baytrailcat

Exactly. Any one who has ever worked in SaaS industry realizes how many cogs in a wheel it takes to keep it running. Sure, there are always inefficiencies and redundancies. But, I highly doubt Elon figured out in a week that 50% of employees are not necessary. This looks like the vindictive and impulsive action of a man baby who has never been told that he doesn't always know what's best. Time will surely tell. All the best to those who were laid off, but most importantly, good luck to those who are staying back. They are in for a ride.

Find a company that is as less ambitious as you. A lot of "work load" in traditional tech sector businesses comes from either the ambitions of the company or ambitions of the higher-ups (nothing wrong with either btw). There are plenty of non-sexy, service-sector, small businesses out there that wouldn't mind having a dependable IT resource. But even if you found somebody like this, I wouldn't be forthright with this motive. Nobody would hire a self-professed slacker.

This comment made me lol.. Not sure if you were just joking or you were unaware that case system is overlaid on racial/genetic subtleties of Indian subcontinent. Brahmin casts tend to be light skinned. For outsiders, all Indians are same, but believe me, there are subconscious clues a trained human mind (through upbringing, culture etc.) can pick up.

In the twitter-verse, Matt is well known for his occasional "hot takes". But he is among the people who pushes the envelope ever so lightly all time and is still tolerated by woke twitter and I am glad for his role. He made out somewhat OK from the recent Harper letter controversy.

I thought Slack was not on AWS, but Oracle.

In a base sense, I agree with you. But this way of looking at it will lead to a misinterpretation that it's just our inability to measure it that is behind the weirdness. I tend to think of it like this: nature, at it's core, is fundamentally weird. Our frame of understanding is based on definite postulates that "things" have a certain "position", they can be only be in one "place" at one "time" and our body of scientific logic and reasoning is built on it. At core of QM, there is the Broglie concept of matter waves. What we used to consider as elementary particles are fundamentally a wave which exhibits particle-like behavior in certain scenarios. If you accept that everything (the double slit, the beam, the screen, a bunch of grey cells postulating about it) is a combination of fields of probabilities of what we call as "elementary particles", it will become easier to digest. "observation" is nothing but an act of interaction of some of these fields that takes away the "coherent" nature of an observed weirdness ("collapse").

This is my line of thinking too. Let's face it, the entire economy can't be shutdown till vaccines are available. Use this borrowed time (when we can afford total lockdown) to mass produce tests, medicines, ventilators, build hospitals, train staff etc. Relax restrictions slowly. Test everyone. Lock down specific areas where outbreak occurs. I really hope our leaders have experts in their staff who can model this.

Sign of the times. Upon reading the title, I figured the discussion would all be about closed time-like curves and causality violation and what not. But, here I am surprised to see HN commenters as open as a UFO subreddit. No complaints here though.

I believe most of us are living a "Google Bubble". When we are online, our exposure to knowledge on a topic is limited by Search algorithms, personalizations, the availability of content that is digitized and searchable, etc. The people who comment on discussions, who creates content, etc. are also subject to this bias. This slice is not really the same as the larger body of collection of knowledge and insights about a particular topic. Even considering the limitation of knowledge that is digitized, there are plenty of sources that are not accessible and searchable (papers, talks, radio programs, conversations, personal anecdotes etc.). Books give a window to this larger world. This is the way we have done it for 5000 years. Books, in case of non-fiction, are written by people who have spent significant (sometimes their lifetime) time learning about a topic. And I believe the same logic applies for fiction. The ideas and imaginations of whole of human kind is not same as those of people who devotes time to create content online. In short, books are a different way (and arguably better) to expand your horizon.

I think you are missing the whole point here. This is as specific as he can get, being still applicable to everyone - "a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES". He also points out a man's desire is shaped by his circumstances and heredity. So there's no way he can "flesh out" details for anyone. That part can be done by the individual alone. This dictum gives you a tool to navigate your thought process and arrive at an answer on your own.

It's an interesting narrative. But isn't it more likely that normalcy and predictability that we are so used to for the past few decades is the actual illusion? World is inherently chaotic and unpredictable. On top of that, human history does go through tumultuous periods where established systems are uppended.

Right on. For those who are encouraging dialogue, please show me one instance in the past 10 days where Trump has shown the least bit of ability to listen to the other side. Sometimes, brute force action is the only way to make your voice heard.

That is right. Forget voting, this bill may not even go to the Committee. I am not sure if this worth all this hysteria. If it is proposed by a ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, we will know it is serious.