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by heylook 1y ago
Except judges can't do anything proactively and are forced to rely on the executive to enforce their decisions and the legislative to fund them. Really, they're absolutely nothing like a monarch. Especially compared to the guy who
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by heylook 1y ago
That's just not true. This case is a specific example of exactly the opposite. Read the opinion. It's literally a panel of federal court judges, one a Trump appointee, going through each justification and calling bullshit on each
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by heylook 1y ago
So many people in here are making the same mistake. The whole purpose of the courts is to decide whether some behavior does or does not fit within the confines of some statute. They don't just say "oh yeah whatever you say, go ahe
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by heylook 1y ago
This is covered in the ruling. The courts get to decide whether the executive's use of delegated legislative power (levying taxes) is both constitutional and within the bounds of the relevant legislation. They don't simply take th
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by heylook 1y ago
> Chrome isn't there to play dirty, it's there so competitors can't. Like Manifest V3, which explicitly makes it harder to strip out Google's own ad products on websites you visit? > without Google all that BS woul
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by heylook 1y ago
Chesterton's fence is undefeated.
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by heylook 1y ago
> You seem to be arguing that the second government touches anything then everything it does gets credited to the government funding column. Absolutely not. This is an obvious bad faith interpretation of my comment. > Either way the f
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by heylook 1y ago
Nope. Wholehearted rejection of literally every policy, executive order, layoff, lawsuit, impoundment, appointment that this technofascist wannabe tries to pull. The constitution spells out how he can accomplish his goals, and everything he
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by heylook 1y ago
> I think their point is the billions in private investment which preceded those millions. But the "billions" didn't precede the "millions". They're just completely incorrect, and anyone that knows even a ti
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by heylook 1y ago
> If an LLM happens to know the answer to your question You're missing the point. It doesn't "know" anything. The only thing it can "know" is the statistical relationships between tokens in its dataset. It d
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by heylook 1y ago
Yep. > [learning a language is] only helpful for high professional tasks or close literary study or prestige. This is a person who doesn't understand actual face-to-face communication, like, at all. Even though translation apps are
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by heylook 2y ago
Or amazing.
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by heylook 2y ago
> Samsung and Intel are pretty comparable in manufacturing capability, within a couple of years really. Thank you for making it so easy to completely ignore the rest of your comment.
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by heylook 2y ago
You seem to believe that military networks are slapped together with off-the-shelf SaaS apps, or that military software contracts don't specify that all that "e.g. for analytics" crap has to be pulled out of the build, or tha
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by heylook 2y ago
https://www.aaiusa.org/library/disinformation-campaigns-aime... : Almost daily, Michigan’s Arab Americans voters in precincts of heavy concentration are receiving glossy mailings with messages like: “Kamala Harris and D
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by heylook 2y ago
> They prefer mature, well-designed, and reliable products because it's a matter of life and death - and development takes years. First, the history of chip design and manufacturing is the history of modern weapons design[0]. As l
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by heylook 2y ago
> I think the idea is that with some wealth redistribution (taxes) free trade allows domestic companies to bring in larger revenues which would contribute to...
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by heylook 2y ago
> Procedurally generated levels tend to not invite repeated playthroughs. I agree with your broader point about low confidence in an AI-powered quantum leap, but in my experience this point about repeated playthroughs is actually backwar
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by heylook 2y ago
Yes. This is the standard approach going back at least as far as the first Diablo: https://www.boristhebrave.com/2019/07/14/dungeon-generation-...
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by heylook 2y ago
Too many PhDs... in biochemistry...?
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by heylook 2y ago
...subsidized housing, normalized sabbaticals, teaching a course that uses the textbook you yourself wrote...
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by heylook 2y ago
> If a tech company has to make rapid cuts, it will lay off engineers. In my experience, they'll try find literally anyone else they can before laying off engineers. Both times I've been a part of it was like 10-20% of laid off
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by heylook 2y ago
> The president isn't in alignment with Gender Ideology or "wokeness" as is often put. The large majority of these programs support those ideas. When you say "large majority", do you have any evidence or data to
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by heylook 2y ago
> I believe that the electoral system prevents a candidate from say, simply winning all of the urban areas, or exploiting some similar demographic divide that would could exist in a pure popular vote system. What about simply winning all
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by heylook 2y ago
> Tariffs are a terrible idea though, but would take them if we got rid of the income tax. $4,700,000,000,000 income taxes $...100,000,000,000 tariffs
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by heylook 2y ago
Dude, what is wrong with you? Tens of thousands of real, human people trying to support tens of thousands of real, human families. That's what your joke is about.
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by heylook 2y ago
> To put some numbers on it, to add a column of data to the system I worked on required on average about 20k hours of coding work. 20,000 hours is 10 years of full-time work for a single person. If you "didn't work with this sy
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by heylook 2y ago
Orrrrrrr you misunderstood and have been doubling down repeatedly when the real numbers are literally on the same screen as your comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121043 >>>>>>>>> Gu
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by heylook 2y ago
> Term limits lead to institutional knowledge and skills being concentrated in unelected staffers and lobbyists. Who cares? They don't get to cast the votes.
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by heylook 2y ago
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