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BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
3d ago
Like 1934 maybe, not the later years when he decided to willingly collaborate with the Nazis anyways despite his reservations.
Aapje58
3d ago
which raises a lot of questions on how that mechanically actually happens.
We still have people who are pronounced dead, but weren't, despite modern medical knowledge and tools. So it probably happened a lot more often in the past.
The bible explains that the Roman soldiers didn't follow the correct crucifixion procedure, where the legs of the person were broken. So it makes sense that Jesus could have barely survived, recovered a bit after being placed in a cool tomb, then wandered around a little in a stupor, and then died.
Then add a bit of embellishment and you have a resurrection narrative, with him transcending to heaven (aka actually dying) shortly after a faux death.
Aapje58
3d ago
For the same reason why Venice is no longer Italian. Too many tourists driving out the natives.
Imagine that your hobby spot gets disrupted constantly by tourists who gawk at you like you are a zoo animal. I bet that you'd find a more obscure spot that they can't find.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
I was riffing off the blood boys thing primarily!
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
3d ago
In the early 70s you would have paid the equivalent of about $1000-$1500 in today's money to fly from coast to coast in the US.
Which confirms @fmac's point - a quick search on Kayak found that Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines* have 1st class transcon fares in that price range. And "Economy with extra legroom" plus the checked bag and other such upcharges is a lot cheaper, and closer to a 1970's economy experience than 1st class is.
* The big 3 carriers use long-haul configured aircraft on the premium transcon routes, and long-haul business class is a lot nicer and a lot more expensive than traditional US domestic first class. So you need to look at smaller airlines to get a fair comparison.
Die Staufer: Glanz und Elend eines deutschen Kaisergeschlechts, by Johannes Lehmann.
It's a historical work about the medieval house of Hohenstaufen, and especially about the emperors, with Friedrich I., known as Barbarossa, serving as the headliner. It's pop-sci, but very dry, just the way I like it. Tries to draw from as many different sources as possible, compares them dispassionately, usually shrugs and admits that there's no way to know for sure, and then goes on to recount the history of those rulers in a workmanlike fashion. It's unexciting, calm and goes for accuracy instead of shock value. Thus my teutonic heart gets all warm and fuzzy. What a comfy read.
Also, my wife pulled it out of a book stop, so it didn't cost me anything.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
3d ago
I would be surprised if no other highly compensated industries did that.
In finance it is part of the deal at mid-levels and above. As a quant VP I get my bonus in cash, but a VP-level trader or corporate financier would be getting part of their (larger) bonus in RSU's, as do my bosses at director and MD level.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
3d ago
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
3d ago
For a different extreme, look at Tesla. 125,000 employees right now. Market cap 1.3 trillion. Elon Musk right now earns about 8$ billion a year under current conditions, but it goes up by 1% of Teslas total market cap for each additional trillion in their market cap. If he hits just the easiest goals, he gets $36 billion a year. If it goes up to 8 trillion, he clears an eye watering $878 billion in 10 years, almost $90 billion a year. (yes that's in stock, not cash, if that makes a difference)
Musk's CEO pay at Tesla is uniquely generous even compared to other overly-generous CEO pay packages - to the point where the Delaware courts ruled it illegal. Tesla has the most liquid options of any single stock so it is quite easy to measure the ex ante value of Tesla share options. The pay package Musk "agreed" with Tesla in 2018 that was rescinded after it turned out to be worth $56 billion ex post was worth $2 billion ex ante back in 2018 - at a time when Tesla was only a $50 billion market cap. The number of public-company CEOs who made $2 billion from CEO compensation ex post is small enough to count them on your fingers. But even as the highest-paid CEO ever (by an order of magnitude) Musk made more as an owner than he did as CEO.
But the typical fat-cat non-owner CEO retires with a net worth in the high double-figure millions. Overpaid non-owner CEOs get a grossly disproportionate amount of public attention relative to how relevant they are to rising inequality, or falling living standards for line workers. I was particularly amused by the press coverage of Andy Jassy's $40 million payday as CEO of Amazon - none of which made the comparison to how much Jeff Bezos made off Jassy's work (about $80 billion, so 2000 times as much).
FtttG
3d ago
If there's no aid on the ships, in what sense are they humanitarian? Because they're full of good vibes and well-wishers?
vorpa-glavo
3d ago
Marina Abramaovic
She's mostly pre-woke, isn't she?
Sure, she's still alive, but her heyday and peak relevancy are long behind her. Now she's just one of those old ladies that gets trotted out whenever there is a slow news week and people need to be reminded of what a Legendary and Influential Artistᵀᴹ she is.
FtttG
3d ago
I've heard Infinite Jest is quite the doorstopper. Are you finding it difficult to read?
FtttG
3d ago
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. It's the book which is widely credited with inventing YA fiction, for better and for worse. An easy read which I know I'll never read again, and probably the best book written by a 17-year-old girl I've ever read. The name on the protagonist's birth cert is "Ponyboy"; now there's another reference I understand, RIP.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
For example the other day I asked him if he knows why multiple TCP streams are faster than one (when you would naively think they would be slower due to TCP overhead),
I would think there'd be no difference, ideally.
If there is a difference I would expect it's because the flow control heuristic on a single stream is a bit wrong and not properly saturating your link. That, or by opening multiple streams you are recruiting more resources on the remote end to satisfying you (e.g. it's a distributed system and each stream hits a different data center)
Mostly I would Google it ask ChatGPT to Google it.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
3d ago
A bad CEO can destroy a hundred million dollars of value, maybe even a billion, before the board removes them.
A lot more than that, if they are Steve Ballmer. The difference between Ballmer's and Nadella's Microsoft is exhibit A in the case for "Some of our most talented people should be non-founder executives at legacy companies."
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
3d ago
In a commodity drone, the rare earths are in the motors, not the chips.
The main (but not the only) industrial use of rare earths is for strong permanent magnets, and the main industrial use of permanent magnets is electric motors and generators.
orthoxerox
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3d ago
As far as I understood, no significant amount of any "aid" had been found anywhere on the flotilla. I guess the real aid was the friends they made on the way.
The real aid is forcing Israel to keep explaining why they are intercepting humanitarian ships in Palestinian territorial waters.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
3d ago
Housing abundance + walkability is possible, because Tokyo exists.
I agree that it requires world-class policing to work and is therefore not an immediately applicable answer to anywhere in the US, with the possible exception of NYC.
orthoxerox
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3d ago
I am more than happy to field what you think is the hardest programming query you can come up with through 5T, ideally one that free ChatGPT can't handle.
It's more of a technical question, but here goes: "I have two Kerberized Hadoop clusters, X and Y. The nodes in both clusters have access to two networks, A and B, I think this is called multi-homed clusters. Right now everything uses network A, which is the network the DNS server resolves hostnames to. I need to keep intracluster communications and all communications with external hosts on network A, but communication between the clusters (e.g., cluster X reading data from cluster Y) must happen via network B. How do I set up my clusters to achieve this? Please include all relevant configuration options that must be changed for this to work."
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
3d ago
Papen in which year?
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
3d ago
Replace "antichrist" with "literally Hitler" (meaning: "not literally Hitler but morally Hitler-equivalent") and see what numbers that gives you.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
3d ago
So, do you deny that the hard problem exists and is indeed a problem? Because from a straightforward logical point of view, it's one of the most impossible gaps for materialism to cover. How do we perceive or think at all, if we're fully material?
Excuse my ignorance of the subject, but why should perception or thinking be impossible for a material creature?
orthoxerox
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3d ago
The ones on step 2 are being one-shotted and need to get a grip.
I manage an architect who loves to paste obviously LLM-generated solutions to various problems and he's driving me angry. If LLMs are so fucking good that I can use their recommendations verbatim, I should cut out the middleman. The whole point of having a professional on payroll is that he can function both as a holder of domain-specific knowledge and as a critical evaluator of whatever LLMs produce.
FistfullOfCrows
3d ago
Yes, I'd like to be plowed by billionaire cock in the much more authentic BDSM dungeon.
The real disaster is that the ones who are self aware enough to know they are bad writers went from 2 line emails to paragraphs of AI slop, no doubt promoted by the same 2 lines they would have previously just sent.
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