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by abeppu 2y ago
> A Meta spokesperson, Andy Stone, said in a post on Threads: “This ruling affirms that Sarah Wynn Williams’ false and defamatory book should never have been published”. ... this doesn't seem like an accurate statement and it seems
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by abeppu 2y ago
It's interesting to see how some ideas keep looping around. When I see this I'm reminded of a startup Modista from ~2008 which did visual-similarity for browsing fashion products. Here's a writeup from a point when they did o
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by abeppu 2y ago
> future residential nuclear plants What does this mean? Are you imagining a future where individual houses have their own nuclear plants? Or where nuclear plant workers live on-site? I'm get the argument that we should have more nu
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by abeppu 2y ago
Uh, no, the parent comment explicitly said the Bengal famine of 1943, which had up to 3.8M deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 The famine of 1876-8 in addition to being worse from the percent-cau
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It's wild that the struggle has been pulled back from "can we take serious steps to backpedal on this giant escalating crisis we're driving" to "can politicians acknowledge this crisis that we're all going thro
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I think maybe there's an important different ethical and practical situation with genuinely foreign aid (rich countries sending resources to poor countries which have their own government, systems, regulations etc) vs a colonizing powe
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by abeppu 2y ago
JIT internals are very much not my area so this might be an ignorant question but ... why doesn't the parametric issue come up in this context? The author starts with the example of a value which could be a List or a String, where the
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by abeppu 2y ago
1. "permanent" help is not what's required during an famine due to crop failures, and not what anyone was demanding 2. focusing on the "assistance" without mentioning the circumstances which create the crisis is mis
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Maybe a closer comparison would be famine of 1876-8, where some estimate go as high as 8.6M fatalities on a population of ~58M. > In its first full year, 1846, Robert Peel’s Conservative government imported huge quantities of corn, know
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think the other side of it is: - Detail-oriented nerds with a rich mental framework around things like optimization, making decisions based on data, perhaps statistical approaches to uncertainty get frustrated when they see their organiza
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by abeppu 2y ago
> One off, politically driven reductions in advertisers and user groups is not caused by unhandled load from reduced workforce or implications of work from office policy. I think this is basically backwards; aggressive cuts and short-ter
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by abeppu 2y ago
Your argument seems to be entirely financial rather than what twitter _does_. My understanding is their MAUs and DAUs have fallen. Fewer people are looking at it or posting on it, less often. https://soax.com/research/t
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Yes, it's a valuable lesson that, though it may become a nazi cesspit and vastly more annoying to interact with, an organization can survive for a surprisingly long time as a shambolic remnant of its former self, doing less and less we
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I think it does matter whether the work is done by the federal government or private corporations. While their dysfunctions as large organizations may be similar, when they're successful, they behave very differently. The goal of any
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by abeppu 2y ago
> we are headed for a destroyed Europe and a civil war in the US "Capital in the 21st Century" by Piketty does a good job arguing that the historical normal condition is for wealth to concentrate bc the returns on capital are g
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by abeppu 2y ago
It does seem there's been plenty of actual arms, vehicles etc in military aid from European countries to Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukrain... And the share of NATO members meet
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by abeppu 2y ago
> "It's just really amazing that someone discarded hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of commercial aviation parts, even if they are non-functional." If it is non-functional (and thus no longer hundreds of thous
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In particular it's depressing that the map near the top of the article shows that for a majority of states, the introduction of the bill is "historical", as in neither passed, active or current, but (IIUC) it was floated in s
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by abeppu 2y ago
Except: - Even in the best of cases, if this is your approach, you need a plan for how to add back the stuff that you learn is critical. DOGE haven't demonstrated that minimal level of competence. Firing National Nuclear Security Admin
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by abeppu 2y ago
This seems sketchy in that they're giving themselves N*M opportunities to find significant correlations, which they acknowledge -- but with a bias that a significant correlation is not expected to be spurious if it aligns with a claim
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Ok, totally not the point ... but a big chunk of what is now the US was Mexico, and the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo (and to a lesser extent the Gadsden Purchase) officially handed it over -- so I think Mexico may actually have formally agre
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by abeppu 2y ago
The letter from Farm Action, linked at the top of the article, is pretty compelling in making their case. A few highlights: > As a result of the smaller flock, egg production has dropped slightly from 8.1 billion eggs per month in 2021 t
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think the "solely" part isn't necessary to the claim that the NSF is a large net benefit to industry by supporting early research. Apparently the NSF did provide support for IntraLase to pursue commercializing a device for
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Nvm apparently the defense cuts are coming. I gotta wonder how that's gonna go over with some of the base. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/19/...
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by abeppu 2y ago
Where are the corporate lobbyists on this stuff? My understanding is that public research funding (and its associated administration) periodically yields results that either turn into viable commercial products or tools for whole sub-indust
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Actual leading drivers of federal spending: - Social Security: 21% - Medicare: 15% - Defense: 14% - Interest: 13% The administration has at points said social security and medicare won't be touched, no one's been talking seriously
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Meta plans to link US and India with longest undersea cable project(theguardian.com)
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But as Leigh Brasington spends a lot of time discussing, sources and teachers differ in their definitions of the jhanas. IIRC Brasington distinguishes between jhanas as described in the suttas (especially early suttas) and jhanas as describ
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by abeppu 2y ago
The author of this study Paul Dennison also wrote a book Jhana Consciousness which discusses both this work as well as giving a more religious background on the jhanas, as well as the Samatha Trust organization that teaches the form of medi
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by abeppu 2y ago
It's worth noting, this isn't the only national monument that honors a critical point in history for an oppressed group: - There's a national monument for the Birmingham civil rights movement at a motel that was bombed by the

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