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If I’m getting my work done, they have no reason to complain.

Essays were always shit. People had others write them, parents, etc.

It should be interviews and fewer people should go in the first place.

No basically all Linux uses gnu Coreurils as a foundation and is therefore best called gnu+Linux. There’s a great RMS rant about this , it’s what the title is referring to.

Siren noises and airhorns and generally post-ironic soundboard noises. Like remember DJs in the early 2000s? When the radio sounded like

(Tires screeching) Husky overly excited voice: you’re listening (Siren blaring) To the one and only (Red tailed hawk screech) (Machine gun noises) 97.4 (Dog barking) (mgm lion roar) KZRL “Krazy” FM (Choir sings hallelujah) Your one-stop-shop for hits from the 70s and 80s (Chorus from “don’t you forget about me” plays) (Guitar solo from Panama)

All those stupid noises are great when they get shoved into mid 2010s dubstep music, and when they are put into SoundCloud mashups.

Makes me want to dm but I don’t know how and don’t know how I’d organize my friends

Import vs export economy.

It would get me through less than one month

Less than 10k savings would mean I’d be basically on the streets if I lose my job

Null models for weighted bipartite networks, and why people choose dumb network summary stats because they are lazy

Linguistics and the prescriptive bias of assuming a word’s meaning based on its blatant etymology

How skill makes games less fun and we need to embrace more chance in board games and video games

How cool it would be if we wrapped copper wire around the moon and used the earth-moon system as a huge electrical generator

Trains are awesome and we should have more of them

I used to like them, but then a month or two ago they ran an op ed on their front page that was basically “how dare you teach my children that gays exist, that violates my religious freedoms, we don’t have gays where I come from”.

On the front page.

How about $12 billion to build subways And trolleys

“We killed our space anomalies long ago. They were more trouble than they were worth”

There was never a world where we would deflate back to any reasonable dollar value.

The stock market cannot handle deflation, as it would be more valuable to hoard cash than to invest. So the rich would lose tons of value.

Almost nothing will ever really get cheaper.

1. Adopting a baby is insanely expensive. More so than giving birth. They are absolutely sold for insane prices, it’s messed up but that’s how it is. There is huge demand, lots of people want to adopt babies.
2. Adopting older children is seen as a terrible idea because they are “universally fucked up” and will have behavioral problems, mental illness, etc.
3. Babies happen by accident all the time

China is communist in name only. They are state-capitalist.

How is an AI trained on an artists painting, any different from a person who looked at that painting in art school? It’s not like the AI contains all of its training data; you can prove that from the file sizes.

I’m all for what the article advocates, but it’s kind of like publishing a book and saying “you have a license to read this, but not to learn anything from it”

I’m afraid this is going to turn out like “a new contract for typewriter repairmen in the age of laptop computers”

That’s all fantastic advice, thanks for adding to my post! Especially agree about not worrying about broad impact in grad school.

Hi I have one. Grad school was the most fun part of my life, but let me give you some advice:

1. Your relationship with your advisor makes or breaks grad school for you. Don’t take a gamble.
2. Research is not what most people think it’s going to be. Almost regardless of field these days, get ready to learn how to write code, and get ready to teach yourself everything.
3. If they don’t have a plan to pay your salary for at least 4 years, don’t bother. No, you can’t count on external money in this funding climate.
4. Read the book “getting what you came for”
5. Talk to potential advisors. The ones you want to be with won’t have time to talk to you. It’s a paradox.
6. You want to be a person who wants a “hands-off” advisor, and then you want to get one. If you want a hands-on advisor, my advice is to go do some work on your confidence, and come back when you think you’re ready to teach yourself everything.
7. Don’t go into grad school thinking you know what you will work on. Projects evolve and change based on funding and whims and chance.

Where the hell do you think Detroit is

Also this is partially a map of “who can’t afford a car”

This just in: the least-stinky shit you ever took still smelled like shit

I understand that concern

I’m saying it would be better for society in general if I could be euthanized against my will if I have dementia, and I really do think it’s that simple. It’s like a trolley problem. You have to make the trolley run me over, so my loved ones aren’t tortured and burdened. We euthanize animals against their will all the time and while it’s very hard, we recognize it’s necessary. I think the same logic should apply, and it’s made easier with prior consent.