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by rayiner 1mo ago
So what? The article describes the political implications of the Census Bureau errors. I cited the Census Bureau release itself so you can cross-check whether the factual assertions in the article are accurate.
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Yeah, good catch. Meant to link to two sources, the census bureau admission and an article describing it. I forgot to paste one of them: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3504546-census-blunder-...
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This isn’t a minor fuckup. It skewed House apportionment for a decade. Think of what would happen in the private sector: your team screws up something that blows up a major customer relationship. Do you think the firings are going to be sur
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> And don't come to me with alt-right reasoning about what is accurate, true or false. Basic truth isn't too hard to determine. This isn't some newfangled "alt-right reasoning." Orwell criticized the "Minist
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Fact-finding is a subsidiary function of courts that is cabined by two important principles. First, there must be a cause of action: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/cause_of_action . Courts cannot just go fact-finding o
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I implore people to think about separation of powers. Just because something is desirable in the abstract doesn’t mean the judiciary should be doing it. Who decides what information is “accurate?” What are the implications of having the ju
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> > But when it comes to voting on what will receive public funding, that's based on having a majority. > Why? Because the public getting to decide how to spend their own tax dollars is the bare minimum standard for calling so
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> That was a nice sleight of hand, but democracy and majoritariansm are not synonims They are synonyms. That’s why the Founders called America a “constitutional republic” rather than a “democracy.” “Democracy” is like a color: blue, gree
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How is that not “representative?” The 56% number is literally 56% of the polled population, with republicans being higher, democrats being lower, and independents being right on the number. And Harvard-Harris is a top polling outfit. Do you
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> Part of democracy is plurality of views. A democracy generally will have a plurality of views. But when it comes to voting on what will receive public funding, that's based on having a majority. > it's important for the fo
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That's not "democracy," that's constitutionalism, which is inherently anti-majoritarian. But constitutionalism means protection for minority viewpoints, not an obligation for taxpayers to publicly fund media they disagre
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by rayiner 1mo ago
There is a tradition of journalists being registered independents. But do you think their world view is liberal or conservative? According to consistent Harvard Harris polling, 55% of Americans agree all illegal immigrants should be deporte
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> You are treating democracy as a kind of populist authoritarianism where unwelcome viewpoints are suppressed. Let’s not play word games. It’s not “populist authoritarianism” to say that, in a democratic society, taxpayers shouldn’t have
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> journalists who approach the world from the viewpoint of Christian nationalism fundamentalism There is no such thing. Only 3-4% of journalists are Republican, and a bunch of those probably didn't even vote for Trump: https:/
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I do not understand how this fits into any conventional political worldview. Why should the public taxpayer dollars fund a journalism outfit that then follows its own agenda rather than the one set forth by the democratically elected govern
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by rayiner 1mo ago
> The real point is that AI agents, for people rather than for coders, must be 100% bulletproof Seems wrong. Nothing is 100% bulletproof. We'll just adapt our social structures to deal with agent mistakes the same way we deal with h
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Grok 4.5 came out in mid July and is a huge leap forward. Not quite as good as Opus 5 for code in my experience, but better and more succinct for understanding human documents.
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It will be more like India under the East India Company. European economies will pay a tax to America or China for AI and robotics technology unavailable at home. Remember, the British didn’t “loot” India in the sense of walking out the doo
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What will Europe do when American and Chinese AIs and robots render half of the European population obsolete? How do they come back from missing the boat on such a transformational technology? Europeans seem resigned to a future of being Am
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NYC median income is about $80,000, while Zurich is $95,000. But my test-score comparison is between NYC and the U.S. national average. I'm just using Zurich as a data point for how much a rich, expensive non-U.S. city spends on educat
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Mamdani should investigate why NYC spends almost twice as much per student as the city of Zurich, Switzerland (which itself spends an enormous amount on education) but lags behind the U.S. average in reading and math test scores: https:&#x
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> more a commentary on a society and government that makes stupid decisions (brawndo on plants) and rewards anti-intellectualism to the point of it becoming a core component of life Yes, but in the movie society became that way because t
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It's funny that people cite Idiocracy despite its explicitly eugenicist premise.
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Subsistence economy as a hunter gatherer is much easier than as a farmer.
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> Some researchers have ascribed sexual characteristics to the object. My wife jokes that anthropologists think everything is about either sex or religion. It never occurs to them that these figurines might be toys for kids. After all, c
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by rayiner 1mo ago
I agree with your point, but there's a fundamental problem you need to consider. The problem is that the Mom & Pops are inefficient and the giants are efficient. Amazon exemplifies the consolidation problem you're talking abou
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> The intent of the law is what the entire system and in the entire world is working nowadays No, in first world countries we follow the letter of the law, including exceptions.
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> Depends on who you ask? I assume car thieves don’t like cameras. > Or are you asking a mom Have you met moms? They love surveillance.
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None of those are implicated by surveillance of public spaces. The 10th amendment also doesn’t restrict the general police powers of state governments. It restricts the powers of the federal government.
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> It is solely a game of referral: it does not matter what you apply with because other people are cheating in the application process. I do not cheat off principle because it catches up to you. I’m sorry you’re having a hard time. In an

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