immawizard

Only for the children you want to keep after car crash.

It's on page 46 https://www.bmwgroup.com/content/dam/grpw/websites/bmwgroup_...

Per source: “ The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources and method of calculation.” https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm

In my experience “Go to person” in a mature product has 2 stages: (1) person who performs somewhat repetitive jobs (2) person who is trusted to own projects in a given area

Being able to get rid of (1), either through automation or delegation, allows you to go to (2). If you’re stuck on (1) for too long, it’s better to leave.

I think we’re in agreement.

The key here is what are you taking responsibilities and decisions for. Senior engineers take decisions which consequences will be apparent in a year or two. If productivity increases to the point where features that take months to deliver take days, the decisions made _currently_ by senior engineers can be taken by fresh graduates.

There’re still going to be senior roles, but their scope will be much bigger and expertise sought will be different than what senior engineers do currently. No one will hire a senior engineer just because they can architect and deliver a scalable SaaS product on a short timeline.

Engineers who learn and adapt will be fine. Engineers who dropped learning the moment they graduated from college… not so much.

Mid level engineers will come from building something like GitHub, Netflix or Gmail over the weekend using powerful AI. The skills of current senior engineers will be much easier to gain since the feedback loop for software architecture and design will be down to hours instead of quarters. Being able to architect massive software systems well, will be expected from a new graduates.

The role of junior software developers will not be needed, just as we don’t need people doing multiplication by hand.

People don’t buy stuff in bitcoin because of the high transaction costs, and low adoption in points of sale. If you believe that bitcoin price will go up in the future, you would buy bitcoin instead of pizza using dollars.

Isn’t it illegal to use DNA data for purposes of health insurance? How would insurance company be able to use it? Companies like kaiser run both hospitals and insurance, yet they can’t use your full medical history when determining your insurance risk.

The bigger issue imho is companies using biometrics as a secure authentication, but at least in USA that’s going to be no worse than SSN mess.

I disagree on the housing point. With basic income, people who can’t afford housing in expensive areas would move to towns with cheap housing/land but less lucrative/efficient work. There’s no housing shortage in rural areas.

I think social mobility from poverty to middle class is more relevant to most people than mobility from millionaire to billionaire class. According to The Global Social Mobility Report 2020 [1] South Korea has higher level of social mobility than United States.

[1] http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.p...

> The global interconnected nature of private enterprise is the reason we don't have as much warfare anymore, and why the world is safer than it's ever been in all of history.

That’s a reach. Global interconnected private enterprise was widespread before both ww1 and ww2. We haven’t had a war between major global powers after ww2 because of MAD and Pax Americana.

When valve picked up dota, league of legends was the most played multiplayer pc game in the world. I think it’s more likely that valve was afraid of exodus of pc gamers from their platform.

There’s an arbitrary line between handshake and battery, yet most people and the law system can see the difference. Claiming there’s no qualitative difference between someone giving $100 dollar to their child as a birthday gift, and inheritance of billion dollars, seems like a weak argument.

I checked Storz & Binkel app, and it’s missing from App Store. S&B makes vapes for dry herb, which are completely outside of the controversy. Fortunately, most of their models are perfectly usable without the app so no real harm for users has been done.

While Apple policy seems heavy handed and completely out of touch, I hope situations like this will bring back physical controls to devices.

Ship building is a specialized trade, with tradesman located in a town near the dockyard. I doubt that shipbuilders are motivated by the love of the sea. The quote does not work in high-specialization industrial society where the product is constructed for a customer, with sales department claiming credit for the sale, and the owner pocketing the surplus value.

Much better motivation is love for a process, in ship building example, ship engineering with management supporting career development.

Why do you think that grit or predisposition to hard work is less determined by genetics and environment than iq or physical ability? It seems to me that judging anyone’s value by iq, hard work, physical ability, nationality, height, or skin color hold level of inequality. For me, meritocracy is not about the fairness, but rather about efficiency in utilizing resources.

They put it out for free because they make money on ads. Publishers don't mind Google reading the the content on their page, but don't like Google republishing their content on search results page and keeping the ad revenue. This has nothing to do with net neutrality.

I believe this data structure is called Tiered vectors, and is described in: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~goodrich/pubs/wads99.pdf

Assuming the fine is one-off and market doesn’t devalue facebook because of the fine itself, couldn’t Facebook issue new stock to offset the fine, effectively losing 3% of stock value in the end?