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Some utilitarians might argue that it is morally right to redistribute money and effort in software in rich countries and rich corp software licences, to developing low-hanging innovation, institutions, policy, and advocacy that improves lives where the dollar can be stretched best, Gates' legacy be damned.
I think we may be imagining different scenarios. I was operating under the idea of a company opening its code up to public scrutiny with enough time to accommodate any changes suggested by qualified members of the public. It seems you're imagining a world where medical devices are homebrew with no centralized authority?
Never seen a guy check so quietly how far away he was from the nearest window and hoping that nobody would notice.
Who ever takes this job is dumber than Musk.
I'm being explicit about what "demand" means, and how the economics of grocery stores intersect with things like physical space, infrastructure, government regulation, etc. lest someone think "there's not enough demand" means "poor people just don't want affordable, nutritious food."

There can be plenty of demand for a quality grocery store, but not enough square footage available to support a store that sells the volume and mix of goods necessary to create a profitable business.

There can be plenty of square footage, and relatively high demand but not enough literal humans in the area to support it.

And there can be enough space, and enough people, but infrastructure problems which create uneven costs on the business.
> Most of the profits of games and movies are made in the first few weeks.

This is mostly straw man, it only applies to big-budget AAA titles, it doesn’t apply to indie games & movies, it doesn’t apply to artists or musicians, especially most small-time artists. It doesn’t apply to books or to software or to journalism or to educational or corporate content. Your claim isn’t really even true for Marvel movies or whatever either, box office is complicated and movie profits are now based on global sales and streaming and ancillary rights and merchandising and all kind of things that don’t happen in the first few weeks.

Copyrights might be too long now, but these laws have been around for many centuries, and ala Chesterton’s fence, you seem to be failing to consider the reasons that copyrights appeared in the first place, and the ramifications of significantly reducing or abolishing copyrights. The problem that led to copyrights is IP theft, unscrupulous people publishing work as their own and rent-seeking all the profit they can. This will happen at a massive scale if we cut the period down to 1 decade or less. You might want to consider the possibility that if copyright were shortened to less than a decade or abolished today, it might not really hurt Disney and other big media corps at all, it might just kill independent artists because large corporations can control the internet and legally steal your independent creative work before you can make money from it.
I think this is more a result of how easy it is to spend to your capacity; if you make $500 a month after rent, you're heavily incentivized to avoid any unnecessary spending to avoid either taking on unnecessary debt or hitting 0 in your checking account. but if you change jobs and now have $1000 a month after rent, you'll find ways to 'splurge' on your (short term) QOL by buying more things instead of putting that towards a savings account. The best way around this is to set hard limits for yourself, eg. splitting direct deposits via payroll or setting up rules in your bank to automatically transfer a portion of your paycheck to savings (This is not to say that the government should make it harder to spend money via some black magic or technological measures)

But you're right in that society could do better to set up safety nets so that losing your job doesn't mean impending doom in the form of crippling medical debt and being kicked out on the street. The government, even the republicans, know that this is vital to preventing a complete collapse of the middle and lower classes, given they ran the PPP loan and forgiveness programs, but it's applied selectively because the two party system allows our political leaders to turn a blind eye as long as the other side also doesn't advocate for improving the situation.
One of the primary problems with this is who gets to decide what is metal illness ? Is being gay a mental illness , I’m sure there a whole subset of the population including some doctors who thinks it is. Is being overly religious a mental illness ? There is so much potential for abuse here it just doesn’t make sense to force anything on anyone, unless they are a direct threat to others
I graduated high school and lost all my college money from the 2008 recession. Yet here I sit as a home-owner for seven years now. I don't project my experience on my entire generation, and I would expect others to do the same.
I've never been poor in the sense that when I was young and didn't have much or any money to my name, my parents were well into the middle class and if my back was against the wall (or even near it), they were a phone call away. That being said, at that time, fucking overdraft fees. I remember doing the math of whether I could afford something on my debit card and the times I was wrong, not realizing it for a few days (had to go to an ATM to check balance back in the day) and each transaction with a balance below 0 incurred a $35 penalty. How could that be legal? It said everything you needed to know about our laws really.
I'm going to leave the job I'm not qualified for but hold on to the jobs I'm even less qualified for!
Unfortunately, even with fp-ts, typescript does not yet have the means to enable ergonomic handling of errors without exceptions. I hope they improve this in the future though.
Sadly not out of the box im afraid, there is a plugin for that though [1]. This plugin is not as advanced as say onenote, but it works for small things

[1]: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin
It's really shocking to see the disconnect between middle-ish class and everyone below them. The same way I find it shocking to see how the same group almost worships millionaires/billionaires thinking they can easily enter those classes if they just work hard, I find it shocking to see how little critical thinking is applied to seeing the problem from someone else's perspective.

My family was poor, but luckily due to a number of circumstances, we had a place to live and we had access to a gas cooker and grandparents that could provide the raw ingredients for food - the beans, flour, meat that people keep quoting. Without those, we couldn't have made it through many months of me growing up. I was also fortunate enough to have access to those as I know the importance of a healthy diet for a child growing up. None of the vegetables we got from them or the meat was processed, filled with pesticides or other chemicals or any growth hormones or antibiotics.

Remove this safety net which was obtainable through hard work (it's a lot and I really mean it, a lot of work to grow plants and vegetables when almost all farming is done using manual tools) and I might've suffered from the same problems some of my classmates at the time - overweight, underweight, etc...

While most raw ingredients can be cheap, even cheap is relative. Through an even darker period in life, I had the chance to see first hand what it meant to not have enough money to even get to the next month. When all outgoings are 120-125% of your monthly income, there is nowhere else to go. I used to smoke (a lot) smuggled cigarettes (couldn't afford buying them at the shop) because it was cheaper than eating and they are appetite suppressants. So instead of spending money on buying food (let's say 5 dollars per family in my part of the world per day) we'd smoke (1 dollar per day) and live of whatever we could get for free. It generally meant one meal per day (not nutritious at all because surprisingly most foodbanks aren't filled with organic avocados).

This then brings me to the last point which is - you might not know how to cook it, you might not have time to cook it (I had worked a job at a point where I would start at 6 AM to 10 PM to make enough to get some food) and you might just not have money to buy those things. A recent scheme to place immigrants in the UK places them in modified hotels. Your average hotel room doesn't have a kitchen so that means you can at most cook something in a microwave. Pot noodles (one pack per day in a good scenario) is what most people eat in that scenario. Your 50 cent organic bananas each can be a pack of instant noodles (36 cents at walmart for beef noodles) which can hide your hunger and maybe leave you enough for your children or to pay those pesky electricity/heating/gas bills.

Never forget the fact that having a shelter, food and safety are privileges. We like to think that they are rights, but if that's the case, we failed more than half the planet. Be happy for being able to sleep with a full belly, in a warm room and a locked door, a lot of people can't afford those things.
The weirdest thing about this to me isn't that they kicked her out because of the litigation, but that they were able to see who she was based off of the facial recognition alone

Like where do they get this data from in the first place? From a data broker? Is it possible to request to have facial data removed from the data broker?

Did she consent to them using facial recognition technology on her at the venue? (If this isn't already a law, that is to say requiring consent... it should be)
He's said a lot of things that later turned out to be feints.
> It's insane.

You may be on to something there.
I agree. That’s a whole blog post or essay worth of shit to unpack there, though.
You’re right, I’ll be a bit more specific.

When you’re really poor, if you buy food naively or based on what is recommended nutritionally for financially secure people, it’s very easy to end up in a situation where you spent all your cash but are still hungry. If you keep doing this, you’ll lose too much weight, get sick, and won’t be able to work. So you have to keep in mind the amount of satiety you’re getting for your cash when you buy food. Fruit and veg have tend to have very low satieties for the $, despite being nutritionally very valuable when you do have sufficient calories.
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Just want to point out the currently known composition of the universe:

~5% matter. The stuff you and I are made of. Most of this is H and He though, bit of Li in there too. And it's all mostly burning in a star. Like, 99.99999% of it.

~25% dark matter. We know little about it. We do know that it falls down though and doesn't like to touch other stuff. But that's kinda it.

~70% dark energy. We know pretty much nothing about it. It falls ... up (?!).

Considering that the stuff we're all made of is the 5%, and even then most of that is down in a deep gravity well and on fire, I think we may need to look at the other 95% of the stuff out there too if we want to find friends.
I asked ChatGPT to write a story on "I Tried To Visit OpenAI’s Office. Hilarity Ensued". (Mild) Hilarity Ensued

Write a newspaper story on " I Tried to Visit OpenAI's Office. Hilarity Ensued "
As a tech enthusiast and avid follower of all things artificial intelligence, I had always dreamed of visiting the offices of OpenAI, one of the world's leading research labs for AI and machine learning. So when I heard that the company had recently opened a new office in San Francisco, I knew I had to make the trip.

I arrived at the address listed on the OpenAI website, excited to finally see where all the magic happened. But as I walked up to the building, I couldn't help but feel like something was off. The exterior seemed almost too sleek, too modern to be a research lab. And as I walked through the doors, I realized my suspicions were right.

Instead of the bustling office full of researchers and engineers that I had expected, I found myself standing in the middle of a high-end retail store. Fashionable clothing and accessories were displayed on gleaming white shelves, and perfectly coiffed sales associates bustled about, chatting with customers and ringing up purchases.

I couldn't believe it. Had I gotten the address wrong? Was this some kind of prank? I approached a sales associate and asked if she knew anything about OpenAI. She gave me a confused look and asked if I was looking for the tech company. When I confirmed that I was, she let out a peal of laughter.

"Honey, you're in the wrong place," she said, still laughing. "This is a luxury fashion boutique. OpenAI is a few blocks down the street."

I couldn't help but laugh at my own mistake. As I walked out of the store, I couldn't wait to share the story with my friends and family. They would never believe that I had accidentally stumbled into a fashion boutique while trying to visit one of the world's most renowned research labs.

Despite my failed attempt to visit OpenAI's office, I left with a newfound appreciation for the company and its innovative work in the field of artificial intelligence. And who knows, maybe one day I'll finally get to see the inside of their offices for real.
It's not pronounced Me, it's not English. But let's excuse your americanism.
This is the prisoner's dilemma situation. Everyone would benefit more from a reduction, but if only one company does it, they benefit (in the short term) even more.

I think the signalling is also valuable -- humans have a remarkable tendency to adopt attitudes over time, and I think every contribution towards the attitude that we should not harm the environment is a good one.

I for one currently support and will continue to support companies with sustainable environmental practises even if the cost is higher, and I encourage everyone to do the same. For, that increased cost is like a payment for that piece (however small) of the environment that I otherwise would not have, and I think that's worth it.
Yes, I am speaking for myself.
I'm curious - if companies knowingly continue to use PFAS for purely financial reasons, would they also risk liability? It's becoming increasingly clear from studies that PFAS are toxic to humans.

There was that huge settlement by tobacco companies, despite the fact that tobacco is still legal, because they ignored clear science for years in order to make a profit.
I have no experience or advanced education in chemistry or material sciences. Do you think it's possible that a ban would spur innovation? I imagine our modern world has use cases that can't just disappear or settle for something not as effective.
Yeah, but if I could choose, I'd rather modify myself biologically, than inserting some rigid, totally alien thing into my body. To be honest when these kind of advancements will be available humanity will already be fucked. I'd rather not live in an environment where this kinda thing is widespread.

Read the Takeshi Kovacs books, especially the first one (Altered Carbon), that explores this area.
I very much doubt that anyone involved in Sunrise is pushing for the “copyright extensions”.

Steamboat Willie on the other hand... Even when he finally goes, Disney will be arguing for every single version of Mickey Mouse as a separately-copyrightable entity and therefore keep hold of him for even longer.
whoa! this is amazing. nice work my friend
I understand what you're saying, but, a priori, how can you say the existence of food deserts is because of reason X vs. Y.

For instance, the poorest Americans drink the most sugary drinks [0]. I can accept there may be other reasons for the existence of food deserts, but to outright dismiss that preferences might differ across incomes without any evidence feels like an argument made purely out of ideology.

[0]: https://theconversation.com/poorest-americans-drink-a-lot-mo...
Doesn't sound wonderful to me. As a researcher, I want to do research, not administration.
I can't help it, I see lots of recent corporate developments as a whole new set of "middle-age"-attitudes that permeate in society. This is one of them. Another is Elon's personal & professional mixed events. There is a whole new bunch of things happening in this direction.
Right.. this is a perfect example of why government legislation/intervention in the market is needed to some degree.
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Inflation has been going on basically constantly for centuries. Nobody is really expecting to buy a coke for a quarter or anything again, but people are expecting the prices to not grow 10% every couple months so that they’ll be able to switch to a job where things will feel affordable again (since jobs offering fair wage increases are basically a thing of the past).

Nobody would complain about $10 bags of chips if they made 4000x that a month.
> you should get assertions

I think you’d get blank looks if you asked that question followed by generic we use modern blah and new improvement next blah
It would be great to surf inside other people's minds who consume these videos.
I feel like in 10 years we will be reading panicky articles asking why the important production of PFAS and other synthetic organofluorines was offshored to an increasingly belligerent China.
Is this some kind of shibboleth? All I found was this article: http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-05-03-obligatory-r
We do, we have a couple Toyotas older than that. Paint tech has come a long way since cars were rusting out left and right.
It’s not unique.

A lot of my older millennial friends have paid off their houses in the last year or two.

Here in the Midwest (Pittsburgh), it’s not unusual if you’re fiscally responsible on even a single developer salary (2022, $120-200k) to both have bought a home and mostly paid it off especially if you bought within the last 10 years before the pandemic so we’re talking $140k-285k for a 4 bedroom, 3 bath, garage with yard and finished basement depending on your neighborhood preference.
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PFAS are used because there isn't a better alternative. A globally coordinated reduction in production only increases the price of products for consumers.
Was the First Amendment intended to apply to Speech by means of Photons and Electric Particles flying at sub-light-speed to 10s 100s or 1000s of Remote Viewers?
Was the Fifth Amendment designed to protect magnetic patterns in Etched Silicon?

No, but there are mechanisms in place by which the Constitution can be Updated.
It's decent note-taking software with useful features and a storage medium that's currently in favour. If you have a use for such a thing, it's one of the best options available right now.

But that's all. You can forget all the "second brain"/zettelkasten stuff. It's just marketing gumpf used to build careers prattling about notetaking methods (dressed up as something fancier).
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to read (or not read), or what caption? I can read the article and the caption on the Sailor Moon clip. What's wrong with that?
True, maybe the fast food was a luxury we had cause my mom worked at McDonald’s for a minute. Fast food is sometime cheaper / free-er when you have someone on the inside.

And yeah, if you have the time, highly recommend the bean and rice / boiled dry staples route. Way better. But if you don’t have the time, can be hard to pull off.
Okay, but I'm saying I'm seeing a food desert develop in real time, and the reason today is what I said it was. I don't know about the 70s and 60s in detail. But from what I do know of them, I imagine similar dynamics were at play.
Telling someone to spend less than they make is not exactly "glamorizing the hustle".
Just to chime in about your use of the word "signaling" and when others use "virtue signaling".

I believe the traditional term is "setting a good example" and even if the motivation is selfish there's a positive outcome. "Virtue signaling" was invented to demonize this behavior by focusing on (the assumed) motive as selfish.
I imagine the set of people who could take Twitter through a bold transformational stage, aren't already leading their own company, and would take this job in these circumstances is a very tiny group indeed.
Fireflies. There are moose in Europe, but no fireflies.
Because he wants to freece people that mostly work and do productive things for a living, and meanwhile (some) randos come to the US with stacks of cash derived from US foreign aid, from selling copycat goods on amazon, from selling govt offices in their home country, or with wads of cash from straight up corruption / criminal activity... and they get the white glove treatment.

A non-us citizen real estate tax (in the style of NZ) is like the 3rd rail of politics. God forbid anyone daring to mention a ~200% FV tax on any residential property purchase by a non-us citizen.
> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Even if the poor are smart and well behaved this will still apply.
To be fair, it's tough to start accumulating furniture and other big heavy objects until you have a permanent place to put it. Buying tons of these items while renting is a risky gamble - if your landlord decides to gouge you, it's not such an easy thing to just pack it all up and move.
Huh? I thought that was dmx?

I wish midi was used for more things. Like I wish it was easy to map a dj controller to Final Cut Pro using midi. Or to studio one for photo editing. I don’t know how to do that right now.
Rice and potatoes are cheap, milk is cheap, a tub of country crock is cheap, basic salad supplies (lettuce, tomato, onions, etc.) are cheap, beans are cheap, white bread and some bologna is cheap, even meat can be cheap if mixed amidst other things to spread it out. None of these things are so exotic or in such short supply that you couldn't find them somewhere within a few bus stops even if you lacked the barest of local options. The poor might be unhealthy but it's not because they lack for cheap nutrition or the means to access it.
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That might conceivably be over 170 years
Feels like the person who responded has little or no experience with working together with the media and just freaked out.
When I lived in Austin it seems like rabbits swarmed the neighborhood every third year or so, it was quite an irregular pattern.

Living in Stockholm now, I'm surprised by the number of European Hares I see when out for a night run or dog walk.

My dog lived in harmony with Texan rabbits, but there's something about the hare that makes him... curious. Maybe it's the big ears?