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by ckemere 2y ago
I do think that there’s an aspect of small government that connects those 70M to their government in a way that large scale federalization may fail to do. Not sure how to achieve benefits of scale without this problem…
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by ckemere 2y ago
Doesn't seem to do anything in firefox either.
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by ckemere 2y ago
(Ironically, my dad won an award as a USDA bureaucrat for the economic analysis and rule set that allowed Mexican avocados into the US.) When you remove a barrier to a market the intersection of supply and demand curves shifts to the right
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by ckemere 2y ago
I think you missed “in group” vs “out group” in this comment?
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by ckemere 2y ago
I visited colleagues in the U.K. and France a couple of weeks ago over spring break. Definitely interesting to compare grading approaches with ours here in the US. Both still have end of the semester in class exams which count for a large m
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by ckemere 2y ago
Record keeping rules.
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by ckemere 2y ago
The function is also not convex…
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by ckemere 2y ago
Edit - plane landed before court order!
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by ckemere 2y ago
I don’t think this in quite fair. Since the time of Reagan, I think that liberals have consistently upheld the possibility of non-military government service being of value in contrast to the Reagan-ite generalization that only military ser
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by ckemere 2y ago
An interesting question is if/when there will be big protests. Ignoring a judge is a breach of constitutional order, and if people don’t speak up for Venezuelan “gang members”, it becomes normalized, and quickly can escalate. I think w
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Defying court order, Venezuelans deported to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act(theguardian.com)
4 points by ckemere 2y ago|1 comments
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by ckemere 2y ago
I think that the tragedy of our current circumstance is that “public service” is apparently only valuable or respectable if it involves military (or in this case diplomacy). I think many people sacrifice opportunity to enter other roles in
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by ckemere 2y ago
Something that I was quite surprised not to see in this story were questions about mental illness. There’s obviously a huge modern tendency to medicalise things, but the link to the grandfather made me wonder. What we call mental illnesses
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by ckemere 2y ago
When reading these program announcements, it's important to keep in mind that the (unofficial?) mandate for a DARPA program officer is to fund proposals that lie in the boundaries of [Doesn't at face violate laws of physics, P(Suc
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by ckemere 2y ago
This is exactly what NASA has had on its timeline since the Obama era ("Constellation"). Trump #1 didn't like the slow timeframe (get to the moon faster - "Artemis"). Current plan from Trump/Elon ("let&#x2
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by ckemere 2y ago
I had the same thought, but this has no effect on necessary delta-V. In terms of risk, I suspect it's already baked in to his analysis at some level. The risk comes from human-time-on-planet or time-in-space, which having a return vehi
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by ckemere 2y ago
I should point out that I review for a basic science (learning and memory) panel. So quite divergent from food or vaccines or what people might imagine as "woke" topics.
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by ckemere 2y ago
Having stayed up until 4 AM to prepare reviews for a Thursday study section, only to have it cancelled Wednesday at noon, I am feeling very frustrated. Anonymous sources say that since early February the program officers are receiving instr
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NIH grant review (secretly) paused(thetransmitter.org)
9 points by ckemere 2y ago|4 comments
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by ckemere 2y ago
I was shocked to find AI generated post match interviews after the recent Liverpool derby. I was watching and thinking “whoa - I thought Mo Salah was classier than that”. Then I noticed the channel was called “DangerousAI”. But generated wi
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by ckemere 2y ago
Because certain concepts have been repeated so often they've become elements of faith (e.g., "taxes are too high", "government is filled with fraud and waste", "taxing the 1% will solve our country's finan
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Complex dynamics require complex solutions(mathstodon.xyz)
214 points by ckemere 2y ago|144 comments
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by ckemere 2y ago
Universities have been offering doctoral degrees for at least 800 years. It’s unclear to me that they have ever been linked to powerful/ultra-wealth careers. I think that completely discounting the “prestige” factor would fail to captu
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by ckemere 2y ago
> it seems that HN turns out to be a very money-centric place Counter - I recently asked a faculty candidate how he would recruit curious, talented graduate students, and he said “I develop connections from interesting online communities
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by ckemere 2y ago
Wanting to give the DOGE folks the benefit of the doubt, I decided to look for military spending. Per Wikipedia, there should be ~400k active duty folks in the US Army (not counting other military branches). These are definitely under the E
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by ckemere 2y ago
“Ideological” would involve, e.g., any tabulation of race? This is the French approach - “There’s no racism here! See! Our data says everyone (hired, arrested, elected) is French.” Tautologies are always the easiest solution to thorny argum
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by ckemere 2y ago
Tremendous respect, btw, to the New Yorkers I met last year. Some of them were unhappy about things like, e.g., having no soccer fields or having the libraries closed on Sundays. But for the most part, the large majority of folks I talked w
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by ckemere 2y ago
I think in this particular case, it was to help recoup some of NYC's costs for housing the 100Ks of migrants (some undocumented, some with pending asylum cases, some with humanitarian parole work authorizations) that were being bussed
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by ckemere 2y ago
Well phrased analysis of how for broadcast specifically and society in general the current race to “change” government is potentially driving towards an unfortunate outcome for society. I think it’s a very interesting question of how the in
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by ckemere 2y ago
> Here's one: you can't be in both of these states at the same time. It's literally one or the other. It is definitely the case that certain neuromodulators exert negative feedback on each other, but this may not be factua

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