In America rent and healthcare are two big expenses that you can't escape from. You could live in rural areas and then you don't have a job or you do but you're spending most of your income on car expenses.
I question the assertion that allowing things to fail like big banks or China would be bad in the long term. And this is economics, which like religion, isn't an exact science so neither of us know for sure.
I haven't done standup in 6 months and I just feel generally better. Where I work you just report to the tech lead every 2 or 3 weeks. So much nicer than daily standups. Could you imagine other professions doing what we do?
I went from being the most anxious, scattered mind person in the room to the most calm and focused. I went all in - 4 hours a day for over a year. But it's made a huge difference. It's given me many insights into life - one of which is that you ultimately choose whether you want to be happy in life.
I don't know how Amazon succeeds if those rates are true. My experience has been that any company with a turnover like that is going to have a ton of tech debt.
You said there's no way to rationalize it, but it depends on the person. For some becoming more mindful allows you to see bad mental habits that may contribute to the anxiety. Once you are mindful of these you are empowered to change them.
Any UI that is not honest with users is a bad thing. I use this service and I know that my original is no longer there when I allow Google to delete my local files but maybe i'm the exception. I will add that it depends on your perspective as to how you see this. You can look at how easy Google makes it to take photos on your phone and then have them all backed up and available with a click of a button. And in addition you can look at how hard it used to be to do anything like that (my grandparents never had photos when they lived in Italy because the town they lived in didn't have any photographers). If you see it through that lens then it's awesome.
As more data is indexed the system "learns" what makes a relevant search based upon the words in each document. Though I agree the definition of learning in a machine learning context is kind of grey.
Anybody know how these companies continue to get money from investors? SolarCity, Tesla, Sun Edison lose money year after year. None of them are profitable. And they won't be for years. I guess the thinking is that once, or if, they get profitable they will benefit from being the established players.