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The average person in the developed world already spends the majority of their free time in front of a screen, and the share increases the younger they are.

Who’s not in the simulation at this point?

Here was me thinking this was about code ownership ;)

What if there’s many more POCs they don’t like than those they do?

So what? There’s only so much interview time, and you need the fundamentals before you can safely use LLMs to speed up.

IMO if you’re going to run an interview that uses coding agents etc it belongs at the end of an interview pipeline.

> These re-interviews are consequential

An open process with a clear rationale is better than a secret process, e.g. company wide surveys that are later used to determine whether you keep your job…

Whether this actually leads to improved productivity and better products is TBD, of course.

“Some people still died in car crashes, so seatbelts shouldn’t be required in cars”

Yes, pricing negative externalities is a good idea. Unfortunately some are more or less expensive to price/enforce

This is already required for new books published in the US, and has been for more than one hundred years.

It’s called “mandatory deposit”

You’re equating something being ubiquitous and affordable with it not being valuable.

Yes, there are plenty of books, many were printed, many have lasted a very long time (plenty over 100 years!).

That says more about the success and utility of the technology than it does about whether individual books should be shredded.

This sounds great until a businessman arrives with a trawler, takes all of the fish, and buys all of the land in your town.

This is the ideal, but in practice you need to own the business to live this way..

As long as the pollution is a negative externality and the polluting option is (immediately) cheaper, people (especially poorer people) will choose the cheaper option.

All of these may result in you bringing in less $ overall, so it really depends on how much each fraud case costs you, but you could (off the top of my head): - Enable always checking CVV - Require 3DS - Ban a card after N disputes - Ban an email/other identifier after N disputes - Ban certain payment methods, banks etc - Add a visible or invisible captcha to fight automated abuse/card testing

I suspect Stripe walks a fine line where they want to help you prevent fraud, but they also want to avoid vendors complaining to them that their customers can’t pay.

Context: I worked on a payments team for a short while.

You can sell the asset, so how does anyone inherit nothing?

Someone who wants to spend an inheritance is going to do it, whether it’s liquid (cash) or marginally less so (real property)

Not sure I follow. In a world with CTEs and views, what do you think is missing for composability?

I don’t know why we call having a mortgage “ownership”: it’s not. Across the western world mortgages are getting larger and longer relative to income.

More people are in more significant debt bondage than in the past, that’s not an improvement.

The proportion of owned outright homes has been declining in the western world for 30 years.

Great, now I’ll get more than two or three of these every day just because I live in a mildly dense city centre…

> GPT-4 doesn't seem profitable (if it was, would they need to throttle it?)

Maybe? Hardware supply isn’t perfectly elastic

> Curious minds wonder what you do to be able to have that kind of time for travel

In developed countries outside the US annual multi-week vacations are routine for the middle classes

Yep, it’s an international embarrassment

The doomsday clock is closer to midnight than it’s ever been https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ and now we avoid another 1929 by inflating away the gains of the middle class and siphoning value off to the 1%

Mike Judge was right!

> You jump when they say jump

Thankfully sometimes 'they' are the customers paying real money for a product or service that's valuable to them.

But as you say, larger organizations have more room for political distractions on the way to giving that customer what they want.

Couldn’t this still hit partition throughput limits though?

Wouldn’t it be preferable if the DBMS did this for you?

Amen. Work without context is demoralising and can lead to micro decisions that don't align with the macro context of the business you're in.

But it's also one of the best places to buy secondhand books that are rare and/or out of print.

The code is only hard if you can't release it safely.

If you’re using the AWS console on the reg, you’re doing it wrong (but yes, it’s a mess)