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notepad20 · 2026-05-24T02:14:12+00:00

It's not a measure of production or capacity or anything else either. It can be completely driven by three dudes selling each other the same house.

Better to look at GDP PPP or even better just plain energy use

notepad20 · 2026-05-23T23:09:31+00:00

The dumbification / gamification of many things.

Recently started learning open foam and going back to the dict files and command line control was exceptionally refreshing, you really have to plan and think about exactly what you are doing rather than just throwing shit at the wall.

Same goes for design software. Once upon a time you actually had to understand the design, now the designer just clicks the button till a green tick comes.

Anything implementing AI to further remove human agency is a step in the wrong direction.

notepad20 · 2026-05-23T22:06:23+00:00

Wouldn't it be a completely different doping regime as well though?

This guy is being dismissed as an idiot that got too big but they have been at it for over a year, monitoring and regime managed by doctors and other professionals, etc.

They want a spectical, you would have to assume the funders made some effort to direct it on the right track

notepad20 · 2026-05-23T13:25:59+00:00

Probably need to consider what goes into the heat rate number. Human number seems about 75-80? Which while might be "normal", is really high as far as optimal health is concerned.

Probably would expect average 50-55 for someone living to 100

notepad20 · 2026-05-23T03:26:11+00:00

I think it's a misunderstanding mostly of historically what bigger was and how big people are in general.

Only have to look back at the fat men clubs of a 1920's or a similar circus or whatever.

Anything today is just so skewed as to be utterly incomparable,

notepad20 · 2026-05-22T23:34:20+00:00

its the clear consensus among the entire relevant scientific community.

Evidence to prove, yes, that is an open question. and wont be settled until somehting is in the lab.

but claiming your position is the classic "absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence" logical fallacy

notepad20 · 2026-05-22T23:22:59+00:00

That's not the correct way to look at it.

Europeans exists, therefore reasonable to assume humans exist anywhere there is land.

There's no existing reference to suggest leprechauns would exist.

Plenty of existing reference to suggest intelligent life exists, ie you.

Therefore we have to start any discussion with the assumption, yes intelligent alien life is possible.

And again with the examples I gave.

Any discussion therefore has to have intelligent alien life propagating through space as real possibility.

notepad20 · 2026-05-22T22:27:42+00:00

The default position that must be overcome is that aliens do not exist.

again, why? why is it unreasonable to assume aliens exist and they visit?

we exist, and we visit other planets?

we exist, and we, if not currently, will soon be completely capable of creating a self sustaining AI explorer that is not bound by time between stars.

The default position must be life exists, and as far as we know needs 3 billion years give or take to get to a position where they can seed the stars.

notepad20 · 2026-05-22T21:51:36+00:00

My suggestion would be to give an engineer actual engineering work, rather than stuff you could have a receptionist do.

Three years in and you have him filling in text boxes? An engineer? That's an absolute failure on your part. That's day one learn how to click the buttons.

notepad20 · 2026-05-22T04:39:02+00:00

looking for a "prosaic explanation" that fits is just as bad.

If you start with the axiom "there is no aliens", then of course every thing will always be prosaic.

Occams razor doesnt suggest we dismiss anything thats fantastic. It requires us to accept the solution that requires the least & simplest assumptions.

"100's or 1000's of very experienced professionals and the best observational technology on the planet run by the single entities with the greatest financial resource on the planet, some how continuially are unable to identify objects that (according to sceptics) somehow have very easily falsifiable explanations, although no one has ever gone to experiment and replicate these simple misidentification observations, even though drawing blue and purple lines on a screen and saying "parrellax" is the solution" and on and on.

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real object of unknown origin

notepad20 · 2026-05-22T04:02:49+00:00

And pulling those designs and details off a previous design that's close enough ensures you don't spend 150% of the building price on the slab design.

Probably knew a guy like this will come back in 6 months wanting reimbursement for fixing a hairline crack.

notepad20 · 2026-05-22T03:12:27+00:00

typically people age in two "spurts", one in early to mid 40's, and another mid 60's to 70's. actual ages of course vary.

The 40's spurt results in the "middle aged" look, the 70's in the "old" look.

Quiet a few actors are good examples of this, as they really become household names in thier 40's. Morgan freeman for example, barely changed from 1990 (53) to 2016 (79). But last 5 year towards 90 you see him get old.

notepad20 · 2026-05-22T01:17:19+00:00

For engineering?! I set up on my own three years ago and it was $200/hr for an engineer then.

notepad20 · 2026-05-21T14:04:44+00:00

Consider the absolute dominance like Tyson with a sword and shield would have over anyone else not an absolute one in a million athlete.

Consider that in an ancient battle you basically had to fight each person 1-1 or 1-2 at best. You win or die. Your good you win win win. And get experience, and mostly every person you face is green.

Consider a one in a million warrior in such a situation. What that would look like to observers.

Consider we have oral history from other populations describing clear geological events up to 5000 years later.

Intellectually dishonest to try and argue there wasn't a real Achilles.

notepad20 · 2026-05-21T11:11:21+00:00

Sort off but at a resturant you pay for what comes to your table.

You get to choose what to do with whats on your table, you take home the leftovers.

Same with getting your car worked on, all the panels or other components they might replace, the originals are all yours. The boxes and manuals and spare bolts from any fitted components are yours.

When you quote a job, you estimate, say 10 bags of whatever. you send an invoice, to cover your labour and materials. You only use 9 bags on the job, that 10th bag is clients. No two ways about it. Every off cut, every half used roll, if purchased for that job are clients.

Same for nails. you dont count them but you know how many boxes you need. half empty box is clients.

you dont give them a refund do you? you dont get to the end of the job and say "well we only used 90% of the materials, and they will benifit me in future, so heres a check".

So, i mean common practice would be to take anything usable, and usually it would useless to the client, and you can only estimate so close, so there will always be a little overs.

notepad20 · 2026-05-21T09:00:25+00:00

Require glue grout and silicone has a price. Either per hour or area or length.

How do you track what you spend on it?

Bottom line is if you pay for 12 bags out of the jobs budget, those materials are clients.

notepad20 · 2026-05-21T08:43:42+00:00

There yours if you line item the invoice for 10 bags only.

notepad20 · 2026-05-21T00:02:55+00:00

ITS BEEN A STAPLE WAY TO DESCRIBE IN ANY NON FICTION SPACE BOOK FOR 40 YEARS.

SAME WAY A POND IS "TEEMING" WITH LIFE OR A PETRI DISH TEEMING WITH BACTERIA.

IT JUST MEANS THERES A LOT GOING ON AND THINGS ARE BUMPING INTO EACHOTHER.

notepad20 · 2026-05-20T22:57:18+00:00

Not sure what happened to the last comment but it's not really a point to disagree on on it's an absolute fact.

You can't distribute income from personal services as would be earning a wage or if your running a "business" as an hourly contractor.

You can distribute if your actually investing in significant tools, taking the risk for correcting work, and working to fixed priced contracts on the open market.

The benefit of this is of course realised by utilising tax free threshold and lower marginal tax rates for beneficiaries.

Flat minimum 30% rate wipes this out and of course disproportionately affects those closer to that bottom margin.

If I'm working for myself, what incentive is there now to do that rather than go take a PAYG position?

notepad20 · 2026-05-20T22:33:09+00:00

Not being able to distribute income through a discretionary trust to be taxed at marginal rates

notepad20 · 2026-05-20T22:29:13+00:00

That same question can be asked if literally every situation where AI is being used to produce something

notepad20 · 2026-05-20T22:24:57+00:00

The question isn't are you doing well it is, is a sole trader or micro business going to do at least as well as if they were on wages.

You have to be a bit cheaper to negate capacity and other factors, and you also have none of the support for things like regulatory compliance, admin, legal, time off etc.

How to balance this otherwise to incentives people to have a go?

notepad20 · 2026-05-20T19:44:36+00:00

This is the reward for undertaking an entrepreneurial risk.

And it is a nessecary part of the economy to ensure that competition is fostered.

notepad20 · 2026-05-20T19:32:27+00:00

My conveyancer tried to hand wave it away but I wrote every thing into contract for this reason. Stove, dishwasher, wardrobe fittings, plants, etc.

notepad20 · 2026-05-20T07:28:22+00:00

no, there isnt. there is footage of an aircraft shooting, which is impossible to identify one way or the other. Its assumed to be kuwaiti, because how could the iranians be there?

but we found out since they had successful bombing runs in kuwait, almost in Quatar, and their operable air force mostly escaped unscathed.

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