LeoSolaris

"I never thought the leopards would eat my face. They are supposed to eat other people's faces, not mine!"

"Scientists" paid by oil companies are the marketing department in lab coats.

From the World Economic Forum: Antarctica is losing a staggering 150 billion tons of glacier ice a year, and this rate of ice loss is accelerating. The main cause is ocean warming, which not only melts the ice sheet directly, but also thins the floating ice shelves that hold the ice sheet on land. As the ice shelves lose strength, they allow more ice to flow into the sea, raising the sea level.

The sea ice that surrounds the continent has been shrinking since 2016. This winter’s maximum sea ice extent was 1.75 million km2 below the 1981-2010 average, which means that an area the size of Libya was effectively missing.

The air above Antarctica is also heating up, causing surface melting that can trigger the collapse of ice shelves. In March 2022, East Antarctica was hit by the most extreme heatwave ever recorded on Earth, with temperatures soaring 38℃ above normal. If this heatwave had occurred in the summer, temperatures above melting point would have been reached in the coldest place on the planet for the first time.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/11/antarctica-climate-c...

Because that doesn't sound like every dictatorship since the advent of the Internet.

How that reads: Microsoft wants to charge a recurring subscription and does not wish to retain customers who lack internet.

How's your level of false information? For instance, if I ask about highly technical specifics, such as how load bearing architecture works or a tutorial on loop quantum gravity, will your LLM fabricate information or are sources easily available for the presented facts?

Personally, I would be very interested if the system provides a simple method of fact checking.

Labor prices need a surge, especially interns.

In that case, it is time for regulators to step in to use the Tesla charger design as the basis for an industrial standard that anyone can build, like USB 3.1 or RJ-45.

The constant "As I'll talk about later" thing makes my eye twitch. Either talk about it when you bring it up or save it for later. If you do talk about it, you can always add more details later that would not have initially made sense.

An increase in homelessness and drug addicts could easily be explained by people travelling to Oregon for treatment. This is not the sort of thing that "public perception" is particularly good at understanding. Changes like this take time. Effectiveness needs to be measured by hard data, not opinion polls.

By the way, for your air example: compressed air would be an example of value over the naturally abundant resource. Profit on one of those little cans of air used to clean your keyboard is the "value capture".

Water, on the other hand, is a municipal resource that is supported through taxation. The private companies that handle most of the work are highly regulated because clean water is considered a public good. Bottled water through private companies does have a staggeringly high profit margin.

Software isn't static nor does it exist on it's own. You're not paying for the current version. You're paying for support, security patches, and for the next versions to be written. In the case of software services, you're also paying for administration, active network security, networking, and hardware operations.

Software is a lot like art or literature. The creator needs to be able to live in order to continue creating. Otherwise updates, new versions, and new creations become highly irregular or utterly non-existent.

Profit extracted from companies over the cost of business exist because that is how all businesses function. Profit is literally the point of capitalism. Investment in companies would not happen without the promise of a return. Even the smallest of businesses would not be possible without profit.

For a non-tech example, eggs don't cost $3.99 per dozen to produce. Eggs are expensive because of an extremely high profit margin. Is it justified? Price gouging? Currently there is no hard rule that differentiates the two.

Whether or not there should be a profit percentage cap is an entirely different conversation and not unique to tech. Personally, I think there should be a maximum amount of profit expressed as a percentage of unit cost that should be legal. Further, I think that an equal percentage of the unit cost should always be applied to wage increases equally across the company for non-management roles. Management should be paid out of the extracted profit percentage.

ZFS is stable and solid. It's hold up is licensing. ZFS isn't licensed in a way that can be included in the Linux kernel distribution.

Plus, my understanding is that Linus Torvalds has a dislike of ZFS because it came from Sun Microsystems.

Source: Fox News' Tucker Carlson

0% Credibility

Might be a translation error. "Mad" in the US isn't considered the opposite of smart. It is the opposite of "peaceful" or "sane". You're original title implied that AI proponents are either insane or in a rage. (Or both)

Crypto has always been libertarian, which is a sub-branch of republican. It was never liberal or democratic leaning in the slightest. It's just a techno-fancy remix of the libertarian fixation on the gold standard.

Yeah... Right. It has nothing to do with the extremely low pay, terrible management, psycho customers with no support against customer abuses, frequent changes in hours, a lack of pay stability, seeing new people starting wages above trained staff wages, finally having an employee market for the first time in decades to give them options...

None of that is a factor at all. It's all those thieves that the employees rarely ever see taking things that don't matter to the employees. Uh huh...

No one in retail in a corporate store cares at all about theft. Theft is written off of the corporate taxes. Theft saves more in taxes than the items stolen are worth to the company. The company writes off the retail price while only paying the wholesale price. Corporations don't really care if the item is stolen or sold. They get their profit from the item either way.

Look up a basic tutorial for BASH programming. It should be pretty easy to set up with an IF statement and a Greater Than comparison.

Good. I would have hated to see an nascent chip technology killed off by legacy players before it has a chance to put out more than a few dev boards.

You might want to get into Open Source. You can build your backend programming skill set and your portfolio with meaningful patches to projects that are used by companies around the world.

Fight Club stole the rules from Usenet.

Wow, that sounds like something rather dangerous and underhanded is going on.

SWE's actually build the systems that their businesses use to do business, and are paid accordingly. Without them, companies would not be as competitive. IT centered companies in particular would go out of business. Software businesses literally only exist to support software engineers, much like architecture firms exist solely for supporting architects. That is why good architects make a lot of money and why good software engineers make a lot of money.

Hardware based businesses, like building bridges, are paying engineers for designs, not fully functional products. You're comparing apples to oranges in comparing mechanical or electrical engineering to software engineering. In hardware businesses that do not directly profit from software, the pay for a software engineer is more in line with other engineers.

Top software talent will always command a major premium and will be required by software companies. But otherwise yes, it is entirely possible that SV talent will see a 10%-15% drop in pay to work remotely somewhere cheaper to live.

I put together a small garden and have painted several canvases.

Correlation does not equal causation... even if it's causation that would make sense.

Looking at your stats, I would suggest that you are looking at this in the wrong way. You need more users in general. Having more women during growth is a positive. The population will naturally reflect the remote worker with time as you become more popular.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a sizable difference in the genders of remote workers.

Likely not.

Faith is emotional and traditions based.

Data requires reasoning and logic, as well as allowing changes that conflict with tradition.

This struggle has been occurring in some form since at least the dawn of writing, though likely much longer.

Theoretically, free colleges would eliminate 90% of the colleges. Only the high end, Ivy League, and exclusive colleges would be able to survive as private paid colleges. There wouldn't be much of a point to cost saving or tuition sharing colleges if state run colleges were free.

I feel like this should be an obviously true statement. It would be inordinately improbable to be good at something complex that one doesn't understand.

Education is the only cure.