magicnubs

YoY change in jobs is still probably not the best way to visualize overall market health. As you say, you also have to take into account the number of people of fill the jobs. To me it seems like the least misleading statistics would be a graph showing unemployment and underemployment % over time. I'd probably also toss in graphs of length of unemployment period as well as various median wage percentiles (quintiles or deciles maybe) over time.

It all comes down to glutamate and gaba again. It's been really interesting to see how fundamental these two molecules are as I have learned more about medical biology/neurology. They are implicated in so many medical and psychiatric conditions, yet you tend to hear much more about the monoamine transmitters (serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, etc). But they are also hard to target for therapeutic purposes because gabaergics (barbituates, alcohol, z-drugs, etc) are often dangerously addictive; gaba just feels good... until the bill comes due. Maybe someday we will find a way to upregulate gaba activity in the body/brain without the inevitable crash. Hopefully we will, at least for the sake of people that suffer from over/under-excitatatory diseases.

Agreed. The child prodigy is overvalued in popular perception. It is a subject of fascination precisely because it is uncommon. Most really great work is done by people with plenty of experience; it's just not that interesting when an experienced person does good work.

Same. I've been explicitly told "Neutral Face. Don't smile." for my passport and driver's licenses in NC, FL and CA (Redwood City too).

I wonder what everyone else thinks about this claim made by the article:

The enduring strength of a state-dominated Chinese system that can pivot, change policy and redirect resources at will in service of long-term national strength is now undeniable, regardless of whether free-market advocates like it.

The writer claims that a command economy gives them an advantage over a free market economy. Top-down production targets and price controls didn't really work for the Soviet Union, but maybe the more immediately-available and granular data available nowadays makes it feasible? The US already has a way to encourage production through various methods (e.g. subsidies). It seems to me the real difference is not the economic system, but that the Chinese government is less beholden to existing interests (that aren't the CCP). The US seems to often be unable or unwilling to accept the temporary pain of a big change, even if it would be better off in the long-term.

There do seem to be parallels to America's rise to the dominant global power. In particular, they have so much of the global manufacturing infrastructure, like the US did after WW2 destroyed much of Europe's, and I don't see a way for the US to compete with China's cheap labor and agglomeration economies. And they are generating more and more of the research in high-value sectors, kind of like the US scooping up all of the physicists during the war.

There are other roadblocks that the US didn't have to be sure, their very top-heavy population pyramid and they have less arable land (which probably doesn't matter so much except in wartime or as a national security concern). It still feel like the only things that might derail the current trends are internal social unrest or a major war.

The lectures and assignments for Oregon State's CS475 (Parallel Programming) are all available online. [0] There are lectures [1] and a project [2] about SIMD. I really enjoyed the entire course as a survey of parallel and high-performance computing. The full course covers multi-processing, multi-threading, caching, SIMD, GPUs (CUDA and OpenCL) and MPI. The projects are in C/C++ (along with OpenMP, CUDA and OpenCL). FYI, I think the last two projects use some large research GPU bank that you have to have special access to use, so you'd be out of luck on implementing the projects for those.

[0] https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/cs575/ [1] https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_7wju0jtq [2] https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/cs575/Projects/proj04....

I'm reading elsewhere that this may not be true?

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6928529...

Thunder-cougar-falcon-bird?

The drums of the 24 m analog calculators are of course not 24 m long.

I was disappointed

religious intake of ~3 litres (250 ml per kg)

Intake of what? (I'm guessing water?)

Seconding this. It's been like night-and-day since I started using a CPAP.

Gabe Newell just applied for NZ citizenship as well

I was surprised to learn this too!

Looks like they were only married for around 8 years (1957 to 1965), so they divorced before he was really famous. Maybe that's why it's not more widely known?

It could also be both; not because someone recognized him, but still because of who he is (non-random). Maybe he was just said some neo-nazi shit to the wrong person.

My dad (in his 50s but in great health/shape) got a flu around the same time that you did, and had similar problems. Felt flu-y for 3-4 weeks, and then for months afterward he felt weak, had an elevated heartrate, and would get winded walking up his driveway. After a few months the VA finally saw him and they put him on a beta-blocker, which helped. It really reminded me that a random fluke illness can put you down for months. We tend to think of illness as a binary; it's either something quick that you get over in a few days, or something chronic that you will have for the rest of your life. Maybe we should be thinking of viral infections more like we do orthopedic (or psychological) injuries: something that you can adapt to and mostly recover from pretty acutely, but you might need to take it easy on that bum shoulder and it might flare up occasionally.

The Japanese companies earn very low returns on equity. They have a bunch of businesses that earn 4, 5, 6% on equity and it is very hard to earn a lot as an investor when the business you are in doesn't earn very much money.

Not sure I understand what he meant there. 4-6% seems perfectly fine if your loan is for 1%? Why isn't 4-6% enough to pursue?

Many colleges are trying this now, at least near where I am in the Triangle region of North Carolina (Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State). They call them "flip(ped) classes".

I'm not sure where you live, but my experience has been the complete opposite. When I was a poor working kid nearly every other poor kid I knew in high school started working at 16. Some of my friends from wealthy families did as well, but not nearly as many and usually only during the summer and not during the school year. Most did not have their first job (not including internships) until after college.

I'm not sure I understand. SEC employees are being secretly trained to destroy it from within?

We're you referring to pallets used in warehouses/shipping? I think they're using a different definition, i.e. "a straw-filled tick or mattress", "a small, hard or temporary bed".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallet

Someone I know is a post-delivery (or "mother+baby" nurse) who just had a baby a few weeks ago. The most recent guidance is that one weak drink in a day is probably fine and the best time to have one is near the end of a feeding session. The alcohol won't have time to make it into the milk, and it gives your body time to clear the alcohol from your bloodstream before the next feeding. But you specifically shouldn't drink for at least ~2 hours before a feeding.

That said, I don't think she's drinking right now at all, just in case. Even if the alcohol clears from your bloodstream in a few hours, I would be surprised if the lingering metabolites and effect on one's endocrine system didn't effect the contents of the milk somehow.

There are tons of bacteria that are either neutral, good for you, or that you even *need". You just only hear about the ones that are bad for us, because they are comparitively rare.

I read recently that NY was the state where the highest number of people moving to Raleigh were coming from as well. The migration seems real from over here.

Three times in the past year, I've had packages marked as "Delivered at/in mailbox" that weren't actually delivered until 2-3 days later. The most recent was particularly worrying, since it contained my new passport (which I'd already been waiting on for 5 months since passport processing had mostly been shut down due to COVID). This was at different addresses, with different local USPS destination facilities.

It seems they're aware that it's an issue, since it says in their FAQ "package may show as 'delivered' but could take additional 24 hours". I assume it happens when they get behind somehow and just mark a lot of stuff delivered to meet their metrics.

True, but I don't think the average person back then had much idle time either.

I think this gets to the heart of it. The people hanging out in the cages in the article were not the average person. They were almost invariably well-to-do people who didn't need to work for a living. Free time and some security from harm against potential failures (or wastes of time) are two ingredients for innovation. The majority of our technological innovators come from priveleged backgrounds, for that reason (in addition to money granting them access to the right education, networks and technology).

We were talking about what Chinese emigrants can get inside China, so they probably mean that Chinese nationals (usually) wouldn't be subject to racism themselves.

It could easily still be luck if they bought Tesla or TECL 3 years ago and that is where their 4x return came from.

Regardless, even if you have a strategy that works for now, that doesn't mean it will continue to work forever. Anyone investing that isn't an expert in a particular industry in which they trade is basically just guessing. Any insight they have will almost invariably already be priced in.

Something about Tiktok, whether the algorithm or the sheer volume of content, seems to discourage the sort of look-at-me envy-bait narcissistic posturing that is so common on Instagram.

I haven't used Tiktok, but from what I understand you can only post videos taken using the phone's camera and they can only be edited using whatever filters are available within the app, effectively limiting how manipulated or manufactured the content can be. Sort of like a Snapchat for videos (with the caveat that you can save and post videos at a later time in Tiktok, whereas with Snapchat it's "now or never"). Coupled with not having an associated text component where you can easily post testimonials and links to a site where you're selling a self help book, get rich quick scheme, juice cleanse or gym routine, it should limit how easy it is to use it as a promotion platform.

In the first month and a half as a paid app, its been able to generate $42 in sales!

At one point in June I even made it to #7 on the list of top paid news apps!!!

So being #7 for sales in a whole category on Apple's all store (famously the easier market in which to make money as compared to Android) means only $42 in sales? Are the economics of making apps really this tough?

Maybe that's why everyone just tries to make a game app? Is that the only way to make money?