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They're targeting 20% reductions right now. ~14% via layoffs and the remainder via attritiion.

But does an obligation exist to stream it freely forever? Who pays hosting costs for that?

And why are people so staunchly in denial about crime in Seattle/San Francisco? Why do they seem to feel personally attacked?

Unless govts become addicted to carbon tax revenue, in which case they may allow the same level of carbon emissions anyway.

If you can do 95%, that might be good enough. Obviously if you could automate the entirety of the process, that would be ideal, but consumers may simply change their behavior to accommodate the 5% difference. Uber/Lyft already changed consumer behavior in a marked way: they allowed more people to move closer to the city, not pay for a car, not pay for a parking spot, etc. In Seattle before the pandemic, it was common for young professionals that didn't own a car to take Uber/Lyft most days. They did this so frequently that yuppies were blamed for the increased traffic, even though many of them were served by Seattle's great mass transit options.

The cost, simplicity, and availability of self-driving cars will undoubtedly change the consumer.

My initial take is that this article is trash. To build up their empire, the Romans literally conquered people that weren't like them; you could probably argue they should have had more conquering zeal and xenophobia.

Also, why does the tech community have an obsession with Rome?

Could it be something as simple as ignoring that we're all touching our masks, our clothing, our eyes. Basically, did we optimize one part of the problem while ignoring all others and the net effect is basically zero?

This is one of the most privileged takes I've ever read. OH GOOD HEAVENS. You were sick for a whole 2-3 days. Best lockdown the country to avoid what most people experience 1+ times per year.

> Civilization 1, 2, and 3 had "stacks", but if you kill one unit in the stack, you kill ALL units in the stack. As such, "death balls" were incredibly fragile, one well placed attack kills the whole stack.

That's not how I remember things TBH. Only something like a nuke would kill all units on the same tile.

>I can still catch it

Yes, you can still catch it regardless what we do with NPIs. Stop living in fear.

Exactly right. The parent poster you replied to is another in the long list of people that flippantly disregard the harms of masking. Good luck dealing with a generation that has developed unhealthy phobias and has severe emotional attachment issues that's also unequipped to enter college.

Once a system is in place, it'll be repurposed and never go away. Also, "Once Covid is gone". By what metric will it be "gone"? Are you talking zero COVID? That's never ever happening.

That seems like a remarkably poor hereustic

Tech companies won't move in lockstep on this. Battle for talent is too intense, not many companies can call shots like this like Google can. Some companies will be glad to differentiate to try and attract Googlers that do not want to return to the office, that do not want to be vaccinated (tho I think the number of tech workers that are not vax'd is small)

I really want a browser flag like "I DO NOT CARE ABOUT TRACKING" that auto-accepts.

Or the other players work in different ways that are less visible. Cyber espionage and propaganda is enormous, and I think the average American is only slowly beginning to understand the depth of impact of bots, paid trolls, phishing, and direct cyberattacks that our adversaries launch against us. And it's not clear what the goals of these organizations are.

You're assuming that the UK, Germany, Israel, Russia, and China are not all doing the same.

What are the aims of the CIA? Are all the divisions within the CIA rowing in the same direction? Is it possible there are multiple CIA operations in direct conflict with each other, without any awareness of the others' involvement? What are CIA strategy sessions like? How far out are they planning, or do they tend to be weirdly reactionary?

And potentially bribes!

Cities are full of crime again today. Is it a problem with lead? Or is it a larger condition of cities in the Americas?

I've written a number of front-end projects that used URLs for state, and yes, lol, IE was a hard no for such efforts.

And this 3 days in the office business won't work well either. If not everyone on the team picks the same 3 days to be in office, then what are you gaining? How would it make sense if there's barely any overlap among team members?

I don't think these companies have thought this through. Logically, the 3 days a week in office will slowly become 2, then 1. Or maybe teams will decide to only get together 3 days a month or something like that.

At that point, you're effectively fully virtual anyway.

These companies need to just dive right in, because the suggested format smells of poorly thought out compromise.

Big-time survivorship bias in this article and thread. Just yesterday we learned that Verizon is dumping Yahoo and the related media brands. Those acquisitions were a major failure.

The reason that Big Tech got so big is that they're really really good at growing their high-margin core business and have a ton of free cash flow. That's really all it is.

But the flu has always been here, even when our country was significantly less populated, when we were significantly more rural, and when people were significantly less connected in many ways. Like, how did we get flu pandemics in the 1700s? Weren't we less connected back then, even after you account for all the social distancing that was done this year?

This type of design would work well with "shape-changing" displays: https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/03/21/apple-patents-sha...

There's a chicken and egg situation. Companies do choose to locate in California because of talent, but talent also chooses California because of great companies. If enough great companies leave, the talent will leave, too.

If you want to distort the statistics, you can do this the other direction, too. It's common for people in Seattle to point out that they don't file police reports for theft because it's a bunch of work waiting on the police to arrive (it can take hours) and filling out a police report only for the police/prosecutors/judges to literally do nothing about it. So anecdotally, people say property crime is underreported.

Also, police departments and mayors have every incentive to keep reported crime lower. The LAPD, for instance, has a history of underclassifying crimes to maintain appearances that their city was safe: https://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-lapd-reclass-20141...

Also, the OP specifically pointed to 10-year statistics, not 20. Isn't it at all concerning that we're erasing all the progress we've made over the course of decades?

I'll be the asshole here. You're probably making some critical mistakes that are holding you back. What is it that you are specifically trying to achieve and what are the reasons that you haven't been able to achieve those goals?

Obviously the next step here is a fake SSH agent that allows logins to a little sandbox.

I think the era--to the grandparents' point--was a significant factor. Back then we still believed in immediately transformational technology. There was a widespread belief that an aviation or space-travel breakthrough was imminent. There was hope for incredible new energy sources. Effectively, there was a collective hope that there were undiscovered realms of physics that would unlock a completely new period of human history.

We have made amazing technological leaps in the last 20 years, but you don't have to go far searching Hacker News to find articles complaining about evolutionary progress instead of revolutionary.

I wonder what Gen Z thinks about technological progress. As a millennial that straddled the analog-digital divide, I took huge leaps of progress for granted. My friends and I compared American and Soviet fighter jets, we compared horsepower in muscle cars, we compared specs on processors. We also tinkered with everything, and nearly every system could be easily understood by poking at the internals. Now, what's the point?

Anyway, that's a long way of saying that the Segway hype is a generational thing, I don't think we'll ever see anything like that again.