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Good call. I mean "citizen" in the general sense like "person who lives under Rome" but wasn't thinking that "citizen" had a very specific meaning in the Roman context. I edited my answer

And also rely on a lot less infantry so casualties are lower. Even with as brutal as Russia-Ukraine is, the total number of military men killed is comparable to a single decent-sized WWII battle

The Romans were also up against some adversaries who fought desperately to not be Roman. Somewhat off topic, but I’ll bring it up anyway, it must have been better to have lived in a Gallic or Germanic or Iberian tribe than to have lived as a Roman ~citizen~ person if they were willing to die than submit. I’m sure honor had something to do with it, but the general trend seen in the archaeological record in the Middle East and North America is that people got shorter and had more teeth problems as they settle down into civilization than when they were hunter/gatherers or lived in settled communities for no more than a few years before hitting the proverbial road again. I’m sure the same thing applies in Europe during the Roman age.

The best boss I ever had asked me to whiteboard factorial recursively. I don't think it needs to be much harder than that to see if someone can solve a basic problem and knows—at least basic—CS stuff.

I won't work at a company that goes crazy with the leetcoding

Pretty good I gotta say. More emphasis on business/economic issues than the Times

I'm early-30s and found out this week that the tendonitis in my foot that the doctor swore would clear up "in a month or two" with ice, ibuprofen, and stretching, is actually arthritis. My hair's getting a little thin too. Feeling like I'm past my peak really isn't sitting well with me

I have subscriptions to the Economist (never had a problem pausing or canceling my subscription), the Athletic for sports (they always give me a huge discount when I try to cancel), and since the war in Ukraine started I have subscriptions the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal for $4/month each (those will be a pain in the ass to cancel).

If you're worried about canceling and getting billed, put it on a credit card, and if you still get billed dispute the charge as "unauthorized" and block the merchant

"Coming Next in the Pixel Hunt Series. This children's hospital network is giving kids' names to Facebook."

That's as good a teaser as I've ever seen

> Former regulators, health data security experts, and privacy advocates who reviewed The Markup’s findings said the hospitals in question may have violated the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The law prohibits covered entities like hospitals from sharing personally identifiable health information with third parties like Facebook, except when an individual has expressly consented in advance or under certain contracts.

> Neither the hospitals nor Meta said they had such contracts in place, and The Markup found no evidence that the hospitals or Meta were otherwise obtaining patients’ express consent.

How do you make a defense side gig work? From my experience, it's a very 9-5 sector

The answer always seemed obvious to me. There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next --Robert Ford, Westworld

As I understand it, the stinky bacteria feed off some of the stuff in your sweat so I assume a lot of them would die

Not that I've noticed

> Run for office

Many counties and cities also have boards that normal citizens can join. It's usually not too hard to get on it if you can make a good case like "I live in the community, this is important to me, I have experience in this area." Good thing to do if you don't want to get as involved as running for office. You also might meet some important people in local government

> Surgery for appearance or comfort

I'm kind of a sweaty guy so I got miradry in my arm pits. They lasered out something like 80% of my sweat glands under my arms and it makes a big difference. I don't sit somewhere feeling absolutely disgusting worried that I stink. You can do it for your hands too if you have sweaty palms. Cost me like $2000.

I'm going to start some hair treatments here soon because it's getting thinner than I like up top

I've always done well at big companies because I'm good at going around and talking to people trying to smooth the friction. Consider looking at the friction like some detective work and the opportunity to get some exercise

Have you gone into your bank and asked about additional security measures? For my credit union, I have a call center password I have to give them and mom's maiden name is not mom's maiden name. I think—I'd have to double check—but I think I had them put a note in my file that I would have to go into unlock my account and show 2 forms of ID

Policies can inform judges decision which inform precedent so I don't think this is worthless

There’s this Western conception of Buddhism that stripes away a lot of the religious beliefs—Siddhartha wasn’t divine at all, there is no Amitabha, Ksitigarbha is a folk tale. The emphasis is all on practice. Meditation, the 4 noble truths, Middle Way, etc.

This doesn’t represent true Buddhism like Asians would recognize it, but I think it does highlight how you can build a practice and adopt the world outlook without the supernatural.

A low-level Zen inspired practice may be what you’re looking for

Not just guns but spy satellites. You can spend your whole career in defense and be directly responsible for exactly 0 weapons, just helping to find things in satellite images or make sense of signal data or help naval vessels communicate better

For older workers it can actually be easier because people move a lot in their 20s. A worker in their 40s might only have to list 3 addresses where a kid 2 years out of college might have to list like 5--one for every dorm and their parents and their first apartment

Tangential to this piece: if you're worried about ageism, consider going into to defense and aerospace. Lots of older developers because of the clearance requirement

My favorite is the one he did at 25 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/...

Abstract, but not as crazy as the ones he did after he turned 50

I think you can say this about a lot of 20th century artists. Most of them could paint like the masters if they wanted, but point has changed somewhat. Where a famous picture of Napoleon was painted to commemorate an like this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/David_-_...

we use photography for the same thing

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Raising_...

This increases the value of the artistic side of painting relative to the technical side.

That said, Jackson Pollock sucks and I'll die on that hill

I use an S10e. Love it. It's not small-small but def small by todays standards. Probably switching to an iPhone here soon

70% would be fine because you don't need to run desalination all the time. We can store water in watertowers and draw down when we need it

Desalination, yes. But we don't need nuclear to power it. A bunch of the energy can be pulled from the ocean through either tidal stream turbines or wave power. Renewables work well here because you don't need to store the energy you can just generate the power and immediately use it. No long-term storage. No long-distance transit. And (I assume) water use roughly tracks energy use.

The new generation geothermal is also something that we should be exploring in areas that aren't earthquake prone (which is basically everything from Denver to Las Vegas)

> The FAA is in a lose-lose position. Be conservative and everyone bitches about how they're holding back progress. Be "flexible" and allow the MAX and everyone rips them a new one saying "they should have known".

It's not one or the other. They can allow innovation and still keep things safe. In fact, it's their job

> which raises the question on why VTOL rules weren't applied right from the start.

I've had limited dealings with the FAA but my overall impression is they struggle to deal with change.

They don't handle medical certifications well—God help you if you take an antidepressant and want to fly a plane, they failed on the 5G-radio altimeter issue, they can't approve a leadless fuel despite having one that passes all their tests and meets their standards, and now this.

The Salvator Mundi definitely seems inferior. There's something very unnatural about the right hand. I can't get my hand in that position and I'm not disabled. The glass orb in the left hand doesn't seem to refract any light at all—I can't imagine as scientifically minded of a painter as Leonardo settling for this. And the eyes...it just has this derpy look

Matthew Landrus and other art historians argue it came from Leonardo's workshop and Leonardo may have contributed some of the brush strokes—I have no problem believing that. But I just don't see this as a Leonardo