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Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 4 years ago
The article mentions your first point, and also gives some statistics that deaths to drivers are also up.
Comment · 4 years ago
Or by developers
Comment · 4 years ago
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.
Comment · 4 years ago
HIV/AIDS is also bigger if you count that as a pandemic.
Comment · 5 years ago
Lack of demand (population decline), or increase in supply.
Comment · 5 years ago
Childless parents as a result of self aborting male fetuses would not show up in the study.
Comment · 6 years ago
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.
Comment · 6 years ago
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.

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Comment · 6 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
Great point, if this is the case, huge attack on Amazon.
Comment · 9 years ago

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