HenryBemis

  1984 (Orwell)
  Siddhartha (Hesse) 
  The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)

(classic!!!!)

Sorry to hear. Yups you are/were/will be. It happened before. It will happen again. Perhaps not to you, but to me, him (pointing left), her (pointing right).

Save as much as you can. Invest as much as you can. "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

I don't seem to sound like an asshole. For the past couple of decades "your services are no longer required - please return your laptop" happens on a monthly basis. If you follow the news (and I believe all of us here do), every now and then we read about Company XYZ laying off 3000. Company ABC laying off 5000. So, it's just a roulette and it has to do where the ball will sit. It's not personal (in 99.9% of the cases).

I had the 'pleasure' a few years back to work for a global bank and I was asked on a quarterly basis to give names of who will be gone on the next round(s). Nothing personal. Simple arithmetic.

So.. save, invest, keep emergency fund(s), and you will be ok.

Oh yes!! This very thing!! A quick DDG search didn't return anything, but yes, 300% yes. This is the rule/law. Once people get some money, forces tend to (try and) take it away.

EDIT: Ideally, your disposable income must be a little less than zero, so your needs/wants outpace your income, so you get a credit card with $2k limit, then you expand that to $5k limit, and that to $7k limit, until you cannot any more.

EDIT2: I once dated a lady (the most beautiful woman I've dated in my life) and she was in debt for €40k, ALL spent in clothes. She was SO gorgeous that when I feel for her she was wearing a €50 jeans and a €10 white tshirt. She walked in to the room and people stopped breathing. After 1.5 years of dating when I wanted to get very serious with her and she told me her 'dark secret', I suggested a Dave-Ramsey-baby-steps plan to pay off her €40k debt but to chop up her credit cards (and I would gladly generously contribute to pay off that debt - but with a different lifestyle). Long story short.. I haven't seen her in ~15 years :)

As long as they got a timer, so the bots react "between 10 and 30 mins later" and they got a limit to "5 interactions per day", otherwise, if some-five coders forget those limits, and we end up having 5 bots interacting within a 1ms of the 'previous post', Reddit will run out of storage space :)

This is what got me. I remember 40-50 years ago everything (or most) "made in the USA". And how "Chinese product" was an insult while "American product" was a badge of honour. Oh how the turnstable..

When I was studying in the UK the _most_ diligent students were the Chinese ones. First to come, last to leave, spent hours and hours on workshops, but they were not interested in staying in the UK to live/work there. As if they were on a mission. Go-Learn-Return-SpreadKnowledge. Many other nationalities were tempted by the mighty-GBP and stayed. But not the Chinese. Vast majority of them learned as much as they could and then went back home. That was mid-90s.

And those 20yo students of the mid-90s are 50yo with great studies and 30 years of experience, and there were thousands of them studying all over the UK, USA, and other countries. So there you have it..

I keep thinking of "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio" [0]. The game is almost over, time for the next cycle..

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8

Yes. There was a great need for anyone with IT knowledge, and the demand was far greater than the available labour.

I remember in 98 I got a job in a (financial) brokerage, and the required skills were:

  show up on time
  don't leave before stock exchange closed
  wear a clean shirt
  be a nice to customers (all were affluent)
  know how to use conditional formatting in Excel
  know how to connect a PC to multiple screens
  know how to place different spreadsheets/windows in those different screens

The only way I see this being sustainable is get as far as possible from the big cities, buy a tiny piece of land, by a durable tiny home, buy solar panels, get a tablet with all Gutenberg books, and find a soulmate that will follow you to that journey.

No kids, no private schools, no parties, no nothing. Everything will be swallowed by inflation.

Greed will take over and try to get the _most_ out of the UBI as if we/you/they owe it to those people.

Any 'loving message' to her from the early days ("you are so perfect") and any 'nasty message' to others ("oh that bitch!!") sent to anyone was presented in court. So for caution he auto-deleted even the messages that were innocuous, just in case it could be used against him "oh he wanted to spend money for a new phone/laptop, thus he has money, thus I will take it"

But the auto-delete-after-1-week messages from Signal would never be recovered (unless someone is logging all that data and in the future will be able to crack it).

Every time his name is in the new I 'like' him less and less.

I hope some 'wise king' will stop him, or at least slow him/them down until controls are in place. We cannot have a "move fast/break things" for _this_ newest technology.

I totally admire the 'setup' that US has, making it the 'best inventor' in the world (gathering talent, giving them the tools/funding/environment to thrive), but this reminds me the Hellhounds from Supernatural. We don't see them, but they are out to get us.

I foresee the future.. Altman will be on Joe Rogan in a couple of years from now stating how he was 'tricked' into making the mistake (a la Zuck), which caused upset, and havoc, and ....

As for Diana Papan.. I will go ahead an imagine that she secured the funding she needs for her next campaigns!! And so the lobbying (aka legal bribing/buying politicians) continues!!!

I think I get that DJT wants to do (I live in the EU so I didn't vote for neither). Stocks are going down? VOO/VOOG/etc. going down? Good! My (small) monthly investment will buy 'so much' more. And when 'that thing' rebounds then even better.

In cases like that I feel sorry for the people who have to 'close'/sell their assets because they want to buy a house (why do people put it in the markets if they want their money out in less than 1-2 years?), or are retiring (no need to sell everything, sell small and slowly - it will rebound) and drops like this, or the COVID-time drops mess their plans.

  1a) it's not AI, it's LLM. The companies who create/train/operate them may (wink-wink) pitch them as "AI" with half-truths, but we (here) know it's LLMs "all the way down"
  1b) just like I disliked the "autopilot" in Teslas because it was never autopilot.
  2) I know that I wanted to write some software tools, and I have been successful at this for the past many months, and I got top-shelve tools, that work, do their tasks, send alerts, etc. etc. And I am not the only one. So if the purpose is to "show it's a stupid AI".. well.. it's not AI.. so yeah. If the purpose is "it is not perfect", yes, because it draws a hand with 10 fingers. What else is new?

Keeping it impersonal (and only understanding/analyzing "how" the elections were won/lost), I think that "Trump didn't win". Instead "Democrats lost", took a risky bet and to quote the meme "the risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math". [0]

[0]: https://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/963/073/e2...

EDIT: I think it was Bill Burr that said on his (latest) SNL monologue "you would think that after the assassination attempt they would just give it to him" (because yes, that was a critical security failure, and so badly designed (the "security" of the event") that one could easily be tricked into thinking that it was purposeful)(a proper Hanlon's razor)

So until you return what is stolen from every country around the planet, keep the BS to yourselves because it only angers the rest of us, you pathetic thieves. Totally deserving what is going on in the UK. And I fear it is too late to turn that ship around in the next couple of decades. Especially with the politicians that are running the show and the younger ones in the pipeline.

And it is a great pity because I have lived and worked in the UK and I loved the people and the place. But hold your tongues and stop biting your own tails (you snakes) and perhaps you will have a better life in 20-30 years. :)

It looks like (just like everywhere else in the world) the rich become waaaayy richer and the rest are taxed/inflated to death. It's not that a house that 'was priced' at GBO 200k is 20 years ago is worth GBP 1.5m. It's not that a house that is 20 years older than before has turned to gold and its value has grown. It is the constant devaluation of the GBP. Brexit simply accelerated an already bad situation. I still wait for Boris Johnson and his team to show us the GBP 350m per week to be redirected to the NHS.

I think that "you will own nothing and be happy" is happening in the UK already with below 35 to never own property (unless inherit it) and by then they have to sell it to have a 'modern' lifestyle.

You/We don't. Simply not possible. The important (to you and your work) will show themselves. And/or limit what you spend your time with. Least amount of info/least amount of time (you also need time to 'digest' all that info and connect the dots).

  - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  - Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  - The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Hardcover by Ryan Holiday

There must be a 'relative position' though in the mix of the algorithm, because on some levels the pieces are scattered in the four corners and some others they are on 'perfect-knight-stepping-sequence' so I could take 5-6 pieces in 5-6 moves and then exit.

this mean that you are losing anything between 1% and 10% of your money per year (aka inflation). I am not advocating for big banks (which had put food on my table for most of my life) but you only need a (zero-interest) checking account with a debit card for your spending money. Everything else (imho) is most beneficial if you keep them spread out/hidden away, and serving your other purposes (a balance of growth x availability x speed_of_withdrawing).

I remember watching this vid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auzLhKvsxnQ) many years (it feels like it was way before the 6y YT says its age is). I do a combination of this video and the Dave Ramsey 'envelope system' (but with different banks and with different accounts). Now, she speaks about the "US way of life" but I like the principle/discipline of this.

  What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the ocean?
  A good start...
  (The War of the Roses, 1989)