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So that your escape money doesn’t get eaten away by inflation. You could put it in a low-ish risk portfolio composed of some bonds, indexes, etc so that it continues to make some amount of money.
Outcompete in what sense? Certainly more working can lead to more of something, but I’m not sure we all agree on what that something is, and whether or not all of it is valuable (or even whether a significant amount is something to avoid).
I did biphasic sleep in high school (1.5h nap at 16:30, 4.5h sleep at 2:00) for my junior and part of senior year, and it was incredible. It allowed me to do nearly all of my homework right when it was assigned while also having time for my hobbies. Starting the homework right after the nap was great for focus and productivity.
I have often wondered what the best way to communicate things like that is, because of this exact problem.
It seems like you really can’t win, if you’re the one doing the messaging, trading results now against trust later.
The implicit threat of loss of funding and/or access is often enough to sway editorial decisions in a way that could appear like direct control.
This sounds like a healthy perspective and I appreciate you acknowledging that having kids might not be for everyone, as someone who is leaning that way myself. Thank you.
Linus Sebastian from Linus Media Group has said somewhere that a YouTube premium viewer is worth several times as much as an ad-supported viewer apparently. Apologies for no citation on this.
Link seems to be broken ?
I understand you don’t agree with the cheaper cars argument, and I don’t either.
To the people that would seriously make this argument though, I ask them this:
If the location or other telemetry data is so valuable that the manufacturer selling it can have a real impact on the purchase price of the car, then doesn’t that value have to come from somewhere? Other companies wouldn’t buy that data if they didn’t think they could use it to make more money than the data is worth. That money the data buyers then are hoping to make would come from the very people that the data did, in most cases, right? So the consumer has ended up with less money compared to if they didn’t have their data sold, even if they got some trinkets in return.
It seems like consequences are the only language that bad actors understand, unfortunately.
You’d be surprised what modern neodymium drivers in a well designed enclosure can accomplish bass-wise. Though you are right in that the laws of physics have not changed, and something has to give, usually what has “given” is the increase in power output of small amplifier boards, thus allowing DIYers (like myself) and manufacturers alike to throw more power into lower efficiency, but higher mass (and thus more bass in a smaller enclosure) drivers.
With Hoffman’s iron law where you can have two of efficient, low, or small, it seems like efficiency is what has gone down to get more bass extension while keeping enclosures small-ish.
I’d be happy to provide photos+construction details of one of the portable speakers I made, and frequency response measurements if you’d like, to illustrate this.
I’m not sure this idea is all that they’re marketing it as.
Here’s a video discussing the drawbacks [0], the guy doing the video can be kind of abrasive at times but worth watching/skimming as a counterpoint.
[0]: https://youtu.be/NIhCuzxNvv0
Another great reason I want to continue working remote: Why would I want to leak any information in my body language to coworkers or management?
I have no idea what they are going to do with said information, and the fact that I'm not already saying whatever it is my body language is communicating means that I would not like to supply it.
Agreed. I'm not having kids and trying not to get too down on the daily about the future of our species. Based on what I know about human nature I see almost no realistic way out of this without some sort of technological deus-ex-machina to come and save us.
Before I turned that on, watching BBC documentaries in 25 FPS the judder was very noticeable on panning shots. Definitely worth enabling if your device supports it.
Your tax dollars as a wealthy individual also pay for the police forces to keep the less wealthy people from coming and just taking your property, as they might in a state with zero taxes and thus zero public services, without you spending extra money to hire security who would be loyal only to your dollar and who you couldn’t trust not to turn on you in an instant since it might just have no consequences for them without a judicial system.
I saw an insurance company claiming that it uses satellite imagery (among other things) to “provide cheaper insurance” to homeowners.
Not sure if what they really mean is that they are trying to more accurately price it; who knows what unknown behavior might increase your premium since it’s associated with more claims... e.g. friends come over too often making too many cars parked? Higher premium.
The market is also distorted by us humans' inelastic demand for food and housing, which means sometimes sellers can charge higher prices for things such as these that people cannot go without if they don't like the price.
I'm not sure if UBI would help reduce that distortion or not, but ideally it would be nice to have a consequence be that participation in markets and in transactions (such as housing) is more voluntary.
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Though transformers only work with AC.
Mildly related, here’s another instance of harmful things you can buy on Amazon: “negative ion” trinkets that are actually radioactive [1].
[1]: https://youtu.be/C7TwBUxxIC0
Sounds about right to me. The book The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris discusses this phenomenon r.e. people need to feel the best at something so they pick ever smaller niches or hobbies where they can finally compete at a level where they have a chance to get to the top.
I would recommend the book as a whole, it has a lot of other interesting info in it too.
I appreciated your original comment for the reasons you listed in this one. +1
Is a phone number really required to sign up?
The author of redux-form created another library, final-form, that doesn’t need redux or react and has most of the features of redux form and has built in lessons he learned from writing redux-form. There’s a separate React-final-form package with easy React bindings as well if you’re using them together. It’s worth a look as well (I’ve used both).
If anyone wants to try a demonstration of sonar on their own laptop and learn how it works along the way by coding part of it, one of the classes I took and later graded labs for has a Jupyter notebook you can download for Lab 1: Laptop Sonar here:
https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee123/sp18/labs.htmlIt is an assignment but I promise it’s fun :)
You’ll want to have the appropriate anaconda installed for python 2.7 to be able to run it, and pyaudio.
edit: clarification