You pay a FICA tax that goes into your social security fund. If you go on disability based on how much FICA you paid it determines how much disability you get.
I went on disability in 2003 and I have physical and mental illnesses that are well documented. I was discriminated at by coworkers and management when I had jobs and in a Post911 world they do medical background checks to screen out the mentally ill.
People who are contractors get paid with a 1099 and if they ho on disability they aren't paid much.
Disability I'd not be able to get by if not for my wife being a nurse. I don't know why people think that people on disability are rich, we are not, we are poor. I'd earn more money if I got a full time job at a retail store or baking pizzas or going back into programming if they'd allow me. But society rejects us and forces us to go homeless or go on disability.
It is not basic income; however, but it is a good start.
I have problems with social skills and speaking communicating, etc. I can't hide my illness.
When they talk about disability they think of the blibd or the deaf or someone in a wheelchair but never the mentally ill. I've never been arrested, never did drugs, I am not violent, and against these mentally ill people that do public shootings and end up in the news media to give them the attention they want.
Disability is hard to get off it, your doctor has to clear you for work first and then vocational rehabilitation tries to find you a job. You might be making sandwiches or something because companies don't want to hire the mentally ill for programming jobs.
TLDR;: But in one sense, the advertising business is about as static and boring as they come. The industry has never grown in scale. Looking at data since the 1920s, the U.S. advertising industry has always been about 1 percent of U.S. GDP. It’s surprisingly consistent, mostly tracking between 1 percent and 1.4 percent—and averaging 1.29 percent.
So when you said, "...eating from the same pie", according to the linked article, they actually are.
tangentially related: thats why i love amazon's upside. retail means theyre swimming in way bigger pond than facebook/google (at least with their core products)
That doesn't work for me, at all. I don't want "any space" to be a work area.
I have a "work area". And when I close the door, I've left the office. I'm not at work. I don't want my couch to be a work area, I don't want the bedroom to be a work area. I need to be able to leave work at the end of the day.
My laptop is my work area. When its open and doing work tasks, im at work. When its closed, im at home. Both of those times can be in the same physical location.
It feels like cracks are forming at Apple's edges. The company is straining to push out hardware updates. Supply issues are getting worse. Apple is reportedly moving away from selling beloved products like stand-alone displays and wireless routers. ...
I stopped reading at this point since this will be another "Pile on the Bad News for Apple" type of hyperbole.
Okay, I did read the rest of the article and, unfortunately, it's still a disappointment.
For Apple to remain relevant in the future, the company will need to attack itself. Management will need to risk its own ecosystem.
...also agree and it seems like Apple has been doing this because, as stated in the article, of the lack of attention other products (and services) have recently received.
Milk the iPhone today, and then figure out what comes next.
I agree with this and fully expect Apple to do so, but where are the novel insights (that haven't been re-hashed from other recent sources (such as Bloomberg, Six Colors, etc).
Oooh, leaf-spring or micro-switch Competition Pro?
I loved my leaf-spring one, it was built like a tank. When friends destroyed their Quickshot IIs in Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, mine just kept on trucking :)
Oh, sure, I probably pulled that thing apart several times over its life-span, but I loathed the clicking and lack of reliability of the micro-switch based sticks.
Ah the memories. From memory, and obviously we are going back a long time here, there was a program in there which you could write to make it sound like a baby was crying ( it kind of did), and another where you could design a sprite ( a hot air balloon ? ) and move it around the screen.
It all seemed rather complicated to me at the time and couldn't imagine how people were writing whole games using it. Years later you realise it was even more complicated as most games were written in assembly.
I do to. Box is in ill repair and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to plug the power supply into an outlet. Oh and last I recall, one of the chips had gone bad (kernal chip maybe) on it. But, I still have it! :)
I appreciate more the insightful conversations than view a link to the latest JavaScript framework.