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But first one must be able to connect with people... since I can’t do that, the rest is considered behaviors of an pointless, unrespectable, unworthy fool, while everyone else is mostly “take, take, take.”

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I guess the OP implies there’s a difference between a contractor making say, $45k USD/yr, with an unsteady existence of temporary work and an SA/SWE-SRE/TPM/SRM at Alphabet making $325k/yr in a fairly-cushy, mostly certain job with full-time benefits.

Ever since the JDK 1.0 days, I didn’t get why there was this C/C++ carry-over inconsistency of manually-boxed types and non-Objects primitive types separated from Objects. A type hierarchy, patterned similar to Ruby’s as an example, makes the most sense:

- Object contains a Class that it derrives from (no BaseObject or Modules)

- Class is an Object

- String is an Object

- Boolean is a two-value singleton of true and false

- Number is an abstract subclass of Object

- Decimal and Integer are abstract subclasses of Number

- Float, Double, LongDouble, BigDecimal are concrete subclasses of Decimal

- SignedByte, Byte, Short, UnsignedShort, Int, Unsigned, Long, UnsignedLong, Char, BigInt are concrete subclasses of Integer (or U/I/F## types reminiscent of Rust instead of C type names)

and so on.

Then there is no boxing/unboxing of simple types or literals because they are one-and-the-same, and no there’s no confusion about how to interact with any truly generic type of value.

It’s absurd how much goes into the bin. Why can’t restaurants especially use cloth napkins that are cleaned off-site and also silverware, plates and cups like what was done for centuries? Getting all restaurants’ service paraphernalia away from disposable-like-Ikea-furniture to nearly zero waste seems entirely doableb because that’s how it was before. Even store beverage containers like seltzer water are refilled without melting them down, why can’t more manufacturers go back to the deposit system and just clean containers instead of completely destroying and remaking them for every use?

Stanford / Palo Alto gave up on a lot of recycling and went to “off-site sorting.” Stanford used to have 5! bins.

Another fail is “recycling” at Costco, where basically no recycling happens and people just throw things in carelessly into any of the 3 bins. Worse, the staff contribute to its demise equally by eliminating the sorting signs and turning bins around to hide their labeling. Red, green, blue ... go figure which is which.

Corruption: It’s What’s For Dinner™

CB is a YC alum.

Yeah, it seems like more and more people are delaying kids until it’s “now or never” scenario. Not good. Have kids as early as possible because of the work and energy involved.

It’s not just fertility that declines, but IQ and a rise in birth defects.

US immigration detention centers are now listed as concentration camps. It’s also interesting a number of them privately-owned (ie GEO Group, etc.) and also that many businesses, per article, enable their existence for blood money.

It’s the opposite of virtue-signaling if you live and work for what’s right, not out of what’s most expedient or wins popularity points, but out of integrity. Too few people these days have the courage to think deeply and act consistently regarding the big issues impact of their choices of consumption, associations and work income. (Focusing too much on tiny issues would exclude everyone.)

Except for case, bolt already is a puppet project. Not a huge deal since both projects are widely-spaced.