fallingknife

1. All animals are equal

2. But some animals are more equal than others

The most damning part to me is that Mochizuki dismissed Joshi's work and insulted it. That's a crazy response to someone trying to improve on his theory, and shows more of a religious belief that a mathematical conclusion.

> Learning difficult subjects fundamentally changes how you think about and approach things.

Citation needed on this. But even if I accept the premise, what percentage of school is leaning difficult subjects? For me it was <5% and the other 95+% was stuff that could be beaten easily with rote memorization. The only classes in that 5% were upper level courses that only students who want to be there take anyway.

Because a college degree isn't an intellectual achievement. It's 4 years of school when you've already done 13. I went to one of those schools where people go "oh, you went to $SCHOOL" when they find out, and I always want to roll my eyes because I didn't do shit to get that degree.

You don't have to understand infosec to not get phished. And education doesn't do a damn thing to help you resist those algorithms.

And then forgetting. If you're not interested, you cram for the test and then forget. I see little point in forcing people who don't want to learn into classrooms. Worth a read https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/a-theoretical-case-against-...

What was the point of having those students in the classroom in the first place?

Either the test must be the same for everybody or it is not a meaningful signal.

Before college was a means to get a job, it was status signalling for the upper class by showing they could spend 4 years not working and learning things with no economic value that few could afford. There was never a time when a large portion of society went to school past 18 for any reason other than economic or status gain, and why should they?

They aren't intervening in the current hot war against Europe

Disallowed characters like that give the impression that plaintext passwords are being stored.

If you can invent, build, operate, or fix useful things, there will always be someone willing to pay you.

Only a small minority of farm workers owned the farms they worked on even back before tractors. And the tractors didn't do much to help most of those owners either. Industrial farm equipment increased the area a single farmer can work so far beyond what he could before that it made no sense for owners of the time to each have their own equipment and most sold their land and consolidated the industry into much larger farms. Farm employment went from 90% of all workers before the industrial revolution down to a bit over 1% today in the US.

And maybe it happens to software engineers next. So what? The economy looks completely different today than it did 50 years ago, which was completely different than 50 years before that, and that shouldn't stop just because some people feel childishly entitled to do the same work for their whole lives even it if it is obsolete. I'll just change careers like I have done twice before. There's a massive shortage of electrical/plumbing/hvac contractors. There's a massive shortage of nurses / doctors that will only get worse as the population gets older. Not as cushy as my mid six figure tech job, but I have no god given right to that. And there's plenty more opportunity beyond that for anyone willing to take it, so if any other engineers want to cry about it, their tears will be wasted on me.

Given how much better employees have it now than before all the productivity gains of recent history, the only question I have about the economic system is how can we get more of that?

It's all the same money printing. The issue is that people generally believe that emergency measures were justified in early 2020 when the crisis hit and there were so many unknowns, but not justified a year later when the virus was already endemic and the vaccine was out.

Raising interest rates has nothing to do with the 2022 war. If it did, rates would have come back down. Interest rate increases don't help with supply/demand driven price spikes. They do help with money supply and aggregate demand driven inflation, which was the cause of our recent inflation (that started way before Russia invaded Ukraine). The war was a convenient excuse because it deflects responsibility.

And remember when they first said inflation was "transitory" and caused by supply chain issues from the economy reopening after covid? They didn't raise interest rates then because, like I mentioned above, interest rates don't help with supply shocks. If they did, the Fed would have raised rates then.

ZIRP had little to do with it. Tech is less levered than any other major industry. What happened is that growth expectations for large tech companies were way out of line with reality and finally came back down to earth when the market finally realized that the big tech cos are actually mature profitable companies and not just big startups. The fact that this happened at the same time ZIRP ended is a coincidence.

Visa isn't happy. But fuck them in particular.

Airline ticket prices are flat since 2000, which is down almost 50% after inflation. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SETG01. So I say let them keep doing what they're doing.

Doesn't feel much different than Google paying for being the default in browsers

Then maybe you should watch all the times they failed before they didn't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ

They have succeeded in all parts of the flight plan on different missions. So the concept is proven out, but they just need to improve reliability to string it all together.

This is very true. No real American trusts authority, whether that is the government, or large companies, or other institutions like universities. This is why Uber could get away with breaking the law as long as they were still seen as a small startup.

US startups can devote 100% of their energy to getting their product and operations right. Then when they enter the European market they already have that part down when they start dealing with your governments. European startups attempting to compete don't have that luxury.

How much bandwidth is there in Iceland? I suspect not much because the population is only 400K. You will need to lay new undersea fiber. And how are you going to build them? The construction alone would take a massive amount of resources and manpower not feasibly available there. And what about the power supply? In data center heavy areas like Virginia, data center power consumption is already 25% of the entire state power consumption, and VA has 22x more people than Iceland. So if you build even 1/5th the number of data centers in just Virginia, that will consume the entire power grid of Iceland. Therefore, in addition to the data centers themselves, you are also going to have to build an entirely new grid and distribution system.

That would mean that 5.5% of the SF population are lyft drivers

But if you substitute the pre-doordash system of calling up a restaurant and ordering delivery or take out, the energy savings aren't even 1%. One gallon of gas contains 34 kWh of energy, so if one delivery takes 0.5 gallons of gas, it uses enough energy to power one of your racks for an hour. How many doordash orders can be processed by one of your racks in an hour? It's got to be in the millions.

> In a period defined by rapidly growing wealth inequities, there is increasing discussion about whether we should also be asking how much is too much.

One. One person who goes around arrogantly proclaiming how much money they think other people should be allowed to have is too much. Unfortunately we have millions.

"Wally, you're in charge of supporting the legacy system. How long will it take to add this feature?"

"Remind me, when are we planning to finish switching over to the new system, again?"

"six months"

"I estimate that it will take 8 months to deliver your feature"

> "It's okay to be white" (IOTBW) is an alt-right slogan which originated as part of an organized trolling campaign on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017. A /pol/ user described it as a proof of concept that an otherwise innocuous message could be used maliciously to spark media backlash.

And boy were they right about that. Nobody on earth is easier to bait than journalists.