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In fact ‘computer’ used to be a job description: a person who computes.

Aren’t “Big Life Insurance” and “Big Annuity” pretty much the same companies?

A quick search says Hinge charges a monthly subscription, is that not correct?

The NDP party does not want a Conservative landslide government either, regardless of Mr. Singh’s pension.

This still leaves open ‘buy, don’t borrow, die’ as a way for the dynastically wealthy to opt out of paying capital gains tax.

I think the sensible option is making death a taxable event, rather than borrowing (with perhaps exceptions for the family farm, but not for the family billion dollar business).

And the second best solution is eliminating the step-up basis, which without deemed disposition at death is just a free gift of capital gains tax rebates to heirs of the most wealthy.

C++ gives both ‘map’ and ‘unordered_map’, and in my experience idiomatic C++ uses unordered_map unless you actually need a tree.

Actually generally the legal system would decide that, not “the market”.

I.e. investors have assigned roughly zero probability to CrowdStrike bearing the full cost of this incident, and set the market price accordingly.

When I was interviewing for more junior roles, “find the nth Fibonacci number” was a popular question.

It was always fun to hit the interviewer with this, it’s exponentially faster than the memoization they were usually expecting.

The author is suggesting normalizing a 20 hour work week, and an approximate doubling of hourly wages for the majority of workers. (And continuing to reduce the hours worked per week until full employment is reached).

Work that is unattractive would presumably still be incentivized by higher wages.

Except in the moon landing I think they had more useful controls, not just a single lever to be moved up or down.

Sure there’s a tension, but one difference is that I know how I vote, but I don’t know how my representative votes unless it’s in the public record.

If you believe that electorates punish politicians for decisions in the public interest, and legislators’ jobs would be easier if they were less accountable to their voters, why support democracy at all?

I’m in Canada. If there were enough doctors that doctor unemployment was 2%+, like a normal job, doctors here would get paid less. Also doctors might not burn themselves out working crazy hours.

Instead, we have a dire shortage of doctors and people in government employed full time trying to recruit the limited supply.

Doctors can’t move to the next hospital for more pay, but they can move to the next province, or to the US.

Do you have any sense why this is true?

I get preferring (10x or 0x) to (1.5x). I don’t get preferring a near-certainty of 0x to some recovery of their capital with a pivot to selling a smaller-but-sustainable business.

Is it something like they’re measured by LP’s (or someone?) on only non-zeroed investments?

Assuming you have a tested rollback strategy, I’m all for rolling back first and asking questions later.

It at least can often eliminate the rolled back change as the cause, even if it doesn’t fix the problem.

I appreciate that it’s a joke made to make a point, but I would prefer that the state keep prisoners safe from being raped in prison, regardless of what crime they committed.

If P!=NP, probably nothing changes.

If P=NP, a very large class of optimization problems probably become practical to solve, which would be a big win for science and technology generally, to the extent that I think it would be felt in daily life.

Edit to add: and also as another commenter mentioned, most existing encryption would likely be much easier to break, which would also be felt.

Medicine has more barriers to entry at least partly because we’ve decided to erect them. Doctors learn all kinds of things outside their direct specialty that they don’t really need to know, but nobody inside the system has an incentive to streamline medical education or to encourage more and earlier specialization.

For example, we force most doctors to take a 4 year degree before medicine (sometimes pre-med, but often an arts or non-biological science degree). Wasting 4 years of a future doctor’s prime career on an expensive and often irrelevant screening program is extremely wasteful for society as a whole.

Except you do have hundreds of distinct smell receptors that can detect complex chemical signals, which contribute greatly to what we colloquially call ‘taste’.

Which is why food tastes very different if you lose your sense of smell, and why making artificial flavours is not just a matter of mixing a few base flavours.

If you want to be a CEO, it's a lot better to network with the kids of all the CEO's than the kids of the dentists and middle managers, if you can arrange it.

Newer research shows a good chunk of SIDS cases actually _are_ likely suffocation from various causes.

That’s why the SIDS reduction measures are mostly ‘sleep on the back, in an empty crib, with nothing soft around’.

But it’s much easier to tell a grieving parent that there’s nothing they could have done, than that their baby got unlucky and suffocated to death.

Who in the rest of your organization is producing so much shit that your manager’s primary job is to be a shit umbrella? What productive purpose are those people serving if your manager’s job is effectively to work against them?

Maybe the people producing the shit need to go too.

I never see anyone complaining about buybacks because of tax reasons though. In particular, the author is complaining companies are not spending enough on R&D because of buybacks.

It is true that buybacks are more tax efficient than dividends, which is why companies generally do buybacks instead of dividends.

The US tax on capital gains is definitely a mess though.

If there was an alternative in the form of a guaranteed not-terrible job at minimum wage, wouldn’t that necessarily raise wages (or maybe working conditions) for currently terrible jobs?

Giving people a real choice seems easier than regulating every possible kind of job.

Sundials are already ‘wrong’ according to solar time by 30 minutes or more, as an artifact of dividing the world into hour-wide time zones.

Astronomy already ignores leap seconds in the same way that modern finance ignores half-crowns and shillings.

I hate that some people say rockstars and mean ‘really great developers that write beautiful working well documented code quickly and work great as part of a team’.

And other people say rockstars and mean ‘assholes that churn out new features really fast with incomprehensible code and then leave others to maintain their monstrosity as they move on to the next thing”.

I assume Amazon is large enough to have a team somewhere with 6-10 of the ‘good’ version, and also a team somewhere with 6-10 of the assholes.

It’s not just bitcoin.

People are told to “invest for retirement” and to do their financial planning based on 4-8% per year growth after inflation, when the risk free rate has been 2% or less for 20 years.

If the US stock market stagnates for the next 20 years like it has in other countries, people will be blamed for buying ETF’s too. “Don’t invest money you can’t afford to lose”, say the people who profited from 20% annual growth on houses while mortgaged to the hilt. But also, “why can’t millennials afford houses?”

I’ve worked in C++ and picked my own tools. The tooling experience in Go is much more polished for a few reasons.

First, as the author states, it’s hard to get consensus on a tool if it wasn’t baked in from the beginning. I don’t think there will ever be a dependency manager or especially an option-free formatter for C++ with the same adoption as gofmt or go modules.

Second, it helps a lot to have the compiler/runtime authors think about the tooling. Go runtime developers think about pprof. GCC developers don’t think about the UX of valgrind. C++ standard authors don’t write PR’s for code formatting tools when they change the language spec.

My model is advertising is roughly zero sum - there’s only so much disposable income for advertisers to chase.

So it doesn’t seem contradictory that overall consumption stayed constant while the advertising arms race advanced significantly.

The study has a sample size of 25 young adults, presumably students at Penn State in Pennsylvania.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol...

‘Not what it is about’ according to whom?

Most students are in school because they want jobs, not to learn to think. The professors may be interested in that goal but how can they possibly achieve it with a student body that just wants their degree papers and a shot at the upper middle class?