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The pay and working hours are extremely well known to incoming jr investment bankers

The uber/taxi fee is charged per ride, whereas private passenger cars pay once per day. Seems like a reasonable tradeoff.

Municipality spending is part of GDP

I remember this article was extremely eye opening for me as a recent grad in 2013 Boston. I think it's hard for people to understand today how much less the ideas like lean startup…

Last 110 years really.

Nice try FBI agent

If they show a car driving I believe it's capable of self-propulsion and not just rolling downhill.

Sure but thats a feature of all large trucks he's just marketing more aggressively.

This. Thinking hard is tiring.

Too late to edit, all supposed to be T’s. Quick math even quicker keyboard.

Quick math $33T US national debt times 5% is $1.65B. Federal revenue around $5B in 2022 so not quite there but very substantial.

Leadership and management are crafts just like engineering. Goals and KPIs are tools. Most of the time when I've experienced bad Goals or KPIs, the root problem was one of the foll…

It is intended as a cultural and literary reference. As an american english speaker I would say it's a play on the phrase "That dog don't hunt" meaning something will not work. I w…

Hopefully that’s not the optimization function we pass the AGI!

Here's a 'wrong' but possibly helpful comparison, in the spirit of football fields: 32 billion kilometers is about 100 times the distance a satellite travels from earth to Mars. [1…

This. Same as software engineers doing production support. It's easy to glorify putting out fires and hard to take credit for careful attention that prevents fires. Preventing fire…

The headline gets way more engagement when it's Harvard. Kind of like Foxconn headlines with "Apple factory" not Nokia factory etc.

Curious where you are finding a sample of Gen Z members who can all drive manual transmission?

Sure but the rent roll would barely cover the AWS bill

Different converting the 1890s brick 4 story buildings vs the 1970s or 2000s or 2010s office buildings.

Yes adjusted earnings in this case is most likely something like "Adjusted EBITDA" so interest cost is adjusted out by definition, and they may also adjust out things like severanc…

Amazon is really going to keep making big splashy healthcare investments until they hit one big, and I think they will hit one big.

It's disheartening that generic concepts like these are considered patentable. Even without the dystopian features this is hardly an invention that merits protecting with a 20 year…

Probably more highway miles though to reach that number. City accidents I expect would be lower severity but higher frequency.