The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Those who read murder mysteries know that one of the advantages of suffocation (from the killer's point of view) is it leaves no external injuries.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Major indices are changing their rules so that these new stocks are included nearly immediately
Dow Jones (for the S&P 500) actually decided against this just this week. Some of the other indexes, like the Nasdaq 100, did change, but it seems unlikely most new AI companies will be able to get in anyway; they're doing it for SpaceX.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
You're talking about actual dating, I'm talking about hiring escorts.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
Something was done, in some places; it goes by the name of "gentrification".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
Yes, they did, because the UCC makes consignment contracts not real.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
They were used for a lot of things, those among them. But their basic operation was a matrix multiply followed by a LUT, a lot more restricted than GPUs.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
That's too late; they had to know of the consignment agreement when they made the loan, or when the consignment agreement was made, for actual knowledge to matter.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
The problem, as usual, is bad-faith people. People who game the H-1B system... but more importantly, officials who don't stop it. Or immigration judges who rubber-stamp asylum claims. Points systems would be gamed by such people also, as Tanista suggests occurred in Canada. In the presence of such shameless bad faith, no pragmatic solution is possible. For example, if I were a good-faith pro-immigration person, and I wanted to win over good-faith anti-immigration people, I certainly would not object to the ending of a temporary asylum program with "temporary" in its very name, when the reason it was instituted is no longer in place; it would prove bad faith and would make it hard to get such temporary programs authorized in the future, assuming the anti-side was still around. Yet that's what happens. So it's all irreconcilable conflict theory, war to the knife.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
But it wouldn't be allowed to spread like that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
It was largely not true in the housing crash associated with the GFC; many of the half-finished exurbs ended up simply being destroyed (before or after being scavenged for parts). And the risk-aversion it generated, along with allowing the anti-growthers to take political control, depresses housing to this day. I would not expect an AI crash to do this.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
Most of it is basically GPUs with a lot of memory, and good for any massively parallel problem. Google's TPUs are more specialized, but I wouldn't be surprised if they could use them for something else.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
Not really seeing it. The AI boom could fail, but I wouldn't expect a 2008-tier crash from it. The datacenters which were built will still be there and still be useful for 'conventional' computing. So more like the dot-com bust which left a bunch of dark fiber which became the foundations for a new boom.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
People hate finance bros, sure. But they don't think it's unreasonable for them to have money; those who have this "wealth by profession" idea never think it's wrong for finance people to have money. It's often blue collar people (for an old example of this attitude there was an episode of Frasier where the title character was upset that his plumber had "the big Mercedes"), professional sports players, surgeons, or tech people.
And of course I knew BC was a finance bro too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
By law the IRS is not allowed to refer you to other law enforcement agencies based on your tax return. I'm sure they do anyway at least sometimes, though, but going after whores probably isn't worth it to them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The people who don't normally riot, rioted on January 6. They were stopped, arrested, given long prison terms, fired from jobs and disqualified from public office, no flashpoint.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Civil disobedience is about violating an obviously unjust law and willingly accepting the punishment
That trick only worked once. Now the penalties are so high that unless the government is already on your side, you simply get buried under the jail if you try this. All modern civil disobedience is either counterproductive or theatrical.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Once in my life I told a cop a homeless man was on verge of attacking people. He told me he has "a patrol to do" and would be back later to check up on the insane homeless guy lunging at people. He drove away. They just don't feel like helping; so they don't.
Just don't fight back if the guy does attack you, unless you think you can defend yourself in jail as well. As Chief Wiggum once said, the police are powerless to help you, not to harm you.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
You can't do it in the US as a single non-elderly man either... unless you commit disability fraud. Which turns out to be ridiculously common.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
No, a midwit is a term for a slightly-above-average intelligence person who is fairly good at learning things... but isn't smart enough or curious enough to actually consider why the things they learned are the way they are, or if in fact they are not. Or what @erwgv3g34 said.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The flashpoint happens when people who don’t normally riot riot.
That happened in the US. State capacity was quite sufficient to put those people down for the forseeable future.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If we had angels in the form of "highest types of people" to rule us, what would they need money for anyway?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Funny no one ever says this about finance bros, eh? (Who appear to prefer the 11/10 Russian hotties)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Pogroms happen when the hated group is unable or unwilling to defend itself and the authorities are at least willing to look the other way. Neither condition holds here.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
In New Jersey if you don't have your paperwork (especially insurance), the cops tow your car and leave you by the side of the road, any time, day or night. They did this even before cell phones were common.
Hillary certainly wanted to be the watcher and controller rather than the other way around, but I think she's not at all unique in that -- it's a property of most politicians. Some people prefer the feel of the handle, others the sting of the lash.
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