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by onetimeusename 1y ago
There's so few seats at these schools we could fill them with Americans and not notice a difference is my belief. We're talking about single digit acceptance rates where it's probably hard to distinguish students who apply at
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There are articles about Israel planning for Gazans to emigrate for months. The idea is they would 'voluntarily' emigrate to several African countries Israel made deals with. So I think that is more proof the starvation is deliber
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I think it's a form of Gell-Mann Amnesia. The NYT article is not sufficiently critical (of something) so it is government propaganda but in other times and places the NYT was not propaganda.
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Something I am curious about is Cambridge's reputation today for sciences. A lot of pretty famous British mathematicians have done the Tripos part III there. Is that still considered meaningful? I am asking because many US mathematics
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Ok that may be true but I would also argue there is such a thing as elite overproduction[1] via immigration. That is, we are basically importing a new elite for a fixed number of roles in society. Let's presume also that the children o
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I had a job where everything was self hosted and some things custom made and the company abandoned it and moved everything to cloud providers. We had internal IRC and XMPP servers, internal accounting apps, wikis, etc. and moved it all. We
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If that is what they wanted, why hide it behind language about child safety? These bills happen in the US too, nearly identical to the ones in Europe. I don't think this is about stopping crime at all. I think people in the political c
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That's kind of what I think but feel free to poke holes. It seems like there are three tiers. There's a closed off top tier of kids who get into top ranked universities. They go to highly ranked schools like selective high schools
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Heh. Ok I think it seems like there is a vested interest in maintaining and expanding what I will call multiculturalism. Like on the one hand we get people with power saying things like "we have to solve the problem at it's root&q
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What are some solutions to the complicated problems? I don't mean to put words in your mouth but what you are describing is an anti-Fascist worldview. To be clear, that means you believe Hitler-esque figures and fascism leading to mass
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I would probably agree and I don't even know what our moral doctrine is anymore. Not only is it unclear during some presidency, but it changes dramatically between presidencies. However right or wrong, my two points are slightly orthog
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>It starts to look less like a principled stand on legal consistency and more like a cultural preference. I think there's an implicit cultural preference when people argue in favor of more immigration though. It's also just ass
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The US used to post videos of ISIS being blown up for propaganda purposes since ISIS loved to release their own snuff flicks. The cartels also love video propaganda. Venezuela is an actual enemy of the US, it just hasn't sunk in. They
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There's something about this I think is illuminating. I don't think the social issues fall into partisan politics. It's like we've abstracted away people into something like a corporate entity. Even in large residence bu
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I'm not sure that's it. It's a contradiction that we have social media where people share their lives and that people are risk averse to having videos made of themselves.
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McCarthyism is generally when someone in power abuses their authority to accuse others without evidence, often for a personal vendetta. A wide-ranging investigation that goes beyond it's scope is carried out. An atmosphere of fear is c
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Why do you say that? What makes you say this is McCarthyism which was an accusation made against people in the House? I read the article and it says they are opening a probe into foreign influence peddling and people receiving taxpayer fund
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> They pay for themselves in a couple of years (even without subsidies) Do you have a source on this?
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That was what I was arguing against. It seems like people cannot stop themselves from making this about Trump. I guess he does that himself though. The problem with saying he was shitting on the CHIPS Act is that Biden himself didn't e
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I think it's simpler than that. I think US intelligence is looking to make sure a secure supply chain exists for AI and really that just means NVDA's chips. I have never stated at any point this plan would work well. This is all s
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I'm not sure they need to claim Intel as eminent domain and that type of move is beyond what I know about but I suppose they could've done that previously but opted instead for market based solutions like with the CHIPS Act. That
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The other day when the US's stake in Intel was announced, people assumed it was a political stunt. I suspected it was because of national security interests. The CHIPS act probably didn't get the result US Defense wanted quickly e
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I am not sure about this. There was a chip shortage from Taiwan a few years ago that led to an auto shortage https://www.npr.org/2021/04/28/991270369/taiwan-races-to-rem...
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I don't think that's the point of legacy admissions. I think it's purpose is exactly what the grandparent said which is to cultivate a network of people. The problem with saying legacy preference is to take the place of highe
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Let's say two people are applying to Harvard and it's the year 2019 (I think they stopped legacy admissions recently). They both have a 1550 and 4.3 GPA. Both went to good high schools. Both helped underprivileged youths learn to
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This is my thought on it too. I don't think this is meant to be a political win so much as US intelligence views chip manufacturing extremely strategically. I also don't know about what will happen to TSMC. But the US has been pus
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Ending anonymous banking like in Switzerland was a major objective for the US. They said it was because it allowed money laundering for terrorists. People will get upset when the government talks about ending encryption in order to stop te
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> I would rather have garden variety criminals and a trustworthy government fighting them What do you count as garden variety here and what makes you say the government is trustworthy? I think law enforcement has become extremely bureauc
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No, that's not accurate. The Supreme Court of the UK was established in 2009 so I was off by a year. That would have been under Gordon Brown.
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Why does this increase the likelihood of a (written I assume) constitution? I remember I saw a thing about David Cameron talking about wanting one. I think he also created a Supreme Court. I read into it and it seemed like there was no real

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