pstuart

32 ms·

751.
by pstuart 10mo ago
Agreed. It's important to evaluate policies regardless of the party promoting them.
752.
by pstuart 10mo ago
On a tangential note, this seems ripe for LLM analysis/summarization to digest the legal code down so mere mortals could better understand it. It would also be great for pointing out all the loopholes that have been built in by our own
753.
by pstuart 10mo ago
I expect this to be flagged, which is a pity. It would be valuable to be able to discuss policy without devolving into partisan squabbling. This is effectively about "hacking civilization" and worthy of critical analysis.
754.
by pstuart 10mo ago
This seems to imply that this is the only path to increase standards of living (at least temporarily). It seems more to be a path to greater profits for the mining operations because they can privatize the profits and subsidize the costs. T
755.
by pstuart 10mo ago
But it does affect congressional elections, and despite the effective neutering of the congress, having a majority there is crucial for maintaining power.
756.
by pstuart 10mo ago
It's not just oil, it's minerals too: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5642398-venezuela-...
757.
by pstuart 10mo ago
Indeed. There's plenty of other forms of disenfranchisement (restricted polling access, overly aggressive purging of voter rolls, etc) It's a pity that this is perceived as such a hot-button partisan topic, because that's not
758.
by pstuart 10mo ago
Venezuela is rich in mineral resources as well. Whatever it is the Trump admin is after, it's not democracy, it's some form of self-enrichment.
759.
by pstuart 10mo ago
I wonder if they would have succeeded if they didn't try to go so big so fast. Another thing would have been if they had worked with Black Soldier Flies and focused on sourcing feedstock for them and scaling in a cheaper manner -- chea
760.
by pstuart 10mo ago
I just finished the book. Can't wait to see the movie. My introduction to Andy Weir was The Egg https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html -- which I consider to be a classic.
761.
by pstuart 10mo ago
What market regulators?
762.
by pstuart 10mo ago
There's also the possibility of using various fibers instead of sand.
763.
by pstuart 10mo ago
My take was that he had done enough work and had handed the reins of Go to a capable leader (rsc), and that it was time to step away. Ian Lance Taylor on the other hand appeared to have quit specifically because of the "AI everything&q
764.
by pstuart 10mo ago
That's quite clean, thanks!
765.
by pstuart 10mo ago
The homeless centre should be able to be used as a home address for a job.
766.
by pstuart 10mo ago
> as crime is legal now If they do it, it's not a crime.
767.
by pstuart 10mo ago
As others have mentioned, the administration is staffed and run by loyalists, whose primary skills are flattery and obedience. Back in the day they had true masters of the Dark Arts. The forged letters about Bush's service were incredi
768.
by pstuart 10mo ago
And SQLite is capable enough in many cases too...
769.
by pstuart 10mo ago
Because Trump failed to block an offshore wind farm near his golf course in Scotland. That anger will never leave him.
770.
by pstuart 10mo ago
China seems to be doing well on supply chain integration (with the exception of the trust part). Being how strategic this is, I imagine that the investment won't be entirely laissez faire and there will be lower tolerance for cheating
771.
by pstuart 10mo ago
We are not well-served by treating addiction as simply a matter of will-power and "character". This isn't to say that we don't all bear responsibility for our conduct as best we can, but sometimes it's way more than
772.
by pstuart 10mo ago
Are you a parent? Do you understand the challenges of parenting that includes the fact that "controlling" your child is ultimately impossible? Yes, you can be attentive and engaged, ensure they're mentored and guided, are giv
773.
by pstuart 10mo ago
I understand your concerns about this (living outside Portland OR) but would counter that there's plenty of chaos with the current system. I lost my brother to heroin decades ago and the laws on the books did nothing to prevent it, and
774.
by pstuart 10mo ago
All good -- I just wanted to clarify. Police reform would be simple to implement if we could all agree on what that looked like.
775.
by pstuart 10mo ago
I explicitly stated that it was "more than one" and in no way intimated that it was all cops. One of the simplest things we could do as a country to help mitigate this is to end the War on Drugs. It was never about protecting pe
776.
by pstuart 10mo ago
Sure, but in the context I was considering, creativity itself wasn't a concern. For coding, creativity is not necessarily a good thing. There are well established patterns, algorithms, and applications could reasonably be construed as
777.
by pstuart 11mo ago
In the end it's all about managing the incentives to be aligned -- the exploitation side needs to not consider the discovery side a threat if it challenges their current exploitations.
778.
by pstuart 11mo ago
You're reducing it down too far. Policing has a problem policing itself -- it's very well documented. People take it too far in both directions, but it's safe to say that there's more than one bad actors and the system d
779.
by pstuart 11mo ago
Understood, but it's still a gem.
780.
by pstuart 11mo ago
My poorly informed hope is that that we can have mixture of experts with highly tuned models on areas of focus. If I'm coding in language Foo, I only care about a model that understands Foo and its ecosystem. I imagine that should be s

More ›