Pay Americans more.

It’s per year.

This is exactly the problem with the system. If there are tons of foreigners willing to get grad degrees and work for a small salary increase over a bachelor’s, US students are not sufficiently incentivized to do graduate studies.

Not sleeping is disastrous for productivity. Why would you advertise to your investors, customers, and coworkers that you’re intentionally cognitively impaired?

Apparently there are enough investors who take this as a sign of “grit”. They may well be the primary audience for these performative stunts.

Dirt is pretty heavy. As the article said, the next step is to add native plants to the top.

I would be shocked if material costs are within an order of magnitude of the labor and design costs.

There are (at least) thousands of tons of soil on top of the reinforced concrete.

It’s different when in general the experience interacting with a government bureaucracy is poor, and government produces expensive and inefficient outcomes these days. As opposed to big tech which is creating huge profits and new technology.

The 3d printer The reusable rocket The driverless car

Plus a shitload more that reached enough maturity to be broadly useful. CNN's Vr Cheap Thermal cameras

You seem a bit too pessimistic to google things for yourself, but technology is genuinely moving pretty fast

Cheap high-speed FPV killer drones with thermal camera and auto-aim.

Btw there hardly was a new technology in iPhone at the time of the launch.

Another dark pattern is consistently underestimating the time to be picked up by a driver. The estimate is always something like 3 minutes, but often the wait time is more like 7 minutes.

Same for Uber Eats. They estimate 25 minutes for a drop off, but it's often more like 45 minutes.

Interesting how this process has barely evolved over many decades.

I needed a new mounting plate for my Nest Protect Smoke + CO Monitor. I was out of warranty and Google support gave me a run around saying they don't sell that part and I would need to buy a whole new Nest Protect. After complaining a bit they caved and sent me.... a whole new Nest Protect. How can you be so against providing spare parts? There are only a few required for the whole product.

It's an annoyance for them to track SKUs, it's almost as complicated to track spare parts as whole parts, and they just are not a manufacturer, but instead three kids and a dog in a trench coat pretending to be one.

I give up and just use eBay for parts.

Because they don't keep inventory of spare parts.

Devices cost a few $.

I guess that managing a warehouse for spare for all their products would cost way too much.

I'm sure they don't make spare at all. They just buy one complete product made and packaged in Asia.

Batteries should last for years more than previous generations. Battery life is so good I only charge at most once a day.