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Subsidizing ethanol doesn’t seem like an efficient way to subsidize food for poor people- that’s why programs like SNAP exist

It’s not that it’s unreasonable to think the word “patty” is ambiguous —it’s that it’s unreasonable to spend tax dollars on saving people from that ambiguity

n=1 but I gave this to Sonnet 5 medium effort (free model) and it had no trouble with it

It has way more character. The Ferrari basically looks fungible with every other EV.

Taxes are supposed to pay for public services. An efficient visa system is a public service. If you pay tons of taxes but don’t get a public service that’s personally very important to you, it’s natural to feel let down

3 just seems arbitrary in practice though. In my job we share code when it makes sense and don’t when it doesn’t, and that serves us just fine

Neat read on the whole, but was fun to see how huge the author believes Estonia is:

> When Estonia, for example, became independent of the Soviet Union, some 245 million square miles of collectivist farmlands were simply abandoned.

My version of that is to just use a (high-end) Chromebook. The OS never gets in the way, can’t remember the last time I had to change a system setting or manually upgrade anything

Ironically the UX on Reuters and AP wasn’t hugely worse than the blogspam: * the text of the blogspam is pretty faithful to the AP article * Reuters had a fullscreen paywall * the AP had a floating video ad and an interstitial you have to click to get below the fold

If I’m understanding right, he has a side hustle as a public speaker. So the website is an ad for him.

I agree it does a pretty good job of communicating that. I think the other commenters are pointing out that doesn’t show how to efficiently get all the smaller items left of the partition and larger ones to the right. While that’s probably second nature to most people who’ve taken an algorithms class or done a decent amount of programming, I guess it’s up for interpretation how obvious it would be to the “intended audience” of the ikea manual

It’s a class/geographical thing. In my early childhood in a fancy suburb of a big city, my parents and people in their social circle used mixes 0% of the time, but when we moved to a smaller town it was way more common.

When you’re too busy to spend the money you make, the observable effect of a pay raise is mostly the number in the account going up faster

Agreed. I work at a highly successful small company with a reputation for being grindy, and what that looks like in reality is probably 55 hours a week of largely focused productive work: typical core hours are 9-6:45ish, and you work longer a day or two a week and put in the odd evening or weekend hour. It’s hard to imagine working 9-9 every day