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Seattle notes:

Escala condos were the model for the protagonist's apartment in 50 Shades of Grey

https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/fifty-shades-seattle-...

Also across the street from Lola's, where Bezos often has breakfast.

So they are actively trying to filter out people that have worked for startups? Because if you work for start-ups you will eventually get laid-off, if not multiple times.

No one doing these surveys ever details whether we're talking about per individual or per couple, is this a standard retirement at 65 or an early one, and is this in an urban center or a cheap retirement area. Given that it's hard to take any of these seriously other than as a marketing tool for investment advisors.

At $20 billion net worth he (his estate) could have done all of it.

Why? How lame is it to start cool projects like LCM and Cinerama and then just have it close upon your death when he had plenty of estate to fund it forever. Makes me think less of Paul Allen TBH (not that he or his relatives care)

Forget pollution, imagine how successful both could be if they got beyond internal religious squabbles. Trend the GDP per capita for India and China, 30 years they were similar, now China's is many times India's.

>If Twitter can reduce its staff by nearly 50% and still function then the other tech companies can reduce their staff too.

I'm not sure why this is such a common take. Many functions in a typical business, overstaffed or lean, could be greatly pared back without an immediate impact. UX, UR, product, legal, HR, design, recruiting, infosec, analytics, marketing, sales, facilities, etc. The question is will it have a negative impact 6 or 12 or 24 months down the road.

I have no personal knowledge on whether Twitter was overstaffed but the "we got rid of X, Y, Z and the business hasn't collapsed yet so must not be needed!" is a bad take.

Which lead to an album to pay off the judgement...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_Forever

He is in fact the richest rapper according to Forbes, apparently with about $2 billion net worth, twice as much a JayZ

If farmers want to pay the same rate as someone watering their lawn (less a volume discount) I'm all for it. But of course they're not, they're paying a well below-market rate to grow water intensive crops in arid environments where a lot of water is wasted through evaporation. And we'll guilt individuals to stop watering their lawn and take shorter showers.

I live in Seattle, one of the hottest housing markets in the country. If I go to Airbnb and select "seattle" "entire place" "house" and "flexible" it comes up with 836 options. SF had roughly the same 700-800 (and a few from the larger bay area bled in).

That doesn't seem very significant in cities of roughly 750K/875K (within city limits of Seattle and SF respectively)

I'm going to guess that most of the executives aren't that much younger than the people they are calling dinobabies.

Principal engineer roles are pretty desirable. I know a number of managers of engineers who wish they had gone a PE route rather than a management one.

I know very few PEs who say "Oh, I wish I had a whole team to manage, worry about hiring/retention, reviews, administration, etc"

Interesting but is there any comparison with CSF while awake? Is there more CSF movement while sleeping?