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> This would assume that somehow the atoms in our brain work differently than the atoms anywhere else. There is nothing special about consciousness.

You assume wrongly. The implication is that all wavefunctions have a corresponding consciousness. Since the universe is a nested set of wavefunctions, it's essentially all consciousness.

There is nothing special about consciousness, it's the unified field, it's all there actually is.

Honestly, the rigidity of your thinking holds you back from seeing any deeper truth.

https://youtu.be/LPhgDfT4Zpc
Incarceration in Real Numbers: An infographic that scrolls with text
> Everyone thinks they eat good food.

Yes, probably including you.

I am very aware of things like cooked spinach v.s. non cooked spinach. I pay close attention to what I eat, and make an effort not to fall into the traps of fad diets.

I eat a whole foods based, well rounded diet, that avoids known "gotchas" like aforementioned raw spinach. Oxalate are found in many of other "healthy" foods. I'm also very lean, but still pay close attention to the role of inflammation caused by insulin, and generally do my best to keep that down by avoiding carbs and sugar (though, not completely cut out, I am not keto).

Trust me, food is not the panacea of health that everyone espouses it to be. If you were dying of cancer, even the best diet on earth for you, may not save you. That said, a life of healthy eating is definitely a good idea and there's always the chance that I would feel worse, or simply die of a heart attack, if I weren't paying attention to my diet.

Diet is absolutely important to get in check, just like exercise. But it's all too often prescribed as THE solution above everything else. This often comes in the form of some revelation someone had, visa vi some weight lost, or some medical situation from their prior eating.

For some of us, there is no issue with weight, no medical problems, we cook all our own food (never eat out), eat well balanced whole foods, and yet still life is not magically solved.
Little Caesar's.

Particularly, they discovered an underserved market niche and found a way to satisfy people's desires in a cost efficient way.
> Flutter is still unusable on iOS

Flutter is actively working on the bug you're referring to, and I think you're valid in bringing this critique of the jankyness of animations on first run, but the large number of Flutter apps currently deployed clearly proves it is very usable on iOS. You have to workaround that jank, which is extremely frustrating, but I wouldn't write off the entire platform for it. It will be fixed.
They don't price things based on cost, they price them based on what you are willing to pay.
Is there a reason to prefer dividend paying stocks when they're less efficient than long term capital gains (ie. buybacks)?
> whatever the reason

Both Iceland and Italy have had multiple serious eruptions that could have wrapped around 2 or more winters in Europe and N. Africa, starving almost everybody.

I once read that our mitochondria indicates the human population was down to 5,000 at one time.

Here's one article mentioning the Toba explosion 70,000 years ago and blocking the sun for 6 years. There's still a Lake Toba:

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/h...
AWS is the only large scale provider with ARM. There are some smaller scale and VPS options but those are more for personal or small biz workloads or low overhead things.

We moved stuff to AMD cores on Google Cloud and saw a roughly 15% reduction in utilization (and thus cost) for the same work load. Those are just Zen2 too, not Zen3 yet.
AirTag hacked for the first time by security researcher [video]
Article is half correct. It’s true that major consumption purchases (nice house, nice car) are better thought of as liabilities not assets. But the investment story here suffers from what I’ve heard someone call the “my portfolio is 3 car washes in downtown Omaha” problem.

Long story short: this is actually not the best way to accumulate investment returns. The numbers in the post are not just realistic. Small $ private equity investments (that’s what this is) often lose money when costs are properly accounted for, especially if you include the value of time. And if you pay someone to manage the asset (rental property manager for example) it eats your return.

My dad once came into possession of a coin operated laundromat. It was exciting for a while. I’d go with him down to the laundromat and we’d pick up the quarters and do inventory. We bought a coin counter on eBay to make it go faster. Eventually we did the math and realized the business barely broke even, and was occupying 20% of his professional attention. He shut it down after 3 months and sold off the equipment.

Anyway you can make these kinds of businesses work but it’s a grind, not a free lunch. You’re better off with ETFs or a good dividend stock.
There was definitely a disconnect between the title and the content - it seemed to be about reinvesting your cash flow rather than leveraging debt. It would’ve been nice to see a comparison with simpler investments like stocks as well.

As an anecdote of actually using debt to generate future cash, when I purchased a house my mortgage was bundled with a home equity line of credit that was used for the down payment. My plan was to pay this off as soon as possible since it had a higher interest rate than the base mortgage. All the advice I got told me not to - everyone said take the 10 years they offer of paying interest only and reinvest what you would’ve put in. It turned out to be great advice and any time I can make this trade on debt, I will.
It is absolutely worth the trouble, at least for bean-counting reasons if that's how you get paid.
I've noticed a lot of americans actually are posturing about work hours. I was very surprised, me a French supposed to do 35 hours, to see american colleagues leave around 5pm
Coding is fun!

But why not work on a fun personal project instead of giving your labour away for free? (I am assuming you are not the majority owner of your company)
It looks interesting. But stuff like this:

> Objective-S is the first general purpose programming language

Those kind of statements annoy me to be honest. Is it really true? Or is it over-the-top marketing hype?

For me – and I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels this way – it creates a negative first impression.
Very clever! Check out the Account Activity API [0]. You can have Twitter POST to a webhook whenever your tweets get a reply (among other things), letting you skip the polling approach to look for replies.

If it’s just one webhook, it’s within the free tier.

(I replied on Twitter, too)

[0]: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/enterprise...
HR doesn't work for you, they exist to advance the interests of the company. Do not believe anything they say other than "you're fired".

If you are curious about labor laws you need to talk to a lawyer.
It might not be news but it's worth spamming media outlets to bring the subject as a talking point more often.
“ The power of technological deflation is important not to overstate, though. In everyday use, the rise of the smart phone displaced a lot of house phones, cameras, video recorders, film, CD players, iPods, beepers, radios, scanners, roadmaps, and many ATMs. They also displaced a big percentage of physical newspapers, calendars, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and books. In more niche areas they displaced some mobile game devices, pocket translators when traveling, compasses, voice recorders, and photo scrapbooks. We folded many of our devices and consumables into one powerful device with dozens of software applications.”

This, and we haven’t even discussed the amazing tech in food production that is getting better daily. (Satellites telling tractors in iowa what to do based on hyper spectral drone flyovers).

I remember our family taking a few years monthly payments to get me encyclopedias, and now we have wiki.
The idea that the validity of an idea is measured by how much money you can make by implementing it is /why/ our current system is flawed.
The Culture of Whales (webinar 2021-05-13)
Gold went up a lot in 2020. It’s underperformance in the past few months is because Treasury rates ripped higher, which made owning bonds more attractive. However, rates can’t rise much more, or the UD gov’t will be unable to service its debt. Therefore, gold has begun to climb again
My experience has always been that people who don't marry into their wealth are extremely competent, and even the ones who do often are.

But I know mine is a minority opinion on these types of boards.
Dimensional analysis seems to me to be a far more fool-proof way of knowing whether a quantity should be used with a particular formula.

Also the other issue is that the word "force" in physics doesn't just refer to F=ma, it also refers to the general concept of an interaction mediator. That's why they're called the four fundamental forces -- meaning that saying "gravity is not a force, it's a field" is not only overly pedantic but is also arguably wrong if you take it literally.
The general sentiment is right though - person A continued to live well below their means and invested, while person B fell into lifestyle inflation big time.

The key here is that both started out with a huge income for someone just starting out - $200k. If you are making $30k/year, this advice doesn’t really apply - you likely can’t even take advantage of 401k yet. This is for those that are lucky enough to have something to save.
It seems maybe I don't have a refined enough vocabulary to express what I'm thinking. Would you consider taxes, or laws in general, price manipulation? It seems to be pretty loosely defined what we're talking about.

I'm not disagreeing that the definition may mean all the things we're talking about, but I see nuance and an entire spectrum of things that are different but maybe technically called price manipulation.

From a quick glance online it seems "price manipulation" has more to do with fraud, and not laws.
Haha I used to be very protective of APIs for shared libraries as much for having to recompile as I was about just having stable APIs :D
Are we talking about the same thing with regard to qt? My qt mac apps don’t feel quite as good as native cocoa apps, but they come pretty close. I certainly prefer it to electron.
I would love to see a similar statistic about employees who benefit from a successful IPO. At the company I work for (recent IPO, within the last 6 months or so) the lead up to the listing date included sessions with financial advisors and a lot of zoom meetings to discuss tax planning and wealth management in general. I suspect that only people who ignored the material will "go broke."
Just like there are rule for overtime pay, there should be well documented rules for comp-time and on-call. Companies handle these all sorts of ways, but people should not be expected to give away tons of time.
In comes a pandemic induced remote work experiment and global satellite internet thanks to SpaceX.

An unforeseen black swan of a decade.
It is basically a status and class indicator in American society, particularly for the upper middle class and the upper class.

If you read "The Meritocracy Myth" by Yale University law professor Stephen McNamee, you will understand the game being played here quite well. There are upper class Americans in particular who basically work extremely long hours (80-105 hour work weeks) to game the system, with no net productivity gains whatsoever compared to the middle and upper middle class who typically work 40-60 hour work weeks at maximum. In fact, the productivity gains generally wane off at about 32 hours per week, and we really do not need longer work hours in modern society, unless it is for the upper class to "protect" their status. Just like sleep is critical, rest is critical too, for recharging, so you can do a good job at work. The health effects of working extremely long hours, even if it affords you things and experiences others do not have, are just simply not worth it.

My father, who grew up as a very indignant American youth, who literally paid for all of his clothes starting by age 12, knew how to play this game very well. He was able to transcend the poor, working, and middle classes, and was comfortably in the upper middle class as senior level management, in the private sector, in finance, as a certified public accountant by training, by the time I was born. At my grandmother's funeral (his mother's funeral) people wished they were industrious as he was in his youth! The sad part about it is he died before he turned 60, and before his mother. It comes at a huge price.
If you browse job listings, you might be surprised to find that the vast majority of jobs these days are not related to C or Linux development.

Companies are mostly building web and mobile applications, along with the corresponding web servers on the backend. JavaScript, Swift, Go, Java, Python - these are the kinds of languages developers are working with, and none of those languages normally are used with C build tools.
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Since the massive QE is happening in economies around the world,vthere will be some flight to the dollar as well as gold. A lot of money could continue to sit at negative rates. There won't be much impetus for capital investment for a decade. It's hard to say exactly how this will play out month to month, but it is going to be a harrowing.
Actually working long hours as a developer in my 20s got me a ton of extra equity and skills which set me up very comfortably professionally and financially.

I'm not recommending flipping burgers for free overtime, but it's ludicrous to claim that working hard doesn't pay dividends in professional high-skill fields for fair employers.
As someone that's already drunk the NMN koolaid, would you share your experience with two sentences? For example, have you noticed any results and if yes, how long after starting taking NMN?
I did the best I could with my body except now that I am 63 I have one regret: I wish I had more sex when I was able. I mean, I had sex but I could have had a lot more. It's seems dumb now to deny this basic pleasure for "reasons"
Which as far as we can tell, only arose in the last handful of thousands of years. Not super useful for discussing what made humans unique 78k years ago, much less when our lineage diverged.
I dont know I save a lot of my income and I dont whine about "the rich" all day long.

I suppose if you define being rich by being able to save more than 1k USD per month, a lot of people are gonna be it ?
The volume of an object goes up with the cube of it’s diameter, while its surface area increases relative to the square of its diameter. That means if you quadruple the volume of a combustion chamber and nozzle, the area of the chamber and nozzle only doubles. A similar effect applies to the plumbing. That doesn’t mean the mass only doubles, it’s a bit more than that, but less than 4X.
I'm in my 50's when I was your age we were all going to destroy each other with a nuclear war. Relax, it probably won't happen, all these problems get sorted out, (until they don't, then it doesn't matter).
I love when people try to explain financial concepts in ways that are understandable to a wider audience, but I feel like this piece misses explaining the _why_ behind any of this.

One basic piece of information that is missing, for example, is explaining the difference between a car and a house. The land that a house sits on can appreciate over time, whereas cars will always depreciate over time. One can make money, the other will lose money.

A lot of people need a car in the US, and both Sam and Mark have one in this article. It doesn't explain why an expensive car is a worse investment than an inexpensive one, and it is because it loses a more value per year than a more affordable car. it doesn't go into the nuances between leasing and owning, either.

I feel like explaining how to use debt to secure future cash flow would need to build on top of those fundamentals, and it feels out of place in this piece without them.
That doesn't make sense as far as the point goes. There has to be something more than a tautology.
At my old job I was routinely praised for being a hard worker because people kept seeing me stay to 7pm. I usually heard comments like, "don't work too hard" and "make sure you don't stay too late".

What no one seemed to notice was I was coming in at 11. I never felt the need to correct anyone.
Theory: overwork culture is a 'race to the bottom' when workers feel more pressure to (1) compete against each other instead of (2) organizing together to promote mutual interests.

Put this way, 'overwork culture' would be a collective action problem in the context of an economic system where owners have more leverage than workers.

So what about tech, where workers seem to have high leverage? Why do they still overwork? One factor that may be overlooked is this: workers are not only competing against their contemporaries but also future workers (which may be more numerous and perceived as less expensive).
When I first learned about Myers-Briggs, about 15 years ago, I took the test and I got I wanna say INTJ. About a week later, I took it again and got INTF. A week after that, I took it again and got ENTP. That's when I stopped trusting it, and I can't take it seriously whenever anybody brings it up. Let alone the fact that it was designed by two housewives in the 1910s, based on books by Carl Jung he disavowed himself.

As I've grown older, I've developed a theory about why people like the zodiac sign, Myers-Briggs, blood type personalities and all that other crap:
* Sense of belonging - wanting to belong to an in-group
* Understanding oneself - these categorizations let you explain your personality really quickly, if not really in depth
* Avoiding responsibility for themselves - instead of recognizing your flaws, it's easier to say "well I'm a Libra, what did you expect?"

I can understand the need for the first two, but that last point always makes me angry.
I think this could be a can of worms that’s more damaging.

What if the software is completely usable when it’s slow? What if it’s slow by design? That’s not outlawed?

And what’s the metric for being slow? Latency? Latency across what dimension? Who measures it and policies this exactly? Or do we slap fines based on resource consumption? What if my software just runs slower on the JVM if I’m on Java 11 instead of Java 8? What if that problem isn’t my fault but because someone in my dependency graph has a regression? Oh they open sourced their code. Am I liable now because I have a dependency on it and upgraded to the new version?

What if it’s network conditions that are causing the slow performance. Am I liable? Is your internet provider liable? What’s the minimum bar for performance, across what dimensions, and who defines it? And where do we find people with the education, background, training to define such a vast standard? How do we ensure it’s fair? Maybe I can’t write as performant code as the well funded people at Google or Amazon. Am I just shut out of the market entirely? Or is it applied selectively based on market cap of a company?
> Calling happiness subjective feels weird to me.

It’s subjective because it cannot be universally and independently measured.

It’s not possible to measure the happiness of two individuals such that I can compare them against each other quantitatively and define who of the two is happier.

I can do that, however, with basically every physical measurement.
The problem is we have no idea how realistic those numbers are. Are there $3000 websites for sale that net you $200/month? How easy are they to come by? How much work/skill do you need to do to find them and perform due diligence? What's the risk of buying a website that turns out to be a dud? How long does the website last before drying up? All of these questions can be easily and verifiably answered for the s&p 500, but not for a random website.

edit: a few commenters pointed out that these passive income business (for lack of a better phrase) aren't as good as they sound.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27100881

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27100633
This is pretty speculative. Jogging and doing hard word puzzles both use extra calories, and both help people live long and healthy lives.
Give them more money to build rural broadband services. That'll teach em.
Did he made the winning shot in game 7?

Specially in basketball, do you credit the first 10 baskets made or the three pointer at the buzzer?
I've watched a few videos on that channel and there something that's been bugging me in the look of Dr Stanfield. I can't describe exactly what though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wait, wasn't Objective-C already based on Smalltalk? Is this a Smalltalk-ier Objective-C or what?

Also, the "Object Templates" block is misconfigured.
How's desktop support?
Please don’t undersell the value of your work. It is worth something, and don’t let other people make money out of your overtime without compensation. In many countries it is even illegal to work more hours without compensation. The reason is that even if you personally enjoy it, there are more of us that would prefer to spend more time with our families, playing minecraft, practicing fencing, programming our own Arduino, or at the pub. People have literally died fighting for our rights for free time. If you work overtime without compensation—even if you enjoy it—it cheapens the work for the rest of us. And the rest of us don’t have millions of dollars to spear when our compensations get taken away from us, all we have is our work and solidarity with our common workers.

Please consider that before you clock in at 2AM to write code so that your bosses can make more money. Your work, your body, and our solidarity is worth more then that.
That's fine, but again... Why do work that makes money for someone else for free? You can achieve the same thing by working on your own stuff.

I'm also a well paid software developer, but I spent my 20s recording albums, learning to garden, staying fit, and generally not spending my time making money for someone else for free.
People have the freedom to sleep, learn, and work with who they want?

(It’s interesting to consider when this isn’t true in the US from a philosophical point of view)
Wait, what’s this about raw spinach?
Also the marginal cost for Macdonals to serve one more hamburger is also very low. And anything that is automated has very small marginal cost, which is most stuff now a day. If you want to measure inflation, check how much it cost to hire a plumber. And craftsman likes to charge even numbers, so they will jump from $100/hour to $200/hour (rather then from 100 to 110)
> it'll eventually happen to the politician you like

I mean, it did happen to a politician that almost half the country likes.
To quote a recent Scott Alexander blog post:

The post-WWII-but-pre-1970 economic world - the world of “embedded liberalism” - was a pleasant place. There were corporations, but they didn't do anything garish like compete with each other. Executive pay was taxed so heavily that nobody had much incentive to try to increase their profit margin; workforces were so heavily unionized that companies were nervous about any changes that might upset employees. As long as companies followed the script, the government embraced and protected them. Starting a new business was considered some bizarre act of alchemy, like discovering a new form of matter; normal people worked for the same giant company their whole life and got a nice gold watch as a reward when they retired. The government wasn't exactly socialist per se, but it kept starting and expanding programs like Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, and every night you went to sleep knowing there would be probably be another uncontroversial, mostly-successful government welfare program tomorrow.
As long as people want things they don't have, there will always be scarcity.

I'll believe the Post Scarcity Economy only when I see it.