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since Musk already had a 20% stake in the company, he already had sufficient incentive to meet the benchmarks. But beyond that, he never gave any indication that he'd leave the company or dedicate less time to it without additional compensation.
Heading off on a bit of a tangent, why the fuck are the courts giving legal advantages to fickle mercenaries? The last thing I'd want to do if I was creating a legal system is punish people for being dependable and committed, but here we are: Musk was dependable and committed, therefore he didn't have the right to as much compensation as an outsider would have.
That sounds reasonable, but I'd be disappointed if you were right.
They decided that possibly tracking "a person who likes certain visual settings" was too invasive...so they're pushing users towards actually tracking them as a specific individual.
At launch, Patreon was focused on bundles of $1 payments to each creator. Then it focused on bundles of $10 payments. Then individual $10 payments, billed separately. Now it's largely the same as any other content hosting/discovery/payment platform.
Credit card processing fees are about 25 cents, IIRC. What are they going to do "If you pay the credit card company $0.15, I'll pitch in another $0.10 and let you read the article."?
This was also the idea behind Patreon: a 100 fan to 100 artist transaction would take 10000 payments normally, but Patreon could reduce it to 200 and some internal accounting. (That didn't last too long, though.)
I'm on one device, and don't clear my cookies. As far as I can tell, Wikipedia is the only website that consistently forgets my preferences (regardless of whether I log in or not).
Thanks for the addon recommendation, I'll check it out.
The information in question isn't exactly secret
I wouldn't be too sure about that.
At work, we manufacture, assemble, and resell widgets, and our suppliers are considered sensitive information. If our big customers knew who our suppliers were, they'd try to cut us out of the middle. (Our small customers want to order parts by dozen instead of the thousand, so they wouldn't necessarily care.)
But have you ever met any cops? Did you know people in school who grew up to become cops?
Yes, a few regular cops, a campus cop, and a couple conservation officers. (All have arrest powers with varying jurisdictions. I'm using a slightly-broad definition, but nothing too crazy.)
I'll pit my anti-authoritarian anecdotes against your vague implications any day.
What's with Wikipedia's new (2022) appearance, and its refusal to remember my preferences?
I've told it half a dozen times that I like wide column size and small text...and it keeps on reverting to the "modern" crap that doesn't even show half as much information on the screen.
I'm tempted to do the same thing I did to Fandom.com in order to make it a persistently readable website, but I'm hoping there's an easier way.
(No, I won't reward their arbitrary restrictions and poor UI by making an account. That way lies madness.)
Lesswrong has "cleaving reality at the joints" and "clusters in thingspace" for that concept.
...new party line that "Kamala never ran on trans issues, so it's unfair to say she lost the election because of trans issues." They keep repeating the same "debunk" that Kamala never uttered the word trans in the last 3 months of her campaign or whatever.
Is anyone supposed to be convinced by that? What's next, "The New England Patriots didn't play on the far half of the football field, so it's unfair to say they lost the game because of that."?
The pundits are claiming that she abandoned a powerful and convincing topic because...why, exactly? The fact is that Trump did run on Kamala's stance on trans issues, and got some easy wins from that.
if you govern a certain way, even if you don't run on it, the other sides gets to beat you upside the head with your record.
Yes, 100% this. I've largely stopped paying attention to election campaigns because the major parties have extensive track records on exactly the things I'm concerned about instead of a proxy measure like how well they can focus-group and make promises. I still check up on independent candidates and the individual representatives, but it hasn't shifted my vote yet.
I think I want to build self contained mini factories.
Take a look at this: https://www.themotte.org/images/17324829035101736.webp
I'm making red/green research from ore, coal, and water. It's moderately impractical, but still cool.
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I assume they're talking about blood donation, not blood tests. When you go to donate, they test a drop for iron, and after your donation they test for a bunch of other stuff.
I hit the daily work target of the average guy.
Eight real hours of actual work is substantially above average.
In the 8.5 hours between my clock-in and clock-out times, I have 7.33 hours designated as "work". The remainder is breaks. Of those 7.33 hours, I'd be lucky to get six hours of actual work amid all of the waiting, standing by, being available, walking places, and other not-directly-productive tasks.
Due to local taxes, the ingredients for 23 liter batch of beer and the equipment to brew it costs a little bit less than 23 liters of beer does. If you feel like really cheating, there are companies that will "help" you brew and bottle "your own" untaxed beer or wine for a small fee.
Some days I wish people (or AIs) would actually think through their statements instead of just saying things that support their side on the topic of conversation.
African Americans aren't less educated? I guess it's mission accomplished for Affirmative Action, and all of the stats about race and educational attainment must be simply mistaken. Same with race/sex and medical treatment, as well as many other minor issues.
It's one of the things that really turned me off of social justice causes and their supporters.
relative to her demographic cohort the reaction towards Trump and his supporters is unbelievably tame. It is somewhere around 3/10 on the TDS scale. So I don't think that apology is even warranted. Every reasonable person knows that emotions will be high for a while.
I'm not grading on a curve. If you say that's a 3/10, then I say apologies start being appropriate at a 2/10. You don't get any credit for even worse people existing.
Yes, emotions will be high, but that just means that you have to deal with it like an adult or apologize for your failure to do so.
As a side note, I remember the onion being much more relevant sometime in the past. I wonder if its decline is related to it becoming just another mouthpiece for the democrat agenda, or if I'm totally off track.
Babylon Bee feels grounded in a way that the Onion isn't. Practically all of their articles start with an actual piece of news: The CEO of Polymarket was raided, Matt Gaetz was appointed, Cabinet picks were protested, etc.
The Onion relies more on completely-fabricated articles (1, 2, 3) which simply don't have the same impact. The ones that do contain factual content are unbearably blunt at promoting the establishment (or farther left) stance on the issue.
Relatedly, I couldn't find a single Onion article against the Left, while Babylon Bee articles against the Right are a dime a dozen. That type of hardline political stance turns me off, and I suspect it does the same for others.
I chose to move to a moon just to see what happens rather than any well-considered reason, but I think it worked well.
The lack of core miners wasn't an issue given the ease of importing materials (I ran out of local copper and uranium, and local oil was very very insufficient) because the other planets had nigh-infinite amounts of ore. I got copper from the belt, uranium and oil from the oil moon, and all of the advanced materials from around the system. Low gravity is extremely important for using spaceships, as it allows you to use just one fuel tank for a full set of chests (to 300 integrity) and still have enough range to make a round trip.
I hadn't thought of the respawn trick, but I'm not sure if I would use it if I had. It feels like an exploit IMO.
Double-check where your nearest fire extinguisher is. Make a mental note.
Also: If it's far away, just buy one. I'm renting an apartment, and the nearest fire extinguisher is (or at least was) the entire apartment length and half the building's hallway away from me. Now there's one about 3/4 of the apartment length away in the worst case.
The only downside is, it's not 3d.
Am I the only one who likes discrete legible units in most of my games? AFAICT, that's what ties together my preference for 2d grids and turn based gameplay.
Do you know what one of the earliest improvements I do in Satisfactory is? I build foundations for my factory, so that it can be grid-based. Same with any basebuilding in Fallout 4 or Valheim: The first step is to build foundations to remove the unique geography and provide a consistent grid, and the second step is to fight with the actual construction because first-person gameplay is a terrible way to translate your thoughts into (virtual) reality.
SE logistics gets a lot simpler once you get antimatter since you can make a minimalist shuttle design, copy/paste it a bunch of times, and then send them back and forth like super large expensive trains.
Leave Nauvis and settle on the smallest non-dry, non-vitemelange moon in the system. You need to build a ground base somewhere, but the planet with a deep gravity well, no special resources, and many biters isn't that good of a choice.
One of my favorite half-joking proposals: Either the US should get 50 seats at the UN, or the EU should get one. They are both unions of sovereign states under the umbrella of a larger entity, after all.
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I can't unsee the incoherence of that image, but I also didn't learn the skills that Ilzo used to call it slop.
I can mentally rotate the objects that are shown in pictures, and therefore I can notice perspective and lighting errors. AI is getting pretty good at that. I can not mentally repair, repaint, and restore a gate, nor can I place it in a geographical/social/historical context, therefore I didn't notice that the paint and carvings are incoherent or that it never could've blocked the canyon. This is one aspect of "AI slop".
I think that is a failure on my part, and I would enjoy good art more if I had the level of discernment that Ilzo demonstrated. I can't use an image as a portal to another world in that way.
I probably won't do anything about it, though.
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