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by drewbug01 1y ago
When you step back far enough, ultimately the governments power is derived from the consent of the governed (as the Declaration of Independnce puts it). SCOTUS can decide what the “strict bounds of the law” is, within our current system of
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by drewbug01 1y ago
Perhaps typical, but it certainly puts the lie to the claims of violent protests coming out of the administration, and shows how hollow their justifications are for federalizing the national guard. Because if it was as bad as they claim, th
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by drewbug01 1y ago
> The government isn’t doing anything directly in either case. End of day the network made this choice. The kindest read here is that you are unaware of the FCC’s comments on the matter. Unfortunately, the government actually did do so
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by drewbug01 1y ago
This is a false equivalency, unfortunately. We can discuss all we like about cancel-culture-on-the-left, but it misses the glaring difference: The left used their speech to encourage consequences for those whose speech they didn’t like. The
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by drewbug01 1y ago
Just shy of three Scaramuccis, in fact.
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by drewbug01 1y ago
It’s worth asking why the estimates for the station have doubled over the course of the last two years (I can’t find a source explaining why, right now). But it’s still perhaps an unfair point to make. State/Lake is one of the busiest
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by drewbug01 1y ago
The reason for the flag is always the same: because they don’t want to talk about it here. The real question is: why don’t people want to talk about it? I’ve found it typically falls into three camps: One group flags these kinds of stories
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by drewbug01 1y ago
> Before tech companies demonstrated the principle of infinite growth Perhaps we have different definitions of “infinite,” but either way I’m pretty sure nobody’s demonstrated that yet.
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by drewbug01 1y ago
> Confronted with such extreme potential damages, Anthropic may lose its rights to raise valid defenses of its AI training, deciding it would be more prudent to settle, the company argued. “Our case is so weak, that a trial could pose a
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by drewbug01 1y ago
> Rather than close or ignore PRs, you should start a dialogue with them. Teach them that the AI is not a person, and if they contribute buggy or low quality code, it’s their responsibility, not the AIs, and ultimately their job on the l
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by drewbug01 1y ago
> It's not serious to say 'I'll communicate how I want, and it's up to other people to understand me'. And yet, this is fundamentally the position the CTO took. > That's just laziness on the part of the e
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by drewbug01 1y ago
I don’t disagree with you, but I don’t really think I implied that all the effort should be entirely on one party or the other. In any case though, you’ve managed to nicely illustrate both of our points, so kudos on that.
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by drewbug01 1y ago
Apologies if that came off as rude or something, I wasn’t trying for that tone at all. I meant what I said more in the sense of “it’s a good question, and in fact you’ve summed up the answer pretty nicely too” :)
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by drewbug01 1y ago
So I think you are scratching at something interesting here - as a (senior) engineer who values communication intensely, I also try to “read between the lines” and extract what someone meant and not just what they said . And so in that s
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by drewbug01 1y ago
> Extract the kernel If you follow the link within the article, he goes on to say: > The most frequent issue I see is when a literal communicator insists on engaging in the details with a less literal executive. I call the remedy, “ex
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by drewbug01 1y ago
> I think a more humane (and likely more successful) way out of this is to not try to convince the childless to have children at all, but to try to convince those with children to have more. > So, I'll pose this question to HN an
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by drewbug01 2y ago
I mean… RFK famously believes that AIDS is caused by poppers, and not a virus. So I can’t say this move surprises me. But it’s still quite sad to see us becoming a laughingstock.
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by drewbug01 2y ago
There was a deeply unsettling moment there in the waning days of the first term. It’s not unreasonable to be concerned about what may unfold at the end of the next one.
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> Why? How is that not censorship? In a somewhat convenient turn of events for pro-Musk camp on HN: Musk is now deeply embroiled in politics. Thus, any discussion of him is inherently political. And of course, politics is largely "o
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by drewbug01 2y ago
“landslide mandate” What were those vote totals, again?
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> “Columbia and Barnard are cracking down on student protesters to appease the Department of Justice and billionaire donors because they are afraid of losing their funding,” said the CUAD spokesperson. “Appeasement” was precisely how I i
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by drewbug01 2y ago
Navarro’s “Compact Data Structures” is a really excellent reference, too: https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~gnavarro/CDSbook/
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> For whatever reason Optics. It’s just optics. It makes the admin look “tough”.
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by drewbug01 2y ago
Well, about that: “ Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), shall coordinate the termination of
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> I don’t think Trump ignoring the law is the answer or the right way to go about this, but I’ll take it for now if it keeps TikTok around. Put differently, “The ends justify the means.” It’s a dangerous bargain, even in the best of time
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> so there is broad bipartisan support for more time to find an acquirer, including Biden saying he won't enforce it on the last day in office. It’s tempting to view this as “support”, but a simpler explanation is that it was just p
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> But not everything is about America. I can’t truly understand how frustrating it must be for everything to be so focused on the US all the time. And I see this sentiment expressed often. But let’s be real: this piece is almost certainl
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by drewbug01 2y ago
You asked “what the fuck are the Democratic governors and states doing right now?” …and I think the reply answers the question (although I find the answer a horrifying thought as well). My point is - I don’t think the person replying to you
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by drewbug01 2y ago
It’s hard to see how either logical outcome (massive deregulation, or regulatory paralysis) serves any useful goal for the American people. We can quibble about the exact shape of the regulatory state, but it has given us clean water; breat
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by drewbug01 2y ago
You haven’t made any compelling case about anything, changed my mind, or altered my behavior. But if it helps you sleep at night to believe that, then go ahead. For what it’s worth: I continued to engage because I used to be like you - argu

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