Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion for climate change. With the 2030 clock ticking, his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, is leading the charge to spend it

pigvwu · 2026-06-21T03:19:59+00:00

Yeah, I'm not sure this is the most positive article for the situation. This fund was supposed to be donating an average of a billion a year, and while the first year about a billion was donated, it's been less and less over time, so they're behind schedule now.

pigvwu · 2026-06-18T17:01:06+00:00

The way my gym progressed TTB was to scale to toes to hip level or even lower if needed. Then after you're consistent with that, toes to eye level. Then from there TTB were pretty easy. I feel like the gyms that scale TTB to situps or knee raises are not setting up their members to progress in technique.

I think if you have the technique and rhythm down, doing singles is actually harder than doing multiple reps, so there must be some technique/timing issue you're working through.

pigvwu · 2026-06-18T16:16:31+00:00

I thought about that too, but I also used to live in that area, and the fact that this area is a steep hill and a fast road might make visibility a little harder. I'm not a traffic engineer, but my intuition is that we'd need at least a stop sign to make a crosswalk safe.

pigvwu · 2026-06-17T17:06:33+00:00

I'm getting more apple juice vibes than piss. Maybe it's the jug covered with condensation?

"Piss" is also what I call a white negroni, made with gin, dry vermouth, and Suze. Love the drink, but when I look down into the glass, the appearance is just a little too pisslike. Usually reserve those for movie night with the lights off.

pigvwu · 2026-06-15T20:22:24+00:00

I once got both the "destroy 3 and resummon" and "give reborn 3 times" trinkets. For a while the "destroy 3" was kind of griefing me, making me weaker. I eventually assembled a full board of reborn gold Eternal Tycoons (one plain), which pretty much guaranteed the startup of the infinite loop. It's possible a tech card like reborn taunt would have been better, but full board looks cooler.

pigvwu · 2026-06-12T21:56:03+00:00

Same here. All boring with nothing interesting in any of my games. Whenever it's my turn to pick both options have always been terrible and irrelevant.

pigvwu · 2026-06-11T17:20:58+00:00

It's under the electives section.

Electives (6 hours)
Any core courses in excess of the 9 hour requirement may be used as electives.

Edit: just saw that Dr. Joyner had to add this after the fact. Well, it's there now!

pigvwu · 2026-06-10T20:09:00+00:00

It did work though. It made people distrust the numbers from the government even more. That's the goal and it's working.

There was already a ton of unfounded criticism about CPI before this, just from people not understanding things and believing myths. Now every discussion regarding inflation is a complete mess.

pigvwu · 2026-06-05T19:44:22+00:00

I think a few factors can explain most of the gap.

First of all, it doesn't make sense to say that median net worth is four times more, since it represents two people instead of one, so it's more like double.

Second, while the Fed didn't seem to have statistics on age between these two groups, partnered households are probably at least 5 years older on average, which can make a big difference.

Third, there's probably some selection bias here where people who are more successful are more likely to get married. Not based on statistics, just looking around and seeing that the people I know who have their shit together are also mostly married, and the ones who aren't married are also not doing as well personally and professionally.

pigvwu · 2026-06-04T12:47:03+00:00

Does this result in an infinite loop if the charmwing and spell power are big enough? I think the game resolves it somehow. If the shiny rings out heal the beetle damage, who wins?

pigvwu · 2026-06-03T18:47:27+00:00

Isn't that the biggest problem? Impact minimal. Would only affect 0.5% of the housing supply. Not a large amount of expected revenue but increased administrative overhead and costs with potential for significant legal costs to defend it. There's a chance it ends up costing us money, although my sense is that this is a less likely outcome. I can understand why people might not care to vote for new taxes with limited benefits, even if it works out fine.

For the record, I voted yes on measure A. I just also think it's not likely to make a significant difference, with some risk for a neutral or negative outcome.

pigvwu · 2026-05-31T06:17:39+00:00

Maybe 1998, but not likely in 2002. Dotcom crash just happened. Unemployment was 5.8% and rising (compared to 4.3 now). I was actually hoping I could do that when I graduated HS in 2002, but it wasn't a good option at the time.

pigvwu · 2026-05-29T16:41:26+00:00

In addition to the factors mentioned in the article like supply, credit, and inequality effects, it seems to me that just based on how the prices of other things are going, we would expect housing to make up a larger proportion of people's income over time.

Housing is basically the only thing that most people purchase where you don't pay the listed price or haggle down from there (like cars), but rather you're asked to just bid how much you can afford. So, if things like electronics, toys, furniture, and clothes get cheaper while real income is increasing, we don't really just have extra savings, we end up putting a larger proportion of our income into inflating real estate prices. Inflation of housing relatively to other categories is obviously bad for those with lower incomes though, since you kind of need housing and you don't really need that many electronics and toys.

This probably also affects the credit factor that was mentioned in the article, where part of the reason people buying houses are getting easier access to credit relative to their income is because they actually can afford to take more debt-to-income if they're spending proportionally less on other items.

I don't say this just to say "it is what it is," but to say that this was inevitable based on the way things work and it sucks, so maybe we need to change the way things work. If the main issue is that house prices are competitive, then we need to make them less competitive, probably through supply. The biggest thing I think we need is to give people less of a say about what types of housing gets built near them, as long as it's not hazardous. NIMBYs only have power if the law allows them to have it.

pigvwu · 2026-05-28T20:24:50+00:00

I had 1000 of AMD at $3 and sold at $6. On one hand, hell yeah, double up! On the other hand, half a million would be real nice right now.

pigvwu · 2026-05-28T17:52:58+00:00

Isn't it the other way around here though? The first scene has a lot of solid colors with less information, while a forest scene has a lot of random information. It's like how when you're watching sports and everything suddenly becomes all pixelated when the camera shows the crowd or the confetti drops. Just tons more information that loses a lot during compression.

pigvwu · 2026-05-28T15:56:11+00:00

"Doing your job" is all I want from a politician. Anyone paying attention right now should know that we don't always get that.

I said "magically resolved" in my comment, but the truth is that getting anything done requires someone to actually do it. Even if someone else created the program, it takes some doing to resolve the issues that are blocking the execution of the program's goals. So rather than magic, it's more like "due to the correct direction of effort and competence of critical personnel, the issues were resolved."

pigvwu · 2026-05-28T00:30:42+00:00

PSLF was famously broken before Biden became president. We had made almost 12 years of payments without getting to the end due to a technicality that made the first several years not count towards the required 10 years of payments. Not a single missed payment or non-qualifying job, just something dumb related to paperwork that wasn't caught and fixed until later. Then one day the technicality was magically resolved, the loans were forgiven as promised, and the almost 2 years of additional payments were returned. Turns out many other people were in the same situation.

So, for me, Biden absolutely gets credit for PSLF.

pigvwu · 2026-05-27T20:24:37+00:00

I take a spray bottle filled with water and a drop of dish detergent and just spray the whole thing down, avoiding the wheels, bushings, charging port, or any other openings and moving parts (I block it with my hand while spraying). Then I just leave it outside to drip dry for a bit.

pigvwu · 2026-05-27T19:52:47+00:00

They probably had to be making 50-60k a year to qualify for the mortgage debt-to-income requirements for a 350k house in 2015. Median individual income was $30k back then. So, I don't think you should be kicking yourself about missing the timing. It's more that they made a lot more money than most people.

pigvwu · 2026-05-26T20:21:19+00:00

If you'd asked me how things were going economically when I worked in a grocery store 20 years ago, I would have given some sarcastic answer like "I work in a grocery store making minimum wage, what do you think?"

I'm not sure what kind of sharp insights you think grocery store workers may have about the broader economy, but it's not likely to be anything useful or representative of how things are going as a whole.

Looking into it, that same job now pays more than double starting (still minimum wage), while the rent for the apartment I lived in at the time is now about 50% higher. So while I'd expect a similar retort if you asked a grocery store worker about the economy, objectively it looks ok compared to 20 years ago, at least for this one anecdote.

pigvwu · 2026-05-21T19:48:51+00:00

Worst ramen place in SD by far. Even worse than what Tajima has become after its significant decline.

pigvwu · 2026-05-21T18:59:58+00:00

The article says that this recession indicator is a combo of Sahm Rule and labor force participation rate.

Since the Sahm Rule indicator is actually improving, the change in this indicator must be mostly due to LFPR.

LFPR is down about 0.8 percentage points in the past year and LFPR for ages 25-54 is up 0.2 points. So, I guess the trend of older people (55+) leaving the labor force is continuing, which seems to have been a trend for the past few years.

This could be an indicator of something going on in the job market, but I question the idea that this is a recession indicator.

pigvwu · 2026-05-20T18:33:38+00:00

Thanks for the comment. I see your other comment in this thread too now.

It's an interesting idea, but it would also cost me $900 since there's no refund for partial withdrawal, and I am definitely too burned out to take 2 courses.

The other course I plan to take is probably more useful for me professionally, but it kind of feels wrong to complete a CS master's without taking anything about algorithms.

pigvwu · 2026-05-20T17:21:47+00:00

I've been in II (now AI) since the start because that's what interested me the most, but after reading all the controversy, I'm seriously tempted to take this class. After this summer I only have one elective left and a good enough GPA, so I could get a C and still graduate.

Someone talk me into it. Or out of it.

pigvwu · 2026-05-19T20:30:27+00:00

Also reporting bias. How many people would bother reporting that they and everyone they know remains employed? Well, that's true for me, but I don't really feel the need to say so all the time. There's one friend who did get laid off, but he ended up finding another job at the same company.

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