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As many have noted in American English this distinguishes from a state (as in the United States).

Additionally "nation" can refer to the collective people rather than a centralized government in action.

> It seems just like if the drug cartel knew they wouldn’t be able to benefit from weed for long and decided to start pushing for the next thing.

This is the case - these are billion dollar businesses who indeed monitor market conditions and plan in multi-year cycles accordingly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/losing-mar...

How about looking for a day job that has a quality gym in the building where you can workout and shower during the day?

I'm sure you can find this in SF tech. During your interview process, just make it clear that you value being able to exercise during the day.

It doesn't have to be crazy stuff, even just walking on a treadmill, running, or stretching. It's more important to build the habit of doing anything than doing something crazy.

There is strong evidence that exercise improves learning and memory (personally I feel it improves focus as well) so in my opinion, you don't "lose" this time as you are more effective the rest of the day [0]

[0] http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-exercise-improves-memory

Also it forces their customer's customer to essentially subsidize production cost.

Some amount of financial theft happens to random consumers who don't know where it came from and this stolen money is paid in bribes to employees as a subsidy to their low wage.

As a result this immoral company externalizes aspects of their cost structure to greater society.

humans pretending to be robots pretending to be humans

Come to NYC!

Many of the posts here assume Toyota is investing in Uber to get access Uber's self-driving tech.

This is a Toyota self-driving vehicle in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Qey8ksE18

I think Uber self-driving initiative got serious around 2015.

There is a good book called the Alchemy of Air that goes into this quite a bit.

This narrative seems to be common these days about WeWork:

- it has a high valuation - nobody there really works - everyone there is a stupid startup that won't pan out - WeWork is a scam

In the past, I've worked at fortune 50 companies in private office, at startups in open office, rented space personally at various coworking spaces, and currently rent a hot desk in a WeWork in Brooklyn.

Where I work, on any given weekday the shared workspace of about 45 desks is 60% full with people working silently or talking very quietly. It is a great environment for technical work. The music doesn't play in the shared work space but it does in the common eating area / kitchen where people frequently do work and talk to one another.

I think this "trash the new unicorn" mentality is fun to write about but in my experience, WeWork really is better.

One example of something they do extraordinarily well is that their phone booths actually work and give real privacy. The internet is always perfect. Things like that matter when you want to be productive. There is paper shredding service. The mugs are always clean. The snack bar is cheap and always stocked.

There are also network effects. I frequently have meetings in Manhattan spread throughout the day. No matter what part of town I'm in, I almost always can rent a desk at a location nearby for free (or for $25 if I've done it a lot that month).

This is just my experience but IMO WeWork is definitely worth it. I pay $350/mo. Maybe it's not for everyone but I am happy giving them my money for what I get in return.

I ended up going with a no fee unless you win agency that keeps 35% of what they collect. Honestly, that seemed pretty fair to me.

I haven't seen results yet.

I ended up filing with a debt collection agency in the UK. As an international client I lose 35% of whatever they collect but it still is worth it to me. The nice thing is that there are no other fees.

Funnily enough the client became very responsive after they found out we had legal representation in the UK. Still have not seen any money in the door yet.

This is incredible.

Thank you. This is great food for thought.

I would love to know more details as well. I have a UK based client that has gone silent with significant unpaid invoices. Can you share details of how to file such an action?

Professor: "We're going to show you a man actually talking to a computer.." Interviewer: "Surely not with his voice."

Unless your current clients can continuously refer you to your next one, expect to do a lot more talking (selling and spec'ing) than at your last job (assuming you were part of an engineering team as a programmer).

Great choice -- I did this two years ago and it changed everything :)

"Luxury imports from Germany, such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz, along with domestic luxury brand Lexus, are the most expensive."

Lexus is owned by Toyota. What makes it domestic?