Readit News> Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns
For me happiness is a terrible life goal. Sure it's nice to be happy, but its such a vapid meaningless emotion. If I were to optimize for "happiness" I would just cash out, abandon my family, move to Vietnam, play video games and eat Hot Pockets all day. It doesn't take much to ride out the rest of my years.
But the life I choose is hard because doing hard things is good and fulfilling. I often willfully forgo happiness because, you know, I'm an adult. Maybe I'm just stupid?
> If I were to optimize for "happiness" I would just cash out, abandon my family, move to Vietnam, play video games and eat Hot Pockets all day.
That sounds like hedonism, not happiness.
> But the life I choose is hard because doing hard things is good and fulfilling.
Fulfillment is a big component of happiness. Aristotle famously contrasted hedonism (seeking pleasure) and eudaimonia (meaning and fulfillment) in Ethics iirc and mostly agreed with you— happiness is found eudamonia, not hedonism.
I'll also mention, hedonism is most often associated with money, because pleasures can be bought, but eudaimonia is only achieved through meaning, wisdom, action, etc.
aylmao commented on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I see the point being made here, and yeah 5%-20% extra for what amounts to insurance against geopolitics isn't too bad, but doesn't this all fall apart when China catches up?
That 5%-20% is worth it now because no one else can fabricate competing chips. In a competitive market, 5%-20% can be the difference between having the price edge or not. I understand why the USA wants TSMC to manufacture outside of Taiwan, but perhaps it makes sense to move it not the USA but, say, Mexico?
Chinese car companies seem to be slowly but surely rolling American car companies in international markets with great value at low prices. The move in this market evidently isn't to move manufacturing away from Mexico at a 5%-20% increase in price.
In the chip market there's less immediate competition, but I can only imagine it'll come. Hopefully economies of scale would have removed this extra 5%-20% by the time China catches up?
aylmao commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
Personally I don’t carry my GC, because I’m far more likely to lose it than for anyone to ever ask for it. And it’s kind of a nightmare to replace, takes awhile and you can’t travel.
To put it another way, the $100 fine is less expensive to me than the consequences of losing it.
If I understand the comment above correctly, one can carry an I94 too and those you can just print on the website [1]
I'm guessing there's no size requirements? If so it might be a good idea to just print four on an A4, and have one folded in your wallet, one tucked in your bag-pack, one in the car, etc.
aylmao commented on When Did Nature Burst into Vivid Color? quantamagazine.org/when-d... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers
Before reading:
It seems obvious to me that colors came before color vision. Natural selection constrains diversity along the axes that it selects for, while genetic mutations supply diversity along all axes simultaneously. The net result would, intuitively for me, be that nature must have had the colors before anyone could see them, since there was no reason to constrain having colors.
We'll see if that ends up being anywhere close to correct.
That's assuming the only purpose of color vision is to see the colors of other living organisms.
There's color in nature beyond life, such as in minerals and other chemicals. There's also color in life that isn't necessarily meant to convey something —such as the green of plants or the red in blood— that could be useful for finding food, for example. Interestingly, hemoglobin seems to have come to be > 400 mya too [1].
Moreover, color can help with contrast in vision. Two materials could reflect the same amount of light, but in different wavelengths.
[1]: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/ancient-blood-lines-t...
AWS is fine: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
My guess is whatever system downdetector uses to "detect downtime" relies on either GCP or Cloudflare (also having issues at the moment: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/)
Having a family is hard. For instance, people with children are consistently less "happy" than their childless peers, yet many choose to have children knowing that. If you optimize for happiness you may be optimizing for selfish empty shallow existence. I'm sure you can take a drug to make you "happy" but that seems foolish.
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