dukeleto
9d ago
That’s a fair point, if you can become the cto for medium sized organization, you must be very smart (or at least very crafty!). It would have been more accurate to say that I was unimpressed with the level of technical knowledge displayed.
dukeleto
9d ago
I enjoyed reading this, especially the part about your CTO. I am 4 years into my career (31 is still young right?), and I have met my organizations CTO exactly once and he came across as a complete moron, but he had a helper/fixer/(handler?), who actually had real technical competency of the sort I would expect from someone with a CTO job title.
dukeleto
10d ago
That was an enjoyable read, and I will most likely end up doing the same thing.
I was personally very saddened to learn that the FDA is going to begin cracking down on compounding pharmacies offering products which mimic branded pharmaceutical products. (https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/after-hims-compounded-wegovy-pill-upset-fdas-makary-pledges-crackdown-mass-marketing-illegal) For this who are unaware compounding pharmacies have long offered tirzpeptide, semaglutide and other related compounds at substantial discounts over the branded products. I have personally used compounded tirzpeptide to get down to a healthy weight and am of the opinion that making glp-1s widely available would do more to improve Americans health than basically any other single intervention.
I sort of suspect the administration cut some sort of deal with the drug companies (having this announcement come right after the launch of trumprx is just too suspicious), although I don’t think it will go well for them given how many people have come to rely on obtaining medicine.
Any way, I guess I’ll be looking for recommendations to for where to get grey market tirzpeptide soon.
I don’t follow fed policy that closely but the cut right before the last presidential election just seemed ridiculous, if there is a strong (non political) reason for this I would be interested in hearing what it is.
It’s also very hard to look at someone like Lisa Cooks resume (her academic research as highlighted on Wikipedia mostly sounds like social justice bullshit), and conclude that she was put there for any reason other than political loyalty
The most salient difference is that I’m the us if you get tired of praying at the alter of DEI, there is in fact a political process, repeated every 2-4 years which enables you to select new leadership. Totalitarian states are so centralized that dramatic change can only really happens after the leader dies. What if China’s next leader is more like Mao?
It’s also my understanding that China doesn’t even permit free movement for most people (people can move but are not automatically entitled to receive public benefits), https://www.citymonitor.ai/analysis/china-theres-no-freedom-movement-even-between-country-and-city-2697/
dukeleto
2mo ago
Even if it where in the us interest to sell out(which this administration won’t, have you ever looked at any of Colby’s views?) Taiwan, that number is completely ridiculous. 500 billion, seriously? If the country really needed that kind of money it could get it easily.
dukeleto
2mo ago
The sad thing about that is that failing the class would have ultimately been doing the students a favor. Having to retake a class in college shouldn’t be the end of the world and the ones who did it a second time would have left well prepared.
dukeleto
3mo ago
I’m think that extending the shutdown any longer would have been extremely risky, since we were getting to the point where things actually would start breaking. The most obvious example here is air traffic control. If this had broken down during thanksgiving, wrecking everyone’s travel plans, the backlash would have been immense and contrary to current polling, I believe the democrats would have been largely blamed for it.
dukeleto
3mo ago
Reading the article implied the fence issue may have been more complicated. Essentially the article claimed that the property had been miss surveyed when the fence was built, so I think the fence issue might have been a part of another longstanding argument which resulted in some stupid and unnecessary violence.
I haven’t had any issues and it does include an actual prescription. It’s obviously sketchy in as much as you never actually see a doctor, but I’m assuming that the majority of telehealth firms work that way.
dukeleto
3mo ago
Completely agree with this. I use a website called telyrx (https://telyrx.com/), so that I can have some amoxicillin and tamiflu on hand, if paxlovid wasn’t so expensive it’s another one I would have ready to go.
dukeleto
4mo ago
I don’t know, I think the risks of global totalitarian government are way, way higher if China becomes the premier global power.
I’ll just go ahead and stake out the position which is that the US actually does respect the rights of its citizens more than basically any country in the world (maybe Switzerland or the Nordics are better?) and certainly more than china or any of their allies. In addition to that the us really does try and encourage its allies to democratize. Places like South Korea, are imperfect, but far better than what they were earlier in my lifetime. The whole experience in Iraq (reasonably), makes people suspicious of Americas ability to influence other countries in a positive way, but imo that should be viewed as more of an exception than a rule.
I also believe that the us national security / intelligence apparatus is mostly well intentioned / a good thing. Are they perfect, no, but it seems like they are pretty good at answering the elected president’s political appointees.
It isn’t that I have literally no use for it, I just use it a lot like the poster above (ie as a substitute for something’s I would have googled before).
Also thanks for actually including your conversation history. I’m not enough of a mathematician to follow all of it but it was nice to see how you prompt it.
dukeleto
4mo ago
I think this policy actually seems pretty reasonable, if you are a company that is using this program to hire exceptional people you can afford it(google earns like 2 million per employee). If you have been abusing it to run your IT help desk then you won’t be able to do so any more. If it’s a lot more expensive it will also mean that it’s easier to get an H1Bs visa since the system won’t be flooded with applicants as it is now.
Access to the us labor market should be expensive. There a lot of negative externalities associated with the kind of inequality the us has now and enacting policies which increase wages are one of the best ways to address this. As an aside if you want to understand how detrimental this program has been in terms of suppressing wages for technical professionals just go onto https://www.clearancejobs.com/ and look at how much more these roles pay compare to similar roles in other industries where hiring foreigners is mostly prohibited.
I will say as a former democrat (and now republican), that the left wing does get screwed by their party. It seems likely that if their party didn’t have a super delegate system, (ie more democratic) they would get much more economically populist candidates. Instead they just get socially extreme candidates with a sprinkling of economic populism.
While I disagree with the kind of policies such a candidate would bring, I think it would actually be much better for the country if these issues are actually litigated in an election.
A good example of this is the student loan cancellation issue. While I think it would have been a disastrous policy it’s something that the majority of democratic voters clearly supported. The party had a congressional super majority and could have passed something through congress. Instead they waited until after they had lost that majority and “tried” to do it through blatantly illegal executive action.
Biden was to the democratic base as trump would be to the republican base if he hadn’t done anything about immigration or trade.
dukeleto
5mo ago
That argument would be a lot stronger if the dems hadn’t already done this, multiple times. There is a reason that all of the conservative leaning talent leaves for industry (it isn’t just about money)
Its interesting because I think it’s gotten to the point that democrats can’t build a collation until this issue is solved and that they are all hoping that it will resolve itself by the midterms (or certainly by the next presidential administration). Starvation (assuming that is what is happening), is not sustainable over those time periods.
Breaking points had a highly adversarial interview come out with Slotkin earlier this week https://youtube.com/watch?v=AFrEJTFbSTc , which is interesting, but the most salient thing that came out of it was the degree to which the Senator is distancing herself from Israel. She didn’t come out and accept the framing (or remedies), desired by the shows audience, but as good as said that the (dem?) strategy going forward will be to try and legislate to width-hold offensive aid.
A completely cynical analysis (which is usually what does the trick democrat or republican) suggested that the democrats believe this will be enough to show their voters that the party was on the right side of history, because the war will end by the next election and it will be possible to blame it all on the Netanyahu administration (ie the problem isn’t the Israeli citizens but their leadership)/ aided and abetted by the republicans.
This suggests that if Great Leap Forward style starvation is occurring in Gaza, then it is actually very much in trumps interest to pressure Israel to admit MORE aid so that the current situation can be maintained as long as possible. This would simultaneously help them with the parts of MAGA that aren’t onboard with the current situation, while further undermining the democrat party messaging on this (by supporting humanitarian aid). This would also seem to be in Netanyahus interest as well since he is the obvious person to take the fall, although I don’t really have any knowledge about his domestic political situation (and whether or not admiring additional aid would destroy his coalition).
dukeleto
6mo ago
Does anyone have any experience with the US intellectual property system? I’m pretty confident I have invented a novel technique for denoising signals which I think may actually have applications in other areas beyond my field but I am trying to decide if it’s actually worth the trouble to try and monetize it instead of just donating it an an open source project I help maintain.
I work for an institution which splits royalties with the inventor (me), but I am very hesitant to get my intellectual property office involved since the second I do they will prevent me from doing option 1 above. I also assume the time and paper work burden for me would be onerous and detract from the parts of my job I actually like.
I also don’t have a good sense of how often inventors even get compensated for this sort of thing (if say a camera manufacturer uses my algorithm how could anyone every prove they stole it from me?). Is my intuition that I most likely won’t ever get paid anything anyway correct?
dukeleto
6mo ago
Which really shouldn’t be a surprise, the us military has the best logistics in the world and it’s not like you are going to have any crime at a grocery store operated on a military base.
My late grandmothers position on tattoos was that the only respectable people who had them were concentration camp survivors.
I went to a Montessori school from first through sixth grade, this wasn’t a completely unschooling experience (in first through third grade they made us learn how to read, learn basic arithmetic, etc. but 3rd - 6th grade is basically as you described, except that in addition to the library we had works (such as a board that used beads for doing long division etc.), which we could choose from). I learned a lot of roman history, played a lot of RuneScape and developed a love of gardening which I have retained to the present day. I had no trouble catching up when I entered a regular middle school for 7th grade (I actually tested a year ahead in my science and math courses). This experience has left me with a very strong belief that kids should be taught how to read, preform basic arithmetic and learn to socialize with others in elementary school and otherwise be left alone.
To say nothing of the fact that the KKK was most certainly a potent force, and they certainly did engage in bombings and other kinds of terrorism.
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