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It’s hard to know what’s the new information here. Altman’s history has been reported on exhaustively. Few people have left openai over the year - safety abandonments, non profit s…

Since there have been several voluntary exit plans offered with varying benefits, was it a good decision?

This has already been banned in most of the west coast states. Other states and cities also have tip credit far above federal standard. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minim…

https://www.in2013dollars.com/Beef-and-veal/price-inflation It has gone up 4.12% per year compared to regular food inflation rate of 3.56%. So no it is not cheaper.

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What good is wealth if you are living in a boring old town with nothing to do? Also this would obviously not be true if you have a family because kids are a money sink.

Which chair do you have?

Voyager

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that they talked to absolutely no one local (Pakistani or Muslim) before they published this. The threshold before people pay zakat is li…

I have made $20k/year when I was in grad school and I definitely paid income tax. 18-20% overall IIRC.

This looks like a nice idea even if it seems hard to monetize. How does this differ from Scott's Cheap flights? Do you mention how 'cheap' this is compared to the past. One feature…

Calling it lowest ever means that you can get more yuans than ever in 11 years for 1 dollar. If you look at the chart, it clearly shows that this is the maximum yuan amount you can…

A major difference is also the after effects. A deadly atomic bomb can likely make a place uninhabitable for months or years because of radiation.

A lot of assets of rich people are protected against inflation. Real estate, stocks, art protect against inflation much better than the cash in the savings account earning <1%.

The difference is that for a mobile app, it's either apple's way or highway(more like nothing). You can't very well be a significant app developer by ignoring iOS. And apple does n…

Is there any other authentication method like google authenticator for 2fa to use facebook?

Is being part of tech scene a requirement? Chicago is pretty nice, affordable and cosmopolitan.

What about Philadelphia? It has one of tallest skyscrapers in the US. Good public transport and is pretty affordable even compared to Chicago.

Basically companies like facebook and google have abused the data collection and public trust so bad that EU had to come up with these absurd fines just so those behemoths would pa…

No they won't.

This is wayyy off in housing. I don't know anyone who is paying 10k a year for rent in santa clara county. This is the rent if you are sharing a house with 5 other people in bad pa…

Don't underestimate the power of compound interest. My dad tells me like this: Every time you take your kid to a fast food place, get him lemon water and put the soda money into th…

This might be true for this particular game but the lack of checks and balances on kickstarter is troubling.

They will claim that they didn't know. Intent matters in most legal cases.

Anyone who hasn't driven in congested roadways like 880 or new jersey turnpike cannot understand that left lane as passing completely breaks down when you have too many cars and to…