We didn't observe daylight savings here in Indiana until about a decade and a half ago, and we have our own time zone in everything still (go look, you'll find "Indiana (East)" or some such). I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to implement.
The Real Martian is great. Go back and watch the Hab 1 videos, it was truly sad to see snow collapse it. he's now quit his full time job and joined some startup and they're about to go full steam ahead into Hab 2 after months of modelling and other stuff. Ultimately they're looking at creating a commercial product where a family, or a couple of families, can erect a habitat and grow a decent amount of their food.
Hab 1 had aquaponics and fish, not sure where Hab 2 is going to look like as they haven't shared much but he's just started churning videos out again the past month or two.
It's a really neat project, I just hope he continues to show as much as he did with Hab 1 now that he's part of a startup.
Trying to get companies to give me a chance without a 4-year degree. Even my own employer won't promote without a 4-year degree.
While this sounds like a complainy pants problem, this isa very real problem for a very large percentage of the United States. Without a 4-year degree as a de facto dues card, you are severely limited on your options.
At 34 years old, I could maybe have a degree by 40 while working full time and have to take on 30-60k dollars of debt to be competing for entry level jobs against 20-22 year old applicants (many schools now have programs so students can graduate simultaneously with a high school diploma and an associates degree). At my current income, if a degree could get me an extra 15% within a year of graduation, I would be in my 50s before I paid the loans off at current rates. That means I sacrifice the last half of my 30's to break even in my 50's and maybe make some extra money in my 50's and 60's losing out on 20-30 years of compounding interest because I don't have that arbitrary degree in anything as a dues card to say I'm worth hiring/promoting.
Blah.
Last year I made about 10% less than the year before because of zero overtime, our annual merit-based increases often are break even (sometimes not even break even) once you factor in inflation and insurance cost increases, throw in the constant nagging pressure of cancer risks (father died of it, mother had it, father's mother died of it), climate change, international trade issues which could see me laid off, automation possibly replacing jobs in the near future, it can often be quite crushing. Especially when you're trying to maintain sobriety and just want to run off into the woods with a cask of high proof alcohol and try and befriend a bigfoot to help provide food and shelter for you so you can die from Lyme disease or exposure living as a refugee in Bigfootville.
Meanwhile you see people with YouTube channels buying what equate to mansions (What's Inside, Jenna Marbles) and taking international trips monthly (What's Inside, Casey Neistat used to, on aircraft with seats in the tens of thousands of dollars a flight) and even crazy domestic trips frequently (What's Inside) and you're like, "Dude, I just want to make more than 34k a year".
I truly can't imagine what it is like for people that are consigned to working fast food/retail/service jobs as their sole source of income. It has to be all but crippling.
Yes. I should preface this by saying I'm not a CS type but Igross about 34k a year, I've been at my job 13 and a half years, I'm in the same position I hired into because in my OpCo it's only 5 rungs until I'm at the corporate level.
I do not get a bonus, the 401k contribution is fairly meh, our pensions will no longer be contributed to later this year. The company stock purchase is merely we pay whatever the price is but don't pay a buy commission, however, we pay a sell commission and a fee on top of that for direct deposit and an even higher fee for a paper check if we sell.
The only realistic way to move up in my OpCo is to get at least a 4-year degree, Masters preferred though, and be willig to physically move across the country chasing jobs. My manager worked here in Indiana when I started, to become a manager she had to take a job in the bay area and move there for several years before a manager position eventually opened here and she had to compete for it. Similarly around the same times a guy had to come here from NY to become manager and wait for a position to open in NY to move back. In another OpCo a friend of mine is equivalent to my boss's boss now after starting a month before me, getting her bachelors, getting her masters, and moving to 3 different states over that period for a total of 5 moves.
When I see people on HN "yeah, I make a bazillion dollars, plus bonus, we've got free rides to work, free gym, free food, free this and that, great stock options and 401k match, but man I'm bored" I get quite irritated. I hate my job, I work every holiday, we hot bunk desks with another shift, regulations are constantly changing, internal policies are constantly changing, Office Space looks like heaven compared to my office, I actually make less some years after you consider insurance increases... but I don't have a degree and I've been here for 13.5 years so if I go to a company doing a comparable thing I have to take a few dollar an hour pay cut and lose nearly a month of annual vacation to start as a new hire. That's if the competitors will take me, I've had a few reject me for not having a degree, one of which has only been in business about half as long as I've been doing the job...
sigh
But hey it's ok, I only have to work here until I die since I'll never be able to adequately fund retirement accounts to retire!
It's not an uncommon dose for experienced psychonauts. Perhaps not monthly, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone with a lot of LSD experience that hasn't done that at least once with many doing that several times.
You also have to factor in that street drugs are all over the charts as far as consistency in the dosing and the person you replied to may have been consuming a fraction of what they thought they were (even humidity and handling can reduce what is there).
>especially that people are now looking to psilocybin as a means of treating depression
I might be wrong and please correct me if I am, but I'm interpreting you saying that as a bad thing. If you are saying that as if it's a bad, or perhaps 'crazy' thing, why? Why would turning to a natural compound that shows promise, be any different than a synthetic chemical cocktail that similarly interacts with the brain?
Yes I know, natural doesn't eman something is safe or good (I mean, all sorts of things are naturally fatal to humans) but I see this as an actual good thing. What limited exploration with such compounds as a means of treating (or curing) various mental issues looks promising and removing the legal barriers and stigmas associated with these 'drugs' to properly test them seems like a great thing
One was killed while on another vehicle... the other was killed by yet unidentified hit and run driver that was likely impaired at a speed great enough it launched her body more than ten feet into a field, to be found days after the fact and needing to be identified by dental records, almost certainly ending her life at the second of impact with the vehicle and if not she would have died from the impact with the ground.
Cars versus people not in another car, often result in death regardless of any little piece of plastic or rubber you put on a car. Plastic and rubber added makes the driver feel better, it does little to protect people.
>Does the US not have pedestrian safety standards?
I don't know what it is like outside of the United States but here everyone has the common sense to know "don't walk in front of moving vehicles" as you are taught as a child "look both ways before crossing" over and over and over.
You can put all of safety features you want on a vehicle, but if they hit a pedestrian there is a VERY good chance they will die. That's a lot of force and a little bit of rubber or plastic won't make a lot of difference, I say this as someone that lost a very dear friend to a hit and run as a pedestrian and lost another friend this year that was stationary on her motorcycle and someone rear-ended her and killed her (effectively) instantly.
>my assumption was that people who ride this kind of car want to stand out in the first place.
Every single Tesla vehicle I've seen in the wild here in Indiana has had a vanity plate, my favorite being Indiana plate "5TAR 5HP" a few weeks ago driving home from work, here she is https://imgur.com/gallery/YGhwGYV
>How old are you? This Reminds of what we thought the future would look like in the 80s.
As soon as I saw it I thought "dystopian future military transport". Then I remembered Blade Runner is set this month, of this year, and uncharacteristically giggled.
Toyota trucks are everywhere and our family 1995 Toyota t-100 regularly had people stopping us making offers on it from about 2005ish until I gave it to my half-brother in 2013 with almost 140k miles on it (which is nothing for a Toyota), I even had people knock on the door of our house offering to buy it when it wasn't for sale. The Indiana State Police (I live in Indiana) even had some of their fleet as Toyota pickups for years (they still might). Actually, I'm quite confident I received more offers for my t-100 than I did for my '67 c-10 and I'd regularly get stopped and asked if I was willing to sell it too (which I finally did when someone offered me twice what I'd paid for it, which I'm still sore about I really miss that truck).
To be fair though, Toyota does manufacture a lot of vehicles in Canada and the United States which gets around the 'chicken tax'.
The reason you don't see a lot of imported pickups is because most of them are absolutely tiny, when you see an Isuzu truck for example it looks about as practical as an El Camino.
As a pickup it looks worthless, as a futuristic military transport that checks off a bunch of my childhood fantasies I wish I could afford one but at more than a year's gross income... sigh.
>Look at the valuation increases: Almost 2x year to year for quite a while. I don't expect most people seeing that kind of valuation increases looking to liquidate any part of their position unless they really can't help it.
I'd rather take 2x whatever today than 0x nothing when the company folds tomorrow/in a month/in 5 years never having gone public.
Visa makes a ton of money just off of necessary debit card transactions. As far as I know Stripe doesn't have a whole lot of groceries/gas stations/drug stores/doctors offices/etc as customers.
From what I've seen Stripe mostly has customers that are selling non-essential services and luxury goods. They'd be far more likely to suffer during a recession than Visa. I mean, Visa does around 1,700 transactions per second on average [1] and handled over 2 trillion dollars in a single quarter last year [2]
We didn't observe daylight savings here in Indiana until about a decade and a half ago, and we have our own time zone in everything still (go look, you'll find "Indiana (East)" or some such). I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to implement.