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Why Big Tech Turned Against Democrats – and Democracy(paulkrugman.substack.com)
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by davidw 1y ago
It's kind of the other way around: McDonalds will find a way to operate in pretty much any kind of environment. They have the deep pockets and knowledge to do so. They have restaurants across the world, including in very tricky places
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by davidw 1y ago
The first time I lived in Italy, back in the mid nineties, with expensive phone service and no home internet connection... I had a copy of that book and I think I read it like 10 times.
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by davidw 1y ago
One thing that I am not liking about the LLM world is that it seems to be tilting several things back in favor of BigCorps. The open source world is one where antirez, working on his own off in Sicily, could create a project like Redis and
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by davidw 1y ago
So first you're for legal immigration, and then well, no, not like that. "Do things the proper way" is just a facade for the xenophobia. The guy worked with the US in Afghanistan. Do you not think he has a real case here? He&
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by davidw 1y ago
So you're out there protesting that they're deporting Afghans who are here legally, who served alongside our military and would likely be killed if they were sent home, right? https://timesofsandiego.com/military&#
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by davidw 1y ago
> may not understand what is going on This much is accurate. Once again, how would this be described in the press if it were another country: "Secretary for the Homeland said 'We are staying here to liberate the city from the s
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by davidw 1y ago
If you read about Maduro wanting to imprison the leader of a region of Venezuela, who belongs to the opposition party, you'd call it authoritarianism. If you read that the Secretary of Defense of Turkey declined to commit to obeying c
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by davidw 1y ago
Well, yes, that's the point. Authoritarians want to consolidate power and loot wealth, not improve things or make the world a better place.
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by davidw 1y ago
As a born and raised English speaker and fluent Italian speaker, I still don't love the "tu / lei". It's very... binary as to what gets used. Sometimes that's easy, but the marginal cases can be difficult to fi
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by davidw 1y ago
Europe is shooting itself in the foot if they're not doing their damnedest to brain-drain as many scientists and engineers as they can while things implode here.
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by davidw 1y ago
I know that, having built several myself. Sometimes people get a bit ahead of themselves with the marketing though.
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by davidw 1y ago
> this can easily happen in a BEAM system Wait... I thought all you had to do is write it in Erlang and it scales magically!
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by davidw 1y ago
How the media would describe this in another country: "This is designed to cripple their universities, seen as a center of resistance to the regime"
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by davidw 1y ago
As an aside, where does one look for freelancing work these days? Besides word of mouth.
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by davidw 1y ago
The Supreme Court in the United States has been playing a looooot of "Calvinball" recently. They've never been completely immune from it, but it has gotten a lot more nakedly political.
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by davidw 1y ago
If it was such a big deal, why did they wait to publish it in a book about a guy who will never see elected office again? They do this a lot and it damages their credibility. Also, the current guy is not exactly that sharp, or improving wit
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by davidw 1y ago
The media does plenty of shooting itself in their own feet though. There was tons of coverage of Jake Tapper's book taking time away from everything that is happening right now.
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by davidw 1y ago
I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of this and the BEAM/Erlang/Elixir scheduler by someone paying attention to the details.
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by davidw 1y ago
I have gone back to using the local library a bunch. They have a 'request a book' feature that usually gets me the book in a reasonable time frame.
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by davidw 1y ago
Oops, sorry, typo. Fixed it, thanks.
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by davidw 1y ago
FWIW, Mike Godwin - the "Godwin's Law" guy - has said it's quite alright to compare this administration to that guy.
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by davidw 1y ago
The Pentagon is also busy firing anyone who cares about boring woke things like 'logistics' in favor of manly men who can go head to head with Defense Secretary Whiskey Pete downing shots.
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by davidw 1y ago
Yeah I don't think actual citizenship is in the 'critical path'. You just need to make it really easy for people to move over and not be in a precarious legal situation.
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by davidw 1y ago
Importing a bunch of scientists wouldn't 'recreate the US'. A decent number of the scientists are probably not originally from the US anyway. It'd involve spending money to sponsor research and clear a path for people to
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by davidw 1y ago
If European leaders were quick on their feet and smart, they would be dialing up the "brain-draining" of the US to 11.
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by davidw 1y ago
There's likely some, although it depends on the environment. The more users of the system there are, the more there are going to be reviews and people will know that it's kind of buggy. Most people seem more interested in cost or
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by davidw 1y ago
I don't think it's necessarily a market for lemons. That involves information asymmetry. Sometimes that happens with buggy software, but I think in general, people just want to pay less and don't mind a few bugs in the proces
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by davidw 1y ago
Definitely a "yes, and" thing. I'm working on dual citizenship and I would not consider myself "less American" once I got it.
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by davidw 1y ago
As a YIMBY, I could go for a Pope Urban.

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