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The battle between capital and the labor is class warfare.

Java applets maybe?

Not only that, but then they want to donate to some charity. Roundup for charity? (sometimes they don't even bother to tell you what charity it is) Roundup, Red-Nose day, etc. etc.

Similar to Microsoft being threatened by the Internet -- isn't it logical to throw as many resources as possible at it -- to conquer the new frontier? Otherwise it might mutate into something you don't control that threatens your money-printer? GPT-4 is trained on 1000x data as GPT-3, so its going to get a lot more interesting.

Last time this happened people thought social was the future. Facebook was considered a threat to everything since they had the social-graph, so everything had to become social. Google+, Google Buzz, Orkut.

Life insurance, disability insurance, https://mprimi.github.io/portable-secret/

I use "Windows Subsystem for Android" to load my .apk's so I don't have to endure sluggish Android Studio.

Back during the great depression, Milton Hershey went to great lengths to not have to fire his employees. Those days are looooooong gone.

Twenty years ago we were talking about the book "Bowling Alone". This is more of the same, there's a decline in civic institutions and civic engagement. Work is totally anodyne if you even go into the office. Low status men are left-behind in the dating market because women select high status men.

Do some group fitness class, they usually have some kind of social event once and a while, so you can at least get to casually know a few people.

Kind of reminds me of the early days of the web, you have a feeling there's good websites out there, but there's no established mechanism to find them.

Browser bugs and you don't get direct access to the hardware.

You are resentful because you feel like you got lied to and are continuously being taken advantage of -- and there's nothing anyone can do because of inhuman "processes". You could radically adjust your attitude so you don't feel that way and have gratitude that you're not working in a coal mine, or start interviewing -- probably you should do both, adjust your attitude so your life is less miserable, and start interviewing. But why dwell on senior vs junior, isn't the relevant unit of account $$/year?

If Sunday morning all you can think about is how horrible Monday will be, and it gives you loads of anxiety, then you are burning out and you prolly need to quit -- you'll figure something out.

rep farming

Consequence of gamifying things (reviews, stars, upvotes, retweets) means everything is gamed.

I'm reminded of a post from a few months ago: a guy had a massager who got annihilated by Chinese competition because they knew how to exploit Amazon's systems.

My brother recently explained that this picture got so popular because its copyright wasn't renewed, so networks got 100% of the ad revenue.

But in 1974, when 28 years had passed, Republic Pictures failed to file a renewal for the film's copyright protection. The film lapsed into the public domain, meaning anyone could show the film without obtaining permission or paying royalties

it summarizes the plots of movies or reinterprets them if you prompt it to. that should count as knowledge i think

You could split between Gemini and Coinbase if you are dead-set against a hw wallet.

Seems like this is an explanation? https://github.com/JusticeRage/Gepetto

Play around with Midjourney and you'll see what I mean.

ChatGPT expects to have $1B in revenue in 2024. This revenue is going to come from people building businesses around it (<-- possibly you? this would require programming knowledge obv.). Honestly, I think a person could make a living as a prompt-engineer right now. You can't fight it, you have to lean into it.

I tried with Midjourney, but I don't know the correct prompt. Neat result though: https://imgur.com/a/fhR3g4a

I noticed a trend after watching the movie "Valley Uprising". I call it difficultly-gating but there's probably another term for it. The more difficult the endeavor -- the more tight-knit community you will get (although they might be hostile to newcomers who haven't proven themselves yet)

"Dutch government 3000 farms" is your search term, go find it at your preferred news source.

All the visual information presented would be of no value. Do you really need to see my facial expression, what I am drinking, and how I am sitting as I make this comment?

The use case for VR requires the visual information add value. Games, concerts, maybe certain online courses, movie tie-ins (behind the scenes on the set of a movie), maybe meetings where a power-dynamic is conveyed visually.

Not enough context. Do you only watch football once every four years? Probably you don't care enough and have enough context of strategic moments to create memories. The more you care + context, the better the memory will be, see LeBron + Magnus. { https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6M2xQZvj0 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC1BAcOzHyY }

Don't you want to wait until you have a prototype or something? You can only make a first impression once.

How many months you can live without income? Homelessness is also stressful.

You are again totally incorrect.

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, ex cathedra: “Regarding children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take place, when no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the sacrament of baptism, through which they are snatched from the domination of the Devil [original sin] and adopted among the sons of God, it advises that holy baptism ought not be deferred for forty or eighty days, or any time according to the observance of certain people…”72

There wouldn't have been conflict with the Protestants if what you say were true, which of course its not.

Pope Pius VIII: “Against these experienced sophists the people must be taught that the profession of the Catholic faith is uniquely true, as the apostle proclaims: one Lord, one faith, one baptism. Jerome used to say it this way: he who eats the Lamb outside this house will perish as did those during the flood who were not with Noah in the ark. Indeed, no other name than the name of Jesus is given to men, by which they may be saved. He who believes shall be saved; he who does not believe shall be condemned.” (Traditi humilitati #4, May 24, 1829)

Outside the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation https://vaticancatholic.com/2nd_edition_final.pdf

I would give myself an understanding of status. Women are attracted to high-status (doctor, lawyer) and thus men spend time attaining status.

But status is affected by subcultures; if I spend 6-months learning how to write an NES emulator or speed-running N64 GoldenEye or reaching 2200 elo in chess -- I'll get status from a small group of gaming enthusiasts but in the larger context its (probably) not a good use of my time.

For example, I got a double major in unrelated fields (I was ambitious and wanted to signal how smart I was), but it would have been better had gotten straight A's and masters degree (a double-major only impresses 1st-year undergrads; in the larger context of academic status, its irrelevant).

It would also teach my younger self about counter-signaling in the status game https://host.kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf

Also not too much alcohol and HIIT fitness.