Irrespective of how big Elastic is, this is an escalation of Amazon's behaviour of suppressing the tough weeds of competition.
> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
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> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Extracting more work from the poor is often veiled under the guise of "improved productivity", so this measure of praise is not particularly helpful.
When companies measure labour productivity by the bottom line "Revenue output per Wage input" rather than "GDP output per worker" this ignores a subtle distinction that has severe societal impact.
If that were the case, then there would be no disparity.*
* That is, unless luck is a function of circumstance. Which is kind of the point of the OP.
> individuals born in 1980 have only a 45% chance of outearning their parents at age 30, compared to 93% for those born in 1940. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
The 2008 crisis was caused by irresponsible lending by the 1% with the effect of inflating costs for the 99%.
A bailout and a decade later we now see irresponsible lending by the Fed having the effect of inflating assets for the 1%.
Tails you lose, heads I win.
It is more akin to tulip mania, dependent on inflated futures with diminishing utility.
Presently though, it's better than cash, which finds itself in a similar position.
Actively prevent loss-aversion from being the only learned lesson of failure. Encourage risk-taking by providing a safe space to fail: https://youtu.be/lJs-RiPOKVY
Good activities are open-ended for more opportunity to question. Drop an egg, improve its survivability.
Do you think 20% exposure (at a cost of 17.5k lives) buys you herd immunity?
Even in hotspots like New York City that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, initial studies suggest that perhaps 15-21%6,7 of people have been exposed so far. In getting to that level of exposure, more than 17,500 of the 8.4 million people in New York City (about 1 in every 500 New Yorkers) have died [...] To reach herd immunity for COVID-19, likely 70% or more of the population would need to be immune. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/early-herd-immu...
That, in a nutshell, is the reason positivity rate matters.
If a positivity rate is too high, that may indicate that the state is only testing the sickest patients who seek medical attention, and is not casting a wide enough net to know how much of the virus is spreading within its communities. A low rate of positivity in testing data can be seen as a sign that a state has sufficient testing capacity for the size of their outbreak and is testing enough of its population to make informed decisions about reopening. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/testing-positivity
To achieve herd immunity for measles at least 90-95% of the population need to be vaccinated. A disease like polio is less contagious, and 80-85% of the population would need to be vaccinated for herd immunity to work. https://www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/herd-immunity-how-does-it-work
It suggests our immunity to SARS-CoV-2 does not last very long at all — as little as two months for some people. If this is the case, it means a potential vaccine might require regular boosters, and herd immunity might not be viable at all. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.09.20148429v...
Can't get 80% people to wear a mask, much less seasonal vaccinations.
If you test positive, why make your kid go through that? If you test positive and you are both sick, you can presume you've caught the same thing.
$100k Consultancy spec everything
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$300k Consultancy spec, listens to client feedback
$500k Consultancy spec, accepts client changes to requirements
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Like the $1.5trillion tax cut that had "no major impact on businesses' capital investment"?
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/1-5-trillion-tax-cu...
Here, we're talking about the vastly different proposition of raising equity in a company where debts outstrip assets.
This is evidenced by stop-and-frisk, which was effective only in finding criminality among select individuals.
Next up: Zoom meeting attendees raided for unlawful assembly. https://www.persecution.org/2020/05/24/wuhan-preacher-taken-...
Catch up: Identifying influencers from sampled social networks. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018PhyA..507..294T/abstra...
Needless to say I wasn't recommended for the job, and it taught me a valuable lesson: if you don't first give them what they want, you can't give them what they actually need.
systemd-homed isn't about multi-user systems, it's about multi-system users.
Goal #1: Migratable Home Directories (all the way to the point of "home-on-a-stick") https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/media/homed-asg2019.pdf
I want to take my home with me across all my systems, and /don't/ want network sync to do it with.
If management don't also share in the responsibility, it -might- will happen again because they won't allocate the time (and-a-half) to fix things.
> speaking [...] not English which predisposes one to crime.
Even in jest, this perpetuates the view that unless they speak English in one's presence they should be viewed as having a propensity to crime.
edit: /s fail. toned down the personal.
If accepting a feature that causes a 3x compile-time regression were easy, then that 29s build is just 5 easy decisions away from a 2-hour build. Now, nobody cares about adding more time to the builds, since nightly, and developers commit hoping it doesn't fail. This is sadly all too familiar.
> Good programmers write good code. Great programmers write no code. Zen programmers delete code. https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-that-only-someone...
The point was that the invention of 1-click buy is patentable as applied to "a shopping cart".
> After all, what did it take B&N; to work around the 1-click patent? They had to add a second click for the user to confirm the order.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071218184903/http://www.oreill...