BryantD

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by BryantD 2y ago
It wasn't; the key part of the piece is the revelation that $50K was not in fact a huge sum of money for someone in her socio-economic class. The thing that caught Patrick's eye originally, if I'm reading correctly, was that
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by BryantD 2y ago
Yeah, I see where you're coming from. For my part, I'm very wary of accelerationist tendencies and there are hints of that in the two cases I noted. Only hints, though, neither of those guys made a point of leaving full-on manifes
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by BryantD 2y ago
Hold on. Livelsberger's uncle said "He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American." He was also very dissatisfied with the government but I don't see strong indications that he wa
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by BryantD 2y ago
https://basicincome.stanford.edu/research/ubi-visualization/ is a pretty good place to start on reading studies.
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by BryantD 2y ago
The cited examples are Reagan and Bush, both of whom relented to some degree after Congress pushed back. Obama fired one IG, with stated cause. And of course, in 2022, Congress passed a law requiring 30 days advance notice to Congress. So p
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by BryantD 2y ago
We've been "foolish" enough to try UBI. Studies show that it doesn't tend to increase spend on alcohol or tobacco.
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by BryantD 2y ago
The hope is that UBI would prevent him and people like him from falling into homelessness in the first place.
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by BryantD 2y ago
They could be using the existing motion capture technology used for sports analytics [1]. The Australian Open did something similar this year to convert skeletal tracking data into animation to get around broadcasting rights issues [2]. I w
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by BryantD 2y ago
Nah, he has a PhD from Concordia’s individualized program, supervised by professors from both Theological Studies and Information System Engineering. But it’s true that he’s not coming at this from a cybersecurity perspective, he’s an extre
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by BryantD 2y ago
I recommend Marc-André Argentino's research on the Com; he's a conspiracy researcher who got his PhD on QAnon. He leans left, if that's a factor for you. His general overview: https://www.maargentino.com/the-p
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by BryantD 2y ago
I can't speak to whether or not this is still the case, but in August 2023 the CEO of Culdesac was living in a Culdesac Tempe apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttDeYzINSV8
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by BryantD 2y ago
Yep. And certainly at the beginning of all this there was reason to think that this was happening. For example, Solar for All grants were paused with no explanation of why or the expected path for releasing them. So, yes, impoundment is a r
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by BryantD 2y ago
To be fair, he's a district chief judge and I've certainly disagreed with some of them in the past. But at least it demonstrates that the question of impoundment is on the table.
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by BryantD 2y ago
Judge John McConnell disagrees with you. His decision placing a hold on the spending freeze cites the Impoundment Control Act as part of his finding that the lawsuit is likely to succeed on the merits.
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by BryantD 2y ago
"The President decides..." within the limits of his constitutional powers. Which do not include, for example, impoundment or unilaterally shutting down agencies authorized by Congressional acts.
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by BryantD 2y ago
French police use tear gas on protestors, and in 1980, the South Korean government fired on and killed protestors. I don't think it's just the tear gas; I think it has more to do with the fact that we're way more distributed
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by BryantD 2y ago
It's sort of hard to piece it together because there's not a ton of transparency about what's going on. However, there have been a number of well-sourced stories on access at the Treasury Department. David Lebryk, who previou
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by BryantD 2y ago
I don't recall the entire Democratic Party getting taken over, no. I recall Biden saying things like "No, I don‘t support defunding the police." I remember Biden's 2022 crime prevention plan which called for $13 billion
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by BryantD 2y ago
I don't think there's any shortage of Republicans posting on X about how dumb progressives are; I'm skeptical that liberals are any more prone to outrage than conservatives are. Check out, say, liboftiktok if you want a prime
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by BryantD 2y ago
Note that their official homicide numbers no longer include bodies found in unmarked graves (as of 2021), people killed in conflicts between police and gangs (as of 2022), and people killed in prison. These are arguably reasonable decisions
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by BryantD 2y ago
It's referred to as Elizabeth Warren's Direct File project.
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by BryantD 2y ago
Air Canada was held liable for a refund offer a chatbot made: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb... Not exactly your scenario, but a live example of the sort of problem Anthropic wants to
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by BryantD 2y ago
Ah, my error -- thank you!
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by BryantD 2y ago
It's fairly hard to pass substantial bills these days thanks to polarization -- when a significant portion of your base sees cooperation as a betrayal, the incentives get wonky. (Not pointing that comment at either the left or the righ
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by BryantD 2y ago
Google has a strong position in search, and pushes Chrome every time you hit their top level page. Also Chrome is the default on Android, yeah? I don't think you can extrapolate from that market share to determine how likely people are
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by BryantD 2y ago
https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo is pretty good. That said I think there's probably room for a good solution that doesn't require command line proficiency.
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by BryantD 2y ago
It would indeed. Note the warning: "There is not currently a way to differentiate between web crawlers that are indexing sites for search purposes, vs crawlers that are training AI models. ANY SITE THIS SOFTWARE IS APPLIED TO WILL LIKE
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by BryantD 2y ago
Outlook now lets me like and heart emails, which feels weird but there it is.
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by BryantD 2y ago
Not entirely inaccurate! Martin Luther's 95 Theses propagated from Germany to England in a matter of weeks, thanks to the printing press. I think society got better but it sure did change a lot.
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by BryantD 2y ago
"Eternal September" was a more serious problem than we knew.

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