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If art has little value, why is the annual revenue for the global entertainment industry over $2 trillion? No one is being forced to pay for a Netflix subscription. The markets hav…

No, the author is saying the share of revenue the distributors (tech, music industry) are receiving is misaligned with the value they're adding. Compare content creators with a SWE…

Close relationships can having negative value and it's apart of the question (see parenthesis). Gaining and keeping a relationship are not the same but also not particularly releva…

A thought experiment for those without children approaching having one from a rational perspective. What is the value of your closest personal relationship; your mom, your spouse, …

Increasing human prosperity/reducing human suffering is largely a function of technological advancement, wealth distribution and avoiding wars. All of these require a large populat…

I think people are reading this line the wrong way. The author isn't implying Instacart is as important as the transistor, that would be ludicrous. He's simply drawing an analogy b…

CS fundamentals can be readily learned without obtaining a degree. If you don't think so, then you've never met a self-taught programmer and are probably (no offense) someone with …

The similarities in my experience between big tech (FAANG) and big non-tech are heavy process/communication burden, deep tech debt and perf review driven culture. The main differen…

You seem to be implying "software engineers" require much more than a business degree, in which case I believe you to be a young person ( SWE is not a profession that requires deep…

"You don't have to write any software to build and manage that production system." It depends on the scale and complexity of your application. At some scale/complexity, it absolute…

The website is NOT a power plant, it's just code. In software, "operations management" is basically infrastructure automation, incident response and build and release. All of these…

Site Reliability/Infrastructure/Production Engineer typically have three focusses: Managing and scaling "software infrastructure" (Kubernetes, cloud services, databases/caches, job…

1. Dangerous means causing injury, not just death. 2. How many times has autopilot disengaged and would've caused injury without human intervention?

Blaming the technology for its misuses is always a dubious position to take. The promoters of said technology (and it's misuses) will always argue that you could say the same about…

Ideology aside, shouldn't the fact that this hack exposed gigabytes of user data cause you to reconsider them as a reliable domain provider? Why be concerned with domain providers …

Arguably in the case of Theranos, profitability was a large motivator of the fraud but the markets probably have greater corrective forces.

I believe these are persuasive arguments to trust policymakers less but not to trust non-professionals more. Your work may be exceptional but the signal to noise ratio on public fo…

So let's assume the science is bad, and policy is fraught with political motives, incompetence and distortion to persuade the public to behave in a way that policymakers assume (ri…

The paper shows employment elasticity wrt to wages is very low (Table 4, 5 page 50, 51). Sure, many workers would choose the less labor intensive Target job over the shitty Amazon …

It can be a political stance, but that's for the commenter to decide, not you. It is a legal truth. Uber is not legally responsible for providing FT or benefits period. You can arg…

Do you know how threaded comments work?

Something tells me that a user named "BTCOG" is not here to provide rigorous objective analysis but okay lets attack the strawman. The number of bitcoin addresses with a balance is…

As a content creator, you want the platform to protect your copyright and at YouTube's scale, copyright scanners are the only way to implement this. Will they produce false positiv…