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Its hard to relate to a lifetime employment 'tenure' when us in the private sector have to deal with leet code interviews and other countless indignities in the knife fight employm…

Thanks for saying this, I did the same with expensing an 13 inch iPad Pro thinking I could use it as an extended screen when I travel. The fine print is that its a buggy mess that …

When I was at Google in the bay area almost a decade ago and, unless my memory is heavily exaggerating, the executives of our org were in an offsite every three weeks for at least …

I appreciate it, trolling is an art form and no effort is too little.

It's a fair point and the powder is indeed a compromise, its reliable, stores well, I don't have to cook it and is fast. Raw egg would be great, except you would have to separate t…

1. Intermittent fasting - I eat breakfast at 10am and last meal at 6pm. Its healthier and gives you 16 hours a day that you don't eat. Much easier to stay on budget. 2. 2 vegetable…

Something I have been wondering about, wouldn't a virus naturally evolve to be less deadly and more contagious over time? I.e. virus's tend to achieve a steady state like the cold …

As far as I can tell if the team is prestigious enough, i.e. famous founders or stacked pedigrees, it can raise a few million without a single line of code. There are many examples…

United States Excess deaths by country or city Deviation from expected deaths, % Jun 6 - Jun 12 '-10%' May 30 - Jun 5 '+1%' May 23 - May 29 '+6%' May 16 - May 22 '+12%' I was surpr…

This seems likely to me, lots and lots of money injected and consumer prices are stable yet art, real estate in desirable urban locations, equities, and some categories of luxury g…

Is part of the issue that there is just too much money has been printed and hoarded and its creating some weird effects? The government has been printing money for a long time, to …

Honest question, wouldn’t the 80/20 rule in these cases still imply large majority owners in most cases? Wealth concentration figures I have seen (0.1% own 20% of the nations wealt…

“300 landlords who own more than 10,000 apartments” Wow, that’s allot of concentrated wealth. Anyone have some insight on these fine folk? If each landlord owns 100 apartments rent…

There is an (admittedly controversial) idea within the medical community of Specialist induced demand. I have heard it quoted to me that studies have shown that when a medical spec…

Being merely a delivery vehicle for my children's food would explain some of their behavior...

I used to get really worked up early in my career trying to win the ratings game. When I got older I began to question the concept of the career, ironically when I finally started …

Correct, its a big benefit over the furry prey. Especially when chasing the animal in the hottest part of the day for hours, pre-modern people had quite a different life.

Thank you! I had thought I was the only one who couldn't read Apple's extremely sparse documentation pages with no examples, surely they were sufficient for REAL programmers somewh…

"Famous" "Late" "Mid" "Early" "Seed" are probably more sanitized and accurate but I would argue less fun. It will drive the employers crazy to not be included in 'Top brands' but a…

The paper seems to me to suggests that the Romans got sicker due to increased exposure to virus and disease as they got more integrated, wealthy and populous. Perhaps this was a hi…