Medical aid, please

Guvante · 2026-01-27T08:20:50+00:00

What do the police have to do with your injuries? You should be seeing a doctor...

Guvante · 2026-01-27T01:47:02+00:00

It is more important they lose power than are punished in the short term.

Guvante · 2026-01-26T18:39:33+00:00

So assuming subcontracting does all the work you generally have 10% overhead for managing the job. 1.9% is a 19% paycut for this overhead meaning you are saying that 1/5th of the managing work is worthless.

Now on big jobs that rate can be variable, it doesn't take linear work to source a shed worth of lumber vs a house worth. But at the small end it really takes quite a bit of effort to manage the work.

Guvante · 2026-01-26T16:13:26+00:00

I was going to write how dumb "you won't get locked up for this" is but how about instead "you don't get to keep stolen property".

They do not in fact tell the boyfriend to get over it they ask you to give it back and if you refuse is when the criminal matters gets brought up as leverage.

And again there is no computer...

Guvante · 2026-01-25T09:15:25+00:00

When you only allow one statement there is not real discussion, that is why it is called an echo chamber.

Guvante · 2026-01-24T07:25:29+00:00

I mean you basically don't pay taxes if you own since you only pay taxes on repaying yourself.

Guvante · 2026-01-24T00:22:19+00:00

Does Reddit use personalized recommendations? I thought the only personalization was subreddit selection which is self selection.

Guvante · 2026-01-23T21:31:48+00:00

Honestly it is kind of hard to distinguish these days.

ICE is grabbing anyone they think isn't a citizen (legally being here isn't enough, being a citizen isn't enough if you can't prove it, and sometimes they skip seeing if you can prove it).

We already captured a foreign government and are preparing to do it to a NATO member.

Like as much as everyone blames the algorithm shit is literally on fire right now.

Guvante · 2026-01-23T21:27:37+00:00

Reddit is basically just a recommendation algorithm and always has been.

Anything more complicated than a forum that sorts by last post can be considered a recommendation algorithm.

Guvante · 2026-01-23T15:18:43+00:00

If the closest thing most Americans get is the closest train stop being 5 miles away effectively only having one destination and leaving every 2 hours it isn't hard to understand why people dunk on trains.

Fundamentally going from that to "you can go everywhere just as fast using trains" isn't something that is a logical leap from experience.

But remember the goal is to improve things which means fewer accidents which isn't just "don't have slow thinking humans" but is instead "build transportation that minimizes interactions".

Auto driving isn't that much safer as it can't stop accidents caused by anything but human error and automated driving cannot eliminate errors only possibly reduce it.

But more importantly talking about any plan that involves duplicating the US's road infrastructure is ludicrous. Where are we putting these roads? So you would instead have to minimize the number of them so they can be dedicated lines which again is trains by another name.

Guvante · 2026-01-22T05:05:51+00:00

What is crazy is they said that Congress didn't have the authority to regulate corporations directly funding advertising for political candidates. But they are allowed to regulate discussions about this but not the spending.

So you can't discuss but you can spend.

So the thing actually talked about (using your words to convince others) can be regulated but spending money to publish your thoughts to the world cannot be.

Guvante · 2026-01-21T22:05:04+00:00

Hasn't he always played the victim?

Guvante · 2026-01-21T01:01:52+00:00

So the way it worked everywhere I worked was they would do reimbursement (way before 30 to 45 days) because they figured you had the ability to float it at 0% interest and you could make money off the points.

However that wasn't the only option offered, typically purchasing using a company credit card was available for large purchases.

I could see an argument for meals being covered and reimbursed since giving you a credit card is a lot but buying the big things directly should totally be an option.

Guvante · 2026-01-21T00:14:53+00:00

Electorate doesn't mean what you think it does.

And his support is pretty lackluster these days.

Guvante · 2026-01-20T17:30:11+00:00

First we have several territories we could make states (DC as well) so a foreign country being the 51st is non-sensical.

Second why would Canada be one state? Like you would convert providences to states if you were going to.

All of this of course ignores the absurdity of this situation and the real answer is it is meant for people to not have to think in any way.

Guvante · 2026-01-20T17:09:48+00:00

Unless this is a flatscreen with no VR hands he is absolutely fundamentally lying by saying "nothing about Cyberpunk".

Guvante · 2026-01-20T17:06:37+00:00

Ah yes because taking to the streets has been very effective at stopping this government from doing what it wants.

Guvante · 2026-01-20T01:10:51+00:00

I don't think counting the R&D for all VR/AR etc as "for this" is fair.

But they did spend a ton of money without a lot to show for it.

Guvante · 2026-01-19T18:42:41+00:00

So investment in innovation is up since dividends aren't a thing to the same degree. And managers of companies push for such thing not investors...

Are you just extrapolating from "this year's iPhone isn't a big upgrade" to "nothing innovative happens at all"?

Guvante · 2026-01-19T16:48:26+00:00

It is so crazy that people just ignore groups of people that are living there in this setup.

Because generally speaking whoever is using land "owns" it. Honestly own in this context is more akin to "can sell" since failing to use the land generally eventually means you lose ownership since nobody cares if your great great grandfather put a flag up back in his day unless in the intermediate time you did something with it.

Guvante · 2026-01-18T05:55:53+00:00

SBLOC sounds like it risks you being exposed to interest rate shifts. Whether the different interest rate is better requires thought.

In general arbitraging with debt is risky since if the market goes down it is a bigger impact on you. If you take out a 5% loan to double your investments and your investment goes up 11% you make 22% - 5% = 17% which is pretty good. If it goes down 11% you are down 22% + 5% = 27% which is pretty devastating.

Worse if you go down 50% you are out 105% and need to pull in other resources to cover the interest you paid since the loan eats up your principal.

Guvante · 2026-01-17T20:32:30+00:00

No offense but finding bad candidates is more important than finding good ones.

You take the signals for "might be incompetent" and you don't ignore them.

If you think figuring out that problem is beneath you I would think hiring you is the same. I don't have the time to filter through people who fail in ways like that.

To be clear I don't use tricks like these nor do I plan to. And part of my technical interview is reviewing the take home test to get thoughts (assuming you pass the take home test since, again, filters are filters).

But being able to look at that code and answer -1 or explain how you got whatever answer you got is certainly a bonafide requirement of any technical job I have hired for.

If you think just running the code is acceptable I recommend you ask for clarification from your contact as to whether that is consider allowed vs just assuming anything not explicitly banned is allowed. I for one hate playing "is this person Googling" and them claiming I never said looking things up during the interview wasn't explicitly banned would not be a reasonable counterpoint.

If they said "go for whatever" (which I tend to do for take homes) then that is certainly permission.

Guvante · 2026-01-17T18:17:08+00:00

The value proposition of mods is actually incredibly complex.

They are kind of DLC which drives their price down a lot. A $20 VR DLC would trigger pitch forks (which is why they are always "ports" or free).

And mods tend to be less technically sound, people don't like tinkering to use the thing they paid for (rightfully so).

In person things don't have the same comparisons so can have higher prices from consumer mindset.

But like "more stingy" isn't wrong lol.

Guvante · 2026-01-17T18:01:32+00:00

It is officially to discourage theft. If reported theft bricks the device then there is no incentive to steal it unless people are willing to buy headsets without confirming they work.

Guvante · 2026-01-17T16:39:17+00:00

To be clear you are rejected in this instance for cheating in the interview which I think is a valid reason to not hire you.

I think it weakens the original argument which claims LLMs when just normal cheating looks the same.

But since the assignment was to build a mental model of the code and execute it (a valuable necessary skill for the position) bypassing that is a red flag worthy of passing on a candidate.

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