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why is it always NP-Hard and never PP-Hard?

i put $100 into an IRA when i got my first job the following year Bank of America decided they would take away $30 of it each year that i didn't put more money in so for almost 25 years i have kept this account open with the solitary goal of making them spend 30 cents per quarter on postage

The lovely consequences of companies taking all your personal data when they don't need it: oops because I had to use their garbage app to pre purchase a movie ticket, now my personal details have been stolen! Remind me again why you needed my ID number for such a transaction?

this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings

Somewhere here

I just want to build useful things. I hate that capitalism sticks its wormy little tongue in - "hold on, have you determined the amount of this absurd single scalar we use to represent all value that people should give you to use this tool? How many gallons of milk is your time worth??" I DON'T CARE

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

open source and open data as an ethos is largely anti capital and anti authority and is inherently political in ways we need more of

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

Stop trying to make things healthier. There is no such thing as healthy cake. You can at best turn a 500 calorie slice of delicious cake into a 450 calorie slice of hot garbage like below. Want to eat healthy? Vegetables are RIGHT THERE. When it's cake time, it's CAKE TIME. NORMAL CAKE.

If I was Stephen King’s Carrie, instead of exploding a prom I would’ve used my telekinetic powers to get rich from rigging horse races

I will never, ever consider my audience when making art. You are a disgusting flesh piano I manipulate to make the noises that please me. That’s the Rob Delaney promise.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Being ok with being mean to models for "model testing and research" but banning it otherwise because you're humanizing them is incompatible in the same ideology. You can't be just a little bit Unit 731 as a treat and then claim to actually be looking out for the wellbeing of the people of Nanjing.

wife: honey, can you read to the baby? husband: grok, do a vulgar roast of the baby grok: hello baby, your mind is not fully developed yet husband: no, more vulgar, use a gilbert gottfried voice

Feeling validated that I clocked America becoming the "public lynching" country on my plane ride out of the country on Jan 6 2021.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

It would be useful to know who these ICE agents are, I think finding that out is useful and important to the upholding of American democracy 👀 some methods are a little more intrusive than others

what was i going through six years ago

waymos are driven by the ghosts of people who died in debt

they did the thing

I love that there is no longer any distinction between ragebait and fetish content

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Here's how to check what it thinks about you

"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train

Wanted to try out this VR Chat everyone was talking about on my brand new Steam Frame. Loaded it up, selected a super awesome rock guy avatar for myself, find a room called "YT and Chill," enter it, hear "I'm just saying 6 million sounds impossible," immediately close VR Chat. No thanks!

Great strategy. Force China to choose between Taiwan and supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

I"m endorsing it, this is exactly what I've been talking about. Can we unseat big tech dominance by just releasing all their products for free?

one of my favorite tweets of all time

*through a mouthful of road salt* WHUGH???

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

Le Chonk: Mistral drops a 1T beast

No I do wonder about this. People's decisions guided by, influenced by marketing and availability. "People prefer phones without headphone jacks, after all, they keep buying them" logic. How do we balance personal responsibility against psychic attack?

the single biggest bottleneck on my productivity is being embarrassed to talk to the computer out loud in front of my wife

I genuinely believe this.

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites