mandelbrotwurst

> Mostly correct, up 42% YOY.

How is that only "mostly" correct?

I'm in a similar boat. For me though, it's not so much that I want to avoid the effort involved in the switch as that you need to spend time in a role in order to have significant impact, and that my longer-term success is likely going to be more dependent on whether I'm able to point to a record of consistently making significant contributions than it is in my maximizing my salary for the next year.

Uber does have partnerships through which they offer expense tracking apps to their drivers.

Thanks, I was imagining the smaller stuff as being part of the forest but I suppose maybe the plants that arise first don’t necessarily stick around for the entirety of the forest lifecycle?

What is recolonization in this context? Does it just mean growth of a new forest?

That sounds like an issue of collectively managing shared resources that would exist even if the occupants owned the units, no?

Something doesn’t become a good thing just because it’s possible and/or been happening for a while.

How did food get into the places that were welded shut?

I was lucky enough to have some guavas around for a while but not very recently - if I’m remembering correctly I think the seed hardness is also largely a function of how ripe they are?

Fair enough, I’m coming at this from more of a non-gaming tech / SaaS startup lens. Maybe it would work, I’m not sure!

That VC would need a lot of confidence in the team to be willing to fully fund them with no revenue, clients, or IP.

Maybe they meant it’s “on top of” it in a table of YoY changes by month sorted in descending order ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Eh, depends on what you’re optimizing for. For fixing the bug as quickly as possible, yes. For spreading that context throughout the team or getting other features out that the person with context is best equipped to ship, no.

One aspect of this mix-up that I enjoy is the fact that deprecating something causes its value to depreciate, by quite a lot!

I very much agree with you that there are drawbacks to increasing density, but SF isn't exactly going to look like Tokyo just because you let people in the Sunset and Richmond Districts convert some single family homes into fourplexes.

Does copyright for a story containing a recipe protect against use of the recipe outside the context of the story?

Yes, this is a side effect of stack ranking and it exists even when the class sizes are large.

It also encourages zero-sum thinking generally.

Gotcha, yeah I guess I always just considered that out of scope for their service and that it’s just a report aggregator but I suppose you would expect it to be at least a little bit clever based on the “detector” name

It’s just based on user reports, so this is people mischaracterizing it as an AWS outage.

Sure, I was more just using those as colorful analogy to make the possibility easier to understand.

I agree with you that it’s difficult to predict whether inflation will or won’t be transitory and I suspect that if you got Powell to speak honestly about the issue he’d tell you that his confidence in his projection is closer to 2/3 than 99/100.

He does have a lot of quite powerful tools that make it easier for him to be correct, such as expanding the money supply by an unlimited amount and defining the inflation metric.

This is an operational policy document - they’re making specific guarantees to their employees about how they will support them. That’s a lot stronger than claiming to uphold some set of values because it means that they’re willing to risk losing the trust of their employees if they don’t stick to this.

There's no conflict in that statement - something can be both unprecedented in its rate of change while simultaneously not expected to last for a particularly long time. Look to various natural phenomena for examples of this - a bad storm, a tornado, a tsunami, a wildfire, a volcanic eruption.

Note: Not claiming anything here about where prices will head next.

Unemployment rates refer to the share of workers who are out of work, not the share who are receiving benefits - i.e. it’s the rate at which people are unemployed, not the rate at which they are “on unemployment”

Those people probably either (or both) of do not understand the nature of the issue(s) and/or are just as happy being somewhere where they won't be issue(s) for a long time as somewhere that's managed to prevent them in perpetuity.

What are “simulators” in this context?

> The captchas need some work though. If you want me to select all photos with carS, I’m not going to choose the photos with one car only

If you're trying to get through these while spending the least amount of time on them, you want to answer "How would most people presented with this answer the following: _______ ?" as opposed to "What do you think is the most correct answer to the following ________ ?"

Sure, but if they’re systematically subsidizing the growth path of your competitors, giving them a massive advantage, withholding that approval becomes a tougher call.

Many jobs are location dependent for pragmatic reasons, e.g. firefighters can't reasonably suppress fires 1000 miles away.

How did ventilators kill people?

The employee UI can be more efficient in ways that require experience / training / knowledge etc in ways that a UI designed for a customer cannot.