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I agree. I regret mentioning that as it doesn't really add anything to the main point I was making.

I would believe any numbers that were objectively presented with sound methodology. Using a single call center study as evidence that worker productivity increases just doesn't make sense. Most work isn't anything like working in a call center.

Here is another misleading claim from that link:

> Working Remotely Can Increase Productivity up to 77%

But they then clarify that "77% of those who work remotely at least a few times per month show increased productivity." Productivity increasing by 77% is not the same as 77% of people experiencing any productivity gain. Also, they link to a source for this claim, but the link takes you to a blog spam page titled "43 Productivity Tools That Will Make Your Life Much Easier." There is no mention of the claim on this page.

I'm not going to comment on the entire Apollo Technical source, but I think some of their claims are misleading. For instance, they say this:

> A study by Standford of 16,000 workers over 9 months found that working from home increase productivity by 13%.

They link to the study, but it 404s. I believe this is the study [0] and it focuses on a single call-center. It's not a broad survey of 16,000 workers.

[0]: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers...

WFO isn't necessarily about personal preference. People who want everyone to WFO believe that WFO produces better outcomes for the company. That is different than someone who desires to work from an office or remotely out of personal preference. For instance, I may prefer to WFH because it makes my life more convenient, but I can also accept that WFO produces better outcomes for the company.

Personally, I haven't seen many good arguments that WFH produces superior work outcomes. Companies are collaborative human endeavors. Most WFH arguments I hear are related to personal fulfillment: more time with kids, less time commuting, more time for hobbies, etc. Those are all great things, but have little to do with productivity. The closest work-related argument I've heard is that some people work better when they're free of distractions at the office. That takes us back to companies being collaborative human endeavors. One may feel they work better in isolation, but part of ones job is to interact with others, even if that's not fun.

I don't want this to sound judgemental. There is no requirement that people organize their life around what's best for the company they work for. It's totally fine to enjoy working from home. But I don't see the argument that WFH is better than WFO for most companies, even if it's often better for the individual employees at those companies.

I think we'll get more conclusive data when WFH is and is not appropriate.

I start by saying “Obviously this doesn’t hold true for everyone” which means I’m about to make a generalization, and generalizations, by the diverse nature of people, are unlikely to apply to every single person even if they hold true in a majority of cases.

Insurance premiums are used to cover the damages. Insurance doesn’t create free money.

Do they really do a credit check to open a hysa? I feel like no one checked mine above the normal KYC stuff.

Definitely not a rule. Im pretty sure my mom doesn’t even like who I’ve become as an adult and she definitely loved me a lot as a kid. Now that I have a kid of my own, and I understand the all encompassing love you feel for a child, I find how my mom feels quite sad

If people are an end to themselves, everyone would have as many kids as possible. Clearly some people believe people to be an end to themselves, but I doubt that opinion is held by the majority. My question about outcomes was specifically about those that exist.

Hmm that’s interesting. I wonder if the two systems produce equal outcomes into adulthood.

I’ve always wondered how people with many kids can be emotionally available for all of them. How do you do it?

How much did you hang out with them once you were home though? With a < 12 year old, you spend a few hours in the morning + from like 5:30 pm until bedtime on weekdays, and then the entire weekend, with your kid. I lived at home for some time. I spent an hour maximum per day with my dad, including on weekends.

Obviously this doesn’t hold true for everyone, but your attachment to your kid has nothing to do with how you feel about kids in general.

I guess ESNI was deprecated and removed from Firefox in favor of ECH (just found that out now). CloudFlare supports ESNI, but not ECH. So that feels like a step backwards.

Your ISP would know the IP address, but not specifically that you were connecting to google.com.

The issue I’d like to solve is that, even with TLS, you still leak the SNI as part of the handshake. So your ISP can tell you’re connecting to google.com even if you’re using HTTPS.

You’d get a warning and be asked to proceed. Similar to how https everywhere works.

Firefox at least tries to restrict fingerprinting. For instance, you can force websites to require permissions to access canvas data.

One privacy feature I’d really like is kind of like HTTPS everywhere, except it’s TLS 1.3 w/ SNI encryption everywhere.

I disagree. Your IP can group you with at most a few million other people. The bits of entropy needed to identify you is very small if you know the IP.

Forward looking guidance

You can use that argument when adding anything.

A stablecoin acts as a pegged currency, which is useful because the exchange rate between non-stable crypto coins and USD is highly volatile. For instance, let's say I wanted to implement something akin to a bond on a blockchain. It would be nice to have that smart contract pay out in a stablecoin to avoid any currency exchange risk.

I don’t think you’ll need most of these things. My metric would be whether or not your app would continue to function without these things. Using this metric:

Kill switch: may be required, but unlikely.

Automated deploys: definitely not necessary. Your app can still function if you deploy manually.

CI: definitely not necessary. Your app can still function without automatically run integration tests. It can run without any integration tests at all.

API pagination: depends on the API.

Detailed API logs: not necessary. You can add logging as problems arise. Even when I add detailed logging ahead of time, I often find I missed the one crucial piece of information needed to make using the logs possible during an investigation.

SQL query dashboard: not necessary. You can easily use a script interface or CLI that stores history.

That’s my observation too. Grocery chains need to be big enough to stock a wide variety of goods. But after a certain point, getting bigger makes the stores worse.

Do those advantages continue to scale last a certain point? I use a service called Fresh Direct for groceries. They serve nearly the entire NY metro area, so they’re pretty big, but not nearly as big as a national chain. The quality provided by Fresh Direct is so much better than Whole Foods or Shop Right. The reason is that they partner will smaller producers that sell really good stuff. Like they have really good yogurt from Brooklyn, amazing organic produce from a cooperative in Pennsylvania, pasture raised meat, etc. Whole Foods used to have similar items before they were purchased by Amazon. At least for my personal shopping habits, bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.

What are the economies of scale in groceries? Seems like at a certain point there will be more overhead due to the management required for managing the entire chain of stores, and also lower quality of product due to only being able to source products from massive producers.

Bun has a philosophy that everything needs to be fast. Including things like CLI tools and process startup. Process startup being quick is important, especially in a severless environment. I understand your point, but it’d be nice to limit the discussion to Bun and Deno and not other theoretical possibilities.

But all else equal, wouldn’t you want the fastest option available? Also, it’s not just about raw qps. When a client connects to your app, you want them to receive data as quickly as possible so that they get the best user experience. That’s true wether you have 1 qps or 100,000. Having a development philosophy that every part of the stack must run quickly is attractive.

Marijuana affects brain development in teenagers. Just FYI.