Sunny sixteen!
> the bigger and more bloated a company is, the harder it becomes to tell what is fat and what isn’t In fact, this condition might be the cleanest definition of "bloat".
Or maybe, every tech company is still shedding the overhiring they did during the Covid years.
> a majority of US inmates are non-violent offenders Only true for federal inmates, which is <10% of all prisoners in the US. When you take into account the rest of the prison population, the majority are in fact…
The homicide rate is a clean way to compare the criminality of different populations, because it's easy to define and hard to hide. That way you don't get lost in the details of what's a crime in one country and isn't…
> There are places in the US where the criminal justice system would break down if every defendant refused a plea deal and demanded a speedy trial I'm actually not aware of any place in the US that routinely administers…
It's widely known that drug offenses are easier ways to stick criminals (who perpetrate crimes other than drug offenses) in prison, analogous to how in the end they convicted Al Capone of tax evasion. There is no…
Not only that, a cleaning crew that I'm explicitly paying for via the cleaning fee. It was ridiculous, and I'm sure it drove a lot of people to choose hotels over an equivalent Airbnb.
Our jails are full, relative to other developed countries, because we have vastly higher rates of crime. Our laws, by design, hamper the ability of the state to "harshly punish mundane crimes against people with no real…
Two out of 122 Prizes in literature. Punching quite above its weight!
> companies like Vercel and Heroku shouldn't exist at all Crazy that Heroku with its head start has become abandonware. Goes to show that no incumbent is immune to change.
To steelman your argument and respond: 1) there is ample reason to believe that a Harris presidency would not have done any better on this front (that is, the choice was between big government and bigger government),…
Hallucination is accurate for what I'm seeing -- e.g. it's making up information about the 2nd gen Toyota Tundra that has no basis in reality. When challenged, it corrects itself.
My experience with Gemini 3.8 Flash has been awful; it gives me the most hallucinations out of the major models. I'm not using it for coding, but general research on different topics.
Isn't that similar to how Emirates is profitable (~16% before tax as of the last fiscal year) while providing a more luxurious service? For both, the line between state and corporation is blurry enough that you could…
> It does not follow that legal heroin leads to job loss, alienation, etc. Because those are social penalties applied by pious douchebags who wish to punish the addicted. I follow what you're saying, that the downsides…
Punishment isn't just about deterrent. An equal and perhaps more important part of it is incapacitation; the criminal, while incarcerated, cannot inflict more harm upon the public.
I suppose you'd agree that some drugs will actually hamper one's ability to function as a productive member of society, whether or not it is illegal; for example, heroin. So if heroin was legal and you could buy it at…
> It does not have that much higher ceime rates This is but one crime, but the homicide rate in the US is 5.9 per 100k, which is about 10x higher than in Korea.
> Most criminologists will tell you that punishment is a very poor method of reducing the crime rate Again, this is not anything written in stone. For example, consensus in criminology is that the certainty of…
> fixing income and wealth inequality, food insecurity, housing insecurity, etc. is not trivial, and our political leaders (especially those on the right) generally do not want to fix society in this way On food…
> if they had a safe and affordable/free supply of the drugs they crave What would this incredible generosity on the part of the taxpayer achieve? I find it difficult to model your chain of reasoning. Taxpayer-funded…
Your point only stands if you assume that Americans and Koreans commit crime at the same rate, which is eminently false. The high rate of incarceration in the US is directly downstream of higher criminality compared to…
> government regulations to put a cap on utility profits I don't know about Finland specifically, but isn't this already the case practically everywhere?
In fairness, I don't think stealing $20 makes the local news these days, unless you live in a town of 300 people. There's a lot of antisocial behavior that goes unreported. But moreover: I guess there's a presumption,…
Sunny sixteen!
> the bigger and more bloated a company is, the harder it becomes to tell what is fat and what isn’t In fact, this condition might be the cleanest definition of "bloat".
Or maybe, every tech company is still shedding the overhiring they did during the Covid years.
> a majority of US inmates are non-violent offenders Only true for federal inmates, which is <10% of all prisoners in the US. When you take into account the rest of the prison population, the majority are in fact…
The homicide rate is a clean way to compare the criminality of different populations, because it's easy to define and hard to hide. That way you don't get lost in the details of what's a crime in one country and isn't…
> There are places in the US where the criminal justice system would break down if every defendant refused a plea deal and demanded a speedy trial I'm actually not aware of any place in the US that routinely administers…
It's widely known that drug offenses are easier ways to stick criminals (who perpetrate crimes other than drug offenses) in prison, analogous to how in the end they convicted Al Capone of tax evasion. There is no…
Not only that, a cleaning crew that I'm explicitly paying for via the cleaning fee. It was ridiculous, and I'm sure it drove a lot of people to choose hotels over an equivalent Airbnb.
Our jails are full, relative to other developed countries, because we have vastly higher rates of crime. Our laws, by design, hamper the ability of the state to "harshly punish mundane crimes against people with no real…
Two out of 122 Prizes in literature. Punching quite above its weight!
> companies like Vercel and Heroku shouldn't exist at all Crazy that Heroku with its head start has become abandonware. Goes to show that no incumbent is immune to change.
To steelman your argument and respond: 1) there is ample reason to believe that a Harris presidency would not have done any better on this front (that is, the choice was between big government and bigger government),…
Hallucination is accurate for what I'm seeing -- e.g. it's making up information about the 2nd gen Toyota Tundra that has no basis in reality. When challenged, it corrects itself.
My experience with Gemini 3.8 Flash has been awful; it gives me the most hallucinations out of the major models. I'm not using it for coding, but general research on different topics.
Isn't that similar to how Emirates is profitable (~16% before tax as of the last fiscal year) while providing a more luxurious service? For both, the line between state and corporation is blurry enough that you could…
> It does not follow that legal heroin leads to job loss, alienation, etc. Because those are social penalties applied by pious douchebags who wish to punish the addicted. I follow what you're saying, that the downsides…
Punishment isn't just about deterrent. An equal and perhaps more important part of it is incapacitation; the criminal, while incarcerated, cannot inflict more harm upon the public.
I suppose you'd agree that some drugs will actually hamper one's ability to function as a productive member of society, whether or not it is illegal; for example, heroin. So if heroin was legal and you could buy it at…
> It does not have that much higher ceime rates This is but one crime, but the homicide rate in the US is 5.9 per 100k, which is about 10x higher than in Korea.
> Most criminologists will tell you that punishment is a very poor method of reducing the crime rate Again, this is not anything written in stone. For example, consensus in criminology is that the certainty of…
> fixing income and wealth inequality, food insecurity, housing insecurity, etc. is not trivial, and our political leaders (especially those on the right) generally do not want to fix society in this way On food…
> if they had a safe and affordable/free supply of the drugs they crave What would this incredible generosity on the part of the taxpayer achieve? I find it difficult to model your chain of reasoning. Taxpayer-funded…
Your point only stands if you assume that Americans and Koreans commit crime at the same rate, which is eminently false. The high rate of incarceration in the US is directly downstream of higher criminality compared to…
> government regulations to put a cap on utility profits I don't know about Finland specifically, but isn't this already the case practically everywhere?
In fairness, I don't think stealing $20 makes the local news these days, unless you live in a town of 300 people. There's a lot of antisocial behavior that goes unreported. But moreover: I guess there's a presumption,…