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I mentor college students as part of a structured mentoring program. Some of the young people who come through the group have wildly pessimistic views on the world, especially as it pertains to jobs and capitalism.

Part of our job is to defuse some of the more self-defeating views, but it’s increasingly difficult to compete against the non-stop onslaught of pessimism that comes from their subreddits and Twitter follows. When someone has been conditioned for hours each day to believe that capitalism is evil, that no one should have to work, that UBI is as simple as taxing Jeff Bezos a little more, and that jobs are “wage slavery”, it’s hard to compete with healthy mentorship advice.

Some of these online communities are downright toxic. Some of my most difficult mentees subscribed to “NEET” (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) communities on Reddit that felt like the notorious incel communities we’ve all heard about, but with the vitriol directed at jobs and bosses.

There are even explicit anti-work movements, like /r/antiwork on Reddit, that have a stated goal of ending work. No alternative is proposed and no one explains how society would function if no one works, but instead they complain about having to work at all. Someone consuming this material on their phone before, during, and after work every single day is obviously going to become bitter and miserable.

This doesn’t explain everything, of course, but it is a growing factor among the most disgruntled young people I see coming through our program.
I was always skeptical but once I started travelling with kids it became clear to me the giant holes in the hotel business model that AirBnB has disrupted.

Want to find a place with a separate room / bed for your teenage daughter? A hotel's answer is to book a second hotel room, or you might luck out with multiroom hotels but good luck even searching for them. AirBnB makes it easy to search their inventory for that. Want a kitchen? Always a fun time searching hotel inventory for that. Oh, and about that teenage daughter many hotels consider anybody over the age of 12 an adult, so now you are required put in "3 adults" into your search and their search system returns 0 results. Etc.
California Defies Doom with #1 US Economy
Does this mean that other languages that are gendered also will be fixed?

Currently Polish Twitter displays both variations in a single text because it doesn't know which variation to use. For example I see:

"Nie wysłałeś/aś jeszcze żadnych zdjęć ani filmów"

The word should be just "wysłałeś" for masculine, and "wysłałaś" for feminine.
Slave trade brought in massive wealth into Europe back then. That is why people did it, really. Otherwise they would not bothered with it.

The south had slavery, because it was massively profitable. They did not done it for fun and giggles. Owners fought to keep slavery multiple times, because they wealth was in slaves and in what slaves produced. The slave owning families were the richest and most powerful.

Same with colonialism. It was not done out of boredom, it was done because resources you get from all of it.
s/Nightmares/Lawsuits and bad PR

They aren't spending money out of some altruistic intention.
> you're saying that valuing education means people succeed. So why didn't the parents succeed then?

Possibly because the parents parents didn't value education and by the time the parents came to value education they were already stuck in the cycle of poverty.
I understand that the ducted systems are less efficient, but the ability to better control filtration, outdoor mixing and humidity makes up for that.
Since you never witnessed the magic of governement or regulation that works, lets me give you some example.

- I had a college education pay by tax payer money.

- You might be old enough to remember the CFC cans? I find it good and compelling that they are illegal and a thing of the past now.
It was a regulation signed in 1987, with both Russia and the US on the ticket, during a cold war.
CFC are not a consumer product anymore. I have no idea if they still exists at large.

- I miss some regulation that were beneficial, glass-steggal comes to mind.

Anyway, all that to say, I find your statment pretty broad and easy to poke at.

A last one for the road: don't you think of the children?

I appreciate that child labor have been regulated out of the greedy hands of our capitalist overlords.
Do you mind me asking a little about the separation? I’m shocked I am in a solid marriage. I am a nightmare...
Blink gets many times more manpower than WebKit, it is also used by new IE, which assures Google the veto power on any new browser API.
Thank you. I'm reading both now. Funny how his blog is about 'living your best life', the exact reason I went to therapy to begin with.

I don't have trouble listening, but the opposite. I empathize so strongly when people talk to me about their problems that I end up exhausted.
We’re not talking about artisan cheese here, we’re talking network effects. “Small guys” can’t offer the same value without a user base.
What you see in the CV is the name of the company they worked for, not the name of their direct manager.
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Moving to Matrix really shouldn't be disruptive, given how easy it is to then bright Matrix back into IRC on whatever network. (Admittedly the Freenode mess has made bridging problematic given the loss of identity/access data on the Freenode side means we don't know who has permission to re-plumb, but we're working on that)
The industry can sell MTBs and gravel bikes where disc brakes have benefits. And now e-bikes, that's a huge market.
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I used to have a 912 as well but its bugs were tiresome so I stopped using it. I can say that the rM2 is a very different beast from that. I didn't expect to like the rM2 and was anticipating returning it when I preordered it but now it pretty much accompanies me everywhere.
> I think the very final nail in the coffin was the leaked recordings of the CNN technical director basically admitting what everyone pretty much already knew. That they spread misinformation deliberately, only give interviews to subject experts who they know will say what CNN prefers them to say and ultimately design everything they put on the screen to get hooks inside your limbic system and keep your eyes glued.

For anyone who may not be aware of the contents of the actual recordings, here are some quotes.

Trump was — his hand was shaking, he was losing it. He’s unfit. We were creating a story there. I think that’s propaganda.

[Trump's] hand was shaking or whatever, I think. We brought in so many medical people to tell a story that was all speculation -- that he was neurologically damaged, and he was losing it. He's unfit to - you know, whatever.

We had nothing else to run with at that time. We were like, just taking shots off a bow, just hoping something would hit, you know?

We were creating a story there that we didn't know anything about. That's what - I think that's propaganda

Look what we did, we got Trump out. I am 100 percent going to say it, and I 100 percent believe that if it wasn't for CNN, I don't know that Trump would have got voted out.

Like our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that's what it was, right? So, our next thing is going to be climate change awareness.
I have similar observations, and your suggested explanations seem reasonable but I have nothing but anecdata either way. I have known a lot of people in tech in the US from whom I've gotten the distinct impression they are formally diagnosed with ADHD and perhaps on medication.

I have also known a lot of people who tend to self-diagnose problems that I suspect they don't really have and then talk about them a lot (such as ADHD). They're usually the people who are fixated on vaccines and 5G as the cause of many health problems, but they typically won't have much interaction with "establishment" doctors on these issues. It's my impression that this is more common in the US than Europe, but it's a distinct issue. Not sure if some of that is mixed in to your observations?
Perhaps, i more meant just plugging into a computer and dragging over files using the OS's file manager.
> They want to run neurological tests, said I'm 'twice exceptional'

It's a red flag to me. Who's they here ? What kind of setting, health insurance, country's social net are we talking about ?

Who's paying for the privilege of investigating a case that is twice exceptional ?
The US and California in particular lost it's appeal. 20 years ago it was the dream destination for many. Now, even some Indians steer away. I don't know a single European who would want to live in the US. Not even from Eastern Europe. The go-to place is London, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, etc.

FAANGS were started 1-2 decades ago. In past 5 years the trend changed. Ask PG. He will never move back to the US.

And no, Texas will never be the next big innovation hub.

Living in the US is dull and uninspiring if you lived away for long. Also the missing social net makes the situation worse and worse every year.

"America" is losing the talent pool.
I want to add to this that in many cases getting many "bad hires" can also be symptom of bad management or bad workplace environment.
The parents were immigrants. They were successful -- just not in the way its normally measured.
It's been about 9 years and I'm still on the original dose of the first medication my psychiatrist prescribed. I'm really glad I managed my pride enough to make that first appointment.

- Slept better. No more tossing and turning for an hour or two before I fell asleep.

- Ate more regularly. My stomach starts to hurt if I wait too long between meals.

- Remembered people's names when meeting them, at least to the point where I could say it again after they introduced themselves and started talking.

- More realistic outlook. Things aren't perfect and they aren't the worst, they just either kind of suck for now or this is a good moment.

- No longer have to make a giant mental effort to get something done on the weekend. If I want to read a book, I read it. If I want to play video games, I play them. If I want to clean the house, I clean the house.

- No longer a giant mental effort to get something done at work. Need to send an email? Send it. Need to annotate some data? Annotate it. Need to schedule a meeting? Schedule it.
The new Kobo Elipsa has lighting. I'm wondering if the writing experience will suffer on it.
I don't think it's all political or hate speech problem, but an overboarding political correctness which seems to be everywhere around in these days. The SJW are up to misinterpret everything you said, so everything you say might be end up as being live threatening (in the meaning of your public social live or you lose your job).
Depends on what you consider a "user". You're a user of this website too, presumably running on Linux.
> It has to be extremely difficult to focus on school and education when you don't know when your next meal is going to be

This is true, but which is the bigger factor in America: parent(s) who are uneducated themselves and do not take an active role in their childrens' education OR food insecurity? I would argue the former. I remember a recent story about Baltimore single mom Tiffany France being shocked that her kid (a senior in high school) wasn't going to graduate because he had a 0.1 GPA (the story was that that was one of the top GPAs in the school). Like... how checked out do you have to be from your kid's education in order to not know that your kid is rampantly truant and has <1.0 GPA over the course of 4 years? Not to downplay her own struggles; part of the reason she's checked out from her kid's education is likely due to dealing with her own jobs/responsibilities/issues. So for that reason alone even having 2 parents is a massive educational advantage over their peers.

Food insecurity exists, but also there is an obesity epidemic and single parenthood epidemic in America among various lower classes and based on personal experience I tend to think parent mentorship (or lack thereof) plays a far bigger role in kids' education than food insecurity.
Is there any reason to use Qwant over DDG, aside from a Francophone focus?
> The biggest problem I have with semver is that we don't have good enough tooling to reject minor or patch version bumps when major version bumps are actually warranted. I'm not sure it's possible to have that thorough of analysis in general.

The biggest problem with automated tooling is that there is a nontrivial subjective component to this. If you look at things strictly, any bug fix that changes externally observable behavior can be a breaking change - but bumping the major version for every release defeats the purpose of SemVer.
I think implicit in the post is that parents’ parents could have lived where education was too far away physically, took away from a pool of labor, etc.

Conversely, we have kids today, who for whatever reason have the opportunity to get an education but are sidetracked by entertainment and other things that can derail their long term prospects despite more being available to them. (Contrast with kids in third world counties who walk miles to the nearest school, pay for books from their meager earnings, take jobs to pay for their siblings’ education, etc) yet these privileged kids can’t be arsed.
Empirical data shows this as well, so I guess this just means there’s a gap in propaganda convincing workers to accept less and less each year while productivity increases. I’m sure the media will correct this misperception quickly.
You just broadly painted all of Europe as lazy. Maybe you should reconsider your attitude?

> Corporations and regulations will just drive your small company out of the market no matter what

Has this happened to you?

Plenty of small business where I stand, and this lifestyle fits them perfectly, there is no desperation to survive. Not every business has to be about growth.

I think what you’re seeing is the result of policies that increase quality of life. So Germany has to import someone like you, from a third world country, that will accept the pay and have “ambition”. It goes both ways.
It's hard to describe what's unisearch in one sentence so I will try to elaborate more in this comment.

Unisearch is basically a CLIP[0] like model that extends to multilingual domain. I also added text-text pairs to support text search for experimental purpose. So you should be able to search text or images using another foreign language.

You may try "如何重置 Mac os 系統" and "wipe format mac os" on regular website search to see the result for yourself.

I am still indexing more websites and images as of my writings. So results may improve from time to time ( since it retrieve the nearest results it can find from the database, so some answer maybe funny because it can't find a better index item )

The interface is not polish so a new image search will require you to go to the landing page and select a new image. (as this is only a final project for one of my course)

List of languages that it "supports" are English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Malay, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. However I find using other language also works as well, for example text to image search using "escena nocturna al lado del río"[1] also works pretty well.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/clip/

[1] https://unisearch.cloud/search-image?q=escena+nocturna+al+la...
That's the crux of it right there. I've had a wonderful, wonderful life, a rewarding career, a 30 year marriage and raised intelligent, well-grounded kids. Not just by _my_ definition, but by those around me whom I respect.
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I enjoy it when traveling alone, I usually look for hosts that are more open to interacting with their guests. Have met loads of interesting people through the app, some I still talk to occasionally.
> If anything, it's been my experience that the US is more focused on people having "the right" education for the job.

What are you thinking of here? Big US companies like Google will let you get a high-level job with no college education whatsoever. Most traditional European companies would not consider doing that.

> While the US may have a few institutions that are universally recognized as excellent

"a few institutions"? The US absolutely dominates the top universities. You have to go down to the 40s to find your first EU institution.
A lot of these models are open source, I wonder who would this product market towards?
I agree. I'm turned off by the way everything is a subscription nowadays, even if you only use a service a discrete and specific number of times. Not your fault I know :-) everyone is doing it! But there are only so many annuities I'm happy to contribute to. I get the feeling that we're all being nickel and dimed to death right now.

It looks very nice, by the way.
"and paid $7 million to the victim."

I am assuming after the victim decided to file a lawsuit. I would be surprised if that was a preemptive offer.
It's not a useful model for life, but it's a useful perception to convey to your constituents.

"You're being held back by a system that works against you! Send me to Washington, and I'll fix it!"

Wash, rinse, repeat.
Great visuals but terrible to get to the meat of it.
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You'd still need a computer or phone, and a bank account, unless you imagine getting paid in bitcoins. But then the government will definitely start tracking that, or outlaw it if they can't. They are not going to give up their ability to tax the economy.
This is also something addressed in Lyotard's book "Postmodern Condition"; the federal funding was more of the "end" than the "beginning", in the sense that it was when the purpose of the university became "output", rather than something else.

He presents two alternatives for "what is the purpose of academia?" that date back to the 19th century and earlier. On the one hand, is the "German" approach, of "the great encyclopedia of knowledge", where the universities steward research for its own sake, to discover truths about the world. The other hand is the "French" approach, where the goal of the university was to produce well-rounded, educated citizens. He argues that both of these goals are effectively obsolete, and what now matters is "performativity", i.e. producing "value".

My sense is that the immense military funding signals the initial shift, especially since the fundamental nature of the university changed so much as a result of mass admissions after the GI bill. No longer was it a sort of "special" place for intellectuals; now everybody goes to college, so these older, more "romantic" goals become problematized.
I mean this is a uncommon opinion. I'd appreciate a few sentences because I was curious. But whatever, I won't lose sleep. I don't know if you think it's because of the energy waste, or invoking speculative rampage, or something else.. It's the something else I'm more curious about.
People who believe in hard work are just creating unemployment. It's a rat race.

> "Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off." — Speech at the People's Forum in Troy, New York (March 3, 1912)

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Competition matters, but I really have the feeling that we believe competition is a form of cooperation, but it's clearly not. How often do we blame other for their lack of motivation, of drive, of life goals, of success? Social darwinism is a belief that covertly dominates.
Agreed, your parents mistakes are often a very strong source of motivation to act differently.
Theoretically, if you have ADHD the medicine shouldn’t make you ‘high’. If you don’t it will have that effect.
This was told to me by a specialist (I am dubious though)
worthless graph because it compares minimum wage to the price of goods, not median wage. The minimum wage today is $7.25 but essentially no one makes that. Target, Chipotle, Amazon, and other start out at $15, others aren't far behind.
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One thing all tech employees can appreciate is that some people are far more efficient than others. In some cases, by orders of magnitude.

You can sort of blend that with "opportunity" if you think it's entirely nurture/education based, but I went to school with a lot of people who had an identical home environment and education as me, and are easily 10x better at coding.

There's very little research into how brains function, but I personally believe that human brains are all physically different, in terms of capability, and that everyone has a unique blend of innate talents.

So I think the equation is...

Success (in x field) = Hard Work + Talent (in x field) + Opportunity (in x field)

...which means that a major key to success is selecting the field that you have a talent for.
> I would think "starting conditions" includes the parents one has. Also what you say is not quite logic - you're saying that valuing education means people succeed. So why didn't the parents succeed then?

Some people value education independently of their parents.

You go on to make a point about a head start being beneficial, and I'm absolutely not disagreeing with that.
Thank you for posting this. And since these are all basically just anecdotes, I would also like to add mine. I got hooked on anxiety pills after a diagnosis (not the same thing as ADHD, but still), and the withdrawals were genuinely the worst things I've ever faced. Like I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemies. With drugs, especially habit forming ones backed by Big Pharma, you should always be on the side of caution.

Moreover, some of the comments are literally about starting drugs a week or a month ago. God forbid, the long term effects could be entirely different. I started struggling with my dependencies after about a year or so.
How paternalistic. Now can we step into reality.
what's the difference between strattera and ritalin?
Starting conditions are also heavily correlated with the qualities that lead to them, which are both culturally and genetically hereditable.

There is also a chilling effect where even the people who have the qualities needed to succeed, judge their own chances by the median of their peers, and thus don’t bother in the first place. This is one of the reasons I advocate for big-population standardized tests just a self-assessment tool for students. It won’t help most underprivileged people, but it will at least help the best of them, and get a positive feedback loop going.

I myself probably would not have worked hard enough if I did not consistently place high in these tests, as I was from a rather small city, and born with an under-confidence bias.
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Wasn’t it open source to begin with?
This is harrowing. I hope you can keep finding energy to give people a chance. I believe everyone has their 'people' but the tragedy is that it can take an entire lifetime to discover them.

Finding someone with even less, and giving them some of yours, can have wildly unpredictable rewards. And even if there is no reward, it's still damned distracting in a way that we need.

Don't give up on people, even when they all let you down so far.
Did you ever experiment with Adderall, Vyvanse or Ritalin? How did you end up with Strattera?

I’m trying to triangulate a course for myself and still can’t pull the trigger on any of these for fear of side-effects or dependence.
It is hard. But working physically at a reasonable pace, without having a boss that tries to break your back is also very satisfying. You’re tired in a healthy, calming way when you’re done. The conditions really matter though.

One of the most important lessons I learned is to never rush. You have to push yourself but if you rush, then mistakes and injuries happen, and you‘ll be mentally exhausted and stressed.

What I hope is that these guys you see are going at their own pace, which still can be quite fast.