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And how much is the average employee making? Honestly I'm down for making a law that says in order to pay execs more, they have to pay their workers more.

Even at a 50 to 1 ratio of worker to exec, they can still make more money but increase the wealth of the workers at the same time.

"so we have evolved with these 'friends with benefits'."

I'll never think of my gut bacteria in the same way again.

This sounds like something the military should already have figured out.

Really, do you have some studies on that? I'm pretty sure it was unionization that got us the 40 hour work week.

I think the way things are going nuclear war is likely, and the worse part is may be not fully intentional.

I think nuclear war is survivable if you are in a good location and already prepped to survive 2+ years on your preps and have the means to grow all your own food and are in a solid community that doesn't go bonkers after shtf.

But that's not the vast majority of us, so it would be quite the shit show. If you aren't prepped, I don't know why someone would want to survive the attack.

So no one should ever do illegal stuff to expose illegal stuff?

Ideally, municipalities in SA would be poised to create municipal solar farms a la municipal broadband.

But if you can't get the energy to the consumer because of theft, then only people who can afford it and have space can use it.

This makes me wonder if simply burying what you have is a better option. One of my long standing goals is to buy some raw land for hunting and camping, like 50+ acres.

I could easily bury several caches of valuables, that only my immediate family knows about, and let nature regrow over it.

I mean, what are the chances that a rando stranger is going to be in the middle of nowhere with a metal detector?

One of the things I like is when the narrator has to suppress a laugh during a funny passage, or can express a character's anger or frustration.

Until AI is so good that it can mimic emotion, I think there will be a market for human narrators. Of course it will be smaller than what it is now, but I think people will specialize.

Schools are safer than homes? Where do you get that fact from? Has there been a study on this?

Gee, it's almost like we live in a country where the rich use the political system to get richer.

Well this is part of what creates the conspiracy theory that some state actors were behind FTX. At the very least, the fact that SBF's mom was fixer for the Democrats, means he was likely Epstein level connected with political insiders.

Which is driven by concerns over the safety of Taiwan's fabs.

I've seen a number of various voices speaking up about the possibility of a turn key totalitarian state in the US. Where everything is in place and waiting for some just to turn it on. That is the worst case scenario here.

That said obviously we can resist, but it is worrying.

Oh my god that's so true. It's like they've invented hire order lying.

Well said, I was thinking the exact same thing. This guy acts like this is a foregone conclusion that we must have war. It's a choice to stand back or to stand up.

And given the aforementioned disparities, we should really consider if giving China it's space in a multi polar world is more in our best interest than going to war to keep the hegemony alive.

There are so many things today that can do that. Lot's of server rendered js apps are rocking in this space to.

Well that was the whole point of the Declaration of Independence. From the British viewpoint it was breaking the law of the land. So clearly it's a very American tradition to rebel against unjust authority.

I'm surprised that no one talks about how a certain wine makes you feel. Ever since I started partaking in cannabis, I've noticed that many of the labels describe the effects you are likely to experience.

Granted, wines aren't so different to reliably reproduce physical and mental effects, but maybe it's a new angle for marketing :)

I think it is still best to err on the side of caution for a number of reasons. One is that not all red meat is equal in quality. For example, beef from cafo's where they heavily does with antibiotics and mostly feed them corn and soy is not the same as grass fed and finished.

But another reason is simply your individual health profile. Most people know that the Inuit and other northern people's have adaptations to allow them to handle much higher levels of meat and fat. Maybe you can't handle as much as other people can.

I only read the abstract but I saw nothing about the risk of obesity and diabetes there, but clearly in rich countries, we eat too much meat.

Lastly there is the environmental reasons. We can't feed everyone the same amount of meat that we in the rich countries eat. So sooner or later we will have to get used to less.

Not nationality, nation states that are known bad actors.

You can buy direct from farmer who treats the animals well, either individually or with a group of friends and family. You just have to have the freezer space.

You will own nothing and be happy.

Yeah, I can see how this would be easier if you work from home, but you could explain that you are running a long lived experiment on yourself. Then again, that doesn't exactly scream "I am fully sane" :)

That last line was kinda surprising to hear. Not a big Elon fan, but generally I think you at least wait a quarter to see if they've run it into the ground or not.

I think by default you have to assume most billionaires don't care that deeply about their employees.

Well, I wouldn't call it interesting, but I like the citext extension for case insensitive comparison.

> When you build something to have marginalized voices be heard

Why do we have to do that? Isn't the idea of having easy access for all enough? What people are so marginalized that they can't mute hateful speech and get on with their day?

The only time I used Crystal for work was for creating zip files from a virtual file system in the database that fetched the real file files from S3.

It was pretty easy to write, but I kept on having some issues with the part of the standard library that handled the zipping.

As Crystal is kinda a small community, I didn't get a lot of feedback from the forums. So I just took a day to rewrite in Go, and its zip library worked great.

I'm sure I could have got it working with Crystal if I had more time. I haven't done anything else, but it was fun writing it.

The only way trust could be lower was if the media was owned by the state.