Every time this topic is brought up I can't help but think about Asimov's short story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power

It is undeniable that high performing athletes, artists, etc put in a lot of work, but I don't think it is incompatible with the word "gifted".

When you enter college at 12 it is beyond a "slight genetic advantage" IMO.

And it's not just genetic. A gifted kids was given the gift of having parents who care, who put in the work and who have the means to put in the work.

I don't know, I think both things (predisposition and hard work) can be accepted as true.

Yep you have to have both. I think thats where the early to ripe, early to rot misconception comes from. If you think a kid is a genius just cause they are a little ahead for and just assums they will figure everything else out, then yeah the kid will likely not achieve much.

Sorry if it sounds a bit harsh, but saying that changing stack would lower you from staff to middle engineer is idiotic.

A staff engineer is meant to be more removed from the code than an intermediate engineer, they're supposed to bring massive multiplier effect instead of cranking code all day. I don't think you should focus so much on the stack.

You're absolutely right in terms of what is expected from Staff eng, but try to get a job in companies with primarily Java or .NET stack (I am talking mostly about Western Europe).

First barrier is an interview, from my experience people expect you to know nitty-gritty details of their stack if you want to lead other engineers and be a force multiplier. How do you even do a code review without properly understanding the trade-offs in that stack or widely accepted best practices in the community, which you accumulate over a long period of time.

You can of course fallback to another archetype of staff eng, and become a voice of leadership to translate high level business objectives to technical solutions, but companies I know still expect you to write a lot of code

If you are interested in developing your career in that direction, would it have a higher reward in terms of job security and compensation to focus on your soft skills instead of hard skills?

If you're already a staff engineer, your leadership skills could be more important to your future than becoming fluent in Java or .NET. Aim for getting promoted, not for avoiding getting demoted?

Sadly this is a feature not a bug for the lawmakers who wrote the laws. They want databases of PII to be breached in order for porn consumers to be publicly named and shamed without the political blowback or getting their hands dirty.

The first thing that would happen is that the breach would be scoured for politicians names. They’d be just as vulnerable to this kind of blow back.

So for example if you were known to have paid for sex with a porn star, your political career would definitely be over. Right?

Or how it never turns out that politicians who pushed for persecution of gays are gay themselves. Ever.

I suspect that scouring would find approximately 535 congressmen and 200 million americans.

seriously, how much "blow back" could there possibly be to revealing someone has frequented PH?

The question isn't so much does a person look at porn, it's more what porn do they like. If pornhub is storing the personal information, it could be matched to specific videos, which if it's at all fetish-specific could be blackmail material.

I’m sure they are thinking of certain colleagues to expose. That is why they passed the law. The kinds that could be threatened into compliance with rank and file.

And future congressmen too. Jeffrey Epstein was known for playing with this kind of power.

Pornhub could have implemented age verification a long time ago and didn’t. It didn’t suggest such a thing despite knowing underage kids were viewing their content. Now they try to act all reasonable. They aren’t a victim in this. They waited until a political solution was imposed to propose reasonable steps to combat the problem.

I’m all for reasonable solutions and don’t know the best way forward. I do know there is a problem with kids viewing content on these sites and I do know that these sites don’t care about that because none of them ever tried to do anything to prevent this.

Do you really think they give a damn about privacy? If they care so much about privacy, wouldn’t they also be proclaiming how their website doesn’t track you and gobble identifying data? Or is it they are just hiding behind that argument because it sounds noble and their real concern is a business one?

Also, how secure do you think the state systems are that provide those ID’s?

> It didn't make WFH more viable or acceptable

You don't think that things are any easier now that most of the workforce has practical experience with video conferencing and how to coordinate with people in the same office?

I think we both learned how broadly possible it was, and also trained the whole workforce in how to do it.

Transition the whole team, and paying for a video conferencing software, to accommodate one person who can't come into the office is exactly what an "undo hardship" is.

In pre-Covid times didn't companies face this same insurmountable hardship when opening a second location? What do you call your co-worker that works in a different office if not "remote"?

I get that some people really like working in close proximity with others even if their job doesn't really require it - but this really seems to be the case of controlling employers demanding their troops trudge into to an office to demonstrate their value in person - pandemic or disability (or just the general annoyance of commuting to work and all that that entails) be damned.

> In pre-Covid times didn't companies face this same insurmountable hardship when opening a second location? What do you call your co-worker that works in a different office if not "remote"?

Teams were normally organized so you'd need the least amount of cross office communication as possible because it was recognized how inefficient it was. So yes they were "remote" but everything was organized to make sure you need to communicate with them as little as possible.

Only if the company split teams and projects across locations. If they split the work appropriately it would never came up.

Being a twitter community notes member, they are mostly an extension of the political battle below the surface. Many notes and NNN come from bias or agendas. They are also too slow, many posts have had the majority of their views before a note is added.

Censorship is a government activity, platforms do content moderation as private entities

Agreed, I'm also a CN member but don't think it's an effective tool. People do notice if something got community noted but it's easy to abuse and does little to reduce the value of the liar's dividend.

And next week we'll read on HN an article explaining how take homes are unfair, racist and biased, same for "private projects".

We've been going in circles for 20 years.

That sounds kind of stupid.

If prices go down I won't sell my current house for as much as I bought. If I try to upgrade, granted the new house will be less expensive, but I won't have access to as much funds to pay for it.

The only reason I care about the value of my house is to know what I can get out of it if i need to move.

If my house goes down in value but the trend is roughly general then I don't care indeed.

This position makes sense if you own outright, but changes significantly if you have a significant mortgage based on the purchase price.

As of now there is no proof that it can be cured. Most treatments and therapies are to help pedophiles control their urges and not act.

At the end of the day, it's a paraphilia. I don't think you can cure someone who's aroused by feet or uniforms. I don't believe there is any evidence today that you can alter people's sexual interests.