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1) additional profit from raising prices won't go towards the bottom line, so the incentive to raise price is not as attractive

2) if a company is hell bent on raising prices to capture profit, there is still an incentive to reduce tax liability by re-investing those profits into the company (increasing headcount would benefit the non-ruling class)

There is the impression that this is no longer true - capital owners are capturing the increased productivity as profit and "everybody's standard of living" is remaining the same or eroding.

Having exposure to other anglosphere (neat) lawyers, this is 100% on purpose and thought of as job security. Law school is an expensive wizard school where you learn how to speak the right incantations.

Shush, be calm. Just keep writing more javascript...

I interpreted the OP's statement as the literal breakdown of law and order. As in "Neat law your side created, but I'm not following it."

The cracks are forming in things as simple as traffic laws. Tons of egregious, selfish actions and little-to-no enforcement.

We can expect it but I'm not sure that means anything. I'd really like people to stop giving Tucker Carlson attention, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Anything is possible. Not everything is politically palatable.

You can count on a plugin hybrid C8 or C9 Corvette, and eventually a full electric. It's inevitable.

Bagging on car analogies is like driving a Hellcat, it's not practical.

Just watching the record spin is so incredibly satisfying.

There is a certain ceremony involved with choosing and playing vinyl that cannot be recreated with digital media. That, to me, is the magic. In modern times a full digital setup is going to provide a more "faithful recreation" than anything analog.

I think what Maps really needs is more widgets that reduce the screen real estate of the map until we can finally drop that feature entirely.

> annual vehicle inspection (which I assume the USA has??)

Hah. Washington state doesn't even test for emissions, let alone do a vehicle inspection.

He's a master of aesthetics which I would argue is orthogonal to design.

It's sad to see how many dead links there are for content that people felt was popular/important. Linkrot is such a major problem and doesn't get enough attention.

> Ehh... we should expect this, but supply may meet demand, instead of the other way around. We could see an unprecedented ramp down in the already unprecedentedly low inventory.

This seems likely. As a hypothetical homeowner, I would have very little incentive to sell my house for less than I paid for it AND take the hit borrowing more expensive money unless there exists some external factor for me to move.

Thanks for the education!

What's the ELI5 version of how to interpret this trend line?

It's happening broad daylight in green spaces in Seattle. It's not pervasive, but it's there.

I found this on the ground, did you drop it? </s>

Is there a PaaS out there that enables some guardrails? An example would be "we only want to use Fargate, don't manually provision EC2" and that option just doesn't show up as something you can self-serve.

Or make a ton of mistakes and scramble to recover from them...

I consider that as something that would need to be abstracted away from individual contributors who aren't part of the infrastructure team(s) and baked into any self-service solution. These are the things that slow teams down and we want sorted before they even think about spinning up a new app.

I'm not really familiar with terraform, I'll check it out.

> Why should it be?

There exists a cohort of internal customers at medium-to-large sized software companies that need to ship new applications without being bogged down by the decisions of how to get that thing running and playing nicely with the rest of the ecosystem. For the same reason they don't give their end users CRUD APIs to use their products, it doesn't always make sense to give our developers the entire suite of AWS and say "figure it out".

There's need here but I'm not sure we've figured out what the right answer is.

> much worse than the infamous Digg redesign

Having used reddit on & off since ~2008, it's amusing to see them make virtually the same mistakes as Digg. I'm surprised that there hasn't been a similar exodus.

There's an entire class of products I'll name "internal platform tools" whose primary objective is to improve the developer experience with the intent of having the side effect of increased developer productivity by making it easier & more enjoyable to build things within a company. The teams working on these tools need to understand how their products perform the same as a team building some widget for a "paying" customer.

Without some quantifiable metric, how do these teams know if their products are getting better or worse? The discussion always goes to measuring developer happiness & developer productivity because we want with some degree of confidence to be improving or at least maintaining these metrics.

This would be excellent to see, but I fear it's in direct conflict with the incentives of running an app store.

The reality is that it's probably still there, you just don't have access to it.

This comment isn't aimed at you specifically, but I hope it helps:

You're looking at the 10th, 20th, 30th+ attempt being documented/curated on the internet. You've gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet, so don't let that not-so-perfect first try slow you down if you derive value from tinkering.