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> Social Security is almost completely disbursement charges but those disbursements aren't means tested so even quite wealthy individuals receive them.

Only to those who paid into the system and far less than they personally could have earned on investing the same dollars.

A little over a third of production evidently goes to ethanol: https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339

No idea if subsidies disproportionately subsidize fuel ethanol over non-fuel usage.

Beef prices are high right now.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000703112

If the intent of the government is to pour subsidies into domestic beef production to stabilize prices they're doing a crap job.

Compare corn: https://www.macrotrends.net/2532/corn-prices-historical-char...

In the US agricultural subsidies for 2024 were overwhelmingly for corn ($3.2B), soybeans ($1.9B), cotton ($998M), and wheat ($960M). Pasture comes in 5th ($741M).

https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-da...

Tofu and ethanol may be more price-distorted by the US government than is beef, but I dunno how to quickly support that idea with hard data beyond what I cited above.

> Most roles let you settle into one way of thinking. Engineers think in systems and constraints. Designers think in experiences and affordances. Salespeople think in objections and value props...

I don't think often, but when I do, it's in stereotypes. Stay dismissive my friends.

The default page load hides plots for all models with negative returns? That's sketch.

COBOL also came to mind.

The COBOL thing seems to be working out just fine last I heard. Today a small number of people get paid well to know COBOL's depths and legacy platforms/software. The world moved on, where possible, to lower cost labor and tools.

Arguably, that outcome was the right creative destruction. Market economics doesn't long-term incentivize any other outcomes. We'll see the arc of COBOL play out again with LLM coding.

> We estimate that these laws prevented fatalities of 57 children in car crashes in 2017 but reduced total births by 8,000 that year and have decreased the total by 145,000 since 1980.

145K is roughly the population of Syracuse, NY or Midland, TX. That is far more than the absolute number of US military deaths in World War I (116,516 per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualt...).

A friend once remarked that it'd take particular dedication to so using a Miata.

> Operable while tripping

> We are often faced with 45-button remote controls, and multi-level menus of options to navigate. This can be ok in everyday life, but when you transport to the spiritual dimension of the Grateful Dead show, or when you are tripping, menus and buttons are the last thing you can deal with.

> The Time Machine needs to be controlled with knobs, a few buttons, and intuition. And if it doesn’t do exactly what you want, maybe it will do something that you need anyway.

As a child, I caught a bumblebee in my hand because I didn't think it could sting. Those stings hurt.

Citeulike [1] was great but is sadly no more.

Add any paper you pick up to your tracking system before you read it. Make that part of your reading ritual.

Save the PDF right away, too. You may later lose access to the journal. Or, CiteULike (where I^Hyou uploaded all those articles) may go away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citeulike

Any significant transfer to the ordinary people will flow, in large part, to the government.

Putting cash into a somewhat closed system is particularly inflationary.

So, this well-meaning humanitarian idea of cash transfer (a) funds an authoritarian regime while (b) adding inflation woes to the people it's trying to help.

We ran this experiment already. Obama handed them $1.7B in cash [1]. Not a good outcome.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/united-states-government-fd411341...

How many employees at each of those schools? How much management? Is the manager / employee ratio lower or higher than where you work?

Proper grammar on formulaic language is a proof-of-work system. Difficult to achieve but easy to check. It suggests that the author cared enough to put in the time. When the cost of graduate labor is low, careful editing suggests that you can burn a student's time to demonstrate the message is worth reading.

Redundant may be a strong word. NJ ranks at the top of the states for public schools, e.g. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

NJ has effectively a publicly operated system of private schools where the tuition is the tax burden.

No. Going back to what I initially responded to:

> I’m going to need HN geeks to get over analog headphones from the 60s

I am saying that not all adoration of the analog headphone jack is baseless. And we shouldn't universally move on.

Or 100 analog ones for $36.

Low-end wired earbuds come in packages with dozens of units. I buy cheap earbuds because my kids love breaking them. Not everyone optimizes for the same thing. Analog remains the bees knees in certain settings.

The game, https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/, mentioned by the companion piece, https://alexanderbjoy.com/two-sentence-journal/, looks quite cool.

> ...if you want one-click "this snapshot failed; update it" self-modifying tests.

I am envisioning the PR arguments now when the first instinct of the junior developer is to clobber the prior gold standard outputs. Especially lovely when testing floating point functionality using tests with tolerances.

Some things should be hatefully slow so one's brain has sufficient chance to subconsciously mull over "what if I am wrong?"

I would kick him $20. Anyone know how?

Please tell me the username "jeisey" is a play on New Jersey accents and this was inspired by today's storm therein.

Thank you. My spouse and I talked over our answers while each had bubbly for New Year's.

I am fearful of losing my first.last@gmail.com and last.com access presently. Any Google Wallet/Payment folks that might help me..? Please see email in profile if so. Would really appreciate it.

Story is I started a new job. I tried to add a corporate address for a corporate card to Google Wallet. This tripped some security indicator requiring me to upload government-issued ID. I did so twice without it working despite first/last/address match. I have tried also submitting an employment verification letter with the corporate address. Haven't heard back on the last attempt.

I have also written but I have low hope that'll work. (Update: Nope, "Billing and Collections" isn't "Payments" but at least they wrote back).

Because of the incomplete verification, all Google service payments are rejected right now. I am presently frantically emptying my Google One storage to get back under the free tier before my paid One subscription runs out. Literally, because I cannot submit a $2 payment I am right now removing attachments from 20 years of correspondence.

This stinks. I just need a human to review what I submitted given the above context. There should be some middle ground between rejecting a new credit card address and de facto locking down someone's entire collection of Google services via manufacturing an inability to pay.

The first law involves cwork. The axiom I am thinking of involves information.

It'd be super fun to take that as an axiom of physics then to see how far upwards one could build from that. Above my skills by far.

vim-slime is another variant, easing pasting across a screen multiplexor. It works well with IPython.

https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime

If people aren't working harder to offset the tolls then they're strictly poorer as a consequence of the toll.