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How Hot Was It Last Year?(nytimes.com)
3 points by hotpotamus 3y ago|1 comments
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Interestingly, it sounds a bit like you read an article in The Atlantic yesterday about chaos theory and the current state of the world[0]. But of course it's just fairly obvious to anyone who pays attention. I think that this kind of
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
South Texas, so you also need to speak Spanish. If you paid equipment operators here $200K+/year, you'd have to hire security to control the crowd of people beating down your door to apply for a job.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Would you rather work at a McDonald's mopping up puke for $14/hour, driving heavy equipment in a heat index of 120 degrees for $20/hour, or anything an MBA might be expected to do?
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Just make sure and get him into a competitive preschool since I'm sure recruiters will be looking at that by the time he's applying for a job.
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I worked at a company that at one point was actually open minded and cared more about the work than a lot of trivialities (till it grew up, got acquired by private equity, and became an empire of bullshit), and there was an employee who was
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
And for some reason it's a mystery why people are having few or no kids these days.
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Getting too old to have them anyway.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
As I get older, I become ever more sure that I do not want children. In younger days, I would have said it was more of a feeling, but the more I think about it, the more I can articulate reasons, many of them worldly/material, for that
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I used to think that inequality explained everything, but perhaps I've grown up a bit and now I think it just explains most things. I attended a lecture by Robert Sapolsky some years ago and he was quite big on studying stress response
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
> There are very few people who would buy a car without any screens, ui or infotainment. I really don't get this - just put a space in the dash where I can stick a phone that charges it and connects to the car audio. I have an old G
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I once needed to haul a bunch of tile and my dad was out of town with his truck that I normally borrowed at the time. My grandmother offered the use of her minivan and I balked that there was no way it could handle the weight. We looked it
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Kids are always signed up to live in the society of their parents' and get no say in the matter. The Earth is an incredibly complex system on its own and humanities collective action to change the carbon content of the atmosphere is al
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I believe the implications are mass unemployment, but given that I've seen approximately zero progress in robotics in my adult life (I guess the robot vacuums are a bit better than my Bush-era Roomba), I suppose the burger-flippers wil
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I think back 10 years and I was pretty pessimistic about where we would be now, but I think things have mostly turned out worse than I expected. I can’t imagine being a child these days with the increasingly bleak future they’re facing, and
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I don't believe costs will decrease because they never have in my lifetime, and I don't think I can be called a young adult any more. I'd be happy if they did though.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I suspect wisdom is not having children when you can't afford to take care of them. Just ensuring that my own medical care is met is a challenge - to add a couple kids to that equation is a terrifying notion. School and housing certain
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Or perhaps they think they should have what their parents had 20 years ago when they were children and their parents were in their 20's?
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
What do you mean have at least $100K? Like in one of their savings accounts? You can get 5% APY right now from Wealthfront in their savings, so you'd have to forgo a lot of interest to get that extra 0.625% over Citi's credit card
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Interestingly, I'd say that the answer to the Fermi Paradox is that life is almost guaranteed not to find a way.
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I was literally in a meeting this morning where a co-worker mentioned he had reached out to Cloudflare a few days ago to ask about buying services and has not gotten a response. Certainly not a great start.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I’ve ordered bees through the mail before; it’s quite a common way to get them actually.
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There are around 5 million uninsured people in my state, and the Republicans are talking about cancelling the ACA again because apparently that isn’t enough.
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Those kids are still probably going to need health insurance and food and all that. Probably better for the parents to remain employed.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
It all feels quite postmodern to me; like it's all made up as you go along. Try to ask how much something is going to cost in a medical context and they'll usually look at you like you're stupid (and I mean like a shoulder x-
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Well most humans do, but psychopaths (and I speak from personal experience) probably do not, and the smarter among them tend to do really well in the American corporate context.
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If this is merely the result of a change in weather, then Sundar Pichai must be the god of the winds.
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I'll be the cynical, grizzled old vet today and be the one to tell you that I've never seen a technical solution to an organization/social problem ever solve anything; it's a common misconception of young engineers (of w
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I've never really been interested in straight development, though I do enjoy the occasional coding session. I'd say at this point, I'm ops through and through, and I feel that the value I add is understanding the systems and
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In the US there are also taxes and a huge expense in the form of private health insurance - my employer says costs increased 9% this year. I don’t know that it balances, but there are additional costs to employers in the US as well.

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