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The pay and working hours are extremely well known to incoming jr investment bankers

The uber/taxi fee is charged per ride, whereas private passenger cars pay once per day. Seems like a reasonable tradeoff.

Municipality spending is part of GDP

I remember this article was extremely eye opening for me as a recent grad in 2013 Boston.

I think it's hard for people to understand today how much less the ideas like lean startups, Paul Graham essays, customer validation, etc had penetrated software engineering mindset in early 2010's, at least outside of SFBA.

Last 110 years really.

Nice try FBI agent

If they show a car driving I believe it's capable of self-propulsion and not just rolling downhill.

Sure but thats a feature of all large trucks he's just marketing more aggressively.

This. Thinking hard is tiring.

Too late to edit, all supposed to be T’s. Quick math even quicker keyboard.

Quick math $33T US national debt times 5% is $1.65B. Federal revenue around $5B in 2022 so not quite there but very substantial.

Leadership and management are crafts just like engineering. Goals and KPIs are tools. Most of the time when I've experienced bad Goals or KPIs, the root problem was one of the following.

1)Lack of clear mission/direction at the top level of the organization. This is a 100% necessary condition for good goals & kpis throughout the rest of the org. Otherwise it feels like political battles and favoritism between different people or departments with conflicting goals.

2) Goals & KPIs that are not well mapped from the org's mission or roadmap down to the individuals. Now all the individuals can hit their goals but org fails, or vice versa. This feels like "doing what's right for the company is bad for my performance review."

3) Confusing health KPIs with outcomes or goals. Something like commits per day/month is a great health check, but bad goal, and the benchmark for healthy is totally context dependent. This feels like "She solves the hardest problems but the solutions are very few LOC." Or "he has the most commits because his code is so buggy".

It is intended as a cultural and literary reference. As an american english speaker I would say it's a play on the phrase "That dog don't hunt" meaning something will not work. I would consider this to be a 'country' saying not AAVE but I'm not a linguist. More broadly the title mirrors a southern american dialect structure of "[This|that] X don't Y". The article calls it a "Huck Finn style adventure" Huck Finn being the protagonist of famous Mark Twain novels that are famously written with dialogue in AAVE and other southern American dialect.

Hopefully that’s not the optimization function we pass the AGI!

Here's a 'wrong' but possibly helpful comparison, in the spirit of football fields:

32 billion kilometers is about 100 times the distance a satellite travels from earth to Mars. [1]

That Earth-Mars trip is estimated in the same article to take 4 months, so figure 400 months or 30+ years to shoot another satellite out to reach Voyager 2.

This is ignoring planetary slingshot math, the extra speed to 'catch' voyager 2, and surely lots of other details. Personally I find years and "mars" to be more intuitive in this case than trillions of football fields.

[1]https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/cruise/#:~:text=The%....

This. Same as software engineers doing production support. It's easy to glorify putting out fires and hard to take credit for careful attention that prevents fires. Preventing fires extends a lot more lives.

The headline gets way more engagement when it's Harvard. Kind of like Foxconn headlines with "Apple factory" not Nokia factory etc.

Curious where you are finding a sample of Gen Z members who can all drive manual transmission?

Sure but the rent roll would barely cover the AWS bill

Different converting the 1890s brick 4 story buildings vs the 1970s or 2000s or 2010s office buildings.

Yes adjusted earnings in this case is most likely something like "Adjusted EBITDA" so interest cost is adjusted out by definition, and they may also adjust out things like severance payments (if they are actually paying them).

Amazon is really going to keep making big splashy healthcare investments until they hit one big, and I think they will hit one big.

It's disheartening that generic concepts like these are considered patentable. Even without the dystopian features this is hardly an invention that merits protecting with a 20 year government enforced monopoly. This particular application is still pending but presumably Ford's patent attorneys considered it attainable.

Probably more highway miles though to reach that number. City accidents I expect would be lower severity but higher frequency.

It’s called “bottom trawling” and it’s pretty much what it sounds like.

This, except it's the MBA+5 talking to the MBA+2

I'm not a lawyer but my thought process is that the "parallel construction" is going to include some chain of information/observation > probable cause > search > evidence and parallel construction is going to include dishonest testimony in the observation or probably cause area.

In reality I know that its difficult and unlikely to be proven or prosecuted, but it seems like that would be perjury.

Honest question though and I'm curious if someone with more expertise can explain where I'm wrong.

Why wouldn't parallel construction be perjury, even if the real search was legal?

I really like this, especially when overlapping/doubling as a social happy hour. A former company did something similar, I always enjoyed seeing what other parts of the company were up to.

Banning recurring 3 person meetings initially sounded overly reactionary and reductive to me. It does sound like proliferation of meetings has become a growing problem and I wonder how much the video-off-zoom-attendance is a contributor.

The article implies that they previously had multiple 50+ person meetings per week(!!) "Big meetings of more than 50 people will get shoehorned into a six-hour window on Thursdays, with a limit of one a week."

As someone who has never worked a company larger than ~300 people, can anyone enlighten me on what kind of meetings would have that many attendees, outside of say a quarterly all-hands?