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> how do you get politicians that actually want to save money

What makes you think that they don't save money? looking at the state of public services and infrastructures (at least in my country), I can see how we don't spend as much as we should, which I suppose qualifies as saving. Budgets for education, justice, police, healthcare often decrease too. Also seeing how many billionaires we have, it's also obvious to me that we actually need more tax, not less.

> If my kids have a 1/3 chance of interacting with someone that doesn’t think college is worth it, then that impacts how I think about whether to orient the next 20 years of savings around saving for my kids college.

It doesn't matter what people think, the question is whether the jobs your kids want to do require a degree or no. Let say they want to be a doctor or a lawyer, then college education is needed. Even programming which is a field with a lot of self-taught people and hobbyists, professionals without a college degree are the exception.

No I don't (anymore), and I think they may be obsolete. If you work with other people, chances are you won't be able to enforce good engineering practice in your projects. People ship code like there's no tomorrow and nothing can stop them. Software is becoming a black box. Unless maybe you work in an industry where security is paramount.

I never had such a laptop but I'm very curious to see how this can work in practice. I really don't see what could be done on efficiently on the screen. In regular computer use, my wrists lay on the computer or desk and move very little. On the other hand, lifting the arm requires some non-negligible effort and break the flow.

"Never attribute to evil that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

> But work should never be the end.

Why not? if some people think that work is the most meaningful pursuit of their life, why not. I knew people like that, my dentist for instance, he was working all the time because that's what he liked to do.

Of course, not everybody has the luxury to have a fulfilling job, and some people work more than what they'd like. But saying things like that on your deathbed you'll be full of regrets because they worked too much is a bit naive.

> Work to live, don't live to work

This is a bit of a cliché. Many people have the option to stop working, they don't because they love what they do. How would that be less worth pursuing than other things? not everybody feel like spending their time on hobbies or family.

I suppose there's a wide range of salaries, but for "big tech" level, the salaries are largely sufficient to compensate for housing costs.

In London, lots of jobs (at least for senior SWEs)

I think there are not many professions that you can experience first-hand in your childhood (if you're lucky enough to be exposed to it). Programming your calculator in BASIC isn't exactly the same thing as being a SWE, but it translates pretty well I'd say.

Many people struggle finding a career, for me it was pretty obvious from the start that I liked programming (and maths) and that I could make a living doing that. Competitive sports or music may be examples, but unlike programmers, very few people do actually make a living doing so.

This is typical of working with agents, not only maths. "I implemented this with agent A, and don't understand the logic, but agent B think its correct". But then you ask a simple clarifying questions to B on a random thing in the code and it'll tell you that this part is actually wrong. At least in maths they have Lean...

Any reason why META surged after hours? is that related to this news?