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Let's not forget the human factor. Presumably, an operation of this scale would require hiring help - potentially lots of it. How do you make sure that one of the workers does not …

> His answer: "don't come. It's a mess and a revolving door of people" What isn't? I see trying to deliver value in spite of an dysfunctional organization a part of my job descript…

They can get a dumb phone for the child then.

You don't track his Twitter closely enough then :) He was explicitly angry at people who say that it's impossible to be productive in coding for more than 30-40 hours a week. He fe…

> It is said that 27 hours a week is optimal in tech, less than that you could get more done, but more than that you add no extra value, over 40 you produce negative value/bugs. Th…

It's the same for most of the FAANG giants. The Amazon Prime Video app for Windows is basically unusable (frequently lags, stutters, crashes). Google Drive Windows app frequently c…

Average global temperature stops rising?

I'm not sure it's conspicuous consumption. Cases of recent pure conspicuous consumption in the tech world, such as the "diamond app" (an iOS app that displays a diamond and costs c…

In this case, it creates extra confusion and extra mental overhead, because of double meaning of "they".

Like I wrote, for example Nelson Mandela lived in the same period and had much more impact. > My bet is that he will be remembered as a capital figure for putting half of the plane…

> He's most certainly an important historical figure of our time I wouldn't call him that. He's in second/third leaguer at best. His impact on the world was minor. He deserves biog…

I get it, but I thought it's merited in cases where the gender of the person referred to cannot be determined - usually because the reference points to an abstract class of people …

> We were already good friends, and I already had a crush on them. them?

Good list. I'd add one more: - Hire someone above salary bands allowed by HR for full time employees (the salary bands are quite optimistic/unrealistic and are way too low for seni…

Do you think they imagine the end result at the beginning of the process or do they just play semi-randomly until they find something that has potential, and then refine it?

Being amazing at negotiating is a salary multiplier regardless of whether the job has meaning or is part-time... For example, as an absolutely amazing negotiator, you might get you…

It means that you'd probably have to compromise heavily on the third arm of the triangle, i.e. the salary.

You want meaningful AND part time?

I'm sorry, but living in a detached house with 500+ sqft per person, frequently eating out, changing cars every 5-10 years, having a closet full of clothes, eating food from all ar…

> At the end of the 19th century, anarchist thinkers predicted with modern techniques we'd be down to 10h weekly work. Many people in the US could easily have 10h work week, if the…

It won't be affected at all, only resales (not initial sales) would be taxed.

The taxation would be on resales only, not initial sales by developers. Also, if you increased the value of house (e.g. via renovation), the value increase would be tax-free upon r…

> A "country" doesn't "decide" to make an asset class appreciate or depreciate. It's always been driven by supply and demand. But it does. The supply is partially driven by specula…

State-funded university-level studies. State-funded health care. Brutal control over the flat rental market (at least in Stockholm).

I'm not sure about that. Norway or Sweden are infinitely more progressive than the US and yet people there are neither in poverty nor in Gulags. Are you saying it's only a matter o…