JCTheDenthog

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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>Anti-immigration policy blocks them from being Americans. Yes, because the citizens of a country (through their elected representatives) have absolute control over who they choose to allow into their country. Even blocking a brilliant s
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
They can, which is why many companies do the bare minimum malicious compliance to claim thet they attempted to hire Americans for these jobs. Things like ads in the local newspaper that 99% of qualified Americans will never see: https:&#x2
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Almost 1/3 of all pregnancies worldwide are ended via abortion: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion About 73 million annually worldwide, or roughly equal to the total death toll (ci
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
And abortion.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
At far, far, far lower rates than in the city, so I really don't know what argument you thought you just made. I live in the countryside. In 2018 our small neighboring town of about 13k residents had their first murder since 1965, and
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Heh I was almost forced to face the fact that my argument was bad but I see here that you made a typo hahaha tough luck pal https://img.ifunny.co/images/d542d2d7e1830ef76a29483dd498245...
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Better then living in a crowded city where they let rabid hobos attack you on the bus with effectively no consequences.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Mississippi has a very high obesity rate (enabled by our wealth and our fairly generous welfare programs, actually). Mississippi also has a far higher percentage of black residents than the median US state, and blacks generally have higher
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
In fact, America's wealth (and our fairly generous welfare programs, despite what Europeans might think) actually enables the massive obesity rates we have, which is one of the main reasons we have lower life expectancies. If Europeans
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
And which do you think is which? Whatever the "intent" of either the US or EU economies, the US has produced far greater wealth and material prosperity for its citizens than Europe has for its citizens.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Americans have homes roughly twice as big as European homes, and a far higher percentage of Americans are homeowners than Europeans. Home ownership rates are within a few percent of each other too.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Nope, even adjusting for health care costs the average American is still roughly 20-40% richer than the average European. This may come as a shock to you, but roughly 20% of Americans are on Medicaid, our state-sponsored healthcare insuranc
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Larger scale family farms that would go over the estate tax minimums make up around 4% of all farms in the US, from what I can find. Disrupting about 4% of farms upon the death of the farmer does in fact seem like a bad idea to me. But thst
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
The OP is about wealth, not life expectancy.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>However, we never talk about the laffer curve for dead people. I'd say that it could be about as high as you want to make it, and they're not going to work any more or less for an additional dollar. Can you really not imagine
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Mississippians average $43,000 of disposable income. Net federal money to Mississippi is roughly $9,000 per capita. Even if we assume that 100% of that $9,000 is welfare payments to the poorest, that still puts Mississippi roughly equal to
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
I'd love the idea of a more equal share of wealth in America. Unfortunately most of the proposed solutions tend to be of the "make everyone equally miserable" sort, and usually come from the sorts of people that imagine thems
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
I mean, outside of our own internal experience of qualia, there's no way for us to prove anyone or anything is conscious. But my biggest issue with the debates about consciousness and LLMs is that the "LLMs are conscious" c
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
They can signal that with numbers other than 32, the "ESP" part is what matters.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Then you could have it output LLVM IR
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
.NET has had Linux support since 2016 or so. The only major part of .NET that is still stuck in Windows is official UI frameworks from MS, though there are third party frameworks like Avalonia that support Linux.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Correct, bur he is directly accountable to and acting under the direction of elected officials, most other bureaucrats in the civil service are not.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
The president is elected, the bureaucrats that were making the decisions before were not, that's the difference. >BTW your “believe it or not” is quite condescending. Do you talk to people in real life like that? Yes, especially whe
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
How did the merit-based review regularly let things like these through? (Picked by scrolling at random through a list of cancelled grants): $2.4 million for "Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) Girls in a Robotics Leadership Pro
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
It does make me livid, just as much as the waste of taxpayer money on pointless (and sometimes outright racist) research here makes me livid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335722 Believe it or not, it's possib
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>Private citizen fund scientific research [under threat of prison or deadly force.] I mean I'm not inherently opposed to laws or government, but I think a lot of people need to be more measured and considerate of what they are using
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>I own several NFTs that are important to me, and they're worth every penny I paid. The problem with the NFTs is that you don't actually own the art they represent and have zero copyright claim to them. In the absolute very bes
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
The results from Abbott Districts in New Jersey would suggest that increased funding and resources does little if anything to improve results. Abbott Districts in New Jersey have been getting funding at roughly the same level or higher as t
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>So? Name a social intervention that did achieve all its goals. That's not my argument though? In any case, I believe that many of the ideas that have been proposed (and actually implemented) by proponents of equity aren't just
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>But we apparently agree that "somehow found a way to describe this as an unfair advantage for White students" is actually accurate on their part? I agree that Whites also got an unfair advantage over Asians in college admissio

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