what prevents a child from have 2 chatbots open, one asking the questions and tutoring and another that it sources it's answers from? People are already leveraging AI to write their papers for them and kids will figure out how to hack around these things.
The math is suspect. Author doesn't take into consideration that rents increase annually vs a locked mortgage with a conventional loan. Rent is also 100% loss vs mortgage you're gaining equity. Additionally if you think beyond one generation, your kids have an asset they can use to borrow against, rent out, and live in if they so choose, which if it's paid off by that time, they just have to worry about maintenance and taxes.
Didn't Tesla have one of their cars drive out of a garage so it could get repo'd. I don't see how you can patent "a car driving itself to get repossessed". After you patent autonomous driving why does the location it drives to matter whether showroom or scrap yard?
Sometimes companies don't make changes until after hobbyists take matters into their own hands and make custom mods. Apple didn't consider many of the mods/software until people start jailbreaking their phones. The fact that this guy has the skills to fabricate his own cases, circuits, etc is massive. Any mods he'd desire to make would still require him to reverse engineer what Apple created so it's not time lost at all.
I’ve heard the issue in the US historically has been tax related. Some freelancers didn’t pay their taxes and the government went after the hiring company. Also business insurance is another line item that certain freelancers never invested in and companies seem to want to have that from all their vendors. Get a LLC / S-Corp if you’re serious about wanting to freelance
Corporations allow for infinite iterations of BSers because at the end of the day, if you're found out, you can always re-face, re-market, and rebrand. Also, once they get a win and a bag of cash is in their hand, now they have capital to help iterate and push their BS.
Need to buy more time and you have cash on hand, run the FTX effective altruism playbook and throw some cash at charities and media.
"Five years ago, a study describing a precipitous decline in sperm counts sparked extreme concerns that humanity was on the path to extinction."
Extinction, seriously? Why is it necessary to be so hyperbolic with writing these days. Humanity has increased 8x in the last 200 years and we have plenty of artificial means to have children. I seriously doubt low sperm count is going to lead to our extinction.
interesting that he's so programmed to work that just relaxing for a bit made him depressed. hard to see how working 11 hours a day is going to make it easier for him to still not have to put his kids on the calendar.
on a side note, i wonder if the actual therapy was just doing something physical. sitting down not moving for hours and hours is not what we were built to do. i always found working out, brazilian jiu jitsu, hiking, anything physical to be very therapeutic if i've been inside an office all day.
This is all well and good if you actually like your parents. There are reasons people leave home and never come back. Not all relationships with them are going to be the loving fairy tales one sees on TV.
I think it really depends on the type of interruption. Most commercials are not a calm segue to take a break from the show. Advertisers purposely increase the volume because they know you're going to be stepping away and shock you with colors and a barrage of images because they know they have microseconds to get some image into your subconscious so that you can think of their product on your next commute to work.
"Commercial breaks––people actually enjoy TV more with commercials." I've never enjoyed being disrupted by commercials nor has anyone else. This is why Tivo became so popular
interesting that he recommends starting a one-person business but the last section of the article are listings for "featured pragmatic engineering jobs"! do you believe in your own advice?
This feels a little click bait-ish. The problem wasn't covering his bills or writing. The problem was as he got more successful, he didn't optimized for just writing, he optimized for a lifestyle. And when the income didn't sustain that new lifestyle (bigger city, fine dinners, etc etc), he created another "distraction" away from his original goal to cover that. Wants create needs.
programmers think their job is to write code, but their job is to implement solutions. sometimes those solutions involve pushing back and asking the customer to think about their workflow a different way, sometimes those solutions involve tweaking something existing or fixing a small bug, and other times those solutions require writing and fleshing out a whole new module/feature/product. the only way you know what the solution reduces the risk and provides value to your client is by communicating with them.
Check out the Cover Story podcast mentioned in the article. It's pretty eye opening. They mention a few centers that historically you can categorize as unsafe. The key would be to find professionals that have your best interests in mind but the podcast and this article reveal how surprisingly difficult that is.
Is there be something to be said about how difficult notoriety is these days? People are so connected and the competition much greater to get noticed vs historically where publications were limited. Today it feels as though in order to become a famous genius, you would not only have to optimize for your field, but also the SEO required to get a high ranking on a google or youtube search. That in addition to the storytelling skills necessary to keep your readers and viewers engaged because there's a cat video next on the feed. Which makes me also think what's tech's responsibility in causing all this? Are we preventing people from attaining this genius state because we're sucking all their attention with social media?
Is this quality of “searching for a secret” any different than any entrepreneur? Is the point of being an entrepreneur to find a secret that will give you a competitive advantage to make you a lot of money. Now him being a VC he would be doing the same from an investor standpoint? Maybe I’m missing the “secret” message in this article.
it's actually very easy to make friends with other men but it will typically be done around an activity. my mentor used to categorize these activities as Tools, Toys, Tinkering and Ball Handling (Sports). If you want to make friends join a club, play a sport, etc.