> if there's a government agency whose job it is to deport people in a country illegally This antecedent is false, so we don’t even need to read the consequent.
> Deporting everyone who isn't in the country legally is their mission This is not in fact the stated mission of the agency.
> Keeping information secret is only justified if releasing it would put a person in serious danger or compromise a police/military operation. Sure, but the obvious pro-government response is “revealing that the…
It obviously depends on the specific amounts of the package as well as the timeline and personal impact of the upcoming layoffs (the latter of which you can’t know). The company doesn’t necessarily want everyone to take…
lampshade Verb (narratology, fandom slang) To intentionally call attention to the improbable, incongruent, or clichéd nature of an element or situation featured in a work of fiction within the work itself.
I predict it’ll be less than 6 million a year at these ludicrous prices.
To be fair, the “younger replacements” have typically grown up surrounded with many more user interfaces than their predecessors, and the same is true for much of the audience they’re designing interfaces for.…
> Yeah but what GP is commenting on is that you can't make the argument "deplatforming is okay because free speech doesn't apply to companies" and then complain about deplatforming in this instance. I suspect that the…
It is not hypocritical or contradictory to believe that deplatforming is appropriate in some cases and not in others.
Well, yes, the alternative would be the necessary number of people to do the first thing and the necessary number of people to do the second thing. If the two needs are distributed such that it works well to have one…
Commercial bribery is a thing. Many places have laws against bribing an employee of a private organization to violate their duties.
Surely the only problem isn’t the knowledge of how to train and the confidence it would work. Wouldn’t it also have required a 1 or 2 order of magnitude increase in computing power over 2005-era supercomputers to be…
> Things survive for no good reason. And sometimes the “good reason” that something survives for a long time is that the better alternative was difficult to invent/discover/implement. Which is obviously not a “good…
I don’t think it’s reasonable. The age of an idea does not imply that it’s true, valuable, or good.
A student of history might note that power tools do indeed allow a worker to replace multiple workers not equipped with power tools.
I use the ChatGPT general purpose interface rather than Claude, and this is not at all my experience. ChatGPT will almost always do one or more web searches for any query about recent or historical events.
That’s kinda like asking why does any company make and sell any tool rather than just using the tool to make money? Why does Milwaukee sell power tools to contractors rather than keeping those tools to themselves to…
It’s probably cheaper per unit when they buy at massive scale, but that was also true before the hardware inflation of the past couple of years. So I’m sure they are still paying much higher prices than in previous…
> Econ 101 would be understanding that you can’t snap your fingers and have a new DRAM factory online overnight, and that this isn’t an indicator that the market is not functioning. You can quibble over my usage of…
The important question isn’t so much “are people trying to get the best deal possible for themselves?” but rather “how well is this market functioning?” Or phrased another way, “how competitive is this market?” This…
Not quite. That guy was appointed chancellor by the President after his political party won the most seats (still a minority) in two parliamentary elections that year. He had in fact lost the presidential election…
Several notable dictators came to power through elections or through the existing legal appointment process. Of course it's more common for a dictator to come to power through a revolution, military coup, or civil war,…
I used to be a big metal fan.
This is most YouTubers who get very popular due to having original and opinionated content on niche topics. They tend to identify (perhaps correctly, perhaps not) their idiosyncratic personalities and opinions as the…
I don’t know, this seems like a pretty basic feature that I would expect all the mainstream smart home ecosystems to support. Do they not? Is it possible with Alexa/Google Home/ etc. for anyone to say “turn off all the…
> if there's a government agency whose job it is to deport people in a country illegally This antecedent is false, so we don’t even need to read the consequent.
> Deporting everyone who isn't in the country legally is their mission This is not in fact the stated mission of the agency.
> Keeping information secret is only justified if releasing it would put a person in serious danger or compromise a police/military operation. Sure, but the obvious pro-government response is “revealing that the…
It obviously depends on the specific amounts of the package as well as the timeline and personal impact of the upcoming layoffs (the latter of which you can’t know). The company doesn’t necessarily want everyone to take…
lampshade Verb (narratology, fandom slang) To intentionally call attention to the improbable, incongruent, or clichéd nature of an element or situation featured in a work of fiction within the work itself.
I predict it’ll be less than 6 million a year at these ludicrous prices.
To be fair, the “younger replacements” have typically grown up surrounded with many more user interfaces than their predecessors, and the same is true for much of the audience they’re designing interfaces for.…
> Yeah but what GP is commenting on is that you can't make the argument "deplatforming is okay because free speech doesn't apply to companies" and then complain about deplatforming in this instance. I suspect that the…
It is not hypocritical or contradictory to believe that deplatforming is appropriate in some cases and not in others.
Well, yes, the alternative would be the necessary number of people to do the first thing and the necessary number of people to do the second thing. If the two needs are distributed such that it works well to have one…
Commercial bribery is a thing. Many places have laws against bribing an employee of a private organization to violate their duties.
Surely the only problem isn’t the knowledge of how to train and the confidence it would work. Wouldn’t it also have required a 1 or 2 order of magnitude increase in computing power over 2005-era supercomputers to be…
> Things survive for no good reason. And sometimes the “good reason” that something survives for a long time is that the better alternative was difficult to invent/discover/implement. Which is obviously not a “good…
I don’t think it’s reasonable. The age of an idea does not imply that it’s true, valuable, or good.
A student of history might note that power tools do indeed allow a worker to replace multiple workers not equipped with power tools.
I use the ChatGPT general purpose interface rather than Claude, and this is not at all my experience. ChatGPT will almost always do one or more web searches for any query about recent or historical events.
That’s kinda like asking why does any company make and sell any tool rather than just using the tool to make money? Why does Milwaukee sell power tools to contractors rather than keeping those tools to themselves to…
It’s probably cheaper per unit when they buy at massive scale, but that was also true before the hardware inflation of the past couple of years. So I’m sure they are still paying much higher prices than in previous…
> Econ 101 would be understanding that you can’t snap your fingers and have a new DRAM factory online overnight, and that this isn’t an indicator that the market is not functioning. You can quibble over my usage of…
The important question isn’t so much “are people trying to get the best deal possible for themselves?” but rather “how well is this market functioning?” Or phrased another way, “how competitive is this market?” This…
Not quite. That guy was appointed chancellor by the President after his political party won the most seats (still a minority) in two parliamentary elections that year. He had in fact lost the presidential election…
Several notable dictators came to power through elections or through the existing legal appointment process. Of course it's more common for a dictator to come to power through a revolution, military coup, or civil war,…
I used to be a big metal fan.
This is most YouTubers who get very popular due to having original and opinionated content on niche topics. They tend to identify (perhaps correctly, perhaps not) their idiosyncratic personalities and opinions as the…
I don’t know, this seems like a pretty basic feature that I would expect all the mainstream smart home ecosystems to support. Do they not? Is it possible with Alexa/Google Home/ etc. for anyone to say “turn off all the…