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They seriously should have just auctioned off doses. Have someone take the political heat for it, but with people bidding up doses like Hamilton tickets, you can bet distribution would have been better, there would be only one specific complaint about "fairness," and the price would signal that it's desirable.

Vertical farming mostly feels like a solution in search of a problem. It uses relatively expensive technology to produce low-value products. Putting seeds in the ground, tilling, and waiting is absurdly cheap compared to building growhouses. For some perspective, what farms actually do extend growing seasons is put "greenhouses" around cold-sensitive crops like tomatoes, but a "greenhouse" in this case is a wire hoop with clear plastic around it.

It's interesting if you want to support 50B people on Earth, but the resources required to build it out mean it isn't really even a viable solution for restoring farmland to wildland without massive amounts of mining.

Seems low considering how quickly it was brought to market and the benefit.

Genuinely curious, I don't mean to be insulting, and a hiring manager will be asking the same question: you've been playing with tech for a long time and sound like you're interested enough to be competent. How is it that your work experience is generic, unskilled jobs? I realize it's a poor region, but it's still the US (no visa issues), remote wasn't unheard of pre-covid, and even poor regions often have something halfway resembling a a DBA or sysadmin within an hour radius.

> determined to be a one in ten year event

Good estimate.

> "Bioethicists have discussed this for decades and understand it more than you".

To the bioethicists, ok, boomer.

It's hard to make that call when you're making life-changing money every day. Alternatively, you could completely change the company's focus.

But what will TSLA be worth when Elon finally goes to prison for something?

There was buying his cousin's company, the bit with the SEC, selling not-a-flamethrowers. The guy he called "pedo guy" sued him but lost because apparently nothing Elon says is credible. There's a 20% chance he sees prison time by the end of the decade.

> However if I held it I would have been a pretty rich right now.

Or you'd have lost the hard drive. Maybe you encrypted it, forgot the password, and spend your evenings typing iterations of your birthday, middle name, favorite song, and 69 while you watch Family Guy reruns. There are things worse than not being rich.

I did a version of that a few years ago, but I basically turned $5 into $500 and cashed out. Guess I'd have $5,000 now. Still don't care.

Yes and no. I'm sure I wouldn't have hodled, so I didn't really "miss" anything. You also couldn't be too technically inclined because you'd fall in love with blockchain, cash out, but it all in ETH, and go work for a company building a computer architecture that runs at 100 Hz on Etherium for $1 per Hz that pays you a below-market rate, get acquiried when the company fails, and find yourself at FAANG, only to fail the acquihire interview. You also couldn't be too too technically inclined because you realize how inefficient the whole thing is.

Would you rather buy all the shares of Facebook for $1 or all the bitcoin?

> If every house had solar panels this would likely be a non-issue.

I doubt this. That would mean a lot of power plants were taken offline as solar ramped up, and I doubt that enough solar to cool a house from 105 to 75 can heat it from 15 to 70.

But the lines have a fixed capacity, and only Texas is having California-style rolling blackouts.

The Texas-only grid was definitely part of it, and should be a lesson to people who thought the lesson from Covid is "do more locally." No, having stronger, longer distance connections is what makes you more resilient, at least when there are local problems.

And "good" protests are the ones you agree with.

Apps aren't drugs. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that's an addiction. You ever suck some dick for an in-game item?

I think it's likely that certain types of diversity produce better outcomes. My problem with the research is publication bias, publication bias where finding the opposite will cost you a career, most of the experiments being contrived, social science being a joke field, and the sort of people who are attracted to social science.

You're right, but when HR says "diverse candidate," they mean a woman or minority. I have no idea how you can be diverse in n=1.

I can't believe they have the balls to ask that. It's too easy to accidentally imply that the company discriminates against a protected class.

>> We know from decades of research that more diverse teams are more successful. I like success.

If you think correlation implies causation, I know a lot of ways to brings value to your company.

I've been the white guy in that situation, and it can be not great, but it was specifically with a 90% Chinese team. I can tell you who never quite fit in and who got laid off first...

I wouldn't join a team like that again because of how much harder it made things. Maybe this is an argument for why diverse teams are good?

Wow, they all look so young. Imagine telling Alexis back then that he'd be married to Serena Williams and discover a fondness for snow.

Guessing they're decent candidates from decent CS programs?

Don't all entry level software engineering roles in the Bay Area pay six figures these days?

> I am often a dick, I am often difficult, I often don’t know computer science, but. BUT.

I'll stop him right there. Definitely not googley.

It more likely has to do with Apple's secrecy.

I'd love to read the memo asking employees to report back their porn viewing habits.

> gross sexual fetishization of Asians in western culture

No need to pass so much judgement.

It's more common in white wine.