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"Why We Sleep" is everything wrong with "science" today, and as a person who also isn't a huge fan of sleeping, I'm desperate to understand the real drawbacks to a lack of sleep. That dumpster fire of a book has set back honest research on the subject by years.

Just venting, as I know you agree. Thanks again for your contributions to sanity.

In this case, they point to their experience dealing with exactly this process in Shanghai, and running the Gigafactory over there for 3 months successfully since reboot. That gave me pause - they've seen this and dealt with it firsthand already, which isn't something nearly anyone commenting on this can say. Maybe they're lying, but that feels like a pretty serious unearned accusation.

I think everyone agrees that we should restart businesses if it's reasonable to, but it doesn't seem like anyone is evaluating what "reasonable" means outside of "what the local government is saying". And then you have to wonder why we're suddenly assuming the state/city government is competent in this case.

I don't know where I stand, but I know that I'm not assuming Tesla is in the wrong here. I know far less than they do and it would take a miracle to convince me that the local government is properly thoroughly evaluating the situation and making nuanced, reasonable decisions (as opposed to simply reacting to the political environment). It's increasingly difficult to figure out how to proceed, but at some point we have to decide that we're able to open businesses back up (with safety measures that we decide are adequate). It's scary, but we can't just wait around for a vaccine forever - it could be years out.

It's just a fundamentally hard problem.

Elon doesn't just like to take risks, he would probably agree with being described as "risk obsessed". If your investment strategy is risk aversion and stability, you should avoid Elon. That isn't an outdated perspective, nor is it arrogant in any way - Elon would probably agree with it. The last sentence was an exaggeration of his bias when evaluating any operator to drive his point home clearly.

It's fairly difficult to imagine that Charlie Munger thinks Elon Musk has just gotten lucky for his entire career, and unsurprisingly he isn't saying that in this example. I'm all for fairly criticizing out-of-touch arrogance, but I can't see it being the case here.

Not surprisingly, he didn't. This quote is the end of a much more nuanced statement to conclude the point that he generally prefers to invest in operators who take less risk.

Regardless of your opinion on Elon, this sort of manipulation of reality damages the discourse. It's not helping anyone.

The large amount of people affected reinforces your parent comment's argument. Something that has the potential to affect an immense amount of people should be treated with a relative amount of care. Writing crap code and pushing carelessly would be a far more significant failure of judgement if that code were in the Facebook SDK than if it were in Johnny's Hello World App.

It's also worth noting the difference between writing code with a minor change in behavior that when pushed to production causes an unexpected domino-effect of obfuscated cascading failures across multiple different services that eventually impacts an immense amount of people, vs. directly writing code that crashes on the client side and impacts an immense amount of people. This is the latter.

That being said, I think the assessment problem is real. I'm the founder of a small startup that very few people want to work for (relative to say, Google) and that means I can assess each candidate in careful/unorthodox (time-consuming) ways. Companies at Google scale have to assess thousands of candidates per month (week?) and they have to do it in a way that ensures they're beyond reproach with regard to discrimination.

Having a college degree means you're statistically more likely to know your stuff, period. Correlation or causation isn't material in this case. There would have to be a very good reason for any big company to start ignoring that reality.

Tricky problem. I'd imagine the only solution involves an actual replacement credential. Like a bar exam, but for "private" disciplines. Maybe Neuralink will sort out how to see if you actually have the necessary understandings in your brain.

For example, my business is in the residential real estate industry. I think a lot about rent prices as a result. I have a pet theory that there's a bubble in the world of big building financing. I would love to spend weeks just digging into the data and trying to find out what's really going on, but that's not going to help my business succeed.

I resonate with what you said re: a sense of purpose. I think the way rental housing is done on the whole planet is a trainwreck, but a fixable one. I think it could improve the lives of millions of people if someone could shake off some dust and introduce some new ideas. It's huge and exciting.

I guess the fundamental problem is that there are many interesting and viable angles to solve the problem, but if you want to succeed, you really have to focus on a much smaller cohort of those angles (if not just one). So yeah, I don't think it's as simple as having a better sense of purpose unless your sense of purpose is extremely narrow in scope.

Flip is making moving into and out of a space as easy as deciding where you want to go. We'll take on your apartment lease and pay your rent so you can leave as soon as you need to.[0] We’re backed by USV, Collaborative Fund, and Tusk Ventures.

We're hiring talented engineers to join our engineering focused team. At Flip, you'll find private dedicated workspaces, a quiet environment, and a distinct lack of regular meetings. We're flexible on in-office employees working from home, and you can work whatever hours are optimal for you. Our team is intentionally small and experienced.

We're hiring:

* Senior Frontend Engineer

* Senior Data Engineer

* Senior iOS Engineer

* Mobile Lead

Apply here: https://flip.lease/jobs

Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe, WhatsApp (pre-FB), and Netflix. If you like and respect how those companies operate give us a shout.

[0] https://flip.lease/instant

We're hiring talented engineers to join our engineering focused team. At Flip, you'll find private dedicated workspaces, a quiet environment, and a distinct lack of regular meetings. We're flexible on in-office employees working from home, and you can work whatever hours are optimal for you. Our team is intentionally small and experienced.

We're hiring:

* Senior Frontend Engineer

* Senior Data Engineer

* Senior iOS Engineer

* Mobile Lead

Apply here: https://flip.lease/jobs

Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe, WhatsApp (pre-FB), and Netflix. If you like and respect how those companies operate give us a shout.

[0] https://flip.lease/instant

Normally I'd say no excuses, but it seems like this was a regulatory necessity if they wanted to provide benefits cards at all. I'm a founder as well, so I can understand the need to provide a significant feature in the short term, even if it sucks a bit.

Being a founder (especially in compliance) I think you could be a bit more forgiving on your stance. A bad experience with a third party benefits card sucks, but saying they "completely fucked you over" feels fairly extreme - especially if your payroll has otherwise been running smooth.

[0]https://www.alegeus.com/demo/wealthcare-administration

With commuter benefits the employer has to manage everything themselves. If the benefit is a contribution it'll show up on your paystub, but your company needs to either reimburse you the amount (after you have already paid the commute cost personally) or provide you with a transit/benefits card. If it's a pre-tax deduction, it stays in the employer's bank account, again to reimburse you or provide a benefits card.[0]

It doesn't really make sense for this to work any other way. Commuter benefits are pre-tax, so if they just paid you the money outright it would be a pretty explicit violation of tax law. There needs to be a paper trail showing that the benefit money was spent on the actual benefit itself. I imagine their team might be confused by your questions.

[0] https://support.gusto.com/benefits/other-benefits/payroll-de...

I get the same question a lot. Most people could not imagine the amount of complexity that exists underneath the seemingly simple guise of paying rent. Just wanted to say I can sympathize and I respect what you've been able to do, specifically from the technical perspective. (We use Gusto and it's been absolutely fantastic)

Unrelated, my whole team was very impressed by the attention to detail in your rebrand. It's so difficult to transition the landing pages and internal product so seamlessly, again coming from the technical perspective. I imagine you're running a tight ship over there, and it shows.

Congrats on the raise!

Flip is making moving into and out of a space as easy as deciding where you want to go. We'll take on your apartment lease and pay your rent so you can leave as soon as you need to.[0] We’re backed by USV, Collaborative Fund, and Tusk Ventures.

We're hiring talented engineers to join our engineering focused team. At Flip, you'll find private dedicated workspaces, a quiet environment, and a distinct lack of regular meetings. We're flexible on in-office employees working from home, and you can work whatever hours are optimal for you. Our team is intentionally small and experienced.

We're hiring:

* Senior Frontend Engineer

* Senior Data Engineer

* Senior iOS Engineer

* Mobile Lead

Apply here: https://flip.lease/jobs

Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe, WhatsApp (pre-FB), and Netflix. If you like and respect how those companies operate give us a shout.

[0] https://flip.lease/instant

Flip is making moving into and out of a space as easy as deciding where you want to go. We'll take on your apartment lease and pay your rent so you can leave as soon as you need to.[0] We’re backed by USV, Collaborative Fund, and Tusk Ventures.

We're hiring talented engineers to join our engineering focused team. At Flip, you'll find private dedicated workspaces, a quiet environment, and a distinct lack of regular meetings. We're flexible on in-office employees working from home, and you can work whatever hours are optimal for you. Our team is intentionally small and experienced.

We're hiring:

* Frontend Engineer(s)

* Mobile Lead

Apply here: https://flip.lease/jobs

Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe, WhatsApp (pre-FB), and Netflix. If you like and respect how those companies operate give us a shout.

[0] https://flip.lease/instant

Flip is making moving into and out of a space as easy as deciding where you want to go. We'll take on your apartment lease and pay your rent so you can leave as soon as you need to.[0] We’re backed by USV, Collaborative Fund, and Tusk Ventures.

We're hiring talented engineers to join our engineering focused team. At Flip, you'll find private dedicated workspaces, a quiet environment, and a distinct lack of regular meetings. We're flexible on in-office employees working from home, and you can work whatever hours are optimal for you. Our team is intentionally small and experienced.

We're hiring:

* Frontend Engineers

* Internal Tools Lead

* Mobile Lead

Apply here: https://flip.lease/jobs

Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe, WhatsApp (pre-FB), and Netflix. If you like and respect how those companies operate give us a shout.

[0] https://flip.lease/instant

Flip is the easiest way to sublet or get out of your lease. We're hiring 3 talented engineers to join our small, engineering focused team.

Our team cares about doing things right over doing things quickly. We're 75%+ engineers, and we pride ourselves on few meetings. We're focused on creating an amazing experience for renting, and we're building out every tool core to that experience.

We're hiring for:

* Backend engineer (Python experience is useful)

* Frontend engineer (Design experience is necessary)

* Mobile engineer, iOS focused (our app is built in React Native, but our head of mobile is a Swift expert so we're flexible)

Reach out directly to jobs@flip.lease with a portfolio (we don't care about resumes as much as pure output). This is a job post for FE, but has details about how we operate: https://angel.co/livewithflip/jobs/243287-frontend-engineer

Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe and Airbnb, so if you like and respect those companies give us a shout.

Our current team:

https://dribbble.com/BurakAslan

https://dribbble.com/jon-hargreaves

https://dribbble.com/owensbla

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-van-der-merwe-438a1158/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracemekarski/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-santiago-casanova-36729ba/

and me!

https://dribbble.com/RDGthree

We're not looking for engineers that purely do work for their employer and then turn it off when they head home. Since this will be our ~8th employee, they need to be ready to really dive into the work, and those people tend to have a portfolio. Of course, I'm open to people without one - there needs to be a stronger pitch than just a resume.

Hopefully that makes sense!

Flip is the easiest way to sublet or get out of your lease. We're growing quickly, just raised new funding from Union Square Ventures and are hiring a small team (5-7) of talented product engineers.

We care a lot about how our product looks and feels. We're looking for people that love to work on consumer facing products and care a lot about the details. We're a team of 90% engineers, so you'll have a lot of freedom to execute and flexibility in hours. We pride ourselves on few meetings.

We're focused on creating an amazing experience for renting any space, and we're building out every tool core to that experience.

We're hiring for:

* Backend data engineer (we use microservices, so we're open to many languages but Node experience is necessary for working with our API)

Apply here:

https://angel.co/flipyourlease or reach out directly to roger@flip.lease with a portfolio (we don't care about resumes as much as pure output).

Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe and Airbnb, so if you like and respect those companies give us a shout :)

Some of our current team:

https://dribbble.com/BurakAslan

https://dribbble.com/jon-hargreaves

https://dribbble.com/owensbla (Our head of API eng!)

and me!

https://dribbble.com/RDGthree

Flip is the easiest way to sublet or get out of your lease. We're growing quickly, just raised new VC and are hiring a small team (5-7) of talented product engineers.

We care a lot about how our product looks and feels. We're looking for people that love to work on consumer facing UI/UX and care a lot about the details. We're a team of 90% engineers, so you'll have a lot of freedom to execute and flexibility in hours. We pride ourselves on few meetings.

We're focused on creating an amazing experience for renting any space, and we're building out every tool core to that experience.

We're hiring for:

* UI/Frontend engineers (design background/experience)

* Backend data engineers (we use microservices, so we're open to many languages but Node experience is necessary for working with our API)

Apply here: https://angel.co/flipyourlease or reach out directly to roger@flip.lease with a portfolio (we don't care about resumes as much as pure output).

Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe and Airbnb, so if you like and respect those companies give us a shout :)

Some of our current team:

https://dribbble.com/BurakAslan

https://dribbble.com/jon-hargreaves

https://dribbble.com/owensbla (Our head of API eng!)

and me!

https://dribbble.com/RDGthree

Initial reports on the deal indicated that all shares accumulated by drivers would be nullified in the acquisition

Another driver forwarded us a letter that offered $251 for 14,173 restricted shares, a value of roughly $0.02 per share. This post[0], shared on the UberPeople forum, shows an estimated value for restricted shares at $0.20 each, last July.

At least Uber isn't hiding behind some sign claiming to be ethical.

[0]https://uberpeople.net/threads/juno-refer-a-driver-get-a-bon...

Even the #DeleteUber hashtag originated from a misunderstanding: https://www.axios.com/uber-didnt-deserve-deleteuber-22258932...

Certainly the article about sexism in the workplace is deeply concerning, but that doesn't suddenly mean Uber is a force for pure evil in the world and has done no good for anyone. It means, like many organizations (especially ones that are growing aggressively), they have serious internal problems. Travis immediately responded to the article, and I have no doubt that he is against rampant sexism occurring in the company. What would be the motivation for him to allow it to continue happening?