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I am developer/architect/tech lead with over 20 years of experience in operations, system/embedded/backend development (C/Java), managing technical projects and teams.

Looking to volunteer for a nonprofit.
The USA also has really high living expenses.

Besides which, the median is a much better measure than average.
My approach is to use Authy, which allows for automated backups and/or to save the original QR code image to an offline encrypted store like KeePass.
They're pitching the entire human existence will be nothing more than perpetual "waiting for the next sneaker drop"
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Its ranked in the order of effect. No carbs/sugar and instead eating only veggies and grass fed beef/fish is very noticeable to me. I am absolutely my better self when I am on a keto diet.
Nice try recruiter.
> Sites that have been painstakingly, designed and built, reviewed and refined to the last detail

And this misses the point. Many/most businesses gain zero business value from a website.

Most businesses don't need a bespoke website. They need a website that looks like every other business website, allows marketing to throw a new whitepaper up every couple of months, and maybe allows people to send marketing/sales an email from a form.

That's it. Nothing more.

Most businesses don't need a $100,000 website. They don't need an optimized UX experience. They simply need a "good enough" web experience because not having a web experience is considered a faux pas even if your web experience is a gigantic waste of your time and brings no value to the business.

A Wordpress hosting company is perfect for this.
> note, we both know that it is possible AND this doesn't require AGI

Not who you're replying to and not saying you're wrong, but how do we know this?
People react to drugs differently, nothing wrong with that, and respect to people who realize what’s bad for them and cut it out.
You are onto something and if you haven’t tried to get a job lately you might not fully understand what OP is getting at here.

I have similar worries. I used to get more recruiting inbound and I can compare to equivalent colleagues of mine, the amount of inbound interest they get.

Long story short: Women and minority candidates get way more interest than I do despite similar qualifications and background. That is deeply troubling.

In theory I should get way more based on my “qualifications and experience,” in practice it is not the case.

You have to be aware there is a sweet spot for recruiters and I am definitely not in it, whatever it is, anymore.

Hint: Don’t be a white male with a family over 35 in most expensive geographies in North America.

Have even heard my friends who are CEOs of startups explicitly state “women are cheaper.” They we’re not joking.

USA hiring is rapidly becoming as attractive as hiring employees in France, I fear. I believe a lot of “smart money” have actively retooled their hiring strategy post covid.

They don’t want Europe, they don’t want USA. They don’t want to see expensive cities and they don’t want to pay for expensive city rental and housing inflation.

Corporations now seem to really like to recruit women for most roles in my category. And senior executives seem to prefer people who won’t “compete” with them. Increasingly they seem to want to avoid paying for the “benefit” of hiring USA citizens.

Recently saw a screen shot of the “team” of a major USA VC firm. 20% old white male original founders, 70% women and 10% white male junior hires. Hate to say it but this stratification is becoming quite common. It will be great for women, minorities and immigrants. Good for them.

This is a major problem for people like myself if trend continues. America is about to see itself lose its competitiveness horrifically. Quite honestly: I will have to move out of USA to compete and be able to somewhat raise family.

If you aren’t paying attention, and you are older and “more qualified” you should be extremely careful in coming years imo.

Unfortunately there is also such a thing as being “too talented.” If you are too smart, you represent a threat to management and your organization.

Have seen this myself. The place to be in this job market is remote, under the age of 25 and somewhere in the middle of the talent curve, on the pathologically ass kissing and optimistic side.

Remote work makes outsourcing much more attractive. I believe right now that on the inside, most VC portfolios are encouraging their startups to go for remote talent in less expensive locations.

I recently went through a loop, for example, and was offered a package that would have been attractive years ago.

Something has become broken with the American job market in a way that will disadvantage native workers.

All the press about resignations and hiring shortages is imo masking this. The reality on the ground doesn’t look good.

Politicians are going to be in for a very rude awakening if I am right.
The answer is "people who are paid enough to do so".
I don't know about other people but as a driver I try to be aware of what's behind me at all times. Where I live (Sydney Australia) it's extremely rare to be tailgated on a suburban street — but when I am, I'll drive to the conditions. That means in an area where road incursions are probable (e.g. where there are pedestrians or playgrounds) I will drop my speed below the limit. If someone is being persistent or aggressive, I'll pull over and let them pass.
Oh my friend, I've found defining good pre- and post-sleep behaviors is crucial.
Lots of undesirable things have been with mankind since the beginning. Not a very compelling argument.
Have you looked at other (actual) UBI experiments people have carefully run and observed? Or are you just extrapolating from this one data point that hardly resembled UBI in the first place, never mind even remotely resembling a controlled experiment?
You might be interested in Trustworthy Online Experiments by Kohavi et al then. I enjoyed the historical progression!
The ratio of the actual Kolmogorov complexity to the superficially apparent Kolmogorov complexity?

By the way...Wikipedia has something on a "naive" attempt to compute the Kolmogorov complexity of a string. It says that iterating through all strings won't work because some of them contain infinite loops and the halting problem is uncomputable.

Ok, but what if you make a program to test all possible strings in "parallel", that is, on a sequential processor, but using brief time slices? That way, shouldn't you finish with all the strings that halt without letting the infinite loops hold things up?

I probably don't understand something or am plagiarizing something I've forgotten, or both.
I gave it up on the 27 of December when my neighbor died of alcoholism related organ failures.
Auto play is the worst.

I also hate the turning on chimes

Not auto-muting when restarted/woken up

Blue led

Bright electronics.

It seems that everything is designed to scream at the user.
No UBI or stfu.
>stacked against autopilot

To be fair, it's not a computer performance benchmark being gamed here. If nightime is problematic, autopilot shouldn't be running at night. Because if I'm a pedestrian then the odds are stacked against me with any physical encounter with a vehicle. Fairness in the scenario setup shouldn't really be part of the conversation unless it goes beyond the claims if the manufacturer, i.e., if Tesla had said "autopilot does not function in these conditions and should not be used at those times" and then "nightime" was one of those conditions listed. If Tesla hasn't said that a scenario is outside the scope of AutoPilot then the scenario is an appropriate test & comparison point.
> I’m confused. I usually like to cruise control in the middle lane (at around 3-5 over the speed limit); how does this cause problems for you?

If it were one car, it would be a minor annoyance, at worst. But this style of driving is really popular, so it's a steady line of cars cruising the middle lane in a line. It divides the freeway into two one lane roads, bottlenecking traffic and making it difficult for people who are in the left lane to get to the right in order to take their exit.

It may be that the dynamics are different in your area. Between Portland and Salem, Oregon, the exits are several miles apart so there's not much merging traffic.

> What would you propose I do differently?

In my experience the best freeway experience is when people pass only on the left, and there is enough of a speed differential between lanes that when you need to change lanes you can always find a spot you fit in. It gets aggravating when traffic is pacing, especially at high speeds, because it makes it a lot tougher to make comfortable lane movements. It's worse when the left lane is filled with cruisers, because they always bunch up and follow each other with a 1-second separation, making lane switching hard (and when you turn your signal on, at least half of them will just speed up to make sure the gap is even tighter).

I'm not going to tell you how I think you should drive. There are a lot of factors that are not necessarily the same between where I drive and where you drive. But I can tell you that the dynamics on this section of I-5 up here are just awful. It's a well known local phenomenon, everyone I've ever ridden with through that section of I-5 comments on how terrible the traffic gets with passing on the right, left, and locked up down the center.
Don't see the same
There isn't a single UBI experiment that remotely approximates what people mean when they talk about UBI. They are all small samples and all for limited time periods. The COVID stimulus was the closest thing we've seen on the scale required to get meaningful results.
That attitude makes you sound a bit defensive about your own drinking, no?
I do all of those things in Japan without alcohol and have just as much fun
Sorry, I beg to differ. I just clicked on your link and tried the Spelling Bee game. Started playing, after I hit my fifth word the game terminated and I got a popup:

You’re good at this!
Know more words? Subscribe to reach our Genius ranking.

With a subscribe button.

I don't blame NYT for doing this, at all. If you pay millions of dollars for something, you expect a return. But this kind of "stop what you were interested in doing right when it starts becoming fun so you can subscribe" is exactly the type of annoying shit I was talking about.
> consistently 24/7

That part doesn’t seem to come anywhere from the previous conversation?
Each of those rules requires self discipline to enforce. Have you considered that you are more sociable, productive, and creative at times you are able to maintain good self discipline?

I suppose making a habit of disciplined behavior could foster such behavior in the future as well.

Really, it could probably go both ways in my view, though I suppose from a practical standpoint, whether cause and effect are swapped doesn’t matter.
How do you put a phone number in? It rejects mine.
How do people make microchips, without understanding precisely and intimately how physics works at the scale of nanometers? Just because you don't isn't proof that nobody can.
Probably because some ad-blockers block reCAPTCHA.
You would be far better off giving up smoking, if you can do only one at a time.
I was in a drivers education class (I’d rear ended someone, and was trying to keep points off my license), and we went around the room explaining what law we broke to wind up in the class. One attendee was there for 1 MPH over in a school zone. Was it probably racial profiling? Probably. But I now stick to exactly 0 MPH over in school zones, and have routinely seen police monitoring speed while dropping my kids off at school. There appears to be zero tolerance even for the most politically connected soccer mom.
All reasonable reasons.

I first drank alcohol in my 30s, surrounded by supportive friends. I can only muster a drink or two, and do not think I've been buzzed before. For me, I enjoy the social aspect, the lightened mood, and the opportunity for further social bonding.

I've seen some folks have their life wrecked by it.

I applaud those that leave what they feel as negative behind. Kudos!
> but if you have electricity, won't you have other options as well?

No. There's a huge chunk of North America by area that does not have 100+mbit/sec broadband.

Most of those areas don't have huge population, but those who are there sometimes are there for good reasons.

Starlink is wonderful for those people.

There are a lot of people who have delusions that Starlink is going to have a significant impact on mainstream wireline broadband providers, which is absurd, but there's a lot of the world that still has nothing even close to what this service offers.

If (and this is a massive IF) they get the laser linking working it'll be huge for the aviation and marine worlds but even as is it's the best thing to happen to rural broadband service in years.

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Personally I hope they get mobile service for RVs working soon, all I need to work is reliable low-latency internet access so if I can theoretically get it from anywhere in the country I am free.
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Public education doesn’t directly increase earning. Learning takes effort. Also you can learn useless stuff that has no demand.

UBI is a handout. It takes zero effort you might as well lie down and be a rock.
Pre-K is day care
> Who's to say that recipients wouldn't spend their income on personal R&D - finding out what fits them or developing useful skills

Common sense. Half of everyone and 95% of beneficiaries of UBI will use additional marginal cash to do things like smoke weed and watch cartoons. Being a beneficiary of UBI is already extremely compelling evidence of inability to efficiently allocate capital (personal or monetary).

> which could have a much higher return than the centrally-planned kind.

I guarantee that forcing me to ""invest"" my labor by giving it away to random people will have vastly lower returns (personal and social) than letting me invest it myself. My suggestion is not to increase taxes and give the money to R&D departments - my suggestion is to not take more of my money at all. The fact that R&D is better than UBI only tells us that if we were to increase central planning at the margins, UBI is almost certainly not the utilitarian way to do it.
You da best.
There might be taxis, but not enough for everyone who wants to catch one. It’s already difficult enough on rainy days.
When you stop drinking (I just have a couple a month) you notice more how much alcohol is consumed on TV and in movies.
> Assuming it isn’t >10% under the speed limit, what’s your issue actually?

Slower traffic keep right is a thing. You are not entitled to stay in the passing lanes just because you are going at least the speed limit. My issue is that it really mucks up the capacity of the freeway and increases the suffering for everyone using it.

> you need to plan and prepare properly to start transitioning well before you want to exit

I think I didn't make myself clear. It doesn't matter how early you plan, whether 10 seconds or 10 minutes. You will just have to put your signal on and take a spot, even if it puts you much too close to the guy in front with someone much too close to your bumper. Because the cruise controllers drive like a train, and don't care to leave any reasonable gap between them.

Really, the reason traffic sucks in so many places is because people think laws like 'slower traffic keep right' are there to infringe on their rights, when really it's because traffic engineers have studied how traffic flows and made regulations to encourage it to be safe and as little congested as possible.
Your response is smug and glib. You can make 150k without too much trouble as a plumber. Or a mason. And still they can't find people. If you can't find people to work for those wages now, you think UBI will make it better? Please do explain that to me.
Shrug. It never came up. I was all squared away with a good legal document for the lease, verified renters insurance, all that. Never even occurred to me the bank might take issue with it. Oh well, no harm done.
They exist because they're a viable business because there is enough approximately consistent demand. That's not guaranteed to continue.
Why not just donate the money directly to charity and not have Amazon notifications?
I've been cutting alcohol down to almost nothing for a while now. I wasn't a big drinker before, but once I hit my 30s even a small amount socially I still felt in GI effects the next day (which has always been an issue for me) so eliminating it entirely was a pretty easy choice.

Non-alcoholic wine is my current experiment, since it provides a way to get very close to a flavor which goes comfortably well with meals, without the alcohol - and I'm very much hoping it catches on as a standard offering in restaurants and the like as a way to still participate.
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Water is "actually" blue, as in due to the chemistry of its electronic configuration. A deep column of water has a blue color in a way that other liquids, such as benzene, do not. There was a cool picture of this demonstration in one of my old chemistry books.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_water

Reflection of the sky accounts for much of the color of natural bodies of water, but it's cool to know that it's blue even in the absence of blue reflection.
How is a couple of isolated payments in the middle of a global pandemic that turned the entire world upside down the "closest thing we've seen" to an accurate UBI experiment?

It just sounds like you just don't know about what else has actually been done? Here's one link; you can find more if you Google: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/is_universal_basic_income_th...
Serious question. Was there some epidemic of running over children that I missed in the 18 years of operating vehicles before I got one with a backup camera?
> Public assistance? Like UBI?

I think it's important that to whatever extent we decide that some people need assistance, that we do it in a way that doesn't have a cliff and preferably doesn't have any phase-out at all, for the reasons I described.

Yes, the assistance is still economically distortive, but less so than otherwise. Everyone still has an incentive to increase their income and economic output.

This idea came to me from none other than Milton Friedman, in the form of the negative income tax.
Wow, that was spectularly badly written and researched.
My Fedora can do an inplace system upgrade (reinstalling every package) in a lot less than 8 hours. But I do have blazingly fast (/s) 10Mbps internet.
On the other side, DuckDuckGo is becoming pretty reasonable. I now only need to flip back to google for some hard to search technical topics. DDG also brings up a ton more of the old internet, you get way more variety in the search results.
I've raised 15 cats in my life and own 7 now. It's almost purely genetic. Right now I have 6 trim cats and one fat cat and I feed them all the same way. I've had one other fat cat that passed away, same story.
It's only radical because society is structured in a way that these are hard to do

1. Even if you don't drink, you need to give in sometimes for the sake of socialization

2. All cheap foods are full of sugar/carbs. If you want to eat healthy food, you either need to have access to farm or pay more.

3. Hustle culture promotes pushing yourself to the limit, sacrificing free time and sleep.

4. Technology(like dating apps) was supposed to make us more connected. But it seems that it instead did the opposite. There is much more lonely people in the world. Some of them can only turn to porn to satisfy their primal urges.
You have as much fun as the poster you’re replying to? How do you know that?
Thanks! Once I've got a base game equivalent to SimCity 2000 in functionality + real time traffic, I'll release the game for free.

When the game can begin competing with Cities: Skylines on a simulation level, I'll start charging for it.
So glad I switched to Duck Duck Go two months ago. Another reason to wean myself completely off Google products.
Yes, and to me good sleep is highly correlated to physical and mental health and all what is mentioned affects one or both of them.

Is not a matter of just to wanting to have good sleep but try to solve other problems such as food, alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, lack of sport, caffeine, …
"Irrelevant BS" like… organizing information and self-reflection? (???)
I don't know that anyone has an opinion on it, regular sugar is just the norm. Corn syrup is just not common enough that people would be exposed to the point of single it out. We don't really have a « big corn » lobby, and GMOs which are meant for that type of production are verboten anyway.

The quotas on isoglucose have been lifted a few years ago in the EU, so that might become more common. But I think it's really meant for export, especially considering sugar is meant lower in manufactured products anyway.
I've been using Brave search. It's actually a change for the better, too.
This'll be my last reply on this topic, because I figure I'm talking to a brick wall. No offense intended :). I'm sorry that people don't really understand why the whole 'please stay to the right except when passing' rule makes the freeway flow much better. A line of cars bumper-to-bumper in the middle lane on cruise control causes so much congestion. But people do it because they don't want to be inconvenienced by the occasional traffic getting on the freeway.

If it were a four or five lane freeway it would be less egregious. But what it does to I-5 when it's only three lanes is really terrible.
These posts show up on every thread like this and it always strikes me as off. It's not that I think the scammer here deserves protection, but the impulse to "name and shame" makes me very uncomfortable.

I worry that supporting that impulse, even in cases like this, normalizes the use of internet lynch mobs to exact "justice" (for any subjective value of "justice" that can get enough steam).
Clearly that seller is getting some benefit for selling the product through Amazon, probably close to 20-40% of the value of their product if they didn't. They aren't just using Amazon because it's fun. It provides them some value.

> I'm trying to avoid amazon as much as possible, but if you charge 20-40% more for the same item when ordered direct from you vs your amazon storefront, I'll give amazon my business every time. I wish retailers would stope doing this.

Unless you change "I'll give amazon my business every time" to "I won't accept it" it will continue. It's basic economics in a competitive environment with a lot of buyers and sellers. To you, the cost of the Amazon experience is worth the financial benefit. There are likely other consumers that the Amazon experience is not worth it who buy it from the manufacturer. And likely, on the other side, there are those would use the Amazon experience for a mere 5-10% discount instead of the 20-40%. Those people receive a "consumer surplus" for getting it at 20-40% below value instead of 5-10%. The market has settled at 20-40%.

Big picture, if you don't like it in a competitive environment, buy from the manufacturer and help shift the supply demand curve.
I think the key that leads to 3b is that costs are hard to measure. I.e., I think it's less that the PEG are coming into it with the idea that they want to cut and are cherry picking for that, it's that they will happily do whatever the easily available data tells them is right, ignoring or handwaving the harder to get data.
when the DOJ cracked down on offshore sports books it cut off their revenue.

Id be curious to learn more, how essentially did the US DOJ cracked down on offshore website - since they are offshore?
Easier and more pleasant isn't a universal. Some people have truly horrible families. Occasionally they themselves are the horrible family member, and the others are so much better off without them around.