When I get ill, sometimes I sleep for 18h straight, through alarms and everything…

You sleep more when you’re ill anyway, but what wakes you up about outdoors is light. It’s much darker inside than out by a way more than you’d think, so that’s probably why you feel awake when outside.

The $1m isn’t in cash… You forget that the average house price in London is around $900k, and for Sydney it’s $981k.

That means your pool for your car, furnishings, investments etc. are either minimal, or you have a mortgage, and definitely can’t live passively off $30-40k per year unless you’re living in cheaper than average housing (one would call this “not super wealthy”) and definitely not if you’re supporting a family.

I’m not saying the cost of living isn’t worse in the US, just that $1m is a comparatively tiny amount everywhere and that most millionaires (as there will a correlation between net worth and frequency) are frankly closer to the working class than they are to billionaires.

Most, sure, but Europe, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and more are still a significant part of the world where $1M puts you firmly in the same “well-off and comfortable, but certainly not rich in the way billionaires are” territory you’d be in the US

Worldwide, I think it’s definitely safe to say most millionaires’ lifestyles are much closer to average than they are to billionaires’ (ie still having to make regular payments for housing, but mortgage rather than rent, and still having to perform most tasks for themselves rather than having PAs to do it for them)

Would it though?

If the requirement is “worth paying 50% more for than the average worker” then instead of picking someone worse for cheaper at random then you’re making sure that only jobs where there likely isn’t an adequate supply for due to how bell curves work,

Confidence is the biggest part, but looks count for something. A “10” with no confidence will be less attractive to the majority of people than a “5” with high confidence, but there becomes a point at which people aren’t even willing to hear you out.

The H1-B visa is fundamentally broken (or working exactly as intended, depending on how you look at it) though, so you apply for just under 10x as many as you need and end up with the number you want.

It’s not Microsoft’s fault the US Government is actively encouraging importing cheaper, average employees by using a lottery rather than filtering based on “you must earn n% more than the median income in that sector” or a similar metric to avoid reducing wages for Americans and companies using them to cut costs…

There’s no need to instantly hate on Christianity without further context. If you’re going to one of the cultish hate-spreading or profit-driven churches, sure, but there are also many community-focused denominations which are good to go to as a place you’ll be welcomed at a low point in your life. I don’t attend any and am not particularly religious, but I imagine if I felt truly alone and had nowhere else to turn that an Episcopal/Methodist/similar church would be quite high on the list of physical places it’d be good to go.

That’s one interpretation and implementation of free speech. The EU define it as “freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.” which would be very easy to argue includes public authorities altering the legality of receiving and/or imparting information via AI.

They’re popular because they’re broadly appealing and inoffensive, so for people who are passionate about music they’re likely comparatively boring, whereas people who don’t really care about music aren’t going to go out of their way to support or defend them.

Fair enough it’s definitely in the EU’s best interests…

Also warning that Newsfront exists beyond even extreme bias and purely functions to sow discontent and spread misinformation

One of three:

• People whose cultures didn’t value them/were disconnected from the original creators eg. Egypt
• People who ran empires and were just going to destroy them for a new palace or something anyway eg. Ottomans in Greece
• People who were forced to give them up in the face of a much stronger miltary power eg. a lot of the Chinese & Indian stuff

I don’t think there’s anything unethical about keeping 1 and 2 as they wouldn’t exist otherwise, but 3 should be returned and replaced with other items from the collection or replicas

looks like a zoom + colour change of his left foot (on the right side of the image)?

Where’s the AI artwork?

People of Color Aren’t Invited

Many are of Asian descent—a reflection of the strong presence of Asian talent in global tech

This is something I really have an issue with: they’re trying to paint it as a race thing when it’s a wealth/class thing.

They’re trying to frame it like they hate anyone non-White while I’m willing to bet good money they have nobody, White or otherwise, from places like the Deep South/other poorer places in the US, and it’s just that Latin & Black people are more likely to come from less privileged backgrounds for historical reasons than White/Asian people.

That’s not to say that racism doesn’t exist, it’s just to say that it’s definitely not the biggest factor here. Don’t buy into corporations trying to divide the working class by race, when it’s so obviously a class struggle.

yep, that would pass the criteria

Plausibly it’s trying to minimise land area with some degree of contiguity so it’s not just picking random cities though. India’s economy isn’t much bigger than the 5th or 6th economy while having substantially more territory and population.

Very good point, but oxygen is very abundant and you’ll more than likely already have oxygen generators with a level of redundancy, or be in an atmosphere with oxygen.

Also for load balancing you could constantly be splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, then react them back into water when you need a large amount of energy at once as an alternative to electrical batteries which degrades less over time, if heat is all you want at least.

All I’m saying is there’s so many applications that we’re never going to get to a level of 0.

The problem is time.

You’re just considering human spaceflight. Keeping humans alive and equally importantly sane for years is very different to sending a probe somewhere, and we’ve been getting better at the latter

The Greens also have a terrible name, they’re a left wing party that don’t particularly care about environmental issues. Meanwhile the Lib Dems just stand for whatever the government doesn’t, which changes depending on who’s in power.

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Nope.

I love induction hobs, electric cars & planes, xenon spacecraft and all that, but even if we get to interstellar travel, there’s going to be a frontier where people are going to be using the lowest maintenance, easiest way to generate immediate heat, even if it’s from solar/fusion powered hydrogen or ethanol generators. It’s just a lot easier to store and release small but much larger than instantaneous generation amounts of energy as flammable substances than in batteries or pumped storage or whatever else.

If we don’t get to interstellar travel, I expect we’ll still have the same in remote regions on earth/our solar system.