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It's similar to the compression techniques you might use in column store


It's one of the most expensive objects period


It's actually mylar that they're made of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoPET


Doesn't this depend on how much cross-immunity it provides?


I always wondered if broadcom was subsidizing RPi as a form of advertisement


Obviously the solution should be to use muppets instead of people. Much more fun.


Except now they’re racializing muppets: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055733980/sesame-street-make...


Yeah, kinda weird to make human muppets. The human-like muppets were good.

It's all about that fake outrage and fake pandering.


If you set the CEO pay to zero and gave it to all the workers it would amount to a microscopic raise, and presumably wouldn't make the company any better run.

CEO salary / number of workers / number of working hours in a year = 14.75 million / 70k / 2080 = $0.10


Let's run the numbers again for a thought experiment:

- $15600000 CEO compensation [0]

- 69600 workers [1]

- 1760 hours average per US worker per year [2]

- $20.12 hourly wage for the lowest paid John Deere employees

$0.13/hour, 0.6%, or a bit over a dollar a day increase for the lowest paid group. That would be the increase if the JD CEO would work for $1, with all his previous pay evenly distributed to all employees. Not insignificant.

Now let's have a slightly different thought experiment. What if the CEO pay is cut by 50%, and evenly distributed only to the bottom 10%? A $0.64/hour, 3.2% or $5.09/day increase. That would be a very significant number to all involved.

I'm not saying this is what should happen or not. Just saying the number is significant.

[0] https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2021/1...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/278010/john-deere-number...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...


To add on your point, the people I know on low pay really care about what seems like a small pay rise e.g. $20 to $20.50. This makes sense because after living expenses a worker is left with say $40 discretionary money to spend, yet a $0.50 pay rise increases the worker’s discretionary spending by 50% (for this example).

When you are financially struggling, a 10¢ raise (extra $4 for the week) can make a big difference.

One of my friends worked 40 hours and had $20 to spend on herself after her bills (which were frugal, since she didn’t earn much). Low pay sucks when you earn a discretionary $0.50 for every hour of work.


Usually the lowest paid workers make up a significant percentage, not 10%, so raising pay for only 10% of workers doesn’t make sense. Of course you can run another experiment that distributes CEO salary to the lowest 0.1% and see an even more significant raise; that doesn’t mean anything.


Yes, that would be a stupid way to raise wages. I guess I assumed I didn't need to explain that I'm not suggesting a contract that literally says to only divvy up the CEO's salary. This is the most pedantic response to anything I think I've ever read.


The point is the amount of compensation you could give to workers from reducing CEO pay is insignificant when you divide it by the number of workers, even if you imagine an unrealistically extreme reduction in CEO pay.


While true, it is no reason for not doing so.

On the other hand if you cut the entire c-suite, other board members and top management in half there is a significant amount. Usually with companies this size there are many mini CEOs in divisions and it starts to add up.


I think you'll get a better discussion (if that's what you're after) if you tell us exactly what you're suggesting instead of what you're not suggesting. The idea of negotiating better contacts for workers is not a novel one, you're not breaking any ground there. So how, exactly, does that happen?


No ground is being broken in this comment section whatsoever, and I'm not in a position to break any ground either even if I sit for a while and think really hard (...fuck).

But to contribute what I suggest (again, without breaking ground): capitalists take 30% of all income generated, for themselves. I haven't looked up the financials for John Deere, but I mean that's the ratio when you take the U.S. as a whole. That 30% is a wayyyy bigger piece of the pie than divying up a CEO's income, which is probably a tiny part of that (on average) 30%.


Would the Fed actually have the authority to even do that, regulate what securities Congress members are allowed to hold?


No, the Fed (which always means the Federal Reserve Bank) sets monetary policy and has 0 control over Congress.


“The Fed” as in the Federal Reserve: no.

“The Fed” as in the Federal Government: yes.


"Blind Trust" > "Use by US government officials to avoid conflicts of interest" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_trust

https://www.oge.gov/

... If you want to help, you must throw all of your startup equity away.

... No, you may not co-brand with that company (which is not complicit with your agenda).

... Besides, I'm not even eligible for duty: you can't hire me.

... Maybe I could be more helpful from competitive private industry.

... How can a government hire prima donna talent like Iron Man?

... Is it criminal to start a solvent, sustainable business to solve government problems, for that one customer?

... Which operations can a government - operating with or without competition - solve most energy-efficiently and thus cost-effectively? Looks like single-payer healthcare and IDK what else?

(Edit)

US Digital Services Playbook: https://github.com/usds/playbook

From https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/nice/nice-fra... :

> "NIST Special Publication 800-181 revision 1, the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework), provides a set of building blocks for describing the tasks, knowledge, and skills that are needed to perform cybersecurity work performed by individuals and teams. Through these building blocks, the NICE Framework enables organizations to develop their workforces to perform cybersecurity work, and it helps learners to explore cybersecurity work and to engage in appropriate learning activities to develop their knowledge and skills.

From "NIST Special Publication 800-181 Revision 1: Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework)" (2020) https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-181r1:

> 3.1 Using Existing Task, Knowledge, and Skill (TKS) Statements

(Edit) FedNOW should - like mCBDC - really consider implementing Interledger Protocol (ILP) for RTGS "Real-Time Gross Settlement" https://interledger.org/developer-tools/get-started/overview...

From https://interledger.org/rfcs/0032-peering-clearing-settlemen... :

> Peering, Clearing and Settling; The Interledger network is a graph of nodes (connectors) that have peered with one another by establishing a means of exchanging ILP packets and a means of paying one another for the successful forwarding and delivery of the packets.


Fed or no, wouldn't you think there'd be money in solving for the https://performance.gov Goals ( https://www.usaspending.gov/ ) and the #GlobalGoals (UN Sustainable Development Goals) -aligned GRI Corporate Sustainability Report? #CSR #ESG #SustyReporting


probably not. Then again, does the fed actually have the authority to do some of the things that it does?


there are png optimizer programs, e.g. optipng


The Squoosh (web) app is awesome for this too! All processing is done locally with wasm.

https://squoosh.app


Yep, just tried the Discord icon with OxyPNG and it went from 285k to 6.35k, visually indistinguishable.


I'd love to have a browser plugin that converts all images I upload to CMS using Squoosh.


`optipng -o9 -strip all' is a must


ImageOptim was a favorite of mine. They have a standalone mac app and a webservice. It combines several of these tools into a single GUI.


I found https://pngquant.org/ to be pretty good.


Note that unlike some of the other tools mentioned here, pngquant does lossy compression. Might still be the right tool in many cases, but it means you should check the output while e.g. optipng is a no-brainer to add to whatever your publishing pipeline is.


Warning: pngquant is GPL v3 licensed.


> chargers and cables are advertised with the wattage they support, but it's really the voltage and current that matters.

watts = volts * current


GP's point is that although chargers are labeled with wattage, they can't output any combination of volts and currents as long as they multiply to the stated wattage. Can you take a normal 100W charger and ask it to output 100V and 1A? It can't.

The Apple 29W charger supports two configurations only: 14.5V × 2A, or 5.2V × 2.4A

The Apple 30W charger supports these four instead: 20V × 1.5A, 15V × 2A, 9V × 3A, 5V × 3A

Do you see a problem here?


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