jakeinspace

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by jakeinspace 2y ago
My understanding of the relevant law and legal precedent is that since revoking a green card and deporting someone is not technically a criminal penalty, it may be constitutional for the government to so. Reno vs AADC went to SCOTUS in 1999
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Retaliatory tarrifs are something like MAD. Tarrifs are bad for both countries. Yes, Canada placing retaliatory tarrifs hurts Canadian consumers, but it also hurts American exporters. The alternative, doing nothing, would in some sense be p
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Not a great idea to enter this brave new geological world by shedding Turkey from your alliance.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Ah but you see, I am on my phone and very lazy.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Because if there are multiple inverted units, you'd need to add parentheses to put them all in the denominator. Tidily giving each a ^-1 is clearer (especially with superscript exponents).
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
It's easy to imagine that we'll have fallen off the precipice well before you or I can definitively say "this is the moment, democracy is at stake, we must go to the streets."
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
There is no free-market libertarian argument I've ever seen that fixes the problem of monopoly being a fixed point. Monopolies can out-compete others through economies of scale, and then use that concentrated wealth to exert control. A
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
This money is given away entirely for self interest. I'm not necessarily opposed to retracting soft power, but I am annoyed when the right is so ignorant about what these programs are. They are not generosity for generosities sake. The
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Those are different claims. I don't exactly know what frailty means technically, but this was a 5 year study on the elderly. Preserving organ health with a lifetime of omega 3 consumption is totally different.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
First, Trump voters didn't exactly vote for this, at least not many. Identify politics and owning the libs, sure, but I'd say that a minority of his voters wanted to totally dismantle the administrative state - or if they thought
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
The bottom 50% own 2.4% of American wealth [1], while paying 3% of taxes. That, to me, is regressive. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSB50215
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Don't become the very thing you claim to hate!
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
What still has value when intellectual/knowledge work becomes free? 1) Land 2) Natural Resources 3) Energy 4) Weapons 5) Physical/in-person Labour That means that, unless there are big societal changes, you better have at least a
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Rename to equally reasonable variable names, or to intentionally misleading or meaningless ones? Good naming is one of the best ways to make reading unfamiliar code easier for people, don't see why actual AGI wouldn't also get tri
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
$44 billion
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Sure, I guess he wasn’t waving the nuclear football around, but give him time. He does have a flair for the dramatic and ridiculous.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
If someone makes off-hand threats to another while brandishing a gun, that’s illegal (assault) and condemnable. The (soon) president of the US wields nuclear weapons and the most powerful military on earth, his words by default cary the thr
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
I think control of shipping channels (northwest passage especially), natural deep water ports, and military installations are the main potential values. The oil and gas will likely never have much value, since by the time they’re thawed, t
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Definitely disagree with your binary of options, but if I do accept them, why would scenario 2 justify investing? That scenario sounds to me like a likely societal collapse, rendering any investment moot. Even it it’s not some terminator or
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Yes, but also we need some more direct incentive for new construction. Real estate as investment property at least used to drive supply. We need massive (tax/interest rate/zoning) incentives for high density construction, both in
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
That doesn’t have value against nation state actors.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Chinese registered, but operated by a russian crew and company I believe.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
You’ve posted this site 4 times in the 6 days since your account was created, it’s an ad
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
This is an ad
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Is there a link you could provide to as study? Curious about the methodology for measuring these things.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
It was successful clearly, not disagreeing with that. So were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My point was more that this is a truly significant line that has been crossed for the first time by a major military at this scale. People comparing this
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
It’s a very small place
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Unlike stuxnet, this attack had a lot of non-hezbolah civilian casualties. It’s "targeted" in a sense, but not really much more targeted than a drive-by assassination attempt. Anybody close to these people could have sustained ser
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
98% sure these were booby trapped with plastic explosives or similar, meaning it’s a supply chain attack more than a cyber attack. LiPos exploding would be more sizzle and less instant boom, you can’t just hack your way through thermal runa
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Is… Snowden Jesus? And Tim Berners Lee Moses? Or perhaps Jobs was Moses, and Xerox PARC was the burning bush?

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