There was recently a “design proposal” (more of a published thought experiment) I read (posted on lemmy) where the authors had figured out the diameter required such that the gravity differential from feet to head wouldn’t be weird. It was quite large if I recall.
There is some nuance. Talking someone into or out of anything usually gets pretty easy if you can convince them it’s part of thier identity. Generational identity is absolutely a propaganda tool… but once you recognize this, it becomes apparent that it cuts both ways
To refine that even further, he doesn’t appear to imply that the dev isn’t WORKING hard enough, only that they’re not being OPTIMALLY PRODUCTIVE.
What he’s trying to do, really is float and normalize the concept of baking tokens into HR math in terms of a “golden ratio”… which happens to be 2:1.
So, when a company goes all in on ai, and they cut thier workforce in half, they’ll need to add in 50% for tokens. 50% of the original staff, at a new 150% cost, puts the company at 75% pre ai workforce cost. This is the “guidelines” they’re trying to normalize.
Bingo.
Maybe not outright fired, but absolutely open them up to career limits based on what you described.
All of Amazon’s code undergoes code reviews already. Accepting a PR is already spiritually a sign off.
This is just explicitly a threat, explicitly trying to find someone to hold accountable because you can’t hold ai accountable. What are they gonna do, fire the ai? Sign here to be the fall guy. Fuck off.
I like the project, but it seems like as soon as buddy got access to real-time e-ink he just never looked back.
As well, I get the UI appeal of negative space, but my god it costs a fortune in e-ink.
As everyone is noting here, this project shows a pattern of “money is no object” in every decision made.
That doesn’t mean it has to be, though. My gut tells me you could slash the cost in (at least) half while retaining like 90% of the utility.
I live in Canada, so things get a lot less complicated around medical bills, specifically.
Where things get really dicey, money-wise is around if you can’t work due to injury.
I think the minimum personal liability you have to carry is a million, but it’s pretty common to have 2 million.
Even at that, IMO it’s still not really enough. If you mashed someone up so bad they can’t work anymore, even a full unadulterated 2 million isn’t going to square a lifetime of lost income.
I’m not coming out here to say Insurance is great. Just that if we’re going to talk about the issues. I just think we owe it to ourselves to understand it well enough to have clear critism based on reality. I was concerned that some of the previous posts weren’t communicating reality clearly (possibly more to do with my own reading as opposed to thier writing).
I’m not sure if either of your points are quite right.
The first is that auto insurers aggressively fight suits. I think they’re generally settled quickly. Lawyers are brutally expensive, a sustained fight very quickly becomes more expensive than a payout.
The second is the notion that an individuals lifetime premium payments are capping the injury payout in order for an insurer to stay in the black. That isn’t the gamble insurers are making. Their bet is that MOST of thier drivers won’t end up with a massive liability, which is why they can payout an individual liability far in excess of that person’s lifetime payments and still stay comfortably in profit.
I grew up in the far north, winters were very long and very dark. Every kids jacket had prominent reflective materials.
I still look for that when I get a winter jacket.
I thought one of the reasons you have vehicle insurance is precisely so that if you hit someone, they can sue you and you can’t just weasel out of it by declaring bankruptcy?
Everyone is doing a terrible job of explaining, but they’re right.
Gravity, 1G, is described on terms of an acceleration. 9.81m/s2.
What is an acceleration? Is is the rate of change of a velocity. If a velocity changes slowly, it means the acceleration is low. If the velocity changes quickly, the acceleration is high.
Now, imagining a record player. Or cd player. Or your spinning wheel of choice:
You know that points farther away from the center are moving faster in absolute terms compared to points closer to the center.
Because the points farther from the center have a larger velocity, that means after some rotation, the total change of velocity for the outer points must be larger than the change of velocity for inner points. So, points farther away must have greater acceleration.
So, the apparent acceleration changes according to how far things are from the center point. This is why it really isn’t the case that it would be 1G everywhere. 1G is a specific acceleration, if if we’ve established that acceleration isn’t constant across the radius, then it can be 1 G only at one spot, not all.