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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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16d ago
Paul Fussell's Class
Was not about how much money you made but about your taste and proclivities. We can argue about Warren's taste, if you like, but your original comment was about net worth.
If you consider doctors the help, you are upper class
It's quite clear that even the lowliest senator considers doctors to be the help.
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16d ago
In fact the matter was not settled before nuclear testing proceeded.
Such grisly conjectures took on a different tone in ensuing decades, as nuclear weaponry progressively grew into a concrete endeavour and, eventually, a tragic reality. It became deeply distasteful to joke about how Earth's immolation may please "sun-bathers on the beaches of Mars". Yet diverse intellectuals including Carl Jung continued referring to the theory that novae are distant atomic tests gone awry. The journal Science even published a piece on the question, in June 1946, on the eve of the US's post-war tests in Bikini Atoll. It stated that not only "non-scientists" are "disturbed over the prospect" of planetary ignition.
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16d ago
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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16d ago
$12M is close to top 1% in wealth. $3M is 94th percentile. This is not the upper middle class.
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16d ago
I'm far from an expert but would be interested to see what you came up with.
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16d 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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17d ago
Amusingly, this isn't what happened. It was even in Oppenheimer!
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17d 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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17d ago
I've read a couple but nothing systematically. Which would you recommend?
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18d ago
Out of curiosity, how did you find this forum?
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18d 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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19d 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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19d ago
I don't think SFH neighborhoods are his primary focus.
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19d 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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19d ago
What leads you to believe that Anthropic's stated principles are compatible with speeding up Chinese progress to AGI?
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19d 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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19d 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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20d 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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20d 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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20d 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.
What's the conflict here? IME the PMC caricature is basically on the money. It probably doesn't even go far enough. People out there literally believe that it's abusive to have kids share a bedroom, and this has nothing to do with ensuring that your kids escape the permanent underclass. It's just pure competition.
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