plausibledeny

Thought it was amazing that around Göreme there are just miles and miles of abandoned cave houses with zero protection, not even fenced in. You could just wander through them freely.

He just sold $16 billion worth of Tesla stock in Nov/Dec 2021, why would he need a fake excuse to sell another $8 billion in April 2022?

How is Elon going to make a quick buck from a failed deal? If anything he'll have to pay out significantly.

How about "if you could be any type of tree, what kind would you be?"

That's cool, we had a group in Seattle do that in our International District many years ago and blog about it. http://msg150.com/

Similar to the way the FBI doesn't record interviews, because it affords them an advantage in court. Who are you going to believe when there is no audio or video, an FBI agent or someone accused of a crime.

Which is exactly what's happening right now in the Sussmann case (brought by Durham), he's being accused of something based on the memory of an FBI agent when a videotaped interview would have made it trivial to prove/disprove.

The generic (Atorvastatin) is widely available for $15/month or less in the US.

Have you ever been to a naturopathic pharmacy? You would question your assumption that it would be lower cost. People spend a lot of money on expensive supplements.

Isn't this the equivalent of "complaining about your meal in a restaurant, I'd like to see you do better."

The point of eating at a restaurant is that I can't/don't want to cook. Likewise, I use AWS because I want them to do the hard work and I'm willing to pay for it.

How does that abrogate my right to complain if it goes badly (regardless of whether I could/couldn't do it myself)?

But clearly for many of them this bad choice is their best option (unfortunately). So the goal isn't to improve their lives but to assuage our guilt?

Companies that use these services could exert pressure for better conditions, just like some have done with other companies in their supply chain.

How does that help the people in the shipping industry? Let's say you did reduce shipping and therefore there were fewer shipping jobs, the people currently doing this work would lose these jobs and have to find other work. Something which would be even less attractive than shipping. How's that help them?

This is Fifth Ave and Lenora in Seattle (about a block away from Amazon Spheres). Lenora is a one-way and you can take a right off of 5th onto Lenora (basically heading toward the water). The signage (and road in general) is confusing because of the monorail pylons.

Are you saying that no energy projects should be funded or that there are better uses of energy funding (and if so which areas)?

It's hard to generalize, sometimes the issue is the boss, sometimes it's the employee and often it's both.

Managers need to understand that the goal is not and should not be 'employee performed this task exactly how I would have'. Especially if the differences aren't material. But so I often I see managers kill initiative by focusing on stylistic or minor issues. If you want it done exactly your way, do it yourself or hire a clone.

I agree 100%, reviews should never be a surprise. But it's amazing how people have selection attention. I've told people that they were headed for a below average rating and found them to be surprised when they received that. It's tricky when you have an employee with performance issues, because you want to focus on the parts they're doing right but at the same time you need to give them honest feedback and it can get confusing. "But you said I was doing better."

We're been hearing that since 2008. "Hyperinflation is just around the corner trust me!"

Worked for a medium-size software company in the 90s. When our company got a new CEO someone at an all-hands asked him to describe his experience with computers. He was very clear that he didn't use them, wouldn't have one in his office and that he had an executive assistant for that sort of thing.

Just tried the filter feature, click on the cat and the filter goes on, click on the cat again and you'd think it would go off, but it doesn't.

You actually have to scroll to the top and pick 'none' to make it turn off. Non-ideal UI which explains why they were struggling so much.

Except 7-11 (and other convenience stores) sandwiches are pretty good (sometimes great) in Japan. It's all about what customers will accept, if people will buy crap that's what will be offered.