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Someone posted the internal version of it on Reddit. Not all orgs are eligible for VEP. And some are only partially eligible. So the 60,000 number is going to disproportionately hit certain parts of the company.

The interesting question is what it means for the ineligible part of the company. Are they simply going to get another iteration of VEP later, or are they going to be hit by brutal layoffs at some point in the near future?

I highly doubt it’s a factor. If we learned anything in the last 10 years, is that you can’t unflood the zone with facts. The administration is going to say what they are going to say and signal to their target audience. Corporations are going to do what they need to do. Their target audiences barely overlap.

It’s also possible that life in those countries used to be worse a decade or two back, so people left to seek opportunities elsewhere. And it’s possible that now life in some of those countries is good enough and provides good opportunities that there are not as many reasons to leave.

Plus, it’s objectively harder to get a work visa to the US now.

Is there a list you’d recommend? Or a good routes website for Japan or that area in particular?

This is not about AI. This is about human taste. AI generated the posters. But then a human looked at it and said “this looks great, I’ll take it”.

The same person would have taken the same design from a “designer” if they could afford it. So it doesn’t matter if it’s AI generated or not.

People who complain about this, should build a product that will use AI to develop human taste. That’d be a better use of energy.

> too busy, you have to look for information

Have you ever seen a bus schedule, or a parking sign, or a list of events at a local library or an “open hours” sign at a restaurant? Those are 99.9% unreadable, busy, and you have to look for information. And even then it’s not always clear if you got it right. And that was all before the AI.

Maybe GitHub? It’s not a “cloud repository”, but possibly referring to that. And I can see how “an authentication bug” could be due to their corp Apple account being disabled, but still somehow being able to log into GitHub.

Sam Harris discussed some people’s apparent inability to understand what meditation at the beginning of this podcast episode: https://overcast.fm/+ABSXUyW2VGI

I thought it was an interesting discussion.

It’s not to say that listing to it will help you or someone else to change anything about it. But it’s a known observed phenomenon that some people don’t get what meditation is and don’t get why would you do it.

Why wouldn’t the platforms require the identity of people cashing out more than, let’s say, $10k a year to be public? Or at least, require KYC level trail to cash out so it can be investigated later.

It protects 99% of people who want to have fun by losing money and prevents insider trading at no virtually no cost.

Glad to hear you’re feeling better! How did you find out the root cause and treatment?

Are they going to lock the fridge for 30 seconds each time you want to open it so that they make sure you finish watching the ad?

Unrelated to this article. But somewhat related to parts of the discussion here.

One (niche) way to overcome not being able to download books from Amazon anymore is to get ebooks from a library that supports Overdrive/libby. (Some of?) Those support downloading DRM files directly from the app, which you then can run through Adobe + Calibre. Obviously, this is contingent on book availability and your ability to get a proper library card. But works for me for 90% of the books that I need.

Didn’t you just describe an iPad? Unless you need your second Mac to run “normal” apps.

The title says “don’t avoid politics”. Then the content says “what you think is politics is bad politics”, so instead the author suggests how to do good politics.

Let’s apply the same structure to another important area of human relations: marriage. “Don’t be in a bad marriage — here’s how a good marriage looks like”.

Sounds great as a writing exercise. Unclear how applicable it is in most of people’s real life circumstances.

> Most bars and restaurants for that matter will not serve me because I do not speak Japanese, so they say

I’ve run into this a few times. And half of those times I was able to still get in by showing them a politely written message on the translate app saying that I am not going to require high maintenance and I can just use the translate app to communicate. And each time that happened, they were very generous hosts and both I and, it seems them, had a great time.

If you bought the place, isn’t that your property now?

Didn’t we have that experiment during Covid? A bunch of people got paid to stay at home, sometimes for 2 years. How many Grammy nominations since then have gotten to musicians that came out of that? A new face at the Oscars? MOMA exhibiting an artist that was a barista before the pandemic?

At least anecdotally, many people around me now have more children, on the other hand.

I’m pretty sure the author of the post would have had a similar trajectory had he been growing up now. People who are innately curious and self motivated will always find a Linux networking tutorial. Even if it comes in a form of a TikTok video and not a bunch of burned CDs.