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I type at a pretty decent pace (~80 wpm), but I spend a lot more time thinking about what I'm going to type and reviewing what I just typed than pressing buttons on the keyboard.

I'd imagine this is the case for most people not doing stenography or data entry.

The NSA and CIA pay less than half of what a FAANG company pays for the same role.

Sources: FAANG: Levels.fyi and personal experience

NSA/CIA: https://work.chron.com/nsa-pay-scale-16399.html and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

There are (potentially non-trivial) tax penalties for not paying quarterly taxes, it's not just something that people do for fun.

FWIW, Amazon doesn't treat its warehouse employees well, but it does pay more than minimum wage.

To be fair, people found plenty of other things to be mad at Notch about.

Ultra-wealthy people are over-represented in California compared to the rest of the USA. 100 of the Forbes top 400 are in CA [1], but the state only has about ~12% of the US population [2], and accounts for ~15% of the US GDP.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2020/09/08/golden-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

And by the sum-of-odd-numbers theorem (sum of 2n-1 = n^2), you don't even need to multiply to generate that table.

If a developer doesn't like Unreal's terms, there are other game engines.

If a developer doesn't like Apple's terms, there are no viable alternatives for iOS distribution.

A "raffle" as distinct from a "lottery" in American English differs in how the prize is decided, and what kinds of things are typically the prize.

Typically a lottery runs in one of two ways: with pre-decided winning tickets, or a number that's drawn after the tickets are distributed to decide which ticket (if any) is the winner. In this way, the odds of winning are mostly independent of the number of tickets sold. The prize is usually money.

A raffle works by selling tickets, and then picking exactly one of those tickets to be the winner, making the odds directly dependent on the number of tickets sold. The prize is usually a physical object, and not money (though there are exceptions, e.g., a 50/50 raffle).

As far as I can find, they're not deleting flat earth videos. Closest thing I could find was them saying that they were deprioritizing them in recommendations:

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-t...

Because there were hardly any Covid-19 cases in Santa Clara County (where Google is based) before March

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx

Intel and TSMC's business models are built on top of Moore's law continuing, and them maintaining an edge over the lower-end manufacturers. The end of Moore's law is an existential threat to their viability.

At the same time, businesses that design specialized architectures, or work on alternative devices have been publishing things about the End of Moore's Law for a long time [1], since it means that their 2x improvement of the day won't be obliterated by next year's Moore's law jump.

[1]: E.g, this article from 2000, saying that the "End of Moore's Law" is why their research is relevant https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-306-47013-...

Fulcrum didn't slip under the radar, it was purchased by Intel in 2011[1]. Since then, Intel's switch and router division have had their part numbers start with "FM".

[1] https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-to-acquire-fu... [2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/products-and-...

I've heard of this being done in other, smaller, hardware stores.

For instance, Harvey's Hardware in Needham, MA started off packing its shelves with empty boxes to make the store look like it had more inventory: https://www.inc.com/magazine/19970701/1277.html

The Bay Area big tech companies are putting a lot into housing.

This article is about a big-ish tech company championing YIMBY. Google is building 10,000 housing units ( https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/12/googles-massive-housi... ), Facebook is building 1,500 ( https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/07/investing-in-menlo-park... ) and Apple put forward $75 million to improve transit in Cupertino ( http://www.cupertino.org/home/showdocument?id=15623 ).

Library I wrote that mimics Python's advanced string formatting in Golang.

I found that the most interesting part of this was actually testing how closely it matches Python's formatter. To do that, it goes through a cgo wrapper and cffi, then uses the Python Hypothesis[1] library to generate random examples.

[1]: https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/