these are neat!! is the collection public?

thinking of next career moves

What a wild ride!

quote from the book

In other words, you play the part of the fictitious creature called ‘an ordinary person’ that everyone has in them. Just like everyone in the convenience store is playing the part of the fictitious creature called ‘a store worker.’

i don't think it was this deep. my read was this was someone who struggled to fit and here is a role she can play to perfection. perhaps too good. her essence became being a convenience store worker. for Keiko, essence preceeds existence - she is first and foremost a storeworker, her existance is in service of this.

forgot about the whole dialogue and 'sex' scene with the store

when questioned by Keiko on what his deal is about, he mentions how he is there to find a wife. He is a bit too carried with the gender roles in the stone age although he is a contradiction of his theories

nah..

a person who is hired for a job, shows up to work every day, but refuses to actually do the job.

can we say she is choosing? she lacks agency. she stumbled into the world of convenience strore and stayed because she knew exactly what was expected of her there

definition: a person who carries out a transaction, typically a bet, for someone else in order to conceal the other's identity.

a strong awareness of the blankness of her experience. she thrives at the store primarily because there is a model for being and she is able to execute that to perfection. in other aspects of life: she mimics others sense of dress and speech, she asks her sister about what to say exactly when interacting with others and she ends up letting another social misfit live with her to check off a requirement by society

gotta love how Simon has a good view of things he is yet to find a way to articulate clearly.

really need to get this part right for my running

Here's what I'm struggling with, here's what I've tried, here's what is still puzzling me.

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Should have a sticky of this next to where I study

quite helpful!

ouch

What's the distribution?

How to ascertain it was not in the PBL as of 3 weeks ago?

Next paragraph:

“How do you know this if the Problem Bank List is a state secret?” Because they report the aggregate total of the assets of all banks on the list and publicly available data plus math a 4th grader can do in their head suffices to prove this claim.

lonely

From a loss aversion perspective, doesn't this incentivize those who have already 'invested' to fight hard and make sure their houses do not turn into non-scarce assets?

In the US at least, the notion of housing as an investment seems to be a priority for those who own rather than rent.

I don't have an intuitive understanding of logs, I should spend sometime revisiting this.

What are some signs that the surveillance has failed? Might it be the case that we now know about it is a success of the surveillance?

helpful analogy

• What's this in absolute numbers? In the about page, "we’ve delivered $580M+ in cash directly into the hands of over 1.37 million people living in poverty". This translates to about 13700 experiencing violence and up to 68500 experiencing issues with their community. Most likely the numbers are only for the Africa-based programs
• Does GD do anything to assist the affected recipients?
• If not, what % is a threshold for concern?

Does (b) include potential kickbacks to field staff? Seems like the answer is yes but the number is so small. "It’s worth noting that less than a quarter of a percent of our 2021 losses ($504) came from cases involving our own staff or operational partners."

Great question!

Assuming this is not for recipients as most living in extreme poverty do not have an email. Is there a way for them to confirm legitimacy? Does GD experience scam where the recipients are duped into providing some initial cash to facilitate the large transfers?

Have any local politicians claimed credit for this? What happens if this is the case?

What happens in cases where those in need are outside the coverage of the major networks?

Does GD facilitate the registration of the SIM card? In Kenya there has been a recent requirement to have every subscriber registered. Sometimes this can be challenging if the recipient does not have the IDs "we either collect account information from recipients (if they are already enrolled) or walk them through the process of opening accounts, which may include obtaining appropriate identification documents."

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• Is this usually in one installment? "In our default program, we provide a one-time transfer paid in multiple installments. "
• Are there other non "one-time large grant programs"?

$105?

What does this translate to about the work expectation while at GD?

what are some other code-phrases to pay attention to?

While using Ubuntu, the command python command defaults to either python2 or python3. If only using one version of Python, you can use a package to change this.

$ sudo apt-get install python-is-python3 -y

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1296790/python-is-python3-package-in-ubuntu-20-04-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-actually

Try out a few tools, settle on one and try to understand it well.

Thank you Paul for this, very helpful!

How to interpret this? That the elderly and immunocompromised should not be vaccinated?