jmyeet

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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Yes [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341984
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
It's this kind of incident that gives me faith that the military isn't hiding aliens and in fact pretty much any grand conspiracy that requires secrecy across a large group of people for long periods of time can pretty much be dis
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
First, IL-7 was nothing like it was in 2024. What are you talking about? In 2024, a 14 term incumbent, Danny Davis, was seeking reelection. Now there's some noise here because IL-7 changed in the 2021 redistricting and became more Demo
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
That's a long way of saying "Kat ran a better campaign". I have criticisms of her campaign, specifically 1. She was a carpet-bagger (as you said). She moved in Illinois in 2024 I believe; 2. She initially ran in a district sh
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Did you miss the part where I said that the AIPAC and AIPAC-affiliated PAC spending never mentions Israel?
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
You can't talk about what happened in the Illinois primaries without talking about the other PACs who spent big, specifically AIPAC and other dark-money Israel-affiliated PACs that spent to defeat pro-Palestinian candidates (eg Kat Abu
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
I love the Afroman story so much. Everything about it. It does more to expose just how incompetent, entitled and corrupt the average cop really is, something I wish was better known. The cops who brought this suit are basically the biggest
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
Let me outline how broken policing is an institution in the US: 1. Cops are generally stupid and untrained. You just had to watch them testify in the Afroman trial and you might think "geez these guys aren't the brightest bulbs&qu
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
There's no reason for houses to be as expensive as they are. They are expensive because we've created incentives to make them more expensive. This is because we treat houses as investments, allow people to hoard housing, build the
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
> To start - your 'very first example' is not even really 'a problem'. Yes, it is. Anywhere with significant and strong rent control results in a large number of people who simply cannot move. Look, rent control is be
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
Fundamentally as a society we need to stop treating housing as an investment. It is and should be a utility. Suring property prices is a relatively new phenomenon (as in, post-WW2). The true origins of NIMBYism, at least in the US, is (you
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
Rent control is the wrong solution to the right problem (ie affordable housing). It creates all sorts of problems that wouldn't exist otherwise. For example, if you've been in a rent control house or apartment for 10+ years and ar
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
So pretty much everything you've said here is wrong. Build more housing? In a place like Austin, you can just keep building out, basically. To a point. Eventually cities doing this reach a limit. Houston and Atlanta are pretty much at
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
I find how technology changes warfare to be fascinating. Usually the impact isn't fully predicted beforehand. The American Civil War was defined by being the first large-scale war fought with accurate long range rifles and the casualti
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
What do we do? We treat platforms with algorithmic news feeds as publishers not platforms in the Section 230 sense. Think about it this way: imagine if you took a million random posts or videos. You would find a wide range of political
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
If this were true, every tech job would've been offshored already. The idea that offshoring is strictly better and cheaper is a myth that's yet to be realized since the 1990s. Just like RTO mandates and layoffs, it's just ano
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
Ok, this is wrong but it's not your fault for believing it because for reasons I can't really fathom, nobody talks about it. There were several causes to the massive Covid inflation spike but the biggest factor was actually supply
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
This theory is called panspermia [1] and it has several alternatives. One of the most extreme is that in the very early Universe, these building blocks could spread easily because the ambient temperature of the Universe was significantly hi
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
This conversation is incomplete without bringing up transhumanism [1], which is basically just Silicon Valley themed eugenics [2]. It is the belief by SV billionaires that their genes are superior and their goal is to "gift" those
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
Any analysis that frames this as a productivity or talent-attraction issue is flawed from the start because that was never the point and still isn't. The point of RTO mandates is to suppress wages . It's to get people to quit rat
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
I'm wondering how long it's going to take people to see the bigger picture and start connecting the dots. "Prediction markets" (which is just gambling) are not an isolated phenomenon. It's simply a natural step is t
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
If you can't recognize how much simpler the simplified version is, I'm not sure exactly what to tell you. But let's think about it in terms of assembly steps: 1. Multiply the input by itself 2. Add 1 3. Take the square root.
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
I think "simplify" is pretty clear here. For trigonometric functions you would expect a trig function and an inverse trig function to be simplified. We all know what we'd expect if we saw sin(arcsin(x)) (ie x). If we saw cos(
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
So there are two basic versions of UBI: 1. The right-wing UBI is a tool to dismantle the social safety net. The idea of the likes of Milton Friedman is to replace all social safety programs with UBI. This doesn't make sense because, fo
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
By any metric, yes, the US has killed more people and caused more harm than Iran by orders of magnitude.
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
I bought a PC in early 2021 IIRC. It was good for the time and a good deal for a high end PC. IIRC it was $2800 and had a 6900 XTX. Last year I accidentally killed it. The CPU temps were higher than I'd like (~85C). the thermal grease
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
This situation would be laughable if the consequences weren't so dire. I have problems adequately stating just how incompetent and ill-thought out this entire misadventure was. I say this because everything that's happened has bee
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
> You expect America to adopt a one-way obligation where it provides for the defense of its allies, and receives no help in return? Why wouldn't that deal fall apart? If I drop you into a war zone and don't give you a gun, don&
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
> You can't simultaneously argue that NATO is a "protection racket" for the US to sell weapons and control European foreign policy, and also argue that the EU would be in trouble without the current levels of US participat

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