It's become the software industry's equivalent of standardized testing.

I regret not being able to go to any of the Fountain Valley Fry's midnight releases that were hosted by the Blizzard dev teams. I wasn't even in high school yet when those were still being held. In hindsight, I think my mom would have been willing to take me to one if I had asked. It was a ten minute drive from home.

I was really sad when that Fry's closed down. Nearly all of my PC gaming purchases came from there and the ACP Swapmeet up until 2006 or so, when I switched to Steam, so it felt like losing a part of my childhood. I haven't visited the location in a while, but I'm assuming it is still empty and fenced off.

The first dinner I ever ate after arriving in SF was at their original HQ's cafe/restaurant, thanks to some friends who worked there. It was so good! I regret not having gone as a guest more often.

Bankruptcy is temporary. I wish I had been willing to risk it in my 20s.

Hispanic isn't a race.

Probably not true for their front-end positions.

Granular progressive taxation is the best answer to your question.

Trying to define buckets with arbitrary thresholds is futile.

It greatly benefits the top outliers, since the top bucket will have a huge disparity between its strictly defined lower bounds, and an infinite upper bound.

There's no need to "define rich". A formula without defined bounds (this is the most important part) should determine how much tax you pay, and it shouldn't discriminate between different forms of income. More importantly, all net worth gains should be taxed equally.

Pretty sure they're getting at what the wealth is stored in, not monetary bounds. Those are the details that often get ignored when the "tax the rich" soundbite is used.

> More importantly, all net worth gains should be taxed equally.

What policy would you use for measuring someone's net worth? How would you ensure they're being honest?

Those are implementation details. It's difficult to accomplish these things in any taxation system, including our current one.

Well, these are really difficult implementation details to agree upon. There's no chance anyone will agree to something like this without seeing those details.

People typically don't agree to anything that impacts them negatively unless forced to.

I’m guessing you want unrealized gains to be taxed before they’re realized, since you said “all net worth gains” rather than “all income”?

I don't have links to back this up, but I believe the following two statements are true in US markets, based on my anecdotal industry experiences:

- The majority of mobile apps that only launch on one native platform (but are eventually available on both Android and iOS) launch on iOS first.

- The majority of mobile apps that are only available on one native platform are only available on iOS.

Twitch is an immeasurably worse place to work at now than it was before the pandemic.

The creep of corp Amazon culture accelerated. Twitch was acquired in 2014, but it was still Twitch, and not Amazon, when it came to culture. That's no longer true.

It no longer feels like a special environment. These layoffs really seal the magic being gone, though they would have happened even if Amazon hadn't acquired Twitch.

Many core employees have left in the past few years.

Amazon managers have been transferring in at a steady pace.

A beloved early employee committed suicide.

Twitch's source code was leaked shortly afterwards.

One Medical would write adderall scripts for people during the pandemic. I think they stopped, but idk I went back to using a regular psychiatrist. Pretty wild to think that nurse practicioners were prescribing schedule IIs.

source: I got all of my adderall through them for nearly two years