jonfromsf

Just buy quality used stuff, it is almost free. Facebook marketplace is your friend. That guy with a truck is your other friend.

What show is this?

Definitely written by chatGPT or similar.

Agreed. The internet is full of sad men who didn't successfully figure out how to talk to girls in high school / college. There's a critical window for learning how to be social that if missed is difficult to recover from, because the lack of confidence and early success quickly causes them to fall even further behind.

Parents shouldn't be so dismissive of teens and their attempts to fit in and be socially normal. It's extremely important, possibly more important than academics.

Those high-powered electric unicycles are next.

I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds.

What are you going on about?

Everyone needs to understand probability and statistics maybe 10X better than they currently do. That should be the focus!

What is PG?

Wow I always thought AWS was crazy complicated just like .. because stuff is hard. But you're right, if it's complex enough people define their career identity as an "AWS expert" and at that point you have lock-in for life.

Herzner is way cheaper. But it doesn't have a database service or an S3 analog. Both of those are needed if you want to avoid spending a lot of money on operations staff.

The top four banks are too big to fail and WILL be rescued, as happened in 2008. Bank of America or Citi failing would be the end of America as we know it. That's why everyone will move to the bigger banks. Which is obviously not what we want. But it's what will happen if you leave depositers out to dry because it's a smaller bank.

Because the best sex toys for men are prostate vibrators.

Yes, a smaller pool of donors. Worst still for finding matches is multi-racial people.

This is risky advice. Many (most?) people need social context to create meaning and will get depressed if they don't have a job to do and people relying on them. Look at what happens to people when they retire.

Is it true that Java isn't slower than Python/Ruby/.Net? What are the fast ORMs and MVC frameworks for it that let you build a web app quickly the way ROR / Django / whatever .net people use?

It seems likely.

My parents used to have a simple approach to traveling on the Greek Islands. They would buy a Lonely Planet Greece guidebook, then go to the dock in Athens and look at the signs for the ferries. They would only go to an island that wasn't listed in the book. Worked like a charm for years and years.

These are "pig butchering scams" run out of China. https://www.rrstar.com/story/business/2022/04/30/new-pig-but...

They befriend lonely people (usually men) and slowly draw them into a crypto scam. It's a long con, takes a few months.

Isn't this exactly what crypto is for?

which competitor are you thinking of?

How do you watch TV? I tried and just couldn't hear it / watch it comfortably.

Thats the easy part of self driving.

Check out the big brain on Brad over here!

This is almost certainly true. Professional wine reviewers fail taste tests all the time.

Haven't the Taliban just taught us a 20-year lesson on how some guys with rifles and pickup trucks can humiliate a superpower? Low intensity warfare isn't about winning battles but disrupting governance. The guns in US citizens hands would easily be enough to disrupt governance in rural areas.

He's talking about public stock which is liquid (hence the reference to FAANG). Obviously private equity is very hard to sell and not comparable.

Githubs new project management tool is essentially a github-aware spreadsheet. It's surprisingly awesome.

There isn't one anymore. It's one of the great tragedies of the last several years of hyper-polarization.

NO. If the rich person dies the value steps up on inheritance, And nobody pays capital gains tax. (Although they do pay inheritance tax, which basically makes the most sense when thought of as a stopgap measure to plug this loophole.)