eli_gottlieb

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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
And I'm just saying that "less rights overall ... in turn leads to a more productive society" is rubbish idealism that imagines a big thermostat slider by which to trade off one abstraction vs another, ignoring the material h
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
> Take California’s high speed rail. Every individual has the right to object. No one wants an eyesore in their backyard. Everyone gets a hearing. Everyone gets a lawsuit. Everyone gets a veto in practice, if not in theory. That has abso
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
Trying to scam the scammers is one of the world's oldest ways of getting scammed.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
You mean me?
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Yeah, this kind of thing was part of the subject of my PhD, first postdoc, and ongoing scientific work. The question is how to produce generative models and inverse-inference algorithms that are powerful enough to work in tens to hundreds
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Which is why governments and firms in the capitalist core are trying to cool it down?
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
The global workforce benefits from higher salaries and higher demand for labor, not from zero- or negative-sum moves of jobs from one place to another.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
1) There's a very reasonable chance the company discriminates. Sorry, but once bitten, twice shy. One company gets caught at it and the whole industry develops a reputation. 2) If you've got a problem finding candidates, there&#
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Then why all the layoffs? You don't fire people you've got a shortage of.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Why do you feel this need to rationalize an equivalence?
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
More to the point, despite your downvoters, the judicial reform did not pass as proposed.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
And quite relevantly to the analogy, in Iran, the regime controls most of the economic links to the outside world, including the ability to convert the rial to dollars or euros.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Blocking highways, labor strikes, conscription refusal, and other civil-disobedience tactics were used.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
> Where in the hell is Congress? Waiting for next year, after the midterm elections change the parties out, to worry about the deficit when the other guy can take the blame.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
"Anti-patriotism" doesn't really sum up the sense that many among Europe's owning and intellectual classes would prefer to "dissolve the people and elect another" via immigration. The example that shocked me,
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Right, so you don't really have any strong evidence for opinions about Americans at all. You have extremely strong opinions about Israel/Palestine which you're transferring onto Americans.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
> it had nothing to do with anything Jones did To be absolutely fair, I think in that era of American cinema there was a norm that you very clearly delineate apart what the protagonist accomplishes from what comes about by an act of God.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
You forgot 4) Confusing pretty young women with potatoes.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
The older I get, the more I suspect the Neighborhood Watch Alliance of being behind all society's problems.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Consider that Trump is enough of a fucking lunatic that Canadians voted for the party of Justin Trudeau again .
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Because real evil is boring.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
> Osama bin Ladin won. The goals he had when he attacked America have been entirely achieved. Americans got stupid and became susceptible to the society changing effects of terrorism. He got us to destroy ourselves. I think one of the ef
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
I don't think it's all that nutty, considering that large regional blocs in the United States basically voted against all this and have less than zero desire to be dragged along for the ride, having our lives ruined for someone el
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
> heat pumps do better than gas heaters Well, unless the inverter valve breaks and you've got an air conditioner for two and a half months of winter. Ask me how I know.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Civil disobedience and other exertions of citizen power are only a subset of "protest". I've been to a lot of protests and most of them accomplished jack shit.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Nonetheless, natural-gas and electricity prices are downstream of the past three or four or five Administrations' worth of public policy choices. I live in a place where electricity prices have shot up and it has taken us eight years
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Oh lovely, we're becoming a Grifters' Republic of Social Media.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Yeah people clearly think "creatives" are a class apart from white-collar workers.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Well mainly because it sucks living under the Trump Administration, even if supporting them is objectively the most accelerationist move.
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by eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
Canada is not a modern, developed country?

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