I would say that setting aside a tiny bit on top of “pay your rent” for savings is necessary. It doesn’t have to be a ton but you shouldn’t be in trouble if the company doesn’t work out. Startups can take years to play out and you need a safety cushion afterwards, some basic level of financial security

> Some people have zero self preservation. I wouldn't go deliver something to a terrorist group for any amount of money.

Is this victim blaming, or am I misreading it?

"She shouldn't have worn such a short skirt" is not quite "He shouldn't have gone unarmed and alone to a meeting with ISIS in ISIS-held territory."

relevant exhibit for anyone that is merely avoiding victim blaming because they were told not to, without addressing why victim blaming is often based in mythology:

https://today.tamu.edu/2019/11/19/what-were-you-wearing-exhi...

so, in human interactions, its always the person that does the harmful, nonconsensual and/or illegal action that should have the focus

Self preservation is a concept which extends beyond scenarios with a victim and a perpetrator.

Don't pet feral animals.

Don't run with scissors.

Don't wear a fur coat in the desert.

Don't drink bottles labelled "poison".

So, it should reasonably follow:

Don't hand yourself over to violent, hostile people.

In some cases, a victim is to blame. There are even awards for this sort of thing.

The victim is not to first to be blamed, but the result is predictable and avoidable.

Yes, but no.

You need the ability to distinguish between a bad social cliche like "short skirt, asking for it" and this.

Fighting might have meant nuclear war. How is that preferable?

Oh come on. MAD is a well-understood notion, and has been since the cold war. If the various Soviet leaders weren't insane enough to initiate it, why would Putin? Nobody wants nuclear war. It's a bluff.

The Reddit accounts are not new

Eg, 6 year old account https://www.reddit.com/user/lamka02sk/ Or 2 years https://www.reddit.com/user/SoftGreener/ 4 years https://www.reddit.com/user/omerby12/comments/

There are thousands of dormant accounts, the other day I found one dormant for 5-6 years, became active 1 year ago and had 95k comments! Most bashing the west and defending Russia and populist regimes

I played occasionally on a counter strike source server years ago and despite being a scrub would often get 10+ players spectating me to figure out if I was cheating. I wasn’t even playing well (and never have played cs well), it was just a really casual server.

Baseless accusations are thrown around non stop

I found quake live didn’t have cheating accusations back in the day, everyone had more understanding about how much worse we all were than the pros we watched in tournaments. A half blind snap shot or tripwire shot exploiting an angle in the map is just par for the course, if you can’t make those you would have a 0% win rate in duel (my duel win rate was still under 10%)

I don’t know how to read that chart. How do we know the levels increased? What did they used to be? who operates that site? What are safe levels?

Each of the detectors has a detail graph of radiation over time if you click on it - a lot of them show a many-fold increase in radiation in the last few hours.

Particularly concerning are some near the reactor building itself that went to a fairly high reading very quickly (65500 nSv/h in one case, which is likely offscale high) and then stopped reporting at 21:50 local time (it's currently 03:30).

65500 nSv/h is definitely not 'you're going to die right now' radiation levels, but it's definitely getting into the territory of stuff you don't want stand around in for too long. If I've done the math right, I think that's about three times the allowed annual exposure for radiation workers every hour.

Edit: I think I didn't do the math right and am off by 1000x. 65500 nSv/h is like three chest x-rays an hour. Which is still not good, but would take quite a bit longer to get really dangerous.

Note that

65500 = round(typemax(UInt16)/100)*100

and no higher value exists on the map it might actually be worse how much we can't tell though.

What a grim coincidence if this type of saturation error pops up again in relation to Chernobyl.

Is it a coincidence? Or are dosimeters commonly calibrated for a maximum reading of "not great, not terrible" for best sensitivity in the range they're likely to be needed for? This maximum reading is 50 times less than the famous "3.6 Roentgens".

Nice use of Julia to communicate with humans.

However, since you've chosen to communicate through code, strictly speaking it ought to be '==' :p

Yes, I write Julia but I didn't use Julia on purpose. It just feels natural syntax, which I guess is an compliment to Julia.

Very helpful, thanks!

Safe when it comes to radiation is tricky question. Since potential damage is random you might get cancer from first gamma-ray or you might survive nuclear fallout. (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukury%C5%AB_Maru)

However, in practice yearly 'safe' limit for civilian population is 20 mSv (ref: https://www.stuklex.fi/en/ohje/ST7-2)

The map is nSv /h. Lets take dot with 2000 nSv/h. In order to obtain yearly limit you need to hang around for 10 hours. Whereas 65000 area would be around ~20 minutes.

Please bear in mind that this is gross simplification.

You are off by 1000x:

2000 nSv/h * 10 hours = 20 μSv (microsieverts) = 0.02 mSv (millisieverts)

Click on one of the sensors to see the trend.

The world would have ended by now had people followed that advice 50 years ago

Russia has predicted that the wests sanctions will be mild because they depend on Russia for oil and wheat. Everyone is more afraid of a recession than of future wars. Are they right? Would you be willing to risk your retirement investments from your faang jobs to sanction Russia? Or do you think it’s worth the cost to help discourage future military actions? Honestly curious what individuals think here

I’ve made it to the top 5% in a few competitive games, top 1% or 0.1% even. Once you get there, it’s surreal because of how sloppy you know you are: everything you do is still so clumsy and you still have so much uncertainty. It’s just that most other players are even more clumsy and even more confused (often more confident however).

Property values in Canada are quite high. That free free squatted on non-free land for 150 years before you got to chop it down. How many dollars per year did the land cost for those 150 years?

Just saying that the free tree isn’t free