Immigration is very possible to a lot of countries via employer sponsored routes, generally for highly developed countries the requirement is “you have to be earning above average for your industry,” so essentially if you’re in the top 50% by skill/experience you should be allowed in. Others require certain levels of education, etc. but for US citizens those levels should generally be achievable.

Relatively, moving to the US has been so much harder than moving out for a long time now, which is why people are saying “just move out.”

The thing with PE is they only invest what they’re willing to lose, which the vast majority of their investments do, but the tiny fraction that don’t make enough money to fund profits and cover losses.

If 95% of companies in the stock market lost money, that’d be the end of days, but that’s because generally once you graduate to an IPO you have to be pretty profitable.

The whole point of a pardon is “we know you did the crime, but don’t think you should be punished.” It can only come about if there’s an ulterior motive, like corruption or if you agree to work with the government towards their goals, initially working on dangerous projects etc. Allowing it to be overturned later would undermine that as it wouldn’t make the danger worth it.

Fuck no.

I wish everyone used C#, Scala, Rust or Python (DSLs like VHDL, SQLs and CUDA and super specific languages like C, Erlang, Haskell and Bash notwithstanding).

You can hate on them, sure, each for their own reason, but they’re all very well supported and good for what they’re intended for.

Russia sponsored it, despite being huge and present colonisers, but the text of the motion was pretty lacking.

France, China and the US are the other big two these days (excluding the more minor offenders and the ones that are more imperialist or genocidal than colonialist like Israel, Armenia and Azerbaijan), the US voting against is unsurprising, China like to reframe their colonialism as “Not Colonialism™” and France probably didn’t want to get the bad rep of voting against it.

Essentially: it’s not designed as a change from North/East/South/West, it’s designed as a from-scratch way to refer to those directions.

The sun rises in the East and sets in the West, so let’s say East is “Sun” and West is “Setting-Sun.”

Polaris/The North Star is in the North, so let’s call that direction “Star” and the other direction “No-Star.”

When you say “Setting-Sun-Sun-Star,” you’re saying the direction is more similar to the path the sun takes through the sky than it is to the North Star, and in the direction the sun sets.

16 directions is pretty arbitrary anyway though, usually 8 is enough and then you don’t have the confusion of repeated words.

I was assuming a conlang situation where “north” referred more to the axis, rather than the direction.

Anti-north-north would be more “reversed-vertical-vertical” meaning it’s reversed vertical (south), and closer to the vertical axis than the horizontal axis. North would just be “vertical” without being reversed.

In all cases, 2 at most.

North
North-north-east
North-east
North-east-east
East
Anti-north-east-east
Anti-north-east
Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant)
Anti-north
Anti-east-anti-north-north (reversed word order to distinguish it further)
Anti-east-anti-north
Anti-east-east-anti-north
Anti-east
Anti-east-east-north
Anti-east-north
Anti-east-north-north

anti-north-northeast doesn’t sound unreasonable, but that’s being logical instead of just thinking about two directions, as written in text, as OP is

It is, but you need to balance your life towards it by minimising the amount of time you waste, which is not to be confused with time spent relaxing.

If you can cycle to work, or work on a hobby/side projects while on public transit to work, that time is no longer wasted.

If you have hobbies near where you live or where you work, you’ll be spending less time going to or from your hobbies and more time doing them.

If you need to/are prescribed them, take stimulants, anti-depressants, or sleeping pills, because otherwise you’ll take longer not doing things and have less energy for the things you actually want to do.

It’d be a small model run locally, taking up maybe half a GB of VRAM

The Beatles and Rolling Stones are somewhat different in that they did a lot of defining what a band was in terms of festival culture, band member popularity, and publicity management. They were doing it in the early 60s, then all the copycat slop like Eagles came along in the 70s and 80s.

AI generated visuals and music are one thing, but one use of AI in that category is giving NPCs actually interesting things to say.

Currently, without AI, they have one or two lines about the weather, or the general state of affairs, but if you can pass an LLM the current state of the world and the player’s recent actions, then run the output through a tts model tuned to a distinct voice to, you’d be making the world feel way deeper than it is now with much more insightful interactions. You could maybe go even further and add infinite mini-quests in a similar manner, but it’s better to start off small.

AI doesn’t have to replace, and the best studios will use it to enhance and add to their art, the average ones will avoid it, and the worst ones will use it to replace art.

That’s not even Japan, any European country has that as standard on showers

Elon is one thing, but the Grok developers have recently done a surprisingly good job at making it neutral and unbiased in matters of opinion, but also allowing it to tell people they’re wrong in matters of fact, which is why there’s so many screenshots around of conspiracy theorists getting shut down by it.

I can’t say whether this will be the same, but if the devs take “without bias” to actually mean “without bias,” rather than what Elon intends it to mean, it could actually be somewhat useful to filter out obvious promotional content and any small levels of bias.

Nice to meet you, from a new resident of Switzerland/Ireland/Iceland/Colorado

Seattle, Portland, Atlanta and Denver famously being uninhabited wasteland right?

“Inspired word of God” differs by denomination though right?

I could be wrong, but I thought some viewed it as the exact word of God, others as the word of God as interpreted by the prophets

Counterpoint: London.

It’s easy to complain, with it being £2.80/$3.70 for a single zone peak single, the frequent strikes, the noise, etc. but the trains are at worst every 5 minutes or so, they have the most frequent rail service in the world (Victoria Line), they’re constantly making improvements (Elizabeth Line, Battersea extension), it has fairly good coverage (when including national rail for south London), overnight service, and the busses are absolutely amazing.

Is it on par with Seoul & Singapore? No. But it’s certainly significantly better than most cities worldwide.

Or they just don’t know if they’ll want to raise children later…

Sure you could say they should adopt, but they may see some value in the experience of supporting their partner as they go through childbirth in forming a bond to the child.