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Discord owns the server. They seem to agree with me?

> Why is your deliberately negative label of "shit-for-brains" any better?

It doesn't have as rich a history being used as a slur against people with intellectual disabilities.

Also, I was pretty mad. Even if we determine I am a hypocrite that doesn't necessarily make me wrong.

> You seem to think “retarded” is magnitudes worse than all of the other negative words you used and worth shutting down a community for.

To be clear, it absolutely is.

https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-wor...

I'm genuinely hoping the huge number of sophists trying to defend it are doing so because they genuinely feel kind of bad for having done so and don't want to comprehend the moral implications of having used it casually for years.

No, it isn't.

OP can host his own server and invite his friends and they can say whatever they want there.... but no one has any obligation to give him a venue.

If I have a shitty band and I want to book your venue for a gig, you have every right to say to me "no, your band is too shitty for my venue, I don't want to degrade myself or the public in that way."

There's very little nuance here at all, no one is saying he is not allowed to be a terrible person, they're saying they don't want to be associated with him because he's a terrible person.

Margin accounts.

You buy the stock for $200 but of the $200, $100 is money that you've borrowed. Because the stock is now at $350 your assets cover the margin easily. but if the suddenly becomes liquid and gaps down to $2, you owe $100 and only have $2 dollars in assets with which to cover your margin loan. You get a margin call and the bank force sells your stock then takes your car, your house, etc to cover the $98 you still owe.

ah, that would do it, I was trying to figure out what the issue would be with it.

Is it possible that they just don't sell 4:3 screens very much anymore? I can't imagine why.

(Google tells me this is the case, 4:3 is the old standard and not made much anymore).

So, I looked on the AMD shop online and it looks like the MSI Bravo 15 satisfies all of these requirements, it is surprising that there was only one laptop in the AMD store that seems to satisfy this.

I'm in the USA, maybe that makes a difference.

Paper pad with notes or working on something interesting enough that I think about it after I’m done for the day.

Sure, internally you will store it in something less ambiguous... but you still have to display the correct time & timezone and be able to set the time correctly (and note when the clock has been set). Time is generally set by humans according to their local time. So you do need to differentiate PST from PDT, even if something like that is kind of an edge case..

Anything safety critical with strict reporting requirements (clock must be correct so logs are accurate).

Honestly, most things that need to be air-gapped also need to have correct clocks. Most other things also need to have correct clocks / time, but it is easier to use available stuff in that situation.

industrial control systems, medical devices, transportation systems, important, critical infrastructure stuff.

ah, I guess I'm the only one who makes things that are air-gapped and don't take updates on the regular. It's hard being in my own little bubble.

I'm against this because it will require software changes.

> I wouldn't trade 4.5 years of my healthy adult life for anything

But you probably do, just not on purpose. It's smaller decisions that you don't realize involve trading 'healthy adult life' for money/convenience/pleasure/release. And of course, the work hours you put in are very directly trading healthy adult life for money.

Opportunity cost is not something that we, as humans, are particularly good at. It is of course possible that you are exceptional, in which case you can assume I'm speaking from my own fallible experience of existence.

I'm definitely not knowledgeable enough in this area (old video game implementations), I was referring to the FPU on the 486 (386 didn't have one), it seemed to me that it might be a useful thing. Interesting it is all fixed point math in Doom.

That would be interesting, I'd guess the floating point(and being twice as fast) were what really made a big difference.

It is also interesting to think that smart refrigerators and automobiles end up with significantly more capable processors and hardware than early desktops. 'Running Doom' turns into more a challenge of getting an operating system and a working C compiler onto the device than one of optimization.

I've often toyed with the thought of pushing the limits of the classic 2.5D FPS on modern hardware (without acceleration), pretty impractical being that most things have a GPU of some sort built-in at this point, but it would be interesting at least.

When GPUs became available it seems like everything kind of moved towards more 'true' 3D where everything became defined geometrically (QUAKE etc) rather than via sprites.

most likely, you could run doom on a 386 in the 90s (this seems to surpass that).

Of the ways for a species to go extinct few of them have to do with aging. So on an individual level, yes it would be a strong selector, but on a species level, it could be neutral or negative.

So agelessness isn’t a 100% win by any means.

We definitely have not seen every combination of possible genetic traits yet. To my knowledge the griffin has not yet evolved, for example.

It's not clear the other founder actually owns any more than TCF does. What makes you think TCF can be so easily pushed out or that the other founder has significantly more leverage? It isn't clear to me that they have different deals.

Honestly, if non-technical thought he could fire this guy, he probably would have already. That's why TCF is being bullied into resigning.

What is non-technical going to tell the investors when he fires the guy who keeps everything running, built everything, and did all the SEO?

Think of it this way, take the deal and you get 3% of nothing because it'll get driven into the ground.

Don't take the deal and either you keep working on it, and get 40+% of something decent, or you get N% of nothing because other guy drives it into the ground but you got a better buyout.

There's very little downside for TCF in actually sticking to his guns, and it's not like he's going to look like the asshole here.

It sounds like you own 40% of something fairly valuable and now that it's 11 months into your contract other founder who needed your help is getting greedy and trying to push you out before you are owed anything.

You said it yourself, you've grown hugely, you're dominating SEO since you joined, and built loads of products. This is your 'partner' getting greedy after you've done a lot of hard work. It wouldn't have happened without you. Don't undersell yourself.

Your 40% is worth $400k based on that initial funding valuation, right? Assuming it's as successful as you seem to be implying, it is almost certainly worth more now.

Everyone is telling you to roll over but seriously, fuck them. This other toxic guy is the one who should be getting pushed out, not you.

The other investor ultimately has power in this situation, not you or him, so whoever convinces them that they are the person to go with gets the seat and gets to continue with the project.

If he has a good relationship there you're probably fucked, but results matter... and if you can prove you've done great stuff since joining and and have great plans for the future, he can be replaced.

To be clear: this guy has decided to blow up the project so he can get a bigger share, if it all fails now he can only blame himself.

> I have spent my entire adult life amongst some very aggressive and manipulative people, and keeping a good relationship with them, while gently enforcing personal boundaries, has always been a challenge.

Okay, I’ll bite, why would you keep people like this around you? It sounds unpleasant.

Ah, yes, the classic “no true New Yorker” fallacy.

My question is how someone can justify paying $550 dollars for headphones from Apple. I can get mid-range studio quality headphones for that price, from a company that is actually focused on producing the best headphones.

Apple has a huge R&D budget and I'm sure that they could make some very nice headphones if they wanted to, but up against a company that's been making really good stuff for 40+ years, I'm skeptical. If it were an innovation thing, I'd be down to get the hot new headphone experience, but these are just wireless can headphones with some noise cancelling, a product that's been around for quite a while now.

(I've had Bose QCs for ~8 years now (the same set, mind you), I'm pretty happy with them. I'm also pretty happy with the earbuds that came with my phone. so it's not like I'm allergic to spending money on stuff I think will be worth it or I'm some audio snob).

surely a fusion reactor failing will have no consequences.

that is a really interesting tidbit of unix lore.

This is clearly because 1970 is the Unix epoch when this version of the simulation began. It took about a year for things to get sufficiently out of whack so that stuff started to diverge in a noticeable way. I hope our implementors are proud of me for making reference to the simulation that we're all in.

Interestingly this will probably mess up google search results as well. There are so many things in youtube that should have been a text post but are videos on youtube (for example how to do something technical), that somehow mysteriously come out as top results on google search. They've been rendered even more useless than they were before. I'm already not willing to sit through a video if it could have been text, but I'm sure some people are. I wonder if a slate of ads before, and during, will kill of that type of content.

Honestly, I consider the existence of such things kind of toxic, which is a weirdly extreme view, I admit, so I'm kinda rooting for these types of videos to get pushed out of the results.

you need to run your ship on iron fuel as well. I guess that is the test though, can it ship itself?

I would contest the notion that this is simply marketplace efficiency.

We’ve burned through millions of years worth of stored solar energy in the last 100 years, and not yet paid the full price for that.

That’s essentially a massive injection of capital into our system. Of course that would raise the standard of living.

Does the market have any sense of what needs to be done to preserve our goals as a species. (What are those exactly, anyway?)

Attribution of moral goodness to something that has circumstantially caused some good but lacks any moral compass doesn’t seem to be a solid rock to found your religion on.

And there are certain things that we disallow (and in fact revile) that strictly speaking would be more efficient market wise. (Buying and selling people, child labor, stuff like that).

Although capitalism deserves its due (which is a fair bit), attributing all of recent human progress to it seems a bit much.

Kinda depressing that marketplace efficiency is more compelling than moral/ethical good, but I guess it is a sign of the times.

> We don't realize that when the money people get their hands on data, that unless we are extremely editorial in the context in which they interpret and use that data, it's going to be a disaster.

This is an absolutely fantastic point and applies in more contexts than that of publishing. You absolutely must be editorial in what you present to people who are higher up in the decision process and are less able to interpret the data. It often isn't just the money people, it is also your bosses and their bosses. It is a matter of presenting things with an eye towards the best possible outcomes, and understanding where things would get confusing for someone who is only half paying attention.