dopamean

Over the US during the day at any moment I'd say at least 5,000. Probably not more than 10? Not sure about the rest of the world. For Europe I'd guess probably half of that. Not sure about Asia, SA, and Africa though.

I wonder how many routes there are that would actually be well served by supersonic aircraft.

Nothing I’ve read or heard has made me believe there’s a market for supersonic airliner. This is very cool for sure but I don’t know how they’ll ever sell a full size passenger jet. I guess I’ll believe it when I see it.

I feel like this is a damning statement this about the current political environment. Someone like Zuck thinks it is a useful to his company if he spends a significant amount of time away from it in DC dealing with political things. I'd imagine most people would agree that CEOs should be focused on the act of running their businesses rather than managing political situations.

There's a great QAA Podcast episode about it.

This make me glad that the splash pads I take my kid to reek of chlorine.

I didnt read it and that was the reason I asked.

They probably have a different definition of what is "necessary" than you. If waiting for further crimes to be committed makes the case more of a sure thing in their eyes) then it's necessary. Or if it gives them more serious crimes to prosecute or a higher up person to prosecute. I believe this is common in organized crime investigations.

Why would netflix put their blog on medium?

Thanks for the info!

I've considered it many times and I cant afford to make so much less money when I have a family. Presumably we'd end up back in the US at some point basically broke.

I was of the impression that US contribution to global emissions was relatively low for our population size and per capita energy usage thus making domestic climate change policy relatively small potatoes. Is that not true? Is there more to it than that?

I cant imagine why in a million years Heather would consider leaving WPE to work for Automattic. It makes literally no sense.

> If you don't believe in the right to strike even when it hurts or even paralyzes the economy, then you don't believe in it at all.

I absolutely believe in a right to strike and made no comment suggesting that I don't believe in the idea generally or in this instance specifically. I just said that I disagreed with the idea that all automation should be banned. You keep trying to imagine that I said something that I didn't. It's a little funny tbh.

FWIW, I hope they get the pay increase that they are asking for _and_ I hope they can compromise on the automation thing. I'm not informed enough on what that compromise might look like but everyone knows a compromise can be made. That's why they're negotiating.

I see the disconnect here for you. You believe that if you ever disagree with a union on a particular position that means you’re anti union. Which is obviously a stupid thing to think.

I grew up in a union household. My father was a member of an airline pilots union and my mother was a member of (23 years) and president of (17 years) the teachers union in our town. Unions kept my parent's gainfully employed for decades.

As for "I'm not racist but..." I don't need a wiki link. I'm black and well aware of that kind of idiocy. This is not that. Nice try though.

He's going to need at least a couple billion dollars. I cant imagine Silver Lake would accept any Automattic stock in the deal. It'd have to be all cash.

I'm about as pro union as anyone I know. I'm not blind to the problems with unions but I do think that generally the benefits outweigh the costs. This situation has me pretty torn however. I specifically take issue with the demand for a complete ban on automation. This just seems unreasonable and anti progress. I understand that automation costs jobs and a union's primary responsibility is to protect the jobs of its members but what are we really supposed to do here? Continue with antiquated processes that affect an entire economy just to protect the jobs of a relatively small number of people?

I get that that's unfortunate and perhaps a very serious problem for people working in that industry but what choice do we really have? I'm reminded of something a teacher said to me in high school about how one day many of my classmates and I would have jobs that didn't exist when he was a kid. Isn't that how this works? As time goes on some jobs go away and new jobs come about and there is some pain in the interim? I'm all for figuring out some way to ease that pain for the people in the transitional period but I don't know who's really responsible for that.

This has got to be helpful in arguing in court that there's nothing wrong with the apple tax.

I worked at a bootcamp 10 years ago called MakerSquare (we ultimately were acquired by HackReactor) and that was our problem as well.

I'm not sure of exact timing and laws that are in place but basically since 2003 actual military equipment has made its way from the armed forces to local police departments all over the country. I believe in many cases it has come free of charge. As a result you see cops in small towns armed like they're going to war in Fallujah.

Interesting that Dogs of War was published earlier in the same year.

I wish Detroit had the marketing that Berlin does.

couldn't agree more.

If I donate 100 million to Penn for the express purposed of building a new architecture building and Penn invests that money and earns 20% on it is that 20% under the same restrictions as the principal?

Also, it seems odd that if the funds are restricted to be used for a specific purpose that they university is allowed to gamble those funds in the market. Something about this doesn't add up.

Have you never been to a city?

I read a blog post a while back that had the idea that the reason so many American's remember their college years so fondly is because for many of them it was the only time in their lives where they lived somewhere walkable.

What if you measured success as health + happiness + economic prosperity.

Maybe I'm lucky but I have yet to work in a place where any of the organizational or project management problems could be blamed on JIRA. Not even as like a top 5 reason. I don't love many of the tools I use day-to-day but JIRA is the only one that I consistently hear and read so much vitriol about. I think there's something else people are so angry about and JIRA is getting an outsized share of the attention.

That sounds like a really awesome workplace you built there. Nice job.

That is a direct quote from Graham.