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It's a shame that along with the clause against bills of attainder, banning laws that are intended to solely harm a specific individual or group of individuals, the constitution didn't also ban bills of... abtainder (?) banning laws that are intended to solely _benefit_ a specific individual or groups of individuals.

Would be the best antidote to this sort of thing, but is probably untenable to amend at this point.

I found this hard to believe, but confirmation bias is a hell of a drug, so I ran my own quick blinded experiment: 3 cups of hot water, one of which had a small pinch of saffron swirled around in it, one with a 1/4 tsp of turmeric, one plain.

That it was trivial to tell which was which is an understatement. There's a floral sweetness to saffron that is absolutely unmistakable to me.

Rents came down significantly during 2020 in San Francisco (I paid ~2500 $/mo in Nov 2020 for a place that rented for 3300 $/mo the year before)

They rely on the incomes of family members, savings, or governmental transfer payments (social security, welfare, disability, etc).

Not sure the percentages of each, but those categories probably about cover it.

Notion (valuation 10 G$) and Asana (market cap 5 G$) are both nodejs down to the DB layer, to name two codebases I have personal experience with.

Not quite Fortune 500 tier, but certainly not small potatoes.

I've always been amused by the fact that "chilly" in English is so similar to the synonymous "ಚಳಿ" (roughly "Chuh-ly") in Kannada (my family's mother tongue)

"The acid"? Capsaicin (the compound responsible for a pepper's "heat") is not an acid.

Also, I've never noticed "black veins" in any peppers I've prepared, including very spicy ones.

I've never been asked "my greatest weakness" or "my greatest strength" in an interview. What sort of jobs have asked you those questions?

(I've worked (and interviewed) as a programmer at VC backed startups and FAANG in SF and NYC over the past 12 years)

Pagerduty was explicitly modeled after an internal tool at Amazon

I believe it's pronounced very similar to the English word "man" (with the vowel being a little farther back. Halfway to "mon" as in "pokemon")

Moderates believe supply and demand applies to housing, and that building more housing, regardless of whether it is explicitly "low income", is the most important thing to improve housing affordability. In practice, this means favoring upzoning (allowing duplexes/triplexes/apartment buildings in more places), and minimizing burdens on developers. Eg, advocating against "inclusionary zoning requirements" that require X% of a given building to be rented out at below market rate and against long development approval processes.

Progressives believe that allowing developers to build housing will only create "luxury" housing that is unaffordable to all but the rich, increasing gentrification and displacement. Therefore it's necessary to mandate things like "inclusionary zoning" and tight review of every single development project.

Empirically, the progressive stance results in a lot less housing of any sort getting built, whether "affordable" or otherwise, and consequently higher housing prices for all but the lucky lottery winners who grab the limited number of BMR ("Below Market Rent") units. Some would say that that's actually the goal of progressives (ie, they're using "progressive" window dressing to preserve property values/neighborhood aesthetics of the very rich).

If I did this, I wouldn't be out of a job.

Which of us is right? Maybe both (corporate culture can be pretty heterogeneous). Hard to say, regardless

It's Anglo-Norman[0], and means "to tell the truth" ("voir" being cognates with modern French "vrai", not "voir")

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language

I would simply have small firetrucks in urban areas, and large fire trucks in rural areas.

Smaller fire trucks.

I guess I still fail to see the advantage of this over Haskell:

    dot = (sum.) . zipWith (\*)
    p = [2, 3, 4]
    q = [1, 0, 2]
    p `dot` q

Like, the only difference to my eyes is using names for sum/zipWith, and not having the lifts/restructuring happen "magically"

Or its twin cousin: forcing me to login after updating my password.

This is fascinating to me. The list of things the author suggests the cerebellum handles is a tailor-made list of things I'm oddly bad at:

1. I'm very uncoordinated, with a noticeable intentional tremor

2. I'm particularly bad at sequencing dependencies for projects/errands/household tasks. I have to write down even fairly simple sequences of subtasks or get lost in yak-shaving loops

3. When flustered, I make very distinctive disfluencies in speech around conjugations (swapping "but"/"and"/"although") and sequencing (ie, placing objects before subjects/verbs) in sentences as well swapping relationships (referring to someone's parent as their child or vice versa, swapping "you" and "I/me", etc)

4. I tend to have a "ground up" approach to writing (building clauses first and then moving them around to construct sentences), which doesn't resemble the approach of other people I've shoulder-surfed.

All of these are fairly mild in terms of life impact, to be clear (or perhaps I'm just able to satisfactorily compensate for them in various ways) but I wonder if they all share some underlying minor cerebellar dysfunction.

As a single anecdote, I’ve taken 12 Waymo rides over the past 3 months, and I’d put them at ~90th percentile with respect to human Uber/Lyft drivers in terms of smoothness/quality of reaction to the various hazards of SF streets.

(Over ~4 Cruise rides, I’d put them closer to median)

It might not be the only story, but it's very possible for growth in demand for housing quantity to outstrip growth in population. Say if there was a sudden move to working from home, which encourages home offices, concentrated in the class of workers with flexibility in their budget to spend more on rent (a class that's disproportionately large in NYC)?

It's also possible for supply of housing to reduce simultaneously. Say if there was a change in rental laws that strongly incentivized landlords to pull units from the market?[0]

[0] https://reason.com/2019/06/17/new-yorks-progressive-backed-r...

Pro-tip for everyone reading these comments: The "easiest", "clearest", "most neutral" accent is generally the one you're exposed to the most often (or the one spoken as a 2nd language by speakers of the language you're exposed to most often)

There is no universal metric of what makes one accent easier to understand than another.

YMMV. I have a sneaking suspicion that eg, Nagarle, Karnataka[0] wasn't issuing written birth certificates in the 1910s

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarle

> Wages are definitely up, but if you factor in all the price increases of rent and groceries, I don't see how anything is better for the poorest.

That's what inflation adjustment is for.

> The poorest people in the US saw faster inflation-adjusted wage growth than any other income bracket: https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2022/

No[0].

As a percent of population, number of Americans with multiple jobs is well south of where it was from 1994-2009.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1cpAm

The economic statistics that show the economy is booming are medians (eg, median real personal income and median household income) and population ratios (ie, things like prime employed percentage of population), which are insensitive to small numbers of outliers like the richest families.

There's a huge difference between LLMs and "higher level languages": Determinism

The same C++ or Java or Haskell code run with the same inputs twice, will cause the same result[0]. This repeatability is the magic that enables us to build the towering abstractions that are modern software.

And to a certain mind (eg, mine), that's one of the deepest joys of programming. The fact that you can construct an unimaginably complex system by building up layer by layer these deterministic blocks. Being able to truly understand a system up to abstraction boundaries far sharper than anything in the world of atoms.

LLMs based "programming" threatens to remove this determinism and, sadly for people like me, devalue the skill of being able to understand and construct such systems.

[0]Yes, there are exceptions (issues around concurrency, latency, memory usage), but as a profession we struggle mightily to tame these exceptions back to being deterministic because there's so much value in it.

But what's preventing realtors from defecting and offering their services for a lower rate?

I read the article, but I still don't understand how the National Association of Retailers enforce the 5-6% total commission. Does anyone know?

The incidence question (is the fee "paid" by the buyer or seller) is a semantic one, but if the cartel is able to inflate the total fees, that's something else entirely.

150 k$/yr is roughly dividing line to the top quartile of software developer pay.

150 - 275 k$ definitely does not encompass 75% of software jobs in the USA

Barring evidence to the contrary (internal emails/discussion), I definitely would assume mistake over malice.

I've worked in Monetization at 3 SaaS cos (admittedly all smaller than Uber, O(100-1000) employees), and at all of them I've seen mistakes of a similar proportion of revenue (~1%) made in both directions (overcharging and undercharging customers) in violation of the letter of our contracts with absolutely zero intent or malice.

Wage law adds several additional layers of complexity beyond that.