You didn't see Twitter Spaces, Fleets, Birdwatch, Tweet Editing, and Twitter Blue? Some of those features have been successful for them, some not, but they've been releasing features.
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I can understand the damage inflicted by cats in environments that never had a very efficient bird predator like cats (e.g. New Zealand and other islands). But in North America there's the Bobcat, Lynx, Ocelot, Margay, and Jaguarundi. Even without the domestic cat, birds would still get eaten in sizable numbers by cats. Sure there are a lot more domestic cats out there, but without civilization there would be a lot more wildcats out there eating birds.
Maybe the impact is simply that outside house cats exist in numbers that are not supportable for a normal wild predator due to the fact that house cats have meals provided by humans to sustain them. So house cat numbers don't reach an equilibrium with their prey the way a wild cat could. Either way I suspect that the impact on bird populations by domestic cats is often overstated.
podcast: https://tim.blog/2020/12/08/jerry-seinfeld/ transcript: https://tim.blog/2020/12/09/jerry-seinfeld-transcript/
The basic gist is to set a small manageable goal every day, and that you're just looking for progress. You don't second guess it, or agonize, you just do it. After you've done it, that's when you review your work with a critical eye for improvement.
I don't really think what Seinfeld talks about there is so much about procrastination, it's about improving at your craft. You can improve at your craft every day while still procrastinating on your important to do list.
It's that making ambitious games is hard, and if your organization doesn't have good engineering practices, good project management, a clear achievable vision, a realistic timeline, and capable team members, you will have difficulty succeeding.
And even with less ambitious games, studios fail all the time for the same reasons. It's not just the AAA games.
Clearly a smaller team with a smaller scope has an easier time because as you increase headcount, communication overhead increases exponentially, and bigger teams are usually trying more technically difficult things than a smaller team would try to tackle.
I just find it fascinating that this one man was such an arrogant jerk that built such a compelling brand that he inspired an entirely new company and all time great racing program just to get revenge against him.
Not to say the cars are perfect, but most owners end up with relatively hassle-free ownership experiences these days.
So many people just lack the basic literacy to recognize when something sounds too good to be true. And in the crypto market it's worse than that, because all of the memes and in-group behavior functions to drown out warranted skepticism.
To start with, the yes-men problem means significant bad news is often buried not dealt with. It also results in the people who are the best at bs'ing and political manuevering being the ones who rise in the ranks. Your officer corps ends up being filled with people who did not optimize for military competency. Indeed General Shogyu, the Russian Minister of Defense, actually doesn't have a military background.
The corruption comes in with logisitical support. With significant levels of corruption you'll find that the amount of parts, munitions, fuel are not what you thought they were. Then you'll also probably have problems with the condition of the stuff you do have.
All of those things damage morale, competency, readiness, you name it. So when you actually have to go to war, you might find drastic shortfalls in battlefield performance.
No, what is absurd and nonsensical is the idea that soldiers can disobey orders that can directly compromise mission readiness. Sure, a 22 year old E-4 might not be likely to get seriously ill from covid, but there are plenty of enlisted soldiers, sailors, and airmen in their 40's and 50's who are more at risk. Having a few commanding officers or pilots or other key people end up being unavailable at a critical time can compromise the mission. It is a health countermeasure that is a minor inconvenience and not a difficult order to follow.
In the military there are many, many rules that might seem like they don't make sense but nevertheless are part of keeping discipline in the military. You can't wear your hat indoors. If you're driving on base and it's time for reverie you have to stop, get out of your car, and stand at attention. You're not allowed to drink alcohol on ships, even when you're off duty. How does it make sense for masking during a pandemic to be the hill to die on?
A one off bug like this isn't the end of the world, but it fits into the larger pattern of how Google operates.
That's not really it. We get snowstorms of this size once every 2 or 3 years, sometimes more. The problem is that somehow they didn't keep up with plowing and salting on that stretch of I-95, and that led to back-ups, and once that happened, there was no way to prevent ice from forming on the road. An exacerbating factor was that it was raining before the snow event, so they weren't able to pre-salt/brine the roads.
Notice that the major traffic jam was on I-95 South outside of the beltway, it wasn't on the outer loop, inside DC, or in Maryland even though the storm blanketed the area.
Truth of the matter is that in the financial industry there are always cutthroat and dishonest players trying to find a novel way to bilk people and yet more people trying to make a buck in a reckless manner that endangers consumer money.
Ultimately it's not about crippling the crypto industry, it's about preventing fraud irresponsibility. Other financial sectors have to do this, crypto should be no different.
People act like all of these companies trying to cash in on the crypto gold rush are on the up and up, but historically when there's a gold rush, there are unscrupulous actors seeking to cheat and steal from unsuspecting marks.
We can throw up our hands and just say 'free market' and 'caveat emptor', but if too much money gets roped into a financial bubble, when it bursts it hurts everybody.
So right now there are crypto firms making all kinds of claims about how their assets are backed, or how consumer money is safe in their little DeFi account. It is, and should be in the SEC's (and the NYAG's) purview to regulate that.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are actually making people money so it's different than the average MLM experience, but that makes the fervor all the more intense. Then there's all the shitcoins out there that people have lost money on.
But if you're using it to increase productivity for straightforward database calls, it can be a useful tool in a lot of scenarios.
Either way, we'd still be better off if we dramatically reduced cattle farming and restored some or all of that habitat, particularly in South America.
Maybe if carbon were heavily taxed it would incentivize energy storage solutions but as of right now cost effective solutions are no viable yet.
The problem with beef farming is that vast amounts of forest are burned or clear cut to allow cattle to graze. That alone raises the carbon footprint of beef. Grass on the pasture definitely doesn't sequester much carbon.
When we talk about wild ruminants, some regions that are used for cattle didn't have a bunch of ungulates on it before. South America for example didn't have huge herds of llamas roaming the lands.
In North America Bison herds were estimated to number about 10 million, but right now there's somewhere around 90 million cattle in the US. Even if cattle farming was drastically reduced, it's unlikely Bison numbers would return to their historic amount. Deer are the other part of the picture, and their numbers would sky rocket, given the opportunity. But that's where managing their numbers and reintroducing predators comes in.
A space elevator could potentially be much better, but none of these private companies are pursuing space elevators.
Investing money into developing renewable energy power for heavy industry makes infinitely more sense, but isn't as cool as launching rockets. IIRC the Gates Foundation is investing in a solar powered method for smelting steel.
Meanwhile, it is actually achievable to reduce the environmental impact of heavy industry and agriculture on Earth, reduce consumption, etc. It would also be a lot more impactful to invest billions into stuff like that instead of space access.
> Employees who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, said the frustration with Awadallah’s leadership style had been building for months, leading up to this week’s all-hands meeting, where employees confronted him about their discomfort with his manifesto, working with him and the leadership attrition of his reporting leaders.
At the very least, if your job is dev relations you've got to be somewhat adept at how to communicate publicly. It sounds like his manifesto didn't hit the mark.
And I'd have to question why he decided to do that in the first place? Did something force his hand? I feel like many people have had the experience of growing out of past prejudices but posting a manifesto about it is not something I've seen too often, certainly not in the workplace.
Even then, with zero moderation, feeds that people subscribe to could still get overwhelmed by trolling and vitriol.
Some stuff is easier to grow, some is harder, but for example I barely did anything on my strawberry patch this year other than picking them when they got ripe. I'd say I spent maybe 15 minutes a month on the strawberries.
Now if you're trying to grow a lot of stuff then the time investment might increase but most backyard gardens don't take up that much time once you've planted everything.