Looking to meet hackers and entrepreneurs in the New York area.
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If life's a game where you try to get the best score you can, more years gives you more chances to rack up points. Philosophically* there's nothing more important, and therefore nothing has more meaning than this.
* different people can have different philosophies on life
Liberal vs conservative is not the binary that you should be looking at here, but rather just vs corrupt. It's okay if a ruling ideologically favors one side or the other, but it's not okay if it the court trends toward "our guy can do whatever he wants".
Meta monetizes content. AI makes it easier and cheaper to create content. If everyone has access to high quality AI, high quality content may be more plentiful and that content can be posted on Meta's platforms, which would make it more money.
Someone at work said something to the effect of "Oh, this would be great for an intern but we don't have one this year" to which I responded "sure you do, its name is Copilot".
If that's the case, imagine if you were trying to buy games back in the SNES days. The cost for many new games was the same or higher in absolute dollars as today, but much higher if you do the calculation to 2025 dollars.
The end user benefits are none of the things you mentioned. Mechanical watches are jewelry. They look nice, and hopefully they remind you of something. For many people it's a connection to something cool. Omega sells a lot of moon watches, and it's not because anyone buying them is going to use the chronograph to time a fuel burn with life or death stakes. You're probably not wearing your Daytona at the race track or using your Longines watch for anything Amelia Earhart or Howard Hughes did. But it's fun to think about how you have a tool with a historical connection - whether that is to history everyone knows, or something more personal to you.
Compare the subway map with a real map of New York and you'll find that it leads you to all kinds of wrong ideas about directions, distances and relative positions of things.
When I used to do this (and I feel safe talking about it because I haven't done this in many years), I also kept a document that listed any such exceptions. Generally the document would just say something like "mixed case, number, symbol" which was enough to remind me what I did.
The salary cap for most federal employees is $195,200 - that's the max for any level of experience. Big law firms are paying 225,000 for new grads and it goes up quickly from there. The median software engineer salary in the bay area is 260K. There are a lot of careers where a smart and motivated person could instantly be doing better switching from public to private.
Calling the USA just America is like if Taiwan called itself just China. Yes it's common within the USA, but for the rest of the people who live in America, it seems strange.
It shouldn't be hard to understand why absolute power in the hands of yourself is the best political system. Since everyone can't be king, their next preference is going to be absolute power in the hands of someone who has their interests in mind. Unfortunately, we live in a world where people have varied interests and you can't really trust that anyone is fully aligned with you anyway.
In the US, yes, but in New York we generally just pile up our trash bags on the sidewalk on garbage day. We don't have alleyways between our buildings and most of the street space is taken up by free car storage.
What? A majority of New Yorkers don't own cars, and besides that the city government isn't exactly in a position to do much of anything to you if you challenge its "authoritarian regime".
Going to add to the chorus here. One of the reasons these things are so successful is that it kind of kills the crave factor of eating. You don't get that feeling where you feel like you want to keep eating something addictive like pizza or fries just because it's there. It's why the packaged food companies are freaking out - all their work to engineer snacks where they can "bet you can't eat just one" is defeated by these, at least for now.
Section 230 of the communications decency act explicitly gave these companies this power, on purpose. Unmoderated online spaces are mostly useful to scammers and spammers.
This is one of those cases where a word can have multiple meanings. And anyway, prejudice based on national origin is, in fact, frowned upon no matter what you call it.
It is actually very easy to obtain compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide right now if you qualify for a prescription and can pay a few hundred dollars a month.
It's completely different from software engineering interviews. The process you described for airline pilots gets to the actual qualifications for the job. Whereas for software engineers, literally no one needs to reverse a binary tree yet they base the decision on in large part on this sort of question. Ideally, the BS would be encapsulated in a certification so that interviews can focus on the real useful stuff.
Generally when you own a condo you own the building and the land collectively with the other unit owners, and there is no other outside owner that you are beholden to. The building is managed either directly by the owners or else in larger buildings there is a democratically elected board that oversees outside management.
As a typical American, I have no idea what the flag of England (or the UK) looks like despite being fairly well educated. When this flag for language thing comes up I usually end up doing some kind of guess and check thing to find English. Since this doesn't happen very often I always forget which one I'm supposed to pick.