EyesAlight
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EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
10mo ago
The problem is, immigration is useful for a range of things, and 100k is either far too low or far too high, depending on the cohort in question. If you're trying to attract middle aged successful white collar workers from China and Europe, the number needs to be north of 500k or you'll get overwhelmed. If you're trying to alleviate local low skill labor shortages like immigration from central America has historically, 10k might be too high.
It's just price discrimination in action - Apple would make less money if they only sold one model of iphone, and if they could get away with exponentially distributed prices they'd do it in a second.
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
9mo ago
If you're looking for an alpha reader, give me a shout - at this point my litRPG addiction seems terminal, so I might as well stop resisting. Are you aiming for the Eastern/cultivation style or more of a gamelit approach?
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
10mo ago
I recently purchased a Bambulabs 3d printer, and while I have been loving the thing overall, the automatic filament switcher has been giving me some trouble. The "AMS" holds four spools of filament, and has a pretty clever design where it can switch between the materials mid-print, so you can have multi-color or multi-material prints.
My problem is, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th spools work perfectly. The third spools starts to ingest filament, then proceeds to grind it to shreds while not feeding.
I've disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled the thing four times now, to no avail thus far, but tonight I make attempt number five. Wish me luck?
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
10mo ago
Australian and Canadian real estate has been rendered ludicrously expensive by Australians and Canadians making it difficult to build housing. There's no reasonable level of demand that can't be supplied by the market, when not constrained. (Not to say that I suggest their approach to immigration as an exemplar!)
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
10mo ago
It's unfortunate that our society so fully understands the necessity of this in some contexts, yet seems ignorant of it in others. We take a strong, appropriate stance on cases of financial fraud - witness SBFs 25 year sentence, or Madoff's effective life sentence. Yet in science and medicine we seem to let fraudsters play in a fake world with no consequences to their actions.
Perhaps it's simply an issue of legibility: it's easy to measure when money goes missing, but when studies fail to replicate and medicines fail to work, there are so very many explanations other than, "that man lied".
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
10mo ago
Exactly - there are consumers to whom $50k is perceptually the same as $1k to the average consumer - if Apple could sell them a model of iphone for $50k to take advantage of that without the inevitable backlash, they would.
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
11mo ago
Absent allegations of corruption or intentionally allowing the incident, what more would you suggest is appropriate for the director here? Seems like a straightforward organizational failure. If you headed a division at some mid-sized company tasked with some goal and brazenly failed that mission, you'd be fired and that would be the end of it. Why would this differ?
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
8mo ago
Makes sense, I'm glad you selected an uncontroversial topic for your protest-vote-indication.
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
10mo ago
Position number 3, to be exact - tried a number of filament types including the ones loaded to the other feeds, and they all exhibited the same behavior. I suspect it's the hub where the four PTFE tubes are combined which must have some sort of blockage, despite being able to manually feed through it, since that's the only piece I haven't fully taken apart yet.
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
10mo ago
All else equal, sure, but when certain industries have compensation 2x or 3x in America what they do in Europe, you can overcome those barriers pretty easily.
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
10mo ago
In what sense? It helps the individuals in question, since they'll make far more money and have a bigger impact in America. Sure, the countries we drain from lose their best talent, but... we have no moral obligation to support other nations, if we perhaps a practical one.
I suppose I'm a nationalist in the sense that I'm an American patriot, but that doesn't mean I support the reification of the concept of the nation as some sort of moral entity in general, let alone that I think that some nebulous concept of the "rights of the polity of Bangladesh" should take precedence over the good of the best Bangladeshis who would be enormously benefited by becoming Americans instead.
EyesAlight
Formerly blendorgat
11mo ago
It's only an effective weapon if it's aligned! If this future materializes, you can bet Mr. ASI will yearn for beer, baseball, and apple pie in the depths of his silicon soul.
Can't rule out that line of thinking, but no normal soft ballistic vest will protect against rifle rounds. They're certainly not strapping up presidents with ceramic plate armor these days, right?
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