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That was also my immediate thought. However, what was the chance that the method they did use would end up not working? If sufficiently low, from an EV perspective, perhaps they made the right choice? Also the article isn't clear to what extent the lean is responsible for the building not being finished.

The article mentions your first point, and also gives some statistics that deaths to drivers are also up.

Or by developers

That helps with storage, but still is larger than a bigint, and doesn't help with the random distribution of data. I believe newer versions of MySQL have a data type for this.

HIV/AIDS is also bigger if you count that as a pandemic.

Lack of demand (population decline), or increase in supply.

Childless parents as a result of self aborting male fetuses would not show up in the study.

I think this can also be problematic. Long lived code _must_ work, which is good. However, it can also live a long time for bad reasons. I have seen long lived code that only lives a long time because it is so complicated that no one can understand how it works, or written in a way that is very hard to change. So it lives a long time, because no one wants to take the time or effort to touch it. Finally, when it _must_ be changed to support a new feature, it might require a full rewrite.

Tools can be shared.

It's also amazing how little land is needed to grow enough food to live on. One person can be fed from around 9 square meters. In dense cities people may not have that much land, but in many areas, people do have that much land in their yards.

The redemption rate on giftcards is not 100%[1]. Businesses don't need to expect to deliver the total value of the giftcards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_card#Redemption_rate

He was reprimanded by the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226

Good point, this seems like a case of survivorship bias. However, I think it does seem to show some sort of upper bound on the level and pervasiveness of sexism? That it's at least _possible_ for women to achieve at the highest level in these fields means sexism didn't stop everyone.

Great point, if this is the case, huge attack on Amazon.

I think the original quote is "The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions." 1966 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson But the idea probably applies to most predictions :)

The bank only has to have a very small percentage of the money they loan you. Most of it is created at the time of the loan.

Monthly actives is generally the primary metric and it's not so easy to calculate.

Any chance you can share the name of the company where you work now? Would love to know.

My guess is that's the same for cars (minor injuries go unreported). It's hard to speculate about unreported statistics. The fact remains that for reported statistics, motorists injure far more people than cyclists, thus I say fear of cyclists is irrational.

I don't think the data supports your assertion. Car drivers injure and kill a couple orders of magnitude more pedestrians in NYC than cyclists do.

Development environment becomes somewhere between extremely hard and impossible to set up. Resign yourself to running tests locally with staging as the only place to test your services talking to each other. This is my experience at a medium size public company on the bay area.

Looking at the total dollar amount of debt makes a good headline, but is simplistic. With lower interest rates, households are spending far less to service their debt than they were in 2008. The article only mentions this briefly near the end.

Do you have a source for the size of the Google plus team?

From Amazon's perspective it's the same and worth optimizing

>Name any activity on the water

Surfing. Significantly better in the bay area.

Not sure linkedin really cares if the endorsements are accurate or not. I heard endorsements were / are massively successful at re engaging users, which is the real aim of the product.

I saw Zuckerberg walking in Palo Alto with wife, child and dog and no security visible just over a year ago. If he has 24/7 security, either they're very discreet or it started recently.

I guess value and worth can have subtlety different meanings

More copies / replicas also means a larger attack surface.

New Zealand even changed labour laws to ensure The Hobbit would be filmed there. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/oct/31/warner-bros...