glass_of_water's comments

But if a rare, global event like this happens and companies' emergency funds are mostly investments, isn't everyone going to try to liquidate their investments, crashing prices to a level where those investments aren't worth enough to keep them funded through the event?

Could you elaborate on your what your stack looks like and what tools you use other than Guix? What made you choose Guix over Nix?

How does the fed determine which corporate bonds to buy and how much it's willing to pay for those bonds?

This appears to be an appeal by Womply to direct a ton of stimulus money toward them, so that they can make loans to small businesses (instead of the Small Business Administration), and then they can take a cut of that.

I think this is an issue with both iPhone and Android. I had an iPhone 6 that was bricked by an update, but was out of warranty, so I ended up getting a Pixel phone and have been pretty happy with it.

Nit: did you mean opacity: 0?

I think a 116F tub is above what most anyone could tolerate for 45 minutes.

Just to add a data point, I joined a FAANG company at one of their east coast offices and didn't get a signing bonus.

These numbers aren't exaggerated at all. If you're making $82k in NYC with almost 10 years of experience, you got massively lowballed by your current company. Have you interviewed around lately?

Also, it's not just an issue of an intentionally backdoored compiler. The nightly could have some experimental optimization enabled, and if there's a bug in the optimization, it could introduce a vulnerability into the compiled Libra binaries.

I think part of the problem is that it's so difficult to actually measure productivity in software development.

I've found that it's much easier to eat healthy when I regularly do some form of cardio exercise at least every other day.

After working out I naturally tend toward healthy foods, maybe because I don't want to undo all of the hard work.

When I don't work out for a while, my appetite and digestion get messed up and I start boredom eating more.

I noticed the same thing. After consuming a soda a day for even just a few days I start to crave it. But if I stop drinking soda altogether, within a week the cravings go away, and I'm just as happy with water.

But it's not like Lyft would suddenly have 350 full time engineers developing new features. A large chunk of those engineers would be working on building and maintaining infrastructure that AWS provides.

I don't think so, since projection would be like taking the line between the center of the earth and the plane and finding where that intersects the surface of the earth. That doesn't depend on the trajectory of the earth through space.

I don't think the issue is controlled inflation. I think the fear is of rapid inflation caused by governments struggling to make interest payments, which could cause the value of any cash or bond positions you have to effectively go to 0.

Similar reason people find gold appealing I suppose.

That's a really interesting thought experiment, and I don't really know what my answer is.

The following choices assume that more people living an extra 30 years is a good thing ethically, and that there are no devastating effects environmentally or otherwise. The following choices also assume that you'll always have a monopoly on the production of the drug.

1. Assuming that the supply is practically unlimited, an altruistic actor should probably give it away for as close to free as possible. A purely selfish actor should probably try to sell to each individual for as much as they can afford (though this can be hard pricing strategy to enact). I suppose you might actually want to charge less than that even as a purely selfish actor, since you wouldn't want to somehow destroy the world economy by making everyone really poor except for yourself (would this actually destroy the economy though? I'm not sure... probably not relevant for the purposes of this thought experiment).

2. Assuming supply is limited, a purely altruistic actor will have to choose the most fitting recipients. This is a really tough choice. How do you define the most fitting recipients? Those who are most likely to contribute to the betterment of humanity with their extra 30 years? It seems like an almost impossible task to pick out who these people would be. A purely selfish actor should charge the richest as much as they're willing to pay.

If it were me and supply were unlimited, I'd like to think that I'd sell it for as little as possible but enough to still never have to worry about money again. Making $10 million in profit would probably be more than enough (though if you can make more and still help everyone, that'd be even better). If supply were limited, I don't know what I would do.

One thing I just realized though, is that even if supply were unlimited, if you had this godly power, you might choose to withhold it those you deem unworthy, which is a whole other ethical can of worms. I'm guessing this kind of deviates from the intent of your thought experiment though.

What's your answer?

If you're using macOS, you'll need to do sed -i "" ... (put an empty string argument after the -i flag). If the second to last argument on the command line is -i, I think on the version of sed that ships with most distros, sed assumes that the argument to -i is the empty string and that the last argument in the command is the pattern. The version that ships with macOS, on the other hand, always treats the argument after -i as the extension to use for the backup file.

> Note, that the more elaborate "neural net within neural net" approaches involve vast levels of computing power...

This is one thing I worry about, that even if we were to get closer to AGI, the algorithms/system might not feasibly run with our current computing paradigm.

How did you go about learning to compose?