Doesn’t blind require you to validate via corporate email yearly or something?

As someone who previously worked at Google - they didn’t have any antiunion propaganda.

They just, like, paid well, had top tier benefits, great perks, and had a good work life balance.

The battery life is definitely worse because of it but it doesn’t bother me much

The moral absolutist, black and white view of the world: as bad as any religious nut.

Taiwan is a natural fortress as well. Even if the mainland invaded the guerilla fighting in the mountains would be a new Afghanistan for the occupying force.

All for the political victory of “we did it!”

Taiwan has few natural resources that China doesn’t already have. They mostly have high tech industry… Which would be annihilated by an invasion. No way chip fabs survive: either they get bombed while softening up a landing or they get sabotaged as a spoiling action.

It’s not a line in the sand, it’s an escalation.

Note: the latest pixel fold is about the same size and weight as the pixel 9 pro.

It’s actually kinda incredible that it is that light and thin while folding.

This is a good thing why you trying to spin it as bad?

Arbitration has always favored companies.

Snowboard, ski or surfboard wax

What I find particularly interesting is that it’s an ad they’re serving directly from their own infrastructure - ublock isn’t blocking it as an ad.

That’s pretty normal for financial charts like this though.

Nearest convenience store is 200m Chain supermarket is 200m Bus stop is 150m Library is 50m Park is 500m Train station is 800m

NYC makes everything easy

I honestly think that difference in opinion speaks highly of Banks as an author - the books speak to us differently and he wrote diverse enough stories that they capture each person separately.

Big disagree on the best - Use of Weapons, Surface Detail and Consider Phlebas are the favorites of my partner and me.

Not that the 3 listed are bad just that I like my 3 more :)

3.4bn is their gross - we have no idea what their operating costs are since they refuse to share them.

Some estimates say they’re burning 8 billion a year.

The latest releases ChatGPT 4o costs $600/hr per instance to run based on the discussion I could find about it.

If OpenAI is running 1k of those models to service the demand (they’re certainly running more since queries can take 30+ seconds) then that’s 200M/yr just keeping the lights on.

If “your own research” never makes you change your opinions then you’re not doing research, you’re looking for confirmation.

You’re always wrong about something. Figure out what it is.

Misread another comment on the 40 part - my bad.

Good luck yourself - Everyone’s journey is different. My ADHD was crippling for decades and it worked out. I hope yours does too - but if it doesn’t ever quite work out I hope you give yourself the grace and the space to be imperfect.

Every single word in the original post clarifies more than plain English. It is more specific and has better nuance than a plain translation.

That doesn’t make it a useful explanation because the audience of the statement is not the in-group using the jargon.

One part of my daily job is translating “technical” into “manager”. The translation always loses fidelity to the original. Jargon exists because it’s useful, not because there’s a deliberate attempt to keep others out. Some will then use it as a shibboleth but that does not mean it’s original purpose was such.

For what it’s worth: that’s true of all translations. I’ve done real time translation from Italian into English and it’s always missing the nuance of the original. I’ve read the divine comedy in English and Italian and the English is always missing the context and nuance.

Language is an abstract representation of concepts and never maps faithfully.