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If anything, people with a track record of amassing wealth should be treated with more suspicion on entering public service. If all of their other decisions are geared toward incre…

People don't want to do their jobs, but that doesn't mean they're completely unmotivated. Many people with jobs they're indifferent to, also have hobbies they pursue relentlessly. …

I'm not a lawyer, but the article points out that disclosing your salary is protected by law. > ...disclosing her salary is federally protected by law under the National Labor Rela…

Many of the people who lost more than they can afford to lose were naive, not greedy. I believe that's the author's main point. The problem is that cryptocurrency purveyors have ma…

I looked at the two-line code sample at the link, and it is extreme.

There's so little content to the references to WHO's COVID handling that I can't tell whether they mean WHO over-reacted or under-reacted to COVID.

I find that terseness has a real downside when debugging code. If you need to get down to the level of what is actually executing, having to unpack all that compact code involves m…

> If your unit economics don't work then you're fucked... From the company's perspective that's certainly true. As a regular person I'm more worried about the companies whose unit …

If they said you would "lose service", and you did not lose service, wouldn't that count as making a false representation?

> Whereas if we do actually do it, we might fail, which will be hard to take. It's hard to take because unless you've already got substantial financial security, you may end up bro…

> 4. You're not up more than 1 week per 1-1.5 month. That seems excessive if you're expected to be able to log into your work system within X minutes. Having to be essentially home…

> Anyway the IA will remove everything with a very simple, automated text file placed in the root directory. What if the site is simply gone, or now belongs to someone else who is …

> if we looked in the opposite direction (where such light originates from) we would be seeing stars and galaxies at much more recent time (now) If the preferred/non-preferred dire…

> And the award for Most Condescending Comment goes to... I probably could have phrased that better. In any case I don't think what we're saying is incompatible. One has no choice …

> There is no "displaying their success" or "keep winning bigger" mentality to be found They may not realize the game they're in. But as long as the cost of living keeps hitting ne…

People that want to be conspicuous have to display their success where it's going to be seen. Living in a place that is "central" in so many ways is a competition to see who can ha…

> 18 TPH is what I expect from first class cities in developed countries. Silicon Valley isn't arranged like a city at all, it's almost rural except for the traffic jams. (San Fran…