The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
You can't hedge against total financial catastrophe unless you have at least Larry Ellison "make my own self-sufficient villain lair" money and ability; you have to do it in the physical world, not the world of finance. So there's no point in trying. If some less-than-catastrophic event where Anthropic is successful happens, those SWEs get rich just like in earlier tech booms.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Wouldn't the pursuit of a judgment from the second mortgage (or bankruptcy proceedings, if they're taking that route) just lead to the house being sold?
Primary residences have some protection against bankruptcy, though this trick probably works better if you have a relative exercise the right of first refusal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that rent control is not an unconstitutional taking because the owner is renting voluntarily. He can just stop renting and sell the property if he wants to.
Not in NYC he can't. He has to buy out the existing tenants.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
SCOTUS does not want to go down the path of acknowledging regulatory takings.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Yeah, the way the law was written, it appears a homeonwer could get a second mortgage, default on the first mortgage, exercise the right of first refusal on the sale, and get the property free and clear of the second mortgage. They'd still owe the second mortgage but they could default on it or even declare bankruptcy (if they dumped all their assets into paying the upset price).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
It's an Iron Cross. She probably got it because she wanted something edgy but didn't have the chutzpah to go for a swastika.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
My paternal grandparents, who did not in any way, shape, or form, consider themselves subordinate to their own children, had six children.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
We already know how to fluid-cool chips and get the heat to a radiator.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I'm sure they've told Platner that if he stays in they'll destroy him, and if he drops out they'll find some place (less than Senator) for him. I'm also sure they're lying and if Platner drops out they'll bury him. From Platner's point of view, if he believes this, his only winning move is to beat Collins, at which point the Democrats will have to deal with him as Senator.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Yes, that's why I called it a "sort of primitive fascism" rather than actual fascism. Of course, sweep away the high-sounding language and everyone being expected to act as a cell in the body (or a cog in the wheel) isn't really such a good thing. And if you were to look at such a society, you'd probably find, as always, that there were a few people who were doing the directing of what the rest were doing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
A sort of primitive fascism, where everyone is basically a cell in the communal body. As E.O. Wilson said in a slightly different context, "Wrong Species".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Sure, when you're a child you're subordinate to your parents and your teachers, then in college you're supposed to be subordinate to your instructors and subordinate yourself to the goal of finding work post college. Then when you're working you've still got to be subordinate to your bosses, but at least that's part time... then someone comes along and tells you you have to also subordinate yourself to your children. When do you get to be you? Never.
This attitude, despite being a 'conservative' one, seems to be new to the generations which grew up after WWII. Earlier generations did not maintain that the parents lived for the children.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The Democratic Party will simply be supplanted by the Democratic Socialists of America, which will inherit all its NPCs but none of its scandals.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
OK, so we take the median income at 145 to follow the linear trend at $50,850 (2011) above the expected value at 100, which is $32,730 (2011). This seems pretty good. Note that personal income doesn't follow a gaussian distribution at all.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Five years is five years, it doesn't matter if I have a younger sibling of that age. "Peers of my siblings" aren't somehow off limits. I'm pretty sure they aren't for women either, the issue is that young women prefer older men -- they'd have no problem dating their older sibling's peers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
He's just using a different normalization of the same scores, that apparently gives slightly higher equivalent IQs.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
How would you know?
Reading your comments is sufficient.
The solution I think is to go form a small competitive intelligence hierarchy civ somewhere else and to have it outcompete the equality civs over time.
It doesn't work. The people with the high leadership-quotient take over these groups, if they become significant, every time.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Amazon has built a logistics system that is one of the best in the world, and computing infrastructure that probably IS the best in the world (at least of that available to outsiders). They also have a really nice retail website which sells a lot of useful things, and a video entertainment system which is pretty nice.
Microsoft, stodgy old dinosaur that it is, still underlies almost everything corporate, and they, too, have a significant player in computing infrastructure.
Apple, of course, makes the iPhone and the Mac and everything associated. And they have a video entertainment group too.
Alphabet does a lot of useless crap, but they still do Google search. And maps. And another significant computing infrastructure offering. And YouTube. And Waymo.
NVidia makes hardware that makes a lot of computing possible.
Tesla is for some reason considered a tech company; they make cars.
And then rounding off the Magnificent 7 is Meta. Oh well, they can't all be useful.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Your lack of consistency is your problem, not your interlocutor's problem.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
There's a relatively small but significant set of whites in the foreign-born tech set.
Google's 2024 diversity report has them at about 45% white and 46% Asian in the Americas. Hiring is about 40% white and 43% Asian; tech hiring is 48% Asian and 37% white. Still a lot more than 10% white.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Aristocracy is when a group of people get together to declare themselves the elite and give themselves special privileges. It requires some intelligence, yes, but far more important is a particular social skill, which you might call 'leadership' or 'douchebaggery'. If you don't have it --- and you don't -- then you won't be among the aristocratic class when it forms. And if you inherit the position, you'll be shuffled off to somewhere you don't like.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
The most robust IQ-income correlations I've seen stop at 130, because they're based on the ASVAB.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Amazing how much "dignity" coincides with shutting up and accepting what your betters give you.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
The President of the United States getting a soccer decision overturned demonstrates that yes, you can effectively use a bazooka to kill a mosquito.
Denying that "chicks dig jerks" has been a feminist staple for decades, yes.
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