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Comment hypothesis living eh? (Score 4, Insightful) 102

What if the hypothesis is getting married, and / or having kids, or joining the military? There are a lot of life choices where one can't just "gather evidence" and if things aren't working out hit the reset button.

I wonder, for those who have found the most fulfillment, how much does commitment play into that.

Comment Meanwhile... (Score 3, Interesting) 93

Who needs Signal when business conversations over the phone or in person remain private and unrecorded? I've never understood this split between the digital and analog world with respect to what we're required to capture.
 

As an aside, the skeptic in me can't help but think that these legacy forms of communication are the real reason for the drive to get people back into offices.

Comment Re:No, the death of tourism did (Score 1) 215

What killed Macy's Union Square was the destruction of tourism from within and without. This allowed the Tenderloin to push towards Union Square, and eliminated a large number of shoppers. That created a death spiral for the area. I would guess that recovering Union Square is going to take more than fixing the situation in the financial district. Macy's was always the anchor for the area, so its loss will have much more profound impact on any future recovery. All the Union Square-adjacent areas have already fallen back to what they were 30 years ago.

The spread of Tenderloin was because of the BLM / Defund police movement along with the now recalled San Francisco District Attorney known for being far too soft on crime, not because there were less tourists.

That spread of crime and covid had a large impact on the retail health in SF. My recent travels outside of the US has not seen anywhere near this level of destruction.

Comment Re:For those that don't understand statistics (Score 1) 119

I think a better measure isn't if the first response is 50% correct, it's if you're able to eventually get to a correct answer versus going down that 'exercise in frustration' path.

Also, what is the % of people who were able to find the answer in stack overflow after that.

My anecdotal experience is that if I do go down that frustrating path, I'm a lot less likely to find an answer online anywhere. (That or the info is newer than 2021)

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