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Pretty poor take.

You can be generous without wanting to be taken advantage of. Using a product is one thing, reselling it and becoming the defacto place people use it is another.

Another take is that if Amazon eats everyone’s lunch, we will have nothing else.

As an engineering manager, I found it quite easy to see the contributions of remote engineers and had no trouble evaluating what was going on. I wonder about the structure of some companies

No, not worth it

We already have sapphire

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Pay per mile on public roads is the most fair, with the multiplier based on the wear and tear the car causes to the road.

I would never trust any sort of gps system to not be used against me however.

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Only if you could afford it.

Parents held sway over their children because so much of life was dependent upon the family. Domestic help, help during food scarcity, help during a housing crisis, etc.

Today the government provides much of these services, but usually to a lesser extent. The result is the destruction of the power of the m/patriarchs, the replacement of the family by government, etc.

On the bright side, you can now walk away from abusive families. The more families are exposed, the more we see how many are messed up.

No, this is not a commuter train.

And by “the rest of world” you mean Europe and parts of Asia?

I suppose Latin America doesn’t exist? Maybe they’re evolved enough to be considered real people? What about Africa? Also still not human?

You can’t be serious? I can’t think of a bigger waste of time.

Meta is also heavily involved in “impact” metrics

What percent of high schools offer linear algebra?

There is a person watching. Don’t know what they see, but at least now it’s in your face at the entrance

Today was the first time I was presented with a scanner at Costco

Another way to phrase is

“Modern medical highway robbery sucks 24% of our medical expenses from just 1% of the people”

To me, this is the single biggest problem with welfare.

The woman wants to work, yet cannot because she can’t guarantee how fast she will move past the “no welfare and very little money” transition until she gets promoted to full time work.

Her only recourse is to stay on welfare. Now the real issue comes to her children. If she managed to really instill in them the need to never be on welfare themselves, great, they’ll join the workforce. But what if she didn’t? Maybe only tried a bit, but the years of being on welfare made her lose touch with the working world. Children now only see welfare and thus generational poverty starts.

Nah, it’s Microcomputer Software. Software for tiny computers. At the time, desktops were considered microcomputers compared to the workstations, mainframes, supercomputers, etc

This.

I was an engineer at Splunk for many years. I knew it cold.

I then joined a startup where they just used metrics and the logs TTLed out after just a week. They were just used for short term debugging.

The metrics were easier to put in, keep organized, make dashboards from, lighter, cheaper, better. I had been doing it wrong this whole time.

This is awful. It weeds out the people who are creative and love to code in favor of those who will memorize answers to get into a certain company.

I disagree. I have done great work for companies whose products I would never use.

Does optimizing a database require I follow sports? Not even close. I just have to know the use cases, which I get from instrumentation.

This rule might be useful for people in Product or UX, but not backend.

Like birth control. The pill has a higher “failure” rate than many people think. It’s of course “user error”

We have this already. As a species we are susceptible to many diseases which we have to take vaccines for, every generation.

Agreed. The purpose of nature isn’t to fix human follies. Its habitat.

Inferior forests are better than no forests.

You don’t have to take an empty field and plant 100k trees. You can go to where chestnuts used to grow, have some volunteers plant some over time, say 100 every month in an area. Over the course of 10 years, we’ll get some data.

Don’t let great be the enemy of good.

Ouch. I went to a similar school I suppose, UIUC and never had that experience.

I once presented the most optimal solution, so I was tasked with presenting it to the class, but I wasn’t put down for it.

My wife is a tall statuesque blonde. In her late 40’s, she still gets hit on by guys 30+.

Granted, she used to get hit on by guys 18+.

I’m a father and can tell you yes, there is stress, but when I look at life without children, I see mostly lives of temporary self indulgence.

Parties, skiing, Hawaii, toys, consoles, cars, motorcycles, vacation homes, etc.

Over time, most people I know grow tired of them. They have more friends yes, but even my friends know their “good time friends” wouldn’t stick around through hardship.

Kids aren’t the only way for sure. There are plenty of causes, but they are one thing that lasts longer than a few product cycles.

A few things for when applying for jobs-

* use a dedicated gmail * use a dedicated google voice number * have your PDF resume up to date, maybe a few versions of it for different types of jobs * keep a formatted text version of it as well for those horrible text boxes

GE Cafe

No, just don’t spread lies about people publicly.

Don’t participate in the economic ruin of someone just because of some jilted party