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It’s incredibly difficult to run a large social platform without it quickly devolving into a cesspool of hate speech, pornography, extremism, misinformation, propaganda, etc. It’s …

This assumes the staff engineers work more hours (not my experience)

The card check at entrance and “club” concept serves another purpose: it deters random people from going to Costco to steal or cause problems. Retail theft is a major problem for m…

I’ve fallen victim to this, though perhaps fortunately with digital synth plugins that take up no physical space. This is related to another problem of mine: ignoring things I’m na…

I’m constantly torn by the natural inclination to climb the ladder and enjoy the financial rewards, but I have little interest in the day-to-day tasks of my staff engineer coworker…

If the city says “You cannot live on the sidewalk, in public parks, or in Bart stations,” that’s a far cry from putting a gun to someone’s head. The city can offer other options: -…

The point is that you don’t incentivize moving to SF with no money and no job and no prospects and living on the street until you get free housing. Newsom tried this while he was m…

Do you let the shelters become drugs dens? Because many chronically-homeless people in SF are addicts, and they prefer to live on the street than give up drugs to sleep indoors. Ad…

Yes, tags, and really anything illegally spray painted on public or private surfaces. No problem if the city or a building owner wants to commission or invite graffiti artists. I s…

The IQ of the average college student has dropped from ~120 to 102 over time. College no longer the domain of a people pursuing intellectually-demanding careers. It’s become an exp…

If they want to limit “visual pollution” they should crack down on graffiti. Zurich is covered in it and it’s really ugly. Local Swiss claimed it’s no worse than other cities, but …

Why are you pretending that $100k-$200k is the ceiling in the defense industry, when the comment you’re replying to is specifically pointing out that it’s frequently a stepping sto…

> My point is the world will develop whether or not that is in the interest of those in power. I didn’t get that from “if the rest of the world is allowed to develop.” But yes, par…

You think the rest of the world has not developed? Have you been out in the world?

My God, what if a glut of middle managers and PMs delegating to LLMs is all we need?

Cities are not all alike. I enjoy living in my current city, but would never move back to San Francisco.

Studies have shown (take this with a grain of salt because I heard this from a podcast), that dividend stocks and non-dividend stocks have roughly equal returns in the end, with di…

That wouldn’t be a problem for engineers who are good at networking or the interview song and dance, but plenty of talented engineers aren’t particularly good at those things. The …

You should report this to VAERS if you’re in the US and it hasn’t been reported already. Indicate the batch number, which should be written on your vaccine card. I’ve had four Pfiz…

A layoff is motivated by business reasons, but where does it say that performance can’t be considered when deciding who gets cut and who stays? “Sometimes, job performance does pla…

> layoffs _must_ be done without regard to performance Do you have any citation for this? I’ve never heard this before, and a quick search pulls up many sources that contradict thi…

Looked him up, it says he kept $7.9B for himself.