jmyeet

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by jmyeet 2mo ago
This administration is clearly on a war against immigration of all sorts but... we need to be accurate here. This is specifically a pause on immigrant visas. That is, green cards. So this is for family-based green cards and investor green
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This has likely been the case as long as jobs have existed. Some CEOs spend their entire time tweeting, apparently. The way any large company works, and this includes all the big tech companies, is that they end up in a state of constant ch
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The ACA tried to address this sort of thing with a Medical Loss Ratio [1]. This basically meant that 80% of premiums had to be spent on healthcare. This has two obvious flaws: 1. Certain government contracts are what are called "cost p
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The media is trying to manufacturer consent for a deeply unpopular war of choice that has already been lost. That's so weird . Why would Iran do this? They've already won. Nothing will change the fact that this war has been a com
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This is a real pancakes and waffles moment. God, the Internet sucks some times. Where did I say "only"? As best as I can tell ~40% of Canada's exports to the US are energy, making it the most dominant export sector by far. On
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Which is just over 10% of Canada's oil exports. How does that invalidate my point? Also, I explicitly said "energy". That includes electricity (you can't export that anywhere else really) and natural gas (almost all of w
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
After WW2, the US largely designed the new world order for its own benefit. It became the world's arms dealer, the US dollar became the world's reserve currency and it had effective control of the world's financial system. An
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Unfortunately for Canada, you guys have screwed up. Why? Because you're completely dependent on the US for energy exports. All that oil you dig up and turn the landscape into the Moon for goes out via pipes to the US from where it&#x27
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
You need to realize just how performative most votes in Congress are. The Democrats, for example, will vote for all sorts of progressive policies when they know they won't pass. For example, Kamala Harris was a co-sponsor on a Medicare
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I really don't want people to be left with the impresion that this is Democratic Party incompetence. It is not. They are complicit in pretty much everything the Trump administration has been doing. They know what works. Just do what Ob
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This is the problem I run into with technical people discussing the law all the time and I mean this constructively: stop trying to figure out technical workarounds or look for technical compliance. So much of the law comes down to subjecti
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First, the law applicable here is 18 USC § 2232 [1]: > (a)Destruction or Removal of Property To Prevent Seizure.— > Whoever, before, during, or after any search for or seizure of property by any person authorized to make such search o
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Except that's not going to happen because evidence spoliation (legal term) is a crime. And that's what he did. You can say it shouldn't be but it is. This is slam dunk and it happens all the time. It's the same crime as
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
I used a very specific word for a very specific reason. That word was "spoliation". It is a legal word. It means destroying evidence but it means more than that. If you're the subject of a lawful search and you destroy eviden
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
I don't agree with all this and this increasingly fascist regime but... this was the most predictable outcome. Consider these two scenarios. 1. You factory reset your phone before entering the US and give it to CBP blank. There's
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
The GIF patent is a big one [1]. It's the entire reason we got PNG as a format. [1]: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/lpf/Patents/Gif/Gi...
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
It's funny you mention that because this exact same issue has come up in war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. What a producer will do now is hedge their risk. They do this by forward-selling their product, in this case
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
In 100 years nobody will know who you were. In 200 years, only a few hundred people will be remembered from today. So what is the goal of your ambition? Is it the self-satisfaction? Temporary bragging rights that will be soon forgotten? Wha
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
This is a fascinating story. Thanks for posting it. That email you accidentally received really bothers me. I don't understand why a CS rep would get this invested to the point of wanting to cause you real harm. They're not the ai
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It's been about 20 years since I read Neal Stephenson's Anathem and (SPOILERS) one thing I think about is the Reticulum, which is the Internet on this world. One aspect is that it's full of what we would now call slop. A lo
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Years ago I saw an article on this. For Google Books, they had two processes. The first was destructive. This was for mainstream books currently being published so they had no value. It's (I believe) where you cut off the spine and sca
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Here are the changes in the two parties in the last century: 1. FDR made concessions to the working class in the Great Depression to stave off a communist revolution and protect the status quo. Yet this earned the Democratic Party almost un
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Beside the mass surveillance issues that are very real, let me just add that HOAs need to be made illegal except for condo buildings that obviously need to maintain and manage that building. There is absolutely no reason why a single family
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The idea that the GOP was ever about "fiscal restraint" is one of the most successful propaganda exercises ever because this hasn't been true since probably the Eisenhower administration. What's funny is that this era (t
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Whenever I hear someone in a privileged job, such as a software engineer, complain about unions or collective bargaining or in fact any form of collectivism, I have to suppress my rage because every concession to the working class, such as
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
I partly agree with this but I don't think it addresses the root cause sufficiently. And that is (IMHO) the hoarding of land. What the UK actually needs to do is land reform. All these duchies (etc) need to be dissolved and returned to
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
IMHO it comes down to the Housing Theory of Everything [1]. The UK doesn't produce anything anymore. The best returns on investment aren't in productive output. They're in hoarding land. This is exacerbated by an anachronisti
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You do know the other major parties didn't run a candidate right? The point was to demonstrate that this byelection was just theatrics by Farage to distract from the ethics investigation into the 5 million pounds. I think some, and may
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The issue here is that EVs tend to be charged when the sun is down. When sun is up you tend to be at work or driving. The surplus power is coming from solar.
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There's a lot of rosy or false assumptions here. For example, if every road vehicle became an EV tomorrow, global oil demand would drop from 100M barrels per day ("Mbpd") to... ~60M. And that assumes EV replacements for thing

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