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Infinite, because the median counterfactual is never getting around to this P4 “nice to have” issue that’s languished in the backlog.

https://www.theonion.com/facebook-employees-explain-daily-st...

Yeah, it’s wack how people want to buy the laptop with the best perf per watt ever.

A few seconds isn’t bad to boot an OS, no? ;-)

If you’re in the tech industry, FIRE is an option closer than most. You can build your own tenure to pursue what you like.

It’s gotta be the mangoes! Unfortunately the internet has a large selection bias. Anger, outrage, etc. are more viral than quiet contentment. Misery loves company and all that. It’…

People think the virus has a strategy, like it’s playing a sport and deciding an outcome. Tell the Black Plague its strategy of killing 30% of is suboptimal. Or to the species driv…

Tu quoque, COVID: we foolishly ignore other fixable problems so we should ignore this too?

Why isn’t the burden of proof on the lone BSL4 lab in the country doing research on that very class of virus to prove its innocence?

Sure, the system generally may loosely correlated with the long-term preference of the populace depending on the government, such that people don't revolt. But the system is design…

What is clean air worth? What do you pay for it? In the US, you pay taxes which are distributed under the purview of a democratic republic, whose officials may decide to create an …

Most replies are having their Green Eggs and Ham moment. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam I am. Meanwhile, people who have actually used it, find it great.…

Yep. Most of the advice here is about how to be a better employee and navigate a system that doesn’t have your best interests at heart. Instead, work to free yourself from needing …

Long term: Don't become a peasant, live life on your own terms. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si... If you like hacking, you can arrange your life to do…

The long-form format is a huge part. The regular media is not incentivized to air a 3-hour interview with a thoughtful interviewer. No, you'll get a 2-minute clip on CNN designed t…

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. …

Thank you so much for sharing this. A lot of people will knee-jerk react with "push, push, you're worthless, push" and I have deep appreciation for this wiser attitude.

Easy, after first imagining the pink elephant you aren't supposed to.

Check the incentives. For corporate managers, your salary is generally proportional to the number of people you manage. Who cares if your 1000-person org doesn't accomplish anythin…

Not always. The best code is no code. Sometimes you can clarify requirements (and realize the request is redundant with existing capabilities), adapt workflows, combine existing fe…

"A classic is something everybody wants to have read, but no one wants to read." -Mark Twain Many want to have had done a startup.

Not OP, but I saw people wasting their lives on "big projects" that actually had little impact. (And that's if you're lucky enough to have it ship and not be cancelled.) Imagine yo…