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IANA neuroscientist but I suspect it's a measurement problem. The structures of the brain are microscopic and enormous in scale, so how do you capture all that data and make sense of it?

Do you have an account with every gas station that you use? Grocery store? Restaurant? There's some tech bias to this line of thinking.

The quote is referring to the concept of pre-ordering a game.

> I don't think it's fair to blame this on gamers

That's sort of what I'm alluding to. Personal responsibility doesn't work when you need collective action, so something else needs to step in to fix this. Reminding gamers to not pre-order is pointless.

It's a tragedy of the commons situation with gamer enthusiasts acting against their own best interest.

If people can't delay gratification for something as inconsequential as "non-broken video games", I don't see how any personal responsibility campaign has any chance of working for things impacting society at large such as climate change, overfishing, public health, etc.

^ Found the person who microwaves 3 day old fish in the break room.

Another bonus is that I bet you can ask the people working the market and they'd be more than happy to explain what is in season and when!

Real life example of living inside a local maxima.

Throwing out a prediction: If the Biden/Harris ticket wins in 2020 and Trump is charged with anything, expect a pardon from the president. People will rage for a bit, get tired, run out of attention span, and move on to the next controversy.

With the ease and prevalence of identity theft these days, it seems almost trivial to do for any determined actor.

See: classic cars. Most cars from the 60's-80's are objectively _bad_, but there's something interesting about driving and maintaining them.

This, exactly. All complaints about JIRA boil down to poor administration, not the tool itself.

This is like the Overton window of phone sizes.

Customer: "We like small form factors, like the SE"

Apple: "Here's a 'small' phone, it's the new SE"

Customer: "Didn't you just make the other phones... larger?"

Apple: "No, this is what small means now. Good day to you!"

As any reasonable, educated consumer would be.

I would like to know if a McMaster-Carr, Grainger, et al had fallen into the same traps Amazon has when it comes to supply chain and if eventually Amazon will be shaped into a similar company & business model.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Amazon is re-solving problems that traditional supply chain companies like McMaster-Carr solved 1-2 decades ago. It would be fascinating to read a case study comparing the two.

> plenty of business owners who would prefer the stabler "lifestyle business"

Is there an opportunity for a new VC or hedge fund to come through and suck up already profitable businesses and ween technology companies off this "hockey stick growth" mentality?

Absolutely. Use the right tool for the job, etc.

Or you know, knobs and buttons which don't require any user on-boarding or discovery process.

yes

> trying to maximize profits for their employers

> What specifically are you going to punish management for?

Maybe punish them for their myopic view on "maximizing profits"? What's worth more: $100 in profit in Q1, or $25 in profit for the next 8 quarters? It would better for everyone if we had a return to sustainability in the private sector.

Let me do some digging and see if there is anything internal I can share. If not, the airbnb engineering blog has some good articles on this approach: https://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language/

I see teams who are investing in "design systems" approaching this operation model. They're codifying the design language, teaching their applications to consume this language, and then making changes to subsections of the design system iteratively.

The design function (designers, product) can make changes widely, or isolate them to specific components, and test these changes at each step rather than the "all in one go" we're used to.

I compare this to two global software teams, 1 in country x the other in country y, who both have the identical charter to massage bits and bytes into a certain shape. Team 1 believes in "The Best Function" approach, and team 2 believes in "The Goodest Function Ever" approach. They've reached an impasse, and the company ends up paying for both.

The paper reads as a recommendation that Team 1 and 2 "should just compromise". Great idea, but difficult in practice.

Buried underneath this discussion is a lesson in incentives.

Destroy your cell phone, delete your internet accounts, and only use cash.

> Once we know the actual cause I suspect we’ll see research funds skyrocket

I agree with your hypothesis, but saying it out loud seems backwards. In an ideal world, wouldn't we see research funds rise now in order to discover the cause (the hard part) rather than for the treatment (the less hard part).

This is the answer, but it opens up another line of questioning: do we force people to live in dense urban areas? Sometimes I wonder if pro mass-transit commenters (I'm pro mass transit, FWIW) have ever lived outside of a major metro. There are so many places where people live where mass transit is never going to be viable in way that replaces the car. Who gets to decide when/if we invalidate their way of living? Maybe I'm not seeing all the angles here.

> Finally, wildfires don't support life

Not entirely true. Forest fires and prairie fires are a part of some plant lifecycles.

https://www.britannica.com/list/5-amazing-adaptations-of-pyr...

Political land grabs for the "new hotness".

Male here. CS courses were _not accessible_ to those without prior experience, male or female, full stop. That issue was compounded by having to use the IDEs and tooling available to us 10+ years ago. It wasn't until the last year of my business degree I was exposed to the simplicity of .NET/Visual Basic that made programming interesting, fun, and accessible to someone without experience. If only I had that exposure 4 years sooner, I'd have a CS degree today. C'est la vie.