Google gives A24 $75m in server credit so that A24 can test the viability of the research before Google actually has to spend any effort on it themselves.

Only if you're a shallow person who evaluates the partners of your friends solely on their sex appeal.

Thinking like this is telling on yourself.

"The $45m he spent to fight this would've allowed us to renovate this school. The $12b he'd owe would let us renovate 100 schools. Or get X thousand of the homeless off the streets. Or fixed 10 million potholes."

Make his name responsible for those things not happening.

I hate when these sorts of statistics point to "the top 10%" as the problem based on numbers like this. It's simply much less broad than that. Of all wealth, the top 0.1% holds 14.5%. The next 0.9% holds 17.3%. The bottom 50% hold only 2.5%. The top 1% of households hold 12.72x as much wealth as the bottom 50%. And, notably, the bottom 10% of households have less than $1000 in net worth. The bottom 8% of people have $0 or less.

A household which is at the 90th percentile for Net Worth has a net worth of roughly $2,000,000, including equity in their home. You get to the 95th percentile before you double that to $4M. The 90th percentile has 1000x higher net worth than someone with $2,000 to their name, which seems obscenely unfair when described in that way. However, a net worth of $2,000,000 would provide a retiree a mostly-safe withdrawal rate (4% or $80,000) of around the median income of ~$84,000. (This doesn't actually check out since it includes equity in the home, but as a simplification.) Retirees have access to social security and tax-advantaged accounts and the like, but someone who ends up with a net worth of $2M could live only a median lifestyle without working.

Is a net worth of $2,000,000 a very large number and a large chunk of wealth? Of course it is. But it's not like, obscene wealth. If I gave a random American $2M it would change their lives profoundly, but the people who have a net worth of $2M aren't the ones who are ruining our lives. They're just not.

The top 0.1% hold 14.5% of the wealth. The top 1% hold 31.8%. The bottom 10% hold less than 0%. That's the ball game.

Disclaimer: I have not rigorously cited my sources, nor verified all my figuring. However, most of this is pulled from the Fed data linked in the article. Other stuff is pulled from sources which cite the same, though I've not run a rigorous analysis of the maths. My work should not be cited as correct, it is intended to be illustrative. That said, I'll happily remedy any errors that others might notice!

I mean... in fairness to Google, wouldn't this be an email address that has almost exclusively emailed a massive chunk of users all at once, without obvious connection, and with exactly identical content? The URL it's sent from doesn't resolve to a webpage, and isn't on the same domain I found attached to other information/copies of the settlement.

Pretty much. Leave sharing policies are usually set up such that in some sort of extraordinary medical circumstance, employees can transfer paid leave to one another.

The idea is sorta that if a loved one has a major medical emergency and needs a lot of care for 3 months, other employees can transfer paid leave to help cover gaps. This makes sense as a way to cover edge cases in extreme circumstances, but "is having a child" definitely isn't such a case.

That's cool, but I do that too. So don't think you're special, ants!

Something other posters have overlooked here is that one life is guaranteed to be saved if you pull the lever. There are 5 tracks in the image, but the ratios use quarters. If you pull the lever, you have saved one life. You have a 75% chance that you have saved one life with no consequences. You have a 25% chance of killing a net of 4 people. By that method, your expected number of kills is 1, no matter your choice.

However, I really think I look at it more on the chance of good outcomes, personally. If I pull the lever I have a 75% chance of saving everyone, and only a 25% chance of bad outcomes. I can live with that choice. I can live with the decision to take action, because to not take action is still choice.

I'd question whether they're setting up for a false flag but I think the administration is just that fucking stupid.

My recollection is that Voat took a turn into being fascist Reddit 2.0 pretty quickly itself.

that the review process “has been activated,” and that the graduate instructor was placed on administrative leave “to ensure fairness.”

In pursuit of fairness, I think it's reasonable to label the Oklahoma University a bigot-friendly institution. Just while the investigation is ongoing, you understand. Certainly this shouldn't be construed as punitive.

A lot of these calculations solve this by using a lower expected growth rate, to offset the expected inflation. It lets you have the more simple conversations in today's currency values, which are easier to reason about.

That's not the case in this particular example, and you've correctly identified a deficiency. I raise the point for the benefit of any curious readers who look into other conversations on the topic.

To my knowledge, those two are the only citizens known to have been killed in her district though. Which y'know. Is what the article is talking about in this particular instance.

Well, look how long her right arm is in that second photo! Surely she must be very tall with a wingspan like that.

I feel like there was a missed opportunity to call it Androgynous or Androgynix.

In this case it's discussing DRM, not anti-cheat.

The poster you're replying to is on a bin, lol

These will all be football fields in the year 17776.

The Ten Commandments, famous for being identical and consistent across varying versions of religious scripture and sections within the same!

These numbers are arranged in decreasing order, but probably aren't directly related. The 39% doesn't inherently encompass the other values, one can dislike his Epstein stuff and his immigration policy, but not his economic stuff.

The latest overall approval/disapproval stats I've seen are somewhere in the ballpark of 40/55% spread. So, your point almost definitely holds for some percentage, but that's not really something that can be interpreted here, you'd need a specific breakdown.