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I remember liking Season 1 more. This one seems a bit too slowly paced. For example, too many "music video" moments where they are just doing a montage while they have some band in the club play.

I'm maxing out my 401k and killed all debt at the start of this year. I took a bit of a hit to do that, but now I'm reaching a point where I have enough in my checking account that I should start saving it better rather than letting it all sit there. I'm also weighing what to do against the fact that I'm probably going to have to get a new car this year or next, which means I need enough fluidity + buffer to be comfortable doing that. Savings accounts seem like mostly garbage to me when I look at them. Getting a portfolio seems like a reasonable decision, but in these strange times, I'm a little hesitant about putting my money in stocks, even a well distributed portfolio. One option is to do a dividend based portfolio which is a little more stable, but maybe less chance for increased funds. Any thoughts on that? Those of you may remember I've asked a similar question before. But since I'm now past the point of taking care of the obvious (maxing 401K and clearing all debt), and because the market may be behaving a bit differently now, I thought I'd ping people again. Especially since I can no longer revisit that earlier thread I remember people had mentioned IRAs, although I think I can't take full advantage of that because I'm pretty close to the income line for a two person household. I also did buy the Random Walk Down Wall Street book on advice from this board before. I haven't read all of it, but it's been a good read. Still though, I'd benefit from other thoughts.

I'm through the first 4 episodes. It's okay, but isn't hitting strong for me.

I mean, it's not even remotely surprising. He didn't do this in hiding. He outright requested it in front of everyone. But the public doesn't care.

I have considered this possibility, but like @mclumber1, my experience is that my bank is over cautious and pretty good. Might not hurt to have an extra layer, but I have to weigh that against making sure another bill is paid off on time My impression is that card security in general is getting better too though.

Nice. Although I didn't have any credit debt, my wife had some (about 5K) that was also just lingering from old stuff rather than current use as well. Once I moved out of working in academia it was one of the first things to go Was so nice to get rid of it. I think you'll similarly feel great once it's gone. The next thing to go was all my student loan debt, which was not as bad as some people, but absolutely a burden. Got rid of that the beginning of this year and we're completely 100% debt free now. Was such a huge relief. Now I just worry about making sure I'm saving enough for the future and how to catch up at those savings

I don't use a credit card at all. I had one a long time ago and rarely used it. Other than missing out on "points" and carrying you if you don't have the cash for something immediately needed, what is the reason for using one?

I don't know if that's thinking they're suckers, it might be overestimating them. Unless the democrat was in fact worse than the opposition in the eyes of a democrat, then democrats should vote no matter what for the democrat. Given the state of the GOP, it's hard to imagine that a democrat would find the opposition to a democratic candidate preferable. Choosing to abstain from voting to make a "point" is very rarely an optimal long-term strategy, if ever.

My anecdotal observation is that you will find many software engineers be windows users, because for their job, they kind of had to be and they became familiar with it. (There also legitimate reasons to prefer Windows too. I don't mean to portray that as the only reason). Computer scientists (academia or industry research scientists) are heavily split between Mac and Linux, with Windows occupying a small fraction of what's left over. If someone only saw an AI conference they'd think Apple dominated the paid PC market with all the mac laptops you'll see Personally, if you asked me in 2010, my rankings would go Mac > Linux >>> Windows Today, because Mac has gotten worse, while Linux and Windows got better, it's Linux > Mac > Windows

Windows isn't open source either. In my experience (and counting myself) developers who prefer Linux, prefer Mac over Windows because Mac is Unix based and makes development far more compatible and similar. That's starting to change only recently since MS has begun adding the excellent feature of a Linux subsystem.

That's not entirely fair. Red lights in GTA mean you have to be a bit more careful as you speed across the intersection, whereas this guy was completely irrelevant

May the door hit him on the way out.

Cool. Yeah I think we agree.

Meaning, you could make a law and punishments about distribution of the code and even though the nature of technology means people will still distribute it often getting away with it, the possibility of being caught distributing it with the punishment it brings may be an imperfect, but still helpful, deterrent. Whether any given set of laws and policies would in fact bring a beneficial deterrent is the empirical question.

I think there are some more reasonable lines between this and other speech, but overall I agree with you and that's why I said I'm not confident that even if we could get an amendment that it would be a good one that we'd be glad to have. Ultimately, people are the bottleneck here. Enforcement of it is tricky for sure. But I'm not sure there would be no value even if you couldn't do it perfectly. Would ultimately be an empirical question we could try to evaluate, but once again, I don't have much confidence that our government or the people in this country could approach it in the right way. I'm comfortable with your alteration

This seems like a decent example.

All this signals to me is that the first amendment is antiquated. Unfortunately, I'm pretty pessimistic that we can get any amendment to it and if we did, I'm also pessimistic that it would be a good amendment rather than a backwards one.

We'll have to leave the topic of Job's talent for another thread. Seems like we're mostly on the same page on this matter though.

I think Jobs was uniquely talented, just not in the engineering sense (although he wasn't bad, he wasn't great, either). He had a great sense for what a technology product should be, more than most people in tech. But I absolutely agree with you that Jobs gets the name recognition because he's an egomaniac and extended it far beyond reality to his and others' detriment. I don't think I'd like people to worship either of them. It's just plain bad. If we can ever dissuade people from that attitude, I don't think we have to compromise on them only worshiping one shit head That is of course, a big if. I don't hate Musk either. I'd rather he existed than not. Same goes for Jobs. Hate is a pretty strong word and it takes a lot to get into that category for me. Nevertheless, I've come to dislike him as a person the more I learned about him and I find the worship of him gross.

I think it's incredibly hard to quantify that, if for nothing else than the fact that the names you'll remember will tend to be egomaniacs, impact aside, because they're often optimizing for attention. It is true that many highly influential egomaniacs have existed in our history. But I'm not so sure it's usually the case. There are any number of hugely important scientists and mathematicians whose work has catapulted our society, and yet people don't know their names. Elon got his name because he's in the media and works the business angle to make his wealth. I also definitely don't think it goes the other direction (I've met a lot of tremendously mediocre egomaniacs). Ultimately though, it's kind of beyond the point. You can appreciate Space X and Tesla while disliking the person and highlighting his faults. It's something more people should do, because his "fan" base really doesn't help.

I dislike Musk because he's a petty egomaniac who thinks he knows more than he does. How about this winning tweet and thread? The content of this response itself is stupid, but it's also a completely unnecessary petty attack for someone of his position. All it does is sick his disgusting fan boys on this person so they can high five and circle jerk to the alter of Musk. Just look at the bullshit responses. His need to tackle any such slight like this is not dissimilar from Trump. Or you can go and look at when he attacked (comparatively) small time Upulie Divisekera (who didn't like his idea about people voting on news trustworthiness) over the fact that she has the word "nanotechnologist" in her bio and apparently that's "bull shit." Nevermind that there is legitimate nanotechnology science and that she actively contributes to the field. Or you can look at how he talks completely out of his ass about AI but thinks he somehow is an expert on it, because he's hired people who work on AI. He's pushed for some really cool stuff, but he has a gross personality.

Thanks, I'll take a look at this. I also did a little bit of searching this morning and found some other possible directions, but I need to figure out how to vet them.

I thought we had a thread on this topic already, but if we do, I can't find it anymore. Popping up on a twitter is a lot of reports of women in Iran who protest by dancing in the street, or at home and publishing to Instagram, being sent to jail and and getting lashings. Here is one example: This shit is fucked. I would like to help, but have no idea how given it's a very different country. Anyone have thoughts?