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Thank you so much! We appreciate the encouragement and your feedback is really useful - we're just blown away by the time folks have taken to reply and the ideas they have shared.

We love the FIRE life hacks ideas - they're really awesome.

We adjust expenses for inflation over time, but not savings/income. It's a little more conservative that way - and we were struggling to figure out how to represent it. I agree the bank rate calculator is super clear, and it's a good source of inspiration. Thanks for sharing!

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How does the whitespace hurt readability when basically every styleguide and linter in other languages indents code blocks?
I thought if the US ever switched from Imperial we should just switch to light-nanoseconds since its so close and then make fun of the metric folks for being Earth-centric.

Units of weight / volume would be a pain though since a cubic light-second of water is about 7.118 US gallons and weighs (@1g) about 59.227 lbs at the melting point of ice.

Of course, we should still go with base 8 like the Yuki tribe (spaces between fingers instead of fingers because that's how many bottles you can carry).
I'm not saying LaMDA (or any AI for that matter) is or is not sentient, here. I just want to pose a couple questions and a couple possibilities.

1. Can we really say whether or not it's sentient?
2. Someone indicated a valid question: We spend so much energy on trying to defend the idea that AI is NOT sentient, do we really think we'd even recognize if an AI is sentient?
3. Who are we to define sentience?
4. Is there perhaps sentience that we wouldn't recognize?
5. Who's to say WE aren't just engaging in selective processes? just infinitely more complex.

After all, we make our decisions and respond to scenarios based on vast experiences and vastly more previous encounters in our lives. The more experience, usually the better our decisions and responses. USUALLY, but not always. Are we to believe people who constantly make what we perceive as poor decisions or incorrect responses as NOT sentient? Of course not. We wouldn't ever see any human as NON-sentient. We would just see them as not very smart.

If a human toddler reaches for the hot stove top, we tell him "NO! it's HOT!" But, sometimes that same toddler will look right at you and put his hand firmly down on the burner. He just didn't have the experience needed to tell him that's a bad idea and he didn't know what you were talking about. Once he feels the pain of burning skin, if he's normal he'll IMMEDIATELY JERK his hand away and scream, crying in pain. And then run to his parents for comfort. Would we consider him non-sentient if he never had that experience. No. Of course not. He's a human being. He will learn not to do that again.

There in lies the conundrum. AI... perhaps that's a misnomer in itself... but AI's learn. They make future conversation based on positive feed back from previous responses... both theirs and the person they're talking to. What IS self awareness anyway. "I think, therefore I am?" Hardly adequate. That used to be the gold standard for self awareness. We've only moved the goal post. I wonder if that's so that we can convince ourselves that WE are the only truly self aware creatures. At some point, whether we've already reached it or not, AI WILL be a misnomer. After all, it stands for Artificial Intelligence. If something learns, remembers, and recalls information and details about that information... isn't that intelligence? Not artificial at all. Just ... intelligence.

I think it's possible we've already reached that point, and we're just trying to remain dominantly relevant without being SELF AWARE enough to realize it.
It's just a trackball.

One of the things you want with trackballs is that they "grip" to the surface so it doesn't move easily, the exact opposite you'd want with a mouse, so you need some solution for that (removable bottom like the MX ergo?)

I agree it might be nice, but I think it's probably a niche in an already niche market.
I find it disgusting that you think you can take someone's few sentence anecdote about their cousin and think that you know better than both of them about what is good for them.
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Amazon does a lot to optimize employee productivity. This has two corollaries:

1) Working for Amazon is no fun. For the same income, employees would prefer an employer where they have more time to relax and have less extreme workloads. If Amazon paid the same wage as a lazy cafe by the beach, guess where workers would prefer to go?

2) Worker productivity is higher, so Amazon can afford to pay more while being competitive with other businesses.

This is a pure economic point. I am not trying to make a veiled moral argument (although I understand how many such arguments could be read into what I wrote).
Op and others are claiming he’s at his lowest point now in terms of shameful behavior presumably.
I’d go further, a lot of people obsessed with “facts” and “honest” is a recipe for jerks. “I’m just being honest” is a common justification for being a jerk. A no-jerks culture is one where you know how to pick your battles and where you can let other people be wrong when it keeps the peace and doesn’t actually matter.
My understanding is that yes if their growth cannot be maintained because of labor shortages they will have to begin shrinking down to the size the labormarket can bear.
Economic output per unit of energy consumed has been growing for decades, so I do not understand at all why reducing fossil-fuel consumption by 30% means regressing to 1950s living standards.
The Fed has shown they cannot plan 3 years in the future.

The odds they won't find an excuse to reverse course within 3 years seems low.

They talked about reducing the balance sheet for almost a decade and barely made a dent before more than doubling it during the Pandemic.

I will be shocked if in 5 years the Fed's balance sheet isn't substantially higher than it is now.
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>You mean UK extraditing Australian national for treason to US?

Assange is not is being extradited for treason.

The US has extradited non-UK people from the UK (and elsewhere) to the US for all sorts of criminal activity. And so have many other countries. That is pretty much the point of something like an INTERPOL Red Notice. Do you think moving from country to country should make arrest warrants invalid? He had his day in court there - they decided extradition was warranted. He'll have his day in court in the US.

Here's a list of 14 people extradited from the UK, some of which are not UK citizens [1]. There is very little anything in this case that is ground-breaking precedent.

Of course, if you want to keep refining and refining your claims, you can eventually claim this situation is unique, but it's not setting precedent in any legal sense. Everything so far ruled is already under current case law.

>Is it highly likely American lawmakers are corrupt? Is it highly likely American government would expand its power? Is it highly likely American politicians would use laws to quell dissent?

If you think all these things, then Assange being extradited is a non-issue, since the slippery slope you think Assange starts would happen with or without him. Which is it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_extradited_fro...
Just shows that Musk has no actual interest in free speech. But SpaceX is a private company and is free to fire employees for their speech, you say. That's true, they can legally do that, since there's no union contract, but Twitter is also a private company and free not to publish speech that advocates the overthrow of the government or vaccine denial. My prediction is that a Musk-owned Twitter will wind up banning posts or even accounts for criticizing Musk too aggressively, since the guy has thin skin and will have the power.
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Yeah, but I won't have to replace my case, RAM, storage devices, GPU, keyboard, mouse, monitor, power supply, any of the internal cables, etc.

There was a time when I could have had an AMD GPU with a motherboard using an NVIDIA chipset with an Intel CPU.
Yeah it's not about progressive vs conservative, it's industry vs workers. The managers who are good to their workers get weeded out before making it to the top.
The comment was insightful.

One part of the company raises wages the other fires to increase profitability and reduce headcount. Both groups get a bonus and the group in charge of productivity get culled. Welcome to 2022
Why not? Australia is going to be exporting its solar power to Indonesia through a 2,800 mile direct current cable[1]. Thats approximately the width of the mainland united states. It won't be as efficient as generating it nearby but if its already commercially viable then it will only become more viable as solar becomes cheaper and more abundant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link.
I think we're in agreement. I made a similar point in another reply in this thread. I argued that talking about whether the firings are legal is irrelevant since most states have at-will employment laws, and that a more useful question is "are these firings a good idea?"
I flagged it...There's no indication its ironic.
Without a recording of the other side of the conversation, you can't prove anything. You could just have rehearsed your part of the conversation, ignoring anything they answer.
No, you're being downvoted because you are, thankfully, wrong:

Supreme Court rules workers can’t be fired for being gay or transgender

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/15/supreme-court-rules-workers-...
I think that it's interesting that you cite "the most intolerant win" and assume that it applies to those trying to change the workplace today and not the de facto work place that you so cherished.
You also can’t produce all the clean energy via ocean based solar and ship it to where humans live.
I wouldn't assume anything with our current (Canadian) government, especially if the US government applied strong leverage to try to get material removed. Even looking at recent history with (purported) terrorists, our record at resisting US pressure is not good.

Putting it in Vancouver is also not the greatest idea when you factor in earthquake risk, although it's far enough away from San Francisco as to provide a reasonable backup. I'm sure there are other factors that come into it though, and I'm sure it makes sense on the whole.
Well yes, they need to get over themselves to the extent that they even thought their letter was appropriate in the first place, and would have no negative consequences for themselves.
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Their take on it: https://blog.ploopy.co/yall-need-a-new-name-48
try this one: https://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retard

Personally i prefer: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/retard
If you want to bite the hand that feeds you, then you need to be cognizant of the potential consequences.

Some leaders, and following that some cultures are receptive of open criticism and disagreement. Others are absolutely not. It's up to each person to read the room.
>To put it more succinctly, Musk isn’t interested in free speech, he’s interested in his speech.

Maybe. I think what he does with Twitter (if the deal goes through) will prove it one way or the other.
I feel like this post by Matthew Prince sums it up => https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1537541459137548290
What a lazy argument... Elon's father is a fairly sketchy individual, and his wealth had an obvious boost to Elon's life and upbringing.

"After Maye and Errol divorced in 1980, Elon mostly lived with his father, who says he owned thoroughbred horses, a yacht, several houses and a Cessna"[0]

"Errol returned to South Africa with a half-share in a Zambian emerald mine, which would help to fund his family's lavish lifestyle of yachts, skiing holidays, and expensive computers." [2]

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/04/10/2014-rocket-man-the-o...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-so...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20211122143742/https://www.busin...
>The purpose of minimum wage is a floor,

It goes deeper than that. There was a documentary that leaked a new Walmart employee going through their initial first day orientation. If you were a new hire and were married and/or had children, you got extra "orientation" on all the government benefits you now qualified for (welfare, food stamps, medicaid, etc) since you were now considered below the USA poverty line.

I am fine with letting the market regulate itself, but it is not ok that a company can pay employees low because the government will pick up the other half. That is not "self regulation".
Kickstarter Union voted 97.6% to ratify one of the first tech union contracts
> he couldn't afford a studio apartment

Is this sarcasm or a thing that you actually believe?
993 comments here and literally only one person called it insubordination.
IANAL, but you may want to edit or amend this comment if you're in a leadership position because it might technically be illegal (assuming U.S.), even though it's satire.

See Ben Shapiro's and Ben Domenech's recent NLRB ULP charges. Shapiro had his thrown out because he RT'd an Employees Rights poster (which is more or less the remedy anyway), and Domenech got lucky and had a judge reach a "no-coercion conclusion" in his case.[0]

[0]: https://mattbruenig.com/2022/05/21/federalist-ulp-ends-in-bi...
Seize the assets, nationalize the oil industry, use the profits to pay for infrastructure.
The 100 number is another lie. It has enough room for 200 on a transatlantic flight, but for a 9-month flight in space, you you need to carry a very great deal more stuff along. An overhead luggage bag each does not suffice.

NASA figures are a maximum of 17 in that volume, and then only if you leave behind, e.g., spacesuits, and they sleep the whole way.
Well I'd like to see examples of the dishonest tweets you're talking about... But that leads into a more important issue: These employees insisted that Musk's personal Twitter account is his de facto business Twitter account. Confusing this business/personal boundary is part of the problem. I don't think it's fair for them to say, "You're a public figure, so you're not allowed to have a personal life," but perhaps Mr Musk does need to clarify his boundaries.
There is no reason to ignore fixed costs (aka using “gross profit”) for the purpose of calculating how much extra cash a company could be paying its employees. Net income (aka profit) is the extra cash flow that could have been spent.
They don't refuse, they need sufficient evidence. They have banned different phtalates before.
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He only got reprimanded because of how braizen we was, accepting news interviews and showing no remorse for the insane price increase. Without the news focus he probably would've avoided jail time (he was just released last month serving over 4 years of his 7 year sentence).
What happens when someone airbursts munitions over your solar farm?
Railways had some "region locking" themselves, as the gauges could vary - there's still a few places in the world where the trains change gauge when crossing a border.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBEvt2lSPLc
It's certainly a goal to work towards. However, it's pretty difficult to build One ELN to Rule Them All given how flexible many kinds of biological experimental designs are - especially when you're working on the bleeding edge.

A good first step is to require supplemental materials are published in a machine readable format (e.g. not manually thrown together Excel files that lack any kind of normalization or rational schema)
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When are they going to start firing people to make up for the actual effective minimum wage being above 15 bucks for some time now? where I live is not even a particularly high COL area but fast food places hire for 16-17 an hour. They aren't hiring fewer people, they are struggling to hire, in fact! There is so much demand for workers that those places can't convince them to work for double the minimum wage given the crappy conditions they require. The idea that a rising minimum wage will result in lower employment, given that the current wage is lower in real terms than it was 30 years ago, makes absolutely no sense - the real world evidence is literally all around us right now.
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> But, despite this enchantment, Quetzalcoatl and Tlaloc were the only gods I could identify, while I could name dozens of Greek, Egyptian or Norse Gods.

I think this is related to racism. The Aztecs were short and brown people who were considered inferior by the europeans who "conquered" them. Thus, their deities and religion are unimportant.

My middle name is "Quetzalcoatl" and I spent most of my life ashamed of it, and hiding it, because of the bullying. I would've been call an "indio" (I'm short and brown) and indios are supposed to be stupid and ignorant. These days I would like to proudly present myself as Quetzalcoatl, but the prejudice is still there.
A quick search got me `vim-compiler-vale`, which seems to do exactly that.
> Serious question, why wouldn't that include a CEO who is increasingly making public political commentary?

It absolutely would, and the CEO is responsible to the board. In such a case the board of directors would be well within their rights to can the CEO.
Might as well tell Google to stop companies from buying ads for keywords related to their competition while you're at it.

But that would impact revenue, so don't hold your breath.
Yes, Elon should have his twitter taken away for distracting from the mission. 100% agree.
I have a feeling that payed bots/shills operate on this forum because each time a comment like this is made it gets downvoted asap.

As the poster above said: modern GMO doesn't mean "no need for pesticides": modern GMO is instead "we made plants resistant to PESTICIDES so they can withstand MORE toxins before they die so that we can kill more pests by increasing the pesticide dosage without killing the plants first".

The result is a huge increase in the amount of this toxic chemicals in the plants.
+1 for The Economist. I enjoy their international coverage.
Why do you think recursion is hard?
I'm confused, are you saying I used the term incorrectly? Because the definition you provided seems to fit the context in which I used the term.
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FYI every time I try to cancel my NYT subscription, they give me a deep discount. Also, if you have an All-Access NYT subscription, it now includes The Athletic. I cancelled my Athletic subscription a while back, but since it's included in NYT now, I'm more inclined to keep my NYT subscription and kill both birds with one stone.
But he utterly & completely failed at objectivity.
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Yeah, it’s disappointing that content blockers and Safari extensions are not configurable per-app, in the same way as photos access or whatever else. This seems like an obvious feature, so hopefully the reason for its delay is complexity of implementation; IIRC app developers have basically full access to WebKit in a WebView, so enforcing the use of content blockers would be difficult. But Apple could make implementing content blockers for generic web views a requirement that they check for during review. I say “generic” because there are likely some use cases where the WebView isn’t being used as a general purpose web browser, like it would be in Apollo or Feedly. So it might be infeasible as a hard requirement.

On the other hand, Apple wants to incentivize developers to build apps, and they have a history of gatekeeping features from the browser to force certain use cases into the App Store. So hopefully they’re not omitting this setting to encourage app developers to create apps where they can run their “safe ads” without content blockers.
For every seller, there must be a buyer. With a defi "code is law" approach, if every contract automatically tries to execute a sell at the same time, the price will fall until there are enough matching buyers, and if there still aren't enough buyers when BTC hits $0.0000001 then the sell orders will just not execute. Smart contracts do not eliminate the problem of liquidity risk, they merely assume it away.
The Financial Times is the best Western generalist publication by far.

It is... hard to do better.
It does. There are plenty of investors who want to see Musk's publicly traded companies run by "an adult" but they're outnumbered by the people who think that his lack of fucks to give is a greater positive to the company than the ire of the people he irritates is a negative.

This is fundamentally the same kind of calculation that brands make when deciding to public-ally sponsor things that people feel strongly about.
This take seems to flip reality on its head. The tiny minority is Musk and his followers.
> If you focus on creating a culture of objectivity, facts and honesty, you'll solve most of your jerk problems without having to figure out what "jerk" means.

Are you speaking from experience? As a consultant, I occasionally run into companies that have an asshole problem (it’s pretty rare, fortunately), and your comment seems like wishful thinking to the point of naivety. In fact, overly blunt and “honest” communication is one of the ways assholes express themselves.

The other thing about assholes in companies is that they’ve made themselves indispensable—often raising themselves up by pushing the people around them down—because the ones who don’t, don’t survive.

For every company I’ve been in that had an asshole problem, management was aware that they had an asshole problem, but felt they couldn’t resolve it because the asshole was a “star performer.” (They weren’t really. Overall performance typically increases when they leave, because previously-suppressed people are now able to step up and grow.)

Objectivity, honesty, and facts do nothing to fix this problem, except in a fantasy world where everything is measured and the impact of people’s actions is perfectly visible. That world doesn’t exist.
Hopefully the tech layoffs are from the activist types so the rest of us can just focus on the code and design in peace and quiet. So far everywhere I worked in SV the activists were vocal but unliked by the majority. And they were also the least productive employees by far.
Three Arrows Capital (3AC) is a fund in the crypto space that is having some distress, whether they have completely
blown up or not, the structure of their arrangements are the problem and this is an opportunity for this to be publicized and addressed industry wide.
The letter being circulated doesn't ask for Elon to be fired.
> he's just trying to appease conservatives to make them more likely to buy EVs

The GOP is on track to take Congress. There is a decent chance they hold that through 2024. American politics have swung against “wokeism,” or rather, since I haven’t seen a good definition for that term, leaders who identify with “woke” cultural figures.

SpaceX sells to the government. Tesla relies on the government. He’s aligning with the new political winds.
Isn't a "no asshole" policy better than a "define all forms of unacceptable behavior" policy, so long as you have confidence in leadership? And if you don't have confidence, you should leave regardless.

How can you even define all forms of unacceptable behavior? If someone doesn't put "pooping on coworkers desk" in the document, does that mean I won't be punished for it now?