I can't promise anything but could you please email me your resume? chris at orgmenta dot com
(or just any info you want to provide. I don't care about resumes themselves, and don't want you to waste your time on it for me)
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(or just any info you want to provide. I don't care about resumes themselves, and don't want you to waste your time on it for me)
2. Humans vs Driverless is not the comparison I want. Some humans are terrible drivers. Driving is not a right that everyone gets - Licenses can be denied or taken away, and people are retested at certain ages. Some humans appear to me to be 10, maybe even 50 (! not hyperbole) times more likely to get into accidents than others. Perhaps we should be starting to tighten regulations. Be more willing to take 'licenses' away (from human, robot or company - doesn't matter) if risk contribution is >threshold. Some people are reckless and have reckless attitudes (as are some corps). I want to see 'Worst human drivers vs driverless' and 'Best human drivers vs driverless'. Appreciate the difficulty in scope, sample selection, possibility of bias etc. If we start to just deny licensing on probability of incident, then we can just slowly tighten further over time.
3. Arguably, all of this investment, research and anti-consumer behaviour is 'planting trees for the next generation'. So we can frame it like that to see some silver lining. We benefit from the 1800s similarly (similar period of state legislation being unable to keep up with innovation). But yes that does assume that there will be a feasible product and healthy industry at the end of it. Similarly, FoodDelivery & TaxiApps, in my opinion, will pay off. They have enabled the disabled now, and possibly improved the future (Yes, I appreciate the inefficiencies of those models).
Or Waveapps would be my second choice, but I haven't explored how it handles local taxes.
Doesn't matter what turns out to be root cause here. The Max might finally get the critical mass of brand damage here. Especially if Daily Mail et al are reporting it in the headlines.
Boeing might be properly held accountable* for their previous mistake, now. IMO the previous outcome did not seem fair to 'consumers' / victims, and did not seem to be an appropriate deterrent / incentive for future QC/QA improvements.
*The company - I don't hold hope for holding execs accountable.
That's interesting and reminds me of Bill Bryson, e.g. The Lost Continent did a lovely job of intertwining the history, trivia and his childhood memories into his personal travel.
This one wasn't really an offender in that vein I suppose. But it is so convoluted as to alienate 99% of people and even >50% hackers I would guess.
Much of it is through integrations not code. If I wanted, I could just cut out the custom integrations and just rely on plug-n-play / third party integrations.
It's an honest living. But I am uninspired by it, so am pivoting.
That is to say, that if we subsidized train travel, then there are benefits (open trade, comms, etc.) that are easily realised but that we don't see.
I feel it is so elastic (sorry, I'm misusing this term somewhat) that you can subsidize to an extremely high percentage without net cost (if all externalities could actually be known and costed in)
I want train journeys to be 50Euro Athens-Stockholm. 10Euro Paris-Hamburg. I want my taxes to pay the difference.
>2025 will see the best of both worlds (we will still easily install apps, easily see permissions shared etc. - But will also get our freedom back, companies won't have 30% revenue taken, etc.). Optimistic, huh.
The forum has many informed, interesting answers from members of the community - http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7782
There are even recipes! But don't eat sea slugs in general, these are probably mostly sea cucumber recipes - http://www.seaslugforum.net/recipe.htm
I'm not an absolutist anarchist, and I don't think that undermines my points (given an adult conversation where nuance and context is discussed).
We don't need absolutism across the board here (the "if you legislate against personal atomic bombs, you must be in favour of legislating against people having a 2mm knife blade!" whataboutism fallacy)
But these get reviewed and adjusted often, so the assumption that inflation would impact this is a bit premature.
> You should have the right to gift whatever you want to your descendants, and the general public should have no cut from your hard work and the decision not to consume it all. > You paid taxes all your life. Your descendants are going to be paying taxes for the new assets.
Yes that's the problem - This is not at all compelling to me, and vice versa I am not compelling to you. I feel that your side needs to be extra compelling too, so as to prove that it is better to take from another tax than from inheritance tax.
It is very much in my interest for me to be convinced by you. I want to believe :)
No, no. They are simply saying 'cater for the edge cases'. No more, no less. We know what you are saying.
They're just saying that you're ignoring nuance to their detriment (true), and therefore you are not trustworthy in decision making (true).
No, we are not prepared to let you make decisions for us ("But many in that group will be served fine with alternatives"). No, that's precisely the problem - Centralised planning thinks that the alternatives are fine, and they are often not. Similar to Google not having a phone number to unblock locked accounts.
>And wanting something doesn't mean you thought it through.
Sure. We will assume that this is charitable / general statement (if it weren't: It is this attitude that makes one unqualified to make decisions. They think they know better, and assume that the other person does not.)
I feel that a guardian should have a choice up until they are negligent or inhibiting (however a society deems it - specifically left as this definition).
If said guardian is able to raise a kid in a healthy environment, with a healthy relationship to technology, then I do not want to step on their toes.
I think we need to 'reverse Chesterton's fence'(?) our liberty here, let's not lose our freedom and build a restrictive fence or Berlin wall. I know many people disagree with me, but the fact that there isn't consensus here means we should tread carefully lest break some cotton mills.
I don't get it, apart from certain return for if the child did genuinely 'earn it' through caring for parents in old age etc.
We need to end this divine-right thinking, IMO.
I think it's the perfect place to get tax rev (it's the tax that is furthest away from 'units of work' that I can think of. Far better than getting it from an income tax). I.e. it is the tax that penalises people the least for creating value.
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I guess my current position is that
1. It is poor economic policy not to go heavy on inheritance tax (as far as emigration of the upper class remains inelastic), and
2. People claiming their relatives' estates is not compelling to me (but I am open to being compelled)
I wonder where would I even start, if I wanted to bring rss into my personal Supabase instance. Chron job periodically triggering a serverless function that asks a website for the requested feed (just async fetch), then using some js rss parser library, then insert to supabase table? I really have no knowledge about rss other than as a consumer.
So the lower class is tricked (conspiratorially or otherwise) into fighting for wealth redistribution to NOT happen.
Anyway, the problem in the industry, from my point of view (very opinionated):
- The market has-not-priced-in-demographics! Still! Blinkered to the aging readership.
- False expectation of revival or sustaining market size.
- Often the wrong channel/medium. Much non-fiction & fiction simply doesn't need or benefit from traditional publishing houses.
- Industry is still in the process of acknowledging (or is hiding the fact) that brands are so dependant on celebrity names. Celebrity authors are bolstering statistics and making it look more lucrative to the average Joe than it really is.
- Clinging on to old worldviews on IP, to the detriment of innovation.
- Very much haven't got their head around LLM / prior art changes that are forcing us to be less litigious in the coming years.
My associate is more conservative than me, and is also far more knowledgeable than me of course.
I also note the consolidation of publishers was at full throttle this past decade.
I think a lot of it is simply "other people do it, so I have subconsciously justified it"
Similar to how easy it is for our society to eat meat from factory farming.
Also, The National Library of Scotland has old OS maps in a pretty nice interface, in case useful: https://maps.nls.uk/os/
I suppose it is just a case of balance.
I sure am on one end of the bell curve, apparently. People don't seem like risk takers and play it safe (from my biased perspective). 'Try anything once' doesn't seem like a mantra that people actually do take to heart. "Live a little" gets proverbial blank stares. "Spend your money, what's the point in it otherwise?!" gets a concerned shuffle, then no action, from elderly relatives. "The world is your oyster!" results in no holidays being booked despite them opining the need or want for one. Well, from this very opinionated view, there are a lot of people playing it safe and hiding in their boxes, letting their resources go unused. But to each their own, if people are comfortable and happy and society is utilitarian.
Book a skydive, indulge in fancy unhealthy food for once, get a flight somewhere! Last night I bought tickets to a dance festival in Albania. I just need to get to Corfu by June to get my boat trip. Next week I am going to wander around the English countryside for a week. I think in Feb I will get the train to the Netherlands. I might wander EU for a bit. Meanwhile I have a friend that is miserable, stuck in an apartment, unwilling to spend the gold pot she sits upon, but wishing she could join me. The gold pot will go to charity in her will though at least.
Anyway, I suppose it is not in my nature to do Calls to Actions like this, but I found myself writing this because the person that I am replying to reminds me that IMO there is a bias in the other direction in the Overton window and in literature. It all feels very boring and safe to me. It's too longevity based and not quality based. I don't think Instagram trends are a counter-example - If anything I think they reinforce my point (that people will satiate their desire for things by watching someone else do it instead of themselves).
On the face of it, it could have suited me ("What to push: Being helpful and engaging")
But looking into it, I feel the writer has a more cynical worldview than me, and I found this a bit distasteful.
I think that this resource is not useful to me, because it is undermined by greed. The end goal with this article is, IMO, people's pockets - not fulfilling people's needs.
Vietnam is still consistently engaging in rolling blackouts, as how I interpret them. But it really shouldn't be impacting corps at the moment - It seems to be limited to residential areas and infrequently (a few a month)
More apparent strain on their grid compared to neighbours. Still, it really makes you aware of how robust the UK grid ostensibly is. But my experience is limited given I've only experienced one or two suburbs per country, for limited periods.
Hope y'all have fun, and thanks for everything positive that you do, whatever it is.