If you were a human working in US manufacturing the 90s what's the difference?
Who cares about the economy if you're one of the folks who got left behind, is my point. Aggregate wages being higher hasn't solved the social problems in the Rust Belt.
OTOH US manufacturing employment declined by ~30% in less than a decade starting in 2000 and the country is still reeling from the fallout. I suspect it will be several decades still until the social problems caused by…
The risks of nuclear weapons aren't theoretical. Nuclear weapons have killed people, destroyed infrastructure, and contaminated the environment. The Limited Test Ban Treaty was put in place after radioactive fallout…
Well, except then the person who volunteered to "own website issues" clarified that they meant one specific issue (download links) among the five or so that Gates identified.
The point of the study is that they should be using calculators to answer their questions rather than spending an inordinate amount of time on manual calculations that don't further their education and cause them to…
> there's a reason calculators are banned from math classes until a certain point Yeah, a bad reason. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-10/are-calculators-affec... > In a 1997 review of the extent to which calculators…
> Being driven and high IQ are much more predictive of success than having rich parents or connected family members. Are they? What are you basing that on? > But the idea that desirable leadership roles or…
> With what? With stuff that you're be free to do as an adult with minimal to no restrictions. Teens should have opportunities to experiment with these activities in safe spaces so that they have direct life experience…
Yeah, it's profoundly unfair in many ways. Most people in their early career have very little influence over what they work on, but that work goes on to profoundly shape their subsequent opportunities. Knowing this,…
Governments require age verification to drive a car, purchase alcohol and other dangerous products, enter adult venues, and in various other scenarios. Why not for accessing Internet properties that are just as harmful?
> Phones have had parental controls already built in forever. Most of them don't work as advertised. > Parental monitoring and controlling usage on sites like Youtube and Facebook is a long solved problem, if the parent…
Make it up, exaggerate, claim credit for organisational achievements. Sometimes it's just a matter of rephrasing your CV items and removing all the words that hedge or otherwise water down your contributions. But in all…
Yeah, I'm agreeing. You don't need the carrot of a green card or the stick of deportation to make a software engineer on an H1B accept a depressed wage, because it's not depressed relative to their alternatives.
The prevailing wage for H1B software engineers is a very good salary for most software engineers in the world. It's common for the prevailing wage to be double what that person could earn in their country of origin.
> being paid by a [...] company > parted ways > Someone cottoned on to the value Steve was providing This pattern predates the LLM obsession.
I'm saying the presence of the boot marks make me less likely to clean up any mess I make in there.
You don't have to look at sci-fi, go look at the history of the Republic of Venice. It was ruled by a tiny group of ultra-wealthy people while the vast majority of the population owned nothing and had zero influence.
What you're describing requires a level of literacy possessed by less than 10% of the adult population.
I assume you're talking about software engineers, because in every office I've worked in the toilets have been absolutely filthy by mid-morning. At my current place there are boot marks on top of the toilet seat that…
> See? Those are logical arguments. They are based on measurable input/outputs. You could argue with similar arguments as to why having a kid is such a grand achievement, but yet, no parents did that. They all come back…
> without the hormones and feelings I'm saying that's impossible, we're all emotional creatures. That parents have higher levels of certain hormones than non-parents doesn't mean non-parents are rational, objective…
Generally the desire for equal effort applies to the things neither person wants to do.
My wife and I have a very simple rule, which is that both of us do tasks at the same time. No need to track time, no need to assign cards, and no resentment about one of us doing more or less than the other.
I mean the obvious retort to this is that until you become a parent all of your behaviour is probably driven by some deep evolutionary desire to demonstrate your suitability as a mate. So we can dismiss opinions of…
If you were a human working in US manufacturing the 90s what's the difference?
Who cares about the economy if you're one of the folks who got left behind, is my point. Aggregate wages being higher hasn't solved the social problems in the Rust Belt.
OTOH US manufacturing employment declined by ~30% in less than a decade starting in 2000 and the country is still reeling from the fallout. I suspect it will be several decades still until the social problems caused by…
The risks of nuclear weapons aren't theoretical. Nuclear weapons have killed people, destroyed infrastructure, and contaminated the environment. The Limited Test Ban Treaty was put in place after radioactive fallout…
Well, except then the person who volunteered to "own website issues" clarified that they meant one specific issue (download links) among the five or so that Gates identified.
The point of the study is that they should be using calculators to answer their questions rather than spending an inordinate amount of time on manual calculations that don't further their education and cause them to…
> there's a reason calculators are banned from math classes until a certain point Yeah, a bad reason. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-10/are-calculators-affec... > In a 1997 review of the extent to which calculators…
> Being driven and high IQ are much more predictive of success than having rich parents or connected family members. Are they? What are you basing that on? > But the idea that desirable leadership roles or…
> With what? With stuff that you're be free to do as an adult with minimal to no restrictions. Teens should have opportunities to experiment with these activities in safe spaces so that they have direct life experience…
Yeah, it's profoundly unfair in many ways. Most people in their early career have very little influence over what they work on, but that work goes on to profoundly shape their subsequent opportunities. Knowing this,…
Governments require age verification to drive a car, purchase alcohol and other dangerous products, enter adult venues, and in various other scenarios. Why not for accessing Internet properties that are just as harmful?
> Phones have had parental controls already built in forever. Most of them don't work as advertised. > Parental monitoring and controlling usage on sites like Youtube and Facebook is a long solved problem, if the parent…
Make it up, exaggerate, claim credit for organisational achievements. Sometimes it's just a matter of rephrasing your CV items and removing all the words that hedge or otherwise water down your contributions. But in all…
Yeah, I'm agreeing. You don't need the carrot of a green card or the stick of deportation to make a software engineer on an H1B accept a depressed wage, because it's not depressed relative to their alternatives.
The prevailing wage for H1B software engineers is a very good salary for most software engineers in the world. It's common for the prevailing wage to be double what that person could earn in their country of origin.
> being paid by a [...] company > parted ways > Someone cottoned on to the value Steve was providing This pattern predates the LLM obsession.
I'm saying the presence of the boot marks make me less likely to clean up any mess I make in there.
You don't have to look at sci-fi, go look at the history of the Republic of Venice. It was ruled by a tiny group of ultra-wealthy people while the vast majority of the population owned nothing and had zero influence.
What you're describing requires a level of literacy possessed by less than 10% of the adult population.
I assume you're talking about software engineers, because in every office I've worked in the toilets have been absolutely filthy by mid-morning. At my current place there are boot marks on top of the toilet seat that…
> See? Those are logical arguments. They are based on measurable input/outputs. You could argue with similar arguments as to why having a kid is such a grand achievement, but yet, no parents did that. They all come back…
> without the hormones and feelings I'm saying that's impossible, we're all emotional creatures. That parents have higher levels of certain hormones than non-parents doesn't mean non-parents are rational, objective…
Generally the desire for equal effort applies to the things neither person wants to do.
My wife and I have a very simple rule, which is that both of us do tasks at the same time. No need to track time, no need to assign cards, and no resentment about one of us doing more or less than the other.
I mean the obvious retort to this is that until you become a parent all of your behaviour is probably driven by some deep evolutionary desire to demonstrate your suitability as a mate. So we can dismiss opinions of…