As an ID number it has almost nothing to recommended it, especially compared to modern equivalents in Europe. It wasn’t meant to be a national ID number.
The only reason we use it for identification in the US is that a common ID is often useful but Americans have always been phobic to mandatory census.
Obviously they’re fine handling all that information to data brokers, however.
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There’s greater room for platonic friendships in relationships with lots of trust.
Edit: I’m in a poly relationship which, similarly, only works with lots of trust. But a side effect of that trust is that platonic friendships with sexually attractive people are, seriously, NBD.
Jealousy is the love killer.
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I keep reading this with different vocal archetypes like radio-announcer, in-a-world, Shatner, Schrute, etc. Can you tell me what your inner head voice sounds like?
lol yeah, I couldn’t think of the right word so borrowed that one. But I suppose we don’t usually shuck oysters and keep just the shells lol. I only meant opening / replacing some of its guts. But I didn’t explore it. It would be wasted effort if, for example, the controllers and interface were all on the same board as the gpu, because then you would still have to get at least a PCIe oculink riser in there, even if you could use original heatsinks.
Yeah, pro-sumer TB/Oculink gear tends to put a big premium on density and flexible deployment, which results in pricing that seems ridiculous to anyone who isn’t required to teardown, haul, and setup equipment regularly.
I considered getting one of these at a higher price point just to try shucking it for use as an enclosure because it’s so unusually compact. Pretty sure it’s small enough to fit in a pocket of a backpack when most of my enclosures are the size of SFF towers — to accommodate internal PSU, larger cards, etc — so the density would reduce what I have to haul separately by 1.
Saw a tiny shrouded demo of a consumer 480Hz panel at ISMAR years ago. Didn’t expect difference from 240Hz to be perceptible, since it already looks ridiculously smooth, but I was wrong. I’m not sure where the upper limit is for a typical human eye, but surely we’re nearing it with a 480Hz?
Ah I see, like grocers requiring that employees solicit donations at every checkout to reduce global food insecurity (and the grocer’s tax burden), it’s only technically optional.
Sounds like it’s similar to here. I would have thought we narrowed the gap by now but apparently not. The child caregiver trends are definitely behind along with a host of other gender norms.
Lol that pricing scheme sounds great, easily a sketch comedy premise from Portlandia, BackBerner, SNL, etc
It looks like the figure is similar in the US: plateaued at 83% a few years ago, currently at 82.
Incidentally, I’m not used to seeing “West-“ specified and was curious enough to read up. Didn’t realize there were still major social differences in the East. Thank you!
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I seem to recall that was the figure like 15 years ago. Has it not improved in all this time?
Option C: capitalism is neither good nor evil, just an economic reactor core that must be properly harnessed to deliver on its promise (market efficiency) and avoid its peril (oligopoly).
The primary means of keeping the reactor core healthy (full-market efficient) is to keep it cool (evenly distributed) by pruning and recirculating capital via taxes. This amounts to redistribution, of course, which many have taken to calling “socialism.” But the reality is both are needed to maintain balance in the people’s economy.
The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can fix the damn reactor core.
In general I agree, but I have one suggestion re: communication strategy.
I’ve thought similarly regarding the shared nature of the human condition and what that means for how we consider one another. But I’ve puzzled over how to properly share the idea, or rather the feeling, and experimented with different approaches.
So far, I’ve learned that once you start changing basic definitions of fundamental concepts, such as the self, you quickly lose others’ attention. This might be due in part to the prominence of that rhetorical pattern in a long history of mystic and gnostic traditions, for which it often seems confusion is the point, and “don’t ask me how i do it” is the answer (unless there is a “donation” for the instruction). For example, imagining “I as the cosmos” is fairly inaccessible to anyone who hasn’t spent the last few weeks stripping away layers of the self (or isn’t on at least some ayahuasca).
Martin Buber’s I and Thou spends a few hundred pages describing your idea, which boils down to (1) our notion of others (“thou,” the intimate version of “you”) being animated by an outward projection of self, and (2) our notion of self being constructed from inward reflections of ourselves in others’ eyes. Anthropomorphism, ascribing human personalities to animals, is an (otherwise curious) side effect of this distinctively human behavior.
As a social mechanic, it begets empathy and requires trust. Its antithesis is othering which always requires fear. It lends credence to the idea that the more you understand someone — their experiences, their motivations, their dreams — the harder it is to hate and the easier it is to love.
So if you’re looking for a way to communicate this notion of humanistic atonement (at-one-ment) to others, in a way they can use, consider how one might dispel fear and learn to trust.
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