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And yet we need people to have children

Be really, really good at something extremely rare and extremely valuable, while knowing how valuable that makes you.

Do I get a prize?

And talk about a moving target.

Just when you think you've figured something out, spotted a pattern... it changes. Back to square one.

The bad IPAs you are talking about have dialed up the bitterness (because they seem to think that's what an IPA is all about) but are unable to create any of that wonderful complexity, aroma and flavor from the hops used. I absolutely hate these simplistic IPA clones, which are mostly found in supermarkets and give IPAs (and craft beer) a bad name.

Bitterness =/= hoppiness

Same with Lost back in the day.

They littered the first few seasons with all these potentially mind-blowing things and events... and then just never did anything with them. At all.

It’s like they knew about Chekhov’s gun and deliberately decided to blow it off in the biggest way possible.

Interesting. Reminds me that one of the reasons I still mostly like Reddit is because of all of those subs listed, I subscribe to only one (r/mildlyinteresting)

Classic example of why you never, ever look at vanilla served up for you Reddit. Just make it your own.

And watch the marketing people move into the Brandonizer business

Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat

I get your point and I broadly agree, but it's a bit rich to label OP as part of "a huge permanent underclass". He or she is applying for and may well get an extremely lucrative role at one of the most famous companies in the world, putting them squarely in the "1%" of humanity as a whole.

That doesn't scream underclass to me

not sure why this is so downvoted

Commuting (if done by public transport anyway) can be productive time, personal development time, gaming time, reading time etc. It's often the only time people get to themselves all day.

Even if you drive, there are podcasts and audiobooks.

I think metrics are very useful but only when used properly. A lack of metrics means we can't always see what's going on and goals may be unclear; an overreliance on metrics is gameable and too impersonal.

Laos, as the article indicates to some extent, what you measure becomes what matters. As a manager, the metrics you create will (to an extent) help to define what kind of team you run and build.

There doesn't have to be an economic motive

What if they just feel like exploring, and gaining knowledge, and seeing things no one else has ever seen?

If you live in a Chinese-speaking country then, yes, it's a bad thing.

There are plenty of situations in which you still have to write; at the post office, applying for things, hospitals, places like that. Maybe not every day, I'll grant you that, but you are going to hit barriers when required to write your address or apply for a driving license or similar.

You don't want to be the guy painstakingly copying characters stroke by stroke off his phone while a line grows behind you.

I live in Japan and often regret that my writing is so far behind my reading comprehension. Like, it doesn't need to be AS good, but it would be better if it were close.

What if? It is.

Maybe, just maybe, we should ask questions about people who have 10-12 kids or something like that, but a replacement rate of 1-2 kids seems more or less unquestionable to me.

I mean, if you feel you don't want to bring kids into this turbulent, uncertain world, by all means don't, but please also recognize that one of life's biggest purposes is to beget life and we will do nothing (and have never done anything) if we didn't reproduce

In Japan, corndogs are called "American dogs"

Baye McNeil is famous for finding racism where there usually isn't any.

Which has also been even more concisely summarized as a seven word maxim:

Eat food. Mostly vegetables. Not too much

(in which "eat food" means 'real' food, not processed food)

Except both the the Lyft and Uber IPOs have been relative flops... not sure how that can be considered "timing it just right"?

Dropbox is infamously full of weird edge cases, uncertainty and various sundry other weirdnesses. Lots of people feel that they never quite know where their stuff is, how the versioning works etc.

Google Drive has almost none of these issues.

Why are some major countries e.g. Japan not represented?

Re number 2, my wife just doesn't get that when I'm working from home, I actually need to work

Maybe. It's not impossible. Or something like tardigrades, or microbes.

The definite tone of the title is pretty much clickbait

Really well written article

Is the market really "oversaturated" as the writer claims though?

IDK about the Bay Area, but in plenty of other places there just aren't enough developers to fill all the roles available.

Sounds like "leverage" to me

Yes, the difference in diets and smoking and drinking habits will do that. It's still not pollution in the examples you gave.

> an intuitive-empath

This tells us everything we need to know

Was expecting this to be about gaslighting

So you're equating using English "properly" with British (specifically, English) English? From a linguistic point of view, you couldn't be more wrong.

No variety of any language is superior to another

So there'll be one or two people taking care of those human decisions when necessary... when there used to be ten people taking care of the whole process.

So it doesn't automate all the jobs out of existence; it just automates most of them out of existence

Uber and Airbnb are more than just user interfaces. They actually unlock economic potential that was previously left unused.

It's not like all those cars and drivers and spare rooms were being used for anything else before, or offered through some other "interface"

I'd argue that they created both the supply and the demand, so in effect an entire market. That's rather more than an interface