reasonablemann

Love this Tim Cook quote about why they aren't in the US:

The U.S. labor market "began to stop having as many vocational kind of skills"

If the incentives were there, you'd have those football fields full of tool and die makers Tim.

My high school had the foresight to have a media literacy class 20 years ago. I never looked at an advertisement the same after that.

Why is there competition in the SSD market but not in the RAM market?

It does not make sense that this person is attempting to run a reasonably priced restaurant and has FOH staff.

SF needs to adopt more Japanese style ordering machines. You choose and pay up front. When you are done you just leave. It's beautiful.

Fantastic answer because it highlights how these conditions can be overcome by changing your situation.

Clinical methodology for treating depression in Sweden is to change the person's living / work situation as a first step before pursuing other treatments.

Reminiscent of Goldman's annual 'culling' https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+Sachs+staf+culling

Would also be important to include the number of Europeans that are bankrupted by rejected insurance claims.

The Touch Bar is the perfect example of marketing people hijacking the product to push sales without helping customers.

Sounds like economic contraction to me. I don't see how Huawei has anything to do with this.

I don't understand why there's so much resistance to having everybody save a huge amount of money while at the same time allowing everybody to be healthier. Boggles the mind.

Strange Apple doesn't push their own tech for this. They could include it in Messages and release on Android. For Android there would be a store button where you could see all the new stuff from Apple and buy an iPhone. Would do a service to the 50% of the world's population who's entire community communication network is owned and mined by FB.

Lately Siri gives me an error when setting the timer. But upon inspection has actually set the timer correctly. It's equally infuriating and comical.

Firstly, he's alluded to lack of manufacturing skill many times. After all, imagine how difficult it would be to teach American's skills. This argument holds no water in my opinion. Just say it's because of profit margins. Anything else is absurd.

Secondly, a $100 million investment in manufacturing is not a small number. Unless you are Apple. Let's assume a wildly low profit margin on the average iPhone of $250. Apple would have to sell 400,000 iPhones to cover that investment with pure profit. In 2017, Apple sold 216,760,000 iPhones.

Tim Cook loves the narrative that it's impossible to bring manufacturing culture back to the US. There was an article a while back about how lazy people were on the Mac Pro line. How is Tesla able to succeed? Something doesn't add up.

It has sociopath written all over it... then again, sociopathy is likely the reason she's followed by so many people.

Look at Sweden and Denmark. There's very little table service. The future is not decent wages, it's less service. And I don't see that as a problem. Other than very high end places, there is almost zero value add to a waiter. On the contrary, waiters being excessively nice and pandering so they can get a big tip is a big negative in my book.

What were the consequences of running bitcoin stories as the bubble peaked? A couple rich journalists no doubt.

I don't understand why anybody would use this site vs the wikipedia site. Can somebody explain the utility here?

Recessions are a necessary part of the business cycle. A lot of people would argue that global central banks have gone too far trying to avoid a recession and thus the next recession will be particularly brutal.

Like laws designed to encourage forest growth, when the fire eventually comes it burns far brighter than the fire that burns in a forest left alone.

Lots of money. Lots of ideas. No focus.

Fantastic idea for tech to try new ideas in housing and health care. Two sectors of the economy that are increasing inequality and driving lower life expectancy. With all their wealth and resources, the lack of focus on these basic issues is surprising.

This has to be my favourite comment regarding the keyboard debacle.

I hope Apple is not seriously thinking that the laptop market isn't worthwhile because sales are poor. No, sales are poor because people were/are terrified of keyboard issues! Myself included.

Edit: At least you're guaranteed you won't have keyboard issues with the Mac Mini!

Same as the speech they give you at university when you enroll. The world will be your oyster when you finish. This is marketing and nothing else.

Sarno's book should be added to those lists of best programming books. Along with "Say Good Night to Insomnia".

Back pain + insomnia both cured within days of reading each of these. Thankfully I only suffered a few weeks of each before getting my hands on these books.

No reason to 'think' that, incidents involving a single person do tend to generate a stronger emotional response.

"The statistics of large-scale killing don't convey emotion"

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/09/6661503...

I've forgiven Apple for many small issues over the years but the touch bar is simply unforgivable. Beyond cost it is simply poor design. Keyboards are not meant to be looked at.

Romaine lettuce is less nutritious, more expensive and make you fart more than spinach. The last part is what made me stop buying Romaine for good.

Unless you're making high quality prints I would recommend staying away from matplotlib. That's it's purpose and if you ever use large amounts of data it slows to a crawl. It's a real shame that it's the default plotter for pandas. I imagine I've wasted a full 24 hours in total for plots to show up over the past few years.

It makes you wonder what advances in science and engineering have been stalled because of DRAM costs. Particularly in countries with less money to throw at research etc.

My internet cut out last week for four hours while my phone was busted.

I spent an hour listening to this podcast I'd downloaded a week earlier: https://fs.blog/naval-ravikant/

And then spent a few hours thinking about what was said.

It was the most peaceful evening I've had all year.