manzanarama

How many books would not exist if copyright had the suggested reduced impact?

Been in my current role for 5 years and doing okay. The thing I always think of is this set of facts:

1. There is a hard limit of the amount of work you can physically / mentally. Lets say the theoretical limit is like 18 hours a day, 7 days a week.

2. There is a "soft" limit where you as a worker have decided "I have 'enough' work. I will push back on any future asks until some tasks are completed or removed.

3. You more or less decide how close the soft limit is to the hard limit.

4. The closer your soft limit is to your hard limit, the faster you will burn out.

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I really don't why people who are susceptible to burn out don't just move their soft limit up an hour or two a day. If you wait until you are working 9-10 hours 5 days a week before speaking up that you have too much work, or the timeline is not going to happen, why not just do that same thing at 7 hours?

90% of the time, a manager has little to no idea how much effort something takes.

No, in a lot of areas when you are dispersed camping you are allowed to make fire rings. You could be camping 20 miles deep into the woods. There will not magically be a fire ring there for you. However, if there does happen to be a fire ring close by, use that one and not create a new one.

Most of these give way too much power to the government to control people's movement.

Oh sorry, its a pandemic, the maximum speed for you vehicle is now 0 for 6 days a week. And to get to drive on the 7th day, you need XYZ vaccines.

Correlation or causation? To become a tech exec you have to be looking at a few million dollars in the bank, making probably 500k-1 million per year and decide "you know what, this is not enough money. I am willing to trade more of my time, relationships, physical and mental health, and life energy for even more money".

This unhealthy (in my opinion) line of thinking is probably correlated with other unhealthy lines of thinking. Such as drinking and taking pain killers.

That is the thing. Is taking your phone to Apple and getting the battery swapped out every 18 months really that prohibitive? Are all the other compromises worth it?

"Researchers studying these complications also worry about undermining trust in COVID-19 vaccines."

This is why no one trusts "institutions" anymore. The researches finding out if vaccines are dangerous should be focused on that single thing, not worried about how the results might be interpreted. In my opinion, THAT is what undermines trust.

Enshittification

Has anyone looked to see if there are more or less pedestrians?

Apple Arcade?

The US has quite a few shops scattered around the world at all times. The 22nd, 24th, and 26th Marine Expeditionary Units patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Off topic from the article but I will share my story.

Parents divorced when I was 16 and I was sort of left to fend for myself. No abuse or trauma in a direct sense but I would wake up, no one would be at the house and I would drive myself to school at 17.

Tried community college after high school but was working 50 hours as a fast food manager so that didn’t work as well as I planned. Eventually joined the military on a 5 year contract. When I got out I went back to community college, Theron was free and I got close to 2k per month stipend. Transferred to a UC for CS and graduated around 30.

Got a short term job and eventually ended up at a large Silicon Valley tech company.

It was a late start but I feel like I got to see a snapshot of society that none of my peers have seen, especially the American born ones. The immigrants mostly have unique paths of their own that are interesting.

GI bill was truly awesome and helped me achieve a salary and position I never thought possible for me.

Can we measure the level of aquifers?