> Why don’t any other characters have to explain what makes them unique from the rest They do. Geralt has a huge back story that explains why he's ripped and has a bunch of scars and why every peasant is afraid of him.…
Okay, so if Jason Momoa was the one who auditioned best for T'Challah you would say that's a good casting? Because I would say having the supposed leader of a kingdom of black people look completely different from all…
> Maybe there's a recessive gene that causes some tone difference. Maybe there's some historical war that caused the blahblahblah migration of the whoseits to the whatsits. I'm not saying the black character is supposed…
> They're Nilfgaardian and Elves Right, but the show casts all other Nilfgaardians and elves as white people. If the show casted all Nilfgaardians as black people or gave a story reason for a mixed composition then it…
> There's no sense in which they are black except for the literal colour of their skin That's the _point_. The writing is completely unrelated to the actors being black. They were casted as black people because the…
Many of the characters have been changed (in personality/storyline and in ethnicity) from the books and from the games. For example Yennefer is no longer a mature, smart person but now is a stereotypical "I'm a strong…
Netflix is already on the way down. They infused all of their new shows with wokeness. Every new show feels like woke concepts are shoehorned in without regard for their impact on the story that's told. Look at the…
Double pay is quite common over the holidays for any hourly role. Flight attendants are unionized so they're far from making minimum wage. This article is really not news, every decent company pays double time over the…
My argument is simple: Medicare for All entails higher taxes on high earners, which stunts wealth building and economic mobility, especially for high earners who grew up in poverty. This can be easily seen by comparing,…
> This could not be less relevant It shows you that the "rich" you're discounting wield substantial political influence. Manchin wasn't the only one that killed the bill, House democrats also said they'd kill the bill…
> Luckily the rich are a minority and this is a majority rule system Hmm, is that why the Build Back Better Act got killed in part by House Democrats wanting a SALT cap repeal? "The rich" you're thinking of excludes a…
> As someone who would be on the giving end of that, I'm fine with it, honestly. I won't always be on top. And I and many others are not. You should recognize that this is a _political_ issue where there is no…
> Healthcare is the great equalizer By income redistribution I mean most progressive proposals aim to heavily tax high earners to fund healthcare for lower income individuals. That money would otherwise be used by those…
That is not the plan put forth by Medicare for All advocates. There is a strong undertone of income redistribution in progressive proposals for single payer. I would also expect that if the government was taking that…
> I strongly suspect that a socialized medical program in the US would not actually cost individuals any more than they're paying now The definition of progressive taxation means this is not the case for anyone making…
Have you ever tried to bike to work regularly? There are a huge number of problems, at least in American cities that aren't NYC: - drivers don't give a crap about cyclists - every time it rains everything you wear gets…
I don't think cheap overseas labor will dry up for at least another 30-50 years. There is still all of Africa for factory owners to exploit and underpay. And most of Southeast Asia and parts of Central Asia. >…
There exist methods to guarantee robustness within a certain L_p ball on your parameters (in this case the box positions). I'm sure with only a few hundred boxes they would be tractable to solve to optimality. The…
Pre-COVID you couldn't find a 1br in a safe neighborhood for less than $3-3.5k. Less than 2k gets you something in the Tenderloin, which is the opposite of safe. Add food (~$700 because high cost of living), car…
You don't need (unreliable, prone to out of distribution breakage) deep learning for this. Bin packing is a well known problem in optimization literature and there are established algorithms for solving it with bounds…
Because the purpose of investing one's money is to attempt to preserve wealth. Dumping a bunch of money into a domestic factory with way higher variable costs that are structurally never going to improve is a surefire…
Only if you work in tech, and only if you're a software engineer or PM. It is straight up not possible to live in a reasonably safe area in SF on a salary less than $100k before tax. And the biggest reason is the toxic…
> major multi-year project I'm not sure what company you're at but there is certainly not a multi-year project in any I've worked at. There are long term _product_ roadmaps but in order to stay agile you never commit to…
The latter is a negotiation tactic given in "Never Split the Difference". Essentially communicating over text/email allows you to carefully think about your words, whereas over a call or video call you can read tone of…
The difference is that energy efficiency of CPUs has continued to improve exponentially fast, whereas we are already nearing asymptotic efficiency limits in things like fiber optics and know that we can't get…
> Why don’t any other characters have to explain what makes them unique from the rest They do. Geralt has a huge back story that explains why he's ripped and has a bunch of scars and why every peasant is afraid of him.…
Okay, so if Jason Momoa was the one who auditioned best for T'Challah you would say that's a good casting? Because I would say having the supposed leader of a kingdom of black people look completely different from all…
> Maybe there's a recessive gene that causes some tone difference. Maybe there's some historical war that caused the blahblahblah migration of the whoseits to the whatsits. I'm not saying the black character is supposed…
> They're Nilfgaardian and Elves Right, but the show casts all other Nilfgaardians and elves as white people. If the show casted all Nilfgaardians as black people or gave a story reason for a mixed composition then it…
> There's no sense in which they are black except for the literal colour of their skin That's the _point_. The writing is completely unrelated to the actors being black. They were casted as black people because the…
Many of the characters have been changed (in personality/storyline and in ethnicity) from the books and from the games. For example Yennefer is no longer a mature, smart person but now is a stereotypical "I'm a strong…
Netflix is already on the way down. They infused all of their new shows with wokeness. Every new show feels like woke concepts are shoehorned in without regard for their impact on the story that's told. Look at the…
Double pay is quite common over the holidays for any hourly role. Flight attendants are unionized so they're far from making minimum wage. This article is really not news, every decent company pays double time over the…
My argument is simple: Medicare for All entails higher taxes on high earners, which stunts wealth building and economic mobility, especially for high earners who grew up in poverty. This can be easily seen by comparing,…
> This could not be less relevant It shows you that the "rich" you're discounting wield substantial political influence. Manchin wasn't the only one that killed the bill, House democrats also said they'd kill the bill…
> Luckily the rich are a minority and this is a majority rule system Hmm, is that why the Build Back Better Act got killed in part by House Democrats wanting a SALT cap repeal? "The rich" you're thinking of excludes a…
> As someone who would be on the giving end of that, I'm fine with it, honestly. I won't always be on top. And I and many others are not. You should recognize that this is a _political_ issue where there is no…
> Healthcare is the great equalizer By income redistribution I mean most progressive proposals aim to heavily tax high earners to fund healthcare for lower income individuals. That money would otherwise be used by those…
That is not the plan put forth by Medicare for All advocates. There is a strong undertone of income redistribution in progressive proposals for single payer. I would also expect that if the government was taking that…
> I strongly suspect that a socialized medical program in the US would not actually cost individuals any more than they're paying now The definition of progressive taxation means this is not the case for anyone making…
Have you ever tried to bike to work regularly? There are a huge number of problems, at least in American cities that aren't NYC: - drivers don't give a crap about cyclists - every time it rains everything you wear gets…
I don't think cheap overseas labor will dry up for at least another 30-50 years. There is still all of Africa for factory owners to exploit and underpay. And most of Southeast Asia and parts of Central Asia. >…
There exist methods to guarantee robustness within a certain L_p ball on your parameters (in this case the box positions). I'm sure with only a few hundred boxes they would be tractable to solve to optimality. The…
Pre-COVID you couldn't find a 1br in a safe neighborhood for less than $3-3.5k. Less than 2k gets you something in the Tenderloin, which is the opposite of safe. Add food (~$700 because high cost of living), car…
You don't need (unreliable, prone to out of distribution breakage) deep learning for this. Bin packing is a well known problem in optimization literature and there are established algorithms for solving it with bounds…
Because the purpose of investing one's money is to attempt to preserve wealth. Dumping a bunch of money into a domestic factory with way higher variable costs that are structurally never going to improve is a surefire…
Only if you work in tech, and only if you're a software engineer or PM. It is straight up not possible to live in a reasonably safe area in SF on a salary less than $100k before tax. And the biggest reason is the toxic…
> major multi-year project I'm not sure what company you're at but there is certainly not a multi-year project in any I've worked at. There are long term _product_ roadmaps but in order to stay agile you never commit to…
The latter is a negotiation tactic given in "Never Split the Difference". Essentially communicating over text/email allows you to carefully think about your words, whereas over a call or video call you can read tone of…
The difference is that energy efficiency of CPUs has continued to improve exponentially fast, whereas we are already nearing asymptotic efficiency limits in things like fiber optics and know that we can't get…