A lot of extra money was slushed around the economy in the last 2 years. Who has money to spend? Anyone that owns stocks or real estate.
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The housing market has cooled and you can get some good deals now, but in 60months we’ll back in a growth market. There simply isn’t enough supply to keep up with demand. People keep having kids, cities keep limiting housing density, suburbs can only sprawl so far.
Wow, I am surprised by this sentiment. In iOS notifications are an opt-in situation, I just never turn them on for anything but the smallest subset of apps (iMessage, Discord, Slack, Signal currently). For those apps I’m super aggressive about limiting noise, I’ll unsubscribe to things and tweak notification settings literally every time I get spam.
The link is mostly about what happens when there is too little currency. Someone deciding to work 40 hours a week instead of 70 would, if anything, reduce the amount of currency in circulation because more wealthy people tend to have larger savings and a person working 70 hours a week is probably making more money than if they were working 40.
The apple insider article.
1. The judge disclosed it. Presumably he wasn’t doing anything sneaky because he is the one raising the issue.
2. Any ownership required the Judge to recluse himself. Thus (3)
3. (The real takeaway) The verdict of the case between Nokia and Apple is on much less strong legal grounds now. This is the real point.
It’s hard to “Assume goof faith”[0], because it looks like you avoided adding the next 3 words to your sentence because it makes it seem like the judge disclosed it before the trial and not four days ago. I feel like this context is vitally important because Nokia might simply need more time to react to this news. We don’t know what they think about this yet.
I’m lucky now to be working on projects and teams I care about, and I think first about what type of problem I should be solving, and then I think about what type of engineering would best solve that problem.
Protocols have a massive problem with updating their feature sets and security features.
You could theoretically build a power plant by building a pipe through the pavement (does this reduce the structural integrity of the pavement?) or directly underneath and touching (surface area and high heat transfer would be the desired quality of the pipe). Inside the pipe is a liquid and a set of conditions such that as the liquid heats up next to the pavement it will turn into a gas. You could then capture the extra pressure generated by the gas via a turbine. There would be a condensing section of pipe (typically above the boiling section so gravity can move the cool liquid back down) so it’s a closed system. The primary problems with this setup are:
1. You’d have to change the liquid or change the pressure inside of the tube to adjust for the difference in temperature. Imagine a place like Houston where the pavement might be 150F or it might be 50F. The conditions of the power plant vary.
2. The material cost is stupid high for the amount of power it would generate. It would probably be a better use of materials to capture the heat waste of kitchens boiling water.
3. The labor cost is stupid high for the amount of power it would generate.
4. I’m really concerned about how this will change fundamental goal of pavement (to provide a solid, long living, smooth material for roads and building foundations.). It’s actually possible that reducing the size of the heat fluctuations will make the material more stable. I think it’s just as likely that adding complexity to the system will make the pavement less stable, but if you are going for the 2% of doubt a reduction in maintenance cost would be able to modify the $/Watt function you’d be fighting wind/solar/hydro for.
I’d really like to stress than 2 and 3 will combine to make Wind 10x-1000x cheaper.
1. Pavement is a very poor conductor, energy doesn’t move easily through it.
2. The Delta between ambient air temp and pavement temp low. Generating power would most likely include moving energy between the higher temp pavement to the lower temp air and capturing some of it during the transition. This is possible at any delta, but were really talking about a maximum of about 30 degree C temperature delta.
3. There are more efficient ways to generate power. Build wind turbines, solar panels, dams, etc. These are all very good ways of generating power.
4. There are more efficient ways to keep pavement cool. Change the pavement materials, plant trees, build shade sources for the pavement.
Hundreds of thousands. The US is currently at >628,000 COVID deaths. US citizens traveling abroad, or people traveling inside the US probably account for a significant number of COVID deaths outside of the US, but those are much harder to count.
Senior 2 will naturally come with more equity than Senior 1. The fastest way to increase your pay will be to be promoted from Senior 1 to Senior 2. You’re incentive will be to do whatever it takes to move from Senior 1 to Senior 2, which more often than not isn’t putting shovel to dirt.
Go to Levels.fyi, and look at how equity increases as you raise the ranks.
This varies a bit depending on the game, but it’s safe to say that the average play on an average arcade game is much less than 30 minutes per credit. For example, one game of Dance Dance Revolution typically consists of three 90 second songs with the option of earning a fourth bonus song as a reward for skill. Factoring in sixty seconds for menus between songs a player will play between 7-10 minutes a credit. This number is much closer to what the average game targets. You’ll see similar numbers in pinball and racing games.
My grocery budget is $100/week, which I break into two $50 shopping trips. I will swap to cheaper brands than I am accustomed to in order to or remove unnecessary items all together in order to fit my budget.
I strongly disagree. The US was not able to win the Vietnam war with 100x the amount of military stuff. Stuxnet halted Iranian nuclear research. US elections were interfered with by foreign hackers. Microsoft’s revenue is >$100B a year, and it’s mostly software driven.
Information, data, data-analysis, networking and intelligence is where power comes from.
That’s an unrealistically high bar to set. Almost anyone can turn vegetarian and have a healthy diet today. Our agricultural sector regularly adjusts for changing tastes of the population, and while this adjustment doesn’t happen overnight it happens regularly.
Why is he going to a daily meeting if he doesn’t have to pay attention to the meeting?
Why is there not an incentive to complete more than one card a day? If one card can take as little as two hours it seems like a massive waste to expect someone to only do one card.
Why doesn’t he have proper equipment? If you spend XXX,XXX a year for an employee it makes sense to spend X,XXX/yr for proper equipment. The company should provide high quality mouse/keyboard/headset.