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I could have been more clear. My point is that aggressively reopening might still be dangerous, but it'll take a while for the public to convince themselves it's safe enough to sta…

This perfectly illustrates the "opening up" paradox. If you, as a Government, aggressively open but the public still sees risk, not much will change. People won't go outside much b…

Becoming a massively profitable megacorp isn't the only winning formula. Were Linkedin, Instagram, Beats by Dre, WhatsApp, Tableau, Skype, GitHub, MuleSoft all failures because the…

Let's leave it at this then: if capital is completely miss-allocated and a bubble has been inflating over the last 5-10 years as you claim, then we'll hear the proverbial pop in th…

Ask that to someone trying to find housing off Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto.

Are we talking about investment strategy or cherry picking data for the sake of arguing? 1. There are plenty of companies on the path to IPO that didn't take 1B+ in VC money 2. The…

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Here are the facts: Companies following these accelerated growth trajectories now make up a total of 4 trillion in market capitalization depend…

Except for dozens of counter examples that make up for literally multiple trillions of dollars in market capitalization.

Correction: Dominos not Pizza Hut.

I'd counter that Pizza hut has a key logistical advantage of vertical integration. A delivery service is a very different business than a restaurant chain that does its own deliver…

Some private companies offer RSU grants. I've been offered them.

There are other factors at play. Most employers offering options don't pay as much in total as those employers offering straight up RSUs.

I got an RSU offer from Pinterest a couple years back when they were private, though I turned it down.

Words matter, concretely define "open ended"? Did you just add that phrase to preemptively nullify evidence to the contrary? Deep learning has surpassed human level performance on …

From all appearances this is more or less what China is doing today. Lockdown until the number of new cases in a geographic area is zero, then slowly loosen the grip of suppression…

And the answer is: zero empathy.

This is only true if you don't count the cost of massive casualties that are impossible to fully quantify the cost of and only count of the cost of running the healthcare system at…

Sure but what happens if we do nothing for a month and let the virus spread rampant. Then we bankrupt the entire country paying for healthcare assistance packages for those who can…

Not sure why this is getting voted down, this is absolutely the case. Either you kill exponential growth via isolation/inoculation or damn near everyone gets sick in an exponential…

What's the reasoning here?

Imagine a photographer from the 1900s who had to pay to develop every roll of film reading and reacting to this. I don't use the cloud. Just lightroom classic and some offline stor…

>Connectivity will be the great equalizer in the future. These words could have come from an article about: the internet, mobile phones, telephones, morse code With minor modificat…

I see your point though POSIX imposes very few (if any) architecture decisions on application developers. The kind of design choices we’re talking about are very different from tho…

You could achieve the same with basically any decent concurrency model on a single machine.