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Then you end up like the tech company where only one guy does deployments, because he's the only guy management trusts, because he's the only guy who's ever done a deployment.

When inflation is "merely" bad, a dollar loses half its value in a few years.

In hyperinflation, a dollar loses half its value in a few minutes.

The former is certainly possible we decide we want to maintain low taxes and big spending after investors stop buying bonds (hard to say when that happens).

The latter would mean people have lost faith in the government's ability to carry out even its most basic functions.

> Because that's who you want reviewing the books, someone who can barely keep their head up...

Depending on how carefully I've been keeping those books, quite possibly :)

Matt Levine's trademark... objectivity? cynicism? is perfect for this.

"It is not about fairness; it is about theft. Selective colleges have admissions spots that they want to award in particular ways. They want to award some based on academic factors; they want to award others based on athletic skill; they want to award others in exchange for cash, but—and this is crucial—really a whole lot of cash. Buildings are not cheap.

...The bribery scheme devalued the asset not only by stealing it and re-selling it for less than it was worth, but also by being so explicitly commercial.

...consultants and coaches are misappropriating the asset and selling it for their own benefit."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-13/you-ha...

What if I didn't check my email but only because I was trading memes on Slack all day?

I wonder if Thailand's military junta sees this "violation of sovereignty" as some sort of personal insult against the king. Since the 2014 coup, the military has claimed its rule is necessary to preserve the honor of the Thai royal family. It rabidly prosecutes any perceived insults, which conveniently tend to be committed by critics of the coup. (But of course to criticize the coup is to criticize the king, since the military claims to act only for the sake of the king...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9_in_Thai...

For that reason I'd want a really simple rule, such as "allows unprivileged shareholders real voting control." Except the S&P 500 has actually been enforcing that rule since 2017. Google and Facebook are grandfathered in, though.

https://www.dividend.com/news/2017/11/03/companies-multiple-...

> It's far more scalable than ticketing. Issues can be resolved in three lines of text, rather than ticket creation, queue, assignment, closing, etc.

My experience has been that it goes on for thirty or three hundred lines of problem report -> steps to reproduce -> troubleshooting -> proposed solution -> etc. Two days later someone else gets pulled in so they look at a Jira ticket with an empty description and zero comments...

Crying is nominal.

Yeah, it's always a fun read for grumbling grognards like me. Pretty standard stuff, except I don't think I've seen a company call out its own culture as a risk factor before.

USS Wasp (LHD-1) displaces slightly more than the USS Wasp (CV-18), a World War II Essex-class aircraft carrier. So when we say amphibious assault ships aren't real carriers, it's only because carriers have been growing bigger for some time.

Keeping your name on the lease and then subleasing it under the table is one of the classic scams when rent control is involved. I can understand where the landlord would want to know who is actually using it.

Hopefully far, far below 1%. If I was hitting someone once every hundred miles, the front of my car would be pretty messed up.

I mean sure, I would take a small pay cut for a private office, but I'm not sure that's what they thought they were asking.

I can trust the compiler... I hope?

Fracked natural gas killed coal years before solar and wind could get there. Solar and wind may yet kill gas, which would be nice.

A setback for fracking would be the best thing that could possibly happen to coal.

"Should I work at a startup?" Eh, maybe, but be skeptical of their promises.

"Should I work at a startup that puts developers in private offices?" Hell yes!

It's noisy and distracting when it's taking place ten feet away from your open plan workspace.

During my orientation, I was able to visit the call center and put on a headset to listen in on a few client calls. It was quite interesting. That was years ago and I haven't had direct contact with any customer since, even though my work affects them directly.

So even U.S. gas-generator engines like the RS-68 have this extra gearing?

I'm very excited to be making the last payment on my 500 MHz Athlon this year!

As I recall, nobody could stop talking about it in the weeks before the Falcon Heavy demo.

> By "many" you perhaps mean "many American".

And by "many American," do you perhaps mean "pretty much just the Space Shuttle Main Engine?" Since that one, has America launched any new staged combustion engine off the ground?

Ironically, now that the shuttle is gone, the X-37B is closer to this vision. It hangs up there for over a year at a time doing who knows what. And it has a ridiculous amount of delta-v to change its orbit.

> isn't their entire business model manufacturing other people's R&D?

I tend to assume that everyone with that business model dreams of getting out of that business model. You want to develop your own tech and move upmarket somebody else bids a penny less per widget to steal your manufacturing customers.

> Apply the “pick one to sound smart” rule. :)

Confirmation bias! :p

Halo was good, but the released product doesn't compare to the multiplayer open world that Bungie was teasing before the acquisition.

From the article:

"Tesla said more than three-quarters of orders for the sedan in the year’s final three months were from new customers, rather than reservation holders. That suggests many consumers are still waiting to buy versions of the vehicle at the long-promised $35,000 sticker price."

Technically he was lying to his investors, not the SEC.

Of course then in that 60 Minutes interview he all but declared he wouldn't honor his side of the settlement, but we'll see if he follows through on that.