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Yep, ditto. You can sometimes score good deals on meat that’s turned brown from oxidization because it’s unsellable to most folks. Tastes fine, same nutritional value

And yes, to your point, you will eventually rack up a ton up health problems with this lifestyle… to the articles point, being poor is expensive. It you have the option to not be poor, definitely take it!!

I can say with 100% certainty there was not 30 minutes to cook dinner alone.

At a certain point you’re balancing how much sleep you need to perform at work (4-5 hours) and the amount of time you’d spend commuting and working (~16 hours a day). When you throw in errands, cleaning, maintenance, and maybe 30 minutes in passing period leisure, there really isn’t time to cook.

The last number I’d heard was that around 100/year starve to death in the US, but I suspect that number is higher when including deaths from folks who incur fatal health conditions from insufficient nutrition.

True, banana + frozen burritos / pizza for protein and fat are an excellent combo in this situation

Oh, bananas are god tier — I probably ate 2-3 a day for years. But you can’t live off them. 5+ Bananas a day really made me feel sick during some lean times. Nutritionally also pretty poor for sustenance, no fat or protein, and they digest very quickly.

I mean —- have you been poor? I can say when my mom and I were dirt poor, we literally didn’t have the time. My mom didn’t take benefits mainly due to pride, but all the foods you mention were way out of her time / price bucket

I kind of hate that your being downvoted b/c your perspective here is a very common one.

It’s not just a matter of unit price, but also time, convenience, and cal/$. Fruit / veg in general is pretty expensive when looked at from a cal/$ perspective — you pay for a lot of water there. Potatoes, beans, rice are pretty slow cooking, and require dealing with dishes after.

So for my single mom, it was pretty hard to provide anything but

1) fast food (decent cal/$, extremely convenient)

2) microwaveable tv dinners (Meh cal per dollar, but long shelf life, extremely convenient)

3) PB / lunch meat sandwiches (basically god tier for poor chow)

For reference, my mom worked many jobs and got maybe 4-5 hrs sleep a night. Adding 30 minutes for a days worth of meals was a lot.

Using % virgins bucketed by IQ as a proxy for the attractiveness of intelligence is severely dumb. It requires that all of these individuals are equally chasing after non-virginityhood, which definitely is not the case. A more plausible explanation of the data is that smart people are more likely to not bang early, for reasons (of which, 1) there are many and two) smart ppl are probably more inclined to consider)

For the statement “people select for entropy minimization” to mean anything in this context, it has to be so 1) general and 2) metaphorical that it could be more plainly put as:

“People like what they like”

Tautologically, this is correct

Yeah so this is an interesting point, the non-utility thst may secretly be a utility. See also net neutrality and censorship claims there.

You could make a similar argument for news, another non-utility. They seem to have a model where outlets have a distinct pov that guides a variety of informal and formal censorship. Right wing doesn’t write stuff that looks bad for them, left wing too, local news follow local interests, etc.

Ok, so if you’re the only one thinking it’s a problem, and assuming they’re not simultaneously and uniquely non-rational, there may be some logic to this. Questions:

- is the code / models / software expected to last a long time? Are these prototypes by another name?

— will you actually have to pay for that tech debt one day? Are you paying for it now? Or Are there strong business winds that might require a total change or shift regardless of code quality?

- are the products / hacks / software components strongly coupled? Are there strong dependencies between each team members output, causing you to be blocked on un hacking the hacks?

- how much technical communication is expected to be person to person, ad hoc? is there an expectation that when you need to use or work with someone’s component, you should promptly sync with them?

I say this as someone who 1) loves code quality 2) has worked in testing tools dev 3) has also worked on early stage teams.

And sometimes, when you’re early stage, the highest value you can deliver is understanding what you’re actually trying to build. Hence, lots of Prototypes, experiments, measured hacks, differing conventions, etc.

Now, all my prototyping days I’d say code quality was high (devs cared). But while tests and docs were super impressive, often they weren’t that impactful.

Could someone explain to me how twitter has any legal obligation to provide a platform supporting all types of 1A protected content? Doesn’t that violate the owner of twitters 1A rights?

If I owned a message board, and started deleting users post at random, or because of personal taste, would that be a 1A violation? I may or may not be an asshole, but it’s my message board.

There are other parallels I can draw, but these are honest questions.

I don’t think 99.9% of people have the choice between a Honda or a Porsche (… or either of the two), so this list is probably aimed at a much more narrow group.

Do you really not know why weed attracts Reddit tier jokes? Or is this post an ultra meta Reddit joke

Calling TikTok a market of free ideas is almost like an oxymoron when it’s beholden to a party that jails dissenting journalists.

“Sliding down a dinosaur’s tail”? What does that mean? Never heard the idiom before

Edit: is this a flintstones ref?

Did anyone else have to read this title several times to parse it? "Twitter features _that_ Mastodon is better for not having" is better, but still seems strange

edit: I think what trips me up is that "features" is used here as a noun but because of it's placement in the sentence I want to read it like a verb

Interesting, I can see this as lending implies some due diligence into a companies financials. At the same time, at the personal level, I know I can get lines of credit that would be very tough for me to pay back. Is corporate borrowing much more stringent?

What do you mean by “use”? I randomly will download insta, scroll, feel cringe and uninstall. Does that count as using?

I've worked in small start ups before, but all boot strapped out of pocket / revenue. Wouldn't having to borrow money constantly be a red flag that the business is bad / not profitable?

FWIW, I did google it, and in Caravaggio's case we know some of the women's names who he used as models (and their occupation did seem to line up with what's suggested by the factoid).

I'm somewhat afraid to google for sources from a work machine, but the factoid that renaissance artists (amongst others) used prostitutes as models was circulated by lecturers in my art history classes. Could still be popular speculation.

If you ever want someone else to work with you on that, I atleast would be very interested

The problem is not all codes are meaningless regulation, and some of the important ones are indeed expensive (and vice versa). If you yolo it, you get cases like the Grenfell tower fire, and a lot of people literally die.

Re: the “hard” stems, maybe? They have a clearer function as a certificate pipeline, but in terms of prep I find it difficult to quantify. There’s also limited positions at the end of this pipeline (medicines a killer example, academia, research). Are we creating better candidates or more positions with stem programs? Or just more candidates who 1) don’t find positions or 2) don’t end up with relevant skills for the roles they take.

(Incidentally, I think CS is a very good place to invest, precisely because there’s a lot of demand, start up cost for self employment is low, and applicability is super broad)

The strange thing is I as a SWE interviewer generally find an engineering degree to not be indicative of engineering talent, over say, a masters in underwater basket weaving. I’m not sure dumping money into stem education does anything, or if any field of study is “proven productive.”

I tend to think of yak shaving as the annoying but _necessary_ activity of fixing things you need to fix to close your bug. Not frivolous refactors. More like adding decent logging to a complex system, cause otherwise, how will you know why your feature doesn’t work?

The tell for me is the nonsense in the details of the image which aren’t super noticeable in the macro. Some of the faces aren’t faces.