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I was reading an interesting Twitter thread on why Trump is spending insane amounts on ads on FB right now (roughly $500k a week!) with many purposefully breaking Facebook’s own guidelines on what’s acceptable. Basically the person was saying Trump is playing a game of chicken with Facebook daring them to remove them so he can play the victim card and claim bias against conservatives. And if they don’t take them down then he gets to spread ads that clearly violate the company’s policy and make them look hypocritical either way.

Did anyone else find it ironic there’s a scene in the Netflix AOC documentary where she’s crowded around a computer with her boyfriend scrolling through Google Ad spend targeting specific demographics and age groups?

I’ve worked at the stereotypical big SF tech co and agree not everyone can thrive at that kind of place...including me. I can’t drink the koolaid and I don’t like feeling like I have to fake excitement to fit in.

My wording is confusing. I’m aware these are tracked.

They are tracked but aren’t a “first class” statistic like GDP is as far as measuring the “health” of a nation is concerned.

I wish we tracked suicide rates and drug ODs as a nation like we track GDP.

Definitely a few post office closures I’m aware of...

There is so much wasted/poorly optimized land in SF. I cringe whenever I see the massive surface level Safeway parking lot in Duboce/Church.

There would be limits for this to work, like a geofence

I would love an all you can ride monthly subscription. I know Uber/Lyft have done limited trials but nothing truly an unlimited subscription.

Any large application using React is most likely using it with Redux.

You’re forgetting taxes. Some will be tax free but not all if it’s a 401k or traditional IRA

I never thought it made sense that people should expect to do nothing for 30+ years of their life.

For most the anxiety of boxing yourself into that belief that after a certain day of your life that you can’t earn another dime makes no sense. If you look at the current stats there’s a huge % of people nearing “retirement age” who have nothing saved.

Personally I have had a surprising number of Uber drivers who are retired and bored and drive to socialize with others. Although they may be lucky to have saved enough I don’t necessarily think it would be “depressing” for someone who was otherwise of retired age to take on a job that they felt they were capable of doing instead of sitting at home doing nothing all day

And if the market crashes when you are retired? What are you supposed to do?

I don’t think it’s sound advice to keep your retirement in stocks when you’re actually in retirement...

If you retire at 65 and live to 100, you’re supposed to live on $20k a year pre-tax (assuming you’re withdrawing from a pre-tax account like a 401k)?

That isn’t going to work.

And yet tether is still hovering near $1...

I’m in a well known bootcamp in SF right now (after flirting with idea for a few years and finally making the timing work). Having hit the half way point, I would say the day-to-day format has been very conducive to learning, at least for me.

Basic structure is: -nightly readings and videos on a new concept -a homework on the readings -a quiz on the material

Next day: -a half day lecture on the new material from the previous night. -a half day of paired project work on the material.

I think the reason why it’s a pretty effective format is because it forces you to struggle on your own the night (homework and quiz force you to do something and not just read along) before some new concept is taught, meaning you’re not going into a lecture completely cold. Then in the lecture you can solidify your understanding of the material, ask questions, follow along demos, and then really have things sink in with the longer, more difficult project work that same day.