have you met many quants? a large number of them are like that, in much the same way that crypto currency people are (in fact, i think the crypto people are like that because they are poorly copying the quants).

usually the bits here are somewhat over the top, but this is a very modest proposal.

i'm so tired of libs (especially "leftists") saying things like this are a win, or even that this is a "pretty significant shift in the status quo" (literally quoting one of them) because they might consider restricting arm transfers. another one i saw mentioned potential domestic military raids as a reason not to vote for Trump. the american left is fucking cooked. willing to vote for a genocide to save themselves is pure cowardice.

i think the way they want it to be understood is "if elected, i will so thoroughly address all of the issues you care about that you don't have to vote on them again", which is kind of reasonable until you try working out how that would happen

from what that link says, it sounds like the rule was made mostly to get around employers saying "this part of your paycheck is a bonus, not a wage, so it's exempt from the time and a half rule"

so, start with:

x = 0.999...

now multiply each side by 10

10x = 9.9999....

now we subtract x from the left side, and 0.999... from the right, which is fine because they are equal:

9x = 9

and from there it should be fairly obvious that x is also equal to 1, which means 0.999... is also equal to 1

i've only been playing factorio lately. this is my current seablock map. trying to get the train based city blocks going. i've got basic resources going and about to start science blocks.

lol at the person being all "why hasn't threads or bsky killed twitter yet?" like that would meaningfully improve the situation. those platforms also have a bunch of reactionaries on them, and well boosted by their algos to boot

the thing i find the most amusing is that right after Trump won, the #StillWithHer crowd were talking about how the media gave Trump so much free coverage and that's why #She lost. and here we are 4 years later with the media.... still giving Trump a bunch of free coverage, and they are absolutely ravenous for more.

this is only barely a story. i have very little confidence in western news reporting on anonymous sources out of china. i am very willing to believe that this official is getting removed because of the backlash to this, as china does have a reputation for having actual consequences to fucking up their economy, but anything beyond "we aren't going to do the regulations exactly like that" is completely unfounded speculation

it is more cursed than you could believe, and it leaks into the entire software industry

I'm doing it out of deep self loathing

yeah, that's why we're here