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by estearum 4mo ago
strawmen are fun and helpful
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by estearum 4mo ago
Well then unfortunately you just have no clue what you’re talking about. The notion that the CIA is “not limited” by checks and balances is beyond laughable. How many people have you met who work there? Ever talked with someone about the li
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by estearum 4mo ago
No no, the snide response works because this shutdown was a violation of aforementioned system. Downstream discussions on “oh hurrr ummm how do we decide what’s worth spending money on?!” are irrelevant. We already have a system to do th
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by estearum 4mo ago
Yes, I do. Perhaps you mean to say: I don't see it eliminating their misconduct and behavior.
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by estearum 4mo ago
Data be damned then! Good point.
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by estearum 4mo ago
Oh no, it's not because I don't understand the civic structure of my society. It's because your comment is poorly written. Want to give it another shot?
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by estearum 4mo ago
I can't understand what you're trying to say.
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by estearum 4mo ago
"The courts" writ large are doing just fine. SCOTUS in particular is a cesspool, but that is not the typical situation at all. And in any case, an imperfect adversarial judicial system is dramatically better than whatever la-la-la
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by estearum 4mo ago
Agreed that money should be virtually eliminated from the system. That said, people actually tend to be pretty satisfied with their representatives. It's the other Congresspeople who suck.
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by estearum 4mo ago
> But at that point you’re just in an argument over which public services are most important to whom. Would be an interesting exercise to poll the public. We could probably break the country up into a bunch of districts, then have them v
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by estearum 4mo ago
Collecting and distributing weather data is a canonical example of a government function, even for the most ardent pro-market believers out there. I almost wrote "even for the most asinine pro-market believers," but that's no
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by estearum 4mo ago
> CIA regulates itself with its own supervision too That's not true lol. There is a gigantic supervisory apparatus constantly breathing down the IC's neck, including but not limited to your very own elected Congressperson'
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by estearum 4mo ago
Private companies can pay for their own data collection and if they have a dispute with the government's analysis, they can go to court. Who exactly is going to pay for these non-governmental independent data collection/analysis e
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by estearum 4mo ago
www.sam.gov knock yourself out
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by estearum 4mo ago
Also: https://sam.gov/
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by estearum 4mo ago
no no, they mean some other thing, which is different in totally unexplainable ways and – most importantly – doesn't make one feel stupid for not knowing it existed
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by estearum 4mo ago
> How can you ever trust LLM to respect the bounderies provided by these magical, non-deterministic intructions files.. Putting it in ALL CAPS!
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by estearum 4mo ago
Just copy/paste my first comment back here
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by estearum 4mo ago
Uhhh no. I was pointing out the fallacy of GP portraying “government” outcomes (they’re the only ones that made a blanket statement) as somehow characteristically not generated by marketplace victories. Actually many forms of government m
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by estearum 4mo ago
Are you attempting to make an argument? Because just off-handedly referencing topic-du-jour doesn't exactly achieve that.
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by estearum 4mo ago
That's easily like a what... $10 million/year market? Checks out! (Only being snarky, obviously as a consumer it's great to have an option like this)
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by estearum 4mo ago
Wifi on Delta has worked spectacularly well (not sarcastic) for like 10 years now. It's been broken/unavailable on maybe 6 of my flights out of hundreds.
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by estearum 4mo ago
You know the point of democracy is that the government is also run by people who've proven themselves in a marketplace, right? It's just one where having more money doesn't entitle you to vastly more power, which is, you know
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by estearum 4mo ago
I'm quite confident that the error was: "Despite potential warning signs, we believe Sam to be an ethical person" and not "We know that Sam is an unethical person, but that's either not a problem, or an actual asset
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by estearum 4mo ago
Those are definitely not entirely orthogonal. Especially in business where most unethical behavior starts with or is sustained by deception – which is itself unethical – the two are very much related.
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by estearum 4mo ago
Yes, by and large the vast majority of the thousands of companies that YC invests in are probably behaving within ethical boundaries. While there's no shortage of horror stories and I think greater scrutiny/criticism is warranted,
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by estearum 4mo ago
Not sure what this has to do with Sam being hired at YC 10 years ago
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by estearum 4mo ago
Or unethical people are hard to spot, in part due to, you know... their lack of ethics.
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by estearum 4mo ago
I 100% guarantee that this was forbidden by the contract the employee signed.
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by estearum 4mo ago
Sure? That's also bad.

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