I read about NFTs the other day and saw that it has no enforceability on digital item ownership (obviously, this is the internet after all, not Facebook)
So
NFT on digital items is just the good ole contract
With fancy tech slapped into the inventory system
:facepalm:
Why are we paying for an inventory system
Just sign a contract where I the buyer bought a digital item and they assure me that I am the sole owner.. boom paper NFT
#InventoryGang
You know, Korea is a very strange country
It’s one of the few countries where millionaires yell back at protestors “motherfucker do you pay taxes? Does your tax even count?” And then people online compare a millionaire 1:1 with a poor person and go “yeah he’s contributing to the economy alright”.
And a lot of people seem to think that rich people earn more because they deserve more, they spend more and keep the economy running, they invest in real estate and jack up land prices – so an all-around “good person”. (Until it’s a woman, and then she’s a braindead wasteful spender) A lot of people complain about high house costs but very few resent large property owners.
With a mentality like that it’s gonna make things just worse and harder for people to empathize with black peopl
at this 20-person work call yesterday, as an opening icebreaker, we were going around sharing what each person does for halloween
i was like “oh halloween is coming up soon, cool :9acosp_stormihuhwtf: ”
then that night in our family call my brother shared a vid of his son dressed up in hallooween costume
i was gonna say “oh they are practicing so soon?”
then i realized halloween was friday, not end of november
Preordered the Pixel 6 on October 19. Amazon indicates it’s shipping on 10/28, expecting delivery on Monday 11/1. I’ve been looking at the product page every day, seeing if the ship date moves (indicating backorders, which would mean that earlier orders ship first.. I wasn’t sure whether this would be the case)
| Thursday, October 28
| Package arrived at an Amazon facility.
| Baltimore, MARYLAND US
Oh wow I didn’t expect it to ship the same day as it’s released. This is pretty early, maybe I can get it over the weekend!
| Package arrived at an Amazon facility.
| Ontario, CA US
Same day arrival in CA! Nice!
*refreshing the tracking page every 4 hours at this point*
| Friday, October 29
| 4:21 PM
| Package arrived at an Amazon facility.
| Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA US
(delivery estimate changes to Sunday)
omg it’s happening! Maybe it will deliver on Saturday! Saturday delivery?
| 9:56 PM
| Package left an Amazon facility.
| Buena Park, CALIFORNIA US
Huh.. it went to Buena Park? Some items sometimes do this – they arrive in LA, then go to Buena Park, then it says “lost in transit or delayed beyond original timeline, contact us for a refund if you don’t receive the item by X day” (and then the item does or does not deliver with a 50% chance)
| Saturday, October 30
| 5:35 AM
| Package arrived at a carrier facility.
| Los Angeles, US
Oooh… is it gonna cut it in time to be on a USPS vehicle for Saturday delivery?
| 10:00 AM and no updates
Ah I think it missed the USPS window by an hour or two, and is now definitely slated for Sunday delivery.
I’ve never refreshed the delivery tracker this much in my life. And at the end of the day the phone is not such a big deal.. I’m probably just bored, although the current phone is slightly laggy.
Update: 11:00 AM
o0o
regarding squid games, i’m more concerned about the random “we have a just society here within the game. and you can’t break the rules of fairness” mini-arc. that random plot was unnecessary, was forced. and it didn’t get followed up on.
“fairness” is a big codeword among the right wing in korea after the 조국 corruption scandal of 2017 and the antifeminist discourse post-2015
we’ll have yet to see whether the director is a right wing incel in disguise a la attack on titan
Haha I dreamt that i was working with a team in a voter preferred language recognition project.. in a supermarket
> DerTora: Kid asked me what my korean name is 💀
Der = definite article in german language, male singular
tora = “tiger” in japanese
=> 그호 (that tiger) pronounced cuh hoe
> AlanJ: whats my korean name?
Anal= 💩
Jazeera =”the island” in arabic (traditionally refers to arabian peninsula)
=> 항도 (anal island) pronounced hang do
i understand why people would ask a lawyer to do their DACA app
as a non-expert, it’s hard to tell which things require expertise and which things don’t if you are not familiar with the field
imagine someone not trained in law doing like a unpaid wages lawsuit or idk.. whatever high level lawsuit
they would probably lose, and all their freinds would be like “you dummy, should have hired lawyer instead of cheapening out”
as someone not familar, it might be unclear whether their instinct of looking at the DACA app and thinking “doesn’t look too hard, maybe I can do it myself” actually is
a) a correct instinct (meaning: DACA is easy, just like doing your college app), or
b) a trap (meaning: DACA app might look easy but it’s a minefield full of invisible potential mistakes that can end up in your deportation)
because older immigrants think everything is easy
and think their only barrier is english
so they tell their children to do all kinds of shit, like filing taxes, submitting a govt project bid application, filing a C-corporation, who knows what else
those parents think DACA is easy, that you should do it yourself
and as a child who has seen your parents do many things themselves thinking it’s “easy” and fail and get scammed in the past
your gut instinct can be “uh my dad is saying this is easy… you know, maybe it’s not”
“my homie who didn’t go to college is saying this is easy… idk, should I trust their advice”
“this app looks simple. but is there anything in the process that I should watch out for that is not spelled out in the USCIS webpage?”
so if that “second guessing my instinct and my parents’ instincts” ends up being your primary driver,
then you will end up hiring an attorney to do DACA
for some other fields of life, this “better safe than sorry” attitude can be a lifesaver/headache-saver
you just happened to not be familiar enough with immigration to choose the cost-efficient path with DACA
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as for renewals:
if your attorney charged you $1,000 for a DACA initial
hopefully they will give you a big discount for the renewal. maybe like $200, idk
so now you are choosing between paying an expert $200 to deal with this and not having to deal with it yourself
and trying to figure out the app (which granted, looks much easier)
so eh, now we are at the “should I pay a CPA $100 to do my taxes as a W-2” level ¯_(ツ)_/¯
hmm so I wanted to open retirement savings this year
there are regular IRAs and Roth IRAs
Do these Koreans know something that my advisor doesn’t? Oh god are they doing some loophole or scamming the system
when i was a college student i saw those credit card ads posted on the college campus
and I thought that the APR was interest that had to be always paid as the cost of using a credit card
otherwise, why would they display the APR rate so prominently in the ads?
so I thought “so you spend $100 with your card and then afterwards pay with $112 out of your bank? thats.. unnecessary”
and never used a credit card until 9 years later
man i’ve been so out of habit of being outside
i’m like walking
and about to cross a street in a residential neighborhood
a car comes along
so I instinctively stop
and get distracted
thinking
in the meantime the car is completely stopped in front of me, waiting for me to cross
driver: “tf is wrong with this mfer he clearly intended to cross, and now he’s kinda looking into the horizon and not moving. should i just drive away?”
and like a good awkward 15 seconds later i’m like “oh”
> is using “oppa” if ur not korean okay?? like idk american australian etc.
i think this can be a more complex topic
you (and a lot on the internet) are approaching it as a “can a korean person say X word vs can a non-korean say X word” type frame.
which has its merits and probably happens to a certain extent
I’d invite people to consider the following issues as well:
A. to what extent is “oppa” romanticized outside of the korean-speaking-sphere and/or kpop fandom culture? Are people aware of how oppa is used in the language overall, or only narrowly aware of oppa in the domestic fandom culture?
B. do people use some words in isolation? for example “my oppa is so cute” as opposed to “우리 오빠 너무 귀엽다” and how do these interlanguage jargon mixings exacerbate any pre-existing tokenization of the language? Do they further A?
C. Are people aware of the tendency within the korean language to convert/linguistically imagine interpersonal relationships and hierarchies using the language of family and how oppa is part of this larger phenomenom?
etc
I decided to return the rowing machine after two weeks of back pain. I don’t have enough time left in my 3-month return period to verify whether the back pain started due to pulling something wrong while rowing or whether it was just the usual bad posture sitting at desk.
UPS was set to come pick it up yesterday. I stayed home all day, except for 1pm-2pm when I went to a chiropractor next door. I come back, and there’s a UPS “we missed you” sticker. Ok cool, they’ll be back tomorrow.
Today morning I went to the psychologist 8:30am-10:20am, and *just in case*, I pulled the boxed machine outside my door.
I come back and it’s gone with a “UPS picked up your package” sticker.
Two days in a row and they come exactly during the only 1-hour window I am away from home.
La forma de gobierno en Estados Unidos es una república democrática. A través de las elecciones, “contratamos” a personas para que nos representen en los varios niveles de gobierno. Ellos trabajan por nosotros, desde los concejales hasta el congreso federal.
La representación es esencial.
Las personas debieran sentirse representadas, o al menos que tenemos el mismo poder al decidir quién nos estaría representando.
Bajo esta forma de gobierno, nuestro mayor desafío es la tarea de dividir los votantes en distritos
Lo primero es que los distritos deben tener un número casi igual de personas.
No sería justo para las personas en el distrito si hubiera una gran diferencia de población entre un distrito congresional y otro.
Hay otras leyes: la Ley de Derechos de Voto, por ejemplo, prohíbe la discriminación contra las minorías. Si hay un barrio que es mayoría población negra, no se puede dividir la comunidad demasiado hasta el punto en la que sería difícil organizar la comunidad para tener representación en el congreso.
El distrito también debe mantener la integridad geográfica de las ciudades, condados, barrios y comunidades con un interés común. En California, los distritos deben ser “compactos”. No pueden tener una forma tan inusual que parecieran tener brazos y piernas.
Pero las personas también se mudan a otras regiones. Cada 10 años, el gobierno hace un censo para llevar un conteo.
En California, una comisión independiente, bipartisana, y diversa tiene que analizar los datos y los borde s, y escuchar a la gente para trazar los nuevos bordes de distritos que cumplan con todos los requisitos.
En el 2010, por ejemplo, la ciudad de San Diego agregó un distrito de concejal número 9. El nuevo distrito combina el área de clase alta de Kensington con City Heights, la cual es una comunidad muy diversa con altas tasas de pobreza,
Y transfirió el centro de la ciudad desde el Distrito 2 al Distrito 3. Esto resultó en un nuevo centro urbano dentro del Distrito 3, y el Distrito 2 se transformó esencialmente en un recinto costero.
Se necesitó mucha discusión y varios mapas para llegar a esta decisión.
Este año, con el nuevo dato del censo, y los Demócratas siguen ganando ventajas, el proceso para crear los nuevos distritos es menos partidaria. Pero eso no significa que tendremos menos desacuerdos sobre los distritos.
Habrán muchas conversaciones sobre cómo los nuevos bordes, incluyendo distritos escolares, concejales, y el congreso, tienen que ponerse en el interés de las comunidades con intereses y contextos sociales compartidos, y tienen que mejorar la representación en el gobierno, porque la representación es lo más importante de nuestra república y eso empieza con los áreas que nuestros representantes en el gobierno representan.
we live in a Democratic Republic the ideas that we hire people through Democratic elections to represent us in every government that serves us from the city council to the US Congress
representation is key
people must feel like they’re being truly represented or that they at least have an equal say in who should represent them
the most basic Challenge and responsibility, then, in this form of government, is the act of dividing us up into districts that should be represented
first the districts must have roughly the same number of people
it just would not be fair to one person if his congressional district had far more people than another person and there are other laws: the federal Voting Rights Act for example, prohibits discrimination against minority communities. if there’s a neighborhood that is primarily black for example it can’t be divided too much so that it is harder to organize for representation
the district should also preserve the geographic Integrity of cities counties neighborhoods and communities of Interest
In California districts are supposed to be compact. if they’re not drawn so weirdly that one neighborhood is in a different District than one right next to it but then a farther one is in the first one’s District.
But people move. every 10 years the federal government does a Census count to track that.
in California bipartisan independent redistricting commissions are required to appoint a diverse group to look at the data and potential maps and listen to people so that they can come up with new District that follow all this criteria.
back in 2010 for example the city of San Diego added a 9th city council District
it is of combining the affluent area of Kensington with City Heights an Incredibly diverse Community with high rates of poverty
and it moved downtown from the district 2 representation to District 3 in created in urban Core in District 3 and a coastal neighborhoods district for district 2
this required a lot of new maps and discussion
this year as the new Census count comes to an end and Democrats continue to gain an advantage, redistricting is becoming less partisan. that does not mean though arguments about redistricting will stop.
There will be many conversations about how new boundaries for everything from school districts to city councils to Congress should better serve communities with common interests and backgrounds and improve representation in government because representation is the heart of our Republic and it starts with what specific area government leaders actually represent
Cuando miras este imagen, ¿qué ves?
Un caballito de mar? Un fantasma? Un boomerang?
Este es el distrito congresional número 7 de Massachussetts. Y estos otros.. son otros pequeños monstruos. Perdón, distritos.
Los distritos congresionales son áreas geográficas representados por un miembro de congreso.
Gerrymandering ocurre cuando el partido político que controla el gobierno manipula los distritos para asegurar las reelecciones de candidatos que ellos quieren que gane.
Para lograr esto, crean un distrito que consista de una mayoría de votantes que probablemente votarán por su partido. También dividen poblaciones que votarían en su contra, lo cual resulta en esta forma de Estegosaurio.
Esta práctica, Gerrymandering, lleva el nombre de Elbridge Gerry, quien era un político y uno de los fundadores de Estados Unidos. Se pronuncia Gary.
Gary era miembro del Congreso Continental en 1775, y fue uno de los firmantes de la Declaración de Independencia. También estuvo muy involucrado en crear la constitución, pero no lo firmó porque con su ideología anti-federalist, estaba opuesto a un gobierno federal con mayor poder. Según Gary, la constitución no presentaba un balance correcto de poder. El gobierno federal tenía demasiado poder, pensaba.
Gary se unió al partido Demócrata-Republicano. Sí, en ese entonces había un partido con ese nombre. En 1810, Gary fue electo como gobernador de Massachusetts.
En estos años, Estados Unidos estaba a punto de entrar en guerra con Gran Bretaña. El partido de Gary creyó que era posible que los federalistas traicionaran la patria, y decidió manipular las elecciones para reemplazar todos los federalistas electos con un candidato del partido Demócrata-Republicano. Esto incluía manipular los distritos de Massachusetts. Los bordes originalmente coincidían con los condados, pero los cambiaron para beneficiar a su partido.
Un comentarista político dibujó una sátira política donde uno de los nuevos distritos creados por Gary, que parecía tener patitas, aparecía como una salamandra. “Es una gerry-mandra”, o gerrymander en inglés, dijeron.
El dibujo apareció en el diario local de Boston el 26 de Marzo de 1812. Desde entonces, Albert Garry sería conocido no como uno de los firmantes de la Declaración de Independencia, ni el arquitecto de la constitución, ni por ser el quinto Vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos. (Sí, también llegó a ser vicepresidente). Pero el legado de Garry terminó siendo la polémica práctica de distritos que lleva su nombre, aunque hoy en día lo pronunciamos como Jerrymandering, no Gerrymandering.
when you look at this picture, what do you see?
disoriented seahorse a ghost woman, a boomerang
this is actually Massachusetts 7th congressional district and these are… some other creatures, I mean districts
congressional districts are Geographic voting areas represented by a single member of Congress
gerrymandering happens when a political party in-charge carefully slices off voting districts so that the representatives they want to win, win
They do this by drawing a district around the populations most likely to support them or splitting up populations less likely to support them making this outline of a Stegosaurus
the practice is named for Massachusetts politician and Founding Father you’ve likely never heard of Elbridge Gerry
yes it’s pronounced Gary
elected to the Continental Congress in 1775 Gary signed the Declaration of Independence
He was also very involved in shaping the Constitution but he didn’t sign that because as an anti-federalist he opposed a stronger federal government believing the Constitution got the balance of power all wrong
Gary thought the federal government had way too much of it.
Gary Eventually joined the democratic-republican party. yes that was a real thing.
in 1810 at age 65 Gary was elected governor of Massachusetts.
around this time the United States was edging toward war with Great Britain. Concerned that the Federalists might betray the country Gary’s party decided to find ways to replace every possible Federalist in office with a democratic-republican.
this included changing Massachusetts districts from reflecting county lines to ones benefiting the Democratic Republicans.
in the grand tradition of political satire an illustrator drew a picture of one of Gary’s new districts depicting it as a monster that supposedly looked like a salamander. no.. a gerrymander.
the drawing ran in the Boston Gazette on March 26th 1812. from that year onward Elbridge Garry would be known not for signing the Declaration of Independence or helping to frame the Constitution or for being the fifth Vice President of the United States. yeah he did that too. Gary would instead be known for the controversial redistricting practice that bears his name even though we now pronouncement gerrymandering
hmm i’m gonna add 1 more monitor
will probably wait for some sales that pulls prices down to <$70
currently the TV is plugged to the cmoputer, but i don't really use it while at the computer – I only use while sitting in the couch. so the actual number of screens at the desk is 5, not 6.
if I get a HDMI repeater to feed signal to both a monitor and TV at the same time, then I can 1 more monitor (6 is the limit due to GPU max supported monitors limit – RTX2070 supports 4, and GT710 supports 2)
while i'm at it i'll also do a “2 IN, 2 OUT” HDMI splitter so that I can bring the Switch dock back to desk
i lost 11 pounds since doing the calorie counting thing 5 weeks ago (half of which was due to post-vaccine fever) which is kinda crazy fast and nice
i was gonna write earlier “yeah despite losing weight my body doesn’t feel lighter or with more energy” and as I started writing it i feel less sure about that
:cuteturtleshrug:
huh
after 19-Q4, i was only managing to work like 25 hr/week for most quarters too (except 20-Q4 and 21-Q1)
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