Tesla doesn’t just make cars. Tesla also makes batteries and photovoltaic panels.

I agree that Tesla is wildly overvalued and treated as a tech stock, but electric cars isn’t the only thing Tesla makes.

It just becomes part of the cost of doing business.

I agree with everything you said except for this. Often times, it isn’t the companies that have to bear the costs, but their customers or third parties.

How close are you to Wisconsin?

I’m just trying to highlight that there is a fuzzier middle ground than a lot of programmers want to admit. Also, a lot of regulations for that middle ground haven’t been written; the only attention to that middle ground have been when done companies have seen failures hit their bottom line.

That’s only if the company specializes in one type of software.

It is common in larger companies or companies that need software but aren’t software companies where you are going to hit a manager with little technical talent, let alone less technical talent in what you’re working on.

Having taught others, it is going to be a far harder task than you make it out to be.

You’re probably going to get some additional scrutiny for not having any ID on you.

No one is going to know you if you did it didn’t check any luggage, but it seems odd that you aren’t bringing anything to travel, especially if you don’t know how long you’ll be there.

More people own an iPhone than an Airbus plane.

maybe a dev loses a couple or hours figuring out how to fix live data for the affected client, bug gets fixed, and everybody goes on with their day.

Or thousands of people get stranded at airports as the ticketing system goes down or there is a data breach that exposes millions of people’s private data.

Some companies have been able to implement robust systems that can take major attacks, but that is generally because they are more sensitive to revenue loss when these systems go down.

If the person I will report to can’t code, I pass on the contract.

I feel like that’s just a preference regarding jobs.

Part of the job of being the chief coder is having to translate back and forth between the people doing the coding and the people paying them to do so. You need a lot of high level technical knowledge to do the job well, but you aren’t going to be technical in application.

We should stop making software for others.

Except that most of humanity doesn’t have the expertise to do so. You can make your software, but not everyone can.

The family financial obligations have become obliterated in American society. It is no longer the case that parents are expected to help their adult children establish themselves in a home and it is no longer the expectation that adult children financially care for their parents.

The loss of an inheritance is part of that.

An authoritarian can build a bridge to democracy, but they have to want it. Very few authoritarians want to do that.

Thank you for your service!

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.

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.

It is the veneer that moves product.

The American brand still has a lot of value and a lot of American exports are tied to that brand. A large part of that brand is Freedom™. If the USA were to go full fascist, that brand is fucked.

There is also the idea that part of America’s media strength is based on a free market for cultural output. A fascist America would likely not have the ability to pump out the quality of media that it did before due to government censors.

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.

Probably because the more work that gets sent there, the less work his office gets and therefore the less staff his office needs.