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Surely there will be a tipping point when human drivers are considered riskier than AI drivers. It seems far in the future, but it's probably not when you consider all of the human errors made every day.

Not that anyone cares about that, of course, because agency is preferred over outcome.

Also, it's super annoying that now I need multiple addons (bypass-paywalls-clean, ublock origin, and 'i don't care about cookies') just to browse basic blogs these days without jumping through hoops.

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of All You Need Is Considered Harmful for Fun and Profit"

Is there a way to read the full article?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...

There's a version for Chrome also. On Android, I use that extension with Fennec from F-Droid.

Also I did SF->Florida and looked at a bunch of regions. St Petersburg sounds like the type of town you'd like.

It is.

Blizzard has been using it for years: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader

This company is new and is using it as a CDN: https://www.peer5.com/

Bittorrent is everywhere, just like Linux, and you mostly don't notice it.

What do you mean, could be? https://instant.io/ is just one of many webtorrent sites that do this. It's a wonderful use of bittorrent.

If there's a Holy Inquisition coming, it's not bad advice to become notionally Catholic for however long it lasts.

As a practical matter, you'd have to be insane to be espousing very unpopular views under the same name you use for employment.

If I do something outside of work in a public way, and a significant percentage of coworkers find it objectionable, it will shrink my professional network and make building relationships more difficult. Nobody wants to work with someone they find morally repulsive. There's no legal recourse available for this.

Also, from my coworkers' point of view, I'm the one causing the workplace to be unpleasant, and they might start a campaign to have me removed.

From my employer's point of view, I've done some action outside of work that's caused a problem, and now we have a problem at work. That means I've caused a problem at work.

If I can be terminated without legal risk, my employer can terminate me to satisfy the other coworkers.

If I can't be terminated legally, then I can be sidelined, put on a PIP, and eventually forced out of the organization. There's unlikely to be any legal recourse available to me if this is done correctly with good documentation.

Maybe employment shouldn't work this way, but it does.

I don't see how that is hard to understand.

For a growing percentage of the workplace, knowing that a coworker has a socially unacceptable opinion is creating a hostile work environment.

I completely understand where you're coming from, but you're literally wrong. If you don't want to be shunned from society, don't be identified as someone who does socially unacceptable things.

I'm not super keen on how this is all shaking out either, but it's pretty obvious how to avoid problems at this point.

In practice, most FE jobs consist of a designer that produces mocks in Figma or InDesign or similar, then you as the engineer take those mocks and make JS+CSS out of it.

As for what the designers do, it's mostly copying ideas from popular apps and tweaking it to appease the product people, who are requesting changes to appease leadership.

At the time, "second screen" was the term I heard used for those types of experience. The only prominent example I can think of these days is kahoot, which is only sort of the same idea.

I steam clean it (hot water + hot pan + stiff brush), then back on the stove to dry off and apply a light layer of avocado oil.

Leave it shiny on your stove and ready for next use.

The important thing with cast iron is to clean it immediately, before you've started eating. But this is actually pretty easy because steam cleaning is so effective and cast iron is really durable.

It takes about 30 seconds to clean it and rub with oil.

That would be nice, but the real answer is to make it easier to work without a degree.

Most people aren't really there for a liberal arts education; they're there to try and secure future employment.

Trevor's thesis is here: "Set aside motives and intentions, just look at technology, technology alone ... If you are in a fight where the other person cannot beat you, how hard should you retaliate when they try to hurt you? ... When you have this much power, what is your responsibility?"

To arrive at this question, he judges the conflict in absolute numbers dead and injured on both sides, and concludes that because more Palestinians are harmed than Israelis, Israel should show more restraint.

I understand his point, but I don't know if I would want my government to show restraint if rockets were landing in my city. I would probably want the enemy thoroughly destroyed so that I could feel safe. "But don't kill too many of them!" would not be my first thought.

Similarly, if a much stronger enemy was raiding my villages and taking my land, I would probably want generations of insurgency to make them pay for the harm they've done. "Make sure those rockets only hit military targets!" would not be my first thought.

I think having a measured response to your home being attacked is too much to ask for humans.

Yes, I've conflated the idea of "needing" something with the idea of "deserving" something.

For example, some people need food, but they don't deserve it just because they're alive. We call that hunger.

Other people need housing, but they don't deserve it just because they're alive. We call that homelessness.

Some need sex, but they don't deserve it just because they're alive. We call those people incels.

You might be confused because Maslow thought sex was on the same level as food and sleep.

Of course, today, the idea that men need sex simply because they are alive is repulsive.

I know you're being sarcastic, but that sort of is the whole game, isn't it?

That's actually a good habit to build.

Here's a windows utility you might find useful: https://github.com/susam/uncap

And here's an editor that's accommodating to your newly trained typing skills ;) https://www.vim.org/

Protip: remap capslock to escape. It's supported in the OS settings.

That's how lo-fi gets produced.

This is one of the more popular tools for that job: https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_fx/effect/rc-20_...

That's funny because I just assumed Elon found another old and inefficient monopoly to disrupt.

It's on linux too. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/vfio.html

Really, i wonder why social media hasn't figured out a way to have meaningful microtransactions yet.

That is what's happening. It's a strip club model where the biggest tippers get the most attention. It is super effective, at least for live streams (see: all of twitch, every adult cam site).

If someone wanted to monetize this with static content, you could probably get people to pay for comment responses from content creators, but I haven't seen that done yet.

^^ That is all very much correct.

I don't understand why anyone but a retiree would move there.

Taxes and cost of living.

The problem with FL real estate is that flood zones and old construction are everywhere. You probably don't want to buy a house in a flood zone. Also, because hurricane codes were updated recently, you want to buy something recent-ish, definitely nothing older than 2002. The windows in my place are rated for a Category 5, and I'm at 50ft above sea level.

In most of Florida, Sarasota included, if you go with a traditional home, you'll want newer construction in a community. The HOA takes care of all the outside stuff like landscaping, so it's pretty much condo living except without shared walls. All the houses look similar.

The HOAs usually maintain some kind of "activity center" where you'll have a gym, pool, common area, tennis courts, etc. Again, it's pretty much like living in an SF condo, except instead of all that stuff being downstairs, it's down the street, and much larger.

If you prefer to live in an actual condo, there's plenty of those too with a walk-able downtown area, but I like not having shared walls. Also downtown is in a flood zone, so you might need to evacuate if we get a bad enough hurricane. I wouldn't be too concerned about flooding if I was buying several stories up though.

As for internet, frontier offers decent symmetric fiber (previously fios). I'm on gigabit with them and it's been fine. It's in most of the area.

Also, as a rule of thumb, you want to buy when a new community is just getting started or just finishing up. You'll get a better deal if you're one of the last houses before they shut down the sales office, or if you're one of the first to buy. Construction takes 8-12 months usually, but it's perfectly fine to have the house built while you're remote. I lived nearby with family while mine was being built, and me walking the construction site periodically wasn't particularly useful.

Hope that helps! Happy to answer any other questions you might have.

Howdy neighbor! I also work for an SF company everyone knows about and I moved to Sarasota a couple of years ago. It's the best financial decision I've ever made. Your analysis is spot on, and the Amish food is amazing.

Also, I'm a night owl and now I can work from like 12pm-9pm. Working on west coast time while living on the east coast is a major life improvement for me.

If anyone is considering moving to FL and buying property, Sarasota is the obvious choice. The amount of construction going on here is incredible. I wouldn't buy anywhere else in Florida.

I also looked into Austin TX and Vancouver WA as possible destinations, but the real estate values seemed more predicable in Sarasota. If you get in at the beginning of a construction project here, you're pretty much assured to make money. I bought my house as new construction at the start of a new development and it was worth more than I paid by the time construction was complete.

If someone is considering moving to FL but wants more of that "tech city" vibe, you can rent a really nice place up in St Pete where there's much more happening, but I wouldn't buy there because the whole thing is a flood zone.

At the risk of being offtopic, this is exactly the type of pedantry that keeps me coming back here.

Personally I don't see the problem for the USA, if people are happy being unhealthy then let them be unhealthy.

They're not happy. They're suffering and helpless. That's the problem.

I guess this is what algorithmic trading looks like?

Is there a guide to all this sort of stuff? What do tell the newbies? It's really hard to find good information about trading of the enormous amount of spam out there.

If the currency increases in value 7% in a month, should I not decrease your pay proportionally?

The problem you're describing is really nothing new. It sounds like you're just very used to thinking in USD. People all over the world do hedges to control for exactly this risk.

If you want to tether wages to USD, you can use USDC instead of BTC. Also you can pay those wages with such low transaction costs that you could pay by the day instead of by the week or month, using current technology.

Pretty soon the transaction costs will be low enough that you can pay those wages continuously. Eliminating the idea of a "pay day" is a great social good IMO.

On the other side, the receiving party can spend their funds in "USD" with a crypto-backed credit card that draws against their USDC balance.

It's a "fixed supply" of something that's very divisible. The media loves the fixed supply narrative, but it's really not important. Other coins have permanently inflating supplies and their charts mostly match the bitcoin chart.

The real gift of bitcoin is that it jump-started a wave of innovation by birthing "cryptocurrency". Once people saw that money would flow into bitcoin, people started new projects to try out all the other now-obvious ideas for cryptocurrencies. People want to build important things.

If you're thinking of bitcoin in the mindset of beanie babies or building a better credit card, then you may have missed the bigger thing that's happening. It's becoming obvious, to me at least, that cryptocurrency is trending in a direction where it will profoundly disrupt any industry that uses the internet, beginning with finance.

Also, I've been following this thread, and you should probably re-read all of vmception's comments. IMO he's right about some important stuff that your replies suggest you may be missing.