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Re: extremely lavish

Is probably extremely boring - I have never had more fun than when solving problems, life without working on something interesting sounds insufferable to me

How long would I be able to sit on Maui sipping Mai-Tais? Getting massages, ... and more ... whatever I want, whenever I want it ... that is a curse actually.

Surrounded by fake people everyone wanting a piece of the wealth trickle down to them.

On a personal experience, I was a lot happier when I bought my first house, a rundown estate that was the cheapest on the street that then I had to work to improve upon it, ended up replacing most inside and out, some parts I learned to do myself - I ended up remodeling it piecemeal but so, so satisfying

My second house is very respectable, newer, larger, technically incomparably better, it is not even the same ballpark ... yet my new house never provided me with the same joy.

Be careful what you wish for.

I believe that the author misremembers the common solution for the first question

3 hens lay 3 eggs in 3 days. How many eggs do 12 hens give in 12 days?

[...] When we got to it, everybody shouted "Three!"

I don't see why the "common" wrong answer would be 3. Why would anybody think that? The problem looks like this 3, 3 -> 3

When we see the 12 and 12 the intuitive, common, wrong answer should be 12 eggs.

That's what makes sense IMHO.

I am trying to read the numbers but not sure I can validate whether the title is true or not.

The post is going to be great in figuring out who is reading the content and who is just "reacting"

Of course that everyone can be conned,

but smart people are more resistant - for the mere fact that they probably know more and are better versed in the goings of life -

I am surprised that anyone would think otherwise.

Millions of dollars flow to an organization headed by a convicted fraudster ... rest assured there are much more efficient ways to divert those funds than workshops

If anything the workshops are legit front.

It is because the person is evidently a con-man.

So it is not as much "interesting" but "illuminating" that supposedly smart people like scientists can be just as easily mislead as the random person responding to an email scam.

Almost certainly is all about money.

How would you know how the millions of dollars sent to the organization are being spent?

For starters he is impersonating another director of the organization - right there probably pulling in two leadership salaries for a start. How many other fake employees are there?

Then he is most likely the sole decider on how that money is spent ... the article shows that he is a convicted grifter that spent time in jail for fleecing people ...

First the argument that we failed to automate it hence it is expensive is feels specious.

But let's accept it at face value. And now take it all the way. Suppose you reject 15 papers for every single one accepted.

And suppose that accepted pays $3K

So what costs $200 per rejection?

What is that work that you need to put in that adds up to costing $200 per rejection? Or $300 or $500?

In my experience at least half (if not more) of the rejections come right from the editorial desk ... someone spending 5 minutes with the paper.

how about the current era, where every human generates thousands of photos per year ... is that a history worth remembering and will it help where we've come from?

I am not saying to not study history, I am saying storing everything is probably worse than storing half of it.

Also it's a weird idea that we should forget things so that someone later can feel special when they do it again. Really weird.

What would you think of a service, that when you take a photograph that is beautiful, unique and moving for you and say you want to share it with someone else - would pop in and would should an image just like it - only a better with some additional elements that make it even more breathtaking - taken by someone else and would recommend you to send that

wouldn't you prefer to have your own emotions?

Imagine that Mona Lisa was lost shortly after its creation ... do you think we would not have something else like Mona Lisa in its place?

Society created the value of Mona Lisa out of nothing. It is not such a unique thing - there are tens of thousands of paintings that could be just as valuable.

It is the safest bet for someone you don't know much about.

Much above reliability (that everyone wants) with tradeoffs (that we are unable to judge for others)

Remembering the past does not mean remember every single pointless thing.

Lots of things in the past were not worth the paper they were printed on.

Is it really a big deal that some really old movies are lost ... sorry but I just don't see why ...

I wish lots of content disappeared - in the past the passage of time was a way to filter for quality, because we only bothered to preserve something worth preserving.

Forgetting is also a gift - it is is foolish to think that you have to preserve everything.

I think it is a much bigger problem that too much of today's photos and videos are preserved.

Every phenomenal photo of a sunset takes away the future generation's credit when recreating an identically phenomenal sunset.

The current archival processes are something so radically new, we don't yet understand how it shapes society.

It is bullshit because it only works in theory, the big refrigerator will crush the tiny fly ... in reality the fly escapes with ease

the bullshit part refers to just that, pretending that the refrigerator could be an appropriate good solution, when in fact can't actually even perform the task

my thoughts exactly, the whole post has a whiff of passive aggressive attitude,

all the names and accusations, it reflects extraordinarily badly on the writer, primarily

goes to show that intelligent people with hurt feelings are doing idiotic things and end up harming themselves just to "get back" to the other side

I don't doubt that you think nothing was left out ... but I am sure the other side thinks differently.

Are return receipts still a thing?

I have turned off those by default and would never return one - unless I was a candidate and really needed a job :-)

But for a candidate to be harrasing me about a return receipt ... good riddance friend

I read the post, it seems someone cancelled a meeting and the candidate got a little antsy, then started using a type of language that scared off the employer.

Nothing in the posts seems extremely outrageous to me, they could have been nicer to him ... but let's be serious.

As a matter of fact, after reading the post I would not hire this candidate either - to be honest. Something feels very odd -like essential information has been left out.

He seems like someone that thinks very highly of themselves, always a bad sign.

In a realistic use cases (unlike the ones in the test) the hard drives are accessed very often.

For anything by very light use, I would expect the drives to be written just about at all times.

FYI in scientific publishing there is an entire subculture of publishing expensive books >$150 - with mostly useless content that one can read for free in published papers.

Scientists write them for free, to embellish their resumes (often their grad students do the work) - the publisher sells a thousand copies, mostly to libraries across the world.

Rinse and repeat.

Bard is a better search engine. A really good one at that. But it is the same old thing - only much better.

It lacks the spirit, sparkle, the pizzaz and surprising "intelligence" of ChatGPT.

The service, if released before ChatGPT, would not have made the splash ChatGPT did.

When it comes to the Iraq War, according to the Wikipedia, and let me quote it

"An estimated 151,000 to 1,033,000 Iraqis died in the first three to five years of conflict."

Then that famous video of "Madeleine Albright Saying Iraqi Kids' Deaths 'Worth It'" talked about half million children.

https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...

which was an illegal thing to do

fighting an illegal thing with another illegal thing is not the way to proceed

if a convoy blocks the way, go disperse the convoy,

they did the illegal account freezing to avoid "looking bad".

If your personal account is frozen you could still work for someone else and ask them to pay you cash. Yes, reduces you options, but you still have options.

Ergo you can still make a living.

And if cash is a valid form a payment you can pay your mortgage with it.

See how simple it all is?

The "golden era" of the "Programmer" at the top of the food chain is probably over.

And all that entails is over. A whole lot of software exists only because programmers were able to call the shots: i.e. the endless supply of javascript frameworks etc

We outline a comprehensive set of hypotheses for why current COVID-19 vaccine policies may prove to be both counterproductive and damaging to public health. Our framework synthesizes insights from behavioural psychology (reactance, cognitive dissonance, stigma, and distrust), politics and law (effects on civil liberties, polarization, and global governance), socio-economics (effects on inequality, health system capacity and social wellbeing) and the integrity of science and public health (the erosion of public health ethics and regulatory oversight).

The lead author of the study I have cited has spoken, he said the following:

https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/exclusive-lead-author-...

JEFFERSON: Well, it’s an update from our November 2020 review and the evidence really didn't change from 2020 to 2023.

There’s still no evidence that masks are effective during a pandemic.

Do you still maintain that the cited work is not explicitly saying that there is no evidence that masks work?

I find the logic a bit strained,

get a loan -> buy NFT -> sell NFT cycle was sustained by 1000% rises in the NFT prices, not by the 0% interest rates of the loans.

Hence my incredulity towards the claim that 0% interest caused the NFT boom.

I don't follow how 0% interests rates caused the NFT boon.

Does the author imply that if the interest rates fell back to 0% the NFTs would take off again? I have hard time believing that.

Notably the author misses the main effect of 0% interest rates: cheap mortgages that drive up home prices.

if it is ad-supported then you "bought and paid for" that content, no?

so in that case it wouldn't be unfair ... :-)

did the ChatGPT pay for the content it is using? that was the original question...