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The very fact that Intuit has clearly invested money into making a beautiful interface for a tax program, a program that people use once a year, just goes to show how profitable the current arrangement is for them, and how determined they are to keep the average taxpayer from switching to any competing tax filing ecosystem.
Furthermore, you could argue that not paying attention to more abstract lessons is actually way more rational of a decision than sitting straight and taking notes. The human brain is expensive to run, and our ancestors didn't survive by squandering calories to process worthless information.
In contrast, as any parent can attest, when kids see something that has clear real-world benefits for them (e.g. Minecraft), they'll jump in with unequaled gusto and learn everything they possibly can.
In America, it used to be that parents and employers would invest a lot of money in raising and training young adults, respectively. But more and more, there's less money available to support these programs.
Given this situation, it makes sense that early-career people would have to look elsewhere for people willing and able to invest in them.
Of course, when I say "the free market", I'm talking about the one where good ideas can be shared and copied freely --- not the one populated by sheet music landlords, whose laws were flouted every step of the way for great public benefit.
I think a lot of commenters here are not quite getting the use case for these kind of summaries. As I see it, it's not that an automatic summary is more accurate, or more complete, than an investigation by a human engineer - it's that the summary lets you resolve issues much faster and with less of a requirement to remember obscure implementation details.
Just show all the links at once! With appropriate headers and visual hierarchy to provide organization, this is better in pretty much every way: faster to use, easier to implement, and more accessible.
The biggest practical objection I see to this kind of "flat" menu is simply that it's hard to make it look good at the top of a page. But any competent visual designer should be able to manage that, aesthetically.
Surprisingly, human minds do seem to work that way. After doing a "good" deed, we're liable to believe that we've done our part, and owe society no further action. Even if our good deed didn't actually change anything.
This effect is often called "moral licensing".
But one factor I think is underappreciated is the copyright environment surrounding these songs.
Having no remaining commercial value in the Japanese domestic market, let alone the global market, city pop songs were able to spread widely and quickly on YouTube instead of languishing forever in their labels' respective back catalogs. In addition, even if the labels knew about this and wanted to reassert their ownership, policing Western streaming sites would have seemed an unpleasant distraction from the real goal of selling more CDs to Japanese buyers.
Sure, there's artistic reasons for Americans to be rediscovering these decades-old Japanese pop songs --- but there's structural reasons as well.
If I'm reading the graphs right, price controls in Berlin have slashed rent price growth by nearly 60% for almost all of the city's apartment stock.
Meanwhile, rent for the remainder, those apartments built since 2014, is only growing 10% faster than the baseline.
So if we're gonna do the math: [lots of apartments * -60% inflation], against [fewer apartments * +10% inflation], equals a presumed windfall for renters, versus the alternative history where this rent control policy doesn't get enacted.
1) pressure from PMs/POs for quick, yet "effective" code reviews that don't hold up releases, and
2) implicit pressure from other developers to maintain "polite" relations by only pointing out minor, "typo"-level issues with their code instead of requesting architectural changes that could be seen as condemning their work.
> [the gun range's Facebook page] asked followers to find an S.U.V. “to shoot up and then blow up,” and specified the make and model of the car the Huletts had given their teenage daughter.
> But in Vermont, the efforts to shutter his training site seemed at a standstill. Ms. Tilander said she believed the main reason was that Vermont’s law enforcement bodies, from the town level up to the state, were fearful of an armed confrontation. “Nobody wants to go in there because everybody’s afraid of him,” she said. “We’re 99 and nine-tenths percent sure from everything he said, he has a big cache of heavy-duty weaponry and explosive material.”
> I’m an independent person; I’m apolitical. We want to unify India.
I've started noticing more in the world how sometimes, people promote their stances as "apolitical", "independent", or somehow outside of politics. This has the powerful effect of implying that those stances are natural and un-opposable.
(For the sake of completeness: Google is also required to set aside a cash fund for salary fairness adjustments over the next 5 years, though it's tiny and there is no guarantee any of it will actually be paid out.)
That is, software is trivially copy-able, so there is no reason to spend effort duplicating any software that already exists. (Legal reasons and "not-invented-here" syndrome notwithstanding.) This is a huge different from how the "real" world works, where almost all of the work involved in building, say, a car, is actually just the work of assembling identical copies of that product so that it can be physically sold to more than one person.
The insane amounts of repeated effort involved in building any physical product at scale have a silver lining, in that the repetition enables a very good and stable estimate of how long another repetition will take. Software is the opposite situation --- we only need to build anything once, but not having built that thing before, we don't really know how long it will take.