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I believe you missed the point :)

I think there’s a good chance a German made this, or at least someone speaking a Germanic language.

“the right thing to do” is often not politically popular.

The problem is that it’s often really hard to measure what the right thing to do even was. Ie. in retrospect. Even more difficult up front.

Insurance is usually problematic too, in such matters. Your house insurance pays for a new house, in the same location. “Same” house.

Usually needs to be fairly exceptional to get something else.

So, if you wanted to get out of Dodge you’re still stuck with the same house, might not afford selling and relocating.

And even if you did you need a job. So might your spouse.

So far some of the observable effects of climate change is more frequent and stronger hurricanes and tornados.

While it’s obviously not popular, I believe we need to start taking relocating the most vulnerable areas. Some people have already relocated, others will. There are those that never will, but in-between there’s a lot of people who’ll probably suffer greatly if is not arranged before it’s “too late”.

Insurance companies pulling out is like rats leaving a sinking ship. It should be an alarming warning sign when insurance is no longer a viable business.

Obviously they would stay in the market if it was financially viable. Doesn’t matter if the margin is low, 1% of something is more than 100% of nothing.

It might still be on the plus-side today, but a sinking ship is also still floating.

The problem isn’t that things get “permanently” destroyed, but that we let people keep re-building where there is only a matter of time before it gets taken out again.

Some places have higher risks, others have guarantees of outcome, the only unknown is the timeframe.

I recall a case from Norway where someone’s house was taken by what was deemed a “100-year” flood, ie. it’s only that large every 100 years.

The insurance company and the government was happy to have them rebuild in the same location only for it to be taken out by the next event 5-10 years later.

That’s not viable for anyone. Risk to life, and the cost to the society.

The house I grew up in is over 200 years old, and has been where it’s at for more than 130 years now.

It’s survived at least 10 hurricanes, and will likely stand there for another 100 years unless someone decides to tear it down or the water level rises too much. But at least it’s a good 20 meters above sea level.

Definitely seems to be trending that way.

But honestly that’s been my experience on all Internet forums I’ve been a part of.

In the beginning they’re places with few, but good, discussions, but over time as their gravity exponentially attracts more people the level of quality drops until you have people who get angry at you because they’re on the wrong side of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

I always strive to learn new things, and I hope that when I’m completely off the reservation about something and someone tells me I have the good sense to take a step back, learn something new, correct myself, and hopefully improve until next time.

The Internet is full of people to argue with, if that is what you’re looking for.

I once tweeted at a guy who had gotten his name on an editorial about how Apple Pay (and Google Wallet/Pay) would fail as Walmart (IIRC) now had launched their own app-based payment service.

My tweet was just that he completely overlooked that Apple and Google had device level integration and a wider reach, and that Walmarts wallet-thingy thus would be competing with a lesser customer experience and way fewer supported locations.

His response was something along the lines of “boy, you really meet the crazy ones on Twitter”.

I think the fediverse might work out, but on the other side - a bit less social media never hurt anyone.

160k is still a ridiculous amount of money.

In Europe that’s about where they max out.

Fresh out of university in Europe you’ll be lucky to fetch more than 65k, give or take for currency.

Not many that goes over 120k while still retaining a developer title (and job description), but I suppose we’re getting there quicker with the current inflation rates.

Thanks.

Again though, I think the why’s point back to the same thing.

Salaries in tech in the US has been boosted by ridiculous high demands.

Accountants don’t understand that skills and knowledge is something you pay for and just see that one dev in India costs 1/5 of one dev in the US.

Heck, even I’m cheap compared to the average US devs and I live in Norway.

But why do all these other companies do the same thing? Because they’re bandwagon companies. If FANG does something they’ll do the same.

I also read once that recessions hit the tech industry first, but it also bounces back first.

If that’s correct I have no idea, and I’ve yet to go through a proper recession in my career, but it’s definitely clear that we are busy making one.

All the companies going like “we need to be inflation winners”, I know mine does.

As for outsourcing to India, that always goes in waves. Hard to build good tech there. It’s only cheap in the beginning. Too much instability and job switching.

And here I thought it was if it said IoT on the box 🙈

ChatGPT is, despite popular consensus, not an AI.

It’s a system that has some notion of context and a huge database of information and is really good at guessing what words to put on screen based on the provided input.

It can’t think of anything new or novel, but can generate “new” output based on multiple sources of data.

As such, it will never be able to design a fusion reactor, unless it’s been trained on input from someone who actually did.

And even then it’s likely to screw it up.

But are usually washed before you get them.

You’ll know filthy unwashed eggs when you see them.

Boiling water also kills bacteria. In fact they get killed long before the water starts boiling (pasteurization).

However, water contains salts and minerals so I always give it a quick scrub and rinse and dry off, but I’m certainly not worried about my pot being unsanitary because I boiled eggs.

Geostationary usually doesn’t have too many rides shares if I’m not mistaken. Cost is the launch, not the unused capacity.

Considering it costs $67 million just to launch a reusable falcon 9 they’d have to be 100% sure of the outcome to bet on such a thing.

If not you’re $100+ mill out and still have to replace a €420 million satellite..

You mention things I haven’t heard about. Any sources on those?

Not sure how much extra you can get out of a leaf apart from convincing an old one to run on a big battery.

Tesla unlocks and powerups are already available from third parties, though.

Not only is it reductive, but it’s also a rather lacking analysis in terms of richness.

As you say, territorialism and social hierarchies is common.

Animals don’t value each other on the basis of their bank accounts, and neither did humans.

Money and wealth are fairly modern concepts. So are nations, but the point I’m trying to make is that we divided land into territories long before wealth had anything to do about it.

And while having territories definitely cause some issues it also creates a common cause. If it’s your household, your neighborhood, your municipality, your county, your nation, or your continent.

But as always, the further close to home the more engaged we are. You are more invested in keeping your house clean than the street outside of it.

Democracy works the same, and it works better on lower levels. On national levels it seems to work less and less.

I live in a rented apartment and since we moved in one of the (IKEA) bedroom closets has been horrible built.

The landlord commented that the previous tenant had taken them down, but put them back together when they moved out.

Didn’t look to closely but it was always a bit wobbly. In part thanks to covid we’ve ended up living here longer than planned and the closet was now almost tipping over, so I decided to take action.

Just disassembled it and apart from the back plates being taped together and held in with about 6 nails each, three of which was at the bottom, the upper shelf turned out to not be from this closet.

It has a label from IKEA and says it’s a kitchen shelf.

Took out the tape measure and sure enough. It’s 5mm to wide, and at least 3mm to deep.

Too late to do anything about it now, it’s 10’o clock, but it amazes me at the shit people do.

No wonder the cabinet doors aligned poorly and all.

Personally I believe their organization was highly bloated to the point of them being unable to reach any new goals with any reasonable pace.

Obviously that’s a highly speculative armchair based assessment and you may take it for what it’s worth, nothing.

But just look at the firing squad that’s been out this winter. Meta/Facebook, Twitter, Google.

Collectively that’s at least around 25k people that have been let go just from those three behemoths alone.

Access to capital was easy and they were simply throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

Now that interest rates are higher profitability is suddenly important.

Now they actually have to think about what they invest in and which products deserve to live.

Not that it changes anything for Google, they’ll probably just keep making yet another chat service before killing it off again 3-5 years later after having introduced a few more in the meantime.

What does “working full-time” mean for you?

How many hours are you away from home each day? I suspect everyone is answering with their view of what working full-time is, but it can be different depending on where you live, how long your commute is, if you work shifts, overtime, etc.

Just for reference, between last Monday and Tuesday I spent 90 hours at the office. Luckily exceptional, but no, I didn’t cook.

Also, leftovers can be great.

For what it’s worth I’d never buy that at a store. I love tomatoes and I’m super-picky about them.

Firm, ripe, no wrinkly skin.