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by esalman 7d ago
Americans had more than 10 years of exposure and still finds him "amazing".
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by esalman 9d ago
Your points are valid. But there's a reason why dollar is "petrodollar" - when we say it's backed by US military it's really the axis of US-Israel-Saudi Arabia which control military as well as resources. People use
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by esalman 9d ago
I don't think numbers matter here. Bond prices shooting up is a result of market losing trust in US, or it's ability to not default. Dollar is famous backed by $700T military. But the world has seen how it failed to secure a strai
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by esalman 12d ago
Spot on. USCIS adjudicators decide if an application has merit. While they are supposed to be financially self sufficient and good at the adjudication process, there is A. pressure from current administration resulting in rejection of appli
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by esalman 12d ago
‘It wasn’t us, it was a bug in the software’ used to be the defense for bad code. Then it became the defense for self-driving cars. Now it’s being used for AI cyber attacks.
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by esalman 13d ago
Even normies are anti-flock, along with lots of tech savvy people who care about privacy. These are dark days, but Flock and data centers are a couple of things that actually bring people together and take a united stand against something.
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by esalman 13d ago
I'd blame it on liquidity trap. Technology team decided to keep money instead of using it to fix the issue.
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by esalman 13d ago
This was a nice refresh of my economies classes.
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by esalman 14d ago
You don't need to take everyone's vote to influence an election. Look at the data. Most elections are decided by a small percentage of swing votes. With appropriate amount of data and resources (i.e. money) it is possible to swing
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by esalman 15d ago
If these were mere ideas we wouldn't have a problem. On a given day anyone can come up with worse ideas. What makes us separate from animals and thrive as a civilization is that majority of us do not act on our intrusive ideas without
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by esalman 15d ago
Let's be honest, someone hacked Anthropic to build biological weapons. They could easily use a Chinese model but they didn't.
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by esalman 16d ago
Quotes from the man himself: On Democracy and Freedom: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" On Competition: "Competition is for losers" On Technology and Control: "One of the things I like
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by esalman 16d ago
Hard to elect better leaders when you do not have multiple billions of dollars to spend.
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by esalman 17d ago
I work in catastrophe risk modeling and it's a multi billion dollar industry. We often chat where the business might be heading in future. An uncomfortable scenario is what if a frontier tech company decides to offer our customers the
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by esalman 18d ago
I think a more apt analogy is iPhone. You pay Apple for a brand new one, they make more money when you make in-app purchases. Another really important issue is depreciation. You own the car for a few year and eat a cost of depreciation, and
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by esalman 21d ago
He just bombed civilians in the middle east. Current administration is both bombing civilians in the middle east and stealing from civilians in the US.
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by esalman 21d ago
That's what the linked article is talking about. Training for extreme failure. Sure you have self driving cars and everything that make you more and more disconnected, but still highways more dangerous to drive whenever there is a stor
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by esalman 21d ago
The most controversial one I can think of is a school shooting simulator. But I doubt it's live now. Even if there are dark games, they are meant to be parody/satire. Certainly not done in the same spirit what the white house is d
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by esalman 21d ago
Well friend, the current political climate in America might be unprecedented, but is not unique. As someone who lived under a mix of military, monarchy, psudo-democratic and democratic governments for first 30 years of my life, I've se
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by esalman 21d ago
These games are toxic and dark, and would be moderated on a marketplace like Steam. And Steam has fair share of dark games.
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by esalman 22d ago
I see them in many gas stations in SoCal. Irony is unlike this administration, the previous one didn't have much to do with fuel demand spike in first summer after COVID lockdowns.
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by esalman 22d ago
If you let them develop critical thinking skills, it'll actually be easier to reach them.
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by esalman 22d ago
> AI is our best shot at a post-scarcity society Whenever I hear AI (or a token predictor in its current form) will solve some universal problem like hunger etc., a picture comes to my mind. . It's a picture of a mom breaking bricks
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by esalman 23d ago
Incorrect. Ninth circuit ruled in favor of Nevada State, but earlier this year third circuit ruled in favor of Kalshi. So it's going to the Supreme Court. All of the above is completely independent from what Congress can or cannot do.
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by esalman 23d ago
> Keeping younger students away from computers is dumb No. There's proven research that shows reading a book or writing with a pen or pencil is much more stimulating and beneficial compared to looking at a screen or tapping/typ
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by esalman 23d ago
Sports gambling is controlled by FTC in the US. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket found a loophole where they can run gambling operations under CFTC and and not be controlled by FTC. There needs to be some legislative actions fr
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by esalman 24d ago
Not necessarily. The article I linked reported that the white blood cell DNA of the child did not contain Y chromosome. That's different than conducting a survey.
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by esalman 24d ago
Yeah.
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by esalman 25d ago
> it does not matter if Jesus did in fact born from a virgin mother, it is not repeatable, and therefore not scientific https://www.newscientist.com/article/1837276-the-boy-whose-b...
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by esalman 25d ago
Exactly my thoughts. There are people out there claiming code itself has become disposable, and maintenance and refactoring are cheap now. Which escapes the fact that a. all these are heavily subsidized now and unsustainable in the long run

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