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Agree. Further corollary: more workers will be concentrated around 2nd-tier hubs where their wages will be lower than 1st-tier, but higher that median wages. 2nd-tier median wages …

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Super helpful - thank you! IIS / containerized .NET apps that may be optimized in Azure is compelling.

Exciting is also a confusing property for me. AWS has offered a superset of services beyond what I or colleagues have ever been able to apply.

Additionally: - What OS do you run? - Do you have a meaningful server-less component of infrastructure? - Do you containerize your hosted services? - How big is your company (& doe…

Makes sense that business incentives inform decision making, but how do you explain the difference in Twitter's content policy? They also, presumably, measure their business via MA…

Initially I thought of those numbers (36m in the US) as totally unrealistic. But then comparing to seasonal influenza case counts, they seem to be within that order of magnitude (3…

Re. Money in a bank account not contributing to scarcity: I think that logic checks out when you observe money as a resource in isolation. If you think of Money as a proxy for "cap…

Interesting to present it as a binary tradeoff. I want to win, but I want to make sure that the thesis has some modeling diligence =)

Strongly agree with this. Dates serve a critical goalpost in technical planning, yet they should be viewed as flexible (having a reasonable margin of error) and informed by tight &…

not an argument, an attempt to synthesize this event into a parable. Failed attempt at that ;)

To clarify my thinking: defunding Govt' pandemic preparedness became a forcing function for the individually wealthy to deploy private capital with much higher $$$ cost. Point take…

What's remarkable is how this is a clear case study of the amount of wealth destroyed _by gutting government_ If I were to try to be pithy: Capitalism destroyed by the incompetency…

I suspect this is because these are wolves in operator's clothing. If you deploy true operators that are doing labor in their area of expertise, and if they can pre-empt obvious mi…

Won't claim this is the absolute priority, but recently been thinking about the generalizable problem of: "domain disentanglement." In other words: solve the Data Model Coupling pr…

PG, this is a thoughtful essay. Yet I'll point out a flaw in this thinking below. Intellectually Honest merits here: - you want to incentivize people to create value for society an…

You don't have to imagine. You can do a real cultural economic comparison to other countries: Italy, Greece, Russia, Spain (and others) are countries that index more on your propos…

Is this even addressing the root cause of 2016 misinformation campaigning? I was assuming most misinformation was distributed as user-generated content, not ads. How much was Spoti…

eerily poignant

This is very wise advice, and I can especially appreciate the layer of empathy: empower engineers to add to their toolchain (mgmt or technical). To complement this thinking, howeve…

It would take Googlmart 5+ years to play catch up if not longer. Google's too disorganized and they don't have any supply chain tech built up. Amazon has years of supply chain infr…

This is all true. The flip side of this, however, is that "trial phase failure" does not conclude "ineffective biologic." There are many other variables to Clinical Trials, includi…

No-tipping trends are starting to reverse now, however: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/why-rest... Upscale and some midscale restaurants in NYC have seen a dro…