tbf, it's not like the toil and sweat wasn't partly the toil and sweat of the slaves.
Most of this isn't geographical determinism, though. The death of the indigenous americans (allowing settlers to come in and take over), the brain drain after WW2, the first modern democracy (even if the Constitution is…
> It seems like they use obscure language (non-optimal, excess) on purpose to try to ... Huh. No, in the scientific literature, this isn't obscure language. This is normal language there. This... kinda comes across like…
Aye, but this will let us gradually work towards more and more basic cell forms, so that we can eventually figure out abiogenesis.
> It's the obligation of our elected officials to keep the American people safe, and our borders are one of our early lines of defense to do that. Against an invading army, sure. Against the cartel and drug-running, ok,…
This then seems like an argument that the children of diplomats should be US citizens, not an argument against naturalized birth for immigrants.
No, I don't advocate for open borders. I'm fine with keeping out criminals, people who don't value our democratic system, or people who aren't interested in being productive members of society (e.g., NEETs - people not…
And the addition of mixed-use rockets! That is going to make it a lot cheaper to easily kick up initial platforms.
> which will put a massive strain on our resources True, but again, scientists are saying that we're already putting massive strain on our ecological resources, and the strain is only increasing. Not just climate…
I mean, aren't diplomats immune to US laws? Literal "diplomatic immunity". It makes sense to me to say that they do not fall under US laws and US jurisdiction, and their children likewise.
> And you think that is not insane? I think there would be a real problem with creating a class of people who live here their entire lives and aren't citizens. And then their children also live here and aren't citizens,…
> Trump and his cronies were never going to win that battle. He got dang close. He's only one justice replacement away from making it doable. Gods, we are not as far from ripping up the Constitution as we'd like to…
I mean, it tracks with "no taxation without representation". Getting rid of birthright citizenship has the chance to create a separate *multi-generational* class of people that aren't given the same rights in society.
I'm personally happy to welcome anyone who's willing to come, work hard, pay taxes, and support democratic ideals. This is how most of our ancestors got here, and it seems fair to me that we continue to extend that…
Not getting wrecked in major land wars during the 1800s and 1900s also helped
Well, no, but almost everyone inside US borders is subject to US laws. The exceptions are rare: people in foreign embassies (which is "foreign soil"), invading armies, and indigenous tribes on tribal land.
It makes sense to me. When women have more choices, they tend to put off having kids or they raise their standards - for their economic situation before kids, for partners, etc. I think this is good; insofar as women…
Kavanaugh ruled that Trump's EO wasn't unconstitutional, just contrary to federal law, and Congress could change the law there if they wanted. So, this makes it only 5-4 upholding the 14th amendment. Which is…
Water usage goes up with data centers because more cooling is needed when you run the hardware harder. So: if you're running the models on your own machine, presumably you're not running them as often, and air cooling…
I don't follow. If weights are open, can't competing providers pop up? Including, e.g., coalitions of anarchists who collectively share compute and collaborate on modifications to the weights. Even if it's too expensive…
I thought Moore's Law came to an end in the last decade? Certainly the transistors/chip or transistors/$ or flops/$ have not been progressing at the same exponential rate as during 1970-2010. There is still progress,…
trees over roads, parking lots, etc. But then, as you scale towards higher density (e.g., replacing parking lots with garages), you end up with less space for trees. Unless you put them on top of buildings, ofc.
I’d have thought that ‘the free market doesnt make subways’ is a market coordination problem, not an externality one? Meaning, I think that ticket sales can a good job of capturing the costs and benefits of…
Yeah, but I do think you need to count nukes, veteran's health, space launches for the Air Force, etc, also under "military spending". Better not to ignore them just because they're not properly under DoD.
> you need to ensure that you cultivate the support of both parties I'm not sure that that's possible. If someone is motivated by religion or finance to believe something that's simply not true, and your scientific…
tbf, it's not like the toil and sweat wasn't partly the toil and sweat of the slaves.
Most of this isn't geographical determinism, though. The death of the indigenous americans (allowing settlers to come in and take over), the brain drain after WW2, the first modern democracy (even if the Constitution is…
> It seems like they use obscure language (non-optimal, excess) on purpose to try to ... Huh. No, in the scientific literature, this isn't obscure language. This is normal language there. This... kinda comes across like…
Aye, but this will let us gradually work towards more and more basic cell forms, so that we can eventually figure out abiogenesis.
> It's the obligation of our elected officials to keep the American people safe, and our borders are one of our early lines of defense to do that. Against an invading army, sure. Against the cartel and drug-running, ok,…
This then seems like an argument that the children of diplomats should be US citizens, not an argument against naturalized birth for immigrants.
No, I don't advocate for open borders. I'm fine with keeping out criminals, people who don't value our democratic system, or people who aren't interested in being productive members of society (e.g., NEETs - people not…
And the addition of mixed-use rockets! That is going to make it a lot cheaper to easily kick up initial platforms.
> which will put a massive strain on our resources True, but again, scientists are saying that we're already putting massive strain on our ecological resources, and the strain is only increasing. Not just climate…
I mean, aren't diplomats immune to US laws? Literal "diplomatic immunity". It makes sense to me to say that they do not fall under US laws and US jurisdiction, and their children likewise.
> And you think that is not insane? I think there would be a real problem with creating a class of people who live here their entire lives and aren't citizens. And then their children also live here and aren't citizens,…
> Trump and his cronies were never going to win that battle. He got dang close. He's only one justice replacement away from making it doable. Gods, we are not as far from ripping up the Constitution as we'd like to…
I mean, it tracks with "no taxation without representation". Getting rid of birthright citizenship has the chance to create a separate *multi-generational* class of people that aren't given the same rights in society.
I'm personally happy to welcome anyone who's willing to come, work hard, pay taxes, and support democratic ideals. This is how most of our ancestors got here, and it seems fair to me that we continue to extend that…
Not getting wrecked in major land wars during the 1800s and 1900s also helped
Well, no, but almost everyone inside US borders is subject to US laws. The exceptions are rare: people in foreign embassies (which is "foreign soil"), invading armies, and indigenous tribes on tribal land.
It makes sense to me. When women have more choices, they tend to put off having kids or they raise their standards - for their economic situation before kids, for partners, etc. I think this is good; insofar as women…
Kavanaugh ruled that Trump's EO wasn't unconstitutional, just contrary to federal law, and Congress could change the law there if they wanted. So, this makes it only 5-4 upholding the 14th amendment. Which is…
Water usage goes up with data centers because more cooling is needed when you run the hardware harder. So: if you're running the models on your own machine, presumably you're not running them as often, and air cooling…
I don't follow. If weights are open, can't competing providers pop up? Including, e.g., coalitions of anarchists who collectively share compute and collaborate on modifications to the weights. Even if it's too expensive…
I thought Moore's Law came to an end in the last decade? Certainly the transistors/chip or transistors/$ or flops/$ have not been progressing at the same exponential rate as during 1970-2010. There is still progress,…
trees over roads, parking lots, etc. But then, as you scale towards higher density (e.g., replacing parking lots with garages), you end up with less space for trees. Unless you put them on top of buildings, ofc.
I’d have thought that ‘the free market doesnt make subways’ is a market coordination problem, not an externality one? Meaning, I think that ticket sales can a good job of capturing the costs and benefits of…
Yeah, but I do think you need to count nukes, veteran's health, space launches for the Air Force, etc, also under "military spending". Better not to ignore them just because they're not properly under DoD.
> you need to ensure that you cultivate the support of both parties I'm not sure that that's possible. If someone is motivated by religion or finance to believe something that's simply not true, and your scientific…