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> My friends would try every angle to weasel their way out of a $100 light hearted bet!

I mean, the guy went to court to weasel out of the bet.

The US army spends about $700 million on recruitment [0]. While that number has been higher recently since becoming an all volunteer army recruitment has been an expensive challenge.

[0]https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/11/07/to-draw-...

I suspect someone joining the military after being in college and private industry has a higher chance of completing the pilot program than someone 18-20 years old which make up the bulk of the military recruits. (Assuming they both meet all physical requirements.)

> I suspect we'll see a change to WFH, not because workers like it, but because it is cheaper and production doesn't change (not to mention it quickly reveals whose "production" is really just physically presenting in an office)

I’m unconvinced and very skeptical that on the average across all people that transitioned to WFH due to COVID-19 there is “no change” in measurable productivity.

> Interestingly, when I lay it all out like that and add it up, the US monetary policy looks like a big business's bureaucratic system, the kind that'd be ripe for disruption by a startup. Of course, it's not quite so simple when we're talking nation-states and not Silicon Valley ventures

That’s because governments have the privilege of establishing itself as a monopoly. They control the rules of the marketplace via regulations.

Imagine a world where one county underfunds infrastructure because of 5G health fears, but another country does not. Wouldn’t the county that implemented the infrastructure have a competitive advantage?

Imagine not paying and losing access to childcare when you need it again.

What are the chances that these strikes can lead to a union? I imagine a grocery store workers union could do a lot for the health of its workers now.

Look at Trump’s press release today.

How is this not an infringement on the right to assemble?

Right, the actual number of cases is almost certainly over 1. The parent comment just said Idaho had no reported cases which is factually incorrect. The first reported case was on Friday.

Small nit: Boise has one recorded case. It was recorded Friday.

(a) and (c) sound like problems that are solved with very common household equipment.

I moved from Seattle to the midwest.

I’ve seen a lot of very intolerable lines in the suburbs. It’s not unusual for me to wait 15 minutes to checkout at Target or Costco and last December I remember a 25 minute line.

I think this is a product. There’s about six different grocery store within a fifteen minute drive from my house. I’ll switch to the first one to implement this system.

The fake screenshots and the fake videos are both troublesome. How do we know what’s true and what isn’t? How many false facts do you believe?

I can imagine a world where false tweets/videos/headlines are generated specifically for you to keep engagement levels high. The outcome would be not only do we not know the truth, but no one can agree on the truth. It’s something that currently exists in our society, but technology can make the split bigger.

Sometimes I get conned into buying a game that’s a large series of cutscenes with poor gameplay elements, but there are actually a large number of really good games released every year, even today.

In the 90s there were a lot of crappy games too. I think there’s good games in every time period, and trying to pretend that the past has a monopoly on core gameplay is only remembering the best games of the past.

I greatly prefer the longer lasting psychedelics — a six hour mushroom trip feels a bit rushed for me. I have a theory that a large part of the benefit of psychedelics is taking some time, attention, and intention into the health of your own psyche. This isn’t to say that a psychedelic can be replaced with a placebo, but to say that you can also obtain many of the same benefits from many all day mental self care activities. The combined effects of the drug, time, intention and attention are really powerful.

I’m also concerned with the commercialization of psychedelics, and that we may lose something important as it becomes a common commodity. Shorter trips feels like something more easily commercialized with higher user turnover.

YMMV and all effects vary between individuals.

Electrical plugs also haven’t had any real innovations since the ground wire. I hope to see innovations in power/data cables to cellphones more frequently than that!

Edit: even if the innovations is just faster data transfer and more power.

You say that like writing plugins is hard or undesirable.

> Do you think you represent most people?

I've seen poor push notification quality increase uninstall and churn rates. I think the lesson is that many people are quickly annoyed with push notifications.

Cool! This feature was not available when I last used Spotify, which was admittedly years ago.

Can I rip my own CDs and import them into Spotify or am I limited to the music provided by the Spotify streaming service?

I think this is what is meant by a “music library”

I have a very sparsely furnished and decorated single family home. I felt intense pressure to buy because the cost of houses was increasing faster than my salary. Purchasing a home felt like a closing window of opportunity.

I figure I can always grow into it, and I occasionally buy something to go into it if I find a very good deal. Total cost of ownership is more than a rental property, but I also find my total quality of life has increased due to extra space for pets and decreased noise.

Or maybe there was a whole lot more fossil fuel in the past.

You gave a great answer to my question. Thank you.

This is theoretically all the data about a flys nervous system, which would be the hardest data collection part of building a fly simulation.

Can someone explain why the modem running closed source blob is not considered a huge problem?

Yeah, and I measure best interest in United States Dollars /s

“We’re not catching them because they aren’t there” seems like a valid hypothesis, but I’m not sure I fully buy into it.

> Perhaps people will value freedom more than security and therefore won't chase those housing values.

I value property rights, so I own property. Freedom and security don’t really factor into it.