bradjohnson

"Unnecessary" plastic that you can avoid with small decisions only accounts for a small proportion of plastic waste. Product packaging often can't be avoided for most people and I don't find it particularly useful to shame consumers for what is largely out of their control.

> Prefer markets that overall use less plastic, even if this might bring you a small inconvenience.

Great. If you can. I live in Canada and over 90% of our grocery sales come from the largest 8 food retailer corporations. The majority of the stock has excessive plastic packaging. Even the vegetables are often shrink-wrapped or in sealed plastic bags.

> Actively refuse unnecessary plastic.

There's very little plastic that you have a choice about. Most people bring their own reusable bags because single-use plastic bags are banned in Canada. It's not enough.

> Homemade alternatives for store-bought products.

It's typically more expensive and more time consuming to do so. If you are not in an income bracket that you have to worry about meeting your bill payments, sure this is great. I jar a lot of my own stuff and I avoid soda anyway. Not everyone has the freedom (time + money + space) to pursue this.

> Reusing containers so you need to buy less tupperwares.

Sure. You can do that. For me I probably re-use 1 in 5 of any single-use containers that I buy and I haven't bought tupperware in years. It's kind of like trying to slow down a runaway train by blowing at it, though.

I'm all for it. How do we as consumers do that in a practical way?

Focusing in on the UBI section of your comment: I feel that there is always something being glossed over with the assumption that large amounts of people would stop working if we introduced UBI. I don't think this is true in the general sense (people would find other ways to work), but probably true that most people would quit their job in the short term.

Just to rant about that a bit, we acknowledge and ignore that a large proportion of people barely scraping by would probably not do what they were doing if not for the threat of homelessness and starvation. It's true that the way that things are built would have to change with UBI because most of what we benefit from in the current system is based on the exploitation of the most desperate. We should note though that a large proportion of the benefit of that exploitation is not going to bettering society, but into the pockets of the most wealthy.

At least with UBI we would remove exploitation of one's living situation as a tool to extract labour, which removes a lot of power from the existing monopolies.

It's still impressive to me even if it was in its training set. The data used for training is not stored verbatim in the OpenAI model. It would still need to parse the context anew and solve the problem given its understanding of the boundaries of what I've written.

I threw a leetcode easy description into ChatGPT and submitted the solution without any editing. It passed all the test cases and got in the 95th percentile for efficiency of C++ submissions.

I haven't tried anything more advanced, but to go from simple requirements to solution without any clarification or even method signatures (It guessed the correct method signature down to the name and input params) was pretty dang impressive to me.

Can you provide an example of similar bills that "the left" has put forth?

If they kept the original correspondence then it would anyway. Plus this wouldn't be legally binding in a court room when Elon runs in and is like "I think the spaces match the one that I sent to this employee." That is not enough evidence to say that the employee did it when it is trivial for the ploy to be subverted by another employee just inserting a space in a random place.

Shaming tactics are orthogonal to defense, especially when the only way this succeeds is when nobody thinks the CEO is paranoid enough to try it. If anyone is leaking private memos from an Elon company now, it is trivial to disrupt this by reformatting the document and rephrasing sentences.

Your particular example wouldn't be deterred from the tactics that Elon says that he used, though. If it's not leaked to the public it wouldn't be seen by those that encoded an identifier into it.

I've written plenty of whiteboarding interviews in something resembling Java and decided that I needed a tuple class, which for most purposes doesn't really exist in Java. So I just used the concept of a Tuple. I can say that most people on a whiteboarding interview panel don't really care if you borrow abstractions of ideas, the most I've been asked to do is define an interface for these implementations.

Honestly if they care that much about rote memorization of syntax, it's a red flag.

I'd love to. Your story went from driving a Prius in the countryside to happily mowing down deer in your giant truck while living in the city.

Presumably others are now terrified to be around your massive vehicle, and you don't appear to have bought it for a practical purpose, so the premise that your wife was made to feel unsafe is then not an indictment of industrial sized vehicles making the roads less safe for others. Instead, it is embracing the stereotypical American pursuit of having the biggest baddest mfing vehicle on the road in a "fuck you I got mine" race to the bottom. It reads as a pretty good satire: "Woman in fear of being crushed by giant vehicle feels much better now that others fear being crushed by her giant vehicle."

This comment is so lacking in self awareness it must be satire.

>Everyone needs a safe space, needs the government to take care of them and provide them with things

This take has been in circulation by shallow-minded regressives for about 20+ years. It's getting moldy.

I'm surprised that the bloat and ads in the start menu were not mentioned.

Your take is bad and it's gross that you think this way about exploitation in the adult film industry.

> much harder to steal

This is objectively false given that the article is about how easy it is to scam people out of their bitcoins.

What is the advantage of this over investing in GME? Both backed by strength of a meme, both highly speculative, except at least converting GME to actual money doesn't require you to burn energy equivalent to the average US household's monthly consumption.

Why should there be any loss in income?

Right, just like a plane is a car with wings.

Perfect! Then we could just ask people their local noon offset. You don't want it to be too granular, so your city or town holding an event at 1:00PM is not equal to 1:05 for your offset, let's round it to an hour per offset. To make these easy to identify, we could agree on noon offset names and then take these into account when you are coordinating with the person with a different noon offset than your own.

I call it "The Internationally Mandated Earthly-Zoned Offset from Noon-Epoch System" or TIMEZONES for short and I think it's really gonna catch on.

First paragraph is correct.

The caveat would be that the capital gain during sale is calculated based on the difference from the price at vesting. So the original taxation is carried with you while you hold the stock which is the mechanism that you thought didn't exist for a reason.

For the second paragraph, it's not so different from real estate market fluctuations. You pay taxes based on the value of your property at a specific date even if that value tanks the very next day.

>Isn’t that generally a problem where people get slammed with huge tax bills on stock they aren’t able to sell and may not have the cash available to pay?

No, I can't say I've ever heard of that happening. You should be able to sell to cover. This will typically happen during an open trading window and brokerages will offer an option for "sell to cover".

>Why would we want to do more of that?

I didn't make a value statement one way or the other. I'm just saying your claim is wrong and maybe your misunderstanding of taxation on stock is not the reason that unrealized capital gains aren't taxed.

This isn't really true. If you receive RSUs as part of compensation, you have to pay taxes according to the value of the stock at the time of vesting. You also have to pay tax when you sell the stock equal to the difference in price from vesting.

You might get a refund or you might pay more taxes when you sell, but there is precedent to paying taxes on stock that you currently hold.

I've not tried icloud, but for personal email addresses that I have tried (gmail, outlook, hotmail, protonmail) I've not had many problems landing in inboxes. For corporate mailservers I almost always have trouble even getting beyond the mail filtering solution. Microsoft EOP (which seems to be the most ubiquitous) will basically blackhole any mail I send without telling me.

I want to throw my hat in here because there are plenty of the "works for me" crowd.

I've run a personal mail server for the last 5 or so years and I have SPF, DKIM, DMARC setup correctly, get 10/10 for mail-tester.com and get graded "not spam" for all the other spam tester sites. Spam Assassin loves me and I have a .com mail server.

I can land more or less into personal emails (occasionally I get filtered into spam), but when it comes to corporate emails I pretty much get /dev/nulled each time and can't even land into a spam folder. I can't give out my personal email as a point of contact and have to use my gmail or protonmail instead.

I've all but given up on owning my own email because the protocol has effectively made it impossible to reliably land mail in a mailbox if you don't have a certain amount of outbound mail traffic.

Please don't hijack the conversation to whinge about political correctness.

Alice and Bob are common placeholder names in crypto examples

> Has the State of Israel made contact with aliens?

> According to retired Israeli general and current professor Haim Eshed, the answer is yes, but this has been kept a secret because "humanity isn't ready."

This premise is absurd and the fact that the only one that is coming forward is the aging head of "space security" in Israel, a nation that recently failed to land a robot on the moon according to the article, makes it prudent to write him off as crazy. Especially since he's trying to sell a book.

I think that keeping the specifics of some aircraft/technology projects a secret (which are obviously and clearly being developed, this is not a secret) is quite a far cry from keeping the existence of aliens and coordinated secret meetings on Mars a secret.

> If progressives stopped being progressive, they'd attract more conservatives to their cause

Voting Democrat is already the compromise.