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by db48x 1y ago
You might want to link to a specific bill, because I don’t know for sure what you’re referring to otherwise. Do you mean the recent budget bill? There's no way I’m reading that for an internet comment, but if that’s the one you mean th
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by db48x 1y ago
Right, the “Alien Enemies Act”. Trump used that to target members of a specific gang, not every single illegal alien from every country. So a few dozen or a hundred people, not 35k people per month. If people conflate the two and think that
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by db48x 1y ago
No, these are very clearly confounding factors. When there are fewer people walking across the deserts, for example, then there are both fewer deaths from exposure and fewer people to put on a bus and immediately return to Mexico. That make
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by db48x 1y ago
You might have confused two different things. There's been a bit of a fight over whether the President can intervene in Iran and Yemen recently, since Congress hasn’t declared a war. But that has nothing to do with immigration. > ps
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by db48x 1y ago
I should probably have said “removed” rather than “arrested”, since not every person removed gets arrested. I am using the DHS’s own statistics < https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2022/ta
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by db48x 1y ago
No, that’s simply incorrect. ICE is following exactly the same process that has been in place since 1996. It can’t be due process under Biden but then suddenly unconstitutional under Trump. ICE is not “kidnapping” anybody, and is not “traff
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by db48x 1y ago
I’m not sure exactly what you mean. It’s an objective fact that ICE was removing almost 3× as many people per month this time last year, but that nobody cared at the time. If it’s all about perceptions rather than the objective reality then
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, that is worth looking in to. It could be that individual ICE agents are just not doing their job in order to sandbag the president. Or it could be that far, far fewer illegal immigrants crossed the border < https://x.com&#
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by db48x 1y ago
I guess it could be purely a misperception that will vanish mysteriously in four years.
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by db48x 1y ago
That’s not entirely true. Drexler’s books contain quite a few solutions to nanoscale engineering problems, though not for all of the problems. He designed and characterized a nanoscale mechanical system for separating CO₂ from the air, stri
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by db48x 1y ago
In Diaspora that wasn’t considered to be a problem. Merging two individuals was almost automatic once you’d both decided to do it, and everyone participating in the Diaspora had decided ahead of time whether they wanted to sync back up at t
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by db48x 1y ago
Yes, we have a long ways to go before we can be considered a starfaring species, one that can make and keep long–term agreements when they involve round–trip times in the tens of thousands of years. Still, it can be useful to altruistically
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by db48x 1y ago
Guix is easier to grok than Nix, if anyone is looking to save themselves some effort.
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by db48x 1y ago
I don’t know; I’ve only just heard of uv. I know about the packaging problem because I’ve had to deal with that nonsense a few times.
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by db48x 1y ago
Yep. The lesson is to get this right early in your language design. Do not punt until version 2.0. Think twice before putting the package/module/whatever metadata in an executable script. If you do decide to do that, think a third
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by db48x 1y ago
To install a package and its dependencies, you need the list of dependencies. This metadata is not always statically available! Python packages are often just a zip file full of py files, with one of them called 'setup.py'. Runnin
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by db48x 1y ago
Yes!
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by db48x 1y ago
This! One of the fun things about writing programs in Rust is that it really makes you aware of ownership of data inside the program. If you try to write a game where the game loop owns the game state, then loops over the actors letting eac
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by db48x 1y ago
If you’ve got one problem that could kill you then inviting in a second does not seem like an ideal choice. A little plague to go with that yellow fever, perhaps?
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by db48x 1y ago
You can’t think of even one? Not even Rome? Do I really have to list out all the failed societies here?
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by db48x 1y ago
What, aside from history?
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by db48x 1y ago
I hope assisted suicide never becomes legal here. It’s just another way for society to fail.
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by db48x 1y ago
Regardless of inflation, AT&T made way less money in the 20s than any pharmaceutical company does today. If they could afford the research budget back then, then the pharmaceutical companies of today can too. It had nothing to do with t
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by db48x 1y ago
> The kind of research NIH funds: long-horizon, high-risk, mechanism-level discovery, is not something corporations will just pick up the tab on… Except that there are plenty of counterexamples to that idea. Bell Labs employed thousands
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by db48x 1y ago
That’s just the broken window fallacy writ large. The positive economic output of the research is counterbalanced by the negative economic output of the taxes paid. There are certainly worse things to spend tax money on, since there are thi
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by db48x 1y ago
> …and the subjective judgements are completely out of line. This is the dumbest thing you’ve ever said, that’s for sure. I can have any opinions I want. I’m not limited to thinking thoughts you approve of, or that toe some imaginary lin
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by db48x 1y ago
Yes. Very, very roughly the NIH is 8% of all medical research funding in the US. According to DiMasi et al¹ in 2013 a fully approved drug cost $2.870 billion USD, if you divide up the cost of all the failures to be paid for by the successes
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by db48x 1y ago
Forgive me, I was obviously not clear enough. knowaveragejoe said that my reasons for cutting this funding were a post–hoc rationalization. I tried to clarify that because our debt has been growing faster than our economy for a while now, _
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by db48x 1y ago
Sure we can, because these are not actually legs. Legs are a bad analogy They are groups of people, and people can adapt. If we get rid of taxpayer–funded research today, then companies that do research will suddenly have plenty of people t
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by db48x 1y ago
When anyone realizes that they’re spending too much money it is natural to go down the list of expenses and see which ones they can eliminate. That’s not a post–hoc justification, that’s avoiding bankruptcy. Sure, as you say a lot of therap

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