MaximumYComb

About 10 years ago I called an ambulance for a friend at a party. Everyone had said just to get a taxi for him, so I did. When the taxi arrived I realised I couldn't put him in it and called an ambulance instead.

He had seizures on the way to the hosptial, and was blood tested at 0.7% BAC. He woke up 12 hours later and was still 0.2% BAC (which is really drunk).

Does the US have public Monterossi schools? Here in Australia they're all private and expensive.

That must have been really early, I bought the game right at the start of 2016.... and now I just realised my 2111.8 hours equates to over an hour a day since then. In that time, I've been a single dad the entire time time and studied an entire undergraduate degree while working full time and still squeezed in that much Cracktorio

IIRC it used to behave that way and people used a lot of underground belts to compensate for this since underground belts would move as one.

Even within a single country, I imagine the rural Alabama white is quite different from the rich, privately educated executive board member.

I was born and raised in a poor, rural town with a high crime rate. Neither of my parents had a trade nor a university education. It is very obvious to me that I am culturally different from a lot of other educated people in tech. Hell, the military even covered my education. I don't hold the same values or interests as my peers, but I'm a white male so I get lumped into a "homogenous" group.

Are they in that position because they are white, or are they in that position because they were born in privileged families? My country has had predominantly white, male Prime Ministers. What's even more remarkable is that every single one of them over the past 20 years went to highly exclusive private schools. The sort of private school that costs more than a good portion of adults earn, i.e $40k per annum.

When you disparage an entire group based on skin colour and gender, you're being a racist and sexist. You're being highly offensive to the majority of white men who weren't born with silver spoons. If you look at the most successful tech founders you'll see a pattern of them being born into wealthy families with educated parents. 50 years ago, most wealthy and educated families were white, which is why you see so many of these founders today. For example:

Mark Zuckerburg - parents were a psychiatrist and dentist. They literally hired software developers (in the 1990's) to tutor him.

Bill Gates - father was a prominant laywer, mother was on executive boards. Access to computers before they were even a thing.

Sergie Brin - Father was a professor, mother a NASA researcher. Private schools.

Larry Page - Father had a computing professor, mother was a computing instructor. Private schools.

Bezos - wealthy family (Grandfather was regional director of the US Atomic Energy Commision).

Boards with at least 6 members must have at least 3 female board members (from https://www.advocate.com/business/2018/10/01/california-outl...).

My understanding was there is a smaller pool of qualified women to pick from due to career/family balance choices.

At university, I generated Markov chains of the solution space from a single neuron that was being used as a binary classifier. You take n samples, average them out and look at the decision boundary. The decision boundary itself is linear but the margin of error is not.

It was really cool. Attempting to implent Hamiltonian MCMC on a single neuron really forced you to learn what a gradient is in regards to NN.

Top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% is still understating it

I increased my luck by making five year goals, thinking about what behaviours I'd need to adopt to reach these goals and then making those activities a priority. I'm incredibly successful by my own metrics now and I'm very happy with how my life is turning out.

Doing what you need to do and not what is easy pays huge dividends.

Interestingly, malware often hides these strings with different types of obfuscation.

I was quite gifted at math, first place out of a school year of 250+ students. I know as an adult that I have all nm for all 0<n,m<10 memorised. When I see something like 79 I use memory and not logic.

I feel a lot of math is made easier once some facts become so simple they're memorised. I can do large arithmetic quite easily in my head due to having the basics memorised.

What about the city/county where a few issues causes insurance to not want to touch the place? All of a sudden they can't hire enough police and this causes social issues.

The fact that you have multiple men in your life saying this might be an indication of some of the difficulties men face. I'm making an assumption here that you chose good men to be your friends. Either you're picking sex offenders as friends or men have a difficult situation to navigate when dating?

Women are all different. Some women love the idea of men asking for consent, others would find this a huge turnoff. Not all women do non-verbal consent in the same ways. To make it harder, men are expected to be the one making the moves and taking the lead.

I just made a quick Google search - [1] contains a link to a Reddit post from ~2 years ago. This man keeps getting told "it's not sexy to ask". Some women responding love the idea, others say they would hate it. Ever since #metoo I've made sure to very careful about consent, I even get verbal consent, and I know it's turned some dating partners away. So until women make dating clearer for men maybe you should hold back some of your judgement.

P.S. I'm 35 and have an above average partner count despite actively not sleeping around. I'm not some bumbling awkward guy that's never dated women.

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/alxofq/me...

Everything in your story lines up with that article. It's probably worth a fair bit now if he can find it.

Why am I treating someone "poorly" if I refuse to go out of my way to give them help when it's not a requirement of my job? For example, refusing to be an unofficial mentor for somebody. I'm a single parent to two little children, if my career burns it's far more than just me losing some income. I've had to work hard to position myself so I can balance work and family responsibilities.

I've returned every wallet I've ever found and I've never taken any money from them. Doing so poses no risk to myself. It's very easy to stand on your high horse and criticise others but after you've been in the situation of being accused of something it changes your opinion on certain things. I hope that you never have to deal with it.

There's being a professional but there's also not seeing the situation you are in. I would be hesitant to be in a one on one situation in a private area with a female colleague, especially one below me in the organisational structure. Even an unfounded accusation could completely derail my life and career.

When I was young I had something similar happen. A woman went around telling people she had slept with me. We hadn't. Nobody believed my side of the story since "why would she lie?". This caused a rift with my best friend, who had a crush on her. I lost my best friend due to a lie I couldn't disprove.

I feel that the best thing someone with a really IQ can do is enter into a work culture where their IQ is going to be kind of average. Their work peer group will overlap their social peer group and they'll have a sense of belonging. If you have a really high IQ child then get them into schools/clubs where they are more normal.

I think you're only looking at "smart people" as people who want to share how smart they are. You seem to be ignoring the social isolation that can come with it. Your interests might no be similar to those around you, if you're a child you might be able to meet others who are different in the same way, etc.

I very rarely discuss IQ since so many people are hostile to it. A high IQ makes you different. Sometimes it's subtle, like as an adult you'll typically have different interests compared to a lot of peers, and other times it's far less subtle, like when you're a school aged kid and you're always made to feel different (FYI most school aged kids don't want to feel different).

I wouldn't be surpised if there are over 50k individuals in the US with the electronics/computer knowledge to pull this off. All it takes is one person to develop an obsession with it and spend the time needed to pull it off. If you look at a 10-20 year time frame I'd say there's a high certaintity that someone commits a terror attack via a large number of drone.

The saving grace here is that people who want to terrorise often aren't the same with these skills IMO. If you have the skill/knowledge to make a drone swarm you probably have other valuable skills, have a good job and live comfortably. Lower chances of radicalisation.

While I like the principal of a UBI, people not living in poverty, it strikes me that OP's reasoning is one of the reasons why I see issues with a UBI. Who is going to want to work a factory/service job when you can live comfortably pumping out low quality videos that average 10 views?

Maybe it would drive income equality and better remuneration for those roles. Maybe we'd simply lose a lot of productivity. Who knows?

I'm nearly completion of a Bach Comp Sci that I've spent ~20 hours per week over 6 years (by the time I finish). I've done this while working full time as a single father who studies part time.

The time aspect is brutal. I'm ready to have regular hobbies. I'm ready to have a serious girlfriend. I'm ready to have regular social events. 6 years is a long time to just stop having a fulfilling life.

EDIT: I'm 1 grade in 1 unit off a perfect GPA. I'm at the point where I'm willing to have my GPA drop in order to free up some time to actually not be consumed by uni for the remainder of the time.

It's ignorant at best to argue that this is only going to be used by those who wouldn't have purchased a Switch. Once something is free then a lot of people won't spend hundreds of dollars on it.

My work was talking about a 10 year plan yesterday. In the back of my mind I couldn't help but realise that the majority of the population was just getting smart phones 10-11 years ago.

My parents didn't know what WiFi was, internet culture was still largely for nerds, etc.

My daughter does art daily. She also builds intricate cities in Minecraft. It blows my mind how detailed a 7 year old could get.

I suspect building in 3D is going to provide some spatial benefits that drawing doesn't.

The Australian system is using the land in that way because the land isn't good for much else. If Australia wasn't largely arid or desert then I suspect we'd have a far higher population and much intensive land use.

This is what I don't understand about companies planting trees to offset their fossil fuel CO2. Our problems are heavily caused by carbon being dug out of the ground and released. A tree just means that the carbon will be released at a later date

At what stage do you find "wasting fuel" on power an issue? Early game one x red-belt of coal will supply fuel for electricity generation. One you go to solar + accumulators you very quickly don't need steam power anymore unless you're going robot heavy, in which case you'll just stamp a small nuclear plant.

The first effective use you stumble across is oil refining chains. Only turn on heavy cracking if heavy oil is backing up, etc.

I wasn't familiar with the term sisyphic so I searched it. I got some results for sisypic, which certainly weren't what I expected but proves that the internet is for porn.