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In English you don't need to add "One of the..." to the beginning of a sentence that is referencing multiple objects - it is implicitly inferred. ((Adj N) V (N V N))

I'd recommend reading the the OCCRP investigation - https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/european-password-man... …

> but as a niche for a 30 year old for a stable gig? Some of these legacy systems are never going away... It's not as stable as you would think. I have some acquaintances at JPMC and GS who ha…

Very much this. I've been to a couple rationalist events in the Bay during peak rationalism (originally with an open mind but eventually resorted to gawking after people couldn't handle &quo…

You do realize how physically and mentally demanding pregnancy, childbirth, and recovery is right? It truly sounds like you think it's a cakewalk and does not have long term side effects. This is…

That's for women who are 50 and older. I'd recommend reading the entire survey, or you know actual women in their 20s and early 30s. 57% of all American women under 50 don't want chil…

It's not about status dude. Gestating and expulsing a living human being is very difficult to physically and mentally recover from. All we as guys need to do is put our shlong in. Women have to d…

Or because having kids is much more limiting for women than it is for men... It's almost like no one here has actually talked to women in their 20s and early 30s. While cost does play a role, alm…

What is interesting is the subnational breakdown - volumes have been decreasing in the US West for over a year compared to the rest of the US, and overall sales have also decreased as well whereas th…

The US has just imposed 25% tariffs on Brazil [0], but it does exempt beef, coffee, rare earths, energy products, aircraft, and aircraft parts. [0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/…

Becuase it is retro. The 1990s and 2000s were a generation ago.

Surprisingly, the Taliban's national keyboard app is openly using OpenAI [0]. How this was not flagged by OpenAI's security team is surprising. [0] - https://keyboard.rta.af/…

Not exactly. Most of those drones are being used fairly effectively by the Taliban's Pakistan branch [0]. Most reporting on the war is being overshadowed by Iran or being done in Dari or Pakhtu. …

The difference is the scale [0] at which they are manufacturing [1] now that the Taliban control Afghanistan, as well as the fact that Afghan media is report "international engineers from countri…

> but being a CTO at a major org isn't exactly a low-paying gig The IC pay at OpenAI alone is comparable to that of an EM at Google. CTOs at most large orgs end up earning the same as an EM at…

Gotta start somewhere. Even the CHIPS Act and the first Big Fund were $52B and $20B in size respectively, and both Samsung [0] and the Taiwanese Government [1] have begun training programs in India sp…

Overall emissions. But the UK and EU (the only large polluters who have even considered carbon tariffs) have largely watered them down - for example, yesterday with the UK increasing it's duty fr…