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I live in Oregon, work in Washington County. One of my coworkers has been WFH all week with flu like symptoms. Another one was out today. I'm officially spooked.

I think Germany success with hidden champions is correlated with their banking system, there are a lot of smaller regional banks in Germany that are focused on smaller businesses and allow for a market where there is a 'middle class' of companies.

So is this blog post redundant?

Any idea of when this product was introduced?

For me, programming is difficult because once you reach a certain level of complexity it's very difficult to keep a robust enough model of the program in your head.

TDD has really helped me in this regard because it forces me to start building the model from ground up as opposed to in media res.

From the outside looking in the combination of Coronavirus response and Hong Kong protests are the strongest challenges to the Communist Party legitimacy I've ever seen. I think we're a long way from any possibility of downfall but its been interesting to see the backlash from mainland citizens over Li's death and even Xi go out and make public appearances to sure up the appearance of control over the virus response.

Not surprising but good to see some research. Just off the top of my head I assume working memory capacity may be slightly increased, whatever portions of the brain are used to decode / encode information, and perhaps even spatial intelligence.

Because central banks don't direct how the money is spent. The central bank puts money into the system but it's up to fiscal policy makers to determine flows -- in the US laws lead to inflation in asset prices.

Listen to Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt.

I just bought Antifragile and can't believe this guy gets away with the constant petty swipes. There are enough interesting ideas to keep you going but there is so much petty noise in these books. If he has an editor they are doing a terrible job.

I was very surprised when I first learned this fact a few weeks ago. It's hard to think of another species that acts so differently in a pack, very similar to humans in my view.

Great article and a very convincing case that modern offices should offer noise cancelling headphones to employees who are organized with an open floor plan.

The big question for me is how do you avoid paying attention to your internal state? Are there findings here that can help those with anxiety problems?

Network effects I suppose. When this economy was based on land and natural resources it made sense to move (and subdue the native population) to open land and gain an advantage, with a service based economy it makes greater sense to cluster at population centers and leverage that. The rise of remote work will probably alleviate this a bit but education, health care, entertainment, hospitality (aka. the fastest growing sub sectors of our service economy) are more valuable when delivered in person. Not to mention fighting climate change (not to say that we're doing a particularly good job) encourages density.

Definitely but my partner will probably disagree; I've played devil's advocate way too many times for her liking.

It's getting very difficult to see how California works its way out of this mess. SB 50 like measures can be passed at the local level in theory but if I've learned anything from these fights it's that older, wealthy homeowners will cripple any attempt to do so.

Unless I'm reading this wrong AWS generated 47% of Facebook's total 2019 revenue in Q4.

Very interested in trying LSD or other psychedelics for this reason. I'd love to be able to experience what it's like to shut off my default mode network.

Unfathomable to me. My mind is constantly racing, playing out different conversations, interviewing myself in a variety of roles to navigate my thoughts on things (one day I'm the president of the US talking about foreign policy, another day I'm a big tech CEO navigating the diversity questions). I constantly have something in my ears to tune myself out, podcasts or music. After being diagnosed w/ ADHD I realize I'm probably on the extreme end of those with internal dialogue but to see a complete lack of it in others is very surprising.

Huge spike in general and administrative costs, is that hiring?

The bull case for Tesla is clear. Aside from Nissan with the Leaf, who recently loss their galvanizing CEO and who's market cap has tanked since, what major automaker has anywhere near the success of Tesla with EV?

No doubt execution has been an issue in the past, but recent sales trends, completion of gigafactory, and Chinese expansion show that they are on the right trend.

Tesla's were confined to the luxury market, but the Model 3 is doing well and Tesla is being allowed to come out with more and more SKUs while the other big auto's are still finding their footing.

The branding is on point without the need to advertise, like the iPhone, Tesla's are becoming just a feature of everyday life (at least in large metro's). Finally, and this is absolutely non-empirical, I just believe in Elon. Tesla might be one of those companies that simply fades away once a galvanizing leader leaves, but as long as his heart is beating I'll hold.

I don't believe the cause has been definitely described. Education plays a part, the transition to a service economy plays a part, perhaps even video games play a part. I do believe that it's clear that labor force participation among males has been declining in past decades while the number of folks incarcerated has risen and that there is no doubt a relation between the two.

It's time to move to what criminal reform activists call 'restorative justice'. We lock you up, possibly contract your labor to some shady organization, and don't provide enough tools for those who've served their time to get back on their feet and contribute.

We can see these effects in the economy if you look closely, the labor participation rate among men is declining, most new jobs (which are service jobs) go to women, millions of men are missing in our society due to this system which throws away human capital. For what?

Apple finally decided to start capturing some of the value add of the iPhone itself (App store fees are solid revenue I suppose but a tiny fraction of the overall potential value of an iPhone) and now somehow an unstoppable force has gotten even more successful. I don't think I've ever seen such a tentpole product. No doubt in my mind that Apple will be the one takes AR and possibly VR to the next level.

iPad is an excellent consumption device, I never quite saw the appeal in productivity based add-ons. A few years ago my MBA died and I was quite slow in getting a replacement due to financial commitments. As a cord cutter w/o a TV my iPad was my main source of video entertainment and I was surprised that I didn't miss my Air as much as previously thought.

I don't cook meat without chemically washing it either. I was raised on washing meats with vinegar and sour orange and don't compromise on it at all. Chemically washed is quite the spin considering US rates on food poisoning are probably quite low.

The concern is real but ultimately it does not matter. Fact of the matter is, arguments like this have been used to justify racism for a long time.

"They are Savage so they need our religion. They are savages so they need to put in the fields to work. They are savages so they don't need education. They are savages so their art should be displayed in our museum not theirs."

Why does this matter? Britain stole them, just because they are "safer" in Britian doesn't mean they belong there.

While it's amazing that folks can simply discuss this on the internet I would love a ELI5 style answer so us simple folk could understand.

For me, Twitter has been the worst thing to happen to journalism. There are a lot of downsides to strong institutions and gatekeeping, but when it comes to journalism I always felt like I was reading The New York Times or The Washington Post and not an individual reporter. The shroud of not getting an up close an personal look put the institution at the forefront.

With social media, Twitter specifically, the journalist becomes the main focal point -- unfortunately the biases comes out as we are all human and you begin to get a closer look at how the sausage is made, how much "access journalism" corrodes coverage, and particularly how non-diverse these institutions are (everyone feels like they went to some Ivy or liberal arts college with somewhat wealthy or well connected in journalism relatives). A majority of the content is still really good (climate reporting, international politics, 'explainers' and data backed reporting are all excellent) from the big institutions but I've totally avoided political and most opinion columns since 2016.

The literal interpretation is dead but the trend itself is still very much active. We're not only consistently packing more transistors into each chip but various advancements in packaging technology assure that performance will remain on an upward trend.