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This hasn’t been true for 8+ years.

Today’s landfills are already used for natural gas generation.

Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.

AI lets you pick the parts you want to focus on and streamline the parts you don't. I get zero joy out of wrestling build tools or figuring out deploy scripts to get what I've built out onto a server. In the past side projects would stall out because the few hours per week I had would get consumed by all of the side stuff. Now I take care of that using AI and focus on the parts I want to write.

Huge plus one. Useful to bridge hotel wifi so all my devices connect automatically, also useful as an ad-hoc router that fits into my travel pack.

NFL players have unique skills, are highly valued, and are represented by a union. Same with most other major sports.

It’s not about distance, it’s about burst. It sucks to go on a ride where you fall behind or have to all-out every time there’s a hill or you need to accelerate after a stoplight. May only need 50-100w, but makes it so people can keep up with the group and have a fun time.

That's their entire strategy. Shrink government causing government to become ineffective, which provides evidence that government should shrink even more.

Home prices have dramatically exceeded inflation for a long time, so you're getting advice from people who reaped huge appreciation gains. Now housing prices are hitting affordability limits, interest rates are less appealing, so it's unclear if the future will look like the past.

Freezing a card doesn’t mean the debt is erased. They can still take you to collections.

This is sidestepping that the market for CS degrees has gone from new grads making more than median income to some of the highest unemployment among college grads. I hope this is temporary, but the problem right now isn't focus or goal setting. It's that the entry rung to the ladder ceased to exist.

Disagree with logic that most will sell. Many people will incur high tax bills (if the property appreciated) or transaction costs to move. People who bought in the 2010s have mortgage rates that don’t exist anymore. Many had a reason to live in the area to begin with.

- Many will rebuild to move back

- Some will sell their lots to investors

- Some will rebuild using insurance money to flip upon completion

I’m a huge fan of https://github.com/VirtusLab/git-machete

You’re commenting on an article about reading, which is also a solitary passive consumption activity. I suspect you’re not trying to make the point that reading books destroys relationships and self construction, so this seems like a roundabout way of saying that your favored passive consumption activity is better than what other people choose.

He said this in 2022 when it was definitely not possible to run FB on a laptop either.

Author of this article learned a lot about password hashing, missed the detail that this was in logs, not the database. Usually you try to avoid logging passwords, you don’t hash them in logs.

You leave your credit card on the table at a coffee shop. A thief takes it and goes to the grocery store. You’re going to do a chargeback.

The story sounds appealing (members of congress know more than you do, so invest like they do) but this is just bait for retail investors. Expense ratio of 0.75% is crazy for a fund that holds 400+ stocks. Disclosure info on congressional portfolios is delayed 30 days, so you're missing out on cases they're trading on time sensitive information.

The math is silly, these numbers are made up. Says the average American drinks 28K cups and spends $120K in their lifetime. That’s 1.5 cups daily at $4/cup for 50 years.

There’s a bunch of theory that goes into understanding why a tritone sub works for a Dom7 for the 5 chord, but it’s not something you think about when you’re using it. You learn how it sounds and you start using it instinctively.

Other people can probably figure out better analogies, but I’d say it’s something like the difference reading an article about generics or monads vs actually using them every day. To an outsider these seem like a ton to think about, but when you use them every day they’re just part of your toolbox.

This take makes sense in the context of the specific example, but falls apart for most other software engineering. You can't automate away defining business logic, but in many cases you can deliver it predictably.

When you learn to ride a bike, someone teaches you how to do it.

You could go out and fall down a few times by yourself so it’s more fulfilling when you have instruction, but I wouldn’t say that’s the most efficient path.

That's not how most people think. JCPenny tried removing discounts and clearance sales so they could say "what you see is the real price" and it was a disaster. Most people aren't doing the mental math to decide what's actually more expensive.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/27/business/jcpenney-history/ind...

Used to work on Workplace a while ago, not at Meta anymore. What Meta needs to prioritize for themselves is very different from what they need to prioritize in order to compete with Slack, Teams, Zoom, etc. This is also not a product that sells or supports itself.

People are estimating that Meta is buying $8-10B in GPUs this year alone.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/01/18/mark-zuckerberg-indicate...

Mortgage interest deduction is capped at $750K of debt, conforming loan limits are $760K+, so doesn't apply to jumbo loans.

This isn't a very useful poll bc it doesn't compare with anything else. Everyone is going to vote "very much" but 90% of those people have had iPhones for the last ten years. If you asked people to prioritize interoperability against best hardware, best selection of apps, etc I think you'd get answers that are closer to choices people make in the real world.

Click-to-message is $10B/year, click-to-message in WhatsApp alone was $1.5B 1.5 years ago. They make buckets of money from business services on WhatsApp.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/02/15/metas-next-profit-...

I don’t think you understand what they’re discussing.

If you run a plumbing company, make $100K in revenue, pay a plumber $100K, you have no profits, owe no corporate taxes.

If you run a software company, make $100K in revenue, pay a software engineer $100K, section 174, which just went into effect recently, means you now owe taxes on $90K of profit. This is because you must spread dev costs over 5 years, you can’t deduct them in the year they happened.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/

More detail with math here. Lawmakers are discussing delaying these changes for a few years and/or allowing deductions for domestic employees, but all depends on signing a budget, which is never certain.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/