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bigtechdataeng··on Your Phone Is Your Castle
Does it? I thought it was pretty much a given that landlords had to provide 24 hours written notice, excepting emergency.
bigtechdataeng··on The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
Ah, so it’s a vague unsupported aphorism that purports to explain something unmeasurable?

Just because something is pithy, doesn’t mean it’s true.

bigtechdataeng··on Coping with Cats
This mirrors a lot of rhetoric that you might but want it to.
bigtechdataeng··on Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s repairmen
I think most of the cost is because of the personal and inventory risk that everyone involved carries. With 100x markup, seizures at borders aren’t as big a deal.

And there are lots of people involved, each one adds markup.

bigtechdataeng··on The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments
That doesn’t say anything about a Uber style bake sale lose money on every order scheme. PTAs accept donations.

I agree with your overall premise, there was no need to make up a story around it.

bigtechdataeng··on The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments
It could be private funding that makes up the difference. Or that money is spent elsewhere (maybe more counseling, meals, etc)

Looking at the conditions externally should not be enough to contradict data, assuming the data exists ave is accurate (I didn’t check).

bigtechdataeng··on Deschooling Society (1970)
Wanted to call out that this would probably require most of us to never have existed. Specialization is more efficient at the macro level; this efficiency is why there are 7b humans instead of many fewer.
bigtechdataeng··on Apple is facing rage from developers over the commission on the App Store
Except you aren’t proposing that 12% be the result of a negotiation, you are suggesting it’s a fair number to be imposed by force of law.
bigtechdataeng··on The Story of Hertz Going Bust
How many LBOs happen each year in the US? I would guess somewhere around a hundred. So dozens of success stories per year might be really good, compared to similarly distressed companies that did not get the LBO.
bigtechdataeng··on The disease-induced herd immunity level for Covid-19 is lower than the classical
- Bayesian interpretation would use what we do know about viruses in general, coronavirus specifically, anD sars/Mers as the prior.

Has anyone here done the research that we can use as a reasonable prior? My assumption was those diseases all produce long lasting antibodies.

bigtechdataeng··on BLS Reports 14.7% Unemployment Rate
Let’s hold off on the idea that the California government is going to fade into nothing. From the linked article:

“However, the report concludes that the projected deficit as a percent of general fund spending “is modestly smaller than the budget deficits faced by the state in 2003 and in 2009,”

Also, I suspect there are a lot of Californians right now who trust their state leadership a more than federal leadership. (I am one of those people.)

bigtechdataeng··on The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising (2019)
How do you define “worked”, though? Was each advertising dollar the most effective way for that company to spend that dollar? Or was it just ROI positive?

Most people consider the latter, because it’s hard to accept that the spend needs to compete with every other way of spending that money, not with other ad media.

bigtechdataeng··on Medium-hard SQL interview questions
I suspect more SQL is written to support analytics than online systems. Locking and concurrency are used in a specific type of application, namely oltp.

I learned how much when I joined a big tech company. The devs don’t write sql unless processing logs in the warehouse. But everyone from PM to support to data science and marketing all write sql.