Do people still think the courts matter? I feel like the supreme court is a farce and the lesser courts have a lot of far-right judges ready to rule from their feelings.
I guess it’s important to still try, but I think real solutions lie elsewhere.
We could do a lot for climate change, world hunger, homelessness, disease prevention and eradication, and so on with that much money.
All of these people are doing mass murder via opportunity cost, and I hope they pay for it.
Emotions aren’t good (or bad). They’re often like a heuristic. Fast but inaccurate. This is great when it’s like “a bear wandered into the house” and emotions say “RUN” and cold logic would be like “what? Why? How?” until you get mauled. It’s not good when it’s like “climate change makes me feel bad so I don’t believe in it”
I’m thinking trump and the Republican party are really bad, like cruel and stupid bad, and maybe we shouldn’t let them give orders anymore.
Several times I’ve set the max warnings to whatever the current warning count is, and then decreased that over time.
Yeah, I’d give it a shot. I’d hire a bunch of experts instead of just shooting from the hip though.
Climate change is a big priority.
I saw a cop pull up and park illegally to go into a Dunkin donuts. It was like seeing a political cartoon in real life.
One of the reasons I don’t think I’ll ever want to live outside of NYC. I walk every day. Sometimes take a bike. It’s much nicer than the car world of the suburbs I grew up in
Do they do imports from like betterment and vanguard?
At my job, me and another guy were given stuff to work on. But unknown to product, there’s a lot of shared code there.
In my imagination, it should be someone’s job to coordinate this. Instead, I finished a chunk of mine, he finished a chunk of his, and then there was confusion. Maybe that’s just a technical team lead’s job.
…what do you mean by using dev containers? Are your people doing development on their host machine?
Huh. That’s neat I guess.
My initial guess was it would somehow capture the energy from hitting keys. I guess that’s implausible? Too little energy without making the key press resistance too high?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_Administration provides some historical context.
You can also read The Jungle by Sinclair
Without the FDA, you’re going to get sawdust in your bread and worse.
American conservatives are trash and shouldn’t be allowed to make political decisions.
“”" And I know you’re going crazy
And I know you’re going broke
And you’re sitting here and laughing like that’s some kind of joke, but I’m not laughing
And I want you to be careful
And I want you to be smart
I don’t want you to romanticize falling the fuck apart
And I want you to remember that you’re better
And I love you and I’ll see you tomorrow “”"
One of the more powerful supportive songs I know.
Yeah like at some point it’s justified to respond to danger with violence. The supreme court is dangerous for most people.
I think this overlaps with neurotical v neurodivergent, but also “ask vs guess culture” can be a source of conflict
I don’t disagree with anything here, really. As we both said, some responsibility remains on the user.
I do think Match is aggravating the situation. Men aren’t getting traction so they search for why. They find right wing MRA stuff saying that it’s women’s fault blah blah blah, but really part of why they’re not getting hits is because Match is hiding them unless you pay (and even then maybe).
Part of why may also be they’re creeps or bad at dating. It is not wholly the apps’ fault. But I do think they’re making it harder for people to connect, and that can be the top of the funnel for far right ideas.
And I do think a lot of people are on the apps when they aren’t really ready. People of all genders. But that’s a separate topic, probably.
Anyway. Good talk. Amusingly , I’m heading out to meet someone from a dating app. Here’s hoping they don’t think I’m a creep!
I think most people have no understanding of taxes.
I remember a coworker some years ago fully believed we had a flat tax rate. That they just take 20% of your money. I had to explain progressive taxation to him.
We should be investing a lot more in public education.
We could lower taxes on the lower brackets, maybe, but we should be raising taxes that target the wealthy. Fix the “buy borrow die” strategy, too.
It comes up in software development sometimes, which is my day to day. It also is useful for any “fast but inaccurate approach” scenario, which comes up sometimes.
I wouldn’t say I’m proud of using it. It was already in my lexicon. (So was “lexicon”)
Here’s an article about them https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-heuristic-2795235
Why do you ask?