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Sure, but it _does_ matter _what_ credentials were leaked, and these creds didn't secure anything particularly critical in the grand scheme of things. Sure it might suck a bit for Atlassian employees who wanted to keep the fact they worked for Atlasisan a secret, but given a lot of them walk around wearing T-Shirts with "Atlassian" on them, I don't think they do.


I've got a friend who went into the trades instead of going to university, he (correctly) recognised that what he was passionate about wouldn't even pay for the degree (composing music) so he figured he'd do it on the side and do a trade to earn a living. Unfortunately due to a workplace accident he cut the tendons in his wrist with a box cutter, which means he can't now play the piano for any reasonable amount of time. So i guess it's less "the body wears out" but more "you accumulate a lot of small injuries that eventually prevent you from perfoming your trade"

Edit:typo


I'd buy the cumulative injury theme, but not the exercise part.


Hmm, I am not a botanist, but since watermelons have seeds, and botanically speaking seeds are in the fruit, aren't watermelon fruit botanically speaking?


It's all kinds of confusing.

AFAIK there is no botanical notion of vegetable. It's a culinary/food term, which should just mean "edible plant matter". Which would make culinary fruit just a subset of vegetables. But for some reason popular usage dictates that the category "vegetable" excludes some sweet tasting fruit, staple starches and some other things.


Seedless watermelons still have seeds, they just aren't mature when the fruit is ripe. This means they are smaller and are soft enough that eating them does not give crunch.


You’re correct, the author of the article was confused. Probably got confused because watermelon are related to crops that are culturally considered to be vegetables, like cucumbers. Another thread mentioned the same.


I agree, though I suppose you could make a case for "vegetable" around pickling the rinds...


Yes, it looks like they're fruit botanically and culinarily, but they're vegetables "agriculturally", whatever that means.


It is the fruit we eat. However, the fruit/vegetable distinction does not make a lot of sense botanically.


I always tease vegetarians by saying "Evolutionarily, fruits want to be eaten and that's why they taste good (so animals will spread their seeds around). Vegetables don't want to be eaten, and that's why they taste bad."


Well, many wild fruits don't taste that great either. Most of what we are eating today comes after a long line of artificial selection.


True, but maybe the animals are less picky than we are.


Or just as picky, but simply have different taste. Perhaps that, too, co-evolves with the fruits.


I think it's pretty normal in most developed countries to have operations happening 24/7, in some there's rules requring extra pay for saturdays and sundays, and a lot have weekly per-worker limits on the number of hours worked and/or numbers of hours where extra pay is required, but it's certainly not impossible.


I think the thing that this article misses is that per capita growth (the thing that's important for people's experienced life satisfaction) can essentially grow a lot further with fewer atoms under cultivation if you increase density. Humanity probably doesnt have much more area under cultivation than 300 years ago, but it has several orders of magnitude more people. The way i see the future going is less people, but each one is a billionaire. Kind of like how when stars run out of fuel they don't just wither away, but turn into very hot, dense and fast spinning white dwarfs.


World population in 1700 was 600 million, which is a single order of magnitude.


Yeah probably should have double-checked that, thanks.

You prompted me to double-check my other claim (that land under cultivation didn't increase) and that was wrong too!

According to this it's gone up by about 5x https://ourworldindata.org/world-lost-one-third-forests


Thank you for checking, I was dubious too about that claim.


This was accomplished with profligate use of fossil fuel based fertilizer, it’s a trick you can only do once. And nobody produces enough value on their own to become a billionaire, you have to be in a position in an organization where you can skim off the labor of a lot of people.


I'm thinking if population growth continues to shrink and go negative and automation continues to increase, production will stay constant or even increase, even while population decreases. Which would mean that each individual would get more riches with less work.


The thing I don't get about this explanation is that typically (as far as I know) hass avocados are grown in hass avocado plantations. Meaning that while they're technically a mixture of both of the parent plants, chances are a hass avocado is polinated from another hass avocado tree.


I've found switching jobs to a company that does a lot of pairing helps a tonne, the other person acts as an accountability partner which helps keep you focused.


Out of curiosity did smart contracts gain new capabilities in the summer of 2020?


I believe the point is smart contracts became incontrovertibly useful in the summer of 2020.


I would love to learn why you think they are incontrovertibly useful. What are the use-cases that they are being used in?


I've quite liked that the devices are often rootable/usable without an internet connection in contrast to most other internet of shit. It's probably accidental, or at least an outcome of having to cut development costs to undercut competitors but it's made me always go for xiaomi devices when i'm buying new stuff.


This image of this guy you're painting doesn't sound anything like Scott Alexander, if anything Scott Alexander is the opposite of "certain he's right"


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