For some reason when we started sending women out to work, the work they had been doing at home stopped being counted as work. But of course it is work, it still needs to be done. As a result, the modern 50h weeks can be anything between 60-80h weeks depending on your comfort with living in squalor, and the presence of children, it's just we for some reason only count the part you get paid for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_(1953%E2%80%931962)

I very much get the sense they're dismantling the furniture and using it as firewood. It feels like the sort of place that very well could fire the entire IT staff and give that responsibility to the CEO's nephew and claude code instead. Not saying that is what transpired, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

The EFF, Doctorow, et. al. were warning us that this was going to happen, over and over again for a really long time. Then they were saying it was beginning to happen for a really long time. Well guess what, the thing they were saying was going to happen happened!

You can use the desired confidence to inform the warm-up, number of trials, benchmark duration, and so on.

If you end up with a multimodal distribution it can be worth tracking percentiles.

The redesign they've gone for also seems like a supremely weird choice. It's like they're trying to be more like VS Code, when their probably biggest selling point was that unlike VS Code, they offered a full and traditional IDE experience.

Their trajectory has been a deeply questionable mix of change for the sake of change and nervously doing what everyone else is doing.

I don't like the state of affairs either, this deluge of crash predictions are probably going to increase the irrationality of the market and make the bubble worse.

Granted, the number of cases this distinction matters is relatively small, making a function faster only makes a program appreciably faster if that function is a bottleneck.

One weird tangentially related thing is checking whether a PR is merge:able after solving a conflict in this repo[1] for some reason takes several minutes. Maybe because there are 1000 commits in the same file. Doesn't seem UI related but weird regardless.

[1] https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/submit-site-to-marginali...

But sure, how do you propose to pay taxes with assets that can't be liquidated and may not even be possible to valuate?

Even if you somehow pay taxes in assets that can't be liquidated, now the government has the same problem instead. What is the government gonna do, pay its employees in unlisted stocks, yachts and famous paintings? How will it even know how much taxes it's gathered?

If the tax isn't isn't just satisfying some sense of petty envy, and the tax is intended to cover some budget deficit, I don't see how this would help.

You can't take net worth away because it's just an estimate of what someone is worth. It may eventually be possible to turned into dollars and cents without losing too much in the process, but almost universally it can't immediately be exchanged in such a fashion.

Even more so when we're talking shares in a company that is not yet public, e.g. a founder's shares. At that point the valuation is complete speculation, based on what the company may be worth in some hypothetical future IPO. There's no actual price discovery since there's no public trading of such shares.