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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
I think such barriers are usually considered permanent and must always be overcome. You get over a barrier. So it is more like a wall or hurdle. In the metaphors of difficulty it is assumed there will always be some residual difficulty so t
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
It’s not that hard to know, since they’re often not caught on their first crime but on their Nth. They leave fingerprints that’ll link the crimes together, so we already have stats on how likely a person will reoffend even when they are not
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
They are less likely to reoffend if harmed, most crimes are done by repeat offenders.
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
It’s a cluster of behaviors, like excessively brushing their teeth. "just meth things" is a meme referring to these behaviors.
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
I think the pro AI people are generally too busy with their AI than to spend time arguing with people on HN. Why spend time arguing with humans when I could be more productivity arguing with AI.
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
The problem is that as the education system degrades the products of that system gain power over it and accelerate the decline.
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
Disparate impact laws are a spin off from civil rights act 1964 so you’d have to repeal at least a part of that act. Much of modern society is shaped by these laws so you’d be completely changing the structure of society. Many people benefi
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
These laws have a strong impact on behavior so you’re not going to fix the behavior without fixing the laws, which I agree, need to be fixed.
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
It used to be 130, which is two standard deviations above the mean. I think this is the appropriate amount.
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
In this hypothetical you’re a teacher, not world emperor, so you’re limited to pass/fail decisions of a particular class at a particular school. I personally have grave concerns regarding the poor education of the youth and think educa
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
It is easier to make that call when you’re not at risk of being sued.
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
Are you willing to risk a lawsuit to stand on your principles? Could you prove the disparate impact is random and your pass criteria isn’t racist?
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by cjbgkagh 4mo ago
And what if the 35% failure rate had a disparate impact, would you still fail them?
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
What you are saying does not make sense to me, if that were true then why have a provision requiring that any excess on list pricing would be disqualified. Also there was little scope for negotiation, basically if you meet a bar on function
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
If I could have I would have, I’m not the only person in this position nor is it their first tender, they progressively go and close the loopholes. If it’s on the market for a price they want this price regardless of the overhead they add t
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
We do list pricing to cut down on marketing costs. Many tenders disallow increasing the price of deliverables over list pricing (it’s an automatic disqualification). You can’t throw in extra stuff either as they reserve the right to remove
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I had an invitation to bid on a government contract that needed local diversity certifications that would cost a bunch of money just to apply. They also had a scale down provision to basically nothing so even if we won there is no guarantee
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
There are many reasons to lie about peace being around the corner, it is the default norm. It is in part to place the blame of further conflicts on your enemies, i.e. I wanted peace but clearly they did not. There is a conflict of narrative
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
The code I write is good. I don’t write for the lowest common denominator, readers need to be hard core functional programmers as a pre-req. The great thing about AI is that it’s raising the bar on lowest common denominator.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
As a human who typically uses large files, 10k to 30K lines of code files are pretty common, I find the agents don’t read the whole file after the first time, they almost always do a range select for the bit they are interested in.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Agents still pay a penalty for complexity even if it is a smaller one.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Never underestimate the credulity of the boomer generation.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
It is possible my memory, Google, and now AI are all conspiring against me. It was a vehicle registration issue for a car I had sold 10 years earlier, it got a parking ticket in CA and they used that as evidence I still had the car and owed
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
It depends on jurisdiction, the US is unusual, most countries they’ll reassess you and it’s on you to prove them wrong. I did have to look it up, I didn’t know that the US was different in this way. I did have the California tax authority m
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Barter counts as income by many tax jurisdictions, if you don’t declare the fair market value of the exchange you are in violation. Most people don’t declare this and it is rarely ever enforced.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Tax law is guilty until proven innocent. Investor fraud is usually brought as a civil case and takes a balance of evidence approach. Since enforcement is stochastic and rare these practices are pretty common. The freedom to do ‘whatever’ is
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
You're conflating the grifters with the US in general, the grivers are able to continue grifting even at the expense of the US. This is requiring too much hand-holding from me so I'm done with this conversation.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
To align the interests there has to be a substantial negative consequence that would be felt by the grifters if the endeavor fails. The US is already close to losing world hegemony status and it kinda needs it in order to print money /
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Imagine a split between two factions, one that wants UBI and one that doesn't. The most talented people will go to the faction that doesn't offer/impose UBI. That's why UBI is impossible, the incentive to defect is immen
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
> Pretending they’ll go to war over Taiwan and not doing it is an effective strategy for undermining the US. The bait is for the buildup that promotes the grifters. > An actual war would fix a lot of the grifting in the US as it woul

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