Look into a job at Bridgewater https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-work-at-ray...

I've actually applied and talked to a recruiter once, but never even got to a real interview. Finance is really hard to break into if you don't have a million degrees from an Ivy League, and probably not easy even then.

I've heard about it being a bit scary to say anything though, so I don't know if it would be a good fit.

The pay seems a bit low based on that article for that level of “performance expectation”

Drive to the office and sit on a video call you can hardly hear because the coworkers next to you are on their own video calls

I once took two planes to visit a client office so I could do a video call with them at their other office on the other side of the city I just flew to and then flew back home.

I once did a six-month project where I'd go the office to sit on zoom with my team in 3 other cities. One of those cities was our offshore dev team that we hired because they cost less and could do the job remotely. How the hell did CEOs get away with telling us that offshore dev teams would be fine because in-person collaboration wasn't necessary while simultaneously saying we all had to be in the office?

> How the hell did CEOs get away with telling us that offshore dev teams would be fine because in-person collaboration wasn't necessary while simultaneously saying we all had to be in the office?

Because of workers who let them get away with it (apparently, including yourself). Workers who do not collectively act in their own best interests get taken advantage of, that is what CEOs exist to do.

> How the hell did CEOs get away with telling us that offshore dev teams would be fine because in-person collaboration wasn't necessary while simultaneously saying we all had to be in the office?

Hopefully those particular CEOs are now in line for being replaced with an AI.

Add a single pixel manually

That probably wouldn’t count as “substantial human authorship”.

You then own the copyright on that pixel.

Reminds me of "forever minus a day"

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

like how Roombas killed the housekeeping industry ?

Dangerous only to your career and only if you posted about it on social media

I tried to buy a vacuum from a Sears store once. The cashier couldn't price match against Sears' own website, which had a lower price. So while inside the store, I purchased the vacuum on my phone, and selected in store pickup, and showed it to the cashier. But they had a separate building for in store pickup I had to drive around to.

If the cameras are recoding public areas, isn’t it better the recorded footage stays public

I think so, but it is a loosely held opinion at this point. Fundamentally, I think it is a huge, asymmetric power grab by Flock and local police to install these systems. It only takes one officer looking up their local politician and finding them doing something that could even look like a bad deed (or to fake it in the era of AI videogen...) to enable blackmail and personal/professional gain.

If they're going to exist, it may be better for that to be spread among the public than to be left in the hands of the few.

They shouldn't be recording at all is the point.

Would you want your partner or child stalked, raped, and murdered?

You don't even need to drop an air tag now, you can use the license plate reader to track them everywhere they go. There is no hiding.

At first I thought you were defending flock. Seems clear the cameras make it harder to commit crimes and easier to go after the offenders, despite all the side effects most people are upset about here.

How does a camera make it harder to commit a crime? If I bash your skull in on camera, did the camera make that more difficult? Would your family be less aggrieved?

It makes it easy for a random person to track anyone, regardless of which states they go to.

It also makes it easy to say, track a person's movements to an abortion clinic if your state would like to prosecute that (this is happening).

This is pretty naive. What happens when you develop and extend such a system in a way that it can track who you interact with? What about social credit scores? You might go out to a social event with a very distinguished social credit score of 820 and get knocked down to 69 just because you were in proximity to Bob and Alice, who happen to be on some blacklists for their work in cryptography.

What you're staring at is the gateway tech that brings in a dystopian society. At first stuff like this is fairly benign, but slowly over time it ramps up into truly awful outcomes.

I think the goal is to do just that. China has it, the west wants it too

I mean public venues in the US use this stuff to kick out people that they don't like, or that work for firms that have been involved in lawsuits. That is no different than the start of a social credit score and it's happening already.

For JavaScript I’ve found Scrimba to be worlds better than anything on Udemy or Coursera

The whole memo just reeks of not trusting your employees.

These memos are always basically admissions of their own incompetence. If you distrust your employees this much and have created a culture where people aren't getting their work done without it being noticed, that's on you.

Isn't it a "we want to reduce our workforce but we don't want to pay redundancies, so we're hoping many of you leave 'voluntarily'.".

A lot of the anti WFH wave comes from companies discovering that they actually can't trust some employees to do much work from home.

> A lot of the anti WFH wave comes from companies discovering that they actually can't trust some employees to do much work from home.

Personally, I think a lot of the anti WFH types thrive in an office environment because either charitably, they get energy from being around people and work better, or less charitably, it helps them build their careers because they're great at being noticed in that environment.

In the charitable case, that's great for them, but could be harmful to WFH types, who thrive when they can work remotely and their focus times click more easily (for various reasons).

In the less charitable case, (which I suspect is a lot of people who are passionately anti-WFH), well, this needs no real explanation. They're just being selfish for their own career.

As others have stated, it’s the same people who didn’t do much work in the office either.

Well I don't trust my employer so...