There’s a huge black market for tobacco products here in Australia and it’s completely legal, simply having the tax on it so high has led to massive smuggling operations, black market cigarettes in many convenience stores, and a fire bombing epidemic of those same convenience stores for carrying competitors black market cigs. It doesn’t even need to be illegal. Just too expensive.
Probably because they went around the moon which is perceived as not for profit endeavour to further humanity, unlike SpaceX polluting space with its outrageous satellites. I’m aware that SLS is just a jobs programme, but despite that the whole premise of Artemis is a little more visionary.
Mate, ICBMs were solved decades ago, SLS is a jobs program.
Yes? What’s your point? Was the land irreversibly damaged by their fighting over land? Surely you can’t be trying to compare the ecological impacts tribal warfare to modern industry?
The wildest part of Lao Gan Ma is sodium if you ask me. Some of the Chinese import ones are over 1000mg per serve, though the domestically made ones are a bit healthier. That said, you’re probably not using 4 tsp of the stuff in most things.
Over a full career, saving 10% of your salary can allow you to live comfortably in retirement with minimal government pensions. Depends on your overall salary of course, but 10% is a good start. 250 euro a month tucked away in an account that only earns a very mediocre 5% per annum would still have you almost 400k after a 40 year career. Obviously investing more and getting a better return could lead to much much more than that. A 400k annuity at retirement age would basically continue to pay 3k a month for well, as long as you need it.
Pretty safe bet I’d say, google is going strong in the AI race and has more capital and resources than any AI startup, OpenAI included, could ever hope to match. The latest Gemini models are the top of the pack. Google also probably best positioned to best handle any downside risk if the bubble pops due to their diversity, so I suppose it’s also a bit of a hedge in that regard.
Scientific consensus is that we now recognise and diagnose autism better than ever. Previously children that struggled in school would be labelled as troubled or slow or any number of other things. The thing about autism is that like many other things it is a spectrum, and thus previously many people with mild autism would have just cruised through and been thought of as odd or antisocial. Often when really questioned, people like your parents can think of a few people like this from their school days that might now fit the definition of autism spectrum disorder.
Also, it’s worth noting that human DNA does not and cannot degrade in any manner you suggest and that kind of reasoning has unscientific and innapropriate connotations that might associate you with very disagreeable groups.
It’s basically a fact that companies that make their office desirably to be at in general get better attendance. Cheap food, good culture, good facilities all contribute. Even then, if you’re at a shitty flex desk most people would much rather the comfort of their own desk, screens, peripherals. I think a huge amount of companies underinvest in this area. You have to make working from the office genuinely more enticing than working from home and one of the biggest factors here is costs. It takes an epic culture to override that cost imperative.
From the culture side:
Run events to draw people into the office. I organise takeaway once a week and it sucks heaps of people into the office for a good lunch, but really the business should facilitate that or comp it even because I’ve clearly proven it gets people in the office and motivated.
Design the office for collaboration, prioritise mobility so the office can be restructured for the work at hand. Minimise underused desks. I work in engineering so relocating to other desks is a huge pain when you have to bring all your hardware with you (power supplies, debuggers, oscilloscopes, programming jigs etc.) I wish my business had rolling desks or some kind of nice system for allowing these setups to move quickly and easily.
From the cost perspective:
Free or very cheap food is a huge huge perk. People hate packing and prepping a lunch in advance but it’s almost always cheaper to do that or just work from home.
Free laundry is a great suggestion, save energy and water bills by doing it at the office. On-site gyms are a great incentive if they can cater to the demand because a gym membership costs a ridiculous amount.
Free EV fast charging is basically free fuel, helps cut back on that commuting cost. Or alternatively supplement public transit expenses, ebikes or even car service costs.
I’d even pitch giving employees a budget to get their own screens, keyboard, mouse etc if they make an effort to come in often enough.
Whatever it is, the more a business goes out of its way to make the office a cool place to be, and not cost more to be at than home, the more people will attend.
There probably are inefficiencies in any government that do add up to some savings, but it would be in the process and methods and not the stupid shit DOGE honed in on. They skipped the whole reason people are typically made redundant and just downsized teams that actually did need that many people. They went for the smash and grab to try and show big savings quickly without actually doing any real work.
It’s been dead for a while, I jumped ship to Summit. Pretty similar vibe, works well and I’m happy.
I wonder if no one is left at Microsoft that knows enough about the core systems to actually improve those… So the best they can do is throw more shit on top
I see this all the time with CAPL, copilot gets close but messes so much up its not worth it. Not enough on stack overflow to train it, and until recently the docs weren’t even available online to crawl.
Are you talking about sustainable/ethical investments? Because that’s straight up incorrect, on average sustainable funds (often called ESG for “ethical, social, governance”) outperform the market. Commonwealth bank, one of Australia’s big four banks would not be making this move to end loans to the fossil fuel industry if it was genuinely going to impact their bottom line.
Doordash and uber eats take a 40-50% cut from the restaurant when a driver delivers the food. Other platforms take 20ish percent if the restaurant does the delivering. I’m sure you could establish some kind of self hosted network where each restaurant runs their own machine that provides some of the compute. It would have to scale really well with such a decentralized system. You’d probably have to let the restaurants individually decide the amount they want to pay the drivers, and even then it would take a long time to build up a network of drivers. I think there would be a lot more problems with a decentralized approach though as you’d now have to let restaurants figure out disputes with drivers and customers when food goes missing and things. Pros and cons, and a lot of effort.
Does this put your standard US citizen on the same level as Saudi or Qatari slave?
Summit just added a side by side tablet mode. I haven’t tried it on a tablet but worth a look, I like summit.
It’s an amazing game for the engineer brained, finally got the principles of air conditioning through to me playing on Vulcanus and Venus!
It looks like a barrel chest, which can be a symptom of lung conditions like COPD, or just being old. Other rumours suggested it can happen because of steroid usage without appropriate accompanying exercise. Elon does seem like the kind of person who would use steroids without exercising.