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This article I think is about a very specific subset of software stocks.

If you're holding say a total market index fund, or s&p500, or even qqq or many tech index funds, this would get hidden by the so-far very good growth on other tech stocks.


Is there really that much poop on Berlin public transit?

Seattle has some of the highest per capital homeless in the US, and a dearth of public toilets, and yet there's not that much poop on our public transit.

I am also skeptical that y'all's violent crime rate is higher than ours.

Granted I haven't taken Berlin public transit in 20 yrs, so I don't know.


> I am also skeptical that y'all's violent crime rate is higher than ours.

Ok well I am wrong. Berlin's violent crime rate is 2-4x higher than Seattle? Huh. The homicide rate is within touching distance.

That was not what I expected, ok.


It wouldn't take much to have more violent crime in Seattle, according to my gut (yeah, I know, "show me the numbers"). Granted, it's probably gotten worse since we moved here 25 some years ago, but coming from places like my old hometown of Indianapolis, Seattle didn't have any place I wouldn't feel comfortable walking at night. Again, it's changed a lot since (there are some areas I would avoid at 2 a. m. now), but I still feel much safer in Seattle than other large cities.

Yea I agree it's not like Seattle is St Louis or anything.

Still, I just naively assumed that major German cities would be even better. Guess not though.



I’d put Berlin ubahn halfway between nyc and japan in terms of cleanliness and orderly behavior, the bigger problem is that there’s no ac in the summer

its mostly pee and vomit, poo is indeed rare.

Didn't see any poop in berlin, but did see it in Shibuya station, spread out by hundreds of people.

That seems like incredible overkill for a 1950s era bomber jet, no?

It can be reused.

Guinness book of world records lists a 7+ hour unassisted spin of a wooden top, and a mechanical-assist (like this one) of 41+ hours

How long would a better battery go here?

I'm curious what the jump from 2-> 40+ hours requires


Vacuum chamber?

No doesn't appear so. Seems to be just in open air. They've got a kickstarter done for one that does 6+ hours

Guess it's cnc milled, maybe that's part of it. Increase mass of the thing? Idk


he is also using development boards wired together rather than a custom pcb. there's a good chance the choice of passive components, removal of unneeded components, and better optimized power converters can improve the design.

Also assumes no income based repayment on debt

MFS vs MFJ is a whole different thing from MFJ vs 2x Single.

While there's numerous places where MFJ < 2x Single due to various marriage penalties, and even more numerous places where 2x Single < MFJ due to the shared tax bracket space below the 37% bracket....

there are very very few places where MFS > MFJ. They exist, but you have to be in particular situations like one person having disproportionately more debt and on an income based repayment plan, or similar.

There are of course many situations where 2x Single = MFJ = MFS if it's just two similar income W2 employees with no edge cases going on.

(Once you're married, filing 2x Single is obviously not an option)


NRL et al do a lot more than just weapons research too.

> And no, as an SRE I won't read DEV code, but I can help my team test it.

I mean to each their own. Sometimes if I catch a page and the rabbit hole leads to the devs code, I look under the covers.

And sometimes it's a bug I can identify and fix pretty quickly. Sometimes faster than the dev team because I just saw another dev team make the same mistake a month prior.

You gotta know when to cut your losses and stop searching the rabbit hole though, that's true.


I agree with your nuance, but that's not my default mode, unless I know the language and the domain well I am not going to write an MR. I'm going to read the stack trace to see it it's a conf issue though.


> for everything there's an in-house version.

Reasonable summary. There's some massive NIH syndrome going on.

Another piece is that a lot of stuff that makes sense in the open source world does not make sense in the context of the giant google3 monorepo with however many billions of lines of code all in one pile.


> AFAIK they have a bunch of production infra on protobuff/gRPC

Stubby, not gRPC. Stubby is used for almost everything internally. gRPC is a similar-ish looking thing that is open sourced, but not used nearly as much as stubby internally.

Stubby predates gRPC by like 15 years or something.

> not so sure about flatbufferrs which came out of the game dev side

I wouldn't know. I'll be honest, I always forget that Google made flatbuffers. I guess if you're doing a lot of IPC?


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