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Sundials are already ‘wrong’ according to solar time by 30 minutes or more, as an artifact of dividing the world into hour-wide time zones.

Astronomy already ignores leap seconds in the same way that modern finance ignores half-crowns and shillings.

I hate that some people say rockstars and mean ‘really great developers that write beautiful working well documented code quickly and work great as part of a team’.

And other people say rockstars and mean ‘assholes that churn out new features really fast with incomprehensible code and then leave others to maintain their monstrosity as they move on to the next thing”.

I assume Amazon is large enough to have a team somewhere with 6-10 of the ‘good’ version, and also a team somewhere with 6-10 of the assholes.

It’s not just bitcoin.

People are told to “invest for retirement” and to do their financial planning based on 4-8% per year growth after inflation, when the risk free rate has been 2% or less for 20 years.

If the US stock market stagnates for the next 20 years like it has in other countries, people will be blamed for buying ETF’s too. “Don’t invest money you can’t afford to lose”, say the people who profited from 20% annual growth on houses while mortgaged to the hilt. But also, “why can’t millennials afford houses?”

I’ve worked in C++ and picked my own tools. The tooling experience in Go is much more polished for a few reasons.

First, as the author states, it’s hard to get consensus on a tool if it wasn’t baked in from the beginning. I don’t think there will ever be a dependency manager or especially an option-free formatter for C++ with the same adoption as gofmt or go modules.

Second, it helps a lot to have the compiler/runtime authors think about the tooling. Go runtime developers think about pprof. GCC developers don’t think about the UX of valgrind. C++ standard authors don’t write PR’s for code formatting tools when they change the language spec.

My model is advertising is roughly zero sum - there’s only so much disposable income for advertisers to chase.

So it doesn’t seem contradictory that overall consumption stayed constant while the advertising arms race advanced significantly.

The study has a sample size of 25 young adults, presumably students at Penn State in Pennsylvania.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol...

‘Not what it is about’ according to whom?

Most students are in school because they want jobs, not to learn to think. The professors may be interested in that goal but how can they possibly achieve it with a student body that just wants their degree papers and a shot at the upper middle class?

Shelter costs have also increased massively, not only because shelter has gotten better but because there’s more room in people’s budget for landlords to capture.

Medical and educational costs have risen in the US, I would argue for the same reason.

And some adversarial work has expanded for no reason- look at all the effort spent in high frequency trading that could be replaced by venues running auctions every 100ms instead of having competitions for fractions of a microsecond.

Humanity is much more productive per capita than 50 years ago, but we are collectively working more hours, not less.

The goal should not be for everyone to do no work.

The goal should not be for everyone to work full time and fear unemployment.

I started programming with “learn to program basic”, a series of animated programming tutorials in BASIC lightly disguised as a game.

How does this article not talk about France, which had a long-running commercial breeder reactor shut down more by politics than cost?

The real issue is that breeder reactors produce weapons grade plutonium, and so the US doesn’t like to see them built.

Yeah, the main benefit of docker desktop is packaging up a nice Linux VM on Mac/Windows, plus some UI features. There’s a reason ’Docker Desktop for Linux’ came so much later.

Yes. When I worked in Quebec (around 2017) the company got a reminder from OIQ that employees should not call themselves Engineers on LinkedIn unless they had a P.Eng.

The Engineer title is taken seriously in Canada, similar to how you can’t claim to be a medical doctor unless you actually are one.

And in most courses will just reward cheaters who succeed in not being caught.

How would you hedge interest rate risk on trillions of dollars in US treasuries? Who takes the other side of that trade, and why? I don’t think that sort of hedge exists.

Creditors definitely do lose money when they price debt at 2% but inflation runs at 7%.

Talking about mortgages misses the larger fixed rate bond market (government and company long term debt).

Who pays for security for the room with the dollars?

There are lots of examples of encroachments on freedom to avoid the spread of bad tech - e.g. limits on purchasing cough syrup to avoid producing crystal meth, or limits on uses of nuclear power to try to avoid nuclear weapons.

I don’t buy that we need preemptive ‘1984-style’ surveillance for future tech any more than we have needed it for past tech.

Not quite the same - pre-pill, Musk did not have funding lined up. Post pill, he produced written documents about how he was going to fund the buyout, and had to promise to buy all the shares, not just the first 51%.

Especially since the argument seems to be that ‘elites’ actually live by one set of (good) values while somehow imposing ‘bad’ values or expectations on the lower classes. How exactly are these bad values communicated from the elites if they don’t live by them? How do the elites enforce the ‘good’ values among themselves without transmitting them to lower classes?

I agree there is doublespeak about values among some elites, but I disagree that is the major source of single parent families.

That sounds like a business opportunity for a service provider specializing in packet filtering.

IMO a core feature of the terminal is that it has a chat program that costs 20K per year to get on. That’s a pretty great filter for figuring out if someone is worth talking to about a 10MM dollar trade.

I love Nova Scotia’s standard rental terms, with generous term for tenants:

> Use these forms to show the terms that must be part of any lease signed in Nova Scotia. The lease a landlord uses may look different, but must contain all the items shown here. If any of the items are not part of the lease a tenant signs, they apply anyway.

Re: the house, no, most people don’t sit and read it: https://themortgagereports.com/39671/home-closing-what-you-n... .

Even professional investors with millions of dollars of investments don’t appear to read or negotiate the documents until it looks like it might matter: https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2022/03/odd-lots-pod...

People just don’t care that much about legal documents until it looks like it will matter. People’s choice of individual contract provisions at most wage earning jobs, health care, rentals, or vacations is basically nil - they mostly don’t care to read it and so the writers of the contracts put in egregious terms.

Not just law students, but junior lawyers, in the Weinstein example.

I think the problem with innovation is more the incentive structure. There are too many people trying to p-hack stuff that just doesn’t work well and spin it to get the next grant, and not enough people actually breaking new ground.

They shouldn’t be teaching undergrads.

They should be teaching a few grad students.

Also: “my work was extremely valuable to a group of academics, but not worth publishing.”

What?

NYC taking 17 years to build 3 subway stops doesn’t sound broken?

You could reconcile it by believing that people just don’t understand percentages.