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"Brown student" ... Why do we have to pull the student's race into this debate? ;-) /s

I am frustrated by this article.

1. Why focus on Swifts as opposed to any other species in decline? They state that they are "iconic", so maybe that's the answer? Are they more "iconic" than any other specifies in Scotland?

2. Why are these bricks the best solution? Why not take that money that would be spent on bricks and instead preserve land, or just build them dedicated houses elsewhere?

3. Why does this need to be done via government mandate versus voluntarily asking people to build Swift housing in existing buildings or land?

I'm worried that this is a government policy with great intentions that will result in economic costs with unmeasured benefits and bureaucratic bloat. Hopefully I am proven wrong!

GDP records market transactions. So in your scenario, purchasing the chicken, the chicken feed, the chicken coop, etc would all be measured. The time spent raising the chicken (assuming you did not pay someone to do it), would not be captured.

However, I think part of your criticism is a moralistic and health based argument that raising a chicken is intrinsically better and healthier that Doordashing fast food. When a consumer chooses a $60 delivered meal over a $45 home-cooked alternative, that reveals a preference for whatever they value, such as convenience, time saved, taste, service quality, etc. GDP doesn’t evaluate whether that preference is “good”; it only records the transaction value that arises from it.

So I agree GDP is not a perfect measure, but it's far from useless.

I would not over complicate this. My personal four part plan for this is:

1. Donate a portion of my income to charitable causes I find worthy. I would like to target 10% of my net income.

2. Volunteer at a local organization that you care about. There are usually ample opportunities for committed volunteers if you look for them.

3. Have children. Try to raise them to be responsible, caring citizens. That way I can extend my efforts to the next generation.

4. In the near future, I intend to attempt to get involved with local politics somehow. I am still figuring out the specifics, but I am thinking that running for the local school board would be beneficial.

Has anyone implemented a DSL for a professional use case? I would love anyone to share what was the use case, what alternatives did you consider and how did you measure success?

I have previously implemented one for credit policy decisions, but I am not sure in hindsight if it was the right approach and we did a poor job of measuring success, so I would love to hear from the community.

That's fascinating. Where would you direct someone that is interesting in learning more about these items? Any good sources or websites to read?

I think we should retitle this to reflect the actual article title, "How Leaders Miscommunicate When Tensions Are High".

This is a common practice in other high altitude, high traffic mountains, such as Aconcagua. Rangers actually watch you deposit your excrement bag and fine you if you do not do so or they catch you leaving your waste on the mountain. I'm frankly surprised its just now becoming a policy on Everest.

It sounds gross, but in practice it is not as bad as it seems. For anyone interested in the details, it is stored in multiple bags (one bag per movement, then multiple larger outer bags) and freezes pretty quickly, so there isn't really any smell.

" They could only get hired into new companies where nobody knew any of their past coworkers, because a simple reference check would reveal how difficult they were to work with." --> Any tips on how to effectively conduct reference checks? In my experience, candidates will only provide references from folks that they know will give glowing review, so you end up with generic positive feedback that ends up not being informative.

Would love to hear any strategies others have found successful.

Many universities will have a portal where students and professors can get free or heavily discounted versions of software, such as Mathematica.

I don't think its any less convenient for my partner than if I worked in an actual office. Plus, I still have the added benefit of no commute, which means more time with my partner.

I see the value in this, but I personally have not had success with it. I have found I am most effective remote if during my working hours, I don't do anything I wouldn't do if I was working at the office. For me, that means no laundry during the day, no extended lunches, etc. It keeps my mind in "work mode" and at the end of the day, I shut my office door and transition my brain out of work-mode.

Streamlit and Shiny for Python are both great for cranking out simple UI's for basic use cases, especially where there is a tie-in with something data or machine learning related.

A typical workflow could be for a team to prototype in one of these tools, get feedback, but at some point they eventually get rebuilt as a proper webapp. I would love to see these tools evolve to not require that total rebuild. Maybe they could add the capability to export to React or Angular. Then that could be used as a starting point for converting that into a proper webapp.