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Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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10d ago
$12M is close to top 1% in wealth. $3M is 94th percentile. This is not the upper middle class.
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10d ago
I'm far from an expert but would be interested to see what you came up with.
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10d ago
Sorry, I misunderstood "strike" to be a negative, as in baseball.
Being trans should radically increase your estimation of her security expertise.
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10d ago
Amusingly, this isn't what happened. It was even in Oppenheimer!
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11d ago
Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I believe this isn't taxed.
Such loans involve interest payments and eventually result in consumption, which is usually taxed. Paging @DuplexFields to shill the Fairtax which might be a better approach to consumption taxation.
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11d ago
I've read a couple but nothing systematically. Which would you recommend?
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12d ago
Out of curiosity, how did you find this forum?
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12d ago
Finished with The Decipherment of Linear B. Very interesting to see the brass tacks of how ancient scripts get deciphered in cases without bilingual texts or even knowing what language it is.
Now on The End of Eternity. First 2/3 were entertaining enough but nothing especially amazing. I think it might be picking up though. Asimov continues to write like an autist; fortunately, that means he can write autists well.
HE MET THE girl in a corridor one day and stood aside, eyes averted, to let her pass.
But she remained standing, looking at him, until he had to look up and meet her eyes. She was all color and life and Harlan was conscious of a faint perfume about her.
She said, “You’re Technician Harlan, aren’t you?”
His impulse was to snub her, to force his way past, but, after all, he told himself, all this wasn’t her fault. Besides, to move past her now would mean touching her.
So he nodded briefly. “Yes.”
“I’m told you’re quite an expert on our Time.”
“I have been in it.”
“I would love to talk to you about it someday.” “I am busy. I wouldn’t have time.”
“But Mr. Harlan, surely you could find time someday.”
She smiled at him.
Harlan said in a desperate whisper, “Will you pass, please? Or will you stand aside to let me pass? Please!”
She moved by with a slow swing of her hips that brought blood tingling to his embarrassed cheeks.
He was angry at her for embarrassing him, angry at himself for being embarrassed, and angry, most of all, for some obscure reason, at Finge.
Has anyone else led a somewhat more solitary existence and prioritized only themselves over connections with others (outside of the connections you make at work anyway in a team, although those connections are more transactional in nature)?
There is some historic precedent.
Broadly speaking, there's a limited window for family formation (yes, even for men), so that's something that needs to be prioritized if that's something you want.
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13d ago
We shouldn't seek out "odd" children
In that case, I hardly see why someone should have a down syndrome child instead of a normal one.
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13d ago
I don't think SFH neighborhoods are his primary focus.
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13d ago
The serious eats bean routine worked pretty well for me. If I'm feeling lazy I just put a few bay leaves in as aromatics.
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13d ago
What leads you to believe that Anthropic's stated principles are compatible with speeding up Chinese progress to AGI?
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13d ago
Drip irrigation is extremely convenient and low maintenance. There is a startup cost, of course, but it's great to have it. It's also like building a hydraulic lego set.
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13d ago
This isn't reddit - if you're making a claim, it's on you to support it, rather than everyone reading it trying to Google what it is you really mean.
Let's unpack this link.
Time reported this week on how some companies are beginning to follow a predictable model when it comes to rehiring workers after laying off those same employees due to their jobs being taken over by artificial intelligence (AI). The company first announces it is going to use an AI to do a job. The staff is downsized. Then six to twelve months pass and the AI has successfully managed 60% of the job duties, while unable to complete the remaining 40%, so the company hires the original staff members back. This gap in performance is real.
Link is broken, so I can't say anything about this.
Robert Half reported that a total of 29% of those organizations which cut employees due to an AI related reduction had already rehired into the positions they cut.
Again, link is broken.
According to Forrester, 55% of executive decision makers who replaced their employees using AI will regret the decision within 18 months. We currently are inside this 18 month window
I don't think I need to explain why this is an unimpressive claim.
Bottom line is I don't see anything here to support your claim. We also need to distinguish between hiring after layoffs vs asking employees to come back, as you claimed. If Meta lays off thousands of SWEs and hires more after, that's not "begging laid off employees to come back" and it's probably not even rehiring into the same positions.
But without actual evidence I'm just trying to read the tea leaves of what you might be trying to claim.
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13d ago
Sorry, but the funniest American writer is either Philip Roth (Portnoy's Complaint, though perhaps you need to be Jewish to see the humor) or John Toole.
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13d ago
The only person I ever heard mention that band IRL was an old boomer lady teacher I had in high school.
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13d ago
residents of that neighborhood who already rely on street parking
Well, I have a solution for that, but you (along with the rest of this forum) aren't going to like it.
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13d ago
I don't understand why you think this addresses my objection. Most pregnancies are not in the range of "possibly the last pregnancy you can have".
A 25 year old woman gets pregnant and finds that the baby has Down's. Her options are to have the baby with Downs or abort and have another baby without Downs. She cannot have both of these babies - she can have another baby after the Downs baby, but she could have another after the next pregnancy anyway. This logic applies until she's old enough to not be able to get pregnant again after the current pregnancy.
It's also fairly obvious that most people are not trying to maximize the number of kids and will stop at some number, meaning that the Downs baby is trading off even more obviously. Sure, they could increase the number of kids they plan to have by one, but they could do that with a neurotypical pregnancy too.
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14d ago
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14d ago
Why would humans frequently engaging in heinous evil reduce your confidence that Evil exists as a useful concept and is recognizable by humans?
People doing heinous stuff and considering it morally acceptable pretty directly implies that people have difficulty recognizing good and evil. Either that, or they are right and I'm having difficulty. Not looking good either way for this argument.
Can we confidently say that evil leads to misery, and good leads to happiness, even if this is not the case in every microscopic section of the causal chain that we can directly observe, yes?
I think doing evil to those who can retaliate or doing evil that others recognize as evil (thus leading to some kind of retaliation) can result in misery. You can do all the evil you want to everyone else with no obvious result in misery as far as I can tell, at least as long as you don't see what you do as evil yourself.
For the things you recognize as evil, what makes them evil? What does it mean for a thing to be evil?
I don't have a totally complete moral framework, but I sort of operate off a mishmash of utilitarianism and virtue ethics. So an evil act is one that is not virtuous or leads to an overall decrease in welfare.
The only people who think that the upper class starts at 99% are people between 90%-99% who don't want to face the reality that they aren't middle class. "No officer, you don't understand, I'm only at 98.5%ile."
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