rayiner

30 ms·

571.
by rayiner 4mo ago
What's "ethical" is literally a political and philosophical question. There is no objective answer to that.
572.
by rayiner 4mo ago
It's remarkable that this article talks about Tammany Hall, Plato, and MAGA, without mentioning the throughline among them: immigration. Tammany Hall’s peak century coincided with mass immigration: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
573.
by rayiner 4mo ago
Tried this for a legal use case and it was excellent, comparable to Opus in quality but much faster. AI is miles behind in law compared to coding: the output was similar to a law student intern. But coherent and directionally correct and be
574.
by rayiner 4mo ago
The agencies are not charged with pursuing a maximalist version of some open-ended “mission.” They are charged with enforcing the law. Congress understands that such enforcement involves compromises and tradeoffs and delegated authority to
575.
by rayiner 4mo ago
> Surely there's a better way to filter out risky blood It's simple Bayesian probability. Blood tests have a relatively high error rate. Hep-B tests have a 6-12% false negative rate early in the disease, and Hep-C is 3-6% even
576.
by rayiner 4mo ago
In any economy, there is a slider you can move to make tradeoffs between environmental protection and ease of doing business. The parties openly campaign on moving the slider in one direction or the other. Regulating PFAS would have a major
577.
by rayiner 4mo ago
It's not a "conspiracy." The way our government is currently structured, we have a permanent bureaucracy that mostly runs things. And there is a robust revolving door between them and the industry. While they'll take dra
578.
by rayiner 4mo ago
The EPA first issued health advisories around PFASs in 2009. Why didn’t these folks file this petition sometime during the 12 years since then where it likely would’ve gotten a more favorable reception?
579.
by rayiner 4mo ago
Yeah, my wife speaks German and can easily understand Swedish (and probably Norwegian). There’s not a big cultural and linguistic for a Norwegian to come into a German company. It’s like an Australian coming into an American company.
580.
by rayiner 4mo ago
The word you’re looking for is ethnogenisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnogenesis . There is no “American” ethnicity, though “white people” might come close to being considered a synthetic ethnicity resulting from
581.
by rayiner 4mo ago
The United States is a distinct legal entity, not a label for an area of land. Native Americans have never been the dominant ethnicity of the United States.
582.
by rayiner 4mo ago
> Story 2: In an international working environment, German may not matter much at the IC level. But I’ve seen countless situations where Germans exchange a glance with each other, and suddenly the final decision is not what was agreed up
583.
by rayiner 4mo ago
Yeah, Ottoman rule sucked.
584.
by rayiner 4mo ago
"Better off" is too vague a criterion because it suggests some comparison with a counter-factual hypothetical. Instead, I think it's important to observe that the modern organs of state, rule of law, etc., were developed unde
585.
by rayiner 4mo ago
That's not how it works. Egypt is not a closed country. International organizations can get in and get numbers. It's also worth keeping in mind that many European countries, and every non-European country that's now developed
586.
by rayiner 4mo ago
The twenty something guys in my neighborhood set off fireworks from a small boat in the river behind my house. Same guys took an ATV out on the ice when the river froze this winter. They haven’t died yet! I draw the line at setting the tind
587.
by rayiner 4mo ago
Are Corey Booker, Wes Moore, and Jared Polis rich?
588.
by rayiner 4mo ago
What meaningful complaint can you have about a meeting that includes Ted Cruz on one side and Wes Moore on the other; both Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman?
589.
by rayiner 4mo ago
Imagine Europe importing natural gas from Putin through 2027.
590.
by rayiner 4mo ago
The politics of AI replacement are going to be brutal. After sneering “go to college” to the people whose jobs were shipped to China, I can’t imagine white collar workers will get much sympathy when their jobs are replaced by AI.
591.
by rayiner 4mo ago
That would be a fair criticism if the post I was responding to wasn’t specifically about immigration.
592.
by rayiner 4mo ago
It had turned into a state department front that was getting people killed by interfering in domestic politics. Even Mexico’s President, who is one of Trump’s strongest critics, agreed with that move: https://www.newsweek.com&#x2
593.
by rayiner 4mo ago
I have a Starlink shout out! My brother in law worked on a salmon fishing boat in Alaska a couple of summers ago. They are at sea for weeks and keep fishing until the boat is full. He's done crabbing trips before and was basically out
594.
by rayiner 4mo ago
I swam in the lake with my family (including a baby) just a few years ago. Once you got used to the fly larvae (“brine shrimp”) it was fine. People swim at coney island and smelly little southern creeks. It’s no big deal.
595.
by rayiner 4mo ago
No, it was always like that. It's an Endorheic lake that formed 16,800 years ago and has been evaporating ever since. The water was not usable for anything when the Mormons arrived in 1847, which is why no meaningful settlements ever a
596.
by rayiner 4mo ago
I wonder if part of this is also failing to consider the acoustic effect of loud sounds in enclosed spaces. Guns don’t sound nearly as loud if you only shoot outside.
597.
by rayiner 4mo ago
> Demand". What kind of government would you like I think many americans on both sides sides of the aisle are in the mood for a government that demands a stake rather than asking nicely. If there’s a loser in the last 10 years of po
598.
by rayiner 4mo ago
Wouldn’t the solution to that be for the government to also demand a 5% stake in every AI company? Along the lines of what Sanders wants to do?
599.
by rayiner 4mo ago
Writing a new X server from scratch would have been an enormous undertaking two decades ago. (Keith Packard did Kdrive but he’s literally the foremost expert on X11.) Part of what motivated Wayland was the difficulty of maintaining the X se
600.
by rayiner 4mo ago
You're ignoring the context of the point--it's not about "bragging." We were discussing the quote above that someone is "disenfranchised" by adhering to the original meaning of the constitution "roughly in

More ›