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There are medium-low stress jobs at FAANG. Well, maybe not Amazon.

Like Elon Musk's definitely not a flamethrower.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/19/elon-musk-said-it-was-not-...

Meanwhile, there's a shortage of foundry capacity. Automakers are pausing assembly lines because they can't get chips. So yeah, Intel isn't making the best chips, but they're still making ok chips, there's a chip shortage, and things could look different in 5 years.

Not saying I'd bet on them. I'd probably not bet either way. I just think the "future is bleak" narrative is overplayed.

I'd say it's weird because hardware like this is so much harder, but the benefit's also a lot more marginal. There was a time when you had to buy a new computer every 4 years or it would be cripplingly slow. These days, pretty good hardware that's 8 years old is good enough today if you have an SSD, 8GB of ram, and don't play AAA games.

Might as well shut down Deutsche Bank while you're at it.

A lot of large media outlets reported that Deutsche would stop lending to Trump, but left out how bad it is if even Deutsche won't lend to you.

They seem to tolerate gold, and its price is more stable and it's easier to use as a currency than any cryptocurrency.

I get what you're saying, but there is an upper bound of roughly 1M in the US, depending on what the true case fatality rate is.

I've been enjoying watching the USA burn, mostly as a nice distraction from covid.

> - you had to wear your mask as soon as you left your house

> - you were only allowed outside for exercise for 1 hour (with 1 person)

> These all seem reasonable in a pandemic to me.

Not really; no evidence has ever suggested that outdoor spread is enough of an issue that either of these policies make much of a difference.

> the US version where you just let the virus loose

Herd immunity by August, with or without vaccines.

How long before this strategy backfires? When does the CCP hurt itself because it stifled innovation? When does it have political problems because it suppressed the wrong thing? I can't tell if this style of governing is super robust or a house of cards.

Except I don't think a single parent has enough time to properly raise a kid.

A family friend is single and infertile. She's spent a lot of money on some sort of adopt-a-chinese scheme. Someone in her family did the same, and the kid had various medical issues. I honestly think she'd have been better off with a surrogate and a sperm donor.

I definitely respect people who adopt, but they risk of just adopting someone else's problem is too high for me.

Trying my hand at algorithmic trading, mostly out of regret minimization. I've sunk in a lot of time, and almost none of it has been on trading models. So far, it's all pretty much data mining, data cleaning, and the infra for it.

I've been from 10% to 25% body fat and an confirm 15% is about right for the muffin top, and 20% body fat at the cutoff for a healthy level.

Also that reducing infant mortality rate and other early death rates means the weak ones live long enough to breed. Unlike IVF, this just stalls genetics. IVF actively selects for fertility issues.

We don't directly recycle treated wastewater into drinking water much in the US. The closest you get is treated water being released into a river, and a city downstream uses it, there's a lot of dilution going on in-between. You'd also expect someone to notice it not affecting cities with water supplies that aren't downstream from wastewater treatment.

Controversial opinion: the US flag has too much noise going on. The meaning behind the stars and stripes is nice, but the Texas flag captures the same elements much more cleanly.

> stupid minority

It's a stupid majority.

Cambridge Analytica happened because of an API and users who will click anything to learn if they're a Samantha or a Carrie.

This hit me harder when it happened than now, but I was also in a weird relationship place back then, so some of those feelings got combined.

I didn't know it then, but didn't have as big of a role in founding reddit as people usually think, and his activism was so obviously illegal.

That deal was incredibly sketchy. His cousin was the CEO, right?

I have a feeling these are going to be hard cases to convict because it just takes one to hang, and there are a lot of Trump sympathizers out there.

I'm a Tesla bear, but I know better than to bet against it. Arguably, Tesla's implied success is priced into to these other car companies. A lot of these companies are behind on electric cars, Toyota in particular.

> regulatory credits

Why is it that all of Musk's companies rely on government support in some significant way?

Except it's a lot safer already produced in large amounts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine#Adverse_eff...

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Excess

As long as you aren't pregnant and don't overdo Vitamin D, you'll be fine.

Milk isn't that commonly consumed. It's not like salt. You also don't want to overdo vitamin D.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00220...

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/jan/06/us-dairy-indust...

Considering how relatively safe Vitamin D is, why aren't governments pushing really hard on it?

Same with N95 masks. At this point, if there was a push, we could have had plenty of them, and they're significantly more effective, but there's no push.

It's weird. But the US is botching vaccine distribution, too, so at least it's consistent.

I'd call engineers underlings, too. It's more honest than "retail associate."

> who has not had many years of corporate experience

Once you have some experience, it's really nice to know you can get another job, what a good job looks like, have a green card, and have enough money saved up to be able to get out of a bad situation.