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"So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute"

RIP.

This reads similar to this from April: https://cokiehasiotis.substack.com/p/a-matter-of-taste-issue...

Quoth Cokie: "When everyone has the same brush, the only variable left is the hand."

Who would you give the Nobel Peace Prize to?

Doesn't Mauna Loa spew CO2 by the metric ton on a regular basis? Why is that vantage point the best source of atmospheric CO2 ppm?

This is incredible -- serious question -- has anything of this scale been done in the US or Europe? Do we even have the technology?

Doesn't the MTA pay $2.95 billion per mile of new track?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. We need smarter policies not blaming employees for doing what they need to do to work around them.

This seems like a silly solution to a silly problem. If you're tracking your employees' performance based on actual business metrics, who cares how many times their mouse jiggles in a given day?

And the third. I'm a UChicago alum and my premed friends were always complaining about having to compete against beneficiaries of Ivy League grade inflation.

It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

Until this moment I had no earthly idea you could join a Zoom call from a browser. Good on them for their evil genius design team :-p

It's amazing that this solution has not been considered more openly and widely until now. It's cheaper, more effective, and doesn't require draconian regulations or near-impossible expectations on human behavior.

It's also something that could be tested for a year. It's not irreversible. It would allow the undeveloped world a chance to achieve a piece of the global wealth pie.

Why are so many people (especially environmentalists and climate scientists) so opposed to this solution?

I assumed OP was talking about seeing crimes as a percentage of crime opportunities, whereas overall crime counts on a per capita basis might mask that people spend less time outdoors because of the risk of crime.

"Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

Opening a new browser tab and forgetting what I was going to do in that tab is a very frequent phenomenon for me.

Brilliant early work from Bourdain that (I believe) launched his career, which was tragically cut short. Just last month, I feasted on bun cha next to the table in Hanoi where Obama and Bourdain ate in 2015. He was a global ambassador who united the world through our universal love of food, and really had an amazing impact bringing attention to all cultures and traditions.

It's also important to learn from Bourdain's life that even if someone's life looks perfect from the outside, you never know what people are going through. Everyone deserves empathy. And please, if you are suffering, remember that you are not alone and there are people who can help.

By comparison, what % of humanities majors are working in humanities-related jobs? That would seem to be an important comparator that is excluded.

No reviews so far. Weird.

The right billionaire / fringe group / clandestine evil organization could do something interesting with Bir Tiwal, the largest expanse of unclaimed land in the world.[0]

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

Airbus can outsource to US firms as well as Boeing can. Boeing and its shareholders deserve to lose business and market share.

Interesting that the exposition map[0] has the Eiffel Tower labeled as "Tour de 300 Métres." I wonder when it became known as the Eiffel Tower in common parlance?

[0]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/P._Binet...

The junk fee legislation seems like a great way to make companies waste millions of dollars in resources rebuilding their backend systems just to result in the exact same fees being rolled into the remaining SKUs or charged to more customers than necessary.

I stopped reading here: "Far right white supremacism; libertarianism for white men, forced birth for white women. Eugenics for everyone else."

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (which I did look for in the body of the article; didn't find). Without supporting sweeping statements like this with actual, verifiable evidence, this is simply not a serious article meant to be read seriously by serious people.

That was my learning too. Went viral for a side project I did on my couch in 5 hours when I was bored.

It was almost a decade ago, and the experiment lasted a week, and I earned $20 total...so I assume everyone has let it go at this point ;)

I can speak to this! I was "canceled" in 2014...before it was cool...for doing exactly this[0]

A couple reasons restaurants don't do this:

1) Loss of quality control over customer experience. For example they provide a $100 dinner, but the client expects a $200 dinner. That creates bad experience

2) Desire to maintain accessibility on price point (same reasons artists don't charge more for tickets) and perceived inequities of charging extra for reservations

3) Rewarding loyal customers who value the food / brand / hospitality rather than the highest bidder which tends to bring in out-of-towners, Amex centurion card holders, wannabe influencers -- people that don't help create loyalty

There are many other reasons I'm sure as well. Most chefs/GMs/owners I talked to at the time emphasized that they sincerely are not in this for the money, and yes, they like to make a living, but being able to build a community of food lovers who are passionate about their brand is what they really care about. I ended up pivoting to try to build a shift management app soon thereafter...didn't work out but a good entrepreneurship lesson!

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/03/everyone-seems-mad-at-rese...

I think OP is just doubting the government's ability to know which immigrants are higher quality vs. the companies who seek to employ them.

My favorite part about this thread is not the first, very thorough, very mathematical and accurate answer, but the answer below it that has 0 upvotes but is by far the most practical:

"I would first check for track flatness"

This thread is a great example of how engineering is often NOT a solution to problems, classic "hammer and nail" territory here. And how engineers often ofterthink things unnecessarily ;)

> because as standards rise, the more unachievable they can become

Why should "standards" be relevant in the measurement of long-term economic indicators? Doesn't the very stack that standards have risen prove the core point that life has gotten better?

Made it to the end. Fantastic game.