Funnily, the economic and political situation in the US has a far larger impact on my day-to-day economics in Denmark than almost anything my own country does. Mortgage and groceries are inextricably linked to turmoil caused by the US and their markets.
This is definitely not true. Whether you are looking at medieval societies, hunter gatherer societies, or established modern societies, there are clear examples where people had more leisure time.
In the simplest possible case, back in the 1950s, most households had one paid worker. Today, most households have two paid workers. The per worker number of hours remained flat, but the per adult number of hours worked skyrocketed.
Pre agricultural societies typically worked less.
Medieval peasants worked long days, but it was highly seasonal, and was limited by light. They worked ~1500 hours a year, and put another 5-800 hours into domestic work. Modern Americans will be very familiar with about 1800 hours of labor a year, plus 5-600 hours domestic labor. Plus significantly more errands and transit stacking on a few hundred hours a year. Most Americans push close to 2600 hours a year. But it can go much higher if you factor in childcare (largely kids in medieval times were put to work).
So, your claim of more leisure time is definitely incorrect.
We definitely have better leisure time. And our social safety nets are better (though declining as of late). Quality of life is higher for sure. I'm solely objecting to the claim we have more leisure time.
> In the simplest possible case, back in the 1950s, most households had one paid worker.
In 1950s, most households were in subsistence agriculture, where both spouses worked more or less around the clock. On in a couple wealthiest countries of the world, where minority of population lived, the situation was different.
It could also be said that during the 1950's, in a couple of the wealthiest countries in the world, one spouse worked more or less around the clock and the other worked for about 8 hours...
I agree with you. Household labor IS labor. However in the world where both spouses moved to working for a wage, those 8 hours of housework do not disappear. They still need to get done, they just come from both spouses leisure time now.
It's not 8 hours of housework. Dishwashers, robovacs, laundry machines, and fridges all reduce the house labour load. I don't think people appreciate how much labour reduction has happened. Getting food for the day's meals was a daily thing, now you can go weeks, even months without having to get more food thanks to refrigeration.
He'd have tried to cut dead weight bodies off the payroll rather than give a crap whether any particular body is on the clock 30hr or 60hr.
Trying to get your manufacturing employees to show up more so you can make more money on the fixed costs (benefits, training, etc) is to put a baindaid on a bullet hole that is the modern big enterprise as it exists in the modern economy.
He was given the highest civilian award available from Nazi Germany--more than just antisemitic (which you are right on), but I understand you didn't mean politically. Thanks for the clarification
Oh! That explains why Trump was so sympathetic to Jensen : "He is suffering. Poor man. He is such a nice guy. And his family… but he is suffering greatly."
Sure, it has value to you, I'm the same. My main workstation is 10 years old. But try to sell it.
GPUs are holding value longer, for obvious reasons. But even a 5 year old PC or server will be out of warranty, full of NLA components, and will get pennies on the dollar of its original cost on the salvage market. Most businesses will have fully depreciated them and maybe expect to sell them for enough to cover the costs of disposal.
Yeah, I might dive in with llama.cpp at some point, but unless Apple censors the models I can choose I'd just as soon go with Apple's solution.
I also want something that integrates super easily with my iPhone and other devices, and hopefully Apple will make it possible to use my server as an intermediate fallback between my iPhone and their cloud models.
I’m a bit lost and maybe something also got lost in translation. I use 1Password to store multiple ssh keys for different services. I have a very restrictive ssh config because I don’t like to use ssh agent which hands out all keys to different connections. I use one key for a set of machines for work. One for GitHub etc etc etc. I connect to these machines from different endpoints. And I don’t want to register each of these with a new custom keypair to all the services. Like GitHub. I have 1Password installed on all desktops I use so I pull them from there. I share the same dot files and configuration. For GitHub I actually need 3 keys. My private key, 2 for work that have special SSO permissions. I don’t want my private key to have access to the work repos that’s why I split and my company has 2 different enterprise accounts where I have 2 different user accounts.
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