VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
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I think I'd find the argument compelling that licensing boards need to include multiple stakeholders, not all of whom are license-holders. In this case, including customers as a voice could, done properly, make it harder for the boards to focus so hard on artificial scarcity. Although in practice I'm sure that's harder than it sounds.
I've known a number of nerdy folks who enjoy playing sports, generally less-contact ones like soccer or track, rather than American football. Fewer that competed in high school or college, but I know at least a couple sharp folks from college that used track scholarships to get (hard) engineering degrees.
I think the platonic sci-fi "telepathy" describes turning people's internal monologues into dialogs. But I think that will be complicated in practice because not everyone has an internal monologue.
How about the rapid emigration of European-descended South Africans and Zimbabweans since the 1980s? That one feels somewhat more complicated, but still fits the definition provided.
The security clearance process is almost (with a few nuclear exceptions) entirely defined by executive order, not by Congress. I've heard suggestions that Congress codify it, but it hasn't actually done so.
I suspect, but obviously can't be certain, that Trump's Right might be willing to settle for modest changes to the actual arrangements. I think if the perceived return on (aid) investment were greater, it would still make sense, and here "return" probably means better international sentiment. So I'd expect more trumpeting of what aid is given: "Did you know the US has funded a substantial reduction in AIDS mortality in Africa?" and probably cutting ties with NGOs and governments that take American money and loudly criticize the country.
See also the recent "negotiations" involving Canada and Mexico tariffs with minimal actual changes, although maybe that will change in a few months.
It's an odd choice of example because quite a few people are killed annually trying to rescue children from bodies of water. It's not risk-free.
This reminds me of the Roman republicans who naively assumed assassinating the king-adjacent Julius Caesar would re-establish the Republic. Oh how wrong they were.
My understanding is that there isn't much distinction between mid-course anti-ballistic-missile weapons, which the US has several advertised systems for (such as that used for USA-193) and targeting LEO satellites, which are at comparable altitudes, if somewhat higher velocities.
I think one of the posters here had a very interesting point on one of the abortion cases that the choice facing hospital administrators may in loudly published cases look more like deciding whether to provide expensive emergency treatment to likely-uninsured pregnant patients (as begrudgingly required without payment by federal law), or discharging actively-septic patients while blaming state lawmakers for tying their hands. I don't have faith that the bean counters running the show universally have patient interests first in mind regardless of financial incentives.
I'm somewhat surprised I haven't come across memes responding to pictures of destruction in Gaza with pictures of Berlin in 1945 with the caption "What did you think punching Nazis looked like?" But I have a personal policy of not directly engaging with meme warfare ("memefare"?), and maybe this has already happened somewhere I'm not following.
At the end of the day, all the dollars spent on healthcare end in someone's pocket. If not doctors (and I'll believe some aren't hugely compensated compared to their efforts), then who is keeping the dollars my insurance company (and I) pay the local "nonprofit" hospital for care? Obviously insurance gets it's share (capped by Obamacare). Their executives (doctors!) are compensated pretty well as far as I can tell.
But the number of people who want human attention is much greater than the available supply.
In some ways yes, but I think there is a bit of a pattern in the other direction too. In places where modern technology has delivered low-effort, for lack of a better noun, slop, having authentic human touches has also become a status symbol. Original oil paintings on the wall are higher status than prints of Rembrandt, and handmade furniture is better respected than IKEA pieces, even if the latter in both instances are perfectly functional. As soon as the basic needs are met by automation, we seem to want to reintroduce the human touch.
This makes me think that they probably have to explicitly destroy the dies that fail QA lest someone nefariously sneak off with "failures" (either actual ones and derating them or falsely flagging failures). I've never worked on the manufacturing side of things, so I'm not sure what happens to rejects at most places.
IIRC an IBM executive is quoted (in the 1940s) claiming there might be a world market for "maybe five" computers. That actually happened and is what the quote seems to be referencing. Or Gates on "640K" being sufficient. IMO it's one of those "sold a faster horse" moments where someone needed to think bigger about broader applications if prices came down.
let the US believe a small AI lab full of cunning Chinese matched OpenAI, with a tiny fraction of the compute budget, with no ability to get SOTA GPUs.
At least from the description here, I'd be slightly concerned in China's shoes about the F-15 development meme. I'm sure it's at least somewhat apocryphal in practice, but "The Americans developed a plane that exceeded the exaggerated specs the Russians published for the MiG-25, and were never able to catch back up" isn't completely wrong either.
I've also seen some suggestions that DeepSeek is trained to replicate ChatGPT, with suggestions that this is substantially easier than novel functionality, but I don't work in the space enough to validate those.
Congrats, man! You're probably also missing a lot of sleep. Don't beat yourself up too much: balancing it all at that stage is hard.
Are you physically active? This is probably out of scope, but as an (amateur) runner, I've definitely hit high training volume periods where fullness and satiety decouple and I've finished meals stuffed but still hungry for calories (past a certain point, there is the effort of effectively planning an extra meal every day, but that isn't often for me). It seems plausible to me that some people get used to the wrong signals (full stomach vs. satiety), especially for hyper palatable foods, but I'm hardly an expert.
Google Plus at the time tried to make "circles" happen, but that lost to network effects and IMO explicitly separating your social networks is more work than it sounds like. Which I think explains why people are adopting different networks for different content: think LinkedIn versus a Discord between gaming buddies. Or my pseudonymous shiteffortposting account here. Although some still shout unprofessional takes into the Ether with their real names.
In the last few years I've come to realize that Mexican politics is much more complicated than The Usual Sources give it credit for. I'm not going to claim to be an expert here (would be interested in more sources that aren't full tomes).
For one, the median Mexican lives very far from the border: ask an American what they think of Mexico and your answer will describe the border, or maybe Cabo or Cozumel. The large cities in Mexico are mostly further south, and many aren't considered particularly dangerous with respect to the cartels.
There is an element of outsider homogeneity bias there, probably helped by the language barrier. Various parts of the country (the northern ones most notably) have long histories of, for lack of a better descriptor, lawlessness and civil discord. Parts have tried to secede -- Texas was not the only province to attempt this, but was notable for its success. Violence in the less-populated northern areas isn't new: Pancho Villa was literally attacking the US a century ago.
And it seems that so much of how we see the issue is clouded by modern politics: "Wait, why did Spain and the Mexico invite mostly-American settlers peacefully to live in what would become Texas and other parts of the future American West? They didn't demand that they identify as Hispanic or Latino in the definition of the US Census Bureau almost two centuries later." From what little I know, Hispanic doesn't align with historical ideas of national origin in Mexico (and other parts of Central and South America) even up until today, although tremendously Amero-centric progressivism is trying.
I think some of this was inevitable as social norms became established, but Facebook definitely missed the chance to shape those differently. I know quite a few who, say, don't post pictures of their kids on the internet. I don't think they could have prevented anyone from adopting that norm, but they could have tried to make it feel "safe" to share things before the last decade of, I dunno, whatever this has been. No amount of "Trust and Safety" can restore naivety, but maybe we could have been let down more gently.
on a weirdly intimate basis,
IMO it's not that weird: My parents' generation sends annual Christmas cards with updates on career moves, births, deaths, graduations, and marriages to people they might not have seen IRL in a decade.
Somewhat ironically, the oil industry also killed off whaling by making kerosene a viable alternative to whale oil.
The Gulf of California doesn't border (non-Baja) California.
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The writers of Obamacare were willing to explicitly call out and allow higher insurance premiums for smokers, so to some extent we're already there. I have to solemnly swear I don't use any tobacco products annually at open enrollment, which is easy for me as I never have used. It's politically, but not practically, inconceivable to similarly have to swear I'm not an IV drug user or particularly promiscuous.
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