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lol, believe it or not this was an interview question one of my Director of Engineering used to use to sus out the experience of people. As I read the parent comment I was thinking the same thing.

Be careful listening to this kind of advice. You never know what ballpark the "CTO" is playing in.


I'm just thinking about 6 to 7 figures software investment and trying to understand how you could do that without several meetings.


Easy, use JIRA and give your whole company seats. Add on some other Atlassian products and you'll quickly get to 4-5 figures per month.


DB Engine rankings are not very reliable and are constantly gamed, they shouldn't be used for anything serious.


Covid stats skewed everything. This article isn't very rigorous.


The article should be comparing 2023 per-capita mortality rates with 2019.


This. Mortality displacement isn’t a new phenomenon.


There are better visas and even green cards if you're wealthy.


Exactly. You can literally buy a green card with a ~$500K “investment”. No need to jump through H-1B hoops.


That's more than what you would need if you were hiring for a prevailing wage position.


EB-5 is a onetime payment for a green card (permanent residence). Prevailing wage must be paid every year and you have 60 days to leave when you the company stops paying you.


Yes, but the prevailing wage threshold would be lower than the investor visa, as will the commitments. The investor visa you have to show a plan, hire people etc.


Tax won't solve anything - just make it socially unacceptable to be obese.


It already is. If you are obese, you:

* Can't get clothes that fit you

* Are uncomfortable on public transit, in public places like theaters, etc as the seats are designed for someone much smaller than you

* Can't get into relationships

* Get social feedback ranging from well meaning (but still embarrassing) to downright cruel on a regular basis

In discussions like this, someone always says "the solution is to shame people" as if it's some kind of picnic to be fat. It's not - it's fucking miserable. And even with all that people are still having a hard time taking control of their lifestyle. Shaming people even harder isn't going to accomplish a thing.


> Shaming people even harder isn't going to accomplish a thing.

It do accomplish a thing of helping people that don't want to be ashamed to take better care of their weight before it becomes a bigger issue.


Bullshit. We already know that adding a stressor to problem eaters is the opposite of a solution!


America got fat from a culture of fat shaming. So like, we know that doesn't work. Or at least this is not how I see the cause/effect.

To me, it appears that being fat was unacceptable and shameful culturally, but everyone still got fat, and insanely fat even. And once so many people were fat, they started to campaign against the fat shaming.

So fat shaming could actually be seen as having caused the issue.

I think being able to openly talk about the difficulty, challenges, and struggles of weight gain/loss, recognizes the people's struggle, encouraging weight loss, promoting methods and mechanisms, etc. might be more effective.

From the research I've seen, this is also supported by it. Fat shaming can cause increased stress and cortisol levels, emotional eating, avoidance of exercise (especially in public), depression and anxiety, and avoiding medical care due to fear of judgment. Which all in-turn contributes to weight gain.


I don't believe this. Other countries (mostly in SE Asia) have cultures of fat shaming and low levels of obesity.

I am not endorsing fat shaming, I just don't think your causal suggestion stands up to scrutiny.


That would reinforce my causal suggestion no?

We have two places that fat shamed, one got fat, one stayed lean. That tells us fat shaming doesn't seem to be a factor in getting fat or not.

But the place that has low level of obesity still fat shames. Where as the place where everyone is fat stopped fat shaming. So that seem to show that when the majority is fat, fat shaming tends to stop.


I'm referring to this: America got fat from a culture of fat shaming and your last paragraph. Now you're saying that it doesn't seem to be a factor, which completely contradicts your earlier claims.

I can't figure out what you're trying to say, sorry.


Interesting because Pigouvian taxes have a long and storied history of being extremely effective while your proposed solution has... zero evidence of effectiveness?

Feel free to provide it though.


I don't know about you but I'm paid to sit in a chair for 12 hours a day.


This CEO is just an employee of a company that makes a 4% profit margin, killing him achieves nothing and is sociopathic.


This CEO could've decided to stop having his company frivolously deny claims at any point. Pretending this man is 0% complicit in the deaths of the people covered by the insurance provided by the company _he is chief executive officer of_ is absurd.

There is a lot of debate to be had on whether or not this shooting is a good thing or not but "The CEO is innocent actually" is not it. You cannot be at the steering wheel of a steam roller that is currently in the process of crushing orphans and has been for years and then disclaim yourself of any responsibility.


Timescale "doesn't scale" - in a nutshell.

Clikchouse performance is better because it's truly column oriented and it has powerful partitioning tools.

However, Clickhouse has quirks and isn't great if you need low latency data updates or if your data is mutable.


This is not the title of the article.


> An endorsement of Harris had been drafted by Post editorial page staffers but had yet to be published, according to two sources briefed on the sequence of events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — according to the same sources.

But pretty much the summary of the article


Probably keep building something awesome and worry about monetization later. Google did that.


Sovereign AI. France can afford supporting a shop that makes one.


google didn't give the world free access to their crawler database, though -- which i'd say is equivalent to what mixtral is doing.


even if Google had, it would have been of little value, since running Google, even back then, required a lot of computers and a lot of humans.

which is rather like Mistral - running large models is expensive, and hosting lets you amortise that across lots of users who individually use the model very little.


google ostensibly started on beige boxes, though. They used whatever computers they could get cheaply and quickly, even older hardware sufficed. There was a niche global group of people who could make stuff like that work as a much larger compute system (beowulf, etc). I don't know that it took "a lot of humans" to bootstrap.


Very biased article.


Those pesky facts also make me uncomfortable. Yet having kids has made it harder for me to deny the mounting evidence.


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