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by rayiner 1mo ago
There was DOJ prosecution under the Biden administration: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx28x187rmko . I'm going to believe Biden's DOJ over Iran...
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Is coding "solved?" I've been using Fable and Grok to vibecode a library to improve text extraction for legal PDFs. (Which have things like line numbers in transcripts that messes up text extraction.) This is a simple, dumb p
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> as for iran, they've been the picture of restraint since trump's first term. They tried to assassinate Trump, before he did any of this!
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> All other nuclear nations behave (even Pakistan and India, which are at each other throat all the time). What makes you think that Iran won't? Because Iran's leadership is actually crazy.
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> In a world where technology has made gentle imperialism untenable, your system has chosen honest imperialism. Wishing you didn't have to deal with this contradiction won't work. You will have to choose between getting rid of
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> A lot of Chinese do have a policy of "as long as we're comfortable (economically, etc), we'll let the government do whatever they want.", some justifying it by saying "society needs their government to be a str
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> First, the vast majority of the locals hated the protests and didn't support them. This isn't reported by the western media. The media reported it as all HK people were being wronged. Not everyone is an American, and that&#x2
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Concrete example: I'm Bangladeshi, and our society has strict gender roles. When you visit a Bangladeshi household, the women will spend all the time in the kitchen cooking elaborate meals, while the men are socializing. This is rooted
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Modern intersectionality isn’t the cultural relativism of 20th century liberalism. Intersectionality has a built in escape hatch for any aspect of foreign culture that conflicts with the foundational premises of post-religious children of
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It’s the residual Puritanism. Foreign-facing federal agencies like the CIA were the last bastion of American WASPs. I grew up around these people because my dad worked for a contractor for USAID, which was at times a front for the State Dep
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This is the kind of bizarre article you see in an era where people reflexively support anything having to do with the federal bureaucracy. Even the 1960s CIA that was overthrowing democratically elected leaders in other countries is now “li
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Yes, the problem is the 99% of the other people and stuff that got added.
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Many folks don’t remember how glorious the Internet was in the late 1990s. That version of the Internet had 90% of the cool stuff, but didn’t follow you around everywhere.
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“HR America” in a nutshell.
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It's incredibly how long an era of good decisions can allow a company to coast.
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This methodology makes no sense lol. I thought PISA was the gold standard for international educational comparisons.
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Fair enough.
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I guess I left out what I thought was a shared premise: immigration patterns in Europe are heavily skewed towards refugees and economic migrants. But yes you’re right that the kids of skilled immigrants can score very high (as you’d expect
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There is a big difference between different immigrant groups. In the U.S., children of immigrants are also often the lowest performers. The U.S. tracks test scores by race and not immigration status. But looking at test scores for hispanic
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Yeah, it's useless to look at time-series changes in this data without accounting for the fact that, e.g., 29% of students in Germany now have a migration background. A huge chunk of German students are growing up with parents who don&
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The U.S. scores are interesting. On page 28, look at the column that says "Share of top performers" (in science, reading or mathematics): https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications&#x
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> and also implies political causes. > So it's useful to identify this as not something a journalist or credible outlet would actually put their name to. Why? And is the bottom line point wrong? Gemini, citing a Pew Research stud
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People need to update their priors. The “permanent underclass” concern arose from a time when people thought AI was going to dominated by the first company to achieve it. But now we see that AI is becoming commoditized faster than almost an
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> it's the seriously rich that have taken all of the spoils, that's where the massive imbalance is. It depends on how you define “spoils.” People define it to include notional paper wealth, and I think that doesn’t reflect the
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Building and maintaining data centers aren’t minimum wage jobs. They are the best kind of jobs: accessible to somewhat above average people across a broad range of backgrounds. (As opposed to upper middle class knowledge worker jobs that ar
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I hope this results in a rebalancing of the social and economic power of high-IQ versus average-IQ workers. We will need construction workers and tradespeople to build and maintain these AI data centers. Probably even with robots. But we wo
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> Consider classical music. Our society does not support classical musicians in the same way that we support ‘popular’ musicians “Society” is a leaky abstraction here. If you reify society as a thing that is capable of “supporting” or “n
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You may think that because of the nationalism, but that's a superficial similarity. Outside western europeans, almost everyone is nationalistic, so that's not a useful characteristic in comparing societies. Aside from that, the Am
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Because Japan is amazing. Probably especially so for a crowd that tends towards orderly-minded engineering types like HN.
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Yes, it’s the european model rooted in Prussian imperial bureaucracy versus the American model rooted in the wisdom of the crowds. You’re welcome to like your approach better. But our approach has an impeccable track record.

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