YokoZar

Sure, but shouldn't we expect this to reverse again when it goes out of patent, at least for Ozempic?

The article warns about impending future inequality:

> Imagine two employees. One can afford these medications, the other cannot. One has regulated impulses, higher energy, better focus, and lower healthcare costs. The other doesn't. In a few years, data shows the first is three times more likely to be promoted.

> Scale that across society.

I'm not sure this is a reasonable worry. Ozempic is going out of patent in less than a year's time. There will be cheap generics all over the place. Purportedly the drug has a very low unit cost and uncomplicated manufacturing process, and every potential generic manufacturer knows it'll be a huge hit. That means we should expect it to rapidly become a commodity that's quite available.

If it really does cut food, alcohol, and cigarette costs so dramatically then I suspect a decent amount of poorer people would budget for the drug even if it didn't become cheap. It's not like poor people don't buy food, alcohol, or cigarettes today -- if it's a net savings and health/life improvement, it's even more worth buying than the alternative.

Somewhat halfway would be a slightly delayed version of the game using much better-in-hindsight decisions about which camera angles to show during a play.

Japan has vehicle weight taxes, which directly incentivizes what you observed there.

Every once in a while I get an email about a ten plus year old bug finally getting fixed in some open source project. If it's a good bug accurately describing a real thing, there's no reason to throw that work away rather than just marking it lower priority.

Unfortunately, not everyone has quite the same natural flexibility you describe. "Shift worker syndrome" has been known for decades, though a fortunate subset of people just seem immune.

Yes. Isn't that obvious? Everyone has different natural sleep patterns, some have later cronotypes. Meetings set too early in the day for your body's preferred time to be asleep will result in having to wake up with an alarm to attend them.

My team moved our daily standup later in the day to accommodate my delayed sleep phase and it's been extremely helpful to getting a full night's uninterrupted sleep.

> The paradox is that the monthly cost of a unit will quickly exceed the value of whatever is stored there unless the items have sentimental value or are very expensive.

Sometimes, the best place to store something... is the store.

Out of complete curiosity, did you ever attempt to run the server software in Wine?

If it happens to work well in the server use case it might be very interesting.

So? How is a game fully running on Proton not a native game?

Wine's version of the Windows API isn't conceptually different from any other cross-platform technology here. You could make a similar purity argument against using the Unity engine since most of its games end up being primarily on Windows too.

> If you're a C-level at a Fortune 50 company, some massive percentage of your personal assets, if they're invested in the stock market or private equity, are in commercial real estate. > There's no mystery here. People with assets want those assets to remain valuable, and act directly to reinforce it. This is why we don't let athletes bet on their own games.

Wouldn't Leadership's financial incentive be stronger to increase the value of the company rather than "the whole commercial real estate market" that a single company only has a small effect on?

WeWork seems like an obvious exception - but Adam Newmann was self-dealing by renting his own real estate out to his own company. It was a hugely perverse incentive, and I suspect most boards aren't so captured by things like that.

Productivity growth may be slowing, but it is not "down" in general. It's the highest it's ever been.

Is there a specific reason to believe Amazon would have less productivity than the rest of the economy compared with before?

A night owl who feels pressured to wake at 7 or even 9am is a genuine tragedy.

I am extremely fortunate to have a career where I can sleep my natural hours of somewhere around 4:30 AM until after noon. But I had to fight for it, and set boundaries. I would encourage everyone with a late chronotype to seriously consider spending some time finding such work, as finally getting good sleep will be a major unlock for your life and happiness.

I think a much simpler test is to ask if the police body camera footage is "missing", and if it is to assume they're probably lying.

There is no reason to withhold it or turn off cameras in a situation like this.

I went to a Costco in Mexico and they were very serious about making the food court members only there.

Interestingly they had the same items except they had jalapenos instead of relish

Indeed, employees often effectively sell their stock to existing owners via share buybacks.

This seems entirely rational to me - I've bet a significant part of my career on the success of the company I work for, why should I also bet my savings? Diversification has real value, and going all-in on one company is just a bad bet.

From what I can find online, the lifetime of a BD-R disk is only 5-10 years. Those recordable Bluerays you're holding on to may _already_ have gone bad.

How come prices go down in the markets where supply increases? Are landlords being extra generous there to fool us?

See also the Simplicity chapter in the followup Google SRE Workbook: https://sre.google/workbook/simplicity/

> For example late fees are illegal in California and you can basically get a pro se judgment easy peasy if a landlord even attempts to get you to sign a lease with a late fee clause, let alone collect one.

Having actually gone through this process in small claims court in California, I will say that your miles may vary. I completely won my case except for recovering the fifty dollar late fee (written into the lease) that I paid because rent was once a day late. The judge said it seemed "reasonable" and didn't listen to me talk about California "liquidated damages" language on the subject, which is the supposed law that makes late fees illegal.

Fact is, most places I've rented from have had late fees, and recovering them sounds like a huge crapshoot at best.

Demand did change though - people weren't pooping as much at offices, restaurants, and retail stores. All those places tend to use "commercial" toilet paper that is not available in your average grocery store.

If you looked at commercial suppliers during 2020, you were much more likely to find available supply, though it may be a bit awkward using one of those giant rolls at home when it won't fit on a standard dispenser.

Permitting is expensive because of choices we make. Some of those choices have the explicit intent of making housing more difficult to build.

We can make different choices.

Sure. On the other hand, arresting 11 specific people reduced bike theft by 90% in London: https://www.itv.com/news/2024-02-26/a-police-sting-uncovered...

When crime gets to the point where a police tactic as simple as "putting out a bait bicycle, waiting for it to get stolen, and then following it to a warehouse of stolen bicycles" results in a huge reduction of actual crime committed, then maybe the solution isn't purely about wealth inequality.

Yes, if you are poor you are not worth suing, even if you will surely lose. The cynical term for this is "judgement proof".

Once you have any sort of reasonable income you should strongly consider buying significantly more insurance than the legal minimums.

Do we have to bury it? Why not just put it up on transmission lines?

It seems weird to me that we can run Cable TV to fairly remote locations but not fiber.

Wouldn't we need, like, evidence or something to believe that possibility?

We have mountains of direct evidence with underlining theory for the straightforward explanation. Sometimes we need to believe that evidence.

The author addresses both of the possible reasons that correlation and causation could be unlinked here (reverse causality and common cause). Did you have a comment about them?

Yes, road safety is a serious health problem.

But if it's twice as hard to mitigate, that implies we should spend some effort on reducing alcohol deaths too.

Yes, that's exactly why "tenant buyouts" are a thing in San Francisco. They've created a property right for renters, as well as weird concepts like the "master tenant".

There was a site just like this about a decade ago called "Honest Android Games". The criteria were almost exactly the same.

It closed down as the author didn't have the time for it anymore: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/2ggaqp/i_had...