I never knew that about exhaust velocity. So as propellant mass efficiency goes up linearly, power use goes up exponentially? does that make fast interstellar travel impossible?
Not exponentially. That would be exp(v). But quadratically, which is faster than linear. I would really hope that at least here people would know that exponentially names a particular function and is not a synonym for "fast".
Japan gets more flak because it's physical and historical isolation plus high cultural homogeneity have resulted in unique societal quirks.
Going to western Europe feels like the US. Going to Japan from the west still feels like traveling the world once did. Its unique culture is appreciated worldwide, even from closest neighbors.
They had smartphones almost a decade before we did. They had high speed rail before anyone else . Manga and anime are now worldwide, but they were born in Japan. Kawaii has spread to south Korea and to some extent the west, but it was born in Japan. Hanko instead of signatures is unique. Bowing. Onsen. Sumo. Vending machines. Much of the food... There's countless examples.
We're should be celebrating human uniqueness, Japan is a special place
This seems to imply millennials are lazy. They're the most educated generation in US history, and at the same time, the poorest in at least 60 years.
COVID relief funds are only paying them more than their normal wage because they got paid so badly to begin with. All older generations have averages incomes significantly higher than what COVID unemployment pays. And that's despite Millennials being more educated than all of these prior generations.
It's finally given many of them the freedom and agency to choose their jobs rather than take the first thing they can find to avoid going broke. Many of these people looking for jobs were also the first laid off at the beginning of the pandemic. Why should we feel bad for companies that treated these people as disposable?
There's not a "worker shortage". Companies are complaining that they have to raise wages to attract talent because workers are shopping around and getting counter offers.
This is not unprecedented. The same phenomenon happened after the Spanish flu, and was arguably a big factor in the collapse of the fuedal system during the black death.
Wide scale destruction of jobs followed by increased demand gives workers leverage. You have a huge group of people not afraid of being jobless because they already have been.
We have to remember that 600k people are dead too. A decent chunk of available labor is gone forever.
COVID restrictions blocking employers from hiring foreign labor is also a factor. There's increased competition for American workers because it's harder to import cheap labor
I read today that 3.2 million baby boomers retired last year, many of them retiring early due to Covid. In addition, as deviledeggs said, Covid has killed many people. I don't remember the exact number but I think at least 100,000 of the deaths were of working-age adults. In addition, Covid has disabled many more so severely that they are unable to return to work. So I would say at a minimum, we're now looking at 3.5 million people who are out of the workforce.
If businesses had prioritized helping employees stay safe, they would have more employees now.
I'm talking about how it's presented. It starts with
>oh my gods. they literally have no shame about this.
Then continues with
>it's official, obeying copyright is only for the plebs and proles, rich people and big companies can do whatever they want
and
> GitHub, and by extension
@Microsoft
, knows that copyright is essentially worthless for individuals and small community projects. THAT is why they're all buddy-buddy with free software types; they never intended to respect our rights in the first place
At any rate, it's not even clear to me if me publishing code written with copilot (or even with a random tool that will wget from github) puts the blame on the toolmaker or on me. This post, however, doesn't attempt to look at that but uses language that paints GH/MS as doing something illegal (and evil) that others wouldn't even get away with but not caring about it.
It seems that github did make a legal consideration when choosing to include public projects but exclude private ones, with many big companies having private projects for proprietary code bases. Users of public repositories are less likely to be able to fight github on the issue.
Is that not true? Google and Oracle had a 10 year multi billion dollar legal fight over ~20 lines of code identical between Android and JVM.
A non rich individual has basically zero chance of challenging GitHub on these blatant violations, and they know it.
> At any rate, it's not even clear to me if me publishing code written with copilot (or even with a random tool that will wget from github) puts the blame on the toolmaker or on me.
It really depends on the license, which GitHub apparently doesn't care about at all.
I don't really welcome our new corporate overlords, but why does anyone give a shit what Chinese govt thinks?
They're hilariously corrupt, natavist, and frankly crazy. To the point that you can't even admit Taiwan has been an independent country for half a century without them having a mental breakdown.
And have fun if you're a Muslim minority. They're busy hitlering everyone who isn't ethnically pure enough.
Chinese govt is a joke. I guess AMD didn't bring enough cash suitcases on their last visit
I disagree. It is a genetic problem; some people have problems with it and some people don't. Importantly, Asians have different ear wax than those of other races.
I was born with small ear canals and have particularly sticky ear wax. My father has it, and so does my daughter. We've all found different solutions.
