LargeWu

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by LargeWu 9mo ago
The thesis of the article says "If it was bad under Obama, imagine how much worse it is now". It's literally in the headline. This is not the dunk you think it is. Nobody disputes ICE was bad then. The difference is that Obam
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by LargeWu 9mo ago
They haven't been indicted for kidnapping because it's the government itself doing it with federally deputized agents. What, is Trump's DOJ going to prosecute its own law enforcement agents for executing Trump's policy?
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by LargeWu 9mo ago
Adams claimed Black Americans were a hate group and that white people should "get the hell away". As to ICE deporting criminal aliens, that's not what they're doing. They're kidnapping people off the street and out
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by LargeWu 9mo ago
It's not just political views, though. Politics is "How much should we tax people?" and "Where should we set limits on carbon emissions?" or "Which candidate do I support" Politics is not "Black Ameri
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by LargeWu 9mo ago
Yeah, that too. There's not going to be one single solution, the problem is just too big for that. The idea with compost is that growing plants for food and dealing with the waste and excess (which is substantial) is something we'
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by LargeWu 9mo ago
I've wondered if capturing carbon emissions from industrial-scale compost facilities would be a net positive. It would have the added benefit of the carbon initially being captured by natural organic processes (i.e. growing food), so i
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by LargeWu 10mo ago
I mean, Avatar is a pretty on-the-nose allegory for the decimation of American Indian tribes and western colonization. I don't think this is at all a controversial take.
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by LargeWu 10mo ago
Not even just selling seeds. Saving seeds from the crop you planted from the previous year can also lead to infringement lawsuits.
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by LargeWu 10mo ago
My middle school aged child was recently diagnosed with learning disorders around processing, specifically with written language and math, which means even though he might know the material well it will take him a long time to do things we
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by LargeWu 10mo ago
The number of people who would do that has got to be less than a rounding error.
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by LargeWu 10mo ago
I think it's less about "individual rights" than "lower standards for disadvantaged groups", where the latter has a very broad definition. There is such an aversion to policing on the left that any enforcement of
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by LargeWu 11mo ago
Seems like the problem OP is trying to solve for here is not latency, it's signal power and redundancy.
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by LargeWu 11mo ago
Definitely single whip. Looks like he stopped to pose in the middle of it. He's also facing the wrong way; that body position should be on the diagonal if anything.
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by LargeWu 11mo ago
If there's any difference between printmaking and photography, it's that printmaking requires one to physically print each item. There's a non-trivial amount of manual setup to do, and the process can take days. Photography c
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by LargeWu 11mo ago
The Army already has a branch specifically devoted to engineering, the Army Corps of Engineers. While its primary focus is civil engineering, training and employing electrical and electronics engineers certainly doesn't seem out of the
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by LargeWu 11mo ago
You know who has capital? The US government. It's very plausible that the Army could fund the infrastructure needed for this industry as a national security imperative.
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by LargeWu 11mo ago
There's dysfunction in both, it's just different types of dysfunction.
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by LargeWu 11mo ago
There is absolutely nothing in the world I would like less than an AI device listening to all of my conversations at home.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
And it will be, until it isn't. It certainly isn't on the basis of fundamentals. It's purely vibes, but that won't last forever.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Artists are underpaid because subscription fees are too low to provide adequate payouts. There just isn't enough money to go around. Everybody wants artists to get better payouts but nobody would pay the $200 a month subscription fee i
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by LargeWu 1y ago
The problem isn't physically building the rail, the problem is the legal framework in which governments operate in. Multiple rounds of environmental impact statements, eminent domain lawsuits, preferred contractor RFP's, zoning, p
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by LargeWu 1y ago
This is the central thesis of Ezra Klein's "Abundance" book. Basically, things like this (or high speed rail, or public housing) don't get built in the USA because the government has hamstrung itself with so many rules a
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by LargeWu 1y ago
If real wages stagnate while the ultrawealthy amass wealth at a superlinear rate, I think you could argue it is.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
What does it even mean that an ultrawealthy person would "leave" a city? One not unreasonable interpretation is that they would no longer have standing to promote their own interests there at the expense of the rest of the populat
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Americans might be nice, but they're not necessarily kind.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
If LLM-based tools were such a money printing machine with a big ROI, why would you ever want to downsize? Keep redirecting that excess human capacity into building bigger and better capabilities to generate more revenue. Hire cheap grads t
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by LargeWu 1y ago
If you view powering people's homes as a lower priority than powering a data center then there is no reasonable discussion to be had here.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Because they're theoretically regulated and ordered to do so. The market for power is not a free market due to the locally monopolistic nature of it.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Captialism is really good at efficiency. But it is not so good at allocation, specifically for essential goods, and that's the problem here.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Only possible thing I can think of is they won't be able to just pull down data that is "not aligned with the current administration". I'm not sure that would be an intended side effect, though.

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