Andrei Stoica

2. Income Security Through Social Safety Nets

The second pillar ensures workers are not left destitute during unemployment. Denmark’s unemployment insurance system ( dagpenge ) provides up to two years of income support, covering 90% of previous earnings for lower-wage workers (capped at approximately €2,300 per month)310. To qualify, workers must... See more

Currently, JavaScript engines are single-threaded , which means that they cannot execute code in parallel. As a result, it is a requirement in practice to use a non-blocking model for executing IO operations. Otherwise, the browser would "freeze" during, for instance, the fetching of data from a server.

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This process of dynamization calls for a permanent increase. Our society must keep up and ensure material growth, technological acceleration, and cultural innovation. The ‘right now’ is a busy moment, insufficient in time. But forget about ‘the now’, as it will worsen next year. No matter how fast you run this year, next year you will be running... See more

NYC tech’s newest symbol of peak status is a studio space built around a creative collective. The current wave of VCs & founders are running their businesses out of “Brooklyn-based studios” and investing in “the art of company building” predicated on taste. It’s all connected

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Tldr: Acceptance rests on feeling like you’re represented robustly enough in the infinite game that you’ll have future shots at favorable outcomes, and that disrupting the system in response to a single loss is not worth it in NPV terms. In 2020 at least, I think MAGA still felt like they were part of a one-time rebellion that had to hold on to

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Every great law firm in New York moves without a sputter of protest into a glass-box office building with concrete slab floors and seven-foot-ten-inch-high concrete slab ceilings and plasterboard walls and pygmy corridors — and then hires a decorator and gives him a budget of hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn these mean cubes and grids into

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He was here, he said, to understand why the drug war was hopeless, and why Honduras had been spared from civil war in recent decades, unlike its neighbours, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

I asked him if he expected answers to these questions.

“Probably not,” he said. “But it structures your thought, and it helps you get to the next question.”

The combo of intellectual grandiosity and intense competitiveness was a perfect fit for me. It’s still hard to find today, in fact - many people have copied the ‘hardcore’ working culture and the ‘this is the Marines’ vibe, but few have the intellectual atmosphere, the sense of being involved in a rich set of ideas . This is hard to LARP - your... See more