brycesbeard

I’ve been speaking with my girlfriends friends, about the paucity of eligible men in the SFBA. Most of them ask me to introduce them to a nice person. Looks aren’t as important, but having a decent job is. Maybe it’s the age, but I found simply being kind and knowing your target market (women who like kind guys, who are everywhere, and are often smoking hot) works.

Late 30s is a good time to date. I had the same issues as OP describes in my 20s, not in the Bay Area. It was all about how I subconsciously chose to approach things. I worked on myself, was genuine, and have had great success finding a mate up here.

(Not all that attentive, about 50 lbs overweight, fwiw)

I agree in spirit, but a lot of human behaviors, derived from decisions, don’t have consequences. Did Nestle face consequences for their decisions to promote formula, etc?

OTOH, if “we can easily look that up” is never said, it’s likely you’re not asking probing questions. Or that the other side is probably more confident than they should be.

Any chance you had a power meter hooked up? I find it fascinating how much less waste heat we generate per unit of computation.

Welcome to the world of being stereotyped. The gestalt “you” is not what you respond to; it’s what people like you are.

Stereotypes exist for a reason. But that reason isn’t optimal - it’s just convenient.

This was my experience as a contractor for the Navy, years ago. We’ve had radar systems that can detect planes after a reflection on another plane, but the software is dogshit.

Someone once told me, it’s because generals and admirals can see hardware, and fell like they got value for their money. Software, not so much.

Perhaps it’s something innate in humans. Remember how Beats headphones used to add weights to feel more substantial?

Many people believe abortion is murder. That doesn’t make it so.

Not everyone agrees that intention is relevant. For me, it’s important to help while minimizing harm and trying to respect the agency and wishes of the recipient, which the fighting analogy violates. that is a challenging balance in practice, but we are talking about ethics, where there is more grey than b&w.

I suppose you could argue that religion is harmful.. but even as an atheist, that’s a stretch for me to agree with.

little of any modern decisions is based on what humans have experienced, historically. We have evolved a set of core emotional firings that do not have much to do with how we live.

Why start/stop at the initial decision, when these issues go so much deeper.

What about this seems reasonable? The positive ROI could easily be overwhelmed by quality of life changes for current residents. Also not clear that this type of tech hq is great for a neighborhood.

How beneficial is this kind of a deal, compared with the other options of what could be done w the resources?

There is also an ick factor of negotiations like this, between private for profit enterprises and governments. It sounds a bit like publicly funded sports stadiums, which have been very popular yet financially terrible.

They could hash the full password and just store the two characters in clear text, no?

I don’t think it’s clear it would bring in net revenue. Also, the idea of cities bidding for companies, using tax dollars, strikes a lot of people the wrong way.

I thought the consensus was that NYC is better off providing those incentives to smaller companies and not having hq2.

I assert it doesn’t affect the legitimacy of the site at all. Also, I don’t think selling cigarettes undermines a pharmacy.

I may place less importance on “brand coherency” and more on “value to myself” than others.

Can you talk a bit about how this felt? As an outsider, it seems like it would be conflicting. On one hand, people profiting off your work without asking. On the other, increasing the network effect increases the games value.

I wonder if ketosis cures your psychosis, or if you started ketosis at a time when your body fixed itself.