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I haven't actually gone through the math, but my gut tells me the amount of human moderation that would make people happy, basically having a human look at every potentially bad post, is so high that Facebook wouldn't be profitable. The only company that's solved moderation at scale is Reddit. It punted the problem to unpaid moderators, so Reddit only needs to moderate the existence of subreddits, not posts.

"The 'Mystery' of the Bible's Phantom Camels"

There's one really obvious solution to that mystery.

Guess now you get to return the favor and spend a decade talking about sending them to the nursing home.

Unscheduled one-on-one early in the day, possibly with HR present, and your manager looks incredibly nervous.

Take a deep breath, go in, say nothing, sign nothing, demand your last paycheck. The decision has been made, and anything you say only hurts your case if you sue later.

It happened to me. The only signs leading up to it were asking me to use a project management tracker a few weeks before and my manager asking me a month before if I was happy working on the project I was on.

My output wasn't great, so I wasn't shocked, but I'd gotten so little feedback about it that I assumed that low output was normal. It was a small company, and they person doing HR said they had no idea it was going to happen, so I think it was a quick decision. I was pretty bitter because of that, and that I was 9 months in after taking a large pay cut, and no options vested yet.

That place went on to do random firings for a year.

> a T1 isn't even available. I can get a 3Mb DSL connection

3Mbps DSL is faster than a T1. That speed also suggests you're 3-4 miles from a CO, so it's not that rural. 3 miles might even make a fiber run possible if you're willing to pay.

> masking and demasking when you enter restaurants

I've seen it, but this just seems silly. I think the way bars work is you walk in with a mask, take it off, and put it on when you go to the restroom?

I doubt Mu is especially resistant. It was first detected in Colombia in January. The strains that will surface in 6 months will actually be resistant.

Are you ready for another 5 years of partial restrictions over a virus that's as deadly as the flu (after vaccination) for the chance we develop a vaccine that's even more effective than what we have today?

> Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too?

That policy hurts farmers, so it's not viable for a different reason.

What I meant is that when money is expensive, houses are cheap, they're cheap because no one has money, and no one has money because it's expensive.

> Could be

That's a gentle way of putting it.

But you don't have money, because money is expensive.

> top 1% of income earners

Probably not where you live, though.

You also left out commuting from Tracy.

Sure, but interest rates are crazy-low.

Productivity is a price ceiling for labor. It only raises wages by allowing marginal producers come online and compete in the labor market. It could also reduce the total demand for labor, so there's no reason to assume wages and productivity would stay linked. The correlation only makes sense in a first-order way: I produces twice as many widgets; "you should pay me twice as much." But that widget machine wasn't free, and it doesn't mean you'll sell twice as many.

And at 9%, some of that is likely seeing trusted public figures essentially saying "it's not safe out there" by talking about masks, and people restricting their actions accordingly. It's really hard to actually test this.

> The ship uses rocket power to get into space, but glides back to Earth and lands on a runway, like the space shuttle would do.

Does that mean it can't do a go around?

> [Judge] Middleton then asked Harris to divulge the address where he was. Harris gave a house number on East Lafayette Street.

Is this bordering on a Fifth Amendment violation since the judge asked this or a future mistrial since the defense attorney didn't try to stop it?

Regarding Australia's limits on protest during the Sydney covid lockdown, one official basically said "people can exercise their freedom of speech other ways, like writing a letter to the newpaper or sending an angry email" (paraphrased). I think he seriously thought these circular-filed complaints carry the same weight as a protesters in front of government buildings.

Remember that takeoffs and landings are the most dangerous part of the trip.

I thought it was that they don't one a high heel puncturing the slide

I keep debating quant trading, but there are limited options in the Bay Area (I only know of Voleon), and my FAANG RSUs have done really well in the past few years. A quant firm could probably match my take-home pay, but there's risk with changing jobs.

At some point, we're going to have to make a call about whether we want to live with the risks or continue distancing. Considering how much more contagious delta is, I suspect masks won't be enough on their own, beyond signaling that it's not safe and scaring people away.

Considering how not especially deadly covid is, I personally don't see masks and distancing as a long-term solution, but a lot of people disagree and seem perfectly happy spending the decade getting meals delivered and working from home.

> Its impact will last generations.

According to Wikipedia,

> The half-life of glyphosate in soil ranges between 2 and 197 days; a typical field half-life of 47 days has been suggested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Environmental_fate

As far as herbicides go, it's relatively safe and short-lived. It's nothing compared to DDT.

A surprising number of consumer startups are the same as another product, but with different business logic. Just look at Bumble.

TikTok's only interesting technology is its recommendation system, which I doubt is that different or innovative compared to Netflix or Youtube. Maybe they're better at moderation because it makes censorship easier?

Compare this to HHVM which evolved into a PHP fork no one other than Slack uses.

Better than just not having an agenda, they're going to personally vet the requests like their paycheck depends on it.

And this is why the distinction is important. You could have an offer by Wednesday. That's a 10-day turnaround, and no one was stringing the other party along. When you consider scheduling, unless both parties are desperate, the process couldn't reasonably go much faster.