sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Not that weird, plenty of citizens speak a different language at home (I'm one and I grew up with a bunch of others).
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
It's possible for someone to be light-skinned enough that they are almost certainly North Indian or dark-skinned enough that they are almost certainly South Indian, but in between it's difficult to tell.
Even this is not reliable. There are very dark northerners and very light southerners.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Outsourcing to India is definitely not what we're talking about here, which is H1Bs. You don't need to hire a single H1B to outsource to India.
Management is obviously interested in cutting costs and that obviously results in less QA and cheaper employees. That doesn't mean that if we just stop hiring cheaper employees, we'd stop having shitty products. That's not how the casual connection runs.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
There is a direct causal line between outsourcing software development to Indians and the enshittification of the software that runs most of modern civilization.
What is the evidence for this?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
The only thing missing from the comparison is the original Greek so we can judge who did it best.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
What, exactly, is the harm? The benefit is, as I said, a reduction in the price level.
Note that remittances are 0.7% of GDP and so any effect (good or bad) is probably indistinguishable from zero.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
All that wealth they generate seems to mostly circulate within their own community or get sent back home.
I don't know why you think that the wealth circulates in their own community - they buy goods and services like any other Americans. Cognizant H1Bs aren't getting haircuts from other Cognizant employees.
They do send remittances, but what's wrong with that? Taking money out of circulation in America reduces the price level.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Please steelman leaving dogshit in public places.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
I guess I'll have to take the L on this one.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
"sensuous" is a made up word. John Milton hacked it together because he was an incel weirdo.
False, the word seems to have come about in the late 18th century.
Opinion discarded.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Haven't heard that. Pretty sure fire regulations require that people can egress out of windows (at least in bedrooms), so maybe it applies only to some windows.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
There's also government regulations that require houses to look ugly so that people don't fall out the window.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Surely this proves the existence of at least one desire/aspiration?
It's more like the path of least resistance for these people. They are simply acting out the script that their parents laid out.
I’ve never known any of them to go seriously off the rails (pun very much intended) with hard drugs, alcohol, partying, casual sex, etc.
I have known multiple such Cupertino alumni.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Have you met anyone who went to Cupertino high school? I have met several, and while it's true they aren't smoking crack in the back of the bus, they are some of the most maladjusted individuals I've met who still function in society.
Absolutely no desires or aspirations, a dead look in the eyes, mania, depression, depravity, etc etc. Yeah, they make fat stacks of cash writing CRUD apps for big tech - but at what cost?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
But we're getting it both ways. They're pushing for "discouraging" activities they oppose while forcing us to subsidize the health risks of activities they support.
This doesn't sound like you're getting it both ways. It sounds like it's just one way - that you can engage in just about any activity (except smoking I guess, although I have never revealed my smoking status to my insurer) without insurers taking action.
The hypotheticals are closer to a persecution fantasy than reality.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
wait so I'm paying $20,000 a year just so a gay guy can have unprotected sex for free, but the same people who mandated that are talking about using insurance costs to make driving unaffordable for me?
To what extent is the health insurance company allowed to tell you what you can and can't do?
Let's assume, arguendo, that eating red meat and animal fat really does cause disease and increase costs. Does the insurance company have a right to drop you for eating red meat or are they obligated to pay for your quadruple bypass?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Perhaps waymo's biggest strength so far has been an extremely cautious and slow rollout which I suspect allows them to detect issues like this before they cause accidents (on the theory that for every accident there are ten near misses).
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
San Francisco has plenty of narrow streets and pedestrians. Various parts of the service areas have streets that are not on a grid. There's obviously no snow in San Francisco, but the waymos seem to work fine in the rain.
I personally know of an experimental model spazzing out because it saw a pedestrian holding an umbrella.
A waymo model?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
the fact that LLNs prove and disprove a large number of longstanding theories in linguistics about how intelligence and language work
They really do nothing of the sort. That LLMs can generate language via statistics and matmuls tells us nothing about how the human brain does it.
My TI-84 has superhuman performance on a large set of mathematical tasks. Does it follow that there's a little TI-84 in my brain?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
The human brain is a large language model
What is the evidence for this besides that they both contain something called "neurons"?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
They are, after all, self-identifying as non-essential.
This is perhaps the furthest thing possible from "self identification" - it's your boss telling you you're not important enough to be paid.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
They really can't be extracting much since they are legally obligated to pay out 80% of premiums. They could pay out perhaps 15% more if the entire company did it for free.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
At least on this metric, all of the countries listed are rather lower trust than Switzerland itself, which has been gaining in trust over the past 30 years despite immigration from lower trust societies.
Italy, France, and the DR are similar trust societies. Same for Portugal and India, and El Salvador and Turkey. Albania is lower trust than any other country mentioned.
Hopefully you get a response in before the inevitable ban - what is the evidence for this claim? As far as I know the usual estimate is closer to 1,400. It's pretty clear that 200,000 white girls would be way more than 1 in 6 girls age 11-17 in Rotherham (population 100k) and other cities.
I seem to remember you had great doubts about death toll estimations due to the Holocaust, so I hope that you went over these numbers with similar scrutiny.
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