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How will domestic competition be able to emerge? Trying to start a business in this country is already absurdly risky and expensive, there’s a point coming where it’ll be completely impossible unless you’re already rich. Strikes me as the most likely motive for all of this.

I never voiced an opinion other than "buying chickens ain't the way to save money on eggs". Do you always jump to conclusions and imagine peoples' motivations and mindset like this?, because you're making this whole thread up in your head.

That sounds like the level of effort I'm after, thanks neighbor.

It's a recent experiment, we were on the more reasonably priced organic feed until I discovered my local feed store had this stuff over the holidays, so we're trying it out. The quality of the eggs is absolutely miles above what I already considered really good eggs though.

I'll probably get around to making our own someday, but I'm not there just yet.

Yeah, I'd say two hours a week, maybe an hour. Feeding and watering and checking for eggs can be done quite quickly when it's below freezing out :)

Because I'm not looking at it the way you look at it? Been at it for ten years and am perfectly happy with how it's been going.

To save money? Absolutely not. I'm keeping a spreadsheet on our 20 chickens this year. They're young, so input is very high while output is still ramping but I'm guessing it's $7-8 dozen in food costs alone (the highest end organic feed tho), never mind the initial buyin.

> He's definitely narcissistic. But that doesn't make him wrong.

If you’re right about narcissism, one of the issues there is an inability to realize that he can be wrong. “Maybe I’m wrong about this” literally cannot occur to the narcissist, their entire worldview is built around their being right and anyone who disagrees with them is wrong (and therefore an enemy).

Funny ironic, not funny haha.

> ultimately realizes the phenomenon of youth stupidity and grows out of it.

If only that were true. Some people never experience consequences and so there's nothing for them to learn.

Agree w the other poster, 22 is when the music stopped for most of the industry.

Unless it's a Mac ofc

I didn't. In my worldview, I put Finance as the majority stakeholder in "operating" the company even though there are plenty of teams and roles with somethingOps in their titles that might disagree.

The tech part of tech companies is the easy part in my opinion. Step out into these other domains where you have to deal with _people_ and a company's skill or lack thereof gets really obvious really quick.

I'll go one further - operations, marketing, sales, and culture _are_ what makes a successful business. Superior technology is a bonus on top of that.

Superior technology in a company that hasn't figured out how to operate, or market and sell may as well not even exist.

The you are already a paying customer.

They may have lifted that from the Wikipedia article, linked below. See the “collision” section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster

Own your pedantry, comrade. Be neither bashful nor apologetic.

...which, my wife tells me, has also seen an overhaul lately.

Aka “crispin” if that helps. Every apple farmer around here in NW NJ grows them, never seen them in a store. Also my favorite.

You're leaving out the part where this town in Kazakhstan, post Cold War, finds its only factory sitting idle as the Soviet Union has ceased to be. The manager of the enrichment plant there needs to figure out how to feed the people of his town and he's got one thing to sell.

If this project hadn't worked out and the US hadn't purchased all of that _several hundred kilograms of weapons grade plutonium_ somebody else certainly would've.

Huge fan of Clickhouse, but the minute you have to deal with somebody else's CSV is when Duck wins over Clickhouse.

Probably just decades of quarterly thinking, deregulation, consolidation, extraction, socialized losses, and privatized wins arriving at their obvious and inevitable destination.

They're not a saint, they're playing out a pattern that says "you're never good enough, try harder".

The manager sounds classically awful and I hate that the world rewards such people w power over others.

100% agree. Please OP consider therapy or at least a next job that you can't give too much of a shit about. Care about the quality of the work you're shipping because it's fun. Be a human but keep your personal life personal.

People pleasing, approval seeking makes you the battery in somebody else's flashlight. You will always find yourself used up by others. Don't give others control of your joy.

Sometimes the innovation is a new underlying technology applied to an old problem?

Look, I don't know the video but how do we know - or why do we assume - that it was taken down out of fear of future weaponized wokeness? Maybe Gary took it down for Gary's reasons.

Edit: from the couple of descriptions in this thread I could totally envision an empathetic individual waking up one day and deciding that talk felt too much like punching down and taking it down because they felt like they could do better.

Ok but we're in a thread about Ubers cloud bills, which are probably well into the 9 figures annually. It definitely gets talked about in board meetings.

Global public cloud spend is hundreds of billions of dollars a year. I wouldn't be surprised if it's AWS's marketing team that came up with the talking point about how much more expensive developer time is.

Edit: put this another way- wherever you work, you might know what parts of the architecture need some performance work but do you know what parts of the architecture cost the most money?

See, the problem is that the people who care about cost performance and the people who care about UX performance are rarely the same people, and often neither side is empowered with the data or experience they need to bridge the gap.

I considered myself a frontend dev 10 years ago, I loved jQuery and Angular 1.x, Sass. I never really caught the Node fever, and it seems like almost everything connected with the JS scene since then has been constant churn and complexity. I moved into infrastructure and data and never looked back.

That said htmx is the only remotely intriguing development I've seen in frontend dev in a decade.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?