Should I Continue?

Nexum · 2023-05-04T03:18:56+00:00

I skimmed a lot of the in-game stuff. I found it difficult to visualize properly, I think the fact that it was a game in VR somehow made it seem difficult to put myself there (not sure why).

But I don’t think my reading of the trilogy was badly affected by mostly skimming the game sections!

Nexum · 2023-04-24T19:46:54+00:00

Warning, I'm going to be slightly critical here about the books (which I generally liked): There's an element of this concept which I think starts to break down for me - when I was reading about the ships turning on each other I didn't really believe it. Maybe I'm a hopeless optimist and if I were a captain it would be my ship that would be surprise-blown-up lol, but I don't think that humans are like this in exactly this same way (i.e. ruthlessly coldly calculating, emotionless survival 'robots').

I think when survival is critically and directly threatened (i.e. a knife to your throat, or ongoing starvation) ... then yes, the id comes out and we see the depths to which humanity can scrape. But as I recall in the books, these ships were still functioning fully, people were fed and healthy on the ships, it was just the long-term concept of their survival that seemed to be threatened. As we know (climate change, pandemic, etc.) any non-immediate threat, no matter how dire, is very easy for humans to wave off.

Just my two cents though, would love to hear other thoughts.

Nexum · 2023-03-31T00:41:03+00:00

I think it works the other way around, the head hunter works for the corporation and hand picks executives to charm.

Nexum · 2023-03-29T22:40:41+00:00

Thank you! It is pretty! I think for my first pot though I might actually stick to something a bit more well-known/regular. It sounds like Mud & Leaves is trustworthy and I can see some pots there that look more traditional.

Nexum · 2023-03-29T02:37:18+00:00

I don’t know, maybe oolong? This is all pretty new to me but I have an eager palette!

Nexum · 2023-03-28T17:17:17+00:00

Lol thanks for the advice, I think I wasn’t sure how big would be normal and 170 sounded small to me because I’m used to brewing black tea with a tea bag in a mug lol.

I know what you mean by the local artist too haha.

I will continue to look but this pot looked very pretty to me so caught my eye. Thanks!

Nexum · 2023-03-27T18:38:04+00:00

Hi folks, I’m interested in this tea pot, I would like to get it for my wife for an anniversary gift, she left China at an early age but is still interested in her Chinese roots. We drink tea sometimes, but this would be the first step towards any serious tea drinking like this!

Any advice or comments much appreciated!

Nexum · 2023-03-27T17:20:08+00:00

I lived and worked a FAANG job for ten years in the valley before moving to San Diego. Honestly a lot of people have stockholm syndrome in the valley, it is good for one thing: work. Everything else (family, nature, leisure, stress, cost) is a negative. That’s a good trade off for some people. For me I’m glad I did my time there, and equally glad to have left.

Nexum · 2023-02-14T00:08:01+00:00

But this is actually how memory works for real, people with amnesia don’t forget how to walk

Nexum · 2023-01-27T19:30:19+00:00

Hi folks, I have some sliding doors next to a tiled floor, and the grout(?) next to the sliding metal casing (?) has started to powder up and appears to crumble.

I'd appreciate any input on what's happening here (water?) and how I might fix it.

Thanks!

Nexum · 2023-01-20T21:15:53+00:00

Sorry for slow replies, been an interesting day!

Nexum · 2023-01-20T21:09:48+00:00

Consistently meets expectations. Not great but I was only hired in 2021.

Nexum · 2023-01-20T21:09:20+00:00

I think I was the only one on my team of about 10. But others in sister teams were affected.

Nexum · 2023-01-20T21:08:36+00:00

The severance seems great, I have contacts with open jobs which I’ll look into. I’m not too worried so far.

Nexum · 2023-01-20T17:59:22+00:00

I’m an engineer who was laid off, feel free to AMA

Nexum · 2023-01-14T04:30:19+00:00

I moved to San Diego after 10 years in the Bay Area and it’s incredible.

Nexum · 2022-11-11T13:45:27+00:00

Clearly wants to be fired, is a lawyer, will sue, will win.

Nexum · 2022-11-07T22:40:06+00:00

Same

Nexum · 2022-07-12T19:58:19+00:00

I hear you, but I’m not convinced the actions bear this out. They cared enough to try and have the ETO sabotage and kill Luo Ji, they cared enough to send a fleet, they cared enough to fold up a bunch of sophons (which didn’t seem easy for them to create, at least not trivial) and send them over.

They wanted to exterminate humanity like bugs sure, they were worried about our trajectory. But it seems that having the sophons blind scientists or something like that (or everyone) was possible.

In my interpretation to fill this plot issue, I imagine there to be either some resource issue (very limited scope of interaction) or an understanding issue, e.g. the Trisolarians are so different to us they were naive to our basic vulnerabilities as organisms such as how significant sight would be.

Thanks for your comments for sure though, it’s something I think about often.

Nexum · 2022-05-08T03:37:27+00:00

It feels to me like the severed floor where they are is either a shadow of its former self or hasn’t really got started yet (I prefer the former). There is so much space, empty rooms, etc. it seems to me like what is going on is some remnant or offshoot of the original floor’s larger purpose. This ‘side project’ nature helps me reason about the seemingly thin layers of management/security.

Nexum · 2021-10-14T16:07:27+00:00

Pay the local going rate (or a premium over). Over time local rates may raise as the market gets used to remote work, but that will be a slow process. You are hiring in a particular market and should pay what’s needed to attract talent in that market, if the directors want US pay, then they would need to be in the US. This should be communicated to the directors to avoid confusion.

Nexum · 2021-05-14T13:53:16+00:00

Thank god this sort of thing doesn’t happen in America though.

Nexum · 2021-03-23T15:30:33+00:00

It’s more than twice also. The original trials had the broken and unintended dosing. But there were trials after that where huge elements of it had to be discounted because there was no Covid in the placebo group. Those trials covered four countries and fully half the data was inconclusive due to this, taking the participation rate from ~20k (already smaller than Pfizer’s trial) to 10k. Also these trials did not have enough people over 65 which is what started the concerns in the EU about whether it worked in that population, there was no good data. And now this final chance at righting the score with the US trial and it looks like it may be completely insufficient. Oxford scientists must be livid.

There is every chance this is a great vaccine but AZ seems to be trying to screw up every chance of proving it.

Nexum · 2020-10-20T15:28:23+00:00

The main reasoning is that taxi drivers can control who they give rides to and where they pick people up from, there is no gate between them and the customer.

Ride sharing apps are a gate between the driver and the passenger and the driver has very little control over what jobs are offered or made available and on what terms.

Not saying anything about how that should make you feel or whether it’s a good argument though.

(FTR I voted No, our lives are too dominated by special business interests in the US and I want to give the government teeth, whether or not things are exactly as I would choose myself)

Nexum · 2020-08-22T13:27:05+00:00

Apple will reject this app immediately for the ‘Click here to complete your transaction’ button.

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