Shaanie

Lmao, I love this comment so much because of how incredibly uninformed it is. 5-6 backend engineers to run Spotify in 185 countries... I've seen a lot of ridiculous comments when it comes to company sizes, but yours is probably the best one I've seen in my life, thanks for the laugh.

Is it because you've never worked at a non-startup or how come you have that opinion? Like, you just have no idea what's required/useful and you can't even imagine it?

I'd love to hear how you split the workload between these 5 backenders.

I run into Firefox compatibility issues waaay more frequently than chrome compatibility issues, for obvious reasons. Even extremely obvious issues, like 2fa login not working on mobile Firefox, are surprisingly common to find, so I'd never install Firefox as a primary browser for non-techies nowadays. I use Firefox myself for ideological reasons, though.

The study isn't (directly) studying sleep so that's hardly a surprise. It's perfectly possible that it's actually the disturbed sleep causing the response, and not the caffeine itself (at least from my brief skim of the paper).

Personally I place little to zero value on these "we asked people to estimate something and then found a correlation" studies, there are too many potentially confounding variables to account for. Perhaps the non-caffeine drinkers have different types of occupations, social class, health consciousness etc.

Chronic just means consistently for a long time, not the amount. There's lots of things for which chronic consumption is not bad (like pretty much everything considered healthy).

Isn't that generally true? A company making a billion widgets per year likely gets a way better deal on the materials required to make them than a company making only ten thousand.

20 Mb/s is terrible. Sure, it'll work in some sense, but I'd go mad if that's the best I could get. A good wifi setup is way better than a cabled 20 Mb/s unless you absolutely need consist and better latency for some reason.

Those are different, though. Your statement leaves ambiguity as to who will tend to the objects' needs. Sometimes the implication that you are the one expected to do it is clear, but far from always.

People on the spectrum will probably struggle with that type of ambiguity too, which is worth keeping in mind.

Living on lentils for the hope to not have to work in the future, vs immediately not having to work. FIRE requires dedication for a decade or more, UBI is immediate. I don't see how you can find that odd tbh.

Tax deduction for renovations is $5k per year ($7.5k next year). Or well, less now that 1 USD is 11 SEK instead of 10.

You make it sound like you can just start a company and hire yourself, and the biggest drawback would be more complicated taxes... No, the biggest drawback is that you're starting a business and taking a (much) larger risk than being employed. Hiring an accountant to help with the bookkeeping is a minor thing in comparison.

>In the Nordic countries it is quite easy to get rid of workers

What, where? In Sweden it's definitely not easy to get rid of workers. If you're doing layoffs rather than firing an individual you can't even pick and choose who to fire, you need to follow LIFO.

You're allowed to have a "trial period" for new employees though, during which it's easy to fire them.

That's the nice thing about unfalsifiable statements, you're never wrong.

Designated rental vs owned properties is one way to do it, although you're not exactly going to reduce the rental costs by doing that, probably the opposite, but you would decrease property prices. Heavily taxing empty properties would encourage landlords to reduce rent rather than let them sit empty.

Otherwise the solution is to just build more. High property prices and rent is fundamentally an issue of supply vs demand, no?

Skimmed the first report and it seems like employee-owned companies perform better up until around 75 employees, after which there's no benefit? That would explain why they aren't outcompeting the larger companies - their advantage disappears when they grow.

It's interesting then how cooperatives aren't more popular or more successful. You'd think that if they were significantly more efficient than the typical dictatorship companies then they'd outcompete them, but as far as I'm aware that doesn't happen.

Did you adjust for company size? I bet the average s&p 500 company is much larger than they were in the 60s. Doesn't seem strange or unjust to me that a ceo of a $1 trillion market cap company can demand higher pay than one for a $1 billion company.

That's a lot of assumptions which may or may not be true, however likely they may seem. There's no telling how another life form may reason, hell it might not even reason at all - perhaps it's some kind of space fungi or virus which traverses space to inhabit planets capable of supporting life. Not that I think the dark forest theory is likely, but I wouldn't say it makes no sense.

Doing studies on this is difficult for many reasons. However, I bet there's a lot of people who noticed a drop in productivity from certain colleagues after the switch to WFH. I personally noticed that the productivity of colleagues with young children dropped significantly, for example.

I really don't think it's a controversial statement that some people work better from home and some people work worse from home. In fact, I'd be extremely surprised if the opposite was true (everyone works better from home, or everyone works better in the office), I'd almost say that's impossible.

In what sense? Bed bugs don't care whether you're tidy or not, they drink your blood and hide during the day. You can have an absolutely spotless home and flawless personal hygiene and still have bedbugs living in your floorboards.

I thought it was pretty funny. An American goes abroad, abuses the system without the slightest hint of remorse, then complains how America's system is much worse.

I wonder if there's some correlation between that kind of attitude and how the system works...

Or you know, D) they'd rather keep their own quality of life than significantly reduce it. They wouldn't be able to keep their mostly crime-free, large safety net high trust society with open borders, it's just not possible. There's already significant struggles in some European countries due to refugee immigration, and that's with fairly strict borders. It's a bit absurd that you're phrasing it as if the only sacrifice would be seeing poor people tbh.

But yes, the core reason is obviously selfish, but also understandable.

What's with Americans and their strange view that the US is somehow managing to do something nobody else has? Just as an example I checked my country: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Prevalence-of-daily-smok...

I'm pretty sure the figures will look somewhat similar in most western countries.

How was the wellfare at that point? :-)

Not microwaving plastic is an insanely easy lifestyle adjustment that virtually anyone can do starting immediately without effort. Changing diet or exercising may be much more impactful, but they require significant time and effort - gargantuan amounts compared to just changing from plastic to glass lunch boxes.

Customers are absolutely fooled by smaller sizes. I've almost fallen for it myself when a coffee package was reduced from 500g to 450. Thankfully I noticed the price per kg was off, but without it I wouldn't have noticed.

>it might be illegal to support an existing product when more profit can be extracted from building a new one.

Lol no, that's just a reddit opinion. Business judgment rule means businesses have a huge leeway on how to do business, outside of fraud or intentionally trying to cripple the company.

UBI is ridiculously expensive, it's not simpler in any way.

Did you read the article? It's specifically new gas cars, so no, everyone doesn't have to buy an EV by 2035.

Yes, EV charging networks are far fewer. Today, in 2023. In 2035 the availability is going to be way better, and by 2040 (when "everyone" has an EV) it's going to be just as easy as gas. Because if it isn't, they'll have to slow things down or risk public outrage.

It says compared to the US in the same sentence?

Sweden: 24% payroll tax, >30% income tax = 47% tax. Then there's a 25% VAT on most non-food goods, and an extra 20% income tax on any income above $56k.

To be fair, 17% of the payroll and income tax are pension contributions (up to earning around thr $56k, after that it's just a tax).

Less cost, sure. Faster to debug? Eh, possibly, in some situations. Faster to deploy though... How could that possibly be true?