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If you're ever tempted to offer your team capped PPUs, let this be a lesson to you.

I got it right the first time.

How are Altman and the openai staff not more invested in OpenAI shares?

Just remember, the guys who run your company are probably more incompetent than this.

If you have a bathtub, buy 40 lbs of ice and throw it in cold water and get in. Submerging is way better than showering.

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I would go the cooler route if I was starting today.

It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me.

Last year the market tanked pretty hard coming into November and December.

> It isnt even clear that there's a meaningful sense of 'consent' to what modern ad companies (ie., google, facebook, amazon, increasingly microsoft, etc.) do. There is both an individual harm, but a massive collective arm, to the infrastructure of behavioural tracking that has been built by these companies.

What is the individual and/or collective harm done here?

Which data center is down in PDX?

How much of each are you taking? Are you taking any blood pressure medications?

Change the tax structure to encourage businesses to pay a dividend and this will correct itself.

https://krakatoaunderwear.com/ The customer support and focus on customer experience is worth the couple of extra dollars. Also the product feels very well made.

True Classics also has really great customer support in my opinion.

Hopefully the Ozempic breakthroughs will alleviate some of the need for kidney donation as it lowers the occurrences of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

Or competent people who have grown comfortable working from home.

It definitely leaves the people who are competent in the org in a lurch.

The problems with voluntary layoffs like that is the most competent people are always the first ones to quit.

I used different agents for different transactions and I can tell you that different agents offered wildly different services. There were agents who I felt really earned their commission and agents where I thought to myself, afterwards, that robbery would have been fairer.

YoutubeTV experience is WAY better.

Here is what's being counted as slavery from your source: Forms of modern slavery include slavery by "ownership" ("chattel" slavery), government conscription (forced military service or government labor), forced prison labor, forced migrant labor, debt bondage (slavery until debts are paid), sexual slavery, forced marriage/child marriage, child labor, and forced begging. With the definition of modern slavery in mind, we can now move on to examining the statistics.

Your 13,000,000 slave number is only chattel slavery. You're comparing apples and oranges to better make your point.

I could address each of these points and show how you've taken a narrow, specific stance to focus on the negative things in the world. I could point to hundreds of instances that show your view doesn't accurately represent the current state of the world or accurately place it in the context of history. It doesn't accurately account for the scale of historic cruelty, violence, famine, war, oppression, etc.

Steven Pinker wrote a whole book dedicated to the topic and I've asked ChatGPT to give us the Clifs Notes:

Historical Rates of Homicide: Using historical records, Pinker demonstrates that the rates of homicide in prehistoric tribes and ancient civilizations were much higher than in modern societies. For example, he cites studies of prehistoric grave sites where a significant percentage of skeletons show signs of violent death.

Decline of Violent Punishments: In medieval Europe, punishments like drawing and quartering, burning at the stake, and public disembowelment were commonplace. These have been abolished in modern times in favor of more humane treatments. Wars and Battle Deaths: Despite the two World Wars, the rate of deaths in interstate wars has declined since the mid-20th century. Pinker highlights the long stretches of peace between major powers and the decline in the number of genocides post-World War II.

Slavery and Torture: Practices such as slavery, once accepted and widespread, have been abolished in most of the world. Similarly, the use of torture has seen a significant decline, especially in Western societies.

Treatment of Minority Groups: Pinker discusses improvements in the rights and treatment of women, racial minorities, children, and LGBTQ+ individuals over the past centuries. Acts like domestic violence and hate crimes, which might once have been ignored or condoned, are now prosecuted.

Animal Rights: There’s been a growing concern for the well-being of animals, leading to changes in hunting practices, animal farming, and entertainment. Child-rearing Practices: Physical punishment of children, once seen as standard, has declined in many parts of the world. Many societies now view it as unnecessary or even harmful.

Data from Non-state Societies: Pinker contrasts the rates of violent death in non-state societies (like hunter-gatherer tribes) with state societies, noting that non-state societies often have higher rates of violent death.

Comparative Data: Pinker compares different periods and cultures, illustrating that Enlightenment-era Europe was less violent than medieval Europe, and that the 20th century, despite its wars, was less violent in terms of individual risk of death than previous centuries.

People spend too much time staring into their phones, consuming simple carbohydrates, and being sedentary. The world is better than it's ever been. We just don't take good care of ourselves.

Very few things suck in the context of history.

Anybody have any real insight into why this has become a thing all of the sudden?

My company is doing RTO after claiming WFH was the new normal. We haven't seen any decrease in productivity. Is it because WFH gives employees too many choices?

You could probably have people travel for what an office in a major metro area costs.

Voters, the Democratic Party, etc.

It's more that they don't want to go the extra mile. They think they're owed something so they don't have to hustle for their spot.

Swap to using your mouse with your left hand and see how much better it is. Moving the mouse closer to where you type helps tremendously.

If 20% of the men are in "relationships" with 80% of the women, this would help to account for some of it.

Young women are dating older men. That's why younger men are in fewer relationships. Older women also skew the wrong way for similar reasons.