Here is a link to his notebook that they found on him:
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1) Going global as quickly as possible. He aggressively moved into a lot of countries as quickly as possible with the same formula, and for the most part it worked.
2) He created an entire industry by having the balls to lower prices to the point where it fundamentally changed transportation. Everyone ubered everywhere (before the pandemic) and I know many people who sold their cars because ubering was cheaper.
The downside was that both are extremely capital intensive, which showed in how much money they raised. But I would say both techniques are extremely innovative and what most startups these days are trying to strive for.
That said, I really don't think remote work will be permanent. Once the Pandemic is over, people will relish going into the office. Most people WANT to work at an office, regardless of the commute. It runs between 60-75% of all people want to work from an office, and it is more efficient.
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This isn't a home run yet, even though I would like to believe that Vitamin D has protective nature.
If they widen their expectations, and hire people that they believe they can mentor into net contributors, then their hiring practices should reflect this.
There are many ways a company can make hiring more scientific, including A/B testing (ie. hiring people they normally wouldn't, have more data around how productive new hires are, etc) but I've never seen it over than "copy Google and we should be good."
We have no idea how successful a vaccine will be. If it's 50% successful, that means that people will be getting Covid-19 regardless, so it seems we might as well front load the infections now.
In addition, recently they found a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 with a mutation in the spike protein. If the spike protein mutates enough such that the vaccine no longer works, then we really have no choice but to reach herd immunity.
The missing feedback loop from performance review back to the hiring process means that the hiring process can't get fixed. Until companies start adding that process back in, hiring will never get better.
The other thing is that deaths are basically at lows. So high infections and low death rate is basically what they want, isn't it?
I wish the US had something similar at this point.
What a comically cliche and stereotypical error that people keep making. 20 years ago it was the Bush and Cheney saying the same thing. Now its the liberals saying that the "poor, ignorant masses" need to be saved from themselves. For the record, I'm also a liberal, but old school liberal, not the contemporary liberal that eschews giving the same rights to those that I disagree with.
Who gets to decide what gets sacrificed? You? What happens when The Other Side gets control? The laws that protect their free speech are the exact same laws that will protect our rights when the opposition gets control.
Never, ever, ever mess with the ideals of Free Speech. No one is smart enough or uncorrupt enough to navigate that properly. The only thing that will save us as a society is completely unadulterated free speech. What we do as a society is to educate as best as we can and let the chips fall where they may. Which is hard, because we have the worst levels of education in developed countries, so we are reaping what we sowed for the last few decades. But basically it's herd immunity for information.
So side projects or even real projects that are used by millions are literally meaningless.
Study LeetCode instead to get a job and focus on your job at work.
In the UK, 75% of deaths are people aged 75 and older. I'm not sure if its the same age profile in the US but I would think yes. Even here in the Bay Area, the death rate is about 0.5% for everyone below the age of 60. If we lock down those over 60, and let everyone else live with masks and social distancing, the infection rate may skyrocket but the hospitalization and death rates will plummet. This is basically what we are seeing globally now, where the infection rate is higher than in March but death rates are much lower. Granted, there were less tests being run so that makes things hard to compare.
Also, the bigger problem is those that need to take care of their parents who are in this age group. The infectiousness is so high that if the children get sick, the parents will definitely get sick. So this is the biggest quagmire, that entire families will become isolated to protect the parents. It's not a perfect solution but better on a percentage basis for the entire country than locking down everyone, even though the risk profiles are drastically different.
Since they aren't, I think non-cash bail is a good idea, with strict requirements to check in with an officer, etc. If they don't meet their appointments or break the terms of their bail, I'm also okay to see them incarcerated pre-trial.
However, there needs to be some provision to make sure that they don't stay in jail longer than what their offense would have garnered. If someone is in jail pre-trial for half the median time an average punishment if they were found guilty, then the charges should be immediately dropped. This should give prosecutors more incentive to get their acts together and have a trial in a reasonable amount of time.
During that time, the team around me dissolved due to severe attrition, leaving a skeleton crew of developers and I was the last remaining developer working on this specific project. During performance review time, I was told I wasn't performing at an adequate level because the number of code reviews I performed was very low. When I pointed out that I was the only person on my team, so no one came to me for code reviews their response was that I should have sought out code to review on my own.
I quit soon after.
If Google/Youtube were NOT a monopoly, they would have invested significant amount of money in customer support. However, there is zero. The only reason they get away with this is because they have a monopoly. They are saving hundreds of millions in support costs by not delivering any support. Unlike more overt monopolistic actions like raising prices, etc, what they do instead of increase their profits by taking away functionality that their customers should be receiving.
The fact you can get all your work taken away because of fraud, and have no recourse is unacceptable. Yet there really is no viable alternative. I hope content creators band together and form a class action lawsuit against Google and break up their monopoly. It's disgusting.
I thought the idea of Microsoft buying TikTok was funny, but I couldn't think of a company more effective to dismantle TikTok than Oracle.
Look at Peter Schiff. He correctly predicted the housing meltdown, and since then he's been consistently wrong for the last 12 years.
Also, doctors are already aware about how oximeters may be inaccurate. It doesn't mean that they still can't be useful.