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by jleyank 9mo ago
Trump wants to "win" every interaction and receive payola to have things occur. Neither of this is part of a proper international trade network.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
If, however, you consider the academic model, the senior people DO have expertise and experience to solve the problems. In ST, the stale/old knowledge of the bosses probably leads them to asking the computer the correct question. If
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Well, I suspect increasing use of code generation mechanisms will lead to improved design and debugging skills. Practice makes perfect, eh?
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Can Canada join, or has it? Other non-EU countries?
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Germany is used to that, and it never seemed to deter them in the past. Us has a hard time deploying lots of troops vs Europe. Shoulder and truck launched weaponry, 3 shifts, 7 days.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
If the Europeans plus Canada want it to exist, it exists. Otherwise, yeah, scrap heap of history.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
This tariff war also alienates us customers, which isn’t useful to us businesses. Nor to HN startups.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Willful misunderstanding of NATO. The US is committed to defend Greenland as it is now or if it’s theirs. So, I guess, they’ve left NATO just didn’t leave a forwarding address. Time to tell the bully to do quaint anatomical actions with m
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Two ways come to mind re: retirement. Luck/skill into a big payout via startups or tailor a series of jobs to get you a paid-off residence someplace you'd like to live. Carrying a mortgage into retirement is just too much of a f
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Err, at least 3 superpowers as they started with the British back when it was an Empire.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Don't forget things like cutting off trade with the US, or trying to organize a dump of their debt to attack the currency. Or, trying for hack-attacks on key US network components. None of these involve "traditional military&quo
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by jleyank 9mo ago
From Tuchman's The Guns of August: A question that [Brigadier General Henry] Wilson asked of [General Ferdinand] Foch during his second visit in January 1910, evoked an answer which expressed in one sentence the problem of the alliance
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by jleyank 9mo ago
People better pay attention to this issue if they want to work in the tech field. How the US interacts with its associates governs how products can be marketed, how staffing can be done, how money can be raised, … pretty much everything of
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by jleyank 9mo ago
When we lived in Cal decades ago, taxes weren't all that much lower. Federal taxes and state taxes (higher) on a larger salary, lots of social security and other fiddly little taxes and 100-200/check for 20% of my health insuranc
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by jleyank 10mo ago
So can being male, as it's a mostly-female condition. Fortunately, there are a number of treatments that can arrest the process without excessive risk profiles (both large and small molecules). It's been a VERY active research a
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by jleyank 10mo ago
In a consumer economy, people have to have the free cash to consume. Today, we call them workers. If they’re displaced, there’s going to be a hell of a lot of corporate taxes or trashed machines. I’d bet on the latter.
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by jleyank 10mo ago
I would think think trying to talk-work in a cube farm will lead to mayhem. Perhaps phrasing AI queries is "easy", but coding/debugging usually profits from peace and quiet.
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by jleyank 10mo ago
Yeah, if they’re particularly good at integration, debugging and perhaps copyright law.
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by jleyank 10mo ago
Don’t know his street/ice floe address, but his postal code here in Canada is H0H 0H0.
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by jleyank 10mo ago
I hope there's a bit of a pissing contest banning people on each side based on commentary, hair colour, ... Perhaps the US administration will "go nuclear" and get rid of the visa waver program?
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by jleyank 10mo ago
How about foreign made computer chips and gear? Aren’t they risks, or do Apple, Samsung et al pay enough to keep being sold? But as bathroom cabinets have been declared security risks, I think the definition is somewhat loose. Would it not
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by jleyank 10mo ago
They already had a pill form of Ozempic (Rybelsus). They probably just had to formulate and test a pill with 2-4x the payload to get it approved. Might have worked a patent extension in as well. Check what the status of the pill form is
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by jleyank 10mo ago
Ships and planes look like they do to avoid providing radar return. The old aesthetics had lots of right angles and sharp edges that lit up radar screens quite well. If the Prez is going to throw away stealth, he’s right that everybody wi
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by jleyank 10mo ago
People are mobile. Push them hard enough and they'll just go elsewhere when presented the chance. They're seeing this with OB/GYN medical people, and it's just going to get worse if there's no correction in behavi
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by jleyank 10mo ago
It's all well and good saying that migrants and other lower-income workers have to go somewhere else, but who will take their place doing that lower-income often distasteful work? Somebody has to work in the fields, clean commodes, di
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by jleyank 10mo ago
Uni life was quite good. Lots of people nearby with similar interests, fair bit of free time, lots of diversions (concerts, radio, computers, ...) and not a significant drag on my time. There has not been a time since then with less respo
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by jleyank 10mo ago
Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis (sez Wikipedia) developed Usenet (on top of UUCP) in the 78-80 time frame. The folks who did Kermit also probably deserve mention as that was quite important as modems became affordable and networking spread.
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by jleyank 10mo ago
I could see things being banned if they mask other substances that are banned and effective (or active). Like eating poppy seed bagels is supposed to mask opiats, etc. Safety issues, perhaps. Fragments from digestion might look like small
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by jleyank 10mo ago
They’re going to play the games in countries they aren’t all that fond of footy (US, Canada) with very high ticket prices. In the case of the US, fan access is going to be expensive and difficult. So I hope the tv contracts are good as the
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by jleyank 10mo ago
If they’re no longer a major academic funding source, the academic meetings will move to where funding sources exist. Little point schmoozing where you can’t get money and might not be able to get workers. Will take a while for the schedu

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