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SO MUCH THIS. People are always so quick to climb up Jeff's colon without bothering to compare to the status quo.

Indeed, the link makes AWS look so affordable even ignoring all the value the author ignores (which is most of it) that it almost looks like part of a stealth AWS ad campaign.

Yes, I can only imagine!

Guessing because desoldering is so time-consuming.

Having lived and worked in several highrises, I'll say that density advocates (which includes me, mostly) almost always glaze over vertical commute time and annoyance. Elevators and steps are a huge pain in the ass any time you're carrying anything more than a messenger bag/handbag and a travel mug. And there always seem to be way more doorways involved, somehow, with doors that don't really want to be opened or stay open long enough to allow real-world transit.

Considering that it takes Amazon-level resources to get UPS/FedEx to track down errant shipments and honor claims, this seems like a fine idea at first glance.

There's going to be a really awkward conversation at his next dinner party.

That's interesting, there's that plot that floats around of the labor share of GDP growth diverging from productivity coinciding with the end of Bretton Woods, which is striking to look at, and I have no idea how to reason about conditions before compared with conditions after.

Anybody else notice that, by the article's own plot, one could have said the same thing at almost any point between 1975 and 2000?

Nassim Taleb makes precisely this argument about the power of stubborn minorities. Which I think is 99% great.

Though I think the medium term equilibrium is just that more establishments will need to do better than a half-ass salad for a vegan offering. Which is 100% great.

Wearing them as I type, have been for at least 10 years, will likely wear them til I die.

This. Part of the benefit is that it raises the cost of producing meat. Mass animal cruelty will be ended mostly by economics.

Man, it's crazy how much was riding on Slack staying private.

Came here to say this.

Sign me up for all three. I would give a kidney for an excellent, guilt-free wool business suit.

Yes.

You did notice top of the list is Uber, right?

This is the correct answer. AFAIC, Intro to Economics should be the first CS course any software engineer takes.

Precisely! Post hoc, I figured out that he must have meant responses to an assay, which makes sense in context, but like, I would have expected someone with any stats background whatsoever to be able to clarify.

I once interviewed at a biostats shop where the interviewer kept using the word "responses" to refer to feature values. I could not pin him down on the problem statement. Pretty sure that dumbass thinks I'm a dumbass.