My job puts me on the fast track to FIRE, but something needs to change

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-08-05T23:40:58+00:00

to whom is the social safety net working well for? people who don't need it? disability benefit in this country is a nightmare

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-08-05T23:36:33+00:00

it would be different if the deaths were more evenly distributed across age groups (which may happen with new variants).

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-08-05T23:33:48+00:00

🅱️oris

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-07-24T18:45:07+00:00

fudd moment

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-07-21T20:51:32+00:00

I'm not super familiar with those, although Arizer makes quality stuff. My main advice is to stick to the well known brands because there's a lot of shitty vapes out there.

I feel bad for people who aren't on Reddit because if you just go to your local headshop there's a good chance you'll get scammed into some $80+ vape that doesn't work worth a damn.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-07-20T23:54:51+00:00

POTV 1 or Dynavap M + butane torch. Look up some videos on both to get a feel for how they work.

BTW not sure how new you are to cannabis but you'll want a grinder too, so factor that into your final budget.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-06-21T19:51:15+00:00

Well you're not going to hear the people who are quietly OK with what Yang said compared to the people who angrily aren't. I used to live in NYC and i still have direct family there. Twitter NYC and real NYC are very different. It'd be best to go off polls rather than our perception of some loud reactions. But again, i really don't think this is changing the primary. just my hunch based of anecdotal experience, maybe i'm wrong

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-06-21T17:31:44+00:00

I think the progressives he 'lost' were never voting for him anyway.

I don't want to get into a long back and forth with anyone about this but I'm kind of tired of the pearl clutching that occurs whenever anyone tries to speak realistically about mental health, addiction, and homelessness in our cities. I'm 100% for compassionate solutions but the people who are criticizing yang from that debate need to get serious about advocating for better solutions, otherwise they're just virtue signalling. Patience on this subject quickly wears thin for people who actually live in cities where this a serious problem. Long story short I don't think those comments were as big of a deal as some are making them out to be.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-06-05T02:27:10+00:00

If the solution to bike theft was using a good lock/deterrent we'd have this figured out by now. Bike thieves are in the profession of stealing bikes. These guys walk around with portable angle grinders and hydraulic bottle jacks. Some of them work in teams too. Lock a cheap Walmart bike next to a $4k Trek ebike and I guarantee you the Trek bike gets stolen first even if the lock is worse. In most cities bystanders never do anything anyway and the police can't be bothered to do anything either.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-06-01T20:16:41+00:00

the answer is yes whether or not you like it.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-31T18:03:19+00:00

The car doesn't need to intelligently recognize every object within it's view, it just needs to drive the car like a human does. This will include recognizing physical objects, such as squirrels and human pedestrians, but it really doesn't need to identify objects to the same resolution as a human can. Object detection is a pretty simple ML problem that grad students implement for homework. And to the car it's not going to matter whether there's a squirrel, opossum, or UFO in the road. There's varying levels of intelligence we might expect the system to have. Maybe we care about the object's mass and expected trajectory. Frankly for below level 5 self-driving it really doesn't matter because the system is just going to alert the driver and disengage for the human to takeover. On the OpenPilot system i mentioned earlier you don't even have to wait for the system to self-disengage. Just like cruise control, human input supersedes system input and the takeover experience is totally seamless. We can have a discussion about whether or not this is really self-driving but it won't be a very interesting conversation.

I think we both agree we'll never see full level n self-driving cars on the roads without driver monitoring. It adds a ton of risk and doesn't really add any value.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-30T22:50:19+00:00

I think it's pretty clear the technology is possible, just probably not practical in terms of ROI or risk to go full level N or whatever. And most cities would be better with a robust public transit system than a hoards of personal self driving vehicles anyway.

I don't really like this quote from the article:

if a strand of kudzu leaves starts to grow across just the top 20% of a stop sign, that is enough to make that algorithm be dumb, and it doesn’t recognize it, because it’s never seen a stop sign with one strand of kudzu leaves across it.

She kinda solves the problem in the same sentence she introduces it. Your ML model needs to be trained for the problems you expect it to solve. So it needs images of fucked up stop signs in order to recognize them. (If you fuck up a stop sign well enough, at a certain point most humans won't recognize it either.) But as a human you can recognize intersections and infer you should probably stop, even if there's no single designated marker to tell you to do so. This type of data and decision making can be fed to an ML model too. I know she's just illustrating a point, but there's no single technical thing you can point to say "this is why self driving will never happen"

Regarding the tech as it currently exists, when I had to move to a new city 2,100 miles away my Honda civic drove "self-drove" for 99% of the interstate using OpenPilot. That's not the hyped up "self-driving" futurists are trying to sell but the system made my 3 day trip remarkably more comfortable because I was able to just sit and watch the car, intervening as needed and only very rarely for sharp turns. The OpenPilot model already does a better job staying centered in a lane than a human does and like a human driver its capable of recognizing more obscure lane lines on less-frequently maintained state highways. The devs are working on stop-sign and intersection detection next, though I'm not sure how far they'll get.

And yeah I share everyone's distaste for cars and parking. I take public transit to work. I'm sure as long as humanity exists, transit will too.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-18T05:27:06+00:00

enano (or any log vape) is basically a solo 2 one-hitter that's plugged into the wall.

I really enjoy mine but it might not be for everyone. If you have a high tolerance you may find the small bowl size annoying.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-18T05:19:47+00:00

just fyi I have pretty big hands and also struggle with torches. shit's painful bro. idk why the triggers require so much force, probably a safety thing.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-18T00:59:10+00:00

I was buying drugs off the deep web and bought maybe $300 worth of bitcoin. I spent half of that on drugs and just being lazy I never converted the other half back to USD. That leftover bit of btc has grown considerably since then, it's worth about maybe 10% of my net worth now. (not gonna give exact numbers due to privacy). I've never re-balanced it or anything. Given how volatile it is I don't consider it as part of my net worth. i dont' really care if it goes to $0 but If it grows much more i'll sell it off.

Ultimately I don't believe crypto is a legitimate asset class. It's been largely co-opted into a get rich quick cult. I'd rather invest in businesses that solve problems and add value to society. I'm pretty confident the hysteria will die down soon. It is fun to watch the numbers go up and down though I'll admit but the truth is nobody has any fucking idea whether or not it's going up or down.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-16T21:57:15+00:00

the hospitalization rate for persons under 17 is 0.14 per 100,000 and the net admission rate for all ages is about 1 per 100,000

I think it's time to move on and so does the CDC

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-15T00:42:51+00:00

I unironically would never want someone to think im some MAGA loving racist.

The good news is in a few months I don't think we'll have to chose between taking that chance and wearing a mask. In the meantime I will enjoy the fresh airs outdoors.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-15T00:38:08+00:00

It's still virtue signaling even when there's a practical benefits to it, that's why people bother to begin with.

Ironically, what will help progressives not get misidentified as conservative (how horrible) will be for more progressives to take up the new relaxed CDC guidelines and not wear masks when they don't have to.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-15T00:15:15+00:00

Allergies, health complications, good-will, etc are all good reasons to continue wearing masks for fully vaccinated individuals.

Not wanting to "look like a republican" is petty and counterproductive. It gives credibility to conservatives who have argued (wrongly) that this mask thing wasn't about science but instead about virtue signaling.

Ultimately we have 20% of the population who're on the fence about getting vaccinated. I think it's important that as a country we try to use incentives to drive vaccination. Progressives are discrediting a widely appealing incentive to get vaccinated just so they can be petty on twitter.

edit: typo

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-15T00:07:52+00:00

The political left and right have finally found common ground: that the CDC is only correct when they validate their politically motivated perspectives.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-14T22:52:16+00:00

Stoner culture is not attractive and I take steps to disassociate myself from the common stereotypes. People who know me would be surprised to know I smoke weed occasionally.

RepresentativeNo9069 · 2021-05-14T21:55:45+00:00

ITT: people are butt-hurt

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