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> solve poverty

How?

One way that I sometimes think about this is that we are all of these things, and that being one thing need not preclude being another as well.

Nobody is getting so much food stuck on their teeth that it's having a significant impact on their overall diet and metabolism.

The dehumanization in your message really detracts from your argument.

Yeah, I tend to take the position that the only appropriate way to request code style adjustments is via automation.

What action could he take that would substantially shorten the duration of a nationwide economic downturn?

Most likely he's not and the article contains an inaccuracy.

Interesting, any idea why? Did the executives struggle to focus individually or only as a collective?

> I have a private office already; it's in my house

Not everyone has this. Commuting isn't free, but neither is a spare room at home.

They can build housing that they rent out for below market rate. They can't build housing that costs below market rate to construct.

> a period of rapid US economic expansion

Over what time period?

GDP growth is in a long term (i.e. multiple decades) downtrend.

Growth is up over the last couple of years if you cherry-pick and use the COVID/lockdown crash the starting point.

Equally common I think are engineers who care where and how things run, but are either disincentivized from or even disallowed from working on those aspects of systems.

The article states that they are not in the sentence immediately below the part where this quote was sourced.

One of the arguments is that people do not objectively determine performance and value and are likely to become biased by spending time with people in-person.

Yeah, maybe also those folks are the target audience and enjoy reading content that reinforces their way of thinking?

The advantage is that you save money by not needing to pay rent.

Would you mind elaborating a bit on what has changed from your perspective please?

I have never visited Mexico and would love to although I will admit hearing things of this sort and some of the footage I've seen of carjackings and machine-gun fire and the like is admittedly somewhat of a deterrent, but then I consider how many scary things happen here as well and I wonder what's true and what's an exaggeration or simply a case of uniquely bad luck.

...and on top of that, many founders do want this for good reason! Even with "laser vision" with respect to the future of your product, it's likely that you'll benefit from advice from someone with decades of experience.

More granular targeting is potentially concerning in itself depending on your threat model - e.g. if it's only possible to attack an entire town, then you're safe as long as any actor is not willing to attack the entire town, and likely to have allies in your neighbors if they do. If it's possible to attack all of the people who I don't like in that town specifically, that changes things.

Also, the smart meters do more than just enable remote shut-off on a per unit basis, they also allow for more granular data capture around your usage patterns throughout the day, which someone might not appreciate for a number of reasons, e.g. viewing that data as private, or preferring flat-rate billing as opposed to the time of day based pricing schemes that it enables.

More generally, these sorts of systems are not without their advantages, but they are characterized by an increase in centralized control and surveillance.

What does raw traffic that is not in the form of logs look like? Maybe you mean that they are streaming logs in real-time rather than sending log files in batches periodically?

You don't mean sharing raw traffic as in forwarding actual requests, I wouldn't think?

Hi, why would beekeeping harm wild species please?

> I believe we are succeeding

That's great, congratulations and keep it up!

> To the latter part though

You're right. I certainly didn't mean to imply that I would necessarily be entirely successful. I'm keenly aware of how challenging it is to shift social consensus in even very small groups, let alone larger ones.

I understand that it would be scary to go through such a high consequence interaction as having the police called on you for your good parenting choices, but do you have any sense of what the outcome has typically been in those cases where someone complains?

i.e. do the police typically tend to side with the parent or the busybody paternalist?

It isn't, but even if it were, the fact that alternatives exist isn't an argument for getting rid of something.

Culture shifts are real. That doesn't mean they're justified. It's certainly not a topic without nuance, but I will say that if and when I have children I will do my best to ensure that they are capable, aware, and that their autonomy is respected within my local community.

Wait, what?! A 15 year old cannot be left unsupervised? The parent can't leave to pick up a loaf of bread and the child can't walk over to the neighbor's house?

That's a horrible law and I sure hope there are no states with a similar one!

We definitely agree and I also wouldn't exclude that!

I tend to speak this way because I lean towards discussing near and mid-term futures as opposed to longer term ones in many conversations for a number of reasons.

I do this in part because I'm biased toward the now both subconsciously and out of pragmatism as a material being living in the present, but also largely because I find that other people I encounter tend to be even more that way and struggle to envision the longer-term possible that may require a number of intermediate steps.

Anyway, to our future, voluntarily!

You're right. You need quite strong leadership from upper management to accomplish this as middle management will tend to bias for increasing their own headcount now.

It's not even necessarily out of selfishness per se - more just that most managers are confident and believe that if they have more resources, that will inevitably translate into success for the company.

That's definitely frustrating feedback. Even so, I would consider asking for specifics about those opportunities were, potentially even reaching out to individual interviewer engineers who are more likely to share as opposed to only the recruiter or HR rep.

> these are probably the same companies that say "competitive work environment" somewhere on the job application so maybe employees should expect it

Anecdotally, I've seen touchy feely corporate tone along with this strategy, and would suspect that is a fairly common combination. What you describe certainly exists, but it's not always so obvious.

They're not primarily about individual performance, but if a company decides to cut X% of some group, it's going to make an effort to cut those it can most afford to lose, which is going to tend toward those they evaluate as lower performers, accurately or not.