.
You’ll probably be given a free hand to build your team since the ad seems clueless on what they have.
You’ll also be expected to be the subject matter expert for development of digital tools, even if you aren’t expected to develop them.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 week ago:
No. As belligerent as North Korea sounds, it has generally abided by the armistice with South Korea.
- Comment on If the US dissolves for whatever reason and goes into a state of anarchy what would happen to the rest of the world? 2 weeks ago:
There are going to be a lot of wars to redraw boundaries, especially in Africa.
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 weeks ago:
Within the USA, the language enclaves aren’t strong enough. You might find people who can’t speak English, but there are enough people in their communities that can speak English that you can get along.
Of the countries I’ve visited so far, I find that Mexico has the strongest language barrier as Mexico is large enough to maintain an internal standard of Mexican Spanish. Outside of the northern border states, you can drive two states away in Mexico and still have people speak Spanish.
- Comment on Why do people with lots of 'karma points' tend to be nothing but egotistical assholes? 2 weeks ago:
We have known karma scores here?
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
It is probably something to confuse automated systems. A person could figure out their astrological sign easily by knowing their birthday. A computer attempting to brute force attack would probably be less likely to know how to answer the question.
- Comment on If I go to Canada can I retire there and draw SS from the US? Also can I go to Canada buy a cabin or house with a plot of land and not work? Unless I just needed some walking around money? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. There isn’t anything in Canada that is conducive to retirement. Cost of living in cities matches that of higher cost of living cities in the USA. Canadian health care is better, but I don’t know how health care for residents is compared to Medicare in the USA.
If anything, more Americans are beginning to retire in Mexico as the cost of living is significantly lower and paying cash in the Mexican health care system is equivalent to Medicare in the USA.
- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 3 weeks ago:
He comes in peace!
- Comment on New Housebuilding in the UK Held Back by Pollution from Factory Farms 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but the current polluters don’t have a vested interest in fixing their problem to allow for new housing.
A mandate to require new development to meet a standard on sewage would be more productive than an outright ban.
- Comment on Is there any proof behind the idea that "reddit is filled with bots"? 3 weeks ago:
There are some subs on Reddit dedicated to finding botnets on Reddit.
By now, there are a wide variety of reasons to have a botnet, mainly tied to curating some public opinion.
- Comment on New Housebuilding in the UK Held Back by Pollution from Factory Farms 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Factory farming is causing issues and the solution is to ban building homes?
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 3 weeks ago:
They do understand it. They just believe the number of people who will do it are small enough to be worth it.
- Comment on Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media, and we should not be fixated on simplistic explanations that reduce the issue to technical variables, researcher says 3 weeks ago:
It was common for kids to have a day without being watched by parents in dense cities a generation ago.
- Comment on What are the best anti-work movies? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not going to single out a movie, but 1999 had the best slate of “fuck you, cubicle” movies ever.
- Comment on "We Were Asleep At The Wheel": Ridley Scott Reflects On Divisive Alien Prequel Prometheus 4 weeks ago:
I was able to handwave it away with the future robot injecting deus ex machina into the wound.
- Comment on "We Were Asleep At The Wheel": Ridley Scott Reflects On Divisive Alien Prequel Prometheus 4 weeks ago:
The story and ideas were great. I loved the abortion. Michael Fassbender was appropriately creepy.
However, this is the movie where the Prometheus School of Running Away came from.
- Comment on Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine? 4 weeks ago:
There would be no merit at all.
I’m sure Zelenskyy would be more than happy to host NATO troops in Ukraine; it is a decision of NATO nations to not deploy to Ukraine.
If NATO troops were not invited, that would likely trigger a wider war. It would also mean that the Ukrainian government becomes a NATO problem; NATO isn’t as interested in nation building since Afghanistan.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 weeks ago:
Get work to implement it.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 5 weeks ago:
Yep. That’s a lot of words to try to seem superior to other people. Did you use ChatGPT to help you write it?