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That is why it is very common for vacations (of people who stays at Four Seasons) to start or end a business trips: I am already there, might as well get my family to join and try some new foods.


Asia has about 4.8B population, Australia has 26M. On a per capita basis Australia has about 1x% more deaths


On a per capita basis, Australia has world class epidemiology, medical record keeping, and "no sparrow falls" cause of death certification . . .

This might be a case of a shortfall in record keeping and open reporting.


> Asia has about 4.8B population, Australia has 26M. On a per capita basis Australia has about 1x% more deaths

6.3e6/4.8e9 = 0.00131

4e3/26e6 = 0.00015

About 9x as bad?

Not sure about 1x%, was that 1% worse? I am sorry I might have misunderstood that.


I meant 11-19%, did mental maths so I did not want to specify exact value.

Though my maths seems to be wrong as well!


1x% to me would mean between 10% and 19% inclusive.


My thoughts exactly. Africa and Asia see the highest numbers but this is proportional to the population count. Plus, countries in these regions have less advanced healthcare than in countries like Australia, but the latter still has a higher death rate. Quite mysterious.


The strategies will change, but it is not certain to be more “intricate”, it could go both way.

It is probably more likely that adding the other physical limitation of the human body causes one strategy to be vastly more effective, and the game becomes less intricate. The reason is fairly simple: a game does not become “intricate” or “interesting” by accident. We iterated through a lot variations before we settled down on this version of chess that has the suitable intricacy for us. Adding a new factor probably needs a couple more decades/ centuries of refinement before we get to a version that has similar property to the current one.

The similar situation in Starcraft: for machines that plays the game, certain units just become the only way to play (mostly long range high damage units). Human can’t choose 100 targets at once, machines can. If you balance the game for machines, then those units would be useless for human players


This is not cynical. The situation is that a) there will be a team of very expensive lawyers and accountants working out how to best implement the plan that benefits the company (whom you can’t compete) and b) crucially, you have no control and prior on knowledge on what that plan would look like. It is not about the company trying to screw an individual over, it’s more the fact that the company will be very unconcerned if their plan is against your benefit, and you have no way to align your own benefits with the plan.


For the situation where the hijacker can actually control the plane, I'd imagine the US military now has a more proper response and will be able to scramble jet in time to shoot down the plane (they didn't have such plan for domestic situation in 2001).


And you can even turn the viewpoint around and say that he is putting his money where his mouth is.


The corporation certainly can kick you out of the stadium, but any law that can make such broadcast illegal is probably nigh unconstitutional in the US.


It’s amazing how many constitutional rights are allowed to be restricted by contract in the US. First Amendment free speech rights are on that list.


Obviously rights can be limited by contract. That’s what a contract is: two parties agreeing to things they’re not legally forced to do.


Definitely not unilaterally.

Washington Landlord Tenant law lists several unwaivable rights of tenants, even given specific consideration.

You can't put a clause in my lease that says "For a discount of $100/mo, I forego the relevant rights on habitability (heating, water, etc.)" - even if I am willing to agree to it.


No, that is not correct. Search for “unwaivable rights”. Obviously you can’t just limit rights with a contract. If you could, labour laws would be useless and minimum wages wouldn’t exist.


>First Amendment free speech rights are on that list.

Do you think NDAs should be prohibited?


The First Amendment only prohibits speech restriction BY THE GOVERNMENT. It does not prohibit it by any other entities.


It seems (feels?) likely that demand for LLM is elastic, especially when it comes to specialized niche. Less power requirements just mean we run more of them in parallel for stuffs, so the power needs is gonna be growing anyway.


In 2024, 12-month inflation starts at 3.1% and is 2.7% last month (peak at 3.5% and bottom at 2.4%). You can't round that number in anyway to be "~2%". It is at least "~3%"


My Parmesan cheese is now $4, up from $3.50, price changed the day after thanksgiving.

I don't think inflation is low right now. They're working overtime to make it look low.


being 100 bps off target is not a "high inflation environment"


What's wrong with saying what you typed above verbatim? It is a fairy standard scenario and your wordings probably have been said in one-on-one millions of times. You need to follow up the sentence with "what's next", since the scenario does not have a simple solution (the manager can tone down the demand, but then output and quality goes back to where is was and we have to deal with that). But now that is more about the work itself rather than communication


That is how I said it, but there was no joint understanding of what I predicted about the future.


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