> where they can use ICE to hammer their enemies Only Trump has really done this. ICE was created in the wake of 9/11 and didn't exist before then. Before Trump we had Bush and Obama presiding over ICE - the 9/11…
It's actually not a crime to overstay a visa or to be here without one. It's nothing. It only becomes a crime once you're formally deported
Yes and no The internet era has brought about the rise of small dollar donors making an outsized impact (for better or worse - it's not always a good thing) This has given rise to more forms of populism (left and right,…
You've connected to very unrelated things unjustifiably - Immigrants and criminals This is why advocates have always tried to reframe things from "illegal" to "undocumented" It's actually not a crime to overstay a visa…
The law dictates who can be deported, generally not who must be deported. Who must be deported is mostly left up to discretion. And since deportation is very expensive and drastic - an option of last resort - it's…
Yea, those self-styled militia types obsessed with hoarding guns and cosplaying as soldiers were always going to be on the side of the authoritarians.
I've been able to do relatively big refactors with great success, like porting thousands of lines of data transforms to drastically different data stores practically in one fell swoop. In the background. As I worked on…
I guess we just have to blame them all
He killed thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of people with his DOGE stunts interrupting USAID, for purely selfish reasons or completely mentally deranged delusions (if you take his twitter posts at the time at…
He got the power to shape the US government because he spent hundreds of millions to elect Trump through PACs and was Trump's single largest political donor by miles The twitter purchase likely did little either way
"Yes" training?
The part that should actually make you mad is that the statistic is complete bs - totally false - but its taken as ground truth across the entire political right from politicians to media to influencers to the base. How…
> I think most Americans think we should have a sensible border policy and some way to identify and remove the 5-10m illegal immigrants that came in over the Biden administration. This statistic is completely false. But…
On the contrary, yours is the naive view. It's just disguised with extreme cynicism, but they are often one and the same. Everything will fall short if measured against Utopian, wishful thoughts about how…
This is why we have freedom of speech and association in the US. If you have the will, but not the resources, you can rally people to your cause. You can try to find like-minded individuals with shared goals and with…
We have groups of experts that advise lawmakers. For example, institutions that advise lawmakers on public health - currently headed by world class health expert RFK Jr. Point being, it's impossible to build…
That used to be the norm in many places and times. I don’t think it ever really cultivated public appreciation of its weight - and more like the opposite. It makes it lighter
In my early career I used to be the former. Now I'm the latter, and truthfully, probably have become a bit burned out by all the toil and friction, especially on the ops side of things. Getting to the end product so…
It does OK on most of the 5 series cards, but you can only do 4k on the 5090 basically. And there are lots and lots of knobs to tune and experiment with. In some cases, it seems that lowering resolution and graphics…
> There can be foreign agents criticizing AI, but not all people criticizing AI are foreign agents. Indeed, and it's hard to disentangle exactly how much sentiment is driven by one vs the other. If we remember back to…
We can't manufacture most of those low-end things at competitive prices with developing nations - and we never will be able to (or else we have bigger problems). So who's going to buy the low-end stuff at high-end…
One other metric the parent didn't mention: The US is #1 in the world in productivity per worker in manufacturing. We're not the largest in absolute output, but we are literally the best manufacturer in the world, and…
> You don't see the EU causing a war with Russia? Putin is launching and provoking wars, not the EU. > you will probably still blame America No, we would blame Putin, because he's the blameworthy party. As for Iran,…
Political Twitter is a radical far-right amplification machine now: https://protos.com/nate-silver-says-x-is-rigged-musk-cries-b...
those things are fscking relentless
> where they can use ICE to hammer their enemies Only Trump has really done this. ICE was created in the wake of 9/11 and didn't exist before then. Before Trump we had Bush and Obama presiding over ICE - the 9/11…
It's actually not a crime to overstay a visa or to be here without one. It's nothing. It only becomes a crime once you're formally deported
Yes and no The internet era has brought about the rise of small dollar donors making an outsized impact (for better or worse - it's not always a good thing) This has given rise to more forms of populism (left and right,…
You've connected to very unrelated things unjustifiably - Immigrants and criminals This is why advocates have always tried to reframe things from "illegal" to "undocumented" It's actually not a crime to overstay a visa…
The law dictates who can be deported, generally not who must be deported. Who must be deported is mostly left up to discretion. And since deportation is very expensive and drastic - an option of last resort - it's…
Yea, those self-styled militia types obsessed with hoarding guns and cosplaying as soldiers were always going to be on the side of the authoritarians.
I've been able to do relatively big refactors with great success, like porting thousands of lines of data transforms to drastically different data stores practically in one fell swoop. In the background. As I worked on…
I guess we just have to blame them all
He killed thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of people with his DOGE stunts interrupting USAID, for purely selfish reasons or completely mentally deranged delusions (if you take his twitter posts at the time at…
He got the power to shape the US government because he spent hundreds of millions to elect Trump through PACs and was Trump's single largest political donor by miles The twitter purchase likely did little either way
"Yes" training?
The part that should actually make you mad is that the statistic is complete bs - totally false - but its taken as ground truth across the entire political right from politicians to media to influencers to the base. How…
> I think most Americans think we should have a sensible border policy and some way to identify and remove the 5-10m illegal immigrants that came in over the Biden administration. This statistic is completely false. But…
On the contrary, yours is the naive view. It's just disguised with extreme cynicism, but they are often one and the same. Everything will fall short if measured against Utopian, wishful thoughts about how…
This is why we have freedom of speech and association in the US. If you have the will, but not the resources, you can rally people to your cause. You can try to find like-minded individuals with shared goals and with…
We have groups of experts that advise lawmakers. For example, institutions that advise lawmakers on public health - currently headed by world class health expert RFK Jr. Point being, it's impossible to build…
That used to be the norm in many places and times. I don’t think it ever really cultivated public appreciation of its weight - and more like the opposite. It makes it lighter
In my early career I used to be the former. Now I'm the latter, and truthfully, probably have become a bit burned out by all the toil and friction, especially on the ops side of things. Getting to the end product so…
It does OK on most of the 5 series cards, but you can only do 4k on the 5090 basically. And there are lots and lots of knobs to tune and experiment with. In some cases, it seems that lowering resolution and graphics…
> There can be foreign agents criticizing AI, but not all people criticizing AI are foreign agents. Indeed, and it's hard to disentangle exactly how much sentiment is driven by one vs the other. If we remember back to…
We can't manufacture most of those low-end things at competitive prices with developing nations - and we never will be able to (or else we have bigger problems). So who's going to buy the low-end stuff at high-end…
One other metric the parent didn't mention: The US is #1 in the world in productivity per worker in manufacturing. We're not the largest in absolute output, but we are literally the best manufacturer in the world, and…
> You don't see the EU causing a war with Russia? Putin is launching and provoking wars, not the EU. > you will probably still blame America No, we would blame Putin, because he's the blameworthy party. As for Iran,…
Political Twitter is a radical far-right amplification machine now: https://protos.com/nate-silver-says-x-is-rigged-musk-cries-b...
those things are fscking relentless