"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

source?

"I think." Just from eyeballing the amount of dust in the air when the sun shines on it while scraping it off.

More expensive things cost more money, not a surprise imo

So this is only relevant for personal developer environments?

If your goal is to work for a profit-sharing company, then don't work for a non-profit.

Plenty of non-profits give a lot of money to employees. There is nothing stopping non-profits from paying exorbitant sums to their employees, and executives often do get paid exorbitant. Non-profits mean they don't pay out to investors, but they are usually used as a grift to get people to work for less so the top people make more money and do fundraising on their pet projects.

The employees work for the for-profit part of OpenAI.

That is owned by a non-profit organization. It seems like a lot of the employees are chasing money, and forgetting that it's fundamentally not trying to maximize profit. Of course, Sam seems to have perverted its mission to be the latter (serving as the latest high-priest of mammon, like Elias served Lillith)

I'm curious if bamboo/wood plates/bowls/cooking utensils (spatula, ladles) also have PFAS.

Yes most of the time if they are cheap and not certified without. Same for almost every grease resistant paper these days. And true for dental floss, and restauration soaps and.... It is just everywhere.

Good question. I’m guessing so.

It's like the phial of Galadriel: a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out

Another dimension is access to money and financial knowledge, which I find strangely missing from the context.

Assuming you have to pay for schooling, that along with the disproportionately increasing cost of rent and property factors into people being less ambitious due to the necessity of settling for a job that pays enough to support oneself. I'm curious how Paul Graham did it, given that he has multiple higher education degrees in philosophy, attended art school in Italy, and what capital he could rely on from his parents.

It would be disappointing if they both come from money yet miss this point, given the emphasis of progressive politics on socioeconomic or cultural privilege. Of course one doesn't have to agree with it, but shouldn't it at least be discussed?

You have seen his essay addressing that? "What I Worked On", http://paulgraham.com/worked.html

Thanks for linking that; seems like it's a bit of both:

on one hand he notes that "computers were expensive in those days and it took me years of nagging before I convinced my father to buy one, a TRS-80, in about 1980", but later during his adult years "wanted to go back to RISD, but I was now broke and RISD was very expensive, so I decided to get a job for a year and then return to RISD the next fall."

Well done! It reminds me of my OS textbooks. The ending graphic with the bird yelling about E gave me a good belly laugh